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William Gilmore Simms by Matthew Brady
Sam Burnham, Curator
Tis the season for stories of the macabre, the grotesque, the suspenseful. The modern genre of horror has often strayed into an overuse of violence and gore in place of suspense and psychological thrills. I don't care much for the blood and gore of the slasher genre but I love the old style. Hitchcock was a master. Stephen King's 1408 and the movie adaptation of the same are also good examples.
The South has a long tradition in this genre. Although Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, he was raised in Richmond and attended the University of Virginia briefly. Poe is but one well known pen in a sea of Southern ink that has given America ghost stories, and of course our most famous literary class - Southern Gothic.
The stories are the fruit of a grotesque history. Our region has seen the War for Independence, slavery, the War of 1812, the Trail of Tears, The War Between the States (specifically Sherman's March), Reconstruction, Jim Crow. Death and tragedy have stalked The South since settlers arrived at Roanoke Island. Disease and pestilence have ravaged this land. Cities like Savannah and Charleston are filled with ghost stories and much of the region remained, until relatively recently, a frontier only inhabited by the strong willed, who often succumbed to its hazards. This history and the personal tragedy invested in it led writers, including Poe, to delve deep into tragedy, mystery, intrigue, and suspense
Poe himself pointed to the past when searching for America's best ghost story. As my friend Sean Busick relates: "Grayling, or Murder Will Out," Poe wrote "it is really an admirable tale, nobly conceived and skillfully carried into execution—the best ghost story ever written by an American…."
That's a pretty strong endorsement.
Simms was the most important writer in America's antebellum period. The South Carolinian is remembered and celebrated by the Simms Initiatives at the University of South Carolina. A few years ago they teamed up to create this video playlist, a reading of that best American ghost story, Grayling or Murder Will Out. I have decided to link the playlist here for anyone who'd like to hear it read aloud. It's an appropriate story for a good Southerner at Halloween.
[This story can be found in print in The collection The Wigwam and the Cabin. More information on Simms and Grayling can be found at the link above, where Sean Busick is mentioned in red.]
A Slice of Norfolk
Sam Burnham, Curator
A waterfront can be one of the most important assets a city can possess. Be it the sea, a river, bay, or harbor, people are drawn to the point where the land touches the water. If wisely developed and maintained, such an area can be priceless for a municipality.
Norfolk, Virginia is an excellent example. The city was gifted custody of the Iowa class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) and they have brilliantly transformed it into a centerpiece in one of the town's waterfront districts. The ship is partnered with Nauticus, a museum that commemorates the amazing history of "Wisky" as well as the economy and ecology of the Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay region. A cruise ship port lies adjacent to the museum. That means tourists who tour the ship and the museum as well as the restaurants and stores that can be found along the neighboring blocks.
The MacArthur Memorial from the Decks of the Wisconsin
Norfolk is a modern city, much too busy for my taste, at least on a permanent basis. As a visitor, I really enjoyed this waterfront district. The streets and wide sidewalks were immaculately clean. There were people walking, biking, and riding those Lime scooters around. Get this, the scooters we saw not in use were all properly parked. People want to be in this part of town. There is a vibrant feel and there are jobs, homes, and entertainment all within walking distance of each other.
Some of the older architecture includes sites like the U.S. Customs House and the MacArthur Memorial. The latter serves as a repository, museum, and the final resting place of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur. The building is the former city hall and can be seen from the main deck of the Wisconsin.
The US Customs House
While I'm sure this district is pricey, the condominiums and townhouses we saw are of tasteful design and construction. They all seemed to fit what was going on around them and are built to reasonable scale. While it has to be tempting to try to maximize profits with obnoxiously huge high rise housing units, the waterfront in this district has avoided that blight. With easy access to the parks, museums, attractions of the waterfront and the jobs and entertainment along the city streets, this is a highly desirable area.
Nauticus & "Wisky"
Sharpsburg - The Bloodiest Day
Kurz & Allison print depicting the fighting around Burnside Bridge (1878)
Eb Joseph Daniels, ABG Contributor
On this day in 1862 just over 87,000 Federal troops under the command of Major General George B. McClellan attacked around 38,000 Confederate troops at the Battle of Sharpsburg. The battle has the distinction of being the single bloodiest day of combat during the War Between the States
Following his successful expulsion of the Federal invaders from Virginia in the summer of 1862, Lee pursued the Federal Army of the Potomac as it retreated into Maryland. Lee hoped to force the complete withdrawal of the enemy force, allowing the Confederacy to stabilize the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Western Theatre with a concurrent campaign in Kentucky. He was also eager to take advantage of fresh supplies and recruits in Maryland, as the state was reputed to be home to numerous Confederate sympathizers and Virginia had been stripped bare after months of hard fighting.
Upon entering Maryland, however, Lee found that political persuasions varied greatly from region to region. Many locals refused to assist his army, either out of Unionist sentiment or fear of reprisals, and most fervent Maryland secessionists had already enlisted in the Confederate army. Nevertheless, the Army of Northern Virginia was hailed as a liberating force in several towns and greeted with outpourings of public support.
In early September, Lee divided the Army of Northern Virginia in order to expedite its movement through Maryland and secure additional military goals. One such goal was the seizure of Harper's Ferry, an important military town and installation. These movements were outlined in Special Order 191, a copy of which was famously discovered by Federal soldiers and passed on to McClellan. McClellan, however, was reticent to act aggressively in regards to the information the order contained, and modern historians question the extent to which the capture of the orders influenced the Maryland Campaign.
Starting on September 13th, Jackson began his assault on Harper's Ferry, although the garrison would not capitulate until the 15th. Meanwhile, Lee learned that McClellan was moving in force through the Blue Ridge Mountains to attack the Army of Northern Virginia: Lee dispatched Major General D.H. Hill, to be supported by Major General James Longstreet, to delay the approaching army at the Battle of South Mountain on September 14th.
Aware of McClellan's approach, Lee deployed his remaining troops in a strong defensive position just outside of Sharpsburg, Maryland, running roughly north and south at a slight diagonal. The Confederate left was anchored by the mighty Potomac River, and its right by Antietam Creek, although the creek was shallow and could be easily traversed in several places. In the northern section, dense woods and cornfields surrounded Dunker Church, home to a congregation of Baptist Germans, while Nicodemus Hill rose up from the banks of the Potomac. The town of Sharpsburg was near the center, although to the rear of the action, and the southern section was approached by a stone bridge across Antietam Creek, known then as Rohrbach's Bridge but soon to be remembered as Burnside Bridge.
On the morning of the 16th, the first Federal corps arrived. At this time Lee had not yet re-consolidated his forces and had only about 20,000 men available, while the Federals had nearly 60,000. McClellan did not attack, however, as he feared a trap and believed that Lee actually had considerably more men waiting in ambush. Throughout his tenure as commander of the Army of the Potomac, McClellan was consistently convinced that the Army of Northern Virginia was much larger than it really was, due to faulty intelligence which relied on pseudo-scientific analyses of campfire smoke and footprints and wheel ruts in roads, and ruses carried out by the Confederates. McClellan was not willing to begin his assault until the arrival of the rest of his command on the 17th, by which time more of Lee's troops had assembled as well.
At dawn on the 17th Corps I, under Major General Joseph Hooker, attacked from the north, fighting its way through dense woods and ripened fields of corn. There they encountered Jackson's corps, in a well-fortified position, and the fighting was bloody and intense.
Several units marched directly into the cornfields, which, due to the height of the stalks, severely reduced visibility. Confederates and Federals would stumble into each other among the corn, sparking fierce melee combat, or else ranks would fire blindly wherever they heard unexpected noise, killing friend and foe alike. Persistent artillery fire, from both sides, soon turned the cornfields into a bloody no-man's land and whole regiments were cut to pieces: the 12th Massachusetts suffered 67% casualties, while the famed Louisiana "Tiger" Brigade lost 65%.
Closer to Dunker Church, to the southwest, the Federal advance was making better progress. The famed Iron Brigade, under Brigadier General John Gibbon, was matched with Brigadier General William E. Starke and his brigade, which slowed their advance, but at the cost of Starke's life. Just as the Federal troops were about to break through, Lee shifted reinforcements from his extreme right and also gained new divisions recently arrived from the surrender at Harper's Ferry. The Confederate left continued to hold. Particular credit must be given to the Texas Brigade of Brigadier General John Bell Hood, which counterattacked to secure the Confederate lines and suffered a lost of two thirds of its men in doing so.
Control of the area around the cornfield would shift back and forth over a dozen times during the battle, but the entire section of the battle quickly devolved into a bloody stalemate. Following the wounding of Hooker, the Federal advance stalled from poor organization and lack of leadership. After a disastrous attempt to turn the Confederate extreme left which nearly led to a Federal rout, the morning's action in his section of the battlefield largely came to a close around 10 am.
Further south, Hill and his command of 2,500 were holding the Confederate center along a sunken road, which acted as natural trench. Although severely outnumbered by the attacking Federal division of Brigadier General William French, the Confederates were able to hold out against almost half a dozen successive attacks. During these attacks, however, many officers were killed or wounded, contributing to confusion among the Confederates.
The 6th Alabama was stationed at the end of the sunken road and commanded by Colonel John B. Gordon of Georgia, who would go on to great fame as a general and statesman. He was wounded no less than five times during the battle, however, and finally incapacitated: Gordon would later remark that he would have drowned in the blood pooling in his hat had the hat not had enough holes in it to drain the blood out. The officer who assumed command after Gordon fell misunderstood an order and inadvertently caused the collapse of the Confederate troops from the sunken road when an order to "about face" directed at one regiment was obeyed by five more, causing the Confederate line to effectively implode. Heavy artillery fire, however, prevented this section of the Confederate center from collapsing completely. The fierce fighting around this embankment earned the area the name "The Bloody Lane," and it was said that the dead were piled so close together that one could walk from one end of the lane to the other without once touching the ground.
Robert Toombs of Georgia
Further south, beyond Sharpsburg and at Rohrback's Bridge, things had been largely quiet. Although Major General Ambrose Burnside had orders to launch a diversionary attack with Corps IX across the bridge to distract the Confederates earlier in the morning, he had failed to do so, believing that his casualties would be too great. Meanwhile, Lee had slowly been siphoning off men from his right to defend his left, and by 10:00 am the Confederate troops around the bridge consisted of two regiments, or about 400 men, under the command of Brigadier General Robert Toombs, while 3000 men under the command of Brigadier General David Jones held Cemetery Hill between the bridge and Sharpsburg.
Toombs, a firebrand secessionist and one of the most famous statesmen in the Confederacy, had gained a reputation as an uneven officer after joining the army following his resignation from the executive cabinet of President Jefferson Davis. He disliked several of the career army officers he had met and openly mocked the regular army as "Davis' Janissaries," believing that standing armies were antithetical to republican liberty and that the Confederacy would be better served relying on militia and state troops. Lax with discipline and disinterested in the minutia of military command, he had recently been personally chastised by "Stonewall" Jackson himself for not properly deploying pickets along the Confederate lines. But Toombs was also a doughty warrior who had an excellent rapport with his men, who held puckish and redoubtable commander in the highest esteem.
These plucky, rough-hewn Georgians were the only thing standing between the Federal Corps IX and the southern approach to Sharpsburg. After sending skirmishers to secure the bridge, who were quickly driven off by fire from Toombs' men, Burnside finally attacked in mass a little after noon. Toombs and his men held through five waves of attack, however, only withdrawing upon learning that Federal skirmishers had located a ford further south and were preparing to launch a flanking attack; the Georgians had managed to hold the bridge against overwhelming odds for over three hours.
Word that the Federals had seized the bridge, however, started a panic in Sharpsburg. Although poor management caused the Federal crossing to drag out over several hours, the slow but steady advance of the enemy troops terrified Jones' brigades. After fierce fighting around Cemetery Hill, the brigades began to rout, pouring into the city and tangling with the civilians who were likewise fleeing for their lives. Only Toombs' men remained at their stations, fortifying a position on the outskirts of town to await the Federal attack.
Fortunately for Toombs, the extended delay had provided time for Lee to procure reinforcements. Men under Major General A.P. Hill from the Second Corps rushed to the defense of the town, driving the Federals back in a successful counterattack. Burnside was so unnerved by the assault that he retreated, requesting more men from McClellan. McClellan, however, claimed that he did not feel comfortable committing more men to an assault, as he believed that a massive Confederate counterattack was imminent.
The Confederates, however, had no men to spare for such an adventure. By 5:30 pm the fighting had ceased and both sides settled into a truce to collect their dead and wounded. On the evening of the 18th, Lee began an orderly retreat, departing Maryland and ending the campaign.
In the whole battle, Federal casualties totaled 12,410, with 2,108 dead, while the Confederate suffered casualties 10,316 with 1,546 dead. McClellan was castigated in the press and by the Federal government for not acting more aggressively, as he had had at his disposal considerably more men than Lee; as usual, McClellan was blamed for being too cautious and indecisive, although it should be noted that Lee had intentionally selected ground that would have made it difficult for McClellan to have established greater local superiority anywhere.
Nevertheless, his failure to decisively defeat Lee at Sharpsburg and his decision to not pursue the Army of Northern Virginia as it retreated led to McClellan being relieved of command on November 5th. Lincoln did, however, take advantage of the "victory" at Sharpsburg to preliminarily issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which gave the Confederate states one last opportunity to rejoin the Union and preserve slavery prior to its abolition in states not loyal to the Union.
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WEST Dunbartonshire's Working4Business awards are back for 2019 – and entries across nine different categories are open now.
These awards provide an opportunity to celebrate the success and achievements of businesses in West Dunbartonshire, and will be principally sponsored by Clyde Training Solutions.
Gareth Mathias, the firm's general manager, said: "Clyde Training is delighted to be the principal sponsor of the Working4Business awards in 2019.
"As a previous winner I would encourage all businesses to consider applying for an award.
The awards are free to enter and local businesses can enter up to three of the nine categories.
The 2019 awards process will also see the introduction of a free Awards Masterclass on February 26.
The masterclass will provide guidance from a business consultant to help you prepare your application and therefore give you the best chance of success - click here for more details about the masterclass.
The closing date for submitting applications is Friday, March 15, 2019.
Winners will be unveiled at a glittering awards dinner on Friday, May 17 at Clydebank Town Hall, hosted by comedian Karen Dunbar.
Paul Richards, Founder of Together Energy, winners of the 2018 Best Performing Business (25 plus employees) category, commented: "We had three tables at the awards in 2018. The affirmation that every staff member felt upon winning the award really consolidated pride in the brand."
Councillor Iain McLaren, convener of infrastructure, regeneration and economic development at West Dunbartonshire Council, said: "We're pleased to support the Working4Business awards.


