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Is Heaven a reality? Or is it just fiction?
Here's a question that Theologists have been trying to answer for hundreds of years without much success, however they rely on their faith to drive them to Heaven.
So what if a loved one has a near death experience and claims that he's visited Heaven?! Would you believe them, or reject them?
"Heaven is For Real" is a movie directed by Randall Wallace starring Greg Kinnear and Kelly Reilly, that tells us the story of a little boy who has this near death experience, and upon his return he tells things that are inexplicable. This family is turned upside down by this event as well as their town.
The movie asks a very serious question that crosses all kinds of religion or personal beliefs. What happens after we die? Where do
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Scientists tell us nowhere, our body just dies and we along with it, however the belief that there's something after life, keeps us going strong and to become more united as human beings.
This film is a serious attempt at showing everyone how united we should be as a species, and it's a pretty good film as well.
I'm not a religious kind of guy but I have to admit that indeed I was taken aback by this film. It doesn't really matter who or what you believe in, this film is about kindness and faith, and I recommend you to watch it and let us know what your views are.


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A decline in China's declared holdings of U.S. Treasury bills comes as it is trying to diversify its foreign assets. But analysts say Washington's debt is still the only asset big enough to absorb the trade-fueled flood of cash Beijing needs to invest, and it might be adding to its hoard with secret purchases through banks abroad.
A U.S. government report this week showed Chinese holdings of Treasury bills fell by $34 billion in December. That fueled concern Washington might have to pay higher interest to attract creditors to finance this year's forecast $1.5 trillion budget deficit.
It came as Chinese leaders, facing pressure to pay for social spending and other expenses, are trying to make more money by diversifying their $2.4 trillion in reserves beyond safe but low-yielding Treasurys. A $200 billion sovereign wealth fund launched in 2007 is investing in riskier but more profitable stocks and commodities.
Analysts say the true size of Chinese holdings of U.S. government debt is bigger than reported but is obscured because Beijing also buys anonymously through banks in Britain, Switzerland and elsewhere. They say such investment might be growing.
"We do not believe that the Chinese are dumping Treasurys," said Arthur Kroeber, managing director of GaveKal Dragonomics, a Beijing research firm. "What they are doing is diversifying the channels through which they make these purchases so that it is much more difficult for the market to ascertain what they are doing."
Beijing has long been Washington's top foreign lender, banking its huge trade surplus in Treasurys and helping to pay for budget deficits. That is a function of exchange rate controls that require the central bank to buy up dollars that flow in from export sales to keep China's currency, the yuan, from rising and making its goods uncompetitive abroad.
Economists say Treasurys are the only debt market big and liquid enough to absorb the billions of dollars a month that Beijing must invest abroad.
"While the value of the U.S. dollar seems uncertain, other alternatives are not easy to find," UBS economist Tao Wang said in a January report.
Beijing's reserves are already so vast that Wang estimated last year that if it decided to shift even 5 percent into gold, that would require an amount of bullion equal to the annual production of all the world's gold mines.
China treats details of its reserves as a state secret but analysts estimate two-thirds are in U.S. dollar-denominated assets and the rest mostly in euros and yen.
The U.S. Treasury's report this week showed China giving up its status as top creditor to Japan, though it was still No. 2 with officially declared Treasury holdings of $755.4 billion.
The figures "suggest that China could be more actively diversifying its currency reserves away from U.S. Treasuries," said Jing Ulrich, JP Morgan's chairwoman of China equities, in a report. "In general, China is moving towards more active management for a portion of its foreign reserves."
Chinese leaders including Premier Wen Jiabao, the country's top economic figure, have publicly expressed concern about the health of the U.S. economy and appealed to Washington to avoid any steps that might erode the value of the dollar and Beijing's holdings.
Beijing also expressed unease last year about global reliance on the dollar for trade and government reserves and proposed the creation of a new world currency.
Some American commentators have suggested China might abruptly sell Treasurys to express its anger at Washington over Taiwan, Tibet or other diplomatic strains. But Beijing has never publicly threatened such a move, which economists say would be expensive and could hurt China by causing problems in a key export market.
The decline in reported holdings also could reflect the global slump in trade after the economic crisis hit in 2008 as well as an end to rules that used to require Chinese companies to bring home nearly every dollar they earned abroad.
China's politically sensitive trade surplus, a key driver of foreign reserve growth, narrowed to $14.2 billion in January. That was less than half the global $39.1 billion surplus the same month of 2009.
Beijing added just $28 billion to its publicly disclosed Treasury holdings last year, down from $249.8 billion in 2008. But it said reserves rose by more than $300 billion, suggesting money also might be making its way into Treasurys through other channels.
It took China a decade to accumulate its first $1 trillion in foreign reserves by 2006 but growth skyrocketed as trade boomed and the total passed $2 trillion last April. It surged to $2.4 trillion by the end of 2009.
UBS's Wang said reserves are forecast to grow by another $400 billion this year.
The government's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund launched in September 2007 has bought stakes in mining, oil and other companies. But analysts say such spending so far is too small to absorb the flood of money that is flowing into U.S. debt.
"It is clear they are stuck buying Treasurys," Kroeber said.

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Over the years, the competition to crack the Common Admission Test has increased. This is because CAT is your passport to admission to a good B-School.
In 2005 there were 1.75 lakh applicants and more than 80 participating institutes. In the face of such competition, every CAT aspirant should leave no stone unturned in his or her preparation. Apart from developing fundamental knowledge and sharpening skills through module tests, you need a full-fledged testing experience in a simulated environment.
The MOCK CAT provides just that. It's a test of two-and-a-half hour duration, which covers all the topics, from which questions are likely to be asked in CAT. It also tries to follow similar patterns, and poses similar levels of questions to the students. MOCK CATs simulate the actual experience as far as possible and are conducted by training institutes across the country.
Aspirants need to answer in Optical Mark Reader sheets just like CAT. These OMR sheets are then scanned and results are compiled in the back-end. Students get the results within one or two days on the web sites of preparatory service providers. In a nutshell, a MOCK CAT is an indispensable experience in the preparation for CAT and no aspirant should miss it.
How do I make the best use of it?
Before taking a MOCK Test, you should be thorough with your fundamental knowledge of mathematics, English grammar and verbal logic. Do a warm up by taking a series of module tests of shorter duration.
Then during the series of MOCK tests, you should experiment with various test taking strategies and finally come up with your own strategy. MOCK tests also provide an opportunity to test your resilience, because sitting continuously for two and a half hours and keeping your concentration level at its peak, is a challenge in itself.
You should take the result of a MOCK Test very seriously. Most of the preparatory institutes, give an all India percentile rank, similar to CAT, and it points out exactly where an individual aspirant stands vis-a-vis his or her competitors across the country.
Most of the national level service providers in MBA preparatory education provide a detailed analysis in their web site. These analyses are exhaustