Smoke is the new mystery novel by D.B. Borton, author of the Cat Caliban and Gilda Liberty series. Fans of the spunky, salty, sixty-something Cat will want to meet seventy-something Marge.
Late one night during the fiery days of the Iranian revolution, two figures slip into the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and steal twelve of the world's most valuable paintings. Here's what the thieves don't know: most of the paintings are fake.
Decades later, when she ought to be enjoying a sedate retirement from the field, Marge Smith remains on active duty as an agent of the secretive Quixote, Ltd. But now that she's broken her leg in a motorcycle accident, her bosses have sent her to a nursing home to recover. She doesn't know why, but she doesn't think it has anything to do with the geriatric production of Macbeth she's been inveigled to take part in—until one of the witches drops dead in the middle of opening afternoon.
Called in to work on a theft recovery, Marge is surprised to discover the surviving witches across the conference table, and astonished when she's handed a list of stolen paintings to recover. She knows these paintings; she once stole them herself.
Now Marge has several problems to solve. Who stole the paintings and how can she get them back? Are they the real paintings or another set of fakes? If they're real, how did they end up in a house in suburban Washington, D.C.? Was the third witch murdered for them? And how soon can she ditch the crutches?
SMOKE is the new mystery novel by D.B. Borton, author of the popular Cat Caliban and Gilda Liberty mystery series.


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Meet the Sellers of the Bronx Merges with ERA Insite Realty
WHITE PLAINS—ERA Insite Realty Services, a full service, family owned and operated residential real estate firm with offices in White Plains, Bronxville, Yonkers and Pleasantville, has reported that Meet the Sellers of the Bronx has merged with the White Plains based firm. Meet the Sellers was founded and owned by broker Irene Guanill Elukowich. Louis…
International Real Estate Veteran Launches New Brokerage in Scarsdale
When he first came to the U.S. almost 20 years ago, Harry Singh had a dream of opening his own real estate brokerage. In fact, he actually incorporated Reliance America International Realty in 2007, but just recently launched the new Scarsdale agency. Originally from New Delhi, India, Singh earned his Bachelors of Commerce at a…
PSC Schedules Hearings on Con Edison Natural Gas Connection Moratorium; Approves $223M Smart Solutions Program
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PSC, County Holding Meetings on Con Ed New Gas Hookup Moratorium in Westchester County
WHITE PLAINS—Westchester County Executive George Latimer, along with a number of state and local officials, are scheduled to meet with Con Ed officials sometime today regarding the impending new natural gas connection moratorium set to begin in March that could impact a host of major projects in the pipeline in the county's major cities. The…
Fed Holds Rates Steady; Promises More Patient Approach to Future Rate Hikes
WASHINGTON—In what can only be viewed as great news for Realtors and the residential real estate market, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday decided to hold rates steady and even signaled an end to what had been seen by some as an aggressive policy of raising rates. The Federal Reserve decided to maintain the federal funds…
Toll-Brothers Joint Ventures with JP Morgan on $157M Project in Harrison
HARRISON—Toll Brothers' groundbreaking adaptive reuse of two office buildings here has a new partner and more than $100 million in construction financing. The developer reports it has formed a joint venture with New York City-based J.P. Morgan Asset Management to develop the $157 million, 421-unit Carraway luxury apartment property off Westchester Avenue in Harrison. The…
Hudson Valley Home Sales Market Remained Strong in 2018. Sales Slow Down, But Median Prices Continue to Rise in Region
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Dems Introduce Bill to Protect Fed Workers From Foreclosure, Eviction During Government Shutdown
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Con Ed Imposes Natural Gas Moratorium That Could Jeopardize Westchester's New Development Market
WHITE PLAINS—Westchester County political and business leaders are scrambling to gauge the potential economic impact of a moratorium on new natural gas connections for a majority of the county by utility Con Edison. Some fear the moratorium, to begin March 15, could all but halt several billion dollars' worth of new development projects in the…
Appellate Court Deals Blow to Title Insurance Industry
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Houlihan Lawrence Holds Book Drive for Local Children in Need
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Median Home Prices Rise in Hudson Valley; Sales Fall in Most HGAR Markets in 2018
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10 Things to Watch Out for in 2019
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NAR Helps Secure FEMA Reversal on New Flood Policies During Government Shutdown
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Cartoon row: Iran denies Rice claim
An Iranian vice president has rejected a US contention that his country was fanning Muslim anger over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, while a newspaper in Malaysia faced closure for printing one of the images.
The protests have mostly targeted Danish consulates
Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, said in Washington that "Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments" that have produced violent protests across the Muslim world against publication of the caricatures.
"That is 100 per cent a lie," Isfandiar Rahim Mashaee, one of several Iranian vice presidents, said during a visit to Indonesia. "It is without attribution."
The demonstrations - directed mostly at the foreign missions of Denmark, where the cartoons were first published - turned deadly this week in Afghanistan, where nine people have been fatally shot in clashes between demonstrators and security forces.
The images - including one depicting the prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb - have been reprinted in mostly Western media. Islam is interpreted to forbid any illustrations of Prophet Muhammad.
In Muslim-majority Malaysia, a newspaper that published one of the caricatures said it expected its printing licence to be suspended by the government, while police launched an investigation over the issue.
"We may not have publication of the newspaper by tomorrow"
Polit Hamzah,
Sarawak Press executive director
The Sarawak Press newspaper group has faced relentless public criticism despite apologising for what it says was an editorial oversight that led to the publication of the caricature in its Sarawak Tribune last Saturday.
Polit Hamzah, the Sarawak Press executive director, on Thursday said: "We may not have publication of the newspaper by tomorrow."
Police questioned the editor who authorised the cartoon's publication for two hours on Thursday and were examining whether the paper's management broke any laws, the national news agency, Bernama, cited Sarawak's police chief Talib Jamal as saying.
The editor, Lester Melanyi, resigned over the controversy.
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Major League Baseball and the Players Association publicly released on Friday the latest collective bargaining agreement, which includes provisions banning the use of data garnered by wearable technology for commercial use or for admission in salary arbitration.
"Gritting your teeth, while it's glamorized, is probably one of the worst things that you can do." Steve Magness is a performance coach and lecturer who trains nearly 20 professional runners, including Olympians. As a high school runner, he ran a mile in 4:01, which at the time ranked him as the #1 high school runner in the country, #6 all time, and #3 in the world.
I recently had a conversation with a Strength and Conditioning Coach where he stressed the importance of getting support from his Sports Medicine staff. While in most organizations the Performance and Medical staffs work closely, there is a growing realization of the importance of creating great relationships between these two disciplines.
In Part 1, I explained the principle behind trying to understand how head injuries happen in rugby, as well as the first important findings of our study, which were a) that the tackle is both the most numerous and riskiest match activity in rugby, and b) that the tackler has a higher propensity for head injury than the ball carrier.
CLOSE Learn about the Sports Science football combine that visited Lawrence Central High School recently, and how it could change the way high school athletics are evaluated by partnering behavioral psychology with physical assessment. Jenna Watson/IndyStar John Lewis reported to Lawrence Central on Wednesday morning with the rest of his underclassmen football teammates with little idea of what to expect.


From the 1880s, countless residents of Australian cities, most of whom could apparently afford to buy the food they wanted to eat, took the time to produce it themselves in their own backyards. Why? The answer lies, at least in part, in the connections between food production and 'independence'. Within the middle and upper working classes, independence was both a goal and a concept central to identity formation. As such, it was internalised to the point where it is best described as a disposition, serving to guide everyday social activity and make sense of the everyday world. The history of the disposition toward independence might be traced back at least as far as the Reformation, to the so-called 'Protestant ethic' which Weber identified as the rationalistic and accumulation-oriented 'spirit of capitalism' in Western Europe.1 By the Victorian era, the virtue of industriousness had taken on a particularly individualistic, independence-oriented significance, as part of a cluster of largely bourgeois virtues-including self-help, respectability and thrift-associated with the 'gospel of work'. One of the chief exponents of these virtues was Samuel Smiles, who in 1859 published a best-seller entitled Self Help. By the end of the century, it had been reprinted many times, translated into several different languages, and sold around 250 000 copies.
R.J. Morris has described Self-Help as 'a charter by which the lower middle and properous working classes might restore their self-respect after the defeats of the 1840s'.2 In a slightly different vein, Asa Briggs has proposed that although intended mainly for the working class, the values and ideals contained in Smiles' writings were predominantly middle-class ones. Certainly in the era of Gladstonian liberalism, the values and ideals represented in Smiles' work flourished in Britain among working- and middle-class people.3 They were also carried to the antipodean colonies by emigrants anxious to improve their life chances. There too, they flourished and endured.
Economic independence for working people was also important to working-class reformers such as Chartist William Lovett, who wrote of 'devising means by which the working and middle classes may have Comfortable Homes, and be gradually enabled to become Manufacturers, Trader, or Farmers, on their own capital'. Lovett further sought 'the Promotion of Temperance, Sobriety, Cleanliness and Health amongst all classes'5-concerns that were also taken up by Smiles.
The focus on independence, and the way in which it was understood as the opposite of dependence, could be detrimental to an orientation towards community-based interdependence: 'The man who looks to others for help, instead of relying on himself, will fail.'7 This privileging of independence and relative neglect of interdependence would be maintained to a large extent by the urban middle class in Australia. For the working class, interdependence was often more of a necessity.
The maintenance of the body in 'entire health', as well as the avoidance 'of bodily ailments, which always accompany sedentary occupations' was seen to require relaxation and exercise, intake of wholesome food, and restraint with regard to alcohol. The connection between physical and moral health was seen to be a close one, and as well as avoiding the path of ill-health, bodily discipline could prevent a fall into moral degeneracy, and dependence.
The middle-class body was to be a public display of the self-discipline of its owner, the product of moderation in food, and sufficiency in exercise. For women, the anxiety over maintaining a properly 'classed' body also manifested in the use of corsetry, and proprietary 'slimming' medications.
Janet McCalman sees 'respectability' as one of the most important items of cultural baggage brought to Australia by working people seeking 'dignity and prosperity in a new land'.17 'Respectability' was a bundle of ideals and prescriptions for behaviour which included thrift, cleanliness, sobriety, self-reliance, and manly independence. As such, it shared much ground with the predominantly middle class ideals espoused by Smiles. Whilst McCalman discerns a widespread working class identification with 'respectability', Terry Irving has argued that a distinct, 'respectable' working class formed in Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century, drawn from small-scale services and production and driven by 'dreams of economic independence'.18 Similarly, I use the term 'respectable working class' to denote mainly those skilled tradesmen, and their families, with relatively stable jobs, adequate incomes, and at least the prospect of homeownership, who were front-runners in the pursuit of respectability.
As Ballantyne suggested, the fraction of the working class with the most capital were often able to achieve some limited independence. Thus in 1932 liberal politician and intellectual Frederic Eggleston claimed that the 'standard of comfort in Australia is so high that the worker is really taken out of the class of proletarian into the class of suburban bourgeoisie with a "position to maintain".'21 Eggleston clearly exaggerates the case, as Australia has by no means been a 'workingman's paradise' for all. However, many working-class people recognised, for example, the value of a private school education and sought, though hard work and thrift, to buy a family home.22 The ideal of independence was held dear among the 'respectable' working class, as well as the middle class.
One of the most basic expressions of the independent disposition was the production of one's own food: it was a means by which to achieve independence, being (at least in theory) thrifty, particularly in making use of wastes. It was also highly symbolic of independence, in its use of household land and labour to avoid reliance on others for a basic need. For the middle class, especially, it provided exercise and wholesome food, both culturally tied to the ideal of independence. It became one of the markers by which one could reaffirm one's class status, seeing oneself as respectable rather than rough, industrious rather than idle. Yet there was room for further layers of meaning.
In the colonies, environmental determinism-the belief that environment shapes people-was popularised in the context of debates over the fate of the transplanted British 'stock'. It also emerged in the idea that urban residents needed to escape the degenerative influence of the city, and avail themselves of the reforming, healthful influence of rurality, even if only in suburban backyards. Several authors have pointed to the somewhat 'rural' nature of suburban Australian backyards, but few have dissected the rurality perceived in this context to ask, as Raymond Williams has done, 'what kinds of experience do the ideas [of city and country] appear to interpret, and why do certain forms occur or recur at this period or at that'? 23 From the late nineteenth century, the idea of 'country' found in Australian suburban backyards is inextricably bound up with the figure of the yeoman. Graeme Davison, in The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, asked 'was the yeoman dream of five acres and a cow realized in a quarter-acre block and a pen of chooks?'24 The answer, for the late nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries, is a clear 'yes'.
These ideas would later be taken up enthusiastically by Chartists and other reform groups.
Given the consistent, overwhelming failure of schemes to settle families on relatively small acreages in Australia, 'the yeoman' was less a real figure than a convenient package for a bundle of virtues tied to the social and economic circumstances of the colonies, and enacted 'in miniature' in food-producing backyards: imperial economic relations and ties meant that the production of food and other raw materials in Australia was applauded; rural work and lifestyle-or at least an idealised version of these-was widely seen as the answer to the spectre of urban degeneration; finally, the yeoman was his own boss, independent of the relations of capitalism (in the ideal, at least), and largely self-sufficient. He therefore personified the ideal of 'manly independence' in a colonial context.
The 'separate spheres' was a powerful ideal, and was certainly implicated in the physical separation of commercial and industrial areas from residential ones. It was, however, less coherent and complete than is often imagined. It is now widely recognised that many women, and particularly working-class women, went to the city to work every day, and the private house was the principal venue for the exploitation of women engaged in sweated labour.33 Less attention has been given to the activities of men in suburban spaces. As sites where the yeoman ideal was practiced in miniature, the productive places within Australian suburban backyards were important sites for the construction of masculinity. Linked as it was to the 'manly independence' of the yeoman, the element of hard physical labour (long central to constructions of masculine work) involved in such activities as double-digging a vegetable bed, was particularly attractive to white-collar employees whose regular work was not so identifiably 'masculine'. It therefore seems that whilst ideal places for women might not have existed in the city, masculinity could be very much at home in the suburb.34 Had food production been seen predominantly as women's work, it is unlikely that as many men would have been involved in it. As it happens, women were also frequently engaged in the work of food production, although their contribution to this 'masculine' domain, carried out in the relative invisibility of the backyard, generally went unseen and unacknowledged by those-mostly male-who controlled the public representations of backyard spaces. Instead, contemporary 'house and garden' literature consistently aligned femininity with consumption, ornament and passivity.
From the early twentieth century, the yeoman ideal was joined by the newly-institutionalised ideal of the breadwinner as a yardstick of masculinity. The concept of the family wage, enshrined in Justice Higgins' 'Harvester' judgement of 1907, reinforced female dependence, thus cementing the relative independence even of men who were unable to escape dependence on wage labour, or the landlord. In this context, suburban food production became even more integral to the everyday enactment of masculine identity, as a continuing statement of self-sufficiency and thus symbolic act of independence from the wage labour system. It also comprised an extension of the masculine imperative, as breadwinner, to provide for his family.
Food production was also shaped along class lines, both in terms of meanings and practices. The property qualification and system of plural voting in local government elections meant that municipal councils were in most cases, and until quite recently, predominantly middle-class bodies concerned with protecting middle-class interests.39Councils exercised their power to shape local communities in a variety of ways, including the proclamation of by-laws. In the early years of the twentieth century, there was a general tolerance of productive animals in the suburban landscape, and local councils appear to have been most concerned to protect residents' rights to keep livestock. The few by-laws pertaining to animals arose from concerns over health. They applied mainly to commercial enterprises, and stipulated allowable distances between living areas and decomposing matter which was thought to generate 'miasmata'-smells or gases believed to cause disease.40 However, from the years immediately preceeding the First World War, and extending well into the twentieth century, local governments in their by-laws gradually sought to define rights to the enjoyment of private property in terms of amenity, or a pleasant environment, and began to privilege the individual enjoyment of neighbourhood amenity over the potential for food production involving livestock.
This is an extract from Andrea's new book, Harvest of the suburbs: An environmental history of growing food in Australian Cities (UWA Press, 2006).
Andrea Gaynor is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Western Australia.
1. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904), trans. Tolcott Parsons, Unwin University Books, London, 1930. This idea has been disputed by a number of writers. For discussion of the debates see H. Lehmann and K.F. Ledford (eds), Weber's Protestant Ethic: Origins, Evidence, Contexts, German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, Washington, 1993.
2. R.J. Morris, 'Samuel Smiles and the Genesis of Self-Help ; The Retreat to a Petit-Bourgeois Utopia', Historical Journal, vol.24, no.1, 1981, p.108.
3. Asa Briggs, Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851-67, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1955, pp.116-139; Alexander Tyrell, 'Class Consciousness in Early Victorian Britain: Samuel Smiles, Leeds Politics and the Self-Help Creed', Journal of British Studies, vol.9, no.2, 1970, pp.124-125.
4. Samuel Smiles, Thrift, John Murray, London, 1875, p.vi.
5.William Lovett, Life and Struggles of William Lovett in Pursuit of Bread, Knowledge, and Freedom, vol.2, Bell, London, 1920, pp.332-333.
11. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, (1979), trans. Richard Nice, Routledge, London, 1989, p.190.
12. Graeme Davison, 'Colonial Origins of the Australian Home', in Patrick Troy (ed), A History of European Housing in Australia, p.11.
14. Davison, 'Colonial Origins of the Australian Home', p.19.
15. James Ballantyne, Homes and Homesteads in the Land of Plenty: A Handbook of Victoria as a Field for Emigration, Mason, Firth and McCutcheon, Melbourne, 1871, p.14.
16.Ballantyne, quoted in Graeme Davison, ' Australia : The first suburban nation?', Journal of Urban History, vol.22, no.1, 1995, p.54.
17. Janet McCalman, Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900-1965, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1984, p.20.
18. Terry Irving, 'Society and the Language of Class', in Neville Meaney (ed.), Under New Heavens: Cultural Transmission and the Making of Australia, Heinemann Educational, Port Melbourne, 1989, p.64.
19. Lionel Frost and Tony Dingle, 'Sustaining Suburbia: An Historical Perspective on Australia 's Urban Growth', in Patrick Troy (ed.), Australian Cities: Issues, Strategies and Policies for Urban Australia in the 1990s, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, p.29.
20. Jennie Carter, Bassendean: A Social History 1829-1979, Town of Bassendean, Bassendean, 1986, p.158.
21. Frederic Eggleston, State Socialism in Victoria, P.S. King & Son, London, 1932, p.19.
22. Janet McCalman, Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-class Generation 1920-1990, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1993.
