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|University of California students at Berkeley played informal disorganized "football" games against each other and local high school teams.
|Rugby enthusiasts from the San Francisco Bay Area converted the University of California to the game of rugby.
|The University of California continued to play Bay Area rugby clubs, improved greatly, and was soon defeating most teams.
|The University of California's first head football coach, O. S. Howard, brought the game of American gridiron football from the East Coast to the Berkeley campus. American football immediately became popular in California.
|July 9. Brother, J. Herbert Slater was born to Louise and John Slater.
|Feb. 7. Sister, Marguerite Slater was born to Louise and John Slater.
|Jan. 23. Brother, Norman B. Slater was born in San Francisco to Louise and John Slater.
|April 30. Colby E. "Babe" Slater was born in Berkeley to Louise and John Slater.
|The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece.
|Rugby was on the program for the second Olympic Games in Paris. Great Britain, France, and Germany sent rugby teams. The French won the gold medal.
|The University Farm, a branch of the University of California's College of Agriculture, was established in Davis, California.
|Due to the brutal nature of American football, its burgeoning professionalism, and fighting between University of California and Stanford University fans, as well as President Theodore Roosevelt's censure of the game, high schools, colleges, and universities in California dropped American football in favor of rugby.
|Circa 1906-1914
|Bay Area fans became more and more interested in rugby. As many as 26,000 flocked to big games between the University of California and Stanford University.
|Jan. 8. Father, John Slater died.
|January. Formal instruction began at the University Farm School in Davis. The University Farm offered a three-year course in the principles and practices of agriculture.
|Virginia Cave (later Mrs. Colby E. "Babe" Slater) was born in Clarksburg, California.
|The earliest University Farm School teams played rugby but called it football.
|1911, 1912
|Babe Slater led the Berkeley High School rugby team to Bay County League championships, the Northern California title, and the State title. Brother, Norman B. Slater played half back on the team.
|January. Three female students (the first at the University Farm School) arrived from Berkeley to spend a few months on the Farm. One of them was Babe Slater's sister, Marguerite Slater.
|June 28. Sarajevo. In an act that led to the First World War, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
|July-August. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia, and Belgium. Germany declared war on Russia, and after Germany demanded from Belgium free passage for German troops, Germany declared war on France. Great Britain declared war on Germany after Germany invaded neutral Belgium.
|August-September. British forces crossed to France in an attempt to halt the German advance. French and British troops pushed the Germans back at the first battle of the Marne. Then the French marched north to beat the Germans in a race to control vital ports in the British Channel. The enemies established stable battle positions, creating the "Western Front," a solid line of opposing trenches that stretched from the Channel to near Nancy, France.
|Babe Slater left Berkeley High School to attend the University Farm School at Davis. He starred in rugby, football, basketball, and baseball. He served as Basketball Team Captain, Junior Class President, House Manager for the Calpha Fraternity, Thanksgiving Day Special Chairman, Picnic Day Parade Chairman, and Picnic Day General Chairman.
|February. Germany proclaimed a war zone around the British Isles.
|May 7. Lusitania, a British luxury passenger liner traveling from the United States was sunk off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine. Almost 1,200 civilians were killed, including 128 Americans.
|Autumn. California's high schools, colleges, and universities started playing American football again. Rugby's popularity began to die out in America.
|Autumn. The University Farm School stopped playing rugby in favor of American football. Slater was one of only eighteen men from a student body of 296 who reported for the University Farm's first American football team.
|February-December. The Germans launched an offensive against the French at Verdun. Losses on both sides were heavy--about a million men. No strategic advantages were gained by either side.
|April. The United States threatened to sever diplomatic ties unless Germany changed its method of submarine warfare.
|July-November. The British conducted an offensive along the Somme River at the Western Front, but suffered their heaviest losses without making substantial gains.
|January. Germany announced that their submarines would sink all ships belligerent or neutral. The United States broke off relations with Germany.
|March 18. German submarines sank three American ships.
|April 6. The United States declared war on Germany.
|May. The United States House and Senate passed a selective service bill in order to recruit a large army and spread the obligation to serve among all qualified men age twenty-one to thirty.
|May 18. After completing a prescribed three-year course in agriculture, Slater graduated from the University Farm School.
|Early June. Over nine million American men including Slater registered for the draft.
|July-November. Enduring extremely rainy and muddy conditions, British forces conducted an offensive against German lines near Ypres, Belgium. There were heavy casualties. Finally, Canadian troops captured the village of Passchendaele.
|Sept. 23. Slater joined the United States Army. He served with the Medical Corps in France during the First World War.
|October-November. The Eastern Front had collapsed along with the Russian Army. After the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks took power in Russia and began to negotiate with Germany for peace. This allowed Germany to concentrate on the Western Front.
|Nov. 1. Slater was promoted to Corporal.
|Spring. German forces launched a major offensive on the Western Front. Allied lines manned by war-weary French and British troops crumbled.
|Circa May. A crowd assembled in Woodland, California at the Southern Pacific depot to see off the Yolo County "Liberty Boys." Slater led the group of forty-two boys, who entrained for Camp Lewis, American Lake, Washington to begin intensive training for war.
|May-June. Germans pushed the French back to the Marne River, close to Paris. American troops stopped the Germans at Chateau Thierry.
|June 27. American soldiers, including Slater, left Camp Lewis by train. Along the route to New York, townspeople cheered the troops and gave them candy and cigarettes.
|July 3-11. Slater was based at a camp in New York, and he visited New York City before being sent to war.
|July 12. Slater's company sailed from New York on the S.S. Olympic. The enlisted men endured poor conditions aboard the ship.
|July 19-20. Slater's company arrived at Southampton, England.
|July 21-25. Slater's company was at a rest camp in Cherbourg, France.
|July-August. Germans struck at a sector of the Marne between Rheims and Soissons. Americans helped to turn the attack and participated in the French counteroffensive that cleared out the sector.
|July 26-Aug. 24. Slater's company was based at St. Nazaire, France. General Pershing inspected the camp.
|Aug. 28-Sept. 6. Slater's company was based at Nogent, France.
|September-October. Meuse-Argonne offensive. The Allies pushed through German lines. Costly, but crucial American victories near St. Mihiel, Verdun, and Sedan as well as French and British successes routed the Germans and all but defeated their army. The Germans were driven out of France, and the Allies advanced into Belgium.
|Sept. 26-Oct. 4. Slater's company moved through Avocourt, Very, and Epionville, evacuating wounded soldiers to hospitals. They spent six terrible days under heavy shellfire and attack from enemy airplanes before they could leave Epionville.
|Oct. 13-17. Slater's company was at Revigny, France.
|Oct. 19-25. Slater's company was at Boesinghe and Ypres, Belgium. Slater noted that Ypres was "shot up pretty badly."
|Oct. 25. Slater's company spent the day hiking from Ypres to Roulers. Slater noted that they passed by, "nothing but devastated country--worse than the imagination could ever stretch it--for miles and miles all that could be seen was torn-up ground that resembled a choppy sea with great tanglements of barbed wire and railroad tracks."
|Oct. 25-30. Slater's company was at Roulers, Belgium.
|Oct. 30-Nov. 5. Slater's company hiked from Roulers to the Waregem area and to the front lines. They tended to the wounded and set up dressing stations. The Germans were shelling and bombing Belgium from the air.
|Nov. 3. Slater and Jim Gregory volunteered to go to Oudenaarde to find out the status of the dressing station, which was in the City Hall. The Germans were shelling, and their airplanes were firing on troops. The bridge across the Schelde River to the German line was only about 300 yards from the City Hall.
|Nov. 5-9. Slater's company was at Roosebeke, Belgium.
|Nov. 9. The Kaiser abdicated.
|Nov. 11. In the Forest of Compiegne, an armistice between the Allied forces and Germany was signed and fighting stopped.
|Nov. 10-26. Slater's company was in Oudenaarde, where they put up a dressing station, but no patients came because hostilities had ceased. There was considerable celebration in the city over the declaration of an armistice.
|Nov. 26-Dec. 7. Slater's company was at Izegem, Belgium.
|December. Slater's company was based at Proven, Belgium. They took day trips around the country and often were the first to pass through devastated areas. When a group of them went to no-man's-land to gather wood, they saw: bodies of men and horses, trenches, graves, barbed wire, shells, machinery, downed airplanes, and churned up ground. They took souvenirs off of a German airplane.
|Dec. 19. Slater received a Christmas box.
|Dec. 24-25. Slater and other soldiers took the early train to Brussels. They got a room, had a good meal, and celebrated Christmas. Crowds cheered the Americans.
|Jan. 4-March 23. Slater's company was based at Ceton, France. When they left, the whole population of Ceton came to see them off.
|Jan. 27. General Pershing reviewed American troops including Slater's company at Belleme, France.
|March 24-April 7. Slater's company was near St. Nazaire at Camp Guthrie, an embarkation camp. The men underwent physical exams before sailing for America.
|April 8-20. American soldiers including Slater were at sea on the U.S.S. Virginian. The immaculate ship was newly refitted to transport troops.
|April 20-May 2. American soldiers including Slater returned to the United States. They docked at New York, got off a ferry at Long Island Terminal, and boarded trains for Camp Upton. Crowds cheered them wherever they went.
|April 22-23. Slater was on leave in New York City.
|May 2-9. Slater and other soldiers departed Camp Upton by train. After crossing the United States, they arrived in Oakland, California early in the morning, took a boat to San Francisco, were in a parade down Market Street to City Hall, and then took streetcars to the Presidio.
|May 23. Slater's military service ended.
|June 28. The Allied Powers and Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles and officially ended the "war to end all wars."
|Returning veterans organized Yolo Post No. 77, American Legion, in Woodland, California.
|Circa 1919-1926
|Slater settled in Woodland. Slater and Robert (Bob) Lockhart managed a 9,000 acre section of the Conaway Ranch, where they raised sheep, hogs, and feed.
|Slater played and coached for the football and basketball teams of the Woodland, Yolo Post No. 77, American Legion.
|Due to the popularity of American football, rugby had almost disappeared from the United States except for California. The Olympic Games Committee granted Californians permission to form the United States Olympic Rugby Team for the upcoming Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium.
|Slater was one of the first players chosen for the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team. The team was mainly made up of students from California universities as well as recently graduated club players. Dan Carroll, an Australian gold medalist of the 1908 games and naturalized U.S. citizen, was both player and coach for the team.
|April-September. The Seventh Olympic Games were held in Antwerp, Belgium. The U.S. and France entered the rugby competition. As European champions, the French believed themselves to be far superior to the inexperienced U.S. team and only reluctantly consented to play the Americans.
|June 30. The U.S. Olympic Rugby Team sailed from New York on an overcrowded Army transport ship, the Sherman, arriving in Antwerp, Belgium thirteen days later.
|July-September. In Antwerp, the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team was housed in a converted school. Meals were served at their quarters, and buses transported the athletes to and from practice and competition.
|Sept. 5. The rugby match between France and the U.S. was played at Antwerp Stadium. Unexpectedly, the United States beat France 8-0. The U.S. Olympic Rugby Team won the gold medal. Slater became the first University of California, Davis alumnus to win an Olympic gold medal.
|Sept. 19-Oct. 10. The loss to the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team stunned the French government. They asked the American team to tour France and play French all-star teams. The Americans won three out of the four matches they played.
|September. The U. S. Olympic Committee agreed to send a rugby team to the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris despite the fact that rugby had not been played competitively in the United States for almost a decade. The Committee did not provide travel funds, so players had to use their own money to get to Paris.
|Babe Slater was chosen as Captain of the United States Olympic Rugby Team.
|Brother, Norman Slater was chosen as a member of the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team. He was thirty, married, had two children, and worked in San Francisco.
|Linn Farish of Woodland, California had played on the Stanford Rugby Team and was also chosen as a member of the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team.
|March. The Woodland Democratorganized "The Babe Slater Friendship Fund" as a testimonial of friendship and token of the community's appreciation of the modest all-around sportsman. The Friendship Fund allowed a maximum donation of fifty cents. Slater was so popular that 510 people (including 130 grammar school boys) contributed to the fund, which was used to buy Slater a gold watch and chain, an elk's tooth charm, and a gold card and receipt case.
|Circa March. Woodland's Yolo Post No. 77, American Legion presented Slater with a suitcase engraved with his initials and a receipt, which acknowledged that his dues were paid in full for one year.
|Circa April 2. The U.S. Olympic Rugby Team climbed aboard the Overland Limited.They were accompanied by Charles Austin as coach and Sam Goodman, President of the Pacific Athletic Association, as manager. The twenty-three member team included seven members who were veterans of the 1920 Olympic Games.
|April 7. The U.S. Olympic Rugby Team sailed from New York on the America.
|Circa April 20. The U.S. Olympic Rugby Team landed at Plymouth, England. The team played three exhibition games in London against British rugby clubs in order to "get in shape" before the Paris Olympic Games.
|April. In England, the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team was joined by Allen C. Valentine. Valentine, a Rhodes Scholar and All-American, was the only member of the team who was not from California.
|Circa April 27. The British Olympic Association gave a dinner for the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team at the Piccadilly Hotel in London.
|Circa April 28. The U.S. Olympic Rugby Team arrived in Paris. The team was made up of superb athletes including California football and basketball All-Americans. Many had never played rugby, but Coach Austin relied on his team's size, speed, stamina, and raw athletic ability to compensate for its technical deficiencies.
|Circa April-May. The U.S. Olympic Rugby Team was the target of French hostility. After immigration officials mistakenly refused the team entry into France and the American players forced their way off ship and onto dry land, the French press labeled the team, "street fighters and saloon brawlers." When American rugby team members ventured outside their Paris hotel, they were insulted and even spat upon by the French.
|Circa May. Cash and other possessions were stolen from the U.S. Olympic Team's dressing room while they were at practice.
|May. Three teams entered the Olympic rugby competition in Paris: France, the United States, and Romania.
|May 4. France won their rugby match against Romania, 61-3.
|May 11. The U.S. Olympic Rugby Team defeated Romania 37-0. The French crowd booed every American score, but both the American and French press noted the lack of violence and skilled nature of American play, along with the Americans' size and fitness.
|May 18. The U.S. Olympic Rugby Team won the gold medal by defeating France 17-3 at Colombes Stadium, which was filled with 50,000 spectators. The French rugby team was expected to easily beat the inexperienced American team. During the game, the French were devastated by American football-style tackling. The hits were within the rules of the game. The humiliating defeat of the French team angered their fans, who rioted in the stands and assaulted American supporters. The French fans threw bottles and rocks at the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team and tried to break through the tall wire fence that surrounded the playing field. Tens of thousand of hostile onlookers jeered the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team during the medal ceremony, the raising of the American flag, and the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner". After the ceremony, the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team was rescued from the rioting crowd by dozens of gendarmes. Due in part to the bad behavior of the French crowd and the lack of international participation in Olympic rugby matches, rugby was not included in future Olympic games. The French government later apologized for the behavior of the French fans, and soon after, the French press began to portray the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team as heroes.
|May 18. A banquet was given by the French Rugby Federation at Palais D'Orsay in honor of the Olympic Rugby Games. The U.S. Olympic Rugby Team attended this official banquet. The Prince of Wales was also a guest.
|May 19. American Friends of the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team, including Senator James D. Phelan, gave a banquet in honor of the team's Olympic victory. The banquet was held at the Inter-Allied Club of Paris. Many prominent Californians attended. Senator Phelan presented the team with medals and a statue that symbolized victory.
|May 21. Coach Austin and eight players left Paris for Cherbourg on the first leg of their journey home. They sailed for New York on the steamship, George Washington.The rest of the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team went their separate ways.
|Circa June 4. After traveling to Belgium and Switzerland, the Slater brothers, departed from Cherbourg and sailed for New York on the S.S. Leviathan.
|Circa June 15. The Slater brothers returned to the San Francisco Bay Area.
|Circa June. Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Bob) Lockhart held an open house in honor of Babe Slater upon his return to Woodland, California from the Paris Olympic Games.
|Circa June. Slater resumed farming in Woodland.
|Dec. 25-Jan. 1. Rugby matches were held at Brockton Point, Vancouver, British Columbia. The California All-Stars (mainly made up of U.S. Olympic Rugby Team members, and including Babe Slater) beat the University of British Columbia 9-0, the "Reps" beat California 3-0, and California beat the Mainland All-Stars 15-0 in the final and deciding contest of the three game series.
|Dec. 4. Woodland's American Legion football team won the California State Championship. Woodland beat Merced 6-0 to win the Championship game, which was held at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. Slater both played for and coached the Woodland team.
|Circa 1927
|Slater moved to Clarksburg, California. At Gus Olson's urging, he bought 100 acres of rich farming land located in the Holland Land Company subdivision at Clarksburg.
|Circa 1927-1955
|On his Clarksburg farm, Slater raised crops including: alfalfa, asparagus, barley, beet and carrot seed, dry beans, peas, safflower, sugar beets, tomatoes, and wheat.
|October. Norman Slater moved to Clarksburg in order to farm with his brother. Norman had been a mechanic for the Associated Oil Company in San Francisco.
|Circa 1930s-1960s
|Slater was active in University of California, Davis groups including the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, Friends of the Davis Campus, the UC Davis Alumni Agricultural Advisory Committee, the UC Davis Alumni Scholarship Foundation, and Sword in Sandals.
|May 5. The Clarksburg Community Church Council approved the building of scout cabins in Clarksburg. A committee was formed with Slater as Chairman of Construction, and the community worked together to build the cabins.
|Slater married Virginia Cave at the Clarksburg Community Church.
|Slater was one of a group of Clarksburg farmers who leased a cannery in order to can and sell their asparagus crops.
|Daughter, Marilyn was born. She was the Slaters' only child.
|Circa 1946
|A committee of Clarksburg residents (including Babe and Norman Slater) with the help of the Yolo County Extension Service initiated the establishment of a fire district for Clarksburg.
|April 19. Babe Slater, Robert G. Sproul, Claude P. Hutchison, Judge Peter J. Shields, Robert (Bob) Lockhart, J. E. Coke, G. H. Hecke, and Stanley Freeborn were among the honored guests at Picnic Day on the UC Davis campus.
|Norman Slater was elected fire chief and served until retirement in 1962. Babe Slater served as a commissioner of the Clarksburg Fire Department.
|Circa 1948
|Mother, Louise, died.
|April 14. Slater and California Governor Earl Warren were among the honored guests at Picnic Day on the University of California, Davis campus.
|Circa January. Slater was elected President of the Yolo County Farm Bureau. Over the years, he and Mrs. Slater went on many Farm Bureau trips including travel to Australia, Belgium, Germany, Japan, and Mexico.
|January. Slater was reelected as Yolo County Farm Bureau President, and the Bureau held its 37th annual meeting in Woodland. More than 600 persons attended the business meeting and accompanying bean feed, awards presentations, and entertainment.
|December. Thirty-five Yolo County Farm Bureau members including Mr. and Mrs. Babe Slater boarded a special train at Davis, California, joining 175 northern Californians and 255 southern Californians on their way to a ten-day American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Seattle, Washington. The group also toured Victoria, British Columbia.
|Circa May. Daughter, Marilyn graduated from the University of California, Davis. She had been a yell leader (1955), a member of the Alpha Omega sorority (1955), a member of the Cal Club (1954, 1955), Director of Reception for Picnic Day (1954), Junior Class Secretary (1954), a member of the Rally Committee (1953, 1955), Picnic Day Secretary (1953), and a homecoming princess (1952, 1953, 1955).
|August. Daughter, Marilyn married Richard McCapes in Sacramento.
|Slater retired from farming.
|Circa 1955
|After retirement, Mr. and Mrs. Babe Slater bought a vacation home at Dillon Beach near Bodega Bay, California.
|April 21. Slater judged the Picnic Day Parade at the University of California, Davis.
|1956, 1957
|Active in the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, Slater arranged reunions for the classes of 1916 and 1917 to be held on the University of California, Davis campus during Picnic Day. The classes of 1914 and 1915 were also invited.
|1957, 1958
|April. Mr. and Mrs. Slater were among the honored guests at Picnic day on the University of California, Davis campus.
|April. Slater, Robert (Bob) Lockhart, and other "old-timers" rode in the University of California, Davis Picnic Day Parade. They would attend a reunion of the Class of 1916.
|Jan. 30. Colby E. Babe Slater died.
|The Calpha agricultural fraternity established the Colby E. "Babe" Slater Memorial Athletic Award at the University of California, Davis. This annual award went each spring to the Davis student selected as Athlete of the Year. Associated with the award was the "Babe" Slater Perpetual Athletic Trophy.
|Circa 1970
|Brother, Norman Slater, a longtime Clarksburg resident, moved to Sacramento.
|June 14. Babe Slater was posthumously inducted into the Woodland Athletic Hall of Fame. His wife, Virginia, accepted the award at the first annual awards dinner in Woodland.
|Oct. 10. Babe Slater was posthumously inducted into the newly formed Cal Aggies Athletic Hall of Fame at the University of California, Davis. His wife, Virginia, accepted the award at the first annual induction banquet. Chancellor James H. Meyer presented each hall-of-famer with a plaque commemorating his induction.
|Nov. 15. Mrs. Slater (Virginia Cave Slater) died.
|December. Marilyn Slater McCapes and Richard H. McCapes donated the Colby E. "Babe" Slater Collection to Special Collections at the General Library of the University of California, Davis.
|February. Marilyn Slater McCapes and Richard H. McCapes presented Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of California, Davis with Babe Slater's two Olympic gold medals.
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Fire Bettman
Oh lord...mmmhmm, oh lord...
Praise Jesus AND fire Bettman
Figuratively, anyway. I was starting to develop an interest in hockey several years ago, but all the bullshit made me lose interest pretty quickly. I can't be the only one...
- The players' share of hockey-related revenue will drop from 57 percent to a 50-50 split for all 10 years.
- The league coming off their demand for a $60 million cap in Year 2, meeting the NHLPA's request to have it at $64.3 million - which was the upper limit from last year's cap. The salary floor in Year 2 will be $44 million.
- The upper limit on the salary cap in the first year is $60 million, but teams can spend up to $70.2 million. The cap floor will be $44 million.
- The 10-year deal also has an opt-out clause that kicks in after eight years.
- The salary variance on contracts from year to year cannot vary more than 35 per cent and the final year cannot vary more than 50 per cent of the highest year.
- A player contract term limit for free agents will be seven years and eight years for a team signing its own player.
- The draft lottery selection process will change with all 14 teams fully eligible for the first overall pick. The weighting system for each team may remain, but four-spot move restriction will be eliminated.
- Supplemental discipline for players in on-ice incidents will go through NHL disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan first, followed by an appeal process that would go through Bettman. For suspensions of six or more games, a neutral third party will decide if necessary.
- Revenue sharing among teams will spread to $200 million. Additionally, an NHLPA-initiated growth fund of $60 million is included.
- The NHL had hoped to change opening of free agency to July 10, but the players stood firm and it remains July 1 in the new agreement. But with a later ending to the season, free agency for this summer will start at a later date.
Also, a decision on NHL participation at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games will be made outside of the new CBA. While it is likely that the league will participate, the IIHF and IOC will have discussions with the NHL and Players' Association.
So for those fo us that didn't keep up with the negotations, who won? I grew up in the mid-90s. Hockey was my first sport. it was the only sport I really followed until I got into baseball when I was like 14 and the only sport I played growing up. I'll probably go back but reluctantly. Games? More than likely not but if a vendor offers me free tickets at work, I'm not turning them down.
I'm so frustrated. Part of me wants this season's attendance to be atrocious just so these people FINALLY get the hint that you cannot treat your fans like this and expect to grow your business.
Short answer, nobody won... with the fans losing the most.
Long answer: the NHL wanted a 50-50 split all along.. that's why they first proposed a drop from 57% players share to 43%. In an effort to save the full season (including the classic and all star game) the owners put a 50-50 offer out there in mid-Oct... everyone was excited until the players responded with 3 offers. Instead of using the 50-50 split as the base and building a counterproposal from there, the players offered some "50-50" splits that were based on mythical projected growth. The NHL promptly dismissed all 3 proposals in a matter of minutes... without offering a counter 50-50 proposal with some concession on some of the players other sticking points. So what's really frustrating is this deal could of been hammered out in October if both sides werent being little bitches. A lot of the blame certainly should fall on Bettman and Fehr who are awful people that don't give a shit about the sport. The owners got their 50-50 split, a buyout provision, a long CBA length... players got longer max contract length, more flexibility with salary variance, higher year 2 cap. So they really found middle ground, with no clear winner and lots of losers.
Reportedly will play each division opponent 7 times and each other conference opponent twice. Wings will be glad to get 7 easy ones against the Blue Jackets but will have a very tough schedule otherwise. Long overdue but great news!
Even though the Wings are gonna have a tough road with the Central being so stacked, I'm excited to see us play the Blackhawks and Preds 7 times. Always great, fun games against our division rivals!
I actually think a condensed season could benefit the somewhat older Red Wings.
We're not making the playoffs this year. I'm accepting that now. We don't have the depth or the right players. Unless maybe Franzen decides to play a full 60 minute game before the playoffs.
No surprise I guess. Love the game, hate Bettman. 360 days to the Winter Classic...
^I think this is the most confused and senseless post I have ever read on mgoblog.
I have gotten tired of the NHL and replaced them with college hockey.
Hockey never left. NHL is back.
Granted, I just got up, but this is the best news I've heard all day.
Boo Bettman
I wonder if any of them realize the lasting damage they've all done to hockey between this lockout and the last one. I imagine Bettman holding a press conference and declaring "THE SEASON IS BACK ON!" and then the camera pans to the crowd and it's like 10 people half-heartedly clapping
Thus is great for people who work at businesses that rely on NHL games like Cobo Joes. However, I've noticed already this morning ESPN couldn't care less about it.
ESPN hasn't cared about hockey since 1995.
Is a bunch of dudes wishing for their high school days back and won't let anybody they don't like into their exclusive douchebag club.
Their online NHL section is pretty good, but everything else is utter shit.
What's Tebow up to? Is Kobe better than Lebron? Did Rex Ryan say something? Tim Tebow? SEC SPEED! Tim Tebow? LINSANITY IS OVAH. Tim Tebow?
But I just don't care? I love hockey, I spent 13 years of my life playing it, and had some very early mornings just to get ice time with my travel leagues. I'm just over the NHL right now, and all involved.
Finally I have something to watch on a regular basis.
isn't back on until we say it's back on. Who's with me? Yooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
How do most of you see the Norris Division playing out?
YESSSSSSSSS posbangs for everyone!
the NHL ends their lockout before the Browns can end their coaching search. God, I hate being a Browns fan
Great news. Wonder how the Wings will do this season.
This must have been the outccome the players wanted when they hired Donald Fehr (Steroids? What steroids?). Nice to see he managed to get a job for a family member (Steven Fehr).
I love hockey but I'd already made a deal with myself to write off this season and now I find I'm fine sticking with that. After two of these it's pretty clear these guys have more contempt for their fans than any other major league. I'm with the fan strike here.
It will be interesting to say the least how fans in general react to its return. The casual fan (and i'll put myself in that category) watches infrequently during the regular season but starts to pay attention during the playoffs. I have to say i really didnt miss hockey while it was gone (football is still being played and basketball is in full swing) but probably would've started to miss it a little in Februray once the Super Bowl was played.
But as I sit here right now I have to honestly say the prospect of hockey coming back soon really doesn't do anything for me one way or the other. I'm not going to watch (other than to see how full the arenas are) and I kinda hope fans do stay away if for no other reason than to show Bettman and the owners you simply cannot keep doing this to your fan base.
Unfortunately the only "vote" fans get is their attendance & viewership and if arenas are full and ratings are high the only lesson the owners/players will learn is that lockouts work.
"I kinda hope fans do stay away if for no other reason than to show Bettman and the owners you simply cannot keep doing this to your fan base."
In every bit of polling, and anecdotal evidence, I have heard/seen on this, there has been pretty equal blame on the players. Thus, it will also show the PLAYERS that they can't keep doing this to their fan base.
The owners locked out with the intention of breaking the current contract before it expired, reconfiguring the money distribution with an 11 percent swing in their direction, and give the players nothing in return. Bettman's rule allows 8 out of 30 teams to control the rest.
I have a hard time blaming the players for anything purely because of how the lockout started.
Of course, I understand that you (and others) object to that, but the fact remains that not an insignificant number of people blame the players for this lockout (1) happening and (2) lasting as long as it did.
"...there has been pretty equal blame on the players."
That is, in my opinion, the fault of Fehr and the P.A. for being ineffective with their own narrative. The players were, if not perfectly, at least reasonably happy to continue playing under the last set of conditions they agreed to in ending the 2004-05 lockout. And EVERYONE acknowledges that the P.A. got royally screwed back then, that the CBA put into play basically gave the owners everything they wanted then.
Fast foward not even ten years later and the owners are once again claiming that they are unable to go on UNDER THE CONDITIONS THEY ALL BUT IMPOSED ON THE NHLPA THE LAST TIME.
I am a recovering Atlanta Thrashers (who?) fan...and I believe that the NHL actually is losing the amount of money that it claims, because if the people who own teams in other markets are as incompetent as the team of idiots that ran the Thrashers off to Winnipeg, it's a miracle that ANYONE outside the Original Six and maybe one or two of the Canadian markets make any money at all. But you can't pass the responsibility of your own incompetence off the employees. ESPECIALLY after those employees took, in good faith or otherwise, the type of reaming they got in 2005 to try and help their league out then. You sign your name on the line which is dotted...and you own up to the terms of doing so.
John Shannon over at SportsNet was reporting as well that the shortened schedule would include only in-conference games for each team, so regardless of whether we see the 48-game or 50-game proposed schedule, there is that constant. In a few ways, most notably travel time, I think this shorts the Red Wings significantly potentially.
As for the draft lottery proposal, I wonder if this revision, making all 14 teams fully eligible for the first overall pick in the draft, basically will mimic the NBA Draft Lottery. It might lead to some intriguing results - as the NBA Draft does - if that's where they are headed with it.
The divisions really need to be changed. Dallas is in a similar situation as Detroit is.
and I'll take the NHL seriously again as well. It's a crime against hockey that the Wings play Toronto and Montreal once a year, in favor of playing a bucket of games against teams nobody gives a damn about, like Nashville or Columbus. Killing the Detroit-Toronto rivalry is like ending the Tigers-Yankees series or ending the Lions-Bears or Lions-Packers rivalries.
Oh you mean like college football has done?
See: Nebraska V Oklahoma, Texas v Texas A & M, Pittsburgh v West Virginia or any other of the countless tradional rivaleries killed in the conference square dance.
I'm just glad we haven't screwed up Michigan-Ohio State with shitty divisions....oh wait...
Couldn't agree more. The fact that the game at the Big House with Toronto sold out so quickly should be a fucking clue to the NHL, but the tassel loafer-wearing foof in the commissioner's office is too damn stupid to realize it.
The modern NHL is a joke. The scedules are complete crap. I will start watching more than once or twice a month when we start playing toronto, montreal, etc. three or four times a year. Shit, at least home and home everyone in the league for cripes sake!
I can't wait for my first email from Olympia Entertainment expecting me to be so excited for hockey's return that I'll lap up every ticket offer they throw at me. I'll still come running back like a good Pavlov's dog, but TV only, and hate myself for it, but I just wish there was a way to write a nasty reply to those ticket-selling emails that would ever reach someone other than a low-level sales monkey just happy to have his or her job back.
But the Wings playing all of one team in their timezone won't be easy.
Big props to Scot Beckenbaugh for being the best damned federal mediator around and getting them back together with less than a week to spare.
You can't totally blame Bettman for this. I put more of the blame on the NHLPA, who have proven that, even though they are supposedly a players' association, they are reduced to the role of sock puppets for their agents. Too many owners are losing money under the current setup.
What other business model allows employees to receive a percentage of the gross while they are actually losing money? All the players really "gained" here was a percentage of a "pool" that isn't going to increase anytime soon.
Where is the money going to come from when both sides have damaged the game to a point where a lot more people don't care about them anymore? If they really wanted to do something constructive, they would have gotten together and tried to figure out how to make their sport attractive enough to get a decent TV contract.
employees to receive a percentage of the gross while they are actually losing money?"
Ooh, ooh, I know this one...it's called "The US Auto Industry".
If the players hadn't brought in Donald Fehr I would probably put 90% of the blame on Bettman. But Fehr has now orchestrated protracted and spiteful labor stoppages in two sports now, so yes, fuck him equally along with Bettman, who doesn't know any way to get a deal done other than to murder the sport.
To bring back the fans, Bettman and Fehr should go to games and drop the gloves during first intermission. Then two lucky fans will get their chance at them during 2nd intermission.
I'd pay good money to see that.
Is not really valid. Pro sports in the US don't operate like a free market. Salary cap and draft limit the ability of players to market their skills. I see the revenue split as a price the owners have to pay for the lower risk offered by the salary cap and other provisions. If the owners did not want to have a defined revenue split they could get it but then everything would be an open market.
I'm not sure I'd compare any markets to a free market...
Too many owners are losing money under the current setup.
I blame Bettman for this. He expanded the NHL into regions where teams are not garnering enough interest to make money. People parade around how the NHL is so much more popular and generates more revenue than before, but now we have eight or nine teams losing money because no one cares.
Also, the owners agreed to the old contract, so they don't get to whine about it until they can re-negotiate. Not in my book.
