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Just as we continually strive to create high-performing and innovative products, we also seek to follow the law on social issues important to our employees, shareholders and customers. This includes raising awareness with our employees and within our supply chain about how we can make the right decisions on issues like product safety and work environments affecting those who help us make our products.
Callaway Golf strives to follow the applicable law on socially responsible business practices among our employees and throughout our supply chain. Our Supplier Code of Conduct is designed to educate our suppliers about the importance of providing safe working conditions, treating workers with respect and using responsible manufacturing processes.
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This policy describes Callaway Golf's response to California's Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010. On January 1, 2012, the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 (SB 657) went into effect in the State of California. This law describes the information to be made available by manufacturers and retailers regarding their efforts (if any) to address the issue of slavery and human trafficking. Click to view California's Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010.
Company Code of Conduct
The Company's Code of Conduct is part of Callaway Golf Company's effort to conduct its global business legally. The Code applies to all board members, officers and employees of Callaway Golf Company and its subsidiaries. All Callaway Golf Company employees are required to comply with the Company's Code of Conduct, which includes provisions designed to address the principle that child, prison, or forced labor are not permitted at any Callaway Golf Company supplier operation. Callaway Golf Company's Code of Conduct is applicable throughout the world, and the Company trains employees on these standards from time to time, including new hire training for all incoming employees and ongoing training of all company employees and management who have direct responsibility for supply chain management. This ongoing training specifically addresses education on human trafficking and slavery prohibitions within the product supply chain.
Click to view the Company's Code of Conduct.
Supplier Code of Conduct
The Company has also adopted and implemented a "Supplier Code of Conduct." The Supplier Code of Conduct describes the business practices and employment standards applicable to Callaway Golf's direct suppliers on a global basis. Click to view the Supplier Code of Conduct.
Direct suppliers receive copies of or have access to the Supplier Code of Conduct and many suppliers post the Code on site at their various locations.
The Company uses various approaches to verify the absence of forced labor and child labor in our supply chain, including the following:
Supply Chain Qualification and Supplier Assessments
Callaway Golf Company performs assessments of potential suppliers according to a risk-based approach. This approach includes preliminary risk assessments and supplier assessment questionnaires. New supplier screenings are generally conducted internally by Callaway Golf Company personnel. Ongoing supplier compliance is typically monitored by a combination of measures (as discussed below), including supplier self-assessments, Callaway Golf Company-conducted audits and third party audits. Callaway Golf Company uses tools such as regular questionnaires (which are administered by Callaway through a web-based service), that are completed by direct tier one suppliers and selected tier two suppliers.
Supplier Audits
Callaway Golf Company's audit program evaluates suppliers' compliance with the Company's Supplier Code of Conduct. Various types of announced audits are conducted under this program, including onsite audits conducted or attended by Callaway Golf Company personnel, collaborative or self-audits, and periodic third-party on-site audits of practices and underlying management systems. If deficiencies are identified, suppliers are directed to produce corrective action plans. The corrective action plans typically outline how a supplier will resolve issues uncovered in audits. If any compliance issues are identified, the Company may terminate the supplier relationship or will require action by the supplier to rectify the problem within a designated timeframe.
Currently, site audits are scheduled at most direct supplier sites every two years. These audits are conducted by Callaway Golf Company or by a third party auditing company. The audits are semi-announced audits. This means that the suppliers are given a window of time when the audit will take place, but the exact date of the audit within the timeframe is unannounced.
Terms and Conditions in Purchase Orders and Agreements
Callaway Golf Company has various agreements or purchasing terms and conditions in place with most direct suppliers, requiring them to comply with applicable laws and regulations, including laws regarding forced labor and child labor.
Corporate Purchasing Policy
Callaway Golf Company has a Corporate Purchasing Policy in place that applies to all US employees responsible for commitment of funds to external suppliers. The Policy also serves as a guide for all non-US employees. Applicable employees are responsible for understanding and complying with this Policy. Among other things, the Policy is designed to promote compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.
Supplier Certifications
Callaway Golf Company has instituted a program which requires direct suppliers to certify that materials incorporated into the Company's products comply with the laws of the countries where the suppliers are doing business.
Product Compliance
Callaway Golf Company strives to ensure products comply with applicable laws and regulations through education, testing, certifications and audits.
Conflict Free Sourcing
Callaway Golf Company has policies and procedures to reasonably assure that the use of the tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold in the products manufactured do not directly or indirectly finance armed groups in Covered Countries as defined by the Conflict Minerals Rule issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Click to view Callaway's Conflict Mineral Policy.
Employee and Supplier Training
Callaway Golf Company educates employees responsible for supplier programs on how to identify and report compliance issues. Callaway Golf Company also strives to educate suppliers on relevant regulatory requirements, programs and Company policies.
Company Legal Compliance Committee and Internal Audit Department
Callaway Golf Company has formed a Legal Compliance Committee to address compliance issues on a global basis and to develop systems and procedures to address any ongoing compliance issues in the locations where we conduct operations. The Legal Compliance Committee meets on a regular basis and the Chief Ethics Officer provides updates of key findings to the Callaway Golf Company Board of Directors.
The Company also has an Internal Audit Department that periodically tests supplier compliance with contract terms through a variety of methods. The Company also seeks to promptly address internal accountability standards and procedures for employees or contractors failing to meet Callaway Golf Company standards.
From time to time we may change our practices under this policy. We will try to post the latest version of this policy here.
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The Latest in Tape TechnologySubmitted by Rich Gadomski on Thu, 11/20/2014 - 11:58
In one of my previous blogs, Tape Ensures Future of Active Archives, I wrote about a customer who asked if tape was an essential component of an active archive. The answer is "no," but if you are faced with increasing data growth and need a cost effective and reliable, long term solution, then the answer is decidedly "yes." In a typical active archive environment, data migrates by policy from expensive primary storage tiers to a more cost effective tier while maintaining the convenience of online file access to all of the data. Tape is ideal for this application based on its economic benefits, high capacity, low energy consumption, superior error rates and long archival life.
Clean or dirty, is that really the question?Submitted by Rich Gadomski on Wed, 07/16/2014 - 11:27
I recently read "Clicking Clean, How Companies are Creating the Green Internet," a very interesting report by Greenpeace published this past April. The report reviews the "clean" vs. "dirty" power usage by many of the Internet giants like Amazon, Google, Apple, eBay and others to run their vast data centers. The report shows what percentage of their power is from clean sources, such as solar or wind, vs. what percentage is from dirty sources like coal, gas or nuclear fired power plants. The report rates each company with grades ranging from "A" to "F" based on their renewable energy efforts.
But regardless of the type of energy used by these company's data centers, an even bigger question might be: how do they reduce their energy consumption in the first place?
Tape Ensures Future of Active ArchivesSubmitted by Rich Gadomski on Thu, 03/27/2014 - 09:07
I was speaking with a customer recently about his storage environment and how he was incorporating the principles of active archiving. We were discussing the feature/benefits of active archiving and what elements actually make up an active archive and he asked me the following question: "Tape does not have to be part of an active archive, right?" I replied "By definition, no it does not…" and then came the "but."
Do Not Forget about Portability!Submitted by Rich Gadomski on Mon, 11/25/2013 - 10:28
Active archiving is getting a lot of attention these days as end users seek to relieve the tremendous pressure on primary storage from relentless growth of unstructured data. Like the pain from a toothache, they just want it to go away. The solution lies in extending the existing file system with active archive software across all storage pools and moving seldom accessed or totally dormant files from primary storage to a more cost-effective economy tier such as tape.
Beat the Heat!Submitted by Rich Gadomski on Tue, 06/18/2013 - 09:46
As summer approaches with temperatures already reaching into the 90s here in the Northeast, I wonder what the forecast holds for the summer of 2013. According to the Farmer's Almanac, the summer of 2012 was exceptionally hot in many regions and 2013 is expected to be just as bad with hotter than expected temperatures. I guess we will have to deal with higher electric bills to run the AC in our homes; that will hurt! Not to mention our data centers, we will no doubt be straining the electrical grid and our IT budgets keeping all that spinning disk from overheating.
LTO-6 Arrives Just In Time for the Holidays!Submitted by Rich Gadomski on Wed, 12/19/2012 - 11:23
The recently announced availability of innovative LTO-6 Ultrium drives and media comes just in time, not only for the holiday wish lists of IT managers everywhere, but for the New Year when we can expect the continuing relentless growth of data in need of protection and preservation. While estimates of data growth among organizations vary from 30% to more than 50% annually, the fact that it is growing while IT budgets are not, makes for a timely introduction of this new generation of LTO.
Active Archive Provides Solution to M&E Content Storage ChallengeSubmitted by Rich Gadomski on Tue, 08/21/2012 - 09:30
Having attended HD World last year in New York and the more recent NAB show this past April in Las Vegas, I could sense a genuine concern among many attendees that I met regarding the challenge of storing their ever-increasing volumes of content. The M&E industry is in fact creating enormous amounts of new digital content thanks to HD and 3D movie production, new applications and techniques for special effects, etc. But in addition to all the new content being born digital, there are decades worth of a vastly greater amount of existing content, much of it sitting on shelves in the form of video tape. How to convert and digitize this content is becoming a priority for the industry in the interest of preserving these assets for future use and profit. While this undertaking has presented budgetary challenges, the good news is I have been hearing that several companies offer solutions for video tape to digital data file conversion, typically to LTO tape, and costs have been coming down over time.
Active Archive In the CloudSubmitted by Rich Gadomski on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 11:54
It seems that the subject of archiving is getting a lot of press these days as enterprises of all shapes and sizes are facing a deluge of data and content which is being generated by new technologies and applications. This is not a bad thing per se as there may be value to be had from this data and content in the form of business analytics or monetization of the content at some point in the future. The problem comes in the cost management of this data/content effectively over time. With government regulations and legal compliance dictating long-term retention periods, and with the future value potential of certain data, much of the data has to be archived indefinitely.
The Cost Advantage of TapeSubmitted by Rich Gadomski on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 10:15
In my previous blog posts, I talked about the advantages of data tape in terms of reliability and capacity and how tape plays a crucial role in supporting active archive systems. While these factors are key considerations in the merits of leveraging tape for tier 3 storage, cost effectiveness is a major factor that favors tape as well.
Leading analysts project that organizations will need to grow their data storage capacity dramatically in the coming years as a result of the explosion of unstructured file data, regulatory compliance and the need to keep data for longer periods in active archive mode. The numbers vary, but the consensus is around 50% data growth annually (there's no recession in data creation!) Yet, IT budgets are barely increasing, so close attention is being paid to storage-related investments that can consume significant portions of CAPEX budgets. With OPEX budgets multiplying acquisition costs by several factors, it becomes clear that storing all data on disk drives is cost prohibitive from both an acquisition and an operations point of view.
In addition, the price of electricity to power and cool disk storage continues to climb, and some areas of the power grid are already over taxed, creating the problem of simply supplying the needed power to data centers.
TCO studies from leading analysts show tape systems cost less than disk. The Enterprise Strategy Group reported a 2-4X cost advantage in backup applications using LTO-5 compared to disk with de-duplication.
For long term archiving, The Clipper Group did a detailed TCO study and reported a 15X cost advantage for LTO-5 tape vs. disk in an archiving application over a 12-year period.
In yet another recent TCO study done by the Information Storage Industry Consortium, disk system acquisition prices turn out to be 9X more than the equivalent tape system for 500TB of storage over a five-year period.
When it comes to power consumption, tape is far greener than disk and this is where the real cost savings are to be found. The TCO study from The Clipper Group shows that disk consumes at least 238X more power than tape as data on tape consumes little or no energy, and tape does not require the significant energy associated with cooling spinning disks. In fact, Clipper showed that the cost of powering the disk solution over the 12-year period is the same as the cost of an entire tape solution including hardware, media and power!
Undoubtedly flash and disk technologies play a critical role in active archive systems for certain data applications, for example where rapid access time is important. But once again, studies show that anywhere from 60 to 90% of data is rarely accessed after 30 days. So it makes sense to move data from more expensive tiers of storage to the more cost-effective tape tier. And with active archive systems, the data remains accessible. Data storage that is efficient and always available – it's the best of both worlds!
The Latest on Tape CapacitySubmitted by Rich Gadomski on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:55
I often get asked the question, "what does the future hold for data tape in terms of capacity?" Usually followed up with "Are we on the threshold of the super paramagnetic limit? Will we need some new technology or breakthroughs to keep up with the explosion of data? Are currently published roadmaps really achievable? Will tape continue to play a critical role in data protection and emerging applications such as active archiving?"
To get started answering these questions, let's look at the midrange tape market where LTO clearly dominates all other technologies with close to a 90% share. LTO Generation 4 is currently the most popular format with a native capacity of 800 GB. But the latest generation introduced in 2010, LTO-5, has been growing rapidly in popularity with a native capacity of 1.5 TB. LTO-5 also features a major breakthrough known as LTFS, or Linear Tape File System, which allows for dual partitioning of the tape where a portion of the tape is dedicated to a file index to enhance file management and facilitate data exchange and long-term data retention.
Next in line for LTO is Generation 6, with a native capacity slated for 3.2 TB, followed by LTO-7 at 6.4 TB and LTO-8 with a pretty impressive native capacity of 12.8 TB. We expect to see LTO-6 in 2012 or early 2013 with the next generations every two to three years thereafter. But back to the questions, is this truly achievable?
The answer is a resounding "yes!" and we can look to the enterprise tape market for a good indication of tape's future direction.
In 2006, Fujifiim and IBM demonstrated a world record in data density on linear magnetic tape of 6.67 billion bits per square inch. This meant the ability to achieve multi-terabyte capacities of up to 8.0 TB on a single tape cartridge. The tape sample used was based on Fujifilm's NANOCUBIC technology incorporating a new Barium Ferrite (BaFe) magnetic particle with the ability to resist outer magnetic interference and to maintain a strong magnetic signal even at greatly reduced dimensions compared to commonly used metal particles.
Once again in 2010, Fujifilm and IBM announced a new world record in data density on linear magnetic tape, achieving 29.5 billion bits per square inch using the new Barium Ferrite magnetic particle, this time with a perpendicular orientation, an even smaller particle size and a more advanced coating and dispersion technology. This translates into the possibility of developing a single tape cartridge capable of holding a massive 35 TB of native data. That's 23 times the capacity of today's LTO-5 and far exceeds the LTO roadmap requirements for LTO-8!
Earlier this year, the first product based on this technology came to market in the form of Oracle's enterprise T10000-C drive and cartridge with a native capacity of 5.0 TB. This product represents a 3X capacity increase compared to the latest LTO-5 product and clearly speaks to the reality of increasing capacity on tape.
With the explosion of tier 3 unstructured file data, regulatory compliance and the need to keep data for longer periods in active archive mode, expect to see further advances in tape capacities as tape continues to play a vital role in cost effective, reliable, long-term mass storage.


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CHARLES TOWN - The public got a rare treat Sunday when the Claymont Society for Continuous Education opened the doors to Claymont Court Mansion, one of the largest Washington family homes in Jefferson County. It has been undergoing renovations for the past two years.
The Claymont Mansion was the recipient of the 2010 Save America's Treasures Matching Funds Grant.
"The Claymont Mansion is a Washington family home, one of the largest - probably the largest - of all the Washington family homes. We just completed the Save America's Treasures Grant that was awarded to us in 2010, which is a matching federal grant," said Amy Silver, executive director of the Claymont Society.
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Claymont Mansion, which has undergone two years of renovation work, was opened to the public Sunday for an open house.
The nonprofit organization raised $150,000 of its own money and was matched an additional $150,000 by the government, money that was spent restoring the mansion's ballroom, windows, roofs, gutters and more.
Claymont Mansion was originally built in 1811 by Bushrod Corbin Washington, who was George Washington's grandnephew, Silver said.
The original house was a 34-room mansion built by 90 slaves. In 1838, there was a fire in the basement kitchen that gutted the whole house, but it was rebuilt. In 1870, the ownership of the house changed after the Washington family had to sell the home because of back taxes stemming from the Civil War.
"It's been a two-year process of doing restoration, so we wanted to open the house to the public for everybody to see what's been going on," Silver said.
The Claymont Society also just completed a conservation easement on 264 acres of property on the Claymont land so that it can never be developed.
"It was wonderful. It was a great opportunity to see it. I had been out here on the home tour two years ago when it was Jefferson County Historic Homes and they were on the tour. That was before they got the grant. Now it's wonderful to see what they did with the grant money," said Joette Borzik, of Jefferson County, who was one of Sunday's visitors.
Kate Weatherby, another visitor, traveled from Maine to visit the house. She previously lived in Jefferson County but recently moved after buying a new house.
"It's so amazing to see so much original work that's been able to be restored and also to see the pictures of them restoring things. I'm very curious. I just bought a house that needs a lot of work, an old house, so it's kind of given me some ideas. It's just beautiful," Weatherby said.
The Claymont Society was established in 1974 by John Bennett. It focuses on teaching adults how to live a sustainable life through things such as farming and agriculture. Silver said the next thing the organization will do is identify additional restoration projects for the Claymont Mansion, which will require more fundraising.
"It's a beautiful house. I'm really happy to have it open to the public and have everybody else enjoy this space, because it's a magnificent house," Silver said.
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TOKYO: Japanese car giant Nissan is looking to utilise its Indian production facility to export vehicles to more markets like the Middle East as overseas sales from its Thailand manufacturing base have come to a standstill in the wake of devastating floods in the nation.
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Private Equity Firms Digging for Gold in the Mining Industry
Private equity firms are looking to the metals and mining industry for untapped resources and deals, after years of avoiding the volatile sector.
Firms are devoting resources to the industry, hiring senior professionals, raising funds dedicated to the sector and mapping out future moves to tap into the industry.
This comes as uncertainty surrounds the space due to low commodity prices and a mining industry starved for capital, according to senior private equity professionals focused on the space. While deal flow has lagged in recent years, it's expected to steadily rise in the next five to 10 years, they said.
"I think the industry is going through a period of transition and will be stronger when it comes out of this period," said Isser Elishis, chief investment officer of Waterton Global Resource Management.
Earlier this year, Mr. Elishis' metal and mining-focused firm closed its second fund at $1 billion. That's nearly a third of the $3.2 billion that was raised by seven funds focused primarily on metals and mining in 2013, according to data provider Preqin.
Some larger firms are edging into the industry, too. Apollo Global Management and TPG Capital have hired executives and are making moves in the sector. In September, TPG, X2 Partners and Noble Group each invested $500 million in the private mining venture X2 Resources, to focus specifically on the sector.
But others are decidedly staying out of the sector, at least for the time being. On a call to discuss Blackstone's first quarter earnings, President Hamilton "Tony" James said such businesses were on the firm's radar but that the firm was unlikely to move on any such deals in the short-term.
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High Desert gun owners no longer can shoot at Hodge Road
BLM proposes to increase open shooting areas
By JAMES RAMAGE/Staff Writer
VICTORVILLE -- It used to be that if you owned a gun in the High Desert and didn't want to pay for target practice, you could go to an area just west of Interstate 15 between Victorville and Barstow and blast away to your heart's content.
Gun owners said the area, just off the Hodge Road exit, had been open for years as an informal, public shooting range.
Not anymore.
Dozens of signs scattered around the Hodge Road site greeted Dan Harley, a recreational shooter from Apple Valley, when he ventured there last month to do some shooting. The signs warn people not to shoot there and to stay off the land.
"Where's a legal place to shoot?" Harley asked in apparent frustration. "Over the past couple of years, we used to be able to go out into the desert and shoot guns. We traveled an hour total, out and back, to get there."
As far as legal shooting areas go, a San Bernardino County ordinance divides its land into areas where one can fire shotguns only, and areas where one can fire "solid" projectiles, such as bullets, according to Barry Nelson, chief ranger at the Bureau of Land Management's Barstow Field Office.
While shotguns expel a spray of pellet-sized projectiles no more than 100 yards, bullets can travel farther than a mile, Nelson said, making any errant shots dangerous.
Nelson said the Hodge Road site was public land up until several years ago, when Western American Services of Woodland Hills gained ownership of it in a land exchange with the BLM. The company left the land unchanged until a microwave communications tower was recently constructed nearby, Nelson said, and the warning signs quickly followed.
As a result, the BLM thought that it could do something about the dearth of open spaces for shooting.
"We felt that the existing no-projectile zone was too restrictive," Nelson said.
Working with the California Department of Fish and Game, and the County Fish and Game Commission, the BLM drew up a proposal in late July to reduce the size of the area covered by the county's shotgun-only ordinance.
Ultimately, the commission must approve the proposal, Nelson said.
The current shotgun-only ordinance's northernmost boundary is Highway 58, extending from Hinkley Road west to the Los Angeles County line, Nelson said. The proposed change would drop the boundary southwards to Shadow Mountain Road -- opening up miles of wide-open areas with safe backdrops for projectile-shooting weapons use.
But until a convenient new site becomes available, many who want to do some target shooting somewhere will have to pay to for it.
The Apple Valley Gun Club has already seen a profit from the Hodge Road site closing. They've reported an increase in business on weekends, when the club is open to non-members, and charges each adult shooter $7 a day, according to overseer Homer Keith.
"There's nothing around," he said. "A lot of people have joined up with us as a result of the closing."
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I have shot there a bunch and couldn't believe they put that tower there and still allowed shooting. It was at the top of the hill people were shooting into. That whole area is OHV where bikes and quads can rip up the place but theres no where to shoot or hunt jacks with at .22. The only reason it was legal to shoot on the west side of hodge was because like the article said its private land but it was never posted. The east side of Hodge and everything else off 15 is BLM.
used to be the last hunter on my block
At $120.00 a year, my West End Gun Club membership is the best investment I've made in quite a while. 24 hour access, 7 days a week. Now I just need a cheap pig lease.
You can still shoot there - you just have to go further around the hill to the right, or to the other side (left, as you enter the area and leave the pavement) of the valley. Read the signs - they say something like 1000 feet from the tower and a half mile from the road, I think. Go past the signs. Use a rangefinder if you want to go the "minimum." (This is sarcasm....)