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Here's Who Won (and Lost) the First Democratic Primary Debate
With humanity trembling on the precipice of ecological disaster, and migrant children trembling in squalid detention centers at America's border, 10 of the Democratic Party's top contenders for the presidency gathered in Miami Wednesday night to debate the many pressing questions facing our republic.
But the only question that really matters is this: Which candidates derived the most political benefit from Wednesday night's earned media opportunity, and which the least, as measured by the subjective impressions of an exceptionally unrepresentative white man in New York City?
Happily, I am well-positioned to answer this question. Here is how the 10 Democratic candidates' debate performances rank, from best to worst:
The former Housing secretary came into the night polling a cool 0.8 percent in RealClearPolitics's running average of Democratic primary surveys. Had the DNC adopted more rational rules for debate eligibility, Castro wouldn't have stepped foot on a primetime stage.
But he made fine use of his opportunity, and did more to improve his (still, rather dim) prospects than any other candidate. He proved himself sharp, confident, well-versed in his signature issues, and willing to tell Beto O'Rourke to do his "homework." Asked at the debate's opening about the gender pay gap, Castro deftly shoehorned a let me introduce my humble, working-class self to America story about being raised by a single mom into a straightforward answer about how he would ensure such heroic women weren't shortchanged by their bosses (pass the Equal Rights Amendment, enact stronger protections against pay discrimination).
He then took dead aim at his fellow fresh-faced Texan in an exchange about immigration policy, noting that, for all Beto's liberal rhetoric on immigration, the former congressman has refused to endorse the decriminalization of illegal border crossing. For the bulk of U.S. history, crossing our nation's border without legal permission was a civil law violation, not a criminal offense. But "Section 1325" of Title 8 of the United States Code changed that, and thereby created the legal basis for the Trump administration's most draconian border policies, including family separation.
Castro has called for the repeal of Section 1325, and Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker have seconded his proposal. But for some strange reason, O'Rourke has not — despite the fact that he's been campaigning as unabashed dove on immigration. By all scientific measures (the consensus response on my Twitter feed), Castro won his joust with Beto. In so doing, he established himself as a credible challenger for the title of "the Democratic field's foremost relatively young liberal Texan." But more importantly, he succeeded in shifting the terms of his party's immigration debate in a more humane direction. Ostensibly intimidated by Castro's thrashing of O'Rourke, Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan — whose campaign is founded on the premise that Democrats need to reconnect with the (often restrictionist) white working-class voters in the post-industrial Midwest — endorsed the repeal of Section 1325 as a common sense.
It remains highly unlikely that Castro will win the Democratic nomination. But his performance Wednesday was enough to demonstrate that his candidacy actually serves a useful purpose. Which is more than one can say for many of his rivals.
By certain empirical metrics, Warren is not an exceptionally effective politician (she's underperformed the Democratic lean of her state in Senate elections, and boasts a less-than-stellar approval rating for a blue-state senator). But by more the more reliable metric of how progressive bloggers like myself respond to her public oratory, she's a world-class political talent. And in recent weeks, the data has begun to catch up with our wisdom.
On Wednesday night, Warren spoke with characteristic eloquence and detail on a variety of issues, but tied them all to her campaign's overriding theme of reclaiming America's government from the big corporations (a theme that virtually every other candidate on the stage felt compelled to echo in more milquetoast form). She also executed a bid to eat into Bernie Sanders's base of support. Going into the debate, Warren had endorsed Medicare for All, but given the policy relatively short shrift on the campaign trail. And she had notably declined to forthrightly state that she favored the abolition of private insurance — an idea that is central to Sanders's vision, but which also polls poorly, and has therefore functioned as a litmus test that few of the Vermont senator's rivals can pass. But Warren decided to take that leap Wednesday, and gave a very accessible account of why the business model of private insurance is inherently wasteful and exploitative.
Later on, in response to a question about how she would advance her agenda if faced with a Republican senate, Warren endorsed Sanders's theory of "political revolution" (i.e., using presidential politics to cultivate social movements that can force bottom-up change):
[S]hort of a Democratic majority in the Senate, you better understand the fight still goes on. It starts in the White House, and it means that everybody we energize in 2020 stays on the frontlines come January 2021. We have to push from the outside, have leadership from the inside, and make this Congress reflect the will of the people.
These answers will make it a bit more difficult for Sanders's backers to insist that Warren does not truly support Medicare for All or believe in "mass politics." They may also, theoretically, increase Democratic primary voters' electability concerns about the Massachusetts senator. But the true key to electability is to embrace all of my policy preferences. And so it's an objective fact that Warren's pivot was wise and will redound to her benefit.
Booker entered the debate with oddly poor poll numbers, given his high-level of support among Democratic Party activists, and his well-established gifts for inspiring documentaries about himself, and rescuing freezing dogs.
At the debate in Miami, the New Jersey senator reminded Democrats that he's a gifted communicator who shares some of the same attributes as the guy they wish they could send back to the White House. Booker succeeded in commandeering the most airtime, and inspiring the most search traffic of any candidate.
Per the Washington Post, Booker the spoke most and Inslee the least.https://t.co/qkRYenhti6 pic.twitter.com/DPoI2JpIBy
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3. Beto
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Inslee is known as the single-issue climate candidate, whose campaign exists primarily to increase the salience of averting environmental apocalypse. But he demonstrated Wednesday that he can actually speak compellingly about non-climate issues, such as strengthening unions and expanding access to health-care. Inslee also made the interesting point that he is the governor of a medium-sized state, and that the responsibilities of his current position overlap significantly with those of the presidency.
Inslee still isn't as serious a presidential contender as the mayor of South Bend. But he came across as a credible candidate for national office, and promised to make averting ecological collapse his top priority (which is a threshold of political responsibility that none of his rivals have quite cleared).
The mayor of New York made it through the entire two-hour debate without killing a single rodent.
Gabbard is a strange person who has advanced very bad views on a strange list of issues. But she is also ready and able to criticize American warmongering in forceful terms, which is a quality that is somewhat lacking in the rest of the Democratic field. On Wednesday night, she gave this very clear and simple account of what's at stake in the Trump administration's belligerent policy towards Iran:
I served in the war in Iraq at the height of the war in 2005, a war that took over 4,000 of my brothers and sisters in uniforms' lives. The American people need to understand that this war with Iran would be far more devastating, far more costly than anything that we ever saw in Iraq. It would take many more lives. It would exacerbate the refugee crisis.
And it wouldn't be just contained within Iran. This would turn into a regional war. This is why it's so important that every one of us, every single American, stand up and say no war with Iran. We need to get back into the Iran nuclear agreement, and we need to negotiate how we can improve it.
Later in the evening, she acknowledge the simple fact that the United States is not as committed to ruling Afghanistan as the Taliban is, and thus, "we cannot keep U.S. troops deployed to Afghanistan thinking that we're going to somehow squash this Taliban that's been there, that every other country that's tried has failed."
I found these to be productive contributions to the discourse. So, surely the median Democratic voter did too.
The Maryland congressman argued that, unlike all the other Democratic candidates, he is a businessman, and businessmen make good presidents. I see no reason why Democratic voters would find this argument uncompelling in the current context.
At least she didn't speak Spanish.
The Ohio congressman argued that the Democrats have " a perception problem," as their party is seen as "being coastal and elital — elitist and Ivy League." He offered no clear proposal for how the party was supposed to rectify this problem, beyond nominating Tim Ryan for president. But the congressman made that proposition seem less attractive later in the debate, when he claimed that the Taliban had attacked the United States on 9/11, and answered the question, "Who is the greatest geopolitical threat to the United States, in one word" with "China, without a question. They're wiping us around the world … economically."
In recent days, it became apparent that Pete Buttigieg isn't necessarily up to the responsibilities of overseeing a small city's police department, let alone, the most powerful national government on planet Earth. This reality offered O'Rourke an opportunity to reclaim ownership of the "handsome, inoffensive youngish white man" lane in the 2020 primary fight — an opportunity he promptly squandered. The former congressman didn't do anything egregiously wrong (he may have been the first candidate to resort to awkwardly speaking in lousy spanish, but he wasn't the only one who failed to resist that temptation). But O'Rourke didn't do anything especially right, either. Castro took him to school on immigration. De Blasio yelled at him about the War Powers Act. And in response, O'Rourke mostly just gesticulated a lot while saying inoffensive things in a strange, sing-songy rhythm. O'Rourke does not have the resume of a credible presidential candidate. And in Miami, it became apparent that he doesn't actually have the charisma of one, either.

