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text: The Hague - The International Criminal Court on Wednesday backed a decision to drop war crimes charges against Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana."The appeal is rejected," said Judge Erkki Kourula, following an appeal by prosecutors against the tribunal's decision to drop charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.The offences were allegedly committed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2009, but the ICC in December last year ruled that the prosecution's evidence was too weak to merit a trial.Mbarushimana, 48, was released from custody the same month, allowing him to return to his family in France where he is under investigation for his alleged role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.The former UN computer technician's arrest arose from a probe into alleged war crimes referred to the ICC in The Hague by the Kinshasa government in June 2004.French authorities arrested Mbarushimana, who denied all the charges, on an ICC warrant in October 2010 in Paris, where he had been living as a political refugee since 2002.The government in Kigali has said that Mbarushimana should also be tried for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide of about 800 000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.Lawyers had tried in vain to block Mbarushimana's transfer to the ICC claiming it would result in him being sent back to Rwanda, where they argued he would not get a fair trial.Prosecutors said Mbarushimana was suspected of involvement in a series of attacks by Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) fighters against civilians in the eastern DRC.They accused him of having "personally and intentionally contributed" to plotting "widespread and systematic attacks against the civilian population in order to create a humanitarian catastrophe".Mbarushimana was alleged to have been executive secretary of the FDLR.Based in the east of the DRC, the FDLR is considered a major source of insecurity in the region. Some of its members are also accused of having participated in the Rwandan genocide.


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P1140 INFINITI - Intake Valve Timing Control Performance Bank 1
Possible causes
- Faulty Intake Valve Timing Control Solenoid Valve Bank 1
- Intake Valve Timing Control Solenoid Valve Bank 1 harness is open or shorted
- Intake Valve Timing Control Solenoid Valve Bank 1 circuit poor electrical connection
- Faulty Crankshaft Position Sensor
- Faulty Camshaft Position Sensor
Tech notes
When is the code detected?
Possible symptoms
- Engine Light ON (or Service Engine Soon Warning Light)
- Possible engine lack/loss of power
- Possible engine rough idle
P1140 Infiniti Description
This mechanism hydraulically controls cam phases continuously with the fixed operating angle of the intake valve.
The Engine Control Module (ECM) receives signals such as crankshaft position, camshaft position, engine speed, and engine coolant temperature. Then, the ECM sends ON/OFF pulse duty signals to the intake valve timing control solenoid valve depending on driving status. This makes it possible to control the shut/open timing of the intake valve to increase engine torque in low/mid speed range and output in high-speed range.
The intake valve timing control solenoid valve changes the oil amount and direction of flow through intake valve timing control unit or stops oil flow. The longer pulse width advances valve angle. The shorter pulse width retards valve angle. When ON and OFF pulse widths become equal, the solenoid valve stops oil pressure flow to fix the intake valve angle at the control position.


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Write Me, Maybe: Did Mayor Walsh Break the Law by Heading to Cape Cod Without Notifying City Council?
Fun fact: The mayor of Boston is required by law to notify the City Council whenever he leaves the city. He's also required to say when he's coming back.
Marty Walsh forgot about this before heading out to Cape Cod earlier this week, according to The Boston Globe, but the issue was resolved on Friday when a member of his staff filed an official letter with the clerk's office.
Press secretary Kate Norton told The Globe that Walsh will spend two weeks on the Cape. He'll travel to and from Boston intermittently during that time.
Read the full Globe story here.


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Dimond also works hand in hand with the designers at HGTV to offer a full line of table and floor lamps from the HGTV Home collection. Dimond's HGTV home lamps let you emulate the styles and fashions you love from all your HGTV programs quickly and easily. Just search HGTV to see their full line of HGTV Home lighting.
Dimond also offers a fun line of lamps just for kids. Add some merriment and whimsy to your child's bedroom with a lamp like the Jerry, shown below!


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research labs and other things of interest
|Posted: Sep 09, 2010
Workshop: Multicellular assemblies - architectures, properties, engineering
|(Nanowerk News) A one day workshop organized by the Observatory for Micro and Nanotechnologies (CNRS-CEA, France), titled Multicellular assemblies : Architectures, Properties, Engineering, will take place on october 20, 2010 in Paris.
|The properties of populations of cells are largely conditioned by the cell-cell and cell-environment interactions, conferring them unique features whose study greatly benefits from the use of micro-technologies. In return, these technologies are of great interest to engineer tissues in a first attempt to reproduce the structure and function of organs.
|This one-day workshop will gather internationally recognized researchers working on different aspects of these multicellular assemblies. Speakers will cover a large spectrum outlining the various length scales involved in the architectures and mechanical properties of tissues, as well as the influence of their physical environment.
|The Observatory for Micro and NanoTechnologies (France) aims at performing a strategic watch based on a network of more than 300 experts in different fields within Micro and NanoTechnologies.
|Source: Observatory for Micro and Nanotechnologies


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A school in Derbyshire has hit the headlines because of its policy of letting children serve school meals to other children.
The Derbyshire Times reports:
"Angry parents have blasted a school for using 'child labour' to serve lunch time meals - but a headteacher has hit back saying it teaches youngsters important life and social skills."
The premise is simple. The schools runs a 'family dining' scheme whereby children take it in turns to help serve school meals to their fellow pupils. The purpose of the scheme is to help build life and social skills. Each week, a different child from each table of eight serves dinner to their friends, according to a statement by the school's headteacher, who said that the children "really enjoy" the family dining experience.
But some parents of children who attend the school have criticised the scheme, likening it to child labour.
Speaking personally, I'd have absolutely no problem with my child being asked to take a turn at serving school meals to classmates. Indeed, I'd welcome the opportunity for my kids to build those skills, and I'm a fan of any scheme that encourages children to think about others.
That said, I'm not a massive fan of deeming it 'family dining' simply because it's not - and I'd rather the boundaries between family life and school life weren't blurred like this. It's my job to build my child's sense of what a family mealtime is and I'd rather the school didn't liken the school mealtime to a family experience but I appreciate that for some kids, sharing a meal with others at school might be the only family-like atmosphere they encounter when they eat.
But as for this scheme being likened to child labour, I think that's frankly insulting to children who are victims of enforced labour. If the kids were being asked to scrub school floors after lunch or empty the bins I might just about understand the comparison - but this is a valuable opportunity for kids to take on a responsibility and be trusted with an important task among the peers. How anyone could possibly find fault with that, I can't fathom.
On the other hand, comments made by parents on social media indicated that children were coming home distressed as a result of not being given adequate portions under the family dining scheme. To my mind that's a separate matter and if the scheme isn't working, parents should of course ask that teaching staff help manage the scheme more effectively in school.
But what's your view? Do you think the 'family dining' scheme is a good idea or would you be concerned if your child's school meal was being dished up by another child? We'd love to hear your thoughts either in the comments box below or over on our Facebook page.
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In addition to our real-world meetups that take place in central London, London Futurists also run a series of "Hangout On Air" (HOA) events.
These can be viewed in real-time, either on YouTube, or on Google+ (via this G+ page).
People who watch via Google+ are able to raise questions, and to vote (via the '+1' mechanism) on questions raised by other viewers. The HOA panellists will seek to address the highest-ranked questions in the course of the discussion.
The times for these HOAs are normally given in the UK timezone. However, anyone is welcome to participate in these HOAs, from anywhere in the world, so long as you have a sufficient connection to the Internet.
Sites such as this one can be used to convert between UK times and times in other parts of the world.
Forthcoming HOAs
(None scheduled at the present time)
Past HOAs
Sun 6th Dec 2015
H+Pedia: Progress, plans, possibilities
- Panellists include Chris Monteiro and David Wood
Sun 11th May 2014
Robots, unemployment, and basic income
- Panellists James Hughes, Gary Marchant, and Marshall Brain
Sun 4th May 2014
Terminator or transcendence: The future of super AI, Hollywood and beyond
- Panellists Calum Chace, Stuart Armstrong, and Nikola Danaylov
Sun 16th February 2014
Priority actions for a positive 2025
- Panellists Ben McLeish, Rohit Talwar, David Pearce, and Amon Kalkin
Sun 26th January 2014
Our Final Invention – AI and the end of the human era
- Panellists James Barrat, Jaan Tallinn, William Hertling, and Calum Chace
Sun 12th January 2014
Ramez Naam discusses Nexus, Crux, and The Infinite Resource
- Panellists Ramez Naam, Randal Koene, Michell Zappa, and Giulio Prisco
Sun 15th December 2013
The Naked Future – A World That Anticipates Your Every Move
- Panellists Patrick Tucker, Gray Scott, David Orban, Evan Selinger, and Rachel Armstrong.
Sun 1st December 2013
- Panellists Max More, Anders Sandberg, Natasha Vita-More, and Garret Smyth
Sun 3rd November 2013
Which technologies will have the biggest impact by 2025?
- Panellists: Kevin Russell, Peter Rothman, Riva-Melissa Tez, Clyde DeSouza, and José Luis Cordeiro
Sun 20th October 2013
Futurists discuss The Transhumanist Wager, with Zoltan Istvan
- Panellists: Zoltan Istvan, Giulio Prisco, Rick Searle, and Chris T. Armstrong
Sun 29th September 2013
Projects to accelerate radical healthy longevity
- Panellists Franco Cortese, Ilia Stambler, Maria Konovalenko, and Aubrey de Grey
Sun 30th June 2013
Transhumanists discuss Dan Brown's 'Inferno'
- Panellists Giulio Prisco, Peter Rothman, and David Orban


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I love ripping on The Ultimate Fighter. Calling someone a TUF fighter or a TUF fan is on par with telling someone their martial arts school is a McDojo or their wheelchair bound dad is a cum guzzling faggot (she deserved it and it was true). Anyways, it's annoying when articles like this come out that remind people that TUF actually turns out some pretty sweet talent. MMA Torch breaks down the middleweights from Season 1 of The Ultimate Fighter: Josh Koscheck, Diego Sanchez, Kenny Florian, Chris Leben, and Alex Karalexis. Not too shabby of a list, although I'll still slit my wrists the day one of these TUF losers win a UFC belt.
Breaking News: Not all TUF1 fighters working at McDonalds
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Baseball Loses to Rhodes in 10
March 20, 2011
March 20, 2011, Memphis, Tenn. — For the second straight game the Tigers suffered a loss to Rhodes in the Lynx's last at bat as DePauw dropped an 8-7 decision in 10 innings. DePauw slipped to 7-11 overall and 0-3 in SCAC play, while the Lynx improved to 10-12 overall and 3-0 in conference play.
DePauw took a 7-4 lead into the bottom of the ninth, but Rhodes sent the game to extra innings with three in the frame and won it with a single run in the bottom of the 10th.
The Tigers opened the contest with two in the first as Ben Gardner led off with a walk and stole second. Rob McPike singled Gardner to third and Jason Cohen walked to load the bases. Alex Wright followed with a sacrifice fly and Zach Galyean's single made it 2-0.
Rhodes came right back as Andy Meier led off with a homer. Stewart Martens singled and Lynden Pindling drew a walk before Matthew Burnick singled to load the bases. Chris Conkell was hit by a pitch and drove in Martens before Kyle Peterson reached on a fielder's choice allowing Pindling to score and giving the Lynx a 3-2 lead.
DePauw regained the lead in the second as Gardner drew a two-out walk and moved to second on Sam Swafford's single. McPike drove in Gardner with a single before Cohen doubled in Swafford. An error on the play allowed McPike to score and gave the Tigers a 5-3 advantage.
That lead reached 6-3 as McPike led off the seventh with a walk and stole second. Wright's single plated McPike. Rhodes countered in the bottom of the seventh as Meier reached on a bunt single and moved to third on a throwing error. Martens' squeeze bunt scored Meier.
Brendon Pashia led off the DePauw eighth with a single and moved to second on Chris Forbringer's sacrifice bunt. Pashia went to third on a wild pitch and scored on Gardner's double.
In the Rhodes ninth, Travis Perkins led off with a walk and moved to second when Meier was hit by a pitch. Martens singled home Perkins before Pindling scored Meier with a sacrifice fly. Conkell singled with two outs allowing Martens to score and tie the game at 7-7.
With two outs in the 10th, Perkins homered to right and gave Rhodes the win.
DePauw totaled nine hits led by McPike and Pashia with two each. Rhodes had 11 hits paced by Meier with three and two each from Martens and Burnick.
Jmaes Todd improved to 1-0 after pitching two innings of scoreless relief, while Erek Mounsey slipped to 0-1 after entering the game in the ninth.
The Tigers travel to LaGrange on Monday for a 4 p.m. contest.
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New York - A New York burglar not only went to the toilet - he took it with him.
The man broke into a Brooklyn apartment and, ignoring the more typical loot, seized the porcelain throne and staggered off down the block, the Brooklyn Paper reported on Wednesday.
Flush with the success of his crime, the burglar returned to the scene and told his victim, a lawyer: "I'm going to slit your throat," the report said.
A 53-year-old suspect was arrested the next day.
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Ok I have tried all that I know of to change my resolution but it still doesn't work.
First I am not a n00b to linux, just slackware.
Ok now that that is done, I have tried all that I know of to change my resolution and I still am stuck on a horrid 800x600, I finally got an answer from compaq for my monitors refresh rates and entered them into xf86config correctly. Here is my section for my resolution
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
As you can see it should be 1024x768 but I am sure that it is not because my gaim window takes up the whole screen.
I can lower my resolution but I can't go higher.
So does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
I am using slackware9.0 if that helps any.
If you need more just ask.
did you try the keyboard shortcuts?
ctrl - alt - +
ctrl - alt - -
i assume you did but just a thought
I did that is what I meant
I can lower my resolution but I can't go higher.
It was with the keyboard shortcuts.
hrmm well maybe you could try just have 1024x768 specified in your config and remove 800x600 and 640x480 and see what happens...
Ummm ok but will I have to edit the backups as well or can I leave them be.
no you don't need to edit backups just the config you are using
I just did that then restarted then when I typed startx I got
no usable modes
And it wouldn't start.
:cry: :cry:
Now I can't even start a gui.
So now I need to know how to edit my XF86Config file from a command line.
Yes I know most people should know that BUT I did most of my editing from gedit in a gui.
So HELP PLEASE!!!!!
I have to use windows to tell you this.
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Sounds to me that the refresh rates are wrong. Are you sure you got the correct info from Compaq? :) My personal experience is that actual specs can be pretty hard to get when it comes to "packaged" computer systems - my first PC was a Packard Bell something (I soon realized why people called it "Crappard Hell"), and I had to physically inspect the innards of the damn box to find out what motherboard/chipset it really was. What did I learn from that? Always buy the separate parts, carefully chosen, and assemble yourself. :)
Anyway, try to find out your monitor capabilities from within Windows then - there should be a couple of apps you can do this with.
Oh, and to edit your XF86Config file, you can go about in different ways (there are a few editors to choose from). The easiest is probably pico...su and then go
pico /etc/X11/XF86Config
and the rest is pretty self-explanatory. :) Good luck.
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vi /etc/X11/XF86Config
I agree with nvn regarding your refresh rate too. A better way to check is just by looking at the back of your monitor. Manuals tend to be outdated, but the info on the actual equipment itself is 99.5% of the time correct.
Good luck :)
Ok I just checked the back of my monitor and guess what, it's not there.
I can't check the manual because I got this computer for free and didn't get any.
So I am going to try some winodws programs for that.
In the monitor section of XF86Config, I have
HorizSync 31.5-68.7
VertRefresh 50-85
(I have a crappy 17" TARGA monitor, so yours wont be exactly the same, but have you got something roughly comparable to this?)
The file /var/log/XFree86.0.log may give you some hints as to what is wrong.
What model is your monitor and graphics card?
someone most likely will have the correct settings for your hardware
I have a compaq MV520 15" monitor and a intel extreme graphics controller.
Someone finally told me the rates and guess what compaq was wrong so I now have that fixed but I still don't get what is wrong.
