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Okay, I know that many of you are watching this telenovela with me, and the only thing more fun than the telenovela itself, is talking about what happened as if these people aren't fictional but are actually our vecinos or something.
I love how fast-paced Los Herederos del Monte is. We've had a taste of almost everything: love, lust, sex, infidelity, a brawl, a cat fight, a car crash, drunkenness, confusion about a baby's Daddy, vandalism, an attempted suicide…
Híjole! That's just in the first 2 weeks!
After last night's episode, here is where I'm at:
Juan es un completo imbécil. At this point, he and Paula deserve each other. (By the way, that lake they keep swimming naked in doesn't look very clean. I hope they don't get a rash…and when I say "I hope they don't," I actually mean "I hope they do.")
Julieta should just go with Pedro. He's sort of boring, (though less so when drunk), but he loves her. Better to pick a man who loves you than chase a man who doesn't. She could learn to love him, verdad?
Gaspar and Lupe… they are the cutest couple. Lupe is a fool and a Daddy's girl for not running away with him. Also, I like Gaspar even more since he lent Paula's mother the car with the faulty steering. Jajaja…. By the way, did anyone notice the money he pulled out of his pocket at Lupe's restaurant? Those were U.S. dollars. I wonder if this was a production mistake, or are dollars really used more than pesos? Does Gaspar have a primo working in the United States sending him remesas? jijiji…
Paula is getting more hysterical and ridiculous with each episode. When someone destroyed her office and she cut her hand, tell me how it is that tripping on a wrinkle in the carpet caused her to pass out like that? Certainly it wasn't loss of blood from that little cut on her hand? Very silly…. Also, when she told Gaspar, "For trying to kill my mother, get out of my house" – what was with the three snaps of her fingers? It was just weird.
Lucas is growing on me. Poor kid. I hope he gets over his crush on Paula and falls in love with Julieta's youngest sister.
Character I'm most sympathetic towards right now: Efraín … I can't believe Beatriz told him she doesn't love him anymore. Heart breaking.
Favorite scene so far: José and his brothers changing baby Simón's diaper. Qué chistoso.
Subplot I'm bored with: The whole fiasco between Julieta's parents and Paula's mother. I can't stand the cheesy music during these scenes. (Of course, these are Carlos's favorite parts.)
Random thing you may not know: The horses on the show are owned by Vicente Fernandez Jr. in real life.
Real chisme: Apparently Mario Cimarro, the actor who plays Juan, didn't want to be slapped and refused to do a scene as written. (source)
Music: I've noticed there are two songs they switch between. One is "Desde que Estás Aquí" by Paola Vargas and David Castro. The second one is "Me Cuesta Caro Quererte" by Marco Flores.
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Dominican Fiesta Hotel and Casino is set in one of the most elegant and relaxed areas of Santo Domingo, opposite the Parque el Mirador. Guests will enjoy a modern, luxurious establishment with all the facilities necessary for an unforgettable stay, whether for pleasure or business.
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Santo Domingo is a very nice city in the wonderful country of DR, I enjoyed my stay here. I have lots of reasons where I loved this place. The location is like the best thing about this place because it is close to a large park. In the area, you will see lots of tall buildings and from the park; you will enjoy the sea view as well. The only problem I had with the location is the fact that it is hard to get bus or cab to your destination but its okay. Basically, my advice is that this place is better for business travels or you stay few days and you are off. As much as I like this hotel, I wouldn't want to stay for my long vacation, just business meetings and I am off. The buffet restaurant is nice, it has a lot of options, the food is always tasty and warm and the area is clean. The staff working at the buffet is efficient and attentive, they get you orders right. The staff generally here is all attentive; they listen and get what you asked for right the first time especially the front desk staff. The rooms had a/c, hot water was available, cable was working with the TV. The hotel is decent and has good beds and bed covers that are clean to make you sleep comfortably at night. The area around the hotel and the hotel itself is safe, that's the most important thing.
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I stayed at this hotel 13 years ago on business and booked it for this trip based on that stay. My how far it has fallen.
We stayed on the executive floor (piso 7) after an upsell at check in which I fell for. For an extra 25 USD a night, you get access to the 8th floor happy hour (5 to 7pm) and continental breakfast there too. I only went twice. Once there was one other guy smoking a cigar in the smoking room, and once there was a guy talking on his phone. Not a very "happy" hour if you ask me. I went to go on my last night, but the 8th floor was closed off for a private event (without notice to the guests who paid for access to it). Don't waste your money.
The breakfast buffet on the Main floor served the same bland 6 hot items every day. I love dominican food, but the Mangu here was almost like soup one day, and needed to be cut with a knife the next. Our room was very dated, musty smelling (dehumidifier in the hallway throughout our stay) bathroom fixtures poorly fitted, stained and threadbare carpeting, old furniture, not even a cheap flatscreen TV...an old tube TV...amazing.
This is not a reflection on Santo Domingo, or the Dominican Republic, or her people who I love (even married one), it is just this hotel. I have stayed in dozens of places in the DR and enjoyed all of them in different ways, but this hotel will never see another dollar out of my wallet.
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7th floor
normal check in process, but slow
This is where the upsell happens...don't do it.
Our room was dated, old furniture, old tv, unreliable wifi and smelled musty.
I can't comment on other rooms, or other floors. Your room key also operates the elevator and will only allow you to go to the floor your room is on.
Restaurants and Bars:
Only had the breakfast buffet which was bland and the selection never varied from day to day on my 4 night visit
Pool looked nice, but I didn't use it
Other Comments:
There are way better options than this property.
They are in the middle of litigation with local property owners now trying to build a new tower addition to the hotel. Perhaps that is why they aren't seeming to place any real effort to improve the original hotel, that's just my guess

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Coyle & Polsky: Acqui-hiring
John Coyle (North Carolina) & Gregg D. Polsky (North Carolina), Acqui-hiring:
Google, Facebook, Zynga, and other prominent technology companies in Silicon Valley are buying start-up companies at a brisk pace. In many of these transactions, the buyer has little interest in acquiring the start-up's projects or assets. Instead, the buyer's primary motivation is to hire some or all of the start-up's software engineers. These so-called "acqui-hires" represent a novel -- and increasingly common -- tool by which the largest and most successful technology companies in the world satisfy their intense demand for engineering talent.