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Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing Coverage in the United States
Recent estimates in standard models of wage determination for both unionization and occupational licensing have shown wage effects that are similar across the two institutions. These cross-sectional estimates use specialized data sets, with small sample sizes, for the period 2006 through 2008. Our analysis examines the impact of unions and licensing coverage on wage determination using new data collected on licensing statutes that are then linked to longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) from 1979 to 2010. We develop several approaches, using both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses, to measure the impact of these two labor market institutions on wage determination. Our estimates of the economic returns to union coverage are greater than those for licensing requirements.
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Wind Over Marshdale, by Tracy Krauss | #fictionfridayPosted on Oct 12, 2012 in #fictionfriday, book reviews, Word Obsession (blog) | 1 comment
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Wind Over Marshdale is the story of the struggles within a small prairie town when hidden evil and ancient medicine resurface. Caught in the crossfire, new teacher Rachel Bosworth finds herself in love with two men at once. First, there is Thomas Lone Wolf, a Cree man whose blood lines run back to the days of ancient medicine but who has chosen to live as a Christian and faces prejudice from every side as he tries to expose the truth/ Then there is Con McKinley, local farmer who has to face some demons of his own. Add to the mix a wayward minister seeking anonymity in the obscurity of the town; eccentric twin sisters – one heavily involved in the occult and the other a fundamentalist zealot; and a host of other 'characters' whose lives weave together unexpectedly for the final climax. This suspenseful story is one of human frailty – prejudice, cowardice, jealousy, and greed – magnified by powerful spiritual forces that have remained hidden for centuries, only to be broken in triumph by grace.
Review, by Nona King
To be honest, I didn't know what to expect when I turned on my nookcolor because I did not read the "back cover copy." I find I do that most often when I know that I'm going to read the book no matter what it might say. Having read Play it Again by Tracy earlier this year, I knew her characters would engage me, but I had no idea they would be the end all and be all as to why I would stay enthralled.
Their struggles and their passions, their confusions and agonies about loves and losses and faith all spoke to my heart in a different fashion. As per my usual, I was drawn more by the agonies of Thomas and Con than I was of the female character. In fact, I found myself drawn most strongly to Thomas right off the bat, especially since he was the one who more prominently opened the action of the novel and introduced the possible main story conflict.
Tracy has a compelling hand when it comes to weaving faith and family, as well as those heart-pounding passions, into her characters and her story. I adored Whisper especially. The only two things that kept WOM from getting a solid 5 star rating were *spoiler alert*:
- Rachel's coming to faith. It was simply too sudden. Up until that point it was clear how she regarded the Christian faith as a "load of crap". Then she suddenly prayed for God to save her and accepted Jesus into her heart as savior? If there could have been weaving in of internal questions and heart tugs, her coming to faith would have been a lot easier to swallow.
- Everything was solved at the end and tidied together into a nice, neat package. Life is not this neat, unfortunately. There were even some items solved that I didn't even realize needed solving. That is, they were so minor, if they were left alone it would have contributed more to the realism of life in Marshdale than if they were solved.
These two things did not negate my thorough enjoyment of the characters and the story. I look forward to the next novel by Tracy.
Overall rating: 4 out of 5 stars.
Would I read it again: Yes!
Would I recommend it to others: Yes!
About the Author
Tracy Krauss is an author, playwright, artist, director, and teacher. She grew up in small town Saskatchewan and received her Bachelor of Education Degree in Saskatoon with majors in Art, English and History. She has lived in many interesting places in northern Canada, many of them north of the 60th parallel. She is currently a full time High School teacher of Art, Drama, English and History. She is currently working on several novels and stage plays, and resides with her husband in beautiful Tumbler Ridge, BC.