I think it might be the drivers so I looked online for drivers and I am yet to find any.
If anyone knows where I can get some drivers for my graphics controller PLEASE PLEASE tell me.
weird, first result on google?
That is so weird. I wonder why I never found it when I was looking for drivers for my chipset. Maybe it's because my chipset isn't listed here
* Intel® 82865G
* Intel® 82855GM/GME
* Intel® 82852GM/GME
* Intel® 82845G/GE/GL/GV
* Intel® 82830MG
But who knows I'll try it. Thanks
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Homeowners spending cautiously as values surge
Five years after the financial crisis, a new sobriety among homeowners and lenders has taken hold, tempering economic growth as consumers keep more money in their pockets.
Dean Schefrin bought a home at just the right time.
He and his then-fiancée purchased their four-bedroom Thousand Oaks, Calif., home last August, catching the rising wave of Southern California home prices. Less than a year later, he estimates his home is worth about 25 percent more than he paid.
"It is just a really nice feeling," the 45-year-old says. "It's sort of peace of mind."
The last time housing prices rose this quickly, homeowners rushed to tap their home equity to spend on renovations, cars, vacations, even second homes. The economy soared — until it crashed in a heap of debt.
Five years after the financial crisis, a new sobriety among homeowners and lenders has taken hold, tempering economic growth as consumers keep more money in their pockets.
Schefrin is putting off getting a pool he wants in his backyard until he saves enough cash.
"It's going to be based on the work income and not the value of the house," he says.
Many other homeowners are feeling the same way, economists say. Historically, surges in home prices have resulted in what economists call a wealth effect — increased spending based on individual perceptions of growing affluence. But the hangover from the housing crash has blunted that phenomenon, economists say.
Historically, every dollar increase in home prices has generated 8 cents in consumer spending over the following 18—24 months, says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. That figure has been cut in half during this recovery, he estimates.
"They are spending a bit more," he says. "But it's nothing like it was pre-bust."
The recovery will need to draw on other sources of economic growth, says Amir Sufi, an economist at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
"My bottom line is that we need to temper our optimism on what a housing recovery can do for the U.S. economy," Sufi wrote in a recent paper.
That's a good thing, in the long term, he says. During the boom, homeowners with low credit scores were much more likely than others to borrow against their home equity, he says. Today, many of those people either can't qualify for a loan or have lost their home to foreclosure.
"Any time you rely too much on housing or house price growth for economic growth, it usually ends badly," Sufi says.
The gains in wealth since the economy hit bottom are nonetheless startling. Household wealth rose to a record $70.3 trillion at the end of the first quarter, according to the Federal Reserve, with rising home values accounting for one-fourth of a $3 trillion increase from the prior quarter.
Last year, 1.7 million homeowners escaped negative equity positions, according to CoreLogic. An additional 850,000 homes entered positive territory in the first quarter of this year.
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city index of home prices rose 2.5 percent in April, the largest monthly growth since 2000. Compared to the year before, prices were up 12.1 percent.
That has banks more willing to allow people to tap their homes' equity. Wells Fargo & Co., the nation's largest mortgage lender, has seen more demand for home-equity products, especially in regions with steep home-price increases, says Kelly Kockos, a senior vice president at Wells Fargo.
But the mindset has changed. The inquiries are more focused on much-needed home improvements or debt consolidation, she says. "It used to be more desire-driven — a fancier car or vacation. I think people have learned from the past."
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But Come Ye Back: A Novel in Stories
Chapter One
Cemetery Sunday
On the moving day itself, everything went beautifully, straight on from the moment Mary woke to a sliver of bright July sunlight under the hotel-room drapes with the idea that this whole undertaking was courageous. The extravagance of the thought tickled her, and she grinned, listening to Lyle's steady breathing, but why not? The last time she and Lyle had carried labeled cardboard boxes upstairs and stacked them in uncurtained rooms, their boys had been small, and they'd been moving from near Boston to near Cleveland, and she'd believed then she'd never move house again. And yet here they were, Lyle at sixty-five and she at sixty, having sold that house and posted their belongings across the ocean to start, again, a new home, in Galway, the town of her childhood.
She and Lyle had been back in Galway only two days, just long enough to get adjusted to the time difference, but they'd been over last summer to choose a house, and she'd written and telephoned, and her sister, Róisín, had given advice, and everything was arranged. All those belongings (the best bed linens and table linens and crockery, the photo albums and special Christmas ornaments, the childhood presents and homemade cards from the boys, and -- in the bottom of a box marked MARY --- WINTER, with a few things that had been her mother's -- the old necktie box containing her own plait, cut off when she left Ireland thirty-four years ago to marry Lyle), all those cherished things she needed to make a home, sat in boxes in a storage locker, to be brought in by Róisín's grandson Barty in his truck. Róisín's husband, Michael Carey, would go with him and oversee; since his heart attack last year, he wasn't allowed to lift, and Barty, with his earrings and all, wasn't a boy to send without supervision, Róisín herself said. The furniture Mary and Lyle had chosen last summer was to be delivered this same morning, and Lyle would supervise all that unloading and setting up. Mary and Róisín would direct the boxes and keep tea coming.
Mary took the sunshine as a blessing on this brave new life, and she let nothing in the day shake her from it. When the men from Tom Dempsey's Furniture were late arriving, she said, "Why, now we'll have the chance to dust the moldings before the rooms are filled with things," and when Lyle grumbled, she sent him off to the shop two streets over for the newspaper and bread and tea. "By the time you're back, they'll have your chair in the sitting room," she said, and they did. They were fine lads, too, cheery and strong, and it did her heart good to hear their young voices in the new house (though Lyle went on grumbling as he told them where to put the things they unloaded -- "Seems like they'd know the difference between a kitchen table and a coffee table without being told," he said) (and she said back, laughing, "Ah, they do, but they're not so sure an American would agree!").
She thought Lyle was heroic, too, coming away with her to a foreign country where he knew nobody. She'd seldom thought of returning until after their boys were off on their own, but then, when Lyle retired, and more and more of their friends moved away to Florida or back wherever they'd come from, the rare thought had become a wish. Back here, she and Róisín would go about together: they'd talk of their parents and the world as it had been when they were Mary and Róisín Curtin, girls together; they'd share their worries about their grown children. The sea would be near, and butter would have a taste to it, and she'd understand the weather; she'd get to know her brothers' wives, and her brothers, who had still been boys when she left. Lyle had no close family left in America; his father had been from Mayo (though he'd died before Lyle knew him, and Lyle had never made any great claim to Irishness, that foolishness of so many Americans about green beer and claddagh rings). She'd had no family at her wedding and had lived almost forty years far from home for his sake, and she wanted to grow old among her own people and be buried among them in a grave with flowers planted on it and curbing all around.
When she'd finally brought up the subject of moving, she'd been ready to say all that, but it hadn't been necessary. She'd just said she wanted to be near her sister and her brothers, and he had nodded -- they'd been eating chicken, she remembered -- and said he'd look into it. A week later he'd said it looked like a plan, and for all that he'd explained to her the economic advantages (this fine two-bedroom, semidetached house had cost less than a new condo in Ohio, to say nothing of the moderate climate and the savings on heat, the reasonable approach to health care), she took it as an act of love.
So none of the grumbling he did that moving day touched her at all, and none of the small difficulties made any real bother either. If the box spring rubbed off a patch of paint in the upstairs corridor as the lads turned it at the top of the stairs, take it for a sign: she'd not been so very fond of that grayish white color, and once they were settled in, Lyle might enjoy a project of painting it something brighter. A bit of summer rain never hurt anyone, and if Barty tracked dirt on the carpet bringing in the damp boxes from the truck ...