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Should You Be Impressed By Callaway Golf's (NYSE:ELY) Returns on Capital?
What are the early trends we should look for to identify a stock that could multiply in value over the long term? Amongst other things, we'll want to see two things; firstly, a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and secondly, an expansion in the company's amount of capital employed. Ultimately, this demonstrates that it's a business that is reinvesting profits at increasing rates of return. Having said that, from a first glance at Callaway Golf (NYSE:ELY) we aren't jumping out of our chairs at how returns are trending, but let's have a deeper look.
Return On Capital Employed (ROCE): What is it?
Just to clarify if you're unsure, ROCE is a metric for evaluating how much pre-tax income (in percentage terms) a company earns on the capital invested in its business. The formula for this calculation on Callaway Golf is:
0.03 = US$46m ÷ (US$1.9b - US$344m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2020).
Thus, Callaway Golf has an ROCE of 3.0%. In absolute terms, that's a low return and it also under-performs the Leisure industry average of 17%.
See our latest analysis for Callaway Golf
NYSE:ELY Return on Capital Employed September 19th 2020
In the above chart we have measured Callaway Golf's prior ROCE against its prior performance, but the future is arguably more important. If you're interested, you can view the analysts predictions in our free report on analyst forecasts for the company.
The Trend Of ROCE
In terms of Callaway Golf's historical ROCE trend, it doesn't exactly demand attention. The company has employed 208% more capital in the last five years, and the returns on that capital have remained stable at 3.0%. Given the company has increased the amount of capital employed, it appears the investments that have been made simply don't provide a high return on capital.
Long story short, while Callaway Golf has been reinvesting its capital, the returns that it's generating haven't increased. Investors must think there's better things to come because the stock has knocked it out of the park delivering a 123% gain to shareholders who have held over the last five years. However, unless these underlying trends turn more positive, we wouldn't get our hopes up too high.
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Here are the archives of our production blog, kept rather intermittently from about 2007 onwards. The posts have been migrated from a Tumblr site. Originally the site was also the repository for photos and clips, but the majority have been put elsewhere in the current website.
Because it was migrated from Tumblr, and everyone used the same password, it looks like I've written all the posts. However, I'm gradually editing this so that the posts are correctly authored. Some of the hyperlinks may no longer work but as this is now an archive document I am not planning on restoring active links.


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Sam Darnold's sophomore campaign has been rough.
The Jets are at the bottom of the AFC East at 1-7. They've lost three straight games since pulling off the shocking defeat against the Dallas Cowboys on Oct. 13, and Darnold had been occupied with a handful of injuries throughout the season.
Darnold hasn't been a bright spot on the Jets' offense. He's struggled with turnovers, throwing nine interceptions with three fumbles through five games. After he finished second among rookies with 17 touchdowns, Darnold has only thrown six TDs in 2019.
Former Ravens head coach and NFL analyst Brian Billick says it's still possible for Darnold to fix his inconsistencies, but it will be a challenge for the Jets quarterback.
"We've talked about this many times," Billick told WFAN's Mike Francesa. "One of the hardest things to do is to seperate the play of the quarterback from what's going on around him. Is this Sam Darnold? Is this just like the Mitchell Trubisky — Is this systematic of what we're going to see or is it they're just not a very good football team.
"That compounds the problem. That whole draft that came out that year, I think we're seeing they are who we thought they were. In Sam Darnold, there were some questions coming out. Yes he has some definite talent, but he was surrounded by a very good team. There were some inconsistencies about his play and we're kind of seeing the same things. It's going to be a challenge to show a little bit more consistency in what he's able to do. But he's having to do it with a really bad football team.
Billick also analyzed how Giants' quarterback Daniel Jones would be able to overcome his turnover tendencies, as well.
Jones' eight interceptions lead all rookies, doubling the amount thrown by first overall pick Kyler Murray. He's been able to make up for his mistakes by his 11 touchdowns since being named the Giants' starter, Jones has fumbled the ball 10 times through his first eight games.
The ball control is a simple fix, according to Biliick, who coached the likes of Trent Dilfer in Baltimore.
"A lot of it is stressing the fundamentals in the pocket," Billick said. "The way you carry the ball, the way you protect the ball. Also, in the offseason just get stronger. That's going to be a natural picture of time as well. But of all the things that you've got to correct with the quarterback, that is probably one the most fixable in terms of fundamental things that you do.
"You don't want it to become a self-fulfilling prophecy that all you're talking about is the fumble. Then that's what he's going to do. Fumble, but you can't ignore it either."
Click the audio player above to listen to Billick's interview in its entirety.
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 Goldfisch, Süßwasserfisch
 Vorsicht Goldfisch!, kanadische Zeichentrickserie
 alternativer Name für Schwertfisch (Sternbild)
 Goldfisch – Tarnname für ein NS-Rüstungsprojekt
 Goldfisch (Comic), deutscher Comic
 Der Goldfisch (Operette), eine Operette von Georg Jarno

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Sherwin-Williams' SeaGuard app helps vessel operators choose just the right marine coating for the job.
"I use the MarineTraffic app to see if my tug is at the dock on days I am scheduled to head out for my job," Matulewicz told Professional Mariner. "We usually do crew changes at noon, and the ability to keep tabs on my vessel before I leave home is a great convenience.
Vessel-locator smartphone applications, including the MarineTraffic app, below, can tell you where a ship is. Above, the Samson app aids rope assessment.
Matulewicz's current job requires him to work Moran tugs in the Delaware River and Delaware Bay areas, which is where he uses the app. MarineTraffic watches the positions of more than 80,000 vessels globally on an interactive AIS map, with arrivals and departures recorded in real time.
The app allows the user to customize the experience by maintaining a list of vessels ("My Fleet"), whose whereabouts appear on the iPhone screen in distinct colors. This feature affords Matulewicz an added benefit: the ability to keep track of the whereabouts of his mariner friends who are out at sea.
Matulewicz, a fresh SUNY Maritime College graduate who plans to sit for his license in early 2014, speaks to a growing trend: apps customized for the commercial mariner.
These apps cover the gamut of the typical seafarer's trade. Jeppesen, for example, offers Plan2Nav, an app meant to complement the onboard chartplotter. Apart from allowing the user to chart the route, set waypoints and measure the distance for each leg of the journey, Plan2Nav offers weather forecasts five days out.
Samson offers an app that serves as an "all-inclusive technical rope guide," featuring a detailed rope inspection checklist and splice instructions. The app allows the user — via rope screenshots that can be compared against the task at hand — to understand what corrective action is necessary, including whether re-splicing is an option or the rope needs to be retired.
There are several weather-related apps from various vendors. Linguo, albeit not tailored only toward the mariner, is a convenient app for multilingual translations, for situations in foreign ports that a U.S. mariner may occasionally encounter.
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has introduced apps that allow international mariners to check on the bona fides of the ship they might be hired on, or to enable mariners — U.S. and foreign alike — to locate the nearest seafarer's center or the coordinates of the local ITF inspector.
Sherwin-Williams has recently launched the SeaGuard app, providing users with protective coating recommendations for oil tankers, chemical tankers and offshore support vessels.
"It's a convenient alternative to bulky binders stuffed with outdated product data sheets. If a new product is introduced, or an old product is no longer manufactured, SeaGuard has the updated information," Sherwin-Williams said in a press release.
The CFR Title 46 app places the U.S. maritime statute at the fingertips of legally inclined mariners, with no need to lug law textbooks around.
I'm all for modern electronics and use them extensively every day at sea. My concern, and I'm seeing more and more of this, is that mariners' eyes are buried in their apps and not looking out the window enough.


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Q: Facebook JavaScript SDK like button displayed sometimes in Japanese and sometimes in Spanish when I specify en_US When I use the following:
//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3

I get: いいね!3
Or sometimes: Me gusta 3
Here is Facebook's documentation on setting the language:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button/#language
Has anyone else run into this? Is there something else that is overridding the language?