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This past week I've been making my way through the BBC's Tess of the D'Urbervilles series I'd taped a few years ago. Host Laura Linney's introduction caused me realize anew how huge a deal this work of Hardy's was challenging not only Victorian sexual mores, but literary censorship in general. Tess, blithely unaware of the power of her beauty and magnetism, is at once a symbol for purity, personal moral authority, and vibrant longings to better herself, but also for standing for the natural world, as though her life sprang from the Wessex countryside itself. Hardy loathed the advent of industrialization, and made no bones about it.
Hardy's Tess was first serialized in a magazine in 1891. When he submitted it for publication in novel form, it was rejected by several publishers unless he'd agree to expunge the scenes that might offend more 'delicate sensibilities'. He used the rejections to mount a campaign against censorship; that must have been a bloody battle at the end of the 19th century.
He eventually found a publishing house in London that was owned by Americans, and the book soon became so widely contentious that Linney said that many friendships were broken over strongly-held views on the book.
The issue might best be highlighted by the subtitle Hardy added in some additions: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented.
A short synopsis of the core story:
An Anglican parson had casually, if not ironically, let Tess's itinerant agricultural salesman father know that his family's name, 'Derbyfield', had been eroded over time from its original Norman 'D'Urberville', which name had died out due to a lack of male heirs. 'All that's left is the tombs of your forebears', he said in effect.
Father and Mother, on discovery of the possible connection to some wealthy folks a day's journey away, were insistent that Tess present herself to them as a relative in order that the connection might prove financially advantageous to their large family. They eventually wore down Tess's objections to the scheme when 'the fates' brought near-starvation to the family. Mum's hopes that Tess would marry one of the gentry were in evidence; drunken Father's imaginings weren't so clearly spelled out.
Upon being hired at the Mansion, the libertine son, Alec, engaged in a campaign to seduce Tess; she resisted, but stayed at her job to earn enough money to replace the horse she accidentally killed, so that her lazy sod of a father might return to his work selling farm produce.
One night after some revelry in the nearby market town, Tess refused a ride back to the Manor on Alec's horse, not wanting to encourage him one whit. He followed the returning gaggle of Manor workers, and the besotted and calculating Alec 'rescued' her from a potentially dangerous situation. This time Tess accepted the rescue-ride; along the way, he pretended to get lost in the forest, and encouraged Tess to sleep on the ground while he went off on foot to discover the way home. The mists were heavy when he sneaked back to the sleeping Tess, lay down beside her, kissed and fondled her. The crisis came when he was about to penetrate her; scholars still argue about what occurred. Had she said no, but hesitated and acquiesced at the same time? But penetrate her he did. In the BBC version (I dunno how the Roman Polanski version handled it) she screamed in pain and seeming rejection. Later she clearly told Alec that he had, in effect, raped her. Her devastation was total: she was now a sullied woman, and clearly would never be fit to marry her new love, the liberal idealist Angel Clare whose quest for a pure and virtuous maiden was his highest desire. He could love a woman of a lower class, but only if she were pure enough.
Tess walked all the way home, and found herself with child. The babe died early on, just one more event in her life that caused her to feel that she was being divinely punished for her deeds, even though it might be in that Greek fashion called hamartia, or unwitting sin. Hardy portrayed it differently in different scenes; sometimes with a wider angle that she was suffering karma for her forebears' 'sins of the father'.
For the life of me, I couldn't remember how Hardy portrayed Tess's narrative of the 'sex' with Alec it in his novel, as rape or something more ambiguous. So, I've been looking into it online. Lo and behold, there are no clear answers. Apparently he added and subtracted scenes in different versions.
In one, Alec had drugged her with a potion, rendering her semi-conscious at the time. In another, Alec had asked her to marry him, and staged a faux marriage ceremony with his friend playing the parson.
In the BBC movie, she admitted to her mum that she may have been slightly attracted to him, but railed at her for never having told her of the dangers men could present, nor had she told her anything about sex, so she was utterly unprepared for the encounter. This speech was just after Mum had let her know that she should have been more careful, and thus not ruined her family's chance at material happiness. She even then admitted that protecting her virginity might have killed her chances at marrying a toff. Thanks, Mum.
We can't know what forces or influence caused Hardy to change the story, but clearly he loved Tess above all his characters, and was adamant that she was victimized, if credulous, and that her strong ethical principles were a good measure of her worthiness…and purity.
Part of my small epiphany about the importance of Tess was that in some ways he was the progenitor of the male feminist, creating a character he didn't want to be treated as possession…a fourth-class citizen…without pushing back on the hypocrisy of the socio-religious culture that led to tragedies like Tess's. She was dynamic, direct, and almost flinchingly honest in the face of personal danger when expressing herself would certainly lead to negative repercussions.
Except, of course, for the one most important and key time: when Angel Clare asked her to marry him. Even with her mother's warnings ringing in her ears: 'Never tell a soul about what happened to you, Tess; I know how your silly heart will tell you to be honest'…she did try to tell Angel the story. The letter she wrote him was mislaid and he never read the tale she told him. When she realized on their wedding day that he hadn't forgiven her her 'sins', he didn't know of them. Oh, dear. She struggled with her Better Angels, but sincerely might not have known the difference by then. O, desire for some happiness! They married.
But woe, not long into their honeymoon, Angel confessed some early sexual 'sins' to her; she naturally forgave him everything. In turn, she told him hers, remembering that he'd been adamant that that nothing, nothing she could ever tell him about her past would change his love for her.
He walked out on her of course, simply unable to let go of his parents' and society's condemnation of The Whore of Babylon. Forced sex was not an excuse, of course, and having a child outside marriage was monstrous. That theme made its way inevitably into Tess's consciousness. She wouldn't hear from Angel again for more than a year, and was too proud to appeal to his family for the help he had advised her to seek, had she the need.
She spent that year and longer working for another monster, but each time Alec showed up to find her to 'make her his own', having figured out that he desired her above all others, she sent him away, not wanting to 'become his creature', no matter what riches he offered her and her family. But there came a point when she rejoined her family as her father lay dying, and finally died, that the family was evicted from their cottage, and were made homeless.
Alec showed up; she ordered him away again, but Mum essentially sold her to him. Tess finally gave in. When she discovered what her mum had done she was standing at the barred gate holding one of her D'Urberville ancestors in the tomb the parson had earlier foreshadowed to her father. "Why am I on this side of these bars?" she cried to the sarcophagus. The sarcophagus didn't answer.
The rest of the novel leads the reader along with hopes and near misses at more than a few moments of transitory happiness for Tess; I won't tell you the ending in case you want to read or watch the story.
But I will clip a few bits of James A. W. Heffernan's paper, "Cruel Persuasion": Seduction, Temptation, and Agency in Hardy's Tess". His comparisons and Hardy's allusions to Milton's Paradies Lost were very interesting, as were his footnotes, some of which indicated that Tess was a subject of legal analysis of rape, and how important Tess's mental state was to any verdict.
"[Academic critic Ellen] Rooney's probing analysis of rape and seduction in Tess deserves close scrutiny by anyone who would write on this topic. But close scrutiny of the novel itself does not fully confirm her conclusions. On the contrary, it shows that Hardy can and does represent Tess as both a desiring and speaking subject, that he endows her with agency, that she explicitly considers Alec her seducer, and that as such he is far more dangerous to her than he would be as a rapist. Lurking plainly as well as mythically behind Alec is the figure of Milton's Satan. Alec tempts Tess as Satan tempts Eve, and in spite of the enormous differences between Tess and Paradise Lost, between a world supervised by Providence and a world abandoned by it, Hardy's repeated references to the Book of Genesis and to Milton's poem prompt us to consider carefully the relation between what Tess wants and what she is led to desire, what she is and what she does. For Tess, I contend, is an agent, a heroine endowed with the power to act and choose and with the tragic power to fall — even as her purity, unlike Eve's innocence, survives.
Like many other critics of Tess, Rooney makes the heroine's purity depend on her passivity, her status as the helpless victim of rape. According to Catherine McKinnon*, whose essay on feminist jurisprudence serves as Rooney's point of departure, "objective" definitions of what constitutes rape in the eyes of the law cannot truly distinguish between rape and intercourse. A "feminist distinction" between the two, McKinnon argues, lies "in the meaning of the act from women's point of view."3 Applying this principle, Rooney argues that we cannot adequately distinguish rape from seduction by invoking the difference between equivocal and unequivocal resistance. If seduction entails complicity, and "complicity is reduced to (feminine) acquiescence," then "the passive object of seduction repeats the passive object of rape" (Rooney, p. 93). As Rooney notes, then, McKinnon herself "preserves the purity of women by seeing them as objects; sexuality is entirely the work of men and sexual women wholly victims. The (desiring) feminine subject does not exist."
All four episodes are on youtube; this is the scene in the Glade:
At any rate, I'd like to thank Thomas Hardy for rating his Tess, and kicking open the door on sexist and tragedy-producing sexual mores in Victorian England. Some critics claim that it was a bit by way of penance for the way he'd treated other female characters in earlier novels. It might have been so, but this was good penance, imo.
* Catherine McKinnon, whose essay on feminist jurisprudence serves as Rooney's point of departure, "objective" definitions of what constitutes rape in the eyes of the law cannot truly distinguish between rape and intercourse. A "feminist distinction" between the two, McKinnon argues, lies "in the meaning of the act from women's point of view."
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[Solved]How do you unproject with OpenTK?Posted Wednesday, 9 July, 2014 - 13:01 by winterhell in
I googled this but the answers did not help. It used to work with SlimDX and XNA but not here.
Matrix4 inverted = OpenTK.Matrix4.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView(0.785, 1, 0.1f, 640).Inverted(); Vector4 vec = new Vector4(-1, 0, 1, 1); vec = Vector4.Transform(vec, inverted);
Why is the unprojected X coordinate -0.41 instead of -1?
How do I get a point that lies on the front plane? If that works correctly I'll be able to take it from there.
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Freshman Devin Thomas had a season-high 25 points, 14 rebounds and four blocks to help Wake Forest upset No. 18 North Carolina State 86-84.
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The Wolfpack led by 16 points in the first half and 12 at halftime, only to see the Demon Deacons rally and push ahead to their own 10-point lead.
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Lawis Everett Carroll died Saturday at his home near Milfay, Oklahoma. He was 86.
Mr. Carroll was born April 18, 1913, near Atoka.
He had lived most his life in the Milfay area and was a farmer and oilfield pipeliner.
He married Wilma Deming in Bristow on December 11, 1937.
Survivors include his wife, Wilma Carroll, of the home; sons, Howard Carroll and David Carroll, both of Stroud; daughter and son-in-law, Vaughnie and Larry Bradley, Tulsa; sister, Helen Hampton and Hazel Moore, both of Wasco, California; two grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.
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> > Perhaps I'm not understanding what a vertex cover is. I thought a
> > vertex cover was just the set of all vertices which are incident to
> > edges in E. I guess I'll have to research what a vertex cover is in
> > more detail.
> Let V' be a subset of V. V' is a vertex cover if it satisfies the
> following test:
> for each v in V'
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> end if
> end for
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> Would this be correct?
Hi eKo1,
The algorithm you mentioned for a vertex cover is right.
Here is my full new algorithm that can get minimum vertex cover:
To make discussion simpler, we assume that every vertex has a positive
integer, starting with 1 to n and input cells have the following
(edge count, edge starting vertex, edge ending vertexes).
For example vertex 1 has edges: (1, 2), (1, 3), (1, 4), then its input
cell has the following representation: (3, 1, 2, 3, 4). Cell length
dependent on the cell's degree, or the number of edges which is
incident on the cell.
Here is new full algorithm to get minimum vertex cover:
1. Count = 0.
2. If input cell is empty, algorithm ends, otherwise
Sort the input cell serials based on count in increasing order.
3. for all vertexes with edge count = 1, do following:
a. Set original starting vertex;
b. Count++;
c. Print out its edge ending vertex #; (only one)
d. Delete its input cell;
e. In the edge ending vertex cell, do the followings:
a. delete the original starting vertex in edge ending
vertexes area;
b. edge count is decreased by 1;
c. if edge count = 1, set current ending vertex as new
original starting vertex and go to b.
d. if edge count = 0, delete the cell;
4. If input cell is empty, algorithm ends, otherwise
sort the input cell serials based on count in decreasing order.
5. If there is only one cell that has the largest degree, select the
and go to 6. If there are more than one cell that have the equal
largest degree, select the cell that has not been the end vertex
of the last selected cell with the largest degree, or select any of
if all of them have have been the end vertexes of last selected cell
with the largest degree.
6. a. Delete its input cell;
b. clear the last setting of LargestDegreeEndVertexFlag,
c. for all edge ending vertex cells, do the followings:
a. delete the original starting vertex in edge ending
vertexes area;
b. edge count is decreased by 1;
c. set new LargestDegreeEndVertexFlag
and go to 2.
Why are there 2-4 procedures:
See examples.
When the algorithm reaches procedure 5, it has output:
2, 4, 6 and Count = 3.
Output: 2, 4, 6 and 8 and Count = 4.
The reason is, no matter what other parts of graph are,
the vertex outputs must include all its branch end terminal.
Now I give a explanation to the procedure 5-6:
5-6: when there are no claws, delete the cell with largest degree;
but at the same time avoid to use the cells that are the end vertexes
of last select cell with largest degree.
Example for largest cell selection:
(5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) (vertex 1 has 5 edges)
(5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1) (vertex 2 has 5 edges)
(4, 7, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) (vertex 7 has 4 edges)
step 1: It may select vertex 1 or 2; it selects 1:
(5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1) --> (4, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)+
step 2:
(4, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)+
(4, 7, 2, 3, 4, 5)
'+' indicates it was an ending vertex of last selection vertex with
largest degree.
Both have count = 4, but (4, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)+ was connected to
the last selection vertex 1, so it should select (4, 7, 2, 3, 4, 5).
This method is used to avoid both vertexes on one edge are selected
to create a situation that would increase chance of duplicate vertex
Manually I tried more than 20 graphs and get the right answers for
every graph.
Do you have any smart tips?
If you can find a graph that fails the algorithm, please let me know.
Thank you.