But Come Ye Back: A Novel in Stories
- Genres: Fiction
- paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial


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Smoked Ham Soup with White Beans (Warming Frozen Toes)
I understand that many folks are in the midst of a deep freeze at the moment. I'm sorry for you. If I could send you a bucket of our Southern California sunshine, I would. We really have it good here in California. We have more clear, warm & sunny days here than you can count, and we tend to fret on the rare occasion that jackets are needed. My son gets through the school year in mostly shorts and short-sleeved shirts, and flip flops are pretty much everyday wear for me. Life is very, very good 🙂
BUT… we don't experience the lovely seasons that much of the rest of the world experiences, so it's not all perfect. The moment the thermometer drops below 60 degrees and clouds take over our normally blue sky, we make plans to prepare soup. It's the only time it seems appropriate to do so around here. On one recent (and rare) rainy day, I made soup- a good one, a healthy one: Smoked Ham Soup with White Beans.
This soup is a high fiber soup (6.6g) that is low in fat (4g) and calories (235). If you're counting Weight Watcher points, you'll use up 6 for this soup. And it makes 8 servings, so you can make it on Sunday and eat it for lunch all week. If you don't have ham lying around, just pick up a slice of it at your market- they usually sell packaged slices near the bacon.
When I'm watching my weight, I like to eat soup. It feels filling and satisfying to me when I'm starving and otherwise ready to fall off the wagon and raid my pantry in a mad fury. Having a big bowl of soup in the fridge -ready for immediate consumption- helps fend off that crazy idea. We enjoyed this soup (even the kiddo). And it felt good to eat on our blustery day (which really consisted about 55 degrees and light rain, which we hadn't seen for 141 days).
This recipe can be found here: Smoked Ham Soup with White Beans
15 Responses to "Smoked Ham Soup with White Beans (Warming Frozen Toes)"
Yes, soups are a great way to manage calories when you are trying to lose weight! I need to make a nice pot of soup… my toes are definitely in need of warming lately! Wishing I was in CA right now!
Wow, Lori, way to rub it in! Haha! Our PA weather is not nearly so perfect and sunny. In fact, it's pretty darn cold and perfect for soup. Thanks for sharing this one.
What a great way to warm froze toes. Looks super delish.
That looks so nice and warm! i love ham and it's such a comforting food.
Very nice. In Oregon we have a lot of soup days. Well pretty much every day is a soup day.
That looks delicious…going to make that very soon.
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Oh God…even here in Tampa Florida, it has been FREEZING! like 26 at night! We never get that cold..so I sooooo need this soup!
Mmm that looks so warm. Yum. I also want to know where you got that bread and that spoon.
I love that you included weight watchers point information. I have so many spread sheets devoted to figuring out my recipes points value. It's nice not to have to do the work!
You just have such a gift for making "low-calorie" look so good!!!
Oh my gosh.. this looks so damn divine!!! And truly comfort food.
Looks comforting! Love the spoon and bowl!
Mmmm, I can almost smell it! Lovely, lovely and oh so cozy 🙂
This is an amazing soup! I even froze it and had it again – tasted great still!


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Edmonds Petanque players tango with the Bike Rodeo
Quite by accident, the members of the Edmonds Petanque Club shared the Civic Playfield on Saturday, June 8, with participants in the First Annual Bike Rodeo put on jointly by the Edmonds Kiwanis and the Dale Turner Family YMCA.
Over forty enthusiastic volunteers offered numerous events and games for children of all age groupings.
The purpose of the Bike Rodeo was to raise awareness of bike safety, as well as to generate donations to purchase bike helmets for kids.
While playing petanque near the Bike Rodeo, the Edmonds Petanque Club players were so impressed with the spirit of the event that they, as a club, decided to support this worthy effort with a check for $100 from the club, and additional contributions from individual players.


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Gulf of Mexico Integrated Science - Suwannee River Basin and Estuary Initiative
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In response to the growing number of environmental concerns in the mostly pristine Suwannee River basin and the Suwannee River estuary system, the States of Florida and Georgia, the Federal government, and other local organizations identified the Suwannee River as an ecosystem in need of protection because of its unique biota and important water resources. Organizations with vested interests in the region formed a coalition, the Suwannee Basin Interagency Alliance (SBIA), with goals of promoting coordination in the identification, management, and scientific knowledge of the natural resources in the basin and estuary. To date, however, an integrated assessment of the physical, biological, and water resources has not been completed.
A holistic, multi-disciplinary approach was needed to address the research needs in the basin and estuary and to provide supportive data for meeting management objectives of the entire ecosystem. The USGS was well situated to focus on the larger concerns of the basin and estuary by addressing specific research questions linking water supply and quality to ecosystem function and health across county and state boundaries. We were interested in developing a strategic plan in cooperation with Federal, State, and local agencies to identify and implement studies to address the most compelling research issues and management questions, and to conduct fundamental environmental monitoring studies.


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(8:00 PM Doors)
- Saturday, Feb 25, 2017 11:55 PM EST
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This is an All Ages event and standing room only venue.
The members of Moon Taxi are no strangers to the stage. Hailing from Nashville, the five-piece formed in 2006 and set out to conquer the Southeast with their unforgettable live set. Nine years later, they've amassed over one thousand shows and released two albums, Cabaret (2012) and Mountains Beaches Cities (2013). The latter landed the band their first National late-night television appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman and Conan as well as multiple commercial and TV placements including BMW, Nashville, MLB, NFL and HBO Sports to name a few. With a rabid fan base under their belts, they've upped the ante this year to become a festival favorite with recent performances at Bonnaroo, Governor's Ball, Wakarusa, Houston Free Press.
Endless hours on the road in support of Mountains Beaches Cities allowed for reflection and collaboration like never before. The band, who all split song-writing duties, found themselves sharing personal experiences with one another, opening up about relationships, and becoming very aware of how powerful the human bond can truly be. This realization is heard throughout Moon Taxi's third and most relatable album to date, Daybreaker. "To me it's an album about facing the unknown, starting something new and realizing that the relationships you have with other people are what get you through life," notes guitarist Spencer Thomson.
Recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Daybreaker was produced by Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse, Tom Waits, James Bay) and is comprised of eleven tracks that showcase exactly why Moon Taxi have become known as THE live band. For the first time since inception, all five members were together in the studio, performing and rehearsing as a band rather than self-producing bits and pieces at home. "As a whole, Daybreaker sounds like a performance to me," says keys player Wes Bailey. "You can hear fingers moving, breathing and all the other subtle sounds that one would hear at a live performance."


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Hey I just posted my second design here on DBH, for the Fleetwood Mac contest. I still don't know a lot of people on here and with the new site I can't figure out how to browse all artists…? If you wouldn't mind swinging by and checking out my new design I'd appreciate it, and please feel free to give me some feedback and/or vote.
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One can buy Jet Airways for long term, says PN Vijay, Portfolio Manager, www.askpnvijay.com.
One can buy Jet Airways for long term, says PN Vijay, Portfolio Manager, www.askpnvijay.com.
Vijay told CNBC-TV18, "Jet Airways surely is a long term buy. The Etihad deal is definitely happening and market is trying to price through various factors what the open offer would be and so on. Looking ahead if Jet Airways has the power of Etihad in its global operations and the financial muscle of the partner in the domestic market which is really up for grabs considering the way that Kingfisher has caved in and its slots are available."
He further added, "It is a great place to be in and I would see a situation – lets not forget if you looked at Jet Airways price, the last time the index hit 6000, it was over Rs 1000 or something. So, Jet Airways has lost a lot of market cap. So, over a one year time frame I am basing my long term buy on this based on the assumption that Etihad deal will go through and Jet because of that will get all the benefits domestically and internationally."


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Cougars' Keller wears UMAC crown
University of Minnesota, Morris cross country runner Linda Keller capped off an extraordinary first year by winning the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference women's championship.
Keller was nearly unbeatable all season long, cruising to wins in all her races, but the massive Roy Griak Invitational, in which she placed fifth, the highest placing ever for a UMAC runner.
This week in St. Bonifacius, Keller ran a 23:04 for 6k and finished 14 seconds ahead of last year's UMAC champion, Katelyn Meger of St. Scholastica.
Head coach Jeremy Karger said Keller ran a smart, conservative race.
"The trail was wet, muddy and difficult. [Linda] let Meger lead for half the race and then made her move," said Karger. "That was sort of it."