To date, the acqui-hire has attracted no attention in the academic or professional legal literature. This Article aspires to fill this gap. Drawing on interviews with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, start-up investors, buyer representatives, and lawyers, we offer the first formal description of the acqui-hire. In so doing, we seek to enrich the understanding of those already acquainted with the acqui-hire while also providing a comprehensive account of this transaction structure to the uninitiated.
The Article also identifies -- and seeks to solve -- a significant puzzle stemming from the acqui-hire phenomenon. If a large technology company wants to hire a team of software engineers, why go to all of the trouble and expense of acquiring the company that currently employs them? Why not simply hire away the individuals that it wants? We argue that the solution to the puzzle lies primarily in the way that social norms and the threat of informal sanctions shape the behavior of Silicon Valley software engineers. Although California law strongly supports the principle of employee mobility, social norms lead many engineers to pursue acqui-hires in lieu of defecting. We buttress this norms-based account with insights from prospect theory and tax law to show that the unique structure of the acqui-hire reduces its perceived and actual costs, which in turn promotes these transactions.
The Article then considers the most significant economic issue common to all acqui-hires: how to allocate the buyer's aggregate purchase price between the software engineers and the start-up's outside investors. We first predict that a money-back-for-the-investors norm will eventually develop and that this norm will drive allocation determinations. We then propose several contractual innovations that could be used in an attempt to augment the investors' allocations in acqui-hires.


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China's Shanqin Bay
It's new, stunning and fundamentally different from the country's 500 or so other courses.
The first time golf course architect Bill Coore walked this 400-acre site overlooking the South China Sea, he hardly said a word. Nothing unusual there, as he tends to take his time before deciding whether a piece of land will work. The next day, after another 12 hours traversing the hills, woodland, sand dunes, marsh and beachfront of the abandoned army base that sat here, he asked the exhausted land-development-company representative who accompanied him whether the firm could secure access along the water.
Luckily, chairman Jun Wang of CITIC, the state-owned China International Trust and Investment Co., is an avid, world-traveled golfer and he understood what was at stake. They could get golf along the shore. And with that, the deal was sealed. Coore and his design partner, Ben Crenshaw, would do their first Asian golf course.
CITIC Shanqin Bay Golf Club is stunning. It occupies rolling land that brushes up against pineapple plantations and rocky outcrop. Along the way, it takes golfers on a breathless walk across wide-open fields, along manmade lakes, through reclaimed military encampments and down to the coast. Two stirring holes, the par-3 eighth and the par-4 17th, are perched right on the beach.
The par-71 layout, 6,901 yards from the back, conveys a native look with exposure to the windswept elements and salty air. The feel—part Kapalua-Plantation, part Cypress Point—contrasts fundamentally with the formal culture and hyper-manicured presentation of the 500 or so other golf courses in China. This one looks as if it's been there for a century. In fact, it opened late in 2012.
The starkly modern clubhouse looks out at one of the most engaging final stretches that Coore and Crenshaw have ever come up with: three short par-4s, two of them seemingly drivable, hanging out over the water's edge. There are powerful contrasting elements at work here at this ultra-luxurious private club: an enthusiastic core of caddies; a restaurant-quality halfway house for each nine; a spa-like locker room; and a golf course whose 360-degree IMAX-worthy views make you feel as if you're in another world.
Membership is by invitation only; outside play is at the club's discretion.
CITIC Shanqin Bay Golf Club, Longgun, Wanning City, Hainan, People's Republic of China. For information, call 86-898-6235-9888 or visit shanqinbay.com
Haikou Melian International (HAK) is 78 miles north of Shanqin Bay and has an 11,800-foot runway. Sanya Phoenix International (SYX) is 110 miles southwest and has an 11,155-foot runway.
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Crime Scene Investigation: The Premeditated Assault On the Prime Mortgage
With the Romney/Ryan ticket now in place, the debate moves to fundamental questions about the economy. The big issue which Governor Romney continues to focus on is the contrast between the government-centered society embraced by President Obama, and the Romney/Ryan vision for a society centered on freedom of choice, and free markets.
When it comes to a government centered society and its deleterious consequences, our Government Mortgage Complex is the undisputed poster child. There has been no greater economic failure than the collapse of the housing market due to decades of government intervention and crony capitalism.
Voters need to be reminded about how this disaster came about. It began with the premeditated assault on high-quality, credit-worthy prime mortgages. The perpetrators were Fannie Mae, community groups, and Congress, each of which had the means, motive and opportunity for undertaking this assault.
As early as 1991, community activist Gale Cincotta, was laying the path for undertaking such an assault in her testimony before the Senate Banking Committee. "Lenders will respond to the most conservative standards unless [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] are aggressive and convincing in their efforts to expand historically narrow underwriting," she stressed.
Using Fannie and Freddie as the means to expand underwriting standards caused an immediate problem for existing subprime lenders and insurers. In 1992, about 14% of new mortgages had impaired or subprime credit with a FICO credit score below 660. Virtually all these borrowers were already served by private subprime lenders or those using FHA insurance. As Fannie and Freddie expanded into subprime, something had to give-subprime lenders would have to abandon the field or move further out the risk curve. They chose the latter, with the result that both prime and subprime lending got into much more risky loans.
The motives of Fannie, community groups, and Congress were clear. Fannie wished to protect its valuable federal charter by using trillions of dollars in flexible loans to woo and capture its regulator: Congress. Community groups like ACORN relied on flexible lending to create multiple revenue streams from banks, lenders, Fannie and Freddie, HUD, and others, since they made money from counseling homebuyers, assisting in loan originations, and counseling defaulting borrowers. Members of Congress viewed the many trillions of dollars in flexible lending announced by Fannie and Freddie as a superior form of pork to help them get reelected. It was off-budget, costless, and seemingly inexhaustible. This virtue was extolled by President Clinton in 1995: "Our home ownership strategy will not cost the taxpayers one extra cent."
The opportunity was provided for by federal legislation and initiatives. While there were many, three from the 1990s bear special mention. The first was the ironically named "Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992." At the behest of ACORN and other community advocacy groups and with the support of Fannie Mae, Congress imposed affordable housing (AH) mandates on Fannie and Freddie. HUD was established as their AH mission regulator. Within 18 months after passage of the 1992 Act, Jim Johnson. Fannie's chairman committed the company to "transforming the housing finance system" and vowed to "provide $1 trillion in targeted lending."