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If you are one of those people who buys frozen lasagna, because you think making it is too much work, this recipe is for you. It is so easy and so yummy...you will not be disappointed.1 lb. lean ground beef
1 jar spaghetti sauce
1 lb. cottage cheese
1 cup sour cream
18 slices of mozzarella cheese
1 cup shredded parmesan cheese
8 lasagna noodles (oven ready)
*Brown the ground beef. Add the spaghetti sauce. Heat it through and set on low. Combine cottage cheese and sour cream in a bowl. Mix well. Put a little of the meat sauce in the bottom of a 9X13 pan. (Enough to cover bottom). Then put 4 of the noodles. Spread half of the cottage cheese mixture on top. Layer 6 slices of mozarella. Put half of remaining meat sauce. Sprinkle half of the parmesan. Make one more layer, starting with noodles. Top with remaining mozzarella. Cover with foil at bake for 1 hour at 350. Remove foil and bake for 15 more minutes.


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A conversation on Gmail is almost inevitable these days, considering the novelty of the service and, more importantly, the fact that over the past few weeks, the powers that be at Googleplex have allowed users to invite more of their friends to join in. Almost everyone on the street seems to flaunt a Gigabyte account. But you, loyal reader, shouldn't identify yourself as a recent user. To flaunt your tech-savvyness you must claim to be an experienced user, using it since it was launched in April, this year.
Start off by claiming that you happen to know a few Google employees, who were the first to send out invites and then go on to explain that subsequently a few "active" bloggers (whatever that adjective implies) were invited by Google, and it's only later that secondary users got the mandate to distribute these invites.