A: I am running into this as well - no luck finding a solution so far. Started a few days ago..


The National Policy Committee (NPC) of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has extended the deadline for companies, individuals, and organizations involved in consortium-based standards development to respond to an informational survey on ways in which ANSI and consortia can work together for the benefit of standards developers and the stakeholders they wish to serve. Responses must be received by February 29, 2004.
"ANSI welcomes the opportunity to partner with standards setting organizations in all sectors," said Anne Caldas, director of the ANSI procedures and administration department. Responses received are expected to provide a better understanding of the needs of the many and varied organizations involved in standardization. Aggregated replies will be compiled and presented in a summary format during 2004.
The survey is consistent with one of the goals identified within the National Standards Strategy for the United States (NSS) (www.ansi.org/nss). The NSS establishes a standardization framework based upon a set of strategic and tactical initiatives that can be used by all interests to meet national and individual organizational objectives.
Any interested party may obtain the survey via ANSI Online at www.ansi.org (keyword search "survey"). Responses should be returned via e-mail to psa@ansi.org.


Q: What is it like working as an Automotive Technician?
For over a decade, I was employed by two national chain business, and two dealerships. I find that they all have one thing in common, 50-60 hour work weeks & flag hours are half to equal the amount of hours put on the clock. Not every technician in one shop can have 100 flag hours or more. The best thing about working for a dealership is (about 90% of the time) you only work with one make, e.g. Ford, Nissan. The big down side at the dealership is warranty work, you get half the time of labor Mitchel or All Data pays. When I think about the work I did for Firestone and later NTB, I realized I had way more responsibilities, e.g. Painting, plumbing, landscapeing and even cleaning up the restrooms. At a dealership, well at least for me, I do not have to do any of that sort of work, they have contractors for all that other work. Overall I belive the longer you stay in one place the better, jumping from place to place will get you no where in this buisness.
Pros: It's what I enjoy doing.
Best piece of advice is don't do it.
Pros: I make my own check. What could be better.
Cons: I only have two hands and one head.
Pros: My favorite part of my job has to be the times that I find problems with a customer's vehicle that others have overlooked. Small problems can have large, long-term consequences.
Cons: Worst part/parts of my job: Long hours without breaks(literally no 15 minute breaks, no 30 minute lunch over a 10 hour shift), which can add to the stress of being extremely busy every single day. And with an hourly pay rate ten cents above minimum wage with no overtime(strict 40 hour work week), this job is possibly worse than a fast food job in many ways.


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"FEDERAL BILL: SAVE THE U.S. HORSE INDUSTRY & HORSE WELFARE"
The Humane Society of the United States is attempting to issue the final death blow to the American horse industry under the guise of "food safety." Don't be fooled!
HR 113, also known as the Safeguard American Food Exports Act (SAFE) is legislation which would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. If passed, this measure would impose fines and prison time for anyone who sells, transports, imports or exports horses going to a humane, regulated horse processing facility.
Write your letters to your Washington, D.C. representatives today and urge them NOT to support this deceptive Act!


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Dept. of Amplification
DEPARTMENT OF AMPLIFICATION
By Thomas E. Bullicks
The New Yorker, March 11, 1939 P. 89
Amplification of our anecdote about frosted chocolate; a girl from Saginaw asked for a milk shake and the soda clerk insisted that it was a frosted chocolate she had ordered. Mr. Bullicks says that they are both wrong. "If you put a ball of ice cream in a milk shake after it is shook up then it becomes a float, whereas if you put the ice cream in the milk shake before it is shook it becomes a frosted, and then if you put still another ball of ice cream in after (the former) is shook up, it becomes a frosted float."
Published in the print edition of the March 11, 1939, issue.
Highlights from the Under the Radar Theatre Festival
The New Yorker's co-theatre critics chat about "seven methods of killing kylie jenner," a puppet version of "Moby-Dick," and the other plays they saw during this year's event.
In the Trenches with the Foreigners Fighting for Ukraine
Luke Mogelson provides a rare glimpse of the front lines of the war with Russia.
In Politics, How Old Is Too Old?
If you're running for President, is age really "just a number"? Jane Mayer, Jill Lepore, and a gerontologist discuss how old is too old. Plus, Deepti Kapoor on her novel "Age of Vice."


Dalit Christian Welfare Society (DCWS) is an organization in Tamil Nadu working for the emancipation of the Dalits. It has been working for the empowerment of the Dalits within the Church and in the society. Though Dalits form 70% of the Indian Christians they are discriminated in the church and suffer untouchability. This petition is calling for action on Bishop Yvon Ambrose of Tuticorin who is alleged to have hostile attitude toward the Dalit Christians.
The context is that Bro. Michael Raj was studying to become a Priest in Sivagangai diocese, Tamil Nadu. He hails from Devendra Caste which forms 25.23% of the Christians in that diocese but having no priest so far. He was dismissed from the seminary on 13.07.2011 for which, so far, no valid explanation is given by the diocese. The Devendra people along with the civil society organizations, have been demanding that Michael Raj should be ordained a Priest. There were public agitations, hunger strikes, closing of the Churches etc. A Pubic hearing was conducted on the caste discrimination in the diocese of Sivagangai, on 16.3.2017 headed by Mr.D. Hariparanthaman, a retired Judge of Madras High Court. The finding say that there are 20 types untouchability practiced against the Dalit Christians.
A Delegation, along with Mr. Samuelraj, the General secretary of Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front have been meeting the Tamil Nadu Bishops related to these issues. On 8.11. 2018, they met Bishop Yvon Ambrose of Tuticorin . According to the report by the Delegation, the Bishop met them 'unwillingly and in a hurried manner. Mr. Samuelraj tried to brief the issue and requested the Bishop to read the report of the Public hearing. The Bishop said that he had no time to read. The Bishop said, "If you, the Dalit Christians don't want to remain in the Catholic Church you can go out of the Church. We have many institutions. If the Dalit Christians go out of the Church we are not going to lose anything." In this meeting Fr. Kirubakaran, the Vicar General of the diocese and Fr. Norbert Thomas were also present.
Obviously, this attitude of the Bishop is inhuman, unchristian and unbecoming of a catholic Bishop. We call for action by The Nuncio of Vatican to India and by the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India in its meeting on January 7 to 14 at Chennai.
Please share my name and email address with Dalit Christian Welfare Society, so that I can receive updates on this campaign and others.


Claire Gallagher and Anil Kokaram 'Non-parametric wavelet based texture synthesis' in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'05), Vol. 2, Genoa, Italy, 11-14 Sept. 2005, pp 462 - 465.
This paper presents a new algorithm for synthesising image texture. Texture synthesis is an important process in image post-production. Previous approaches can be classified as either parametric or nonparametric. Of these nonparametric approaches have achieved the most impressive results. Unfortunately, these methods generally suffer from high computational cost and difficulty in handling scale in the synthesis process. This paper introduces a new idea of using wavelet decomposition as a basis for nonparametric texture synthesis. The results show an order of magnitude improvement in computational speed and a better approximation of the dominant scale in the synthesised texture.


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PREVIEW | Dorking Wanderers (A)
Wealdstone head to Meadowbank on Saturday to face a strong pre-season test from National League South side Dorking Wanderers.
The game kicks off at 3PM and tickets are priced at £8 Adults and £4 Concessions & U18s. Tickets can be purchased in advance on our hosts website by clicking HERE, cash turnstiles will also be available on the day.
The game will prove a stern test for the Stones, the current National League South champions and holders, who head to the side who were the hot favourites to become the current holders of the league before the National League South season was curtailed at the start of 2021.
Saturday's friendly will be Dorking's tenth of the summer and they have won all nine pre-season games so far, with all but one of those coming against lower league opposition. They beat Bognor Regis Town 3-1 last weekend and defeated South Park by the same scoreline on Tuesday night.
The Stones are also unbeaten following the 1-1 draw away to EFL League Two side Colchester United in a rearranged behind closed doors fixture at Colchester's JobServe Community Stadium last weekend. Josh Umerah was on target from the spot to equalise for the Stones late on.
The sides have met only twice before, Dejon Noel-Williams scored twice in a 2-2 draw at Meadowbank in 2019 and a brace from Dennon Lewis and a Moses Emmanuel goal secured a 3-1 win for the Stones last time the two sides met in February 2020. Helping the Stones cement their place on top of the National League South before eventually going on to win the title that season.