23. Raymond Williams, The Country and the City, Chatto and Windus, London, 1973, p.290.
24. Graeme Davison, The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1978, p.185.
25. Robert Freestone, 'Planning, Housing, Gardening: Home as a Garden Suburb', in Patrick Troy (ed), A History of European Housing in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, p.132; Jenny Gregory, The Manufacture of Middle Class Suburbia: The Promontory of Claremont, Nedlands and Dalkeith, Within the City of Perth, Western Australia, 1830s-1930s, PhD thesis, University of Western Australia, 1988, chapter 1.
26. J.M. Powell, Mirrors of the New World: Images and Image-makers in the Settlement Process, Canberra, Australian National University Press, c1977, p.48.
27. W. Ogilvie, Birthright in Land: an Essay on the Right of Property in Land, London, 1782; cited in ibid. p.47.
29.Marilyn Lake, The Limits of Hope: Soldier Settlement in Victoria, 1915-1938, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987. p.16.
30. Both quotes appear opposite the title page of W. E. Greble, A Bold Yeomanry: Social Change in a Wheatbelt District, Kulin 1948-70, Creative Research in association with Kulin Shire Council, Perth, 1979.
31. Daphne Spain, Gendered Spaces, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1992, p.7.
32.In the Australian context, see for example Beverley Kingston, My Wife, My Daughter, and Poor Mary Ann: Women and Work in Australia, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne 1975, p.2; Graeme Davison, The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1978, pp.138-140, Ann Game and Rosemary Pringle, 'The Making of the Australian Family', in Alisa Burns, Gill Bottomly and Penny Jools (eds), The Family in the Modern World, Allen & Unwin, North Sydney, 1983, pp.83-84 and passim.
33.Charlie Fox, Working Australia, Allen & Unwin, North Sydney, 1991, pp.71-72, 101, 106-107.
34.For a more detailed version of this discussion on gender, see A. Gaynor, 'Animal Husbandry and House Wifery? Gender and Suburban Household Food Production in Perth and Melbourne, 1890-1950', Australian Historical Studies, vol.24, 2004, pp.238-254.
35.William Adamson, Adamson's Australian Gardener: An Epitome of Horticulture and Agriculture for the Colony of Victoria, 14th ed., G. Robertson, Melbourne,1896, p.133.
36. See for example 'Women's Rural Industries Co.', Woman Voter, 21 March 1916, p.2; 'Farming for Women', Western Women, October 1914, pp.12-13.
37.For example, the designers of the 1891 Victorian Census classed women living on farms as engaged in 'Domestic Duties' rather than agricultural pursuits ('except those respecting whom words were entered expressing that they were so occupied'): Census of Victoria 1891, VPP, 1893, vol.3, no.9, p.192, quoted in Charles Fox and Marilyn Lake (eds), Australians at Work, McPhee Gribble, Ringwood, 1990, p.151.
38. 'The Garden Gazette: Its Aims and Objects', Garden Gazette, July 1902, p.4.
39. R.J.K. Chapman and Michael Wood, Australian Local Government: The Federal Dimension, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1984, p.49; M.A. Jones, Local Government and the People: Challenges for the Eighties, Hargreen, Melbourne, 1981, p.217. In Victoria, for example, a full adult franchise for local government elections was only adopted in the 1980s. Similarly, in WA a property qualification and system of plural voting was maintained and occupiers had to apply each year to be put on the electoral roll for local government elections (whereas owners were placed on the roll automatically), until the 1980s. Even Labor's municipal platform did little to shift the middle-class aims of most councils, revolving as it did around home-ownership, democracy and local progress: Connell and Irving, Class Structure in Australian History, p.129.
40. Andrea Gaynor, 'Regulation, Resistance and the Residential Area: The Keeping of Productive Animals in Twentieth-century Perth, Western Australia ', Urban Policy and Research, vol.17, no.1, 1999, p.10.


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It's not just violence Central Americans headed for the U.S. are fleeing
In this violence-wracked region, many are also seeking better economic opportunities.
It's not just violence Central Americans headed for the U.S. are fleeing In this violence-wracked region, many are also seeking better economic opportunities. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1pbxX1S
Alan Gomez, USA TODAY Published 4:02 p.m. ET March 7, 2016 | Updated 8:44 a.m. ET March 8, 2016
María Teresa Mejía Guzman, 25, works on an assignment in a computer-training class funded by Microsoft and USAID on Feb. 12, 2016, in San Vicente, El Salvador. Guzman wants to make a life in her home country, but she says a combination of violence in her neighborhood and a lack of professional opportunities may drive her north to the United States.(Photo: Alan Gomez, USA TODAY)
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Cesar Lara has a clear explanation for the flood of Central Americans pouring into the United States.
Some flee the raging violence caused by gangs and drug cartels. "You see terrible things from the time you're a child," the 20-year-old said. Some flee because they can't find work. Lara only got his job at a Pollo Campero fast-food restaurant through help from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
As for those who stay behind and make things work? "We're the minority," Lara said.
For the past three years, U.S. politicians have argued over what to do about nearly 100,000 unaccompanied minors and tens of thousands of families who surged to the southwest border from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
On one side are politicians who say they are fleeing horrific violence and should be treated as refugees. On the other are those who say the migrants are just looking for better jobs and should be sent back.
A visit to this violence-riddled region shows the facts fall in the middle.
U.S. to screen Central American refugees in their countries
Many Central Americans take advantage of U.S. immigration laws that allow minors to enter the country and stay while their immigration cases are resolved. Smugglers advertise that. Relatives in the U.S. send the same message. And many go to the U.S. coached on how to qualify for refugee status.
"They're leaving with a note taped to them that says they're being persecuted and they fear for their life," said Elda Tobar Ortiz, executive director of El Salvador's Institute for the Development of Children and Teenagers.
She said Salvadoran officials have to investigate those claims when children are deported back to El Salvador to ensure that they're not returning to dangerous neighborhoods or violent relatives. But it's difficult to find a place in this country that isn't wracked with danger.
El Salvador: World's new murder capital
It wasn't always like that. Central America used to be a pass-through for drugs headed north to the U.S., and for guns and money headed back south. A decade ago, gang violence rarely escalated beyond the occasional fist fight, said Eduardo Lanza, deputy commander of a U.S.-trained police unit in Honduras known as Los Tigres.
"At first, it was like a kid's game," he said. "'You're in my neighborhood' or 'You're talking to my girlfriend.'"