Keller was characteristically underwhelmed by her victory and gracious to all her competitors.
"After the race, she turned around at the end of the gate," Karger explained, "... and she shook hands and congratulated every woman runner who finished. Not just her teammates. Every woman runner. That's just the kind of person she is."
On the strength of Keller's finish, the Cougar women finished second in the team standings.
On the men's side, juniors Luke Toso and Andrew Rehmann finished in the top 12 to boost the Cougars into a third-place team finish, one better than their 2008 performance.
This weekend the Cougars travel to Grinnell, Iowa for the NCAA regional cross-country meet.
UMAC Cross Country Championships
Women's Individual 6k
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1. Linda Keller (FY) 23:04 (all-UMAC team)
15. Katie Schneiderman (JR) 25:50
21. Debbie Schneiderman (JR) 26:30
25. Gemma Miltich (SO) 26:53
27. Kacy Nehowig (JR) 26:58
32. Cristina Montanez (SO) 27:06
37. Kate Campbell (FY) 27:26
40. Emily Lawrence (FY) 27:38
49. Melissa Kloek (JR) 28:50
53. Caitlin Percy (JR) 29:25
57. Mallory King (JR) 29:43
59. Katie Saddison (SO) 29:54
60. Sonja Smidt (SO) 30:03
67. Kaia Jans (SR) 30:42
77. Darla Stevens (JR) 31:16
82. Becca Baldridge (JR) 32:14
Men's Individual 8k
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11. Andrew Rehmann (JR) 28:32 (all-UMAC team)
12. Luke Toso (JR) 28:39 (all-UMAC team)
14. Matt Ellison (SO) 29:16
15. Ian Philbrick (JR) 29:20
26. Greg Schumacher (SO) 30:31
30. Nick Fox (FY) 30:40
34. Jacob Von Rentzell (FY) 30:50
49. Denver Rogalla (SO) 32:20
52. David Sampers (SO) 32:27
54. John Jones (JR) 33:00
55. Dugan Flanders (JR) 33:03
64. Mike Unger (FY) 34:19
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Back in March Omniture announced our $25K Partner Developer Challenge. The challenge offered first and second place prizes of $15K and $10K respectively, plus the opportunity to promote the winning applications to Omniture customers. Finalists were selected recently and I'm excited to announce that we had three winners, one for first prize, and tie for second prize. Finalists were chosen based on three core criteria which we call the "three C's": Commercial value – are our customers or other developers likely to see value in the application?; Creativity – is this something interesting and new, or is it a rehashing of an old idea? Consumability – is it well-documented? Is it well-understood what the application is and what it does? After evaluating submissions based on these criteria, our platform product leadership team selected three winners:
First Place – Technology Leaders, "Dynamic Alerts"
Technology Leaders, a web analytics consultancy, created "Dynamic Alerts", an application that monitors SiteCatalyst report suites and emails analysts when any measurements stray from their historical norms. The interesting thing about this application is that it doesn't require manual setting of alerts, rather it uses an algorithmic approach to automatically calculate statistical norms for all metrics in SiteCatalyst and only alerts analysts when a metric falls outside of those norms. It's a step towards a 'virtual analyst' and can be invaluable to analysts tracking very large volumes of metrics across multiple report suites.
Tie Second Place – Bell Canada, "Multi-Graphs"
Bell Canada's "Multi-Graphs" app empowers analysts to quickly generate multi-line reports and/or spot patterns which involve more than one dimension and/or metrics from different SiteCatalyst report suites. As an implementation partner, Bell Canada manages a large number reports across multiple reports suites. They needed a way to quickly generate at-a-glance views of key metrics across those reports suites. Because of the multi-report suite nature of the application, Bell Canada had to utilize both the SiteCatalyst Reporting and Administrative APIs to create a merged view of data.
Tie Second Place- Earthbound Media Group, "Blog Monitoring and Brand Tracking"
Using the Technorati and Twitter APIs, Earthbound Media's "Blog Monitoring and Brand Tracking" app queries hundreds of millions of tagged user generated content pages to measure brand mentions and define the number of links generated to a website. The app gives analysts the ability to easily track brand mentions or related keywords across the blogosphere and micro-blogosphere. It parses the data returned from the Technorati and Twitter APISs and inserts it into SiteCatalyst, providing a complete view of brand mention activity.
Congratulations to Technology Leaders and our two runner-up finalists for their innovative applications. These apps offer a glimpse into the future of digital marketing, a future which will depend on the ability to measure, optimize, and automate across a broad set of channels in a near seamless fashion. To see more digital marketing innovations from the Omniture Developer Community, visit our code gallery at developer.omniture.com/codegallery.


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British & Irish Lions
Has McGeechan got it right?
Graham Jenkins
April 21, 2009
McGeechan has put his faith in lock Paul O'Connell to lead by example © Getty Images
The waiting is finally over. Lions coach Ian McGeechan has revealed the 2009 British & Irish Lions that will travel to South Africa later this year - but has he got it right?
The 10-match tour is guaranteed to be a gruelling and physical test to rival any in the Lions' illustrious history - a fact not lost on McGeechan and his coaching team who have picked a 37-man squad that looks ready to meet that challenge.
Ireland lock Paul O'Connell will lead the tourists and will provide the formidable presence both on and off the field of which McGeechan is such a fan. But whereas the selection of the Munster stalwart was widely predicted, there were a few surprises in Tuesday's announcement.
There were no places for a trio of Six Nations captains - Wales' Ryan Jones, England's Steve Borthwick and Scotland's Mike Blair - who rightly pay for their indifferent form in this year's competition. The armband may have offered them a lifeline on the national stage but without that they are left languishing and not one of them can really argue.
However, a plane ticket is on its way to England's Ugo Monye, Ireland's Keith Earls and Wales Leigh Halfpenny. All three have the potential to bring some flair to what will largely be a war of attrition. Age and experience are no barrier when you are looking for a way to de-rail the world champions.
Brave calls one and all but as we were reminded - when it comes to selection there is no countries, no captains and no favouritism. McGeechan assured us he would be picking on form - and not reputation - and while he appears to have been largely true to his word there are those who can rightly feel a little hard done by - England's Delon Armitage and Tom Croft would head this queue - and those who can consider themselves a little lucky - Wales' Shane Williams and Andy Powell.
Let's just hope they haven't used up all their luck as the Lions are going to need more than their fair share when they touch down in South Africa - such is the magnitude of their task. Defence may win matches, and the make-up of the squad goes some way to underline that fact, but the Lions will also need to nurture a cutting edge if they are to conjure an historic victory over the Springboks.
We will have to wait to see if McGeechan has got it right, but right now there appears to be plenty of cause for hope with an attractive blend of brute force, experience and flair at his disposal.
But at the moment they are just a group of talented individuals that McGeechan must craft into a world-class team. Time is not on his side with the squad set to embark on their demanding schedule next month that will culminate with a three-Test series. Add into the mix the limited preparation time they will have before they leave and three games at altitude awaiting them in South Africa then you get some idea of the task facing the elite tourists.
Do the Lions have the players to emulate the victorious tourists of 1974 and 1997?
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Byrne has shown he can be a devastating attacking threat as well as an assured defensive presence and will be the favourite to claim the No.15 Test jersey. Kearney, like Byrne, possesses a big kicking game that will prove a valuable asset. Armitage, arguably England's form player of the last six months, is extremely unlucky to miss out.
Williams gets the nod despite a lack of form due to his big game experience while the 20-year-old Halfpenny's versatility and dazzling performance in the Anglo-Welsh Cup Final saw him cement a place - maybe at Armitage's expense. Two more of Ireland's Grand Slam-winning squad are also worthy of their places. Maybe a little light on experience.
O'Driscoll's name will be the second on the team sheet after O'Connell's. The No.12 jersey is there to be won. Flutey is also likely to provide cover at fly-half, while the exciting Earls could also deputise elsewhere in the backline. All are likely to relish the physical challenge that awaits them.