This was followed in 1995 by President Clinton's National Homeownership Strategy in which HUD formalized and greatly expanded a long-standing policy goal: the reduction of down payments. It asked "[l]ending institutions, secondary market investors, mortgage insurers, and other members of the partnership [to] work collaboratively to reduce homebuyer down payment requirements."
Also in 1995, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations were revised to be more quantitative and outcome based. Banks were now measured on their use of "innovative and flexible" lending standards, and their performance was compared to market competitors. As pointed out by Fed Chairman Bernanke in 2007: "Further attention to CRA was generated by the surge in bank merger and acquisition activities that followed the enactment of the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994." CRA's stick of denying a merger application was now combined with CRA's carrot of announcing a big CRA commitment to flexible lending standards to help assure merger approval. The result was trillions of dollars in CRA commitments, largely "negotiated" by community advocacy groups.
By 2004, HUD would extol its, and Fannie and Freddie's, role in its self-described "revolution in affordable lending:"
"Over the past ten years, there has been a 'revolution in affordable lending' that has extended homeownership opportunities to historically underserved households. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been a substantial part of this 'revolution in affordable lending.' During the mid-to-late 1990s, they added flexibility to their underwriting guidelines, introduced new low-down payment products, and worked to expand the use of automated underwriting in evaluating the creditworthiness of loan applicants.... Between 1993 and 2003, conventional loans to low income and minority families increased at much faster rates than loans to upper-income and non-minority families."
There is ample evidence that these lending flexibilities accomplished Ms. Cincotta's desire for "aggressive and convincing" loosening by Fannie and Freddie. For the revolution to succeed, the Five Cs of Credit - capital, credit, capacity, collateral, and confidence - had to be abandoned.
First, with respect to capital, Fannie went from having no home purchase loans with a down payment of three percent or less in 1992, to nearly 40% in 2007. Second, Fannie loans with subprime credit - as evidenced by a FICO credit score of less than 660 - tripled from about 6% in 1990 to 18% in 2007. Third, by 2007, over 1/3rd of Fannie and Freddie's fully documented loans exceeded a 45% total debt-to-income (TDI) ratio. This level was well in excess of their prior maximum level of about 42% in 1991, which had been associated with "B" grade or worse subprime loans. Fourth, Fannie and Freddie, as the de facto standard setters for collateral valuation, effectively eliminated the use of investment and replacement cost approaches to value, and weakened the comparable sales approach. Finally, Fannie and Freddie's confidence in borrower income statements evaporated as the percentage of acquisitions denominated as Alt-A, low document, or no document went from near zero in 1991 to nearly 40% in 2007.
This led to Ms. Cincotta's second goal coming to fruition: lenders, following Fannie and Freddie's aggressive and convincing loosening of their "narrow" underwriting standards, responded by loosening their formerly conservative standards. This premeditated assault on the prime mortgage led to the largest housing bubble in our history followed by the largest bust. The perpetrators were Fannie, Freddie, community groups, Congress, and HUD.


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Part mystery-thriller, part brooding meditation on how evil spreads, Denis Villeneuve's film is a gorgeously shot, masterfully acted piece of pulp that takes itself a smidge too seriously. Hugh Jackman stars as a Pennsylvania carpenter and survivalist named Keller who finds himself unprepared when his daughter is abducted. Paul Dano plays the creep who Keller suspects of the crime, while Jake Gyllenhaal is the overqualified local cop who simultaneously tries to find the girls and to prove that Keller has overstepped his bounds in his quest for revenge. "Prisoners'" twisty, fairly ridiculous plot is the stuff of airplane reading, but Villeneuve frames it like a portentous procedural, akin to "Zodiac" and "Mystic River." This choice is justified somewhat by Roger Deakins' stunning cinematography — bringing a wintry Pennsylvania community to life — and by Gyllenhaal's winning performance as an exasperated force for justice. The DVD and Blu-ray come with a pair of negligible featurettes.
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
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The impressionistic, romantic crime drama openly evokes the cinema of the mid-1970s, when filmmakers like Terrence Malick, Arthur Penn and Bernardo Bertolucci were imbuing genre pictures with a weird poetry. Casey Affleck stars as affable criminal Bob Muldoon, who protects his girlfriend Ruth (Rooney Mara) by taking responsibility for a murder she committed during a shootout with the police. Writer-director David Lowery (a respected indie film editor, helming his second feature) tracks Bob as he escapes prison and winds his way back to a woman who's been trying to forget her former life. The minimal plot is mainly an excuse for Lowery to play with the textures of old movies, which he does beautifully. The DVD and Blu-ray tack on a behind-the-scenes featurette.
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Writer-director Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" was a scrappy low-budget sci-fi/action picture with a political message. Blomkamp ventures into similar territory with the larger-scaled "Elysium," which stars Matt Damon as a working class grump living on a crowded, crumbling Earth. The richest citizens — including a devious politician played by Jodie Foster — live on a space station hovering just above the planet, always in sight of the poor, and always tantalizing them. There's a lot of action in "Elysium," shot in the same gritty docu-style that Blomkamp used in "District 9," but the plot this time is more convoluted, with more scene-setting than actual narrative. It's all remarkably well-realized visually, but not that well-written. The DVD and Blu-ray add a slew of "how'd they do that?" featurettes.
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Based on Jorge Michel Grau's gruesome 2010 Mexican horror film, Jim Mickle's version follows an insular family with a dark secret, which may be publicly revealed when one of the parents dies. Mickle changes some key details from Grau's original, beyond just setting it in the rural U.S. instead of south of the border. The characters are different, the plot is different and the overall theme is very different, taking on cult fanaticism instead of class conflict. But the malice that binds the family remains the same and is every bit as disturbing as it is in the source material. This is one grim little movie, which meets the essential horror standard of being memorable, not by-the-book.
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noun A regional term for term for a syringe.
verb To inject an abuse substance—e.g., heroin.
noun A weapon that fires projectiles capable of causing grievous bodily harm or killing a land-based target.
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noun A device used to discharge a projectile in a targeted direction.
verb To target and attack another person, usually understood in a metaphorical sense, as in "To gun for someone".
gunnoun Drug slang A regionally popular street term for a syringeVox populi A device used to discharge a projectile in a targeted direction. See Gene gun, Heavy guns verb Drug slang To inject an illicit drug–regionally popular.