Then droves of Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans in violent U.S. gangs started getting deported back home, where they brought the vicious tactics they learned with them, say police and prosecutors. And international drug cartels started selling more here, prompting bloody battles with local gangs for control of territory and trade.
Eduardo Lanza (center), deputy commander of a specialized Honduran police force called Los Tigres, said gang violence used to be a "kid's game" but has become overwhelmingly violent over the past decade. (Photo: Alan Gomez, USA TODAY)
"That's created a mortal fight between drug traffickers here," said Orlin Cerrato, director of intelligence for the Honduran National Police. "And it's not like there's some professional strategy to do that. They just kill each other."
Danny Pacheco has seen the effects of that evolution firsthand. The evangelical pastor runs a church out of a small house in a dangerous neighborhood of San Pedro Sula, Honduras' second-largest city. Several years ago, a local gang called Los Ponces took over a small grocery store across from his church.
The store owner refused to pay the "war tax" that most local businesses are forced to pay to the gang in charge, so the gang killed him. When his family was at the funeral a few days later, gang members swarmed the building and took control for good.
When the police refused to step into the dispute, the gang established what is known as a casa loca — a "crazy house," where members drink, do drugs, murder and maim. One by one, neighbors left. Unable to find anyone willing to buy their houses, Pacheco said they sold what they could and fled to the U.S.
"There was a complete lack of control," Pacheco said. "It reached a point were we'd have two, three murders a night."
That all changed when the gang members went a step too far: They kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed a 13-year-old girl from the neighborhood. Honduran police finally intervened and discovered the girl's body buried in the backyard.
Pacheco, working with Honduran and U.S. officials, reclaimed the building and turned it into what he calls a casa de esperanza — a "house of hope." He said happy endings like that are rare in his country, which is why so many people flee to the U.S.
Danny Pacheco, an Evangelical pastor in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, points to a wall of a home that used to be run by gang members in his neighborhood. The house has now been cleared and converted into a community center for children, but he said the threat of gang violence still permeates the community. (Photo: Alan Gomez, USA TODAY)
"We're in the eye of the hurricane," he said.
Those brave enough to stay must confront dismal economic prospects. María Teresa Mejía, 25, from the small town of San Vicente, El Salvador, has done everything possible to find a job. She is months away from graduating with a university degree and is getting additional certification in computer skills through a program funded by Microsoft.
Mejía still worries about finding a job and assumes she'll have to move to the capital, San Salvador. Even there, companies maintain wait lists for jobs already filled, she said.
"I like it here. I want to live here. I'm going to try," said Mejia, whose mother moved to New York City 15 years ago. "But it's hard. It's very hard."
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EXCLUSIVE – SAXON INTERVIEW
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NWOBHM pioneers Saxon are back on the road across the UK this month with party starters the Quireboys in support.
RUSHONROCK editor Simon Rushworth caught up with singer Biff Byford to talk new album Sacrifice, songwriting and last summer's Download experience.
Look out for more exclusive interviews right here soon.
rushonrock: Sacrifice is a controversial album title – what's the story behind it?
Biff Byford: It's not particularly significant. I went to Mexico and had a tour of the Mayan ruins and was fascinated by it all. I wrote a song around that called Sacrifice – it was one of the first songs I pulled together for the new album. It was early on in the songwriting process and it was one of my favourites. I've been to Mexico a few times and it's always an inspiration. But Sacrifice is just a good heavy metal song and a powerful title for an album.
rushonrock: After 20 studio albums is there room for experimentation or is it all about improving on a tried and tested formula?
BB: We don't really have a tried and tested formula – even after all of these years! Look at the difference between Sacrifice and Made In Belfast on the new record. It's massive. There's no formula there. Sometimes Saxon songs are full-on metal and sometime they're not. Sometimes the songs are a little more sophisticated. I just wanted Sacrifice the album to sound like I imagined it sounding when I was going through the songwriting – and it does. There are no ballads on there – it's pretty intense. I think we've broken new ground and, at the same time, gone back to our early 80s roots. A couple of tracks are more flashy metal songs but there's a good mix.
rushonrock: There are references to 'Steel' and 'Wheels' on Sacrifice – is this intentional as a nod to the Saxon faithful?
BB: They're not intentional. I just came up with those lyrics for the new album and they're good metal words and good words to sing. Wheels Of Terror is something we wrote for a video game called Tank. The developers approached us to write the song for the game and the advertising campaign. But that and Walking The Steel are pretty classic Saxon song titles. Are they a nod to what we did in the 80s? I'm not sure. There are a lot of new metal bands out there right now who have a pretty retro sound and there's nothing wrong with that. As a vocalist I just like to go to places other singers can't reach and there are certain words and certain songs that help me do that.
rushonrock: As well as showcasing Sacrifice will the current UK tour reflect the fact that this is the 30th anniversary of Power & The Glory?
BB: It might. We have started playing the title track from Power & The Glory at a few festival shows and there are some very good songs on that record. We'll definitely play the title track but the rest of the band has got to buy into it if we're going to play some other stuff. We've done the Wheels Of Steel album in its entirety and in Tokyo we did Strong Arm Of The Law one night and Denim And Leather the next. So we're not averse to celebrating our older records when the time is right!
rushonrock: Do you ever feel under pressure to play a 'standard' Saxon setlist or is there plenty of room for manoeuvre?
BB: There's definitely room for manoeuvre. Sometimes the length of festival sets means we'll play more of the hits and less of the new material but on the whole we try to mix things up. We don't play all of the classics all of the time and sometimes we get the fans to choose the songs. Hopefully a Saxon set works for most people on any given night. It is weird revisiting some of the older tracks. In the last couple of years we've played Sixth Form Girls from Strong Arm Of The Law for the first time in ages and Suzie Hold On from Wheels Of Steel. They're songs we don't normally do but when the mood takes us… It's always good fun throwing in something unexpected even though it's quite stressful for the band trying to get it right in rehearsals!
rushonrock: You played a classic setlist at Donington last summer – how does it feel to have become main regulars again in recent years?
BB: It's great. There's not too much time to warm up or really get going – we're not used to playing 35 minutes. But we're a band that can put a great set together in that time. There were a lot of people who came down to see us at Download last summer despite the fact that we were on early. The audience was fantastic- I think there were around 65,000 people watching us. Of course it would be nice to inch a little bit higher up the bill in years to come but there are loads of bands who'd love to be in our position on the main stage. We could have headlined one of the tents but then people would have asked why we weren't on the main stage!
rushonrock: Can you believe how much the Donington festival experience has evolved since 1980?