Dude, they didn't just sign the contract. They got EVERYTHING they wanted. What idiots did they have working on their side that didn't catch the frontloaded contract loophole? They got the cap they wanted and it was supposed to be labor peace for decades to come. "Oh yea, sorry guys, we fucked up last time we locked you guys out for an entire year, we gotta do this again". Sorry, I really don't blame the players. Owners want to be saved from themselves. No one forced you to overpay for your POS franchise in the middle of nowhere and no one forced you to sign 2 guys for $200MM. How can the owners be signing these deals and then want to rescind them a month later and be trusted? How can you trust a proven liar sitting across the table from you?
What business allows employees a percentage of the revenue(not gross) when it is losing money? Every single one that is losing money and has employees...
Owners losing money is a load of crap for the most part. Look at the Panthers for example. The owner is crying poor. Yeah, the Florida Panthers hockey team probably costs him money but what the Panthers got him is a lease on a publicly funded arena which he rents out and fills on a near nightly basis for concerts and conventions when the Panthers aren't in play. He makes bank off that. He got that arena deal due to this ownership of the Panthers. Look at the main figures of the lockout---Jeremy Jacobs of Boston and Snider of Philly. You think those locales are hurting for money? This is the same Jeremy Jacobs that made memebers of stanley cup winning staff pay a $7K tax on their rings and when some couldn't afford it, the PLAYERS that people love to deride stepped up and paid for those low-level staff memebers because they knew how important they are. Fuck the owners.
Sorry I'm not sorry
I think it's funny to read from people who say they couldn't care less whether the NHL returns. Obviously they care enough to login and post comments which seem to imply some kind of superiority on their part.
Yeah I've heard a lot of people say that. I'm willing to admit that my life is so boring that I will immediately be glued to my tv watching hockey as soon as its back.
Screw you and your short season. See you next year, stupid NHL.
The NHL season has always been at least two months too long anyway. I mean, hockey from Mid-October to mid-June is a bit much. Half the league makes the playoff anyway, so losing two months off the regular season isn't a bad thing, IMO.
Drop the puck already.
Earlier on the ESPN front page they had a poll about your excitement for the return of hockey and 56% said they were not excited. Why would ESPN waste time on a league that 56% of their audience was not excited to discuss?
Edit: this was meant as reply to the posters commenting on ESPNs lack of NHL returns coverage
Will feed you what they want to feed you down your throat 24/7. The last meaningful thing ESPN said was in 1999. Maybe.
Like the NBA strike I would have been fine if it wouldn't have came back. I actually prefer college hockey over NHL. Yet, congratulations to the hockey fans out there.
I really don't get why people feel so personally insulted. If you love hockey, watch it and attend the games. Was the lockout shitty? Yeah, absolutely. Did they forget about the fans in pursuit of the best CBA possible for them? Yep. But they're back now. Hockey wasn't on so I haven't watched, but it's back now so I may as well watch it. If you love it, you'll watch. Anyone saying that they feel personally disrespected needs to get real, the NHL is a lot bigger than the percentage of fans that won't come back, and most of them will eventually come back anyway. All I'm saying is that the NHL is a business and they had an unfortunate business dispute, but they're back now. Also, none of this excuses how poorly either side handled the Lockout, but it's over now so be happy and watch rather than hold a pointless grudge which will most likely eventually end anyway. Happy hockey-watching.
I lost a lot of interest in hockey after the 2006-07 season. I'm not even really sure why. I used to watch almost every wings game, but for some reason I just stopped caring.
Oficially eliminated from playoff contention already?
but i'll limit it to Fire Gary
My personal lockout starts now. I am locking the NHL for an equal amount of games that I lost. I love Mike Illitch, but him and the NHL is not getting my attention and money. Unfortunately, the board of governors are too shortsighted to see the damage Bettman has caused the league from his mismanagement.

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Caterpillars in the Field and Garden: : A Field Guide to the Butterfly Caterpillars of North America,
by Thomas J. Allen, Jim P. Brock and Jeffrey Glassberg
The End of Food,
by Thomas F. Pawlick
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible
Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers,
by Edward C. Smith
How to Build Your Own Greenhouse: Designs and Plans to Meet Your Growing Needs,
by Roger Marshall
Building Your Own Earth Oven: 3rd edition: A low-cost, wood-fired, mud oven, simple sourdough bread, perfect loaves,
by Kiko Denzer with Hannah Field
The Organic Lawn Care Manual,
by Paul Tukey
Human Sacrifice,
by James P. Moore
Caterpillars in the Field and Garden: : A Field Guide to the Butterfly Caterpillars of North America,
by Thomas J. Allen, Jim P. Brock and Jeffrey Glassberg
2005, Oxford University Press; 232 pages, $29.95, paper
This field guide, the first of its kind, is a must-have for the butterfly gardener who wants to know whether those wormy plant-eating critters are in fact young butterflies-to-be. Those who want a guide that distinguishes moth caterpillars from those of butterflies will have to wait. Moth species outnumber butterflies 10 to one and, unfortunately, no easy guidelines differentiate the two (though Allen
et al.
devote three pages of photos to common moth caterpillars). Still, with pages packed with color photos, distributions and descriptions, this book offers a lot to the curious garden naturalist.
As one who has wondered why the wooly bear crossed the road, and where do Monarch caterpillars go at night, I appreciate the section on "how to find the caterpillars." Searching for butterfly caterpillars is an undeveloped art, write the authors. Finding them is often harder than finding the adults. "In fact," they write, "some of North America's caterpillars have never been seen in their natural habitat."
Their suggestions? Look for butterfly caterpillars on their suspected food plants. Because some of these caterpillars are secretive, look under leaves or in rolled leaves. Knowing when they'll most likely be feeding on plants, and having a photo to help with identification, will contribute to success. You can also grow the preferred food plants in your garden and hope that an adult lays eggs there, or wait for wandering caterpillars to discover the delicacies you've sown. Except for a couple of species, notably the Cabbage White and Swallowtails, most butterfly larvae will not eat the same things you grow in your vegetable garden.
This book has useful information on identifying caterpillars by families, and a mini-lecture on the biology of butterflies. One of the more interesting sections is about caterpillar behavior. Because these creatures are small and generally go about their business unseen, we don't often think about whether they communicate or how they scare off enemies. While Skippers hide in rolled leaf shelters, others may drop to the ground and hide in leaf litter. Some bore into fruits, flowers and stems to shelter from enemies, while others use coloring. The bright colors of the Monarch warn birds that "these taste bad." Other, tastier species mimic the black and white look of bird droppings during their early lives, taking on more color as they shed their skin and grow larger.
Caterpillars that feed at night may do so to avoid predation by wasps. Others have huge eyespots to frighten predators. Swallowtails have a fleshy gland, the osmeterium, which gives off a pungent and offensive odor to intruders; others extrude acids from their spines and hairs.
While many people like the idea of planting butterfly gardens, most folks tend to plant the showy blooms that attract the nectar-feeding adults. "If you want to plant a real butterfly garden," write the authors, "you need to provide the plants that caterpillars eat." While butterflies will feed on many blooms, their offspring are more persnickety. In my garden Swallowtails seem to chow down on everything from dill to carrots to parsley, but the Harris Checkerspot dines only on flat-topped white asters. The astute butterfly gardener will plant host plants for butterflies that live in his or her region, along with the authors' short list of "plants every butterfly garden should have.
"And, of course, avoid the use of pesticides in your garden," they write. This probably is an unnecessary warning to most of us, but important for those who may just be developing an interest in butterfly gardens.
The meat of the book is, of course, the field guide. We are given both common and scientific names along with identification information, including habitat notes, best time to find, preferred host plants, and even garden tips. Each caterpillar has a range map and color photo. Perusing this guide, I discovered some of the caterpillars I've seen around my garden, Fritillaries and Skippers mostly. And I got a chuckle from this comment on Cabbage Whites: "considered a pest by some."
– Sue Smith-Heavenrich
Candor, N.Y.
The End of Food,
by Thomas F. Pawlick
2006, Barricade Books, Fort Lee, NJ 07024;
, 201-944-7600; 256 pgs., paperback; 16.95
Pawlick, a science reporter, begins his book with his return to Canada after living in Italy, home of fresh, delicious, nutritious food, for eight years. He buys a tomato at the grocery store, only to find that it is tasteless, never really ripens, and bounces off a wall (rather than splattering) when thrown. He begins to wonder: What's happened to our food?
Investigations lead him to U.S., Canadian and British data showing significant declines in vitamin and mineral concentrations in produce and wheat, along with increases in sodium and fat. Pawlick interviews university tomato breeders to find out how this has happened. In response to his question about what they breed for, flavor and nutrition are not mentioned. Yield, uniformity, ease of harvesting, etc. – this is the stuff of modern tomatoes. One set of data, for instance, showed that today's tomatoes had 30.7% less vitamin A and 16.9% less vitamin C than tomatoes did in 1963; while sodium increased by 200 percent.