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- Exporting graphics from Photoshop
- Creating the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files
- Positioning elements with CSS
- Using the Roundabout plug-in
- Activating the carousel callback
- Detecting the image in focus
- Adding the final touches
Skill Level Intermediate
The next rule we are going to create is going to be for the actual carousel itself, and this is actually going to be an ID. So let's go over to the CSS Styles panel, create a new rule. The Type is going to be an ID, and we are going to call this carousel and ID start with the pound sign. Let's choose OK. The Properties inside of here, under the Box settings, we are going to choose 600 wide, 300 pixels tall. Let's uncheck Same for all for Margin, and let's choose 0 on the Top, Auto on the Right, 0 on the Bottom, and Auto on the Left. Then click OK.
Let's get our cursor after the word content inside of the default text for the carousel_container. Let's come up to Layout in the Insert panel, insert a div, and under ID, let's come down and choose carousel, then click OK. Next, we are going to create a rule for the images that are going to be inside of the carousel. Let's create a new rule. This is going to be a compound rule, and this is going to be carousel img. We are going to target all of the images that are going to be inside of the carousel. In this case, this is going to be all of the teapot graphics. So pound, carousel image, choose Ok.
What we are going to do here, come down to the Box properties. For the Width we are going to set these to 300. Height is going to be set to 225. And next we are going to come down to Extensions, and under Cursor, we are going to type pointer, then choose OK. This is going to make sure that all of the teapot graphics will give you a pointer cursor, indicating to the user that you can actually click on individual images inside the carousel. And we need to bring in two additional graphics inside of the carousel container but not inside of the carousel ID.
So let's get our cursor after the letter E in here inside of the default text for carousel container. Let's come up to the Common tab. Let's choose image. Let's bring in our left and right arrows. So first let's bring in the arrow that points to the left. Click Choose. For Alternate text, we can just type arrow left. Let's choose OK. Next let's select the graphic. Hit your right arrow to make sure that your cursor is still inside of the carousel_container div.
Let's come up and insert our second graphic. Let's choose arrow right, click Choose, type arrow right for the alternate text then click OK. Once we have our arrows in place, let's come in here and select the default text for the carousel_container, and at the top, where it says content. So now, if we take a look at the source code, we should see that we have our div called carousel_container, and inside of there we have an ID called carousel.
And I am going to format the two images in here as well a little bit. So we can see we have the ID carousel and the two images for the right and left leaves inside of that container that we just created. And again, these four outermost items are still inside of our overall my_carousel container. Let's switch back to Design view, and let's create one more class. Let's go over to our CSS panel, CSS rules. We are going to create one more ID. This is going to be captions. Choose OK.
We are not going to set any properties for captions. We just want to have that container with that ID. Let's click OK, and let's come down inside of the default text for captain_container Goes Here. Let's come up to Layout in the Insert panel, insert a div. Under ID, we are going to choose caption, then say OK. Then lastly, let's come in here and get rid of the default text for the captain_container. Now we have these two IDs in place. The caption IDs are going to target the individual captions for the rotated item in the carousel, and the carousel itself is where we are going to take all the teapot images and have the Roundabout plug-in position these in the circle.
Now that we have all of the items and containers in place, in the next movie we will style the individual arrows and the leaves to position them properly before we can actually start writing our scripts.


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Quesion 1
I want to post something from another site. When I do do this, it automatically goes to my home page then to my other page. Example, if I was posting a you tube video and wanted it strictly under my "Video" section of my website, it would go to my "home" page then my "video" page. I want it directly to the "video page" only...how do I do that?
Question 2
How do I write an article for my home page and then after 50 some words..have "to continue reading article..."and then have the user go directly to my page that it is listed fully on? Example, I am writing a blog about a basketball player being traded. I write only a few short words in my story and then have the reader follow a link to another page on my website, to finish the story. Going from the home page to my "NBA Basketball" How do I do this?
Which plug in do I use?????????


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I went he promised the whole world to me talking about how much money Im going to make and then he setup a 2nd interview with this young kid or rep I should say. I went to bestbuy to sell direct tv to people it was hard sale evey one said no thanks or not interested and then the rep breaks down the pay with me. Says you have to sell 3 setups or installs thats $120 a pop, thats makes $360 and I was promised 11 an hour so the company or the owner is going to land me the 80 bucks so that I can pay my bills. SO I asked what if I don't sell anything he said you would still get 440 week but when you sell 7 installs you would pay back the owner name Mark.
I was like bro this is a scam the rep keep saying no its good work and its good pay. I was like how much did you sell this week he said none so far mind you its friday already end of the week poor kid been standing on his feet for 8 hours a day with no pay. I told him that Im not going to work here he said good choice because I am looking for job because Im already in debet with the owner and he put me on the chopping block.
Don't even waste your time.
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Kyle Busch Wins 1st NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship At Miami
Kyle Busch won NASCAR's 2015 Sprint Cup Series championship by capturing the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday.
Kyle Busch won NASCAR's 2015 Sprint Cup Series championship by capturing the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday.
Jeff Gordon avoided a controversial late wreck and won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Goody's Headache Relief Shots 500 at Martinsville Speedway in Tennessee on Sunday.
Ah, Halloween: the one time of year when it's completely appropriate to scare the fecal matter out of loved ones and friends. If your goal is to make sure children can't sleep at night, a disturbing urban legend is just the ammunition you need.
Especially around Halloween, most of us enjoy a good old-fashioned "it happened to a friend of a friend" urban legend that gives us a bit of a fright. Some of these tales may have even really happened. Well, kind of.
Joey Logano withstood a chaotic finish to win his third straight race, capturing NASCAR's CampingWorld.com 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama on Sunday afternoon.
Only by knowing the statistics of breast cancer will we be able to better arm ourselves against it.
Joey Logano spun Matt Kenseth with less than 10 laps left and hung on to win his second straight NASCAR Chase race by capturing the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway on Sunday.
Apparently it's quite simple: exercise reduces a woman's risk of breast cancer.


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Their policy states that they "...keep the same look and feel of the arrangement, using flowers of greater or equal value." Carnations are not the same look and feel of the arrangement I ordered and certainly not even close to the same value.
I have submitted several complaints to the company, with no response.
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Christoph Krebs wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried to install opensolaris on a Sun Blade 100, as I tried to boot
> from cdrom the following errormessage appeared:
> bad magic number in cd label
> these are the things I have already tried:
> - burn original iso with nero on a windows pc
> - copy data of cd to hd and rename the cd label
> - burn bootable cd with nero
> - burn with a mac
> - replaced the cdrom
> - burn with alcohol120
> is there anything else I can do???
> Many thanks
> Marcel
You must write the iso file as an *image*, and not try to put the file
as a piece of data on a CD. The iso image will be bootable - it is not
something you should try to set in your software. The fact you are
burned it as a bootable cd indicates to me that you have done it
incorrectly, as you cant do that with an iso image.
I don't know your software type, but it should have some sort of
faciltiy to burn an image, and one option will be a file ending in .iso.


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Look Voyages ›
Vacances Transat ›
Canadian Affair ›
Transat ›
Air Transat ›
Transat A.T. Inc. became one of the largest international tour operators by implementing a vertical integration strategy that, although not unique, places the organization among select companies in North America. Transat has sales of approximately $3.5 billion, driven by dynamic internal growth as well as strategic acquisitions in Canada and many other countries.
Transat came into being in the early 1980s when a handful of passionate people, led by Jean-Marc Eustache, Lina De Cesare and Philippe Sureau, created Trafic Voyages, a wholesaler specializing in travel from Quebec to France.
In 1987, the Company made a great leap with the adoption of a forward-looking vision focused on growth and vertical integration. The Company, which was then renamed Transat, was listed on the stock exchange through an IPO that generated $8.25 million. The Company used the proceeds to establish its own airline, Air Transat, and to embark into a series of acquisitions in order to solidify its position as an outgoing tour operator in Canada and France, as well as to develop new destination markets. Transat reported modest sales of $23 million at the close of its first fiscal year on October 31, 1987.
From acquisition to acquisition, Transat expanded across Canada and continued to develop its sun destinations as well as routes from Canada to Europe and many other countries. The Company quickly became the uncontested leader in sun destinations and offered unparalleled services to Europe. It also became the leader in tourist travel from European countries to Canada and offers a wide range of both short- and long-haul destination countries and holiday options departing from France.
In 1988, Transat considerably expanded its presence in retail distribution with the acquisition of an interest in the franchisor Consultour. Over the years, it also broke into the airport groundhandling services, and also became the largest incoming tour operator in Canada with the acquisition of Jonview Canada.
The Company had broken into the French market very early on with Vacances Transat (France), the largest tour operator offering travel to Canada, and soon expanded within France, the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. It acquired French tour operator Look Voyages in 1996, Greek incoming tour operator Tourgreece in 2001, British tour operator Canadian Affair in 2006 and French tour operator Amplitude Internationale, specializing in travel to Tunisia, in 2007. At its destinations, the Company opened offices in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Florida in order to be able to provide its customers with complementary services. In 2007, Transat created a 1,600-room joint venture with the major Spanish chain H10 Hotels in Mexico and the Dominican Republic.
In Canada, Transat now has some 500 travel agencies and is the largest travel agency network since the acquisition of the Thomas Cook agencies in 2006. Brands include Transat Travel, Club Voyages, Voyages en Liberté, Marlin Travel and TravelPlus.
With thousands of tourism service providers in some 60 countries (including about 50 airlines and 1,500 hotels) and more than 5,000 employees catering to the approximately 3 million people who travel every year, Transat is now one of the leaders in the international tourism industry.