BB: The first festival was a one-day event and so it was never going to be on such a grand scale. Logistically it was a lot easier to run. People came in and out on the day. It was nothing like the monster event it is now. Download, Wacken and Sweden Rock – we've played them all and they're just huge operations. The thing we love about festivals now is seeing all of our old mates and getting to hang out back stage with bands coming in and those about to head off again. Last summer I was talking to Jack Black at one point and the vibe was great. It's such a cool VIP area. It's a chance to do press and build the band's profile and it's so professional compared to the early days.
rushonrock: Of the bands on the bill last year who can carry the metal flag forward?
BB: I love Trivium – I think they're great. They had a good time on the main stage on the same day as us. I thought they were brilliant. I watched them with Jack Black and they smashed it. We stayed around for Metallica who were superb and I did hang around to watch Black Veil Brides after we finished…
rushonrock: They didn't have the best of times sandwiched in between Saxon and Trivium…
BB: I felt a little bit sorry for them to be honest. They were in between a rock and hard place and we didn't make it easy for them! To me with any band it's all about the songs but they're pretty good at what they do. At Donington they looked great and played well. I don't think they could have done much more. But a lot of the music is based around the look and the attitude and maybe that didn't go down too well. In a couple of years they'll write a song that will resonate with rock fans all over – not just their own.
rushonrock: So what are Saxon's plans after the UK tour?
BB: We're doing a run of headline festival shows and we'll be taking the giant eagle with us. We'll be playing in front of 75,000 people one night and 2,000 people the next but we're capable of doing that – we're old pros now. But it would be nice to bring the full production to the UK sometime soon. Bloodstock would have been a good festival for us to do that but they didn't think we could headline there which is a shame.
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MH17 trial: Russia rejecting Dutch court inquiries, trying to have ECHR hearing postponed
However, prosecutors will start announcing the indictment as early as December 20
The 11th hearing in the case of the 2014 downing over Donbas of the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet, flight MH17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, has kicked off at the Schiphol Court in the Netherlands. The court heard an attorney of one of the suspects, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Pulatov with the GRU military intelligence, who agreed to partake in the trial, lawyers representing the families of the victims, as well as the prosecution side.
In November, Pulatov's attorneys insisted that the court pursue further attempts to interview Sergey Muchkaev, Commander of the Kursk-based 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, thus effectively delaying the trial because Russia has been systemically ignoring the relevant inquiries as regards Muchkaev. In December, Russia finally reacted and, of course, turned down the request for the court to interview the senior officer, so far as a witness.
So why did Russia reject the inquiry? When will prosecutors be able to read out the indictment? And what compensation do the victims' families demand?
RUSSIA'S REFUSAL
Due to quarantine restrictions in the courthouse, everyone must maintain social distancing at 1.5 meters and wear face masks, of which court staff constantly remind attendees. No one with the mildest cold symptoms is allowed in the courthouse. Following the rules, the victims' families gather in a special room with glass walls, located above Hall D, where the hearing takes place. Prosecutors, attorneys, and journalists are down in the courtroom. There is a large screen above Judge Helen Kerstens-Fockens' chair. Due to quarantine restrictions, she will follow the process via videoconference.
As all rise, the judges enter the courtroom, while Judge Kerstens-Fockens appears on the screen. Presiding Judge Hendrik Steenhuis has announced that none of the four defendants have appeared in court, as usual. He notes that the accused GRU Lt.Col. Oleg Pulatov was duly warned about the hearing date in December through his defense attorneys. As for two other Russians, former FSB operative and so-called ex-"DPR Defense Minister" Igor Girkin, GRU General Sergei Dubinsky (at the time of the MH17 downing he was ranked colonel and served as "DPR GRU chief," their summonses were handed over to the Russian Justice Ministry. The court has received no response from the Russians in this regard.
For its part, Ukraine said it was impossible to summon Leonid Kharchenko, a Ukrainian national who fought on the "DPR"'s side because he is believed to be staying in the non-government-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine. The presiding judge later reported that the Russians snubbed the court's request to interview Sergey Muchkaev, Commander of a Russian military unit from Kursk which is thought to have deployed the deadly Buk launcher in Ukraine before it shot down the passenger jet.
Russia has stated that, according to the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, the government has the right to refuse the request for such an interview if it could harm national interests. Russia refers to the fact that Muchkaev could be asked to provide information of a military nature, which could have led to its disclosure, thus harming Russia's interests. This implies possible exposure of classified data. It is based on this assumption that Russia refused to allow the court to question Muchkaev. Thus, the investigating judge concluded it was impossible to interview Muchkaev's, so an additional investigation was therefore completed.
As mentioned earlier, in November it was Pulatov's defense that insisted that attempts to interrogate Muchkaev be continued. At the time, Dutch prosecutor Thijs Berger said he saw no point in insisting on interviewing Muchkaev as Russian authorities had consistently ignored previous requests and were adamant about providing any information about the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.
WITNESS S45 AND COMPENSATION
During the court hearing on December 8, the Russian's defense undertook to voice another demand. Sabine ten Doesschate, a Dutch lawyer representing Pulatov, said there were no documents on Witness S45 in the case file and that prosecutors must provide all the information to the defense. Sabine ten Doesschate demanded that the court order that the prosecutors attach documents on S45 to the case file. The prosecution asked the court not to deanonymize the witness as it could affect his safety.
Lawyers for the relatives of the victims are taking the floor. They believe Pulatov's lawyers are trying to make the trial drag by filing endless motions. They emphasize that their clients still cannot get over the loss of their loved ones and require specialized medical treatment.
"These 298 people – they were someone's relatives and loved ones, there are thousands of grief-stricken relatives, and this grief won't go anywhere after this generation passes and will never be erased from the DNA of many families," said a lawyer for the families of MH17 victims.
She also recalled the emotional speeches the MH17 victims' relatives had voiced in court, in which they called for justice. These include an address by Ria van der Steen, who lost her father and stepmother. During her speech, she quoted Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "They are lying, we know they are lying, and they know that we know that they are lying." She also reminded the court about Pete Ploeg whose brother, daughter-in-law, and nephew all died in the crash. His brother's remains have not yet been identified. And throughout these seven years, the man has hoped for a miracle to be able to bid a worthy farewell…
She also recalled intercepted communications of the accused. In one of the calls, they referred to "Buk" as a "toy."