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  <string name="input_boost_freq">Frecvenţa de intrare Boost</string>
  <string name="input_boost_freq_summary">Frecventa CPU pentru a fi amplificat această frecvență la intrare de detectare.</string>
  <string name="wakeup_boost">Boost la pornire</string>
  <string name="wakeup_boost_summary">Wakeup Boost este similar cu impuls de pornire, dar apare atunci când ecranul este pornit.</string>
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  <string name="hotplug_boost_summary">Hotplug Boost este similar cu impuls de intrare, dar apare atunci când procesorul merge online.</string>
  <string name="touch_boost">Touch Boost</string>
  <string name="touch_boost_summary">Această funcție accelerează viteza minim al CPU-ului dacă atingeţi ecranul sau apăsaţi un buton.</string>
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  <string name="override_vmin">Suprascrie minimul de tensiune</string>
  <string name="override_vmin_summary">Dezactivează setările producătorului referitoare la voltaj</string>
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  <string name="hotplug_warning">Mai multe sisteme de hotplug sunt activate! \nVa rugam utilizati numai unul.</string>
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  <string name="hysteresis">Valorii Hysteresis</string>
  <string name="hysteresis_summary">Cu cat mai mică este, cu atăt mai repede veți primi un răspuns.</string>
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  <string name="suspend_summary">A preveni suspendarea.</string>
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  <string name="cpus_boosted_summary">Numărul maxim de procesoare amplificate în acelaşi timp.</string>
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  <string name="gpu_2d_max_freq">Frecvența maximă 2D al GPU</string>
  <string name="gpu_2d_max_freq_summary">Setaţi frecvenţa maximă 2D GPU până la sfârșitul scalei.</string>
  <string name="gpu_max_freq">Frecvența maximă GPU-ului</string>
  <string name="gpu_max_freq_summary">Setaţi frecvenţa maximă GPU până la sfârșitul scalei.</string>
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  <string name="gpu_2d_governor_summary">Setaţi guvernatorul 2D a GPU-ului.</string>
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  <string name="gpu_governor_summary">Setaţi guvernator al GPU-ului.</string>
  <string name="simple_gpu_algorithm">Algoritmul simplu GPU</string>
  <string name="simple_gpu_algorithm_summary">Un add-on pentru MSM Adreno TZ GPU Governor. Creat de faux123.</string>
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Voice actors and authors have been announced, but I'm pretty sure we haven't heard about all of them just yet, and I've got some examples of missing folks in both categories. Plus, the enormous fan props have been announced, and I've got the rundown here... Punch it!
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Playdough, that squishy childhood staple, gets kids' hands pounding, poking, rolling, and shaping while their brains find the play a valuable learning opportunity which builds literacy skills. Whether store-bought or homemade, playdough is a great way to engage children in hands-on learning.
Try one of these engaging playdough activities and your child will be working on skills such as listening, vocabulary development, alphabet development, writing one's name, storytelling, letter-sound matches (phonemic awareness) and memory.
Involve your child in the process of making playdough — measuring, adding color, and stirring.
Mix all ingredients in a saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat and stir until ingredients form a ball. Remove from heat, let cool and knead, adding flour if necessary. Store in a plastic bag.
Mix all ingredients except for the flour in a large bowl. Once well mixed, add the flour. Stir until blended and knead on floured board. Add more flour if needed. Store in a plastic bag and refrigerate.
Use alphabet cookie cutters to make letters, practice sight words, or learn letter sounds. Use your playdough letters to make a train or a tower.
Author / illustrator Jan Brett has printable alphabet flags on her website. Print, cut, and attach to toothpicks. Use the letter flags to build an alphabet castle or a building with your name.
Using playdough of different colors, sort the playdough and talk about the color names. Sort colors, stack colors, and make color patterns.
Gather leaves, sticks, and other safe natural elements from outside to use in your playdough. Press to make prints or use as decorations.
Roll your playdough into long snakey strips. Use a large laminated place mat with the child's name on it. Copy the letters on the placemat with your playdough snakes.
Pretend it's a birthday. Make a cupcake or a cake and top with the correct number of unlit candles or playdough candles. Sing "Happy Birthday" and blow out the candles.
Read a picture book story together. Then, make the characters out of playdough. Retell the story using your playdough characters.
Get out your muffin papers and let your child make playdough cupcakes and muffins to "sell" at his or her bakery.
Young children learn best by active, hands-on playtime. Sensory playdough activities allow children to develop important pre-literacy skills through play. Squish and learn!


Cellular communication and information processing is performed by complex, dynamic, and context specific signaling networks. Mathematical modeling is a very useful tool to make sense of this complexity. Building a model relies on two main ingredients: data and an adequate model formalism. In the case of signaling networks, we build mainly upon data at the proteome level, in particular about the phosphorylation of proteins. In this chapter we review recent developments in both data acquisition and computational analysis. We describe two approaches, antibody based technologies and mass spectrometry (MS), along with their main features and limitations. We then go on to describe some model formalisms that have been applied to such high-throughput phospho-proteomics data sets. We consider a variety of formalisms from clustering and data mining approaches to differential equation-based mechanistic models, rule-based, and logic based models, and on through Bayesian network inference and linear regressions.


One of the simplest forms of life on the planet, these blue-green algae are a storehouse of nutrients. Spirulina is a vegetarian source of vitamins, minerals, chlorophyll and GLA, an essential fatty acid. Gaia Herbs tests each batch for purity and potency to insure safety and validated wholefood nutrition.
Adults take 2 tablets with a meal, twice per day, for a total of 4 tablets per day.
If you have a medical condition or take medications please consult with your doctor before using this product. Use only as directed on label. Safety-sealed for your protection. Keep bottle capped at all times and store in a cool, dry place.
WARNING: Accidental overdose of iron-containing products is a leading cause of fatal poisoning of children under 6. Keep this product out of reach of children. In case of accidental overdose, call a doctor or poison control center immediately.


Scott Helman is back with episode 5 of his Hotel Sessions series. This one features a collaboration with singer-songwriter Jann Arden, whose new TV show, Jann, premiered on March 20.
Arden and Helman chose to cover "Lovesong" from the Cure's 1989 album Disintegration. In the Calgary hotel room where the video was shot, they're accompanied by bass, drums and electric guitar, with Helman adding some acoustic guitar touches to the arrangement. Don't their voices blend nicely over that seductive bass line?
Helman will wrap up his months-long Hang Ups tour in North Bay, Ont., on April 6.