These two are set to battle it out for the Test spot in the matches leading up to first Test. Jones is probably in possession of the No.10 shirt at the moment but all could change. Flutey may also get a run in an attempt to safeguard the Celtic duo. No chance for England's Jonny Wilkinson or Toby Flood.
Both Phillips and Ellis have battled back from serious injury to book their places on the tour while O'Leary's late flourish saw him get the nod over Scotland's Mike Blair.
Strength in depth - with Jenkins and Murray leading the way - and it will be needed as the Lions front up to their hosts.
Surely this is an area of concern for the Lions due to form of the leading contenders. One will need to step up to the challenge.
O'Connell and Wyn Jones are set to join forces in a bid to disrupt South Africa's all-conquering Botha-Matfield partnership but in Hines, Shaw and O'Callaghan they have more than able deputies. No room here for England skipper Steve Borthwick.
Powell appears to have been selected on the back of his form in the autumn. Williams and Wallace are clearly world-class but competing for the same shirt. Expect Worsley to be handed the 'tree-cutting' duties and Heaslip given the chance to display his running game on the hard grounds of SA. Prepare for some ferocious battles in the loose and at the breakdown.
There remains one feint hope for those omitted but it will only come from the misfortune of another. A stand-by list, featuring two or three reserves for each position, will be put together but not published and with an average of seven injuries on the most recent Lions tours at least one or two players can expect a late call up from national duty or their summer holidays. Again they must play the waiting game.
There is definitely the makings of a world-class international XV amongst the squad and on reflection it looks like McGeechan has got it just about right in terms of selections. There are maybe a couple of questions marks but who are we to doubt a man with the experience of six Lions tours (two as a player, four as a coach) to call upon?
All it requires now is those struggling to play themselves into form, others to find their feet on the high veldt and for McGeechan to work some more Lions magic. And if anyone can - McGeechan can.
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In his book, The Instigator, author Jonathon Gatehouse details the ascension of a New York City kid who never played hockey to the sport's biggest job. Gatehouse examines Gary Bettman's motivations and explains how a true outsider manages to keep order in the game Canadians love.
In this the first of two excerpts, Gatehouse describes one of Bettman's biggest gaffes and how the commissioner's dream of hockey in the Sunbelt has been shelved.
From: The Instigator: How Gary Bettman Remade the League and Changed the Game Forever by Jonathon Gatehouse. Copyright © Jonathon Gatehouse, 2012. Reprinted with permission of Penguin Group (Canada).
Bob McCown, a veteran sports talk radio host in Toronto whose show is simulcast nationally on Sportsnet, is one of the NHL commissioner's betes noires. A few years ago, he started calling Gary Bettman "The Count" on-air, suggesting he resembles the plush Sesame Street Muppet vampire.
Then, after a tense in-studio interview in which he basically accused Bettman of lying about the Phoenix Coyotes' prospects for success in the Arizona desert, he unilaterally banned the NHL honcho from ever returning.
McCown says it had more to do with his "a------" radio persona than any personal beef, but his opinion has since hardened. The league, he claims, has orchestrated a whisper campaign against him, trying to undermine his credibility, all the while dissembling about the health of the game, especially in the Sunbelt.
"Gary tells you what he believes the truth is in his world, and my job is to be skeptical," says McCown. "But his ego is beyond anything I have ever met in my life. He absolutely refuses to acknowledge that there's anybody in the world who is as smart as he is."
And despite almost 20 years in the job, the commissioner in some ways remains a hockey outsider. After taking over, Bettman immediately instituted a personal policy of never leaving his seat at the rink until the game is over. But other Bettman diktats, like his refusal to cheer or applaud the action, lest he be perceived as biased, feed the widely held belief that he doesn't really know or care about the game.
Then there are the inevitable missteps. In the spring of 2008, Bettman went on New York's WFAN radio to talk about the NHL playoffs. One of the hosts, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, mentioned that he had been fascinated by a vignette showing on the NHL Network about "Ace" Bailey, Eddie Shore and the origin of the all-star game. The first such exhibition in Toronto in 1934, he explained, was a benefit for Bailey, a Maple Leafs forward who had almost died after Shore, a Boston Bruins defenceman who defined truculence, hit him from behind, sending him to the ice and fracturing his skull.
Bailey never played again. That was the point at which Bettman jumped in and added his two cents: "And the tragic end to that story is he, Ace Bailey, was on one of the planes on 9/11."
Mad Dog and his co-host marvelled at that tidbit, wondering what a man that old was doing flying that day. And back at NHL headquarters, staffers who were listening to the broadcast picked their jaws up off of the floor. Garnet "Ace" Bailey, a winner of two Stanley Cups as a player with the Bruins during the early 1970s and the director of pro scouting for the Los Angeles Kings, was one of the unfortunates aboard United Airlines Flight 175 when it crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, but he wasn't the same guy.
Shore's victim, Irvine "Ace" Bailey, who went on to work as a timekeeper at Maple Leaf Gardens for more than 45 years, died of natural causes at the age of 88 in 1992.
The gaffe became the subject of much merriment around the league, but received surprisingly little coverage in the press.
Perhaps that's because many hockey reporters have learned discretion is the better part of valour when it comes to Bettman and his NHL lieutenants.
"I've never minded critical press as long as it's accurate," says Bettman. "Just don't make up things I said to fit your needs."
And while the commissioner allows he has no problem getting Canada's prime minister or senior U.S. legislators on the phone, he can't stop fans from going online to blog or tweet about how big an idiot they think he is.
Bettman is undeniably powerful but, sadly for him and the NHL owners, mostly in the place where hockey requires no help and can hardly grow bigger.
As a recent study by the University of Toronto's Mowat Centre pointed out, the NHL's record ratings in the United States during the opening round of the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs not only paled numerically to the viewing figures in Canada, they neatly underlined the gulf between a fringe sport and a national pastime.
"Given the difference in population between the two countries, the results suggest that Canadians outside of Quebec were roughly 40 times as likely as Americans to have been watching a national broadcast of NHL hockey during the first week of April. And the French-language hockey audience was proportionally even bigger: A Quebecer was as much as 90 times as likely as an American to have been watching a hockey game."
In the United States, hockey has historically been, and largely remains, a regional game. During the 2010-11 season, the league's five largest local TV audiences were found in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, Boston and Philadelphia.
The five smallest were in Tampa Bay, Columbus, Phoenix, Atlanta and Miami, where on an average night just 3,000 households tuned into a Panthers game.
As negotiations for the NBC deal progressed in the spring of 2011, it became clear the NHL was preparing to leave the country's eighth largest media market, Atlanta, and perhaps its 12th largest, Phoenix, as well.
But retired NBC Sports president Ken Schanzer says the issue never came up at the table: "Would we rather have an American city than a Canadian one? Sure, but neither of those markets had embraced hockey."
The dream at the beginning of Bettman's tenure -- to transplant hockey to the sunny climes where so many Americans cluster -- isn't dead but it has been deferred.
Las Vegas is really the last large U.S. market without a major-league sports team. And for a number of years it figured prominently in rumours about the NHL's expansion plans.
Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer and the Maloof family, owners of the NBA's Sacramento Kings, were among those supposedly vying to bring puck to Sin City. And when the league struck a deal in 2009 to move its annual end-of-season awards show to the Maloof-controlled Palms Casino from Toronto, it seemed like a prelude to something far bigger.
At the 2011 edition of the NHL Awards, the league had all of its most hallowed hardware on display just inside the front doors of the casino, a stone's throw away from the Wheel of Fortune slot machines. Grouped together in a tight circle atop tables covered in black fabric, the trophies -- relics of simpler and cheaper times -- didn't just look out of place, they seemed downright ugly. The Vezina, with its black-and-white reliquary photo of Georges, cheap wood base, and what appears to be a faithful silver replica of the altar at St. Peter's in Rome, excepting the puck and beaver, might have been taken from the display case of a small-town legion.
The Art Ross, with its peeling varnish and winners' names affixed to cheesy miniature hockey pucks, screams garage sale. And the Rocket Richard Trophy, which captures the Flying Frenchman hatching from some sort of silver space egg, suggests the involvement of a cult. The league's one truly elegant award -- the Stanley Cup -- sat at the centre of the mess, identified by two placards and largely ignored by the gamblers.