1. weapon for firing a projectile.
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balling gun
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dart gun
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Hail, Hailoween!
So my question is this: how heavy does your southern accent have to be that you not only pronounce it "Hailoween", but you also think it's spelled that way?Hah! See? Told you it was fun.
And speaking of Wrecked inscriptions...
And speaking of things that are mixed up...
And speaking of anatomy:
Unless you think they're simply flesh-colored versions of a "pumpkin" and a "haystack," that is. Then they are what you think they are. Allegedly.
Kind of like how this is allegedly a pumpkin:
Chickpea, Katie H., Sarah C., Bill P., & Rebekah F., that stem really wipes out the competition, doesn't it?
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Looking at Will Smith's IMDb page makes you want to put the movie industry under six feet of dirt. The actor is currently listed with 38 in-development projects that include Men in Black III; Bad Boys 3; I, Robot 2; Hancock 2; Independence Day 2; Untitled I Am Legend Prequel; The Karate Kid 2; and Independence Day 3. It's total sequel overload, particularly for someone who only has 20 film acting credits to his name. Luckily, however, two of them won't be happening for a long time.
Director Roland Emmerich recently spoke to Empire and revealed that while there was some big talk about sequels to Independence Day in the last two years, they aren't even close to being put together. First announced on this site back in November 2009, the director revealed that there is no script yet because, "[he doesn't] want to write anything before anything starts." But just in case you're worried that you'll never get to see Will Smith battle aliens as Captain Steven Hiller again, Emmerich also said, "One day it will happen."
Ridiculous plot holes and Jeff Goldblum logic aside, Independence Day remains a fun 90s alien invasion flick that really doesn't need to be ruined by a sequel. For once let's just be satisfied with one time success and move on.


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CDC: U.S. measles cases at 15-year high in 2011
(CBS/AP) Health officials say last year was the worst year for measles in the U.S. in 15 years.
There were 222 cases of measles reported. Most of the cases were imported -- either by visiting foreigners or by U.S. residents who picked up the virus overseas.
Measles patient attended Super Bowl village, health officials warn
Measles on rise in Europe, could spread to U.S.
The disease had made recent headlines across the world. Just in February 2012, a person with measles attended Super Bowl XLVI, prompting officials to issue a warning to those in attendance, according to HealthPop.
Health official say outbreaks in the U.S. have been fueled by low vaccination rates in Europe and elsewhere. In 2011, Europe reported more than 26,000 measles cases and nine deaths -- three times the amount of cases seen in 2007 according to the World Health Organization, HealthPop reported.
There were no deaths in the U.S. but about a third of the people were hospitalized. At least two-thirds of the Americans who got the measles hadn't been vaccinated.
A study conducted in 2011 and published in Pediatrics showed that more than 10 percent of parents reject recommended vaccines for their children, according to HealthPop. That has led some pediatricians to take the controversial step of "firing" patients, citing fears unvaccinated children could infect other children in the waiting room.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the report Thursday. In a typical year, there are 50 to 60 cases of measles. The previous worst year was 1996, with 508 cases.
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The Definitive Cocktails Poster
The Constitution of Classic Cocktails is a cool new poster from Pop Chart Lab. Available in print for $36, this is a 27"x39" poster.
This definitive guide to classic cocktails breaks down 68 drinks into their constituent parts. Follow the lines to see where spirits, mixers, and garnishes intersect to form delightful concoctions. This massive movie poster-sized print contains over 40 types of alcohol (from distilled spirits to bitters), mixers from raspberry syrup to egg white, and garnishes from the classic olive to a salted rim. This obsessively detailed chart also includes the ratios for each drink, as well as the proper serving glass, making it as functional as it is beautiful. Over a year in the making, this is Pop Chart Lab's most elaborate chart ever.
I love the circular design, with radial connections between the different alcohol types in the center and the mixed drinks around the perimeter. I find it easier to start in the center, and figure out which drinks you can make with that alcohol. They show the different shapes of glassware for cocktails across the bottom, and use those icons to show which glass should be used with each drink.
Pop Chart Lab also posted a fabulous, behind-the-scenes article on FastCoDesign about the process they went through during the design development. Check out The Only Chart You Need To Mix A Proper Cocktail to see the early concepts and the different stages the design went through.
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After their wedlock, Bala and Priya encounter supernatural occurring that relates Priya and her dead mother's mental condition. A man with a special power intersects the lives of the distressed couple lights upon a haunting threat while bearing witness to a divine phenomenon that will change the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
Release Date: 25 Mar 2016
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Runtime: 159 min
Actor : Ashwin Kakumanu, Swetha Nair, J.D. Chakravarthi, Ravi Raghavendra
Writers : Shiv Mohaa
Director : Shiv Mohaa
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I've learned the following things about myself:
I always change my mind.
I really don't like repetitive work.
I had a lot of quarter-yards of fabric
(these three things should have informed me about the next thing)
I'm not much of a stick-to-it type (at least not gracefully).
Yeah, those quilters! They are a really stick-to-it bunch, aren't they? Healthy new respect.
I pictured myself cozily sewing the summer away. In reality, I like to keep my sewing projects small so they can be finished in a reasonable amount of time and I prefer hand sewing. I'm sick to death of making funky stars. That last one? I was cursing like a sailor. Really.
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- Page 1 Diablo III Review
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Visual strengths
Some critics have been rough about the graphics in Diablo III. They're nice but hardly cutting edge, and not even a vast step on from the more cartoony Torchlight or the five-year-old Titan Quest. But there's an artistry at work in Diablo III that's not quite there in either of those games, and whether you're roaming through the desert, a creepy forest or another of the game's sprawling dungeons, there's always some incidental detail or chunk of background scenery that makes the place feel more atmospheric, more alive. Textural detail isn't everything, and Diablo III does a lot with lighting, architecture, strong creature design and atmospherics.
What's more, you don't need a cutting-edge PC to make Diablo III look good and run smoothly. We've been playing it on both a mid-range gaming PC and a more modest laptop, and as long as you have something with a decent dual-core processor and a dedicated GPU you'll be able to play Diablo III without dialling down all the detail settings to their minimum.
