sixty six from nine five nine five nine zip code said curt valentine chairman of the chairperson marketing committee when you look at the numbers of households and voter registration to nevada city this is very impressive number of times that completed continue to arrive and will be compiled at the end of august which time valentine hopes to now have some of the key four names the survey includes twenty eight questions and takes about ten minutes to complete may be taken anonymously although valentine said most responded certain clued in their names he said maybe respondents are taking extra time to offer suggestions and comments on their lives and dislikes today's nevada city valentine said the helpful to helpful to the chamber the downtown association city council should work together to make nevada city as good as it can be three local residents one of one hundred dollars prizes in random drawings and submitted responses to the great  of biting our time and hoping we can just go back said bay area resident terry castello earlier this afternoon at a taco city public utility district center just tell it was renting a home at spruce street two blocks from the so lives alone said she was enjoying the morning with no knowledge of any fire there was nothing in the sky and no smoke nothing when an electricity cut out sarah said she walked out to the street to see if anything happened  that you always read about and you always say that's not going to happen to us castillo i said have to evacuate and today fire fire fighters worked to contain a fifteen but never grew larger than fifteen acres this forest service spokesman barbara this he said the fire started it went on quickly spread to four others cars saturday evening allowing most of the people who were h pledge to keep soldiers in iraq no longer than fifteen minutes reaching a commitment to give soldiers a full year at home before synonym back to war for a war fatigue nation and a congress bent on bringing the troops home none of these artists are two thousand and not sitting them would create the problems long term schedules to army brigades have completed two or three tours in iraq or afghanistan semisonic have lasted as long as fifteen months the second brigade tenth mountain staff general george casey said last week right now we have and place in place deployment and mobilize ation policies that will allow us to meet the current demands if the demands don't go down over time it will become increasingly difficult for leaders hope that there is enough progress interact a lot of them to scale back at least part of their nearly thirty thousand strong build up when soldiers begin leaving are wrapped around march or april there are one hundred sixty two thousand u s troops in iraq now the should stay longer to ensure the policy she just stick the longer you keep american forces there longer to give this process to solidify and to make sure that it's not going to slide back sir frederick kagan an american enterprise institute analysis who recently returned from an eight day visit to iraq to syria to take them out the more you run the risk the enemies will come in and try to disrupt the leading supporter supporter of the current buildup strategy said any decision to maintain force levels would have to take into account the effects of the economy that would decide he said the strains of sending guard units back to iraq more rapidly and pentagon policy allows for keeping active duty units there longer than fifteen  me not be wise to pack their bags to come home on earth fifteen month tours out but today pentagon officials including defense secretary robert gates have said that they have no plans to extend those tours national guard officials are bracing for a new round of guard deployments and  move to decrease the time between tours despite announcing twenty years to get citizen soldiers five years off for everyone sir guard official said this past week that the army is pushing to give guard units four years or less and home in order to get access to those combat brigades sooner last april the pentagon notified national guard the gates in four states that they should be prepared to deploy to iraq later this year the documents obtained by the associated press show that to guard units in five states indiana arkansas high oklahoma and minnesota are scheduled to deploy to iraq before the end of the year in new york guard unit is set to go to afghanistan the shortage of combat units will be remedied over time the pentagon slowly is increasing the size of the active duty army by sixty five thousand members to five hundred forty seven thousand by two thousand and twelve thirty eight combat brigades currently available for war will expand to forty eight by two hip regrets is not made and violence does not have the pentagon returning again to the army so i will do what's necessary and will pay a very high price if necessary said kate but i'm hopeful that it won't come to that and i honestly don't think that  people fleeing mass murder israel has been grappling for months over how to deal with this one number of africans including some from dar for who have been crossing the porous desert border the number of migrants has shot up as many as fifty a day according to the u n high commissioner for refugees currently has a word of job opportunities to help israel house threat the rise has led to concerns that the country could face a lot of african refugees if it doesn't take a harsher stand on asylum seekers but israel has not turned back refugees from darfur until now and last month prime minister olmert said a limited number would even be allowed to remain in israel on sunday without explanation a government overnight israel returned forty eight africans to egypt and israel a government official in egypt had guaranteed to end up for refugees would not be forced to return to sudan to fish of spoke on the conditions of on a minute because he was not  which is still equipped to provide them with jobs and social services about four hundred of the dart for eons reached egypt have treatment and trekked through desert sands to cross their own fence frontier with israel according to refugee advocates in israel israel's response to the unexpected rockets has been mixed threats to expel them have clashed with sentiments inspired by the memory of juicy can say three from the nazis before the end during world war two and being turned away some volunteers have helped migrants find jobs in housing a town schwartz an advocate of the art for refugees in israel objected to any ban on asylum seekers the state of israel has to show compassion for refugees have to the jewish people are subject to persecution through it throughout its history has said this socialization for civil rights in israel said in a statement that it is israel's moral and legal obligation every round just because of its past israel can throw open the gates and allow unlimited access for people who are basically economic refugees the difference found sanctuary from the killings in sudan by fleeing to egypt he said but their ar rival in israel was motivated primarily by the difficult living conditions and look economic prospects in that country that the refugees are from sudan further complicates the matter because israeli law denies assignment to anyone from an enemy state sudan's muslim government is hostile to israel and has no diplomatic ties with the jewish state although the case of the dart for refugees is unusual the late prime minister in recent years nearly all of them from africa including eleven hundred sixty from sudan and many spent months or years in egypt before entering his her home israel has repeatedly urged egypt to step up its surveillance of the border to prevent the illegal flow of goods station at you but neighborhood was soaked in blood after hit drove four victims to the hospital detects occurred before noon we heard sounds of four or five explosions one after another which hit central  electricity for several days and the people are suffering in the heat it fills me with pain and angry to see an attack on such a poor area where what is no presence of police and their army base and now it's time for gifts in hand to our north today you probably saw some class to the north and northwest late last night in downtown sacramento associated with this as well as miles per hour the stronger gusts any shower activity associated with the trough moving through is expected to be well north of our area temperatures today make it comfortable for the california state fair count as expo ten a m to ten p m the forget the fa