Bettman wandered through the casino, deep in conversation on his cell phone. The NHL's biggest stars, many of them still sporting cuts, shiners and beards from the playoffs, drifted in, attracting little attention. And despite the presence of one certifiable celebrity -- Jon Hamm, the star of Mad Men and a die-hard fan of the St. Louis Blues -- there weren't many fans willing to stand outside in the 39°C heat to seek autographs.
A couple of weeks before the show, the latest efforts in Vegas to build an arena came to a screeching halt when the state legislature declined to endorse a bill that would have allowed three competing developers to begin the process of accessing public funding.
Nevada, with an unemployment rate of close to 15% and 40,000 personal bankruptcies in 2011, was the last state to officially climb out of the recession. The day before the awards gala, the Maloofs, facing their own financial difficulties, lost control of the Palms.
And Mayor Oscar Goodman, a longtime champion of an NHL team, didn't bother to turn up for the ceremony.
The next day's Las Vegas Sun carried a few photos and a column by ancient gossip maven Robin Leach. But by 11 a.m., all traces of pro hockey -- banners, souvenir stands, trophies, and players -- had disappeared from the hotel. And workers had changed the marquee outside in favour of the next attraction, Deep Purple in concert.
The letters were twice as big as the ones they used for the NHL Awards.
The hard-won NBC deal gives the NHL more visibility than it has ever enjoyed on U.S. television, and enough money that the league can now credibly claim to have separated itself from competitors like beach volleyball and arena football. But in many ways, hockey is still wandering in the desert -- passionately followed by millions and largely ignored by everyone else.
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AVON — For the past nine years, St. Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Church has been a house of God
A bitter feud over how money raised in weekly bingo games was spent, the purchase of property for a new church and a dispute over who has the right to review the books has splintered a once-close-knit church whose original members fled the brutal communist regime in Yugoslavia at the height of the Cold War.
Now the lawsuits, legal fees, excommunications and changed locks all come down to a trial to determine which of the two sides in the struggle for control of the church's money was right. That trial, before visiting Judge Lynett McGough, will wrap up next week.
Bingo bonanza
In 1990, the church began holding bingo nights once or twice a week to raise money, and it worked. The church was flush with nearly $1.3 million in the bank when it shut down its bingo operations in 1998, and it had a solid reputation among area bingo aficionados.
"The people loved the bingo because it was honest," said Marge Walch, a self-described "bingo nut" who volunteered to help the church run its games even though she wasn't a member.
But things began to change in 1995, said Eric Zagrans, the attorney representing 25 dissident members of the church suing those who were elected into the church leadership in the mid-1990s.
The profits for the games, once at about 50 percent, began to plunge, dropping below 20 percent by 1998, Zagrans said. And the old leadership of the church, many of whom were founding members, began asking questions that the new leadership didn't like.
"Instead of showing us the answers so we would be satisfied, they started intimidating us," said Stella Atanasovski, one of the plaintiffs in the case.
Lube Kotevski, a defendant who served either as treasurer or assistant treasurer from 1995 through 2003, testified Friday that he and the new leadership were doing what they thought was best for their church.
"We didn't do anything wrong," he insisted to McGough in accented English, "we tried to help the church."
Kicking teeth
Not so, Atanasovski and her allies say, alleging that Kotevski and the others mishandled $200,000 in bingo money — spending it on Indians jackets, doling out excessive door prizes, not accounting for all the money that should have been in the bank and writing church checks to themselves that they couldn't explain.
They also pushed to purchase seven acres of land in North Olmsted for $550,000 to build a new church and social hall, Zagrans said.
The plaintiffs also accuse the new regime of spending $400,000 in church funds to defend itself in the lawsuit.
The new leadership also launched a campaign of intimidation against the old regime, Zagrans said, changing the locks, barring its members from church activities and having critics of the new leaders temporarily excommunicated by the American-Canadian Diocese of the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
Elka Ioannidis, one of the plaintiffs, said the intimidation also took the form of threats of physical violence.
"They told my dad that if he didn't stop asking questions that they'd kick his teeth in," she said.
Atanasovski said she was told she would be taken into the woods and assaulted if she didn't drop the lawsuit. A few people were charged with disorderly conduct and other minor charges over the years, including one ally of the new regime, who showed up to church armed with a knife, she said.
Edward Markovich, the attorney defending Kotevski and his fellow church elders who took over leadership in the mid-1990s, said the only person who was ever hurt was one of his clients, Mirco Jovanovski, who is involved in lawsuits with the son of one of the plaintiffs over a fistfight, which Zagrans said Jovanovski started.
The threats, Markovich said, were never reported to police.
"In the old country, they wouldn't call the police for this kind of stuff," he said. "They'd handle it themselves."
Zagrans said that's precisely why his clients came to the United States — to escape that culture.
Markovich said his clients weren't immune to threats either, although they faced financial intimidation instead.
"The threats to my guys were always that we're going to take your house," he said.
Land deals
The proposed purchase of land in North Olmsted was a serious point of contention.
Markovich said his clients were trying to move the growing church forward because it seemed unlikely it would be able to expand in Avon, and the popularity of the bingo sessions made the French Creek Road location too small.
The opponents of the purchase, he said, were stuck in an Old World mindset that screamed, "It's too much, it's too much!"
Markovich said the old guard didn't know what to do with their success, a far cry from what they had started out with when the small congregation built the church in 1978.
"Twenty years later, they go to court fighting over the embarrassment of their riches," he said.
Zagrans said his clients questioned the wisdom of buying the land because it would cost another $1 million to build the church, forcing them to take out a mortgage, something that had only just been paid off for the original church.
"They didn't want to go back into debt and use up all that cash they'd spent years building up," he said.
They asked to hold a churchwide vote whether to buy the land as mandated by the church's bylaws. When that request was denied in 1998, they sued. That lawsuit was dropped, only to be refiled in 2000 to include concerns over mismanagement of funds and threats.
Both the North Olmsted land deal and a second attempt in 2001 to purchase land in Eaton Township failed, but only because of the legal efforts of the old guard, Zagrans said.
After the second lawsuit was filed, the church leadership pushed the remaining members of the congregation to excommunicate the dissident members, doing so in June 2000. That vote, which didn't include a majority of church members, later was overturned by the archbishop of the worldwide church, based in Skopje, Macedonia, Zagrans said.
But, he said, the new regime had friends in the American-Canadian Diocese in Ontario, which excommunicated the dissidents again in 2001. That led to criminal and civil trespassing charges against the old guard when they tried to enter the church, but Zagrans said none of those charges stuck.
It wasn't until 2003, Zagrans said, that the archbishop fully realized the extent of the problem the new regime posed. He announced that he wanted a new group of people elected to lead the church and planned a visit to St. Clement to try to hold a prayer service and work toward ending the feud.
But when he arrived, he was locked out of St. Clement by the defendants, who had changed the locks, according to an Avon police report.
"You've got the archbishop, the equivalent of the pope, cooling his heels in a parking lot in Avon, Ohio," Zagrans said.
That was enough to convince the archbishop to back the old guard in the lawsuit.
But Markovich said the archbishop's desire to resolve the dispute internally had more to do with making sure the church didn't lose money.
"The guiding principle was not the Gospel. It was the money," he said.
Present and future
St. Clement hasn't held a bingo night since the first lawsuit was filed in 1998 to stop the North Olmsted land deal. In that time, the church's bank balance has shrunk to about $750,000, Zagrans said.
The church has no plans to relocate or restart bingo, no matter what happens in the lawsuit.
Atanasovski said St. Clement is once again supporting itself with candle sales and donations from the congregation, which has about 80 members.
"We're back to the way we started, really," she said.
Whatever happens with the trial, Markovich said he doubts it will resolve the case.
"I'm not sure anybody's going to go home happy," he said.
That could mean appeals, more legal fees and more discord, although Atanasovski said most of the defendants haven't been to church since they were forced from power in 2003.
But, she added, the church doesn't turn them away when they show up.