Pawlick describes other disturbing trends in agriculture and food systems: vertical and horizontal integration; genetic engineering; additives, intentional and otherwise, that contaminate food, from heavy metals and brominated compounds to the products of nanotechnology. The book seems to leave no industrial agricultural stone unturned. It provides a lively and disturbing synopsis of modern industrial agriculture.
The book ends with solutions: farmers' markets, Community Supported Agriculture farms, community gardens, farm-to-restaurant connections, and more. Pawlick make your taste buds tingle for a scrumptious meal of real food.
For those who have been following agriculture for a while,
The End of Food
will be mostly review. For those new to the subject, it offers a concise overview.
For me, the most interesting part of the book was Chapter 10: Connections, in which publications and organizations that are working to create an ecological agriculture are annotated. Lots of tempting stuff is listed here, such as J.T. Garrett's
The Cherokee Herbal
(Bear & Co., Rochester, Vt., 2003); Frank Gardner's
Traditional American Farming Techniques
(The Globe Pequot Press, 2001, reprinted from a 1916 text);
Vegetable Crop Culture
by V.I. Shattuck and M. McKnight (Univ. of Guelph Dept. of Plant Agriculture, Guelph, Ontario, 2003);
Appropriate Technology Sourcebook
by Ken Darrow and Mike Saxenian (Volunteers in Asia, 1993); and several more.
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible,
by Edward C. Smith
310 pgs., large paperback, Storey Books, 2000; $24.95
Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers,
by Edward C. Smith
256 pgs., large paperback, Storey Books, 2006; $19.95
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible
has been on and off my shelf since it was published. I've enjoyed it over the years when I've checked it for pest control or other cultural techniques related to organic gardening. Sometimes I just browsed through it in early spring to dream about the coming garden while the ground was still frozen. The gorgeous photos, taken by numerous photographers, including Smith's wife, Sylvia Ferris Smith; and the clean and inviting layout of the book hold my attention like a good movie or story or a beautiful garden.
This spring I referred to the Bible while "substitute teaching" a gardening class at Unity College and found that it was just the right level for students who had minimal gardening experience, even as it continued to reveal new information to me. Smith discusses his "WORD" system (Wide rows, Organic methods, Raised beds, Deep soil) in three sections: one on garden planning; one on soil building; and one on the basics of vegetable and herb culture.
Smith's newer work, describing growing vegetables in containers that are "self-watering" through various capillary systems, is just as inviting as his previous book. Some of the basic cultural information is repeated; some is new. I look forward to trying his suggestion for battling cucumber beetles: vacuuming them with a hand-held, portable vacuum cleaner.
The information about how self-watering containers work, how to make your own such containers, and about Smith's "secret soil formula," which I guess I can't reveal here, differentiate the
book from the
Anyone who has limited time, space or sunlight in the landscape will benefit from this book promoting Smith's "POTS" system (Portable, Organic, Trouble-free, Secret soil formula). By using the POTS system, gardeners can grow even sun-loving crops: Put them in moveable pots and rearrange them as the sun moves.
Smith's love of gardening permeates these books. Pick them up and you'll be starting new garden projects, too, and you'll be looking forward to reading about the next four-letter-word gardening system that Smith comes up with.
How to Build Your Own Greenhouse: Designs and Plans to Meet Your Growing Needs,
by Roger Marshall
Storey Publishing; 2006; 255 pages; $24.95
With the effects of climate change becoming more and more obvious, we're seeing that change won't be as simple as milder winters and longer growing seasons. As this past winter and spring have evidenced, we can probably count on weather that's generally more erratic than we're used to: mud seasons in January followed by record breaking cold, then early thaws and April blizzards. How timely, then, that this book has been published.
How to Build Your Own Greenhouse
contains over 250 pages of information for the homeowner and smallholder wishing to gain a bit more control over the weather on a small piece of land, as well as for farmers or current greenhouse owners hoping to upgrade or better use existing structures.
Starting with the history of growing "under glass," the book then offers information on different styles of greenhouses, how to choose which is right for you, what materials you can choose from, how to build the greenhouse (from the foundation and carpentry to the wiring and glazing) and how to control the greenhouse environment. The author objectively covers many options in the design and construction of greenhouses, clearly discussing advantages and drawbacks of each. He covers alternative building techniques (e.g., rammed earth and recycled glass) as well as decidedly less environmental options (e.g., PVC).
The last and, by far, largest section of the book contains complete plans for 10 styles of home-scale greenhouses and cold frames. Some are quite involved, with concrete or brick foundations, wood frames and real glass glazing; others are as simple as dirt floors with plastic piping for hoops; and some aren't even free-standing, being constructed off the side of a house or around an existing window.
If you've ever wondered how to extend your gardening season, how to grow tropical plants in Maine without rotting your house out from under you with all the moisture, or how to make better use of a hoophouse or greenhouse that you already have, then How to Build Your Own Greenhouse will be a great resource.
– Clayton Carter
Building Your Own Earth Oven: 3rd edition: A low-cost, wood-fired, mud oven, simple sourdough bread, perfect loaves,
by Kiko Denzer with Hannah Field, Foreword by Alan Scott
Hand Print Press, P.O. Box 576, Blodgett OR 97326; 541-438-4300; www.handprintpress.com; 2007, 132 pages, $17.95
About three years ago, I started baking artisan, sourdough bread, and the idea of making my own wood-fired oven appealed to me. Until the fall of 2006, I had planned on building a wood-fired, brick oven. It was difficult to start the project, though, because it seemed so complicated. Then a friend suggested I make a clay oven instead. I had never considered a clay oven, but he let me borrow a book called
Building Your Own Earth Oven
by Kiko Denzer. After I read the book, I realized that a clay oven was exactly what I wanted to build. A clay oven is inexpensive, quick, easy to make, and in the end, you have a functional, beautiful and unique work of art. All the information I needed was right there in this simple book.
Now a third edition of
Building Your Own Earth Oven
is available, with more photos, drawings and detailed information on how to build a clay oven and how to make sourdough bread. Denzer walks the reader though all the steps in the oven building process, starting with considerations on where to build the oven and suggestions on where to get materials. (Maybe even right in your own back yard!) He then goes over information about building the foundation, the floor, the clay walls and the door. He describes how to use the oven and emphasizes that it's not just for bread: think pizza, beans, veggies, meats, soups, cookies, pies, and even yogurt! And – critical for the new oven owner – the book includes a troubleshooting section. Denzer's wife, Hannah, also gives instruction on how to make simple sourdough bread.
The overall message of the book is: Experiment! If you make a mistake when building the oven, "Don't worry!" says Denzer. "The second time is easier – and faster." Knowing this helped take some pressure off me when I made my oven. It doesn't have to be perfect. The point is to be creative – to create something that is all yours. I recommend Denzer's book for anyone who is interested in making and/or baking with wood-fired ovens.
– Kendra Michaud
The Organic Lawn Care Manual,
by Paul Tukey
Storey Publishing, 2007; 272 pgs., large paperback, $19.95
The Organic Lawn Care Manual,
Paul Tukey and Storey Publishing have done their part to save the world. In this attractively produced, easily read book, the writer and publisher have clearly and invitingly stated the reasons for abandoning toxic lawn care practices. Top among those reasons are the health of one's children, of oneself and of one's pets. The cover photo of three sets of bare feet walking across a lawn, with none of those scary "Caution – Pesticide Treated" signs around, says it all.
In her foreword to the book, Nell Newman talks about preparing Thanksgiving dinner for her father, who previously "was skeptical about organic products and methods." After he enjoyed the dinner, Nell asked, "So, how did you like your organic meal, Pa?" Nell showed by doing, and Pa got hooked on organic.
Tukey does the same. With beautiful photos and with stories of individuals and communities (even a golf course) that have cut or eliminated toxic lawn "care" chemicals, and with straightforward directions about how to establish, renovate and care for an organic lawn, Tukey shows by example. He writes about building good soil to grow healthy plants that resist pests and weather extremes. He teaches about watering, weeding and mowing lawns (even predicting that the gasoline-powered, highly polluting lawn mower will soon be a thing of the past). Tukey describes his own conversion to organic lawn care, and in so doing makes this book accessible to those who are still using synthetic lawn chemicals. He does a nice job of inviting everyone to the party and not making anyone feel guilty for past behavior.
Abundant illustrations (of weeds, grass species and groundcovers, for example) and tables (of grass species, organic nutrient sources, organic pest controls, for example) make the information easily accessible and understandable.