This book has the most gruesome photographs I have ever seen included in a true crime book.The photographs include how the victim was found half naked,her slashed throat(2x),the carvings on her stomach,her butchered back.her skull which really gives you an idea of how much she was tortured.Really really gruesome photos!!I really have no idea how the family feels about this but I would have fought to not have pictures of my family exposed to the world like that.This book was published in 2000 and I think that the trend in true crime books is now to have a lot more respect for the victims and their story.I believe true crime writers are now really targetting normal readers who read these books for the stories and maybe explanations of how the crimes occured and ways to avoid them,the psychology behind the crimes rather than readers who are trying to satify some strange sadistic interest in voyeurism.
Patricia Springer is actually a very good writer.This story included excellent information and the actual crime is told in great detail with the conversations that took place between the teenagers before,during and after the crime.Being teenagers I believe that they remembered vividly how this all transpired and this information was in the court transcripts.To explain what I mean here is a piece of the conversation.Colleen Slemmer's body had gone limp after the beating and Tadaryl Shipp and Christa Pike were trying to drag her body through the mud one more time and Christa decides to stop trying to do this saying "She's all gooey.I don't want to touch her anymore".Even details after the crime where Christa Pike informs her friend Kim that she was using the piece of skull taken from the crime scene to eat breakfast.This was a really disturbing book and not for the faint hearted.
Needless to say the details of the crime in this true crime book are fairly extensive and detailed.I wanted to read this book as it is essentially about the youngest woman on death row Christa Pike.I also wanted to find out how teenagers get to a point where they kill a friend.How they manage to convince others to join them.How they feel afterwards.What I should have known (and found out in this book) is that killers of this kind have no conscience.These teenagers especially Christa Pike was lost in a world of her own with no rules,compassion or respect for human life,even ultimately her own life.
I read this book in April 2007 and has 8 pages of photographs(gruesome).
Do you think that sentences imposed on teenagers(or people under 18) should be less severe than those imposed on adults who commit the same crimes?
How awful. No I don't think the sentence should be less severe. I think that if it is in them to do something this horrendous once it is in there to be acted on again. But not all cases are black and white.
If the teen is acting under the influence of another, especially an older person, then this is another story and perhaps a less severe sentece is in order along with lots of counseling and continued observation after release.
I agree that all cases need to be looked at individually but I still believe that once you have killed someone or helped to kill someone that you should be taken out of society either to a mental institution or to prison but the problem we have now is that once released there isn't a lifelong parole where these people are kept track of.They definitely do re offend in some way or another.I guess the main problem is the manpower to keep track of these offenders.
I found this post to be very detail and very objective in terms of the acceptability of evident and photos now as compared ot then.
Teens who kill should be tried as adults.
Hope all went well with the move.Have been checking your blog a lot.Looking forward to pictures of your new house.
Someone under the age of 18, shall we say a 13 year old....commits murder, they know right from wrong.....in my opinion, they should be treated like an adult and be charged the same way.
The problem is a 12year old 1 month away from his 13th birthday and a 13 year old who turned 13 a month before.That's just 2 months difference in age.They both commit murder.Where do we draw the line?By the way guys,good news,I will be doing an interview with an author soon and we get to ask questions on the Caysee/Caylee Anthony case.Please get your questions ready.I will post soon and once I have all the questions then I will forward to her and she will answer them.My FIRST interview.I am so excited I am putting it off in case I mess up.
So cool! I can't wait to read this interview! I know you will be great. You always ask insightful questions.
No I think if someone under 18 can do something so horrific and not act as a child then they should not be punished as a child either.
This girl is an evil person. i was incarcerated with her at TPW, and was a few cells away from her for a few days. She has no remorse for what she did to this girl, she actually brags about it and laughs this evil, scary laugh when she talks about it. She has tried to kill again since being incarcerated. The sad thing about this is that so many people seem to "worship" her for this terrible crime. I hear people say aww poor Krista, the poor girl has been through so much, she needs all the love and support she can get. I for one totally disagree and think she is not even getting the punishment she deserves. How about the victims' family? They are the ones that need support and encouragment!!


High-quality VoIP starts with a suitable router. Many businesses will implement a hosted VoIP solution and confirm with the VoIP provider that the router that already exists in their network, works with the VoIP service. Yet many businesses still end up frustrated with call quality, dropped connections and other problems associated with their VoIP service. And they may unfairly accuse the VoIP provider of subpar service. It's not enough to just find out if your router will work with VoIP. Sure, it will work—VoIP is just another type of data traffic that a router passes in and out of your network. However, many routers, especially those designed for consumer networks, are not well optimized for VoIP, as a business may find out the hard way. When deploying mission-critical VoIP systems, consider a business-class router that is optimized for VoIP.
There are several features to look for in a router that will be used with a hosted VoIP solution. The most critical feature is robust QoS (Quality of Service). QoS allows for prioritizing VoIP traffic over other types of data traffic such as video, Instant Messaging, or FTP.
Mia Athawale, technical product manager for ABP Tech, provides an even more specific example of why QoS is critical, "A sync triggered for a Dropbox account could create a spike in bandwidth usage and cause existing VoIP calls to experience packet drop. Conventional QoS does not resolve the problem," wrote Athawale in a blog post. Who would think that an application as innocuous as Dropbox could have such a negative impact on VoIP quality? Not many, which is why QoS is crucial.
If you take a look in the management interface of your router at home, there is a good chance you can find some settings related to VoIP. Consumer routers often have options for bandwidth prioritization or traffic shaping. You can enable these settings and specify that VoIP traffic takes priority over any other type of data traffic in the network. However, for VoIP in businesses, those consumer-level features may not be enough. In an email interview, Athawale also pointed out why many consumer routers simply aren't sufficient for business applications. "A lot of routers claim to perform QoS, but most of them simply tag the packets, especially consumer routers," said Athawale.
SMBs should take note of other important features a router should have when it comes to VoIP. VLAN support is one. With VLANs, you can have VoIP traffic isolated to specific devices or user groups and prioritized separately from other internal data traffic. WAN backup and load balancing are two other good features for VoIP but these feature are only available in devices with at last two WAN ports.
DrayTek's Vigor2925Vac is not only a top-choice for SMB VoIP routers, it's the only such router to include 802.11ac Wi-Fi. DrayTek partnered with ABP Tech to develop very extensive QoS for VoIP. Among the many VoIP-tailored features, the Vigor2925Vac can detect VoIP traffic (SIP and RTP media) and automatically give it first priority over other traffic. QoS is also combined with proactive bandwidth management, so when DrayTek routers detect a VoIP call, they reserve bandwidth for two more VoIP calls than the current number of calls. So bandwidth is allocated to VoIP dynamically, and is still available for other applications when there are no VoIP calls. Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports provide connection failover and load balancing.
Configurations are performed though a Web-based management interface that is designed to be intuitive enough for non-IT people to get the Vigor2925Vac up and running.
The DrayTech Vigor2925Tn plus has all of the great features of the Vigor2925Vac, except it is also an 802.11n Wi-Fi router instead of an 11ac router. However, the Vigor2925Vn plus has even more enhanced feature for VoIP including the ability to connect to multiple SIP registrars with flexible configuration and call handling options, plus two FXS ports to connect analog telephones and an FXO port for a POTS line, A feature called Digit Map feature lets you set call rules for certain destinations to use either VoIP services or POTS lines (ideal for a Disaster Recovery strategy).
SonicWall is synonymous with security. So it's no surprise that a highlight of the T300 is that it's a secured firewall appliance that has VoIP features integrated such as advanced bandwidth management. This all-in-one device also is an 802.11ac access point, and a UTM with intrusion protection, content filtering, application control and more.
Cisco's Small Business RV320 router uses bandwidth efficiently with its baked-in bandwidth management QoS. The feature prioritizes network services including VoIP, by either rate controls or prioritization levels. This all-in-one device also offers content filtering, IPSec and SSL VPN, AES-256 encryption and an SPI firewall.
At a price of a little over $2,000, the Adtran NetVanta 6355 IP Business gateway is pricey for a small business, but you are guaranteed you are purchasing a device that is engineered for VoIP. The NetVanta 6366 is an integral SIP gateway as well as a 24-port PoE switch. It helps with VoIP performance with its standardized G.729a voice compression feature which reduces bandwidth on calls.
For small businesses looking for a router that is built for VoIP but may not want to pay the price for the Adtran NetVanta 6355 IP Business Gateway, Adtran's NetVnata 3120 is a good, affordable alternative. Designed for smaller network with DSL or cable broadband, the NetVanata 3120 offers advanced VoIP features. One, is QoS for VoIP delay-sensitive traffic. Another is Voice Quality Management (QVM). With QVM, you can capture jitter, delay, and packet loss statistics to troubleshoot VoIP calls.
If you are looking for a VoIP-capable router for a very small business with a budget that does not allow for much more than a consumer router, then look to the Linksys WRT1900ac. This Linksys router can be flashed with OpenWRT firmware. This firmware supports a number of open-source SIP packages including Asterisk. It's a low-cost way to get very granular control over VoIP in a network, if you don't mind digging though some technical knowledge base articles and forums in the OpenWRT online community when you have questions or issues.
Your picture shows an Asus router but your router write-up doesn't mention Asus.
Unfortunately we do not have an in-house image of the routers we took a close look at. Hopefully this does not create too much confusion, but thanks for bringing it to our attention!
In the blog content you state, "For VoIP use, you want a router that supports H.323 and SIP protocols as well." But I noticed on the comparison chart the first two show 'H.323 Passthrough' whereas the third is 'H.323, SIP'. What is the difference and does this mean that the third router is better than the first two (in terms of VoIP functionality)?
From my understanding, the first two routers labeled "H.323 Passthrough," only support the H.323 protocol. I attempt to source my information from the available product pages, so this unfortunately can lead to inconsistencies.
devices have the ability to change the IP address and port number of all your packets of data. This can be seen as a level of encryption, helping to keep origins and data private.
A "H.323 passthrough," would mean your router could preform a NAT pass through on the H.323. protocol specifically. NAT is known to cause certain issues with different systems – the biggest example that hits home is when you're trying to play an online video game, say on an Xbox, and you cannot join o ther players because your NAT is set to "closed" – this isn't allowing the free flow of encrypted information, essentially, so you cannot connect to other players. A pass through would otherwise bypass the NAT settings.
Hmmm. Quite interesting. I appreciate the response!
Not a problem, thanks for asking!
FYI, I asked RingCentral support about the DrayTek Vigor2925Vac and they said their engineers had tested it, but it failed. I'm guessing that means it failed to meet their specific requirements/needs.
Very interesting. From what I've noticed, some providers may not like users bringing in their own devices and would rather sell "compatible" hardware.
Now, I don't know the very specific settings on this router, or RingCentral's requirements and needs, but like you said, this guy didn't meet "their specific requirements." That could be the case, or it might not be as critical as some providers paint it to be.
Personally, I take that with a grain of salt, but sometimes it simply means this device might not be able to use every single feature a provider has to offer.
Either way, very good to know for other readers, thanks again!
I'm having issues with hackers constantly pinging my VoIP phone. I have an old Netgear consumer/home router. Which of the routers that you have suggested will guard against these intrusions?
A SonicWall product is on this list? They are known around the VoIP community to be complete bears to deal with? Most installers/providers (myself included) wont even install behind them?