Connection issues
In fact, the biggest issue with Diablo III is its insistence on Internet connectivity. Even in a single player campaign the game client is constantly swapping info with the servers, and while there are considerable upsides – it makes it more difficult to cheat, you don't need to save, and your game is accessible from any PC with the client installed – there are also considerable downsides. The infamous 'error 37' of the opening night was one, preventing players from even sampling the game they'd just rushed out to buy. Losing the connection and being tossed out of the game is another, and hugely annoying when you then restart at the beginning of the level with the whole map to clear again.
It's an irritation, but not one that seriously affects the Diablo III experience, at least for now – if in the unlikely event that online support for the game dries up in the future, it could become unplayable. The same goes for our gripes about the lack of any real innovation, and any slight disappointment you might feel about the visuals not pushing the latest GPUs. The fact is that Diablo III delivers what fans expect from a 2012 Diablo, and what fans want. While we'll doubtless see many games that will garner more respect and critical adulation in the next six months, we won't see many that will inspire more love.
You want more Diablo? You've got more Diablo. Diablo III doesn't push any boundaries in graphics or gameplay, but it's an incredibly slick and addictive action-RPG that practically perfects the classic slaying-looting-slaying cycle. A weekend-long binge might leave you wanting something more substantial, but Blizzard's latest has a diabolic way of making you come back for more.
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One of the particular pleasures of my duties at OPERA NEWS is the privilege of attending final dress rehearsals at the Met. If anyone had told me as a young teenager, when I was first bitten by the opera bug, that some day going to the opera would be part of my job, I would have been in a much bigger hurry to grow up.
Of course, just getting to sit there for free in a red-plush seat (during the work day, no less) watching the great vocal artists of our time ply their trade is a pretty nifty perk in itself. But for me, a big part of the fun nowadays is being present along with a whole balcony-full of young people as they discover opera — many of them, no doubt, for the first time.
Last week, the Met revived Gian Carlo del Monaco's lively spaghetti-Western production of Puccini's brilliantly colorful and dramatic, achingly sentimental Fanciulla del West. It gave me a great kick to sense the surprise and excitement of those youngsters as they realized that this elevated art form had room in it for lusty barroom brawls, live horses and gunslinging women holding their own in an overwhelmingly male world. There was a distinctly twenty-first-century-feminist tinge to the audible reaction from the peanut gallery when Minnie first pulled her tiny pistol out of her bosom to fend off the advances of Jack Rance. And there's definitely something to be said for straightforward realism, especially where new audiences are concerned. I strongly doubt that if Minnie and Dick Johnson had appeared in some high-concept production, in the guise of, say, apes or bumble bees, the kids in the family circle would have burst into spontaneous, giggly applause when the heroine surrendered to her first kiss, or cheered her so heartily when she arrived just in time to free him from the posse.
There are times when audience noise can be a most unwanted distraction. (At that very same rehearsal, one fan was so eager to share his admiration of Marcello Giordani's "Ch'ella mi creda" that he shouted "Bravo!"at the top of his lungs just as an emphatic chord from the orchestra punctuated Jack Rance's punching the unfortunate Johnson in the gut. This musically and dramatically misplaced interruption gave the effect that the shouter was encouraging the sheriff's brutality.) The irrepressible and instinctively appropriate responses of the schoolchildren at the back of the house, on the other hand, lent an added charge to the proceeding that enhanced the experience for at least one jaded operagoer down in the orchestra section.


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Think you know your showbiz tales? Find out if the legend of "The Loco-Motion" is true!
By: Linnea Crowther
6 years ago
As legend has it, the song "The Loco-Motion" was born when married songwriting team Carole King and Gerry Goffin saw their babysitter, Eva Boyd, doing a unique dance while taking care of some chores. They wrote a song about her funny dance and looked for someone to record it. Magically, they discovered that the babysitter could sing as well as dance, so they asked her to record the song… and just like that, the world got a No. 1 hit, dance craze, and new singing sensation in the form of Little Eva. An amazing series of events!
But, like so many legends of pop culture, it's not entirely true. Boyd was indeed King's and Goffin's babysitter, but they knew full well that she could sing before "The Loco-motion" was ever written. And the song came first, before the dance. When "Loco-Motion" became a hit, Little Eva had to invent dance moves to go along with the lyrics (which vaguely describe a dance, but really don't provide the full picture).
Little Eva's recording career didn't last long past the 1962 release of "The Loco-Motion" (in 1971 she retired from the music industry). But the song itself has had staying power. It was covered by Grand Funk Railroad in 1974, soaring to No. 1 again, and by Kylie Minogue in 1987, hitting No. 3. When asked what she thought of Minogue's version, Boyd admitted that she didn't like it (though its success spurred a resurgence of her own career). We won't go so far as to say we don't like Minogue's version – it's an '80s classic – but we must admit being partial to Little Eva's classic, original version.
It's been more than 50 years since Little Eva recorded "The Loco-Motion." Ten years after her death, we're so glad she gave us this record to remember her by.
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In our last column, we focused on important modifications to itemized estimating, including the two most popular techniques: assembly estimating and unit pricing. This month we will move into the next step in the process — bidding.
Bid pricing (material prices that an electrical contractor uses in the calculation of a bid price or quote) is a predicament to electrical contractors. Using safe material prices and then buying the material cheaper than they bid is one of the few ways contractors can make a profit. This is one of the little games that many contractors play to hide money in their jobs. If contractors stopped playing this game, they probably would stop profiting. It would be better to price materials exactly where you think the prices will be when you buy them, and add a little extra profit to the bid tabulations, but it is far easier for most to "hide" the extra money in the material figures.
So, remember, if you use the lowest material prices in your bid tabulations, you have no slack, which can really hurt if anything goes wrong.
For contract-bid work, bonding can be critical. In return for a fee (usually around 1.2% of the contract price), a bonding company will guarantee the project's completion to the owner or general contractor for the specified amount. Many projects require this for obvious reasons. Bonding companies are careful. They like to see financial stability and expertise before they will bond an electrical contractor. In addition, they set a limit as to how much bonding they will give to that contractor for the year; once the contractor has reached that limit, the bonding company will bond no more new jobs. That's why it behooves the electrical contractor to make every effort to impress the bonding company's agent.
The content of a construction contract is absolutely critical to your company's success. A construction contract spells out exactly how the job will be run, and how much your company will be paid.
The most common type of contract in use is the American Institute of Architects (AIA) contract. While not perfect, the AIA is considered a fair compromise for all involved.
Some contractor associations have their own contracts, which are pretty good. But these are contract forms; any notes made to these contracts can make them very dangerous. Take care as to what types of contracts your company signs. If the wording is unclear, take the contract to your company's attorney to see what he or she thinks of the contract and what changes should be made.
Don't ever be afraid to make any reasonable changes to contracts. If your requests are reasonable, the other party should not have any problem. If they will not agree to reasonable changes, you have good reason to believe that they will not be reasonable during the course of the project either. The stakes are too high: You are better off to lose a project than to lose your company. Remember, too, that the other party will look bad if they can't agree with you on the contract. They will have to go back to the other electrical contractors, who know that your company was the successful bidder and will who will wonder why your company turned down the job.
Be careful of contracts that are drawn up by the individual general contractor. Very often these contracts are strongly tilted in the general contractor's direction.
Reprinted with permission from NFPA Successful Electrical Contracting. Copyright 2001 National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, Mass. This reprinted material is not the referenced subject, which is represented only by the standard in its entirety. To purchase a copy of NFPA's Successful Electrical Contracting go to NFPA's online catalog at www.nfpa.org.


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- 1,096 +/- Sqft
Property TypeResidential – Partial Ownership
SubdivisionCIRQUE CONDO
Listing Date07/14/18
Year Built2002
Available the week of
AreaCopper Mountain
ParkingUnassigned, Underground
Property Description
Quarter Ownership with a 50% possibility. This unit is on the top floor with vaulted ceilings and second bedroom and full bath on the top floor, providing privacy and a sanctuary. HOA fees cover all interior & exterior upgrades, repairs, all linens and toiletries. This opportunity offers a no stress getaway with every detail taken care of, fully furnished and fully appointed kitchen. Walk in and relax. "A" week is also available, S1007318.
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About Copper Mountain
Copper Mountain, with 2,450 acres, is Summit County's largest ski area. At Copper you can enjoy Colorado's first high-speed detachable six-passenger chairlift, the "Super Bee" and an award-winning trail system that naturally separates snowriders by their ability levels. The Village at Copper is a pedestrian-only, high alpine community with spectacular Colorado views. While in the village take time to enjoy a concert, watch fireworks light up the sky overhead or sit-down for some fine dining. In the summer, your senses will be enhanced by fresh wildflowers and a Colorado blue sky. You can hike, bike, golf on a championship course or go whitewater rafting in nearby Buena Vista. One of the newest additions to Cooper Mountain is Woodward at Copper. A training facility where athletes of all ages can practice new tricks over foam pits before testing their skills on the mountain!
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Defiant Beauty Cool and Refresh - Spritz for Face and Body
Size: 100g IN STOCK
100% organic and totally natural, with a hint of orange blossom fragrance, this face and body mist cools and refreshes whether you are in hospital or in the middle of a hot flush. It is also perfect for summer days and sunshine.
Chemotherapy and radiotherapy can damage the skin making skin care for cancer patients a necessity. The Defiant Beauty Range was formulated for cancer patients by cancer patients.
Instructions for use
Spray on face and body to cool and refresh.
Citrus aurantium amara
Product Reviews
Love it, instant cooling, helping my hot flushes and the gentle fragrance it uplifting too, would be handy if it came in a handbag size too, so I could carry it everywhere xxxxx
Joanne Holmes - 14 March 2014 - Derbyshire


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Career Center
Recognized for an unprecedented 5th year as one of the nation's Top 15 Health Systems by Truven Health, and earning the Great Place to Work and Practice designation, Mission Health is NC's 6th largest health system and the region's only not-for-profit, independent community hospital system.
Mission traces its roots in the region back to 1885, operates 6 hospitals, numerous outpatient and surgery centers, post-acute care provider CarePartners, long-term acute care provider Asheville Specialty Hospital and the region's only dedicated Level II trauma center. Its medical staff includes more than 1,000 physicians and is certified in more than 50 medical specialties/sub-specialties. Mission has 7 Centers of Excellence: Cancer, Heart, Mission Children's Hospital, Neurosciences, Orthopedics, Trauma and Women's Health. Other member hospitals: Angel Medical Center, Blue Ridge Regional, Highlands-Cashiers, McDowell, and Transylvania Regional.
Mission: Our BIG(GER) Aim: To get every person to their desired outcome, first without harm, also without waste and always with an exceptional experience for each person, family and team member.
With approximately 10,700 employees and 2,000 volunteers, Mission Health is dedicated to improving the health and wellness of the people of western North Carolina.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MissionHealthNC
Twitter: twitter.com/MissionHealthNC
- Best Hospital in State (tie), Business North Carolina, 2017
- Truven Top 15 Health Systems, Truven Health Analytics, 2015
- Most Wired Hospitals, Hospitals and Health Networks Magazine, 2016
- America's Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals, Truven Health Analytics, 2016
- Truven Top 15 Health Systems, Truven Health Analytics, 2015
- 2015 National Best & Brightest Companies in Wellness, National Association for Business Resources (NABR), 2015
- Best Hospital, US News & World Report, 2015
Information about Mission's benefits can be found on www.missionandme.com and medical insurance specifics at: www.missionandme.com/enrollment
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Mission Health is one of NC's largest healthcare systems and the region's only not-for-profit, independent community hospital system. Mission was recognized as one of the nation's Top 15 Health Systems, and our own team members have earned us an official recognition as a "Great Place to Work and Practice." Our care is patient-centered, and Mission is fully committed to helping our community Get Well, Be Well and Stay Well.
As an industry leader in innovation, Mission is committed to building a better future for the community. We were named one of the country's "most wired," investing heavily in information technology to improve patient experience and optimize efficiency. This is just one of the many ways in which Mission focuses on continuous improvement.
In Mission's Innovative, progressive culture, we week to recognize the unique strengths and contributions of our team members. We train and support at any point of your career journey to tap into your talents. Personal and professional development is key to growing your career within Mission. Mission is one destination for a wide range of career journeys.
Whether you are nestled in the heart of Asheville at Mission Hospital, or at one of our exceptional member locations across WNC, you are part of something bigger. The BIG(GER) Aim of everyone is "to get every person to their desired outcome, first without harm, also without waste and always with an exceptional experience for each person, family and team member."