Even if you're the most lackadaisical lawn care person around (as I am), you'll enjoy this book for ideas you may not have considered before – such as using a rubber pond liner, which will last some 20 years, as a solarizing mulch to create a new lawn (or garden) spot; or installing a 4-foot-diameter, 4-foot-deep basin, filled with crushed stone, to intercept 200 gallons of water that might otherwise wash away or make a swamp of part of your landscape (the directions are a little more involved, but not difficult); or why you might want to apply humic acids to your lawn; and how to establish the ideal lawn for various lawn games—including disc golf, which involves throwing a Frisbee at a target until you hit it.
The Organic Lawn Care Manual
is an important, useful and entertaining book. Perhaps reading it could be part of the "fine" that Maine's Board of Pesticides Control imposes on lawn care companies that go astray.
Human Sacrifice,
by James P. Moore
Second edition, 2006; $15, Blackberry Books, 617 E. Neck. Rd., Nobleboro ME 04555
Human Sacrifice
has little to do with farming or gardening – but a lot to do with a particular farmer, Dennis Dechaine, who has been in the Maine State Prison since 1988, serving a life sentence for the murder of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry. Moore's quick and fascinating read questions Dechaine's guilt and calls for a fair trial that includes DNA evidence.
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Packaging and Nationhood
Here's a reflection on nationhood through the lens of bilingualism, product packaging, and mixed vegetables.
"The French and the English cannot be made to say exactly the same thing, not even in the blunt, literal language of generics. And this unharmonizability, one fears, is but the exact linguistic reflection of the irreducible discreteness of the can's various contents (this is not a mash, but a mix), which in turn is but the alimentary mirror of unending human conflict."
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Sun Peaks is celebrating a very nice 37 cm of new snow that's fallen over the past week with one of Canada's top skiing competitions. Over the weekend, visitors should expect seasonable to very warm temperatures, and just a little more snow.
On Saturday, visitors will enjoy 3 C and an average of about five cm of new snow, which will taper down to between one and three cm of new snow throughout the week.
Sunday will see a mix of snow and rain under balmy 6 C skies. The temperatures will drop down to about 3 C for the rest of the week, according to the Weather Network ski report.
Calm, warm conditions make for a great weekend for those who want to watch some of the nation's best racers compete.
March 8 marks the final day of the FIS Speed Skiing World Cup, at the Headwalls Speed Ski track, the only speed skiing event held in North America and one of the longest-running speed skiing events in the world.
The races continue to Saturday between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Spectators on skis or boards can best view the event from skier's right of the Headwalls track near the bottom, where racers will be going the fastest, according to organizers.
For more visit http://www.sunpeaksresort.com/events-and-festivals/event.aspx?c=1&e=1633


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Xavier is offering a Graduate Programs Expo to showcase all its graduate study options
The event takes place on Monday, June 8, in the Cintas Center on campus | May 13, 2009
Xavier University is offering a Graduate Programs Expo in June that brings together in one place information about all its graduate programs. Faculty and staff will be on hand to answer questions and to present details about each program.
The expo takes place on Monday, June 8, from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. in the Schiff Family Conference Center of the Cintas Center on the Evanston campus. The event is free and open to anyone wanting to learn more about graduate study at Xavier.
Graduate programs and concentrations include:
• Master of Business Administration – part-time and Executive programs.
• Master of Education in: Administration, Elementary Education, Human Resource Development, Montessori Education, Multicultural Literature for Children, Reading, Secondary Education, Special Education and Sport Administration.
• Master of Health Services Administration: Long-Term Care, MHA/MBA Dual Degree.
• Master of Arts: Community Counseling, English, Experimental Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, School Counseling and Theology.
• Doctor of Psychology: Clinical Psychology.
• Master of Science in Criminal Justice.
• Master of Science in Nursing: Nursing Administration, Education, Forensics, School Nurse, Health Care Law, RN to MSN, MSN Clinical Nurse Leader, MSN/MBA Dual Degree, MSN/MED Dual Degree, MSN/ MSCJ Dual Degree, Direct Entry Second Degree (MIDAS) Program.
• Master of Occupational Therapy: BLA to MOT, Pre-MOT to MOT.
To register, please go to: http://www.xavier.edu/graduate-admission/.


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AstraZeneca Recognized as a Top Company for Female Executives
2013-02-05 12:30 ET - News Release
WILMINGTON, Del. -- (Business Wire)
The National
Association for Female Executives (NAFE) today named AstraZeneca
(NYSE: AZN) one of the top 50 companies for female executives for the
fifth consecutive year. AstraZeneca ranks second on this year's list.
NAFE recognizes organizations for policies and practices that encourage
women's advancement, and in particular, the number of women holding
executive positions in the business.
Within AstraZeneca, women lead key teams and functions, including the
executive vice president, human resources and corporate affairs; vice
president, global compliance strategy and assurance; vice president,
human resources, US; vice president, sales and marketing, Cornerstone
brands; and vice president, sales and marketing, Growth brands. All
US-based women representing US or global functions were considered in
the total submission on behalf of AstraZeneca.
"Our goal is to continue to strengthen and diversify our workforce,
including women, to ultimately reach their career goals and
aspirations," said Deb Kauffman, Vice President, Human Resources, US.
"This recognition showcases AstraZeneca's ongoing commitment to ensuring
we have the talent required to drive a successful business."
AstraZeneca offers programs that contribute to a supportive working
culture for women, including:
About NAFE
The National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), founded in 1972,
serves 20,000 members nationwide with networking, tools and solutions to
strengthen and grow their careers and businesses. Working
Mother magazine publishes the annual NAFE Top 50 list. NAFE.com
provides up-to-date information, community for women in business and
access to member benefits. NAFE is a division of Working Mother Media,
owned by the Bonnier Corporation.
About AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business
with a primary focus on the discovery, development and commercialization
of prescription medicines for gastrointestinal, cardiovascular,
neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation, oncology and infectious
disease. AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its innovative
medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide.
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Glee-The Christmas Album 31 October, 2011
Since the beginning of the first season on September 9, 2009, "Glee" has been a hit. Many artists have offered the use of their songs for free because they love the show. This has allowed the "Glee" cast to use various artists and styles of songs. Now we can offer you "Glee"-The Christmas Album, which has been released in print as of September 2011. Some of the favorites included are Baby, It's Cold Outside, Deck The Rooftop, Last Christmas, Merry Christmas Darling and more.
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Relay readies for 15th year
In 15 weeks, the Auglaize County Fairgrounds midway will host walkers for an 18-hour walk for the 15th annual Relay for Life as teams and individuals celebrate victims and survivors of cancer.
Trying to mirror the stages through which a cancer survivor endures, Relay for Life organizers have chosen the theme, "A Cure for All Seasons."
"For cancer patients, there are different seasons to the process of being a cancer survivor," Relay for Life organizer Laura Kelley said. "The fall season, with things turning brown and dormant, can be equated to the diagnosis and then they go through the rough months which equates to the winter season, those cold, lonely moments. As spring arrives, their treatments are starting to take effect and when summer time hits they are a survivor — full of life.
"We are celebrating the fact that everyone who has cancer is in one of those stages and we just want to see them get through all the stages and get another chance at life and living," she said.
Kelley said she hopes to resurrect the energy of past Relay for Life events. A couple of years ago, changes occurred to the time and place of the event.
The Relay for Life is a month later than when it started in 1997, moving to mid-June from mid-May and moving to the Auglaize County Fairgrounds from Harmon Field. The event takes place June 22 and 23.
"We are changing some traditions and bringing back some of the old events," Kelley said. "Miss Relay has been missing for two years and it is time to bring the event back.
"The luminaria service will look a little different as well," she said. "The luminaira will be paper bags that can be decorated by the owner — this will make them more personal."
The luminaria service returns on the evening of June 22, immediately after the opening ceremonies and the survivor's lap.
Kelley encourages people and teams to join as they are looking for more teams to sign up. She noted it is never too late to organize a team. They can contact Kelley at 419-738-7615 or at firstname.lastname@example.com to sign up or they can get additional information at event's website — relayforlife.org/wapakoneta.
They also can use the website to sign up as a survivor to take part in the survivor lap.
A new staff partner and new and old faces heading committees have Kelley excited about the 2012 Relay for Life in Wapakoneta.
The local group is working with Jesse Purcell, a new staff partner, who replaced Deb Smith, who served as the American Cancer Society representative for the first 14 years.
If anyone wants to help on a committee, they can contact Tiffany Fullenkamp at 419-738-3303, who is serving as this year's chair.
