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A story printed in the East Bay Express titled, "Is Oakland Animal Services Killing Too Many Dogs?" details the number of animals killed at Oakland Animal Services for 2008, 2009 and part of 2010. The total percentage of animals killed is close to 40%. Download the XLS spreadsheet with the raw data and a data summary to see for yourself.

Note that you must click the tabs at the bottom (2008, 2009, 2010 and Raw Data) to see the separate sheets within the spreadsheet. Each year includes a summary of the raw data for that year, percentages broken down by animal, total percentages of animals killed, and has other key figures highlighted in the summary. The data was received through an Oakland Police Department public records request.

Here is the full text of the article by Alastair Bland, "Is Oakland Animal Services Killing Too Many Dogs":

Take a look at this Wild River Dance done by International Rivers.

Ian Elwood's blog is now located on International Rivers' website. Ian will still blog here about topics related to technology, media access and social justice more generally. He has additionally taken on helping to protect rivers through online advocacy and organizational support of International Rivers' campaigners. Thank you for your continued readership.

Today I begun beta testing 510pen, a community wireless network that allows anyone to share their Internet connection to create an open wireless network for, as they said on Sesame Street, "the people in your neighborhood." 510pen is partnering with Media Alliance and Cernio Technology Cooperative in order to create a non-profit member-benefit cooperative to manage the wireless network.

So far it has been great. I just cracked open my new wireless mesh gateway, the Model OM1P from Open Source Mesh Solutions, all I had to do to get setup was plug it in as a replacement for my old wireless router. Then I could get online using the SSID "open-mesh," go to 510pen.com and register. About five minutes after registering my wireless gateway updated itself and my new customized 510pen wireless mesh node was online. I also have a private wireless network I can use that isn't available to the public. I will be keeping a log of my connection and uptime, hopefully it helps the network.

In case you haven't found this out the hard way, updating Firefox to 3.5 will nullify your PingFire extension. A developer has stepped up to the plate and forked the code, take a gander at the work of Alex Mikhalev!