Whether you're a nurse, physician, provider, allied health clinician or non-clinical professional, we welcome you to join our world-class team of caregivers dedicated to providing an exceptional experience for our patients and their families. Come see where you fit at Mission, and start your easy, streamlined application process today: www.mission-health/careers
Incredible things happen at Mission Health every day, thanks to our dedicated care teams.
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Learn about our exceptional people who grow their nursing careers at Mission:
Mission Health strives to maintain a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, patients and visitors -- regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age disability, genetic information or veteran status. Our team of caregivers create an environment that is responsive to the needs of all employees and those who come in seek of care. Mission Health and its Diversity Committee are committed to the following goals:
- To eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in care provided to patients within Mission Health
- To expand and enhance Mission's services to minority populations in western North Carolina
- To educate Mission Health employees in cultural competency through cultural diversity curriculum
- To promote and recruit a diverse and inclusive workforce
- To enhance interpreter services and maintain Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards.
#123forEquity Pledge
Mission Health has done amazing work toward eliminating health care disparities and we continue to work hard every day to make that happen because not only is it the right thing to do, it also better positions us to work with all populations in our community, region and state. Part of this effort is to recruit and retain diverse candidates who are representative of the populations we serve. In conjunction with National Minority Health month which is observed in April, Mission gave each caregiver an opportunity to personally "take the pledge" and get more info by signing their names to pledge banners that were rotated throughout the system..
As a caregiver at Mission Health, you have the opportunity to be an influential advocate for diversity in our organization and community with the Diversity Committee.
Our Mission is to improve the health of the people of western North Carolina and the surrounding region.
- Serve people as a not-for-profit health system governed by a voluntary community board.
- Ensure sustainability through stewardship of the community's assets.
- Provide quality services in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.
- Collaborate in order to improve access across the entire continuum of care.
- Promote wellness and health to benefit the community.
- Our Merit Values
Five core values- Mercy, Excellence, Respect, Integrity and Trust/Teamwork- form the foundation for our culture at Mission Hospital.
- Mercy - We work to create a caring and compassionate environment responsive to the emotional, spiritual and physical needs of all persons.
- Excellence - We strive to meet or exceed patient/customer needs and expectations and work as a team to improve every aspect of care and service in our organization.
- Respect - We value the innate dignity of all persons, respect their uniqueness and diversity and enable the development of each one's full potential.
- Integrity - We are consistently open, honest and ethical and abide by the Mission Hospitals Integrity statement.
- Trust/Teamwork - We say what we mean and do what we say.


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Homily for the Easter Vigil
April 23, 2011 – Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Most Reverend Robert W. Finn
Bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph
The work of Redemption is accomplished: Jesus Christ has passed from death to life. Jesus Christ is risen. He is truly risen even as He promised. Alleluia.
Tonight the Church throughout the world contemplates and rejoices in a new reality: death is not the end. Through Jesus Christ a new mode of existence has been inaugurated.
The Gospel tells us that our Lord brought back to life the son of the widow of Naim, the daughter of Jairus, and his friend Lazarus. In some way these acts have helped us to prepare us for the mystery of His own resurrection. These events have helped us to begin to see who Jesus is: true God; Lord over life. But what is accomplished on Easter is different. It is similar from the view of human experience; but more – infinitely more. Lazarus was raised; the young man and the little girl were brought back to life. They resumed their life on earth. They aged and died once more.
The proclamation of faith within the Church concerning Jesus is different. Jesus IS risen. Jesus lives! The only response we can make is Alleluia! Praise ye the Lord!
In the totality of the mystery of Jesus Christ we can begin to see the implications – the promise – of this holy night. God the Father sent His Son in human flesh; Son of God, Son of Mary. "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us." (Jn 1:14) He did not merely visit us. He united Himself to us; He united us to Himself. The Council teaches, "By the Incarnation the Son of God has united Himself in some fashion with every man." (GS 22). Jesus Christ picked us up; picked up all humanity. He carried us through the Cross to resurrection and new life. The dead are raised, not to die again, but to live, forever.
Neither is this action of Jesus Christ joining Himself to us a singular event of past history, accomplished on Christmas morning 2000 years ago. Rather the living Jesus is joining Himself to us in the life and work of the Church. What do you think is on the minds and pressing the hearts of our catechumens and candidates at this moment? They know what is going to take place in the next moments. So soon they will be joined to the Risen Christ through the life of the sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Eucharist. It is not by coincidence that these sacraments are celebrated at Easter Vigil. This is the moment of life. Here is the moment of the encounter with the living Jesus.
We blessed and consecrated the oils at Chrism Mass. We commemorated the institution of Holy Mass on Thursday, the sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ. In a few moments we will all renew the promises of Baptism. Readily we will profess the Creed and renounce Satan and sin. May we do so with all our heart. But we know the real power flows from the promise which comes to full flower in the Risen Jesus. And His promise? Live! Live my brothers and sisters! Live in my love! Live forever, Jesus says.
The sacraments draw us because they are the irrevocable gift of Christ to His Church. They draw us to Him – and through Him to the Father. Fellowship is wonderful. I need it. Please let us all do everything we can to be Jesus Christ for others. We want to live a generous love. The Gospel demands it. But let us never forget Christ's gifts to the Church preserved in the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church: Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Eucharist; Holy Eucharist, the Body and Blood of Christ shed and given for the life of the world. This is the daily Bread which makes new the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ each and every time it is offered on the altar. The Church draws her life from the Eucharist (Ecclesia de Eucharistia, John Paul II). Jesus Christ has willed it so and He invites you and me to join ourselves, all our joys, and every sorrow to that one perfect sacrifice acceptable to the Father. This is infinitely more than a social meal. Rather, here we live with His life and our charity becomes an extension of the encounter with Christ. "He who believes in me, will do the works I do, and greater works than these." (Jn 14:12)
Through sacramental Confession I need my sins forgiven by Christ the Priest. I desire to be reconciled in the Church. I have so often failed and offended. I need to often hear, "God, the Father of mercies … and I absolve you from your sins." Jesus has willed it so!
When I am sick and when death approaches, I want to meet Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of Anointing. I want to be united to you, with my sins forgiven, through the sacrament instituted and intended by Christ.