"It's striking that they called a 'toy' the Buk, the weapon that killed 298 people. They understood perfectly well that this is not a toy," the lawyer stressed.
Currently, more than 300 relatives of MH17 victims are demanding compensation.
Claims for compensation from the relatives of the victims of MH17 should be considered under Ukrainian law. Relatives of the victims have raised the issue of compensation in criminal court as they don't wish to separate the criminal trial and the compensation case, as well as because the Dutch criminal court enjoys foreign civil jurisdiction. That is, it requires no separate decision of the court because its jurisdiction over compensation claims filed by relatives stems from the criminal nature of the case.
According to the lawyer of the relatives of the victims Arlette Schijns, several decisions of Ukrainian courts have been processed, and the amount of compensation usually ranged from EUR 32,000 to EUR 110,000.
"The sums allocated by Ukrainian courts to the families of the victims ranged from EUR 32,000 to EUR 110,000. We didn't find any cases that would be close to the MH17 tragedy. We decided to divide the compensation into three categories. They range from EUR 50,000 to EUR 40,000," she said.
Arlette Schijns also stressed that money could not return the victims to their families, heal wounds, and make those responsible for the tragedy feel the pain of loss.
So far, relatives of those killed in the MH17 downing have received compensation from Malaysia Airlines, the terms of which are sealed by a non-disclosure agreement.
Relatives have not received compensation under Dutch law, as they are only possible if the crime has been committed in the Netherlands.
INDICTMENT AND ECHR
Dutch prosecutors will start reading out the indictment in the MH17 case on December 20, 2021.
"The next stage is the indictment, which will be read out on December 20," said presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis, wrapping up the hearing.
The court has provided three days to this end - from December 20 to December 22, 2021.
The court shall also announce its decision on yet another motion Pulatov's defense team as regards Witness S45.
Anton Kotte, a Dutchman who lost his eldest son, daughter-in-law, and six-year-old grandson, told Ukrinform he was looking forward to the next hearing. He also said that the relatives of the victims were very concerned about the postponement of hearings in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
"Russia is doing everything possible to postpone the hearing in the European Court of Human Rights. I hope we will hear the decision of the Hague tribunal by January 26," he said.
It should be recalled that the hearing in the European Court of Human Rights was delayed due to the recall of an ad hoc judge appointed on behalf of the Russian Federation.
On November 8, an ad hoc judge appointed in accordance with Rule 29 §1 (a) of the Rules of Court of the Russian Federation informed the court that he had refused to take part in the hearing. The President of the Grand Chamber then started searching for another relevant ad hoc judge to take part in the hearing scheduled for November 24, 2021.
On November 12, it became clear that the search remained unsuccessful, so the postponement was inevitable. Thus, the European Court of Human Rights postponed the hearing in the case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v Russia from November 24, 2021, to January 26, 2022.
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After Moving the Goalposts Twice, NVIDIA (NVDA) Finally Scores; Stock Soars 7%
Things could have gone worse for NVIDIA -- and management says they probably will.
Smarter Team- February 14, 2019, 6:14 PM EDT
It took a couple of earnings warnings to do it, but at long last, NVIDIA (NVDA) has managed to "beat earnings."
Reporting after the close of trading Thursday, NVIDIA told investors that in fiscal Q4 2019 (yeah, NVIDIA works off kind of a strange calendar) it booked $2.21 billion in revenue, and earned $0.92 per share, GAAP. That was better than the $0.91 per share that analysts had expected NVIDIA to earn — but here's the thing:
If you look closely at Yahoo! Finance's running tally of analyst estimates for NVIDIA's Q4 earnings (estimates derived from guidance the company itself gave), three months ago, Wall Street was looking for NIVIDA to book profits of $1.81 per share. Two months ago, that expectation had already been rolled back to $1.40 a share. Only in the days just prior to NVIDIA's report, it seems, did analysts reluctantly lower their expectations enough to be satisfied with a mere $0.91.
And that was the estimate that NVIDIA ended up "beating."
How low can you limbo?
Was it worth the trouble? Investors seem to think so. In after-hours trading, NVIDIA shares leapt 7%, on top of gains of 1.1% booked earlier in the day. But here's the next thing:
The $0.92 that NVIDIA ended up "beating" earnings with was 48% less profit than NVIDIA earned in the year-prior quarter. NVIDIA's $2.21 billion in sales were down 24% year over year. So if NVIDIA won a victory today, it was Pyrrhic to say the least. As CEO Jensen Huang lamented, "the combination of post-crypto excess channel inventory and recent deteriorating end-market conditions drove a disappointing quarter" — and really threw NVIDIA for a loop.
Pulling back the camera
And yet, viewed as a whole, 2018 still wasn't a bad year for NVIDIA. Overall, sales grew 21% to $11.72 billion, while GAAP profits were up an even stronger 38% to $6.63 per diluted share. If Q4 was a bit of a letdown, it was from a very tall peak.
The question investors face now is: Will NVIDIA's fortunes keep rolling downhill, or can they bounce back?
If the latter, it won't be a quick trip to the trampoline. Giving new guidance for fiscal Q1 2020, NVIDIA says it's targeting sales of only $2.2 billion, which looks like about a 31% decline from the $3.2 billion that NVIDIA collected in fiscal Q1 2019. The company is targeting about a 58.9% gross margin on those sales, "plus or minus 50 basis points." But even if things end up much more plus than minus, it looks like NVIDIA's profit margin will take a big hit relative to the 64.5% gross margin it achieved a year ago.
On top of all this, analysts are currently forecasting $1.04 per share in earnings on $2.4 billion in sales for Q1. So it seems almost certain that NVIDIA is heading for another earnings miss at the end of this quarter.
Investors who rushed to buy NVIDIA stock on its "earnings beat" could soon rue the day.
Overall, NVDA has had 22 bullish analysts in its corner over the last three months, 9 analysts playing it safe on the sidelines, and one who sees a bearish scenario in play. Importantly, the 12-month average price target of $188.11 showcases 22% in upside potential for the stock. (See NVDA's price targets and analyst ratings on TipRanks)
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Fathom Events and the Metropolitan Opera present a broadcast of Donzietti's La Fille du Régiment, live in select cinemas nationwide on Saturday, March 2. Bel canto stars Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena team up for a feast of vocal fireworks on the Met stage. Maurizio Muraro is Sergeant Sulplice, with Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.