"I just want people to give Relay for Life another chance," Kelley said. "I want people to remember why we are doing it. We have refreshed a lot of things this year and our partner this year is awesome and she is so energetic and upbeat.
"We have to remember for whom we are doing it because cancer is such an awful thing, it affects so many people," she said. "I bet there isn't anyone reading this who hasn't been touched in some way by cancer. It is such an important cause."


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LOL! Your subject title made me think of two supervisors I once had who, when we were walking back across the courtyard to our office after a meeting, wouldn't let me go inside the building until I showed them how far I could spit. I was humiliated.I'd play your games over having to do that again!
How about "I'm going to bow out of participating in the games. They're just not my thing.".
No, no real consequences. The games idea seems to have been called off due to nobody wanting to participate. We all contributed to the charity drive anyway, and upon being asked en mass in our open plan office, nobody was all that enthusiastic about the hotdogs or the games.In a possibly related note, boss has just resigned to join another division of our company. Apparently boss doesn't like the atmosphere here (where we would collectively rather get our jobs done, than stand around making fools of ourselves when we have work to do, and are the most profitable division in our company), and would rather go work for another division that is much more laid back but eyeball deep in debt because they're more positive people to work with. Ooookay then...
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Looks like you are not alone.
I write fiction and creative non-fiction. My first challenge entry at FWs, Grandfather's Oranges, was a memoir.
I also teach writing life stories/memoir at Western College here in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia.
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By Ben Levisohn
Emerging-market bonds might hold up better than investors expect if the U.S. goes over the fiscal cliff, according to a recent Citigroup report.
Bonds issued by emerging-market governments and corporations in their own currencies occupy a strange middle ground in the world of fixed income. On the one hand, they're bonds that pay regular coupons, and thus offer a level of safety investors don't have in stocks. But they're denominated in local currencies, which means they can be far more volatile than the average bond–especially when the markets go into "risk-off" mode.
That puts investors in something of a predicament heading into year end. If Congress reaches a deal, then no worries. Local currency bonds should do just fine–and perhaps even better than their dollar denominated counterparts. But if no agreement is reached, the currency component could get hammered.
Citi's strategists urge investors not to panic, however. The reason: Local-currency bonds held up during the debt ceiling debacle because the bond component offset the currency losses. From May16 through August 31, Citi's Emerging Market FX index lost, at most 2%, but its Emerging Market Local Government Bond index gained 4% during the period.
Of course, the fiscal cliff could be worse than the debt ceiling crisis, the strategists say, so investors might want to cut back a bit before year end. Still, the report suggests investors who hold the Market Vectors Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond (EMLC) exchange-traded fund or the SPDR Barclays Capital Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF (EBND) might do well with just sitting tight.


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Foam Magazine Talents 2013 is a travelling exhibition that will be presented at ROSPHOTO in St. Petersburg, displaying the works of 13 from all over the world selected from submissions made in response to the magazine's annual Talent Call. The results are published in the Talent Issue of Foam Magazine. The international premiere of this exhibition project will take place at ROSPHOTO.
The following photographers are presented at ROSPHOTO's exhibition halls: Jinkyun Ahn (KR), Thibault Brunet (FR), Salvi Danés (ES), Daniel Gordon (USA), Eeva Hannula (FI), Sohei Nishino (JP), Peter Puklus (HU), Augustin Rebetez (CH), Thomas Rousset (FR), Charlie Rubin (USA), Ross Sawyers (USA), Linda Voorwinde (NL) en Daisuke Yokota (JP).


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Hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators massed in the southern city of Basra yesterday to demand the ouster of the local governor, a day after a similar anti-government protest sparked violence that killed three people.
Yesterday's demonstration by people demanding better services, an end to corruption and more jobs is the latest outburst to hit Iraq in the wake of the regional upheaval that is sweeping the Middle East.
About 600 people gathered in front of the Basra provincial headquarters, facing off against police protecting the building.
With the exception of some pushing and shoving between protesters and police, witnesses said the protest was largely peaceful.
On Wednesday, about 2,000 demonstrators attacked government offices in Wasit Province, ripping up pavement stones to hurl at a regional council headquarters in a protest over shoddy public services, officials said.
The demonstration was among the most dramatic since Iraqis began venting their anger about dysfunctional government at all levels in relatively small protests across the country. Unlike protesters in other countries demanding democracy or regime change, however, demonstrators in Iraq have focused on unemployment, corruption and a lack of electricity.
The top medical official in Wasit, Diaa al-Aboudi, said 55 people were injured — including three critically — in the protests in the city of Kut, 160km southeast of Baghdad. He said some of them were shot by police, while others were hit by stones or suffered burns.
Kut police denied firing on the protesters and blamed the governor's bodyguards and private security guards at one of the buildings. The governor could not immediately be reached for comment, but al-Aboudi said witnesses and ambulance workers reported that police fired on the demonstrators. Al-Aboudi also said demonstrators threw stones at ambulances who came to rescue the wounded.
Protesters threw stones at the provincial council headquarters, set a trailer outside the building on fire and rushed inside the compound, said Sondos al-Dahabi, a spokeswoman for the local goverment.
She added that authorities had imposed a curfew in the city as night fell.
Television footage showed billows of smoke, a palm tree on fire and protesters, many of them teenagers, filling the headquarters compound. The sound of gunshots could be heard and demonstrators could be seen riding on a commandeered police truck and armored personnel carrier, waving Iraqi flags.
Protesters also went to the governor's headquarters, leaving a mess in their wake, before heading to the governor's house, al-Dahabi said.
According to the spokeswoman, the demonstrators tried to set fire to the governor's house, which was empty at the time. It was not clear whether the house was damaged.
Iraq is one of the few countries with a democratically elected government in the Middle East, but its leaders have not been immune from the anger engulfing the region. Iraqis have a long list of grievances against their leaders, including electricity that sometimes works only a few hours a day, unemployment that runs as high as 30 percent and rampant corruption.
As security has improved in the country following the worst of the sectarian bloodshed of 2006 and 2007, attention has turned to the quality of life and economic issues instead.
Wasit is a mostly Shiite province bordering Iran and is one of Iraq's poorest regions.
"It is us who brought the governor and other officials to office through the provincial elections, but in return we got nothing," said Hassan Ali Murwah, one of the protesters. "We will repeat such protests and no force on earth can stand against us."


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The owners of a lost stuffed dog are offering a $1,000 reward for his safe return.
The dog's name is Winston. He was lost in the French Market on the corner of Governor Nicholls and French Market Place in the French Quarter.
The stuffed animal was last seen on September 28th at 2pm.
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Thomas A. Trainor
Thomas A. Trainor, 87, of Foxcroft Avenue died July 10, 2013 at Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island. He was the husband of Mary V. (Morrison) Trainor.
Born in Providence, a son of the late Frank J. and Mary Jane (McGee) Trainor, he had been a Warwick resident for the past 58 years. Mr. Trainor was an inspector for the City of Warwick Water Department for 20 years before retiring in 1992. A graduate of LaSalle Academy and a World War II Navy Veteran, Mr. Trainor was also a member of the Irish Famine Committee, the Warwick Knights of Columbus 2295, Shield Post American Legion No. 43 and the LST 7/11 Club.
Besides his wife, he leaves 2 sons, Thomas A. Trainor, Jr. of Grafton, Massachusetts, and Kevin P. Trainor of Smithfield; eleven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. He was the father of the late Michael F. Trainor and Maureen V. Andrade; brother of the late Frank Trainor, Bernard Trainor and Ann Perry.
His funeral will be Saturday at 9:00 a.m. from the Frank P. Trainor & Sons Funeral Home, 982 Warwick Avenue, Warwick. Mass of Christian Burial in St. Benedict Church, Beach Avenue, Warwick at 10:00 a.m. Calling Hours Friday 5-8 p.m.. Burial with military honors will be in Acotes Hill Cemetery, Chepachet.
In lieu of flowers donations in his memory to Hospice Care of RI 1085 North Main Street
Providence, RI 02904 will be appreciated. Condolences please visit www.trainorfh.com.


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We wish we knew. Because Wisconsin's chancellor, John Wiley threatened to do just that after the Badger band's recent roadtrip to Michigan yet Wisco band members aren't talking about what happened that led them to be placed, in their own words, on "double secret probation."
Those close to the situation report
While band members refused to discuss specific details regarding what went on during the trip or their meeting with the Chancellor, those who did comment said Wiley laid down a set of rules including no hazing, no nicknames (commonly handed down to new band members at initiation) and restrictions on band-affiliated parties. Apparently Wiley wants them to go back to being plain ol' band fags again.
(HT: Bad Jocks)