"This is not a personal vendetta," she said.
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We signed contracts and purchased a house with $2,000 earnest money. We bought on a Friday and did a mechanical inspection on Saturday. On the same day, we decided we did not want the house and notified our agent. We have signed a document that we have cancelled the house contract due to the inspection, which included some fill dirt around the base of house and some shingles needed to be repaired/preplaced.
Can we get the earnest money back?
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The broker of our agent wants 3% commission on a $175,000 house we bought from sell by owner. We did not use our agent. Can they do this?
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Nearly a third of unauthorized migrant workers in San Diego County have been victims of labor trafficking and more than half have experienced other labor abuses, according to a landmark study released Tuesday in the nation's capital.
Sheldon Zhang, a sociologist at San Diego State University, based his estimate on findings from his three-year study. The project — funded by the National Institute of Justice, a part of the U.S. Department of Justice — is billed as the first of its kind in the country.
Zhang interviewed 826 unauthorized, Spanish-speaking migrants who were working locally at the time or had done so in the previous three months. He found that 31 percent had experienced labor trafficking, almost all of it occurring after they came to the United States.
"Labor trafficking in San Diego is not only common, it is rampant," said Zhang, adding that a main factor is the victims' lack of legal status. "This requires systemic changes. This is not something that law enforcement alone can deal with, or one or two prosecutions can solve."
Zhang narrowly defined labor trafficking as "actual/threatened infringement of freedom of movement or actual/threatened violation of one's physical integrity." Examples of that include holding a person hostage for ransom, keeping a migrant's vital documents for leverage and assaulting a worker physically or sexually.
"This is not just regular fraud about intent to pay, this is far worse," Zhang said. "This is violation of human rights and infringement on one's freedom to move and communicate."
Across industries, labor-trafficking offenses happened most often in construction, janitorial and food processing, the study showed. Workers in agriculture also reported trafficking but at a lower rate — a finding that surprised Zhang because it contradicts popular thought.
Non-trafficking abuses against unauthorized workers include underpayment of wages, not giving work breaks and making workers perform certain tasks without the right equipment.
Zhang's study, titled "Looking for a Hidden Population: Trafficking of Migrant Laborers in San Diego County," is the latest milestone in a year filled with major advances in the fight against human trafficking. Other key developments include an October speech on the issue by President Barack Obama, increased research funding from federal and private sources and a renewed call by federal, state and local authorities for greater prosecution of trafficking. In California, voters this month approved increased penalties for convicted sex traffickers and the state attorney general released a study on human trafficking.
Despite such attention, there has been little research into the scope of human trafficking in the United States and even less examination of labor trafficking in particular. Sex trafficking has received much of the funding, and the bulk of prosecutions have been in this area.
"This study produces the first scientifically grounded measure of human trafficking in the U.S.," said John Picarelli, program manager for transnational issues at the National Institute of Justice. "Trafficking victims are a hidden population. The combination of their enslaved situation and the physical, mental and other trauma they endure makes them less likely to seek assistance."
Using population estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center and other policy groups that show about 198,000 unauthorized immigrants in San Diego County, Zhang estimates that 124,460 of them are in the workforce and about 38,458 of them have experienced labor trafficking.
Nationally, there are an estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants.
The National Institute of Justice has a dozen other human-trafficking studies that are ongoing. One of those is being led by Jamie Gates, director of the Center for Justice and Reconciliation at Point Loma Nazarene University. He is working with researchers from San Diego State and the University of San Diego on the relationship between gangs and sex trafficking.
"Sheldon's study is a strong contribution to the empirical data that is desperately needed in this new abolition movement," Gates said. "The folks who are undocumented are the most at-risk people in our population."
The prevalence of labor trafficking in this region could be due in part to the proximity to the border and the heightened political discussion of illegal immigration, said Estela De Los Rios, executive director of CSA San Diego County, a civil and human-rights organization that helped connect unauthorized workers with Zhang.
"We can now say there is a number of labor-trafficking victims. They are not a hidden population anymore, they are people who deserve investigation and prosecution of their traffickers," she said. "Regardless of their status it is a crime. Unscrupulous employers are getting away with it, so who are the criminals here?"
Larger public-awareness campaigns and linking more victims with law enforcement are the next steps, De Los Rios said. But persuading unauthorized workers to report workplace abuses to authorities is difficult because of their fear of deportation, she added.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the most recent labor-trafficking prosecution in the Southern District — which includes San Diego County — occurred in 2008.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations team does have current labor-trafficking cases, said Dan Page, assistant special agent in charge of the team in San Diego.
In addition, his group conducts public-awareness outreach, trains community members on how to spot and report trafficking, and works with local advocacy groups to identify victims.
"The important thing is we would take those cases if we had a person come forward alleging human trafficking. We would take care of that person and offer them all the protections we can and not turn them away," Page said. "This report shows (trafficking) is hidden, it's happening, but we are not getting wind of it. Any type of outreach or awareness is beneficial."
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While Pine Tree Riders appear carefree on their bikes, they stress the need to be respectful on the private lands where they have been given permission to ride.
Smith-Peterson said it's a constant battle to gain permission and no one wants to do anything to lose that privilege.
The riders even police bad behavior among their own. When a new rider revved his heavy horsepower motor and skidded out of Schott's driveway, Schott was not impressed.
"He'd be asked not to come back," said Schott, 64, with a nod to the young rider.
Gagnon said he's ridden in Florida, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and Maine landowners are among the most generous.
"West Virginia was the best. They have this Hatfield-McCoy Trail. I drove 1,000 miles to ride for three days. It was worth it," Gagnon said. "There are 500 miles of trail that is state-run. They know every trail and it's absolutely legal."
However, there are some Maine landowners who are against dirt bikes on their land.
Central Maine Power forbids dirt bikes on its 2,200-mile corridor of land, although in some cases, all-terrain vehicles are allowed.
An agreement signed in January between the power company and the Maine Department of Conservation opened 20 to 30 miles of CMP land to ATV clubs that ask.
But Paul Fecteau, CMP's real estate analyst, said the agreement does not include dirt bikes, even though dirt bikes are licensed in Maine by the same off-road registration.
Fecteau said CMP prohibits dirt bikes because the narrow tires can dig up the ground quicker than the tire of a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle, and cause erosion faster.
"We also lease out space to underground gas pipelines and fiber-optic cables. If the vehicle chewed up the ground more, it would get close to the cable. God forbid it hit a pipeline," Fecteau said.
Still, every summer, the Pine Tree Riders host an event that allows for the kind of nonstop, long-distance dirt bike riding found in states with public motocross trails, like West Virginia.
The route changes a little each year, but traditionally it has gone from Buckfield to Rumford.
This year's ride was held July 28 and 29, and ran from Buckfield to Sunday River. Gagnon said it drew riders from New York, Vermont and Rhode Island.
But, Smith-Peterson said, lots of preparation leads up to the fat-tire frolic.
"The guys in the club do a lot of work lining it up with land owners," Smith-Peterson said.
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Costo laboral y competitividad en el sector manufacturero de América Latina, 1990-1998
In this paper the reduction of labor costs is examined as a factor that contributes to increase the competitiveness of manufacturing firms. It first reviews non-wage labor costs in the case of workers with indefinite labor contracts, workers with temporary contracts, and those non-registered, with the intention of showing the differences that exist in non-wage labor costs according to the type of contract or the quality of non-registered of the workers, as well as the impact of these differences on the labor costs of each type and on the average cost. It then examines the evolution of labor costs in manufacturing, and how their magnitude varies depending on the deflator that is used, given the change in relative prices that accompanied the first years of the processes of economic and commercial liberalization in the region. It then analyzes the evolution of labor costs in manufacturing according to the type of contract, as well as the changes in the average labor cost in manufacturing that resulted from the strategy of both reducing non-wage labor costs and modifying the structure of employment by type of contract; the impact of exchange rate overvaluation on the average labor cost and competitiveness is described, and estimates the possible evolution of competitiveness in the absence of the exchange overvaluation. Finally, come suggestions seeking labor competitiveness in the countries of the region are made.
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