In the Sacrament of Holy Orders, I will ordain deacons and priests, marking the priests indelibly with Holy Chrism as other Christs. Throughout the next year I will confirm thousands of men and women, sealing them in the sevenfold Gift of the Holy Spirit, sending them out as apostles in the world and witnesses for Christ.
In the seven sacraments of salvation preserved in the Church, Jesus the Risen One, is joining Himself to us even now. He bids us follow Him on the path of the Cross, and He promises nothing less than the gift of eternal life.
He is risen. Christ is truly risen. Alleluia!
Mary, joyful queen and mother: look how your Son lives nevermore to die. Behold your sons and daughters Jesus entrusts to your care. Keep us faithful to Him.
To all those entering the Church tonight throughout the diocese, I extend the warmth and love of the Church. Dear friends all, I wish you the peace of the Risen Christ. Blessed Easter! Holy Easter! Joyful Easter!


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Tarasenko to skate alongside idols at Olympicsby Louie Korac
ST. LOUIS -- Vladimir Tarasenko watched first-hand the creative way the United States unveiled its roster for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. He saw the names of St. Louis Blues teammates David Backes, T.J. Oshie and Kevin Shattenkirk and was more than happy.
But happiness soon turned to angst. Tarasenko waited out the final days for his native Russia to reveal its roster.
Russia was more simplistic.
"I was at breakfast in Edmonton," Tarasenko said. "My agent [Alexei Dementiev] texted me that I made it and to go on the Internet page of the Russian Federation of Hockey and there was the roster.
"I called my girlfriend first, and right after my parents. Everybody was happy. It was pressure. When you know the date, the seventh of January, it was a nervous time."
When he got to the letter T, Tarasenko's name was among some of the other Russian greats, ones he grew up following and admiring. Included are Detroit Red Wings center Pavel Datsyuk, Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin, and from the Kontinental Hockey League, SKA St. Petersburg teammate Ilya Kovalchuk.
"I think Pavel Datsyuk is one of the best players in the world," Tarasenko said. "He's so good. And when I went back to St. Petersburg during the lockout, every day I shake Ilya's hand. I watched his game like two months ago, and right now we are on the same line.
"I still can't believe it. It's a dream of everybody in Russia to make the Olympics. The Olympics is the highest point of hockey. I'm so excited right now. It's put my mind in the right way and I can be more focused on the [NHL] games and try to be ready for the Olympics."
The 22-year-old, in his second season with the Blues, is going to be on a team with great players but said there is only one hockey hero in his life.
"My hockey hero is my father," Tarasenko said of Andrei, a member of the Russian team that played in the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics and a coach with Russia's Sibir Novosibirsk. "He's probably more happier than me. It was our goal. They made a goal for me to make these Olympics. We set this goal like four or five years ago. He told me to work hard and to think about it every day. He always said I could make it. Right now, they are happy I made it."
For Tarasenko, one of two first-round picks for the Blues in the 2010 NHL Draft along with Jaden Schwartz (Schwartz went 14th, Tarasenko 16th), his journey to the NHL has been challenging. After putting up eight goals and 19 points in 38 games his rookie season, Tarasenko has elevated his game. He has 28 points (15 goals, 13 assists) in 45 games this season, which includes a recent 12-point spurt in eight games.
The Blues knew who and what they were getting when they traded defensive prospect David Rundblad to the Ottawa Senators for the 16th pick (Rundblad has since moved on to the Phoenix Coyotes). The Blues had Schwartz but wanted Tarasenko as well despite the risks of European players not coming to the NHL.
"I think we learned a lot from those interviews that we did with him at the draft," Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said of Tarasenko. "He was trying to talk through English, always had a smile on his face. I said it at the time and I'll say it again: He's the Russian version of T.J. Oshie with his attitude. He's smiling, happy, loves hockey, wants to be around the rink."
But the grass wasn't always green when Tarasenko first came to North America. The Yaroslavl, Russia native not only had to adapt to a new game after spending four seasons in the KHL, but he had to learn a new culture and new lifestyle with no family or friends to help at his young age.
Tarasenko had to rely on his teammates, and they embraced him with open arms. A number have taken on the role of big brother, including Shattenkirk and Chris Stewart.
"Initially being his roommate on the road was fun because I got to know him and he opened up to me," Shattenkirk said of Tarasenko. "He seemed very quiet at first. He was very self-conscious about his language and English, but in actuality, it was great. He could speak very well and he was just more embarrassed to speak than anything else.
"We just encouraged him to speak. We'd tell him, 'You're fine. You can order in a restaurant perfectly. Don't stress it.' Culturally, just going in the grocery store, having to get a haircut knowing where to go, anything like that, it's tough at first. ... When you go overseas and play like I did last year in Finland (with TPS Turku), you get an appreciation for what these guys have to go through when they come here."
Stewart said, "I think when you get a young European guy over here, the lifestyle is a huge culture shock. Anything you can do to make him more comfortable ... I think it's just the little things. We all start with a, 'Good morning. How you doing? How you feeling?' Stuff like that and you go from there. It took him a little while to adjust to the North American style, but look at him now. He's a guy that's definitely earned the trust of the coach."
It's certainly paid off. It also helps the Blues have a player who's willing to listen and learn.
"I think he goes to the net harder," Hitchcock said. "I think he plays more determined in the harder scoring areas. He's just a more competitive player, which is allowing his skill and his hockey sense to take over. He's competing at a higher level. He's more comfortable on the ice competing against people. Things aren't new to him."
Tarasenko has had the luxury of speaking to his father and grandfather on a regular basis after games.
"It's good for me because they help me a lot in my life," Tarasenko said. "I grew up with my grandpa because my father played hockey in Jaroslavl."
Tarasenko has dedicated himself to not only become more of an impact player but to become a stronger player. He sustained a concussion in a game against the Colorado Avalanche last season that really changed his focus.
"I feel pretty good. I know if I continue to work hard, that's best for me," Tarasenko said. "My father [taught] me you can never be happy with your game. You always can improve some skills. I just try to work hard and help the team win. It doesn't matter how many goals I score. We are in a good spot right now, probably one of the best teams in the NHL. It's an unbelievable feeling to win so many games."
Tarasenko has aspirations of winning gold for his country. Then he shifts his focus back to the Blues.
"I have unbelievable teammates and team," Tarasenko said. "The goal for us is to win the Stanley Cup. I just listen to the coaches and hopefully things go our way."