Full of heart, full of humor, full of high Cs!
The cast seems to enjoy singing as we enjoyed hearing it.


Something interesting I noticed. With my Dell laptop, which can only utilize the 2.4Ghz band, the speeds were the same as my desktop. Since the software upgrade to the modem, the speeds on my laptop won't climb above 41Mbps or so. My desktop still hits the high 40s, but my laptop no longer does.
I always thought it was interesting when people were seeing slower speeds with the 2.4Ghz band, as I wasn't. That's now changed. Granted, 41Mbps is still pretty darn good, but it's interesting that, since the software update, it's now limited.
Now, that's not to say that the software update necessarily has anything to do with it, but only that the speeds on my laptop dropped after said update. It could be nothing more than a coincidence.
This isn't really a problem. It's just intersting.
BTW, nothing's changed in the laptop. The only thing that's changed is the modem software.
Edit: I'm going to try my Netgear router to compare. Waiting for speed to kick back up, overall, to see if it makes a difference.
If it's intended to work this way, I'm not sure it's an issue to fix.
If you're looking for the maximum speed possible, open the wifi settings and go to Advanced->WIRELESS.
1. See if you can use 5GHz, set the Wireless Mode to 11a/n/ac and set the Bandwidth to 20/40/80MHz.2. If you have to use 2.4GHz, set the Wireless Mode to 11n-only and the Bandwidth to 20/40MHz. I don't recommend the 11b/g/n setting because I know the "b" part confuses some boxes like the XBox 360.
I was going to start a new topic but this is along the same lines as my issue. With my desktop hard wired high 40s and with my wifi devices on 5ghz high 40s. I switch wifi to 2.4 my speed gets cut in almost half mid to high 20s. I would just stay on 5.0 but if I literally go more then 15ft away into my living room I loose signal strength unlike the good range I have on 2.4. So I thought I had a fix, I hooked up an external router to my hugesnet modem and it still stayed at mid to high 20s. What am I missing?
@Gwalk900, @GabeU, @BirdDog, @C0RR0SIVE, @MarkJFine, I'm sure this is a stupid question, but, does an extender work with the 5GHz broadband??
Has to do with the available bandwidth on the wifi network wrt protocol.
Unless the 2.4GHz wifi is set for n-only, you will have only a 20MHz wide network with only one channel.
n-only on the 2.4 GHz network spreads it across 2 wifi channels for a 40MHz network.
Compare that to the 5GHz network that potentially spreads it across 4 wifi channels for 80MHz in ac mode.
Not sure, really. Hadn't thought about it, tbh. It might.
Sure, but like anything, not good to go with the cheapest available and do some research. Depends how far and how fast you wnat to go.
Thanks for the respose but you lost me! How do I fix my issue? Do I need to change some settings on my devices or in my modem? Do I need to buy a more current router?
From what I've read I believe so, but it all depends on the extender. Plus, I imagine that while utilizing an extender with the 5Ghz band it would still be short in range, like the source 5Ghz signal.
Edit: BirdDog posted while I was typing. I defer to him.
Thanks, all. I thought that if the 5GHz band goes, say, 10 feet from the modem, then an extender in that area could extend the range another few feet, though I don't know how many it would be.


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Fishing for the truth: Farmed Salmon's not all bad
CANADA - For once, low summer Fraser River sockeye runs are not being blamed on salmon farming. Which is surprising, considering that almost every other negative impact on British Columbia's wild fish stocks seem to be pinned on the salmon business.
It's frustrating for aquaculturists, but it should be equally frustrating for the public too, because BC's anti-aquaculture lobby is promoting business from outside the province at the expense of local enterprise.
Alaskan salmon is a firm favourite with lobbyists, and also for fish farming supporter Vivian Krause. The former corporate development manager for Nutreco North America, has been asking some pointed questions about the anti-fish farming campaign out west. But so far, she has not had many answers from leading zealots such as the David Suzuki Foundation (DSF).
Of course, many might question Ms Krause's impartiality - she was once in the employ of the former fish farming behemoth turned feed producer - bBut it's not Krause's impartiality that's under question. She has embarked on an inquiry into what she believes is a one-sided assault on BC's salmon farming industry.
The former Kitimat resident, and one time DSF supporter, is concerned that the battering BC's salmon industry is taking on the North American PR front is diverting business opportunities (and revenue) to Alaska. A diversion that may be more acceptable if the science stacked up.
Ms Krause's investigations are comprehensive, although she says that she is still waiting for DSF enlightenment on the subject.
Some of her most salient points are listed below.
First: a question of underwater impartiality. The DSF gets a lot of its funding from American foundations, some of whom also fund the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute and other Alaska salmon promoters. The harder the PR caning BC farmed salmon gets, the more consumers opt for wild salmon, most of which now comes from Alaska. So if the funding organizations aren't impartial, how impartial is the research they pay for?
Is it really wild, and is it really better for salmon biodiversity? A lot of the salmon considered wild and sourced from Alaska is "ranched" – hatchery fish that are released into the wild: more than six billion annually into the Pacific Ocean, 1.5 billion from Alaska.
It may sound more or less wild, but comments from Jan Konigsberg, Trout Unlimited's former salmonid biodiversity director, in a 2003 world salmon summit address, sees it differently:
"Hatchery-dependent fisheries are neither wild nor self-sustaining. Therefore, encouraging consumers to avoid farmed salmon and opt for Alaska salmon supports Alaska's salmon-ranching program, which poses a far greater threat to Alaska's salmon biodiversity than does salmon farming."
Ms Krause also maintains that the following claims: eating farmed salmon is a health hazard; farmed salmon contain high levels of such contaminants as PCBs; and sea lice kill up to 95 per cent of juvenile wild salmon, are not substantiated by sound science.
Concedes
She concedes that salmon farming isn't perfect, but it is improving, and it provides jobs and revenue opportunities for native and coastal communities that have been hit by recession.
Many environmentalists don't see the whole picture and are of the opinion that farmed salmon is bad, while wild salmon is good. However,in the real world of jobs, business and community survival, reality has far more permutations.
Salmon farming has great potential to contribute to BC's food chain and economy. The DSF would be providing a more valuable service to British Columbians were it to be an impartial advocate of better food choices rather than a knee-jerk opponent of such emotionally charged businesses as fish farming.