9:45am: Walk in to the office, sit down at my desk, start up my laptop and wait for my daily task. Sometimes I get up to get coffee, if I didn't bring it in with me. I listen to my favorite morning show "First Take" on ESPN while I look through emails or click through my upcoming senior year class schedule. I then make sure that any project orders or creative briefs need to be finished from the day before. Not a bad start to the morning at this point.
11:00am: Around this time, I ask the account team if they have any production orders or upcoming meetings with clients. If there is a client meeting, I would go at this time. If project orders need to be completed, then I go through the process of resizing images or put an ad into production for the creative team to handle.
12:30pm: Lunch, either warming it up or going to get something. There are numerous choices around the office that make the latter more appealing. When my lunch is acquired or warmed-up, I sit, eat and check social media. Some days social media consists of something funny or another political disaster. Some days, both funny and disaster can be the subjects of the same topics.
1:30pm: Lunch is done and I return to my desk to more PO's or continuing tasks from earlier. This is the meat of my day and when I get the busiest work. If something does not end up on my desk by this time I find another colleague to provide me with a task. This can be anything from business leads to moving files on the server to brainstorming for another campaign. The afternoon can consist of a new campaign meeting that occupies the rest of my day.
3:30pm: This is the start to the end of my day. Unless another brand meeting or brainstorm is happening right now, I occasionally get to leave early. At this time, I could be finishing up an excel sheet or a new creative brief that was assigned earlier in my day.
5:00pm: The life of an intern is not always a breeze, but depending on the day of the week I can leave at five or get an early departure. I get into my car and turn on some tunes that make the tiring trek up Telegraph somewhat better. As I drive, I think about what my next day in at agency will hold.


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NICEIC and ELECSA Apprentice of the Year Awards
Our electrical apprentice Matt Jones has finished in third place in this year's NICEIC and ELECSA Apprentice of the Year Awards.
Matt is currently working for us as part of his apprenticeship training and is a valued and popular member of our team.
He was one of eight finalists from more than 650 apprenticeships that applied for the awards that recognise the talents of electrical apprentices across the UK.
Before reaching the finals Matt had already competed in two stages of the awards, which began in October 2017.
The first stage of the contest was an online exam comprising of a variety of questions relating to electrical installations.
The top 20% of performing apprentices then progressed to stage two which was a written hour and a half examination and the final eight were selected to take part in a series of practical tests at the competition sponsor Scolmore's headquarters before the awards winners were announced at the Belfry Golf Course in Sutton Coldfield.
Finishing in third place overall, Matt received a host of prizes including a £250 holiday voucher.
We are incredibly proud of Matt's achievement and will continue to invest in offering quality apprenticeships for talented young people who will have the opportunity gain the skills needed to play a fundamental part in our future growth.
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This striking palomino stallion made his show ring debut in 2014 and immediately became a crowd pleaser. "OJ" is the complete package with his true, rhythmic fox trot, bold flat foot walk, deep head shake and wonderful disposition. He ended a very successful 2014 show season by being crowned Open 3 Year Old World Champion Stallion and Word Grand Champion Open 3 Year Old. OJ continued his success in 2015 by being crowned Open 4 Year Old Mid-America Champion, Open NBC 4 Year Old Champion and RWGC Open 4 Year Old.


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State Lawmaker Heading Up Utah League's Foundation
SALT LAKE CITY - In a move seen as improving ties with state lawmakers, the Utah League of Credit Unions disclosed it has on its staff a state senator put in charge of the League's year-old Education Foundation and the "100% for Kids" program. Hired to manage the foundation's school...
By Staff Writer | January 06, 2004 at 07:00 PM | The original version of this story was published on Credit Union Times Magazine
SALT LAKE CITY – In a move seen as improving ties with state lawmakers, the Utah League of Credit Unions disclosed it has on its staff a state senator put in charge of the League's year-old Education Foundation and the "100% for Kids" program. Hired to manage the foundation's school grants under the "Credit Unions 100% for Kids" program is Sen. Paula Julander (D-Salt Lake City). Julander, a nurse who previously served for four years in the Utah House, was hired by the League in October. A news release issued last week by the League quotes Julander as calling CUs "real heroes for what they are doing with Utah schools." The release noted that the Foundation since its inception in December 2002 has given out $1.2 million, of which $215,000 has been dispersed since October. "I have always felt credit unions do a fantastic job serving the public," she said. "It's been a privilege and an honor to help them provide equipment, supplies, books, and so much more for schools." Just what other duties she might have for the League were not spelled out in the news release which also noted Julander has long "supported Utah credit unions."


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More than 300,000 historic Kansas newspaper pages are currently available through Chronicling America, including forty-two titles from twenty-eight cities. KDN began in 2009 with a National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in partnership with the Library of Congress. Additional NDNP grant awards in 2011 and 2013 funded more Kansas titles. By 2016, more than 300,000 pages of Kansas newspapers published before 1923 will be freely available online through funding provided by NDNP. See Chronicling America to search and see a title list of available Kansas newspapers.
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