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Issue No.04 - July/August (2001 vol.16)
pp: 18-26
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/5254.941354

This article focuses on two major aspects of equilibrium market design: management of discontinuous demand/supply curves, and computational design of markets of huge size with relatively short time frames. The authors introduce a mechanism, ConFAst, for highly dynamic equilibrium markets that allows for huge numbers of active participants in the market, even if they have discontinuous demand/supply curves. The computational efficiency of the approach enables usage also in markets with short time frames. The authors argue that markets based on ConFAst are attractive in many application domains, and that it can improve the efficiency of for example energy systems significantly.

Per Carlsson, Fredrik Ygge, Arne Andersson, "Extending Equilibrium Markets", IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol.16, no. 4, pp. 18-26, July/August 2001, doi:10.1109/5254.941354


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Abbey Players – Everyone is welcome to join us!
Participation in the Abbey Players is open to any interested member of the Belmont Abbey College community, and students, faculty, staff and monks regularly appear together. In addition, we function as the Belmont Community Theatre, which brings in theatre artists from the surrounding Metrolina area. Our audiences are drawn from both Gaston County and Charlotte/Mecklenburg. Actors audition for roles. Audition notices appear both on-campus, and in the Gaston Gazette and Charlotte Observer, and are open to all.
The Abbey Players of Belmont Abbey College were founded in 1883, and have been an integral part of campus life for over a century. At present, the theatre produces six shows a year, representing a wide repertoire of drama, comedy and musicals. Recent notable productions have included Michael Frayn's Copenhagen , Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, Anne Nelson's The Guys and Kaufman and Ferber's The Royal Family. In addition, the Players present The Abbey Shakespeare Series, an ongoing project dedicated to producing each of William Shakespeare's plays. We recently concluded the fifteenth play as part of this series, The Taming of the Shrew.
In addition to performance opportunities, the Abbey Players welcomes anyone interested in technical work. Under the direction of Gary Sivak (B.F.A., UNC-Charlotte), technicians build sets, design and hang light/sound plots, and run shows through state-of-the-art instruments. Technicians trained by the Abbey Players have been accepted into M.F.A. programs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro based upon the strengths of their portfolios alone, since Belmont Abbey College does offers a theatre minor, and not a bachelor's degree. Student actors at Belmont Abbey College have been accepted into programs at such diverse institutions as the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and the North Carolina School of the Arts.
If you are interested in the Abbey Player award please contact Simon Donoghue by March 1.


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A court in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, has allowed former parliament speaker Akmatbek Keldibekov, who is on trial for corruption, to receive urgent medical treatment abroad.
The Birinchi Mai District Court ruled on August 1 that Keldibekov can be transferred from pretrial detention to house arrest and travel to Germany for treatment on condition that he will return for trial later.
Keldibekov's trial has been postponed three times this year after he failed to appear in court allegedly due to his health condition.
A member of the opposition Ata-Jurt (Fatherland) party, Keldibekov is charged with abuse of office and financial crimes committed while he ran the State Social Fund and Tax Service.
He served as parliament speaker between 2010 and 2011.
Keldibekov's supporters have staged several public protests since his arrest in November, demanding his immediate release.
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MOVIES: Cinema en tu Idioma series offers Latino films
The Cinema en tu Idioma film series once again offers respected films for fans of Latino cinema. The series is the popular annual "in-between" film offerings before the annual San Diego Latino Film Festival in the spring. The 12th annual Cinema en tu Idioma series opens Friday and continues through Aug. 11 at UltraStar Mission Valley Cinemas at Hazard Center.
"We want to provide a space for local audiences from all backgrounds to experience great independent films, and Cinema en tu Idioma Series and annual San Diego Latino Film Festival provide an important outlet for general audiences to experience a different and entertaining style of cinema not being offered at other outlets," said San Diego Media Arts Center director Ethan Van Thillo, who also directs the annual San Diego Latino Film Festival. "Cinema en tu Idioma shows that there is an audience for Latino and Spanish-speaking films. The series has been successful due in part to the need for local Latino audiences to see themselves and their cultures represented on the big screen."
Screenings include:
"Without Men" -- In this offbeat comedy, the women of a secluded Latin-American village are left to rebuild their society after all of the men are recruited by a bumbling group of guerrillas. Starring Eva Longoria, Kate del Castillo, Monica Huerta and Paul Rodriguez.
"All She Can" -- (formerly "Benavides Born"): Luz Garcia, a high school senior in a forgotten Texas town, wants something different than the options awaiting her after graduation. She's earned a ticket out with admission to the University of Texas at Austin, but she can't afford to go. Her one shot is a scholarship for winning the State Powerlifting Championship.
"DiDi Hollywood" -- Tired of bartending at nightclubs, aspiring actress Diana Diaz travels to Miami, then Los Angeles, to chase her dreams of becoming a Hollywood star, without realizing that fame sometimes arrives with a life-changing price. Starring Ana de la Reguera, Peter Coyote and Elsa Pataky.
"Blue Eyes" -- Before his compulsory retirement, an airport's chief immigration officer detains a group of Latin Americans and exposes them to a series of humiliating situations. Years later, after serving a lengthy prison term and filled with guilt, Marshall goes to Brazil in search of the victim's daughter.
"Where the Road Meets the Sun" -- The lives of four men intersect at a rundown Hollywood hotel. Starring Elsa Pataky and Eric Mabius ("Ugly Betty").
"Forged" -- An ex-thug and his son attempt to find a way to move past impossible circumstances to forge a bond that has been forever broken by the murder of the child's mother. This film was the 2010 New York International Latino Film Festival Winner.
The films will screen in repertory for one-week only. Visit www.sdlatinofilm.com for the complete schedule and showtimes. Tickets are $10 for general admission; $8 for students, seniors and Media Arts Center San Diego members. Individual tickets can be purchased prior to each screening at the box office. For more information call 619-230-1938.


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August 27, 2016
Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, will make a campaign stop in the Springs Monday morning.
She will be at the Carriage House on Colorado College on Cascade, just south of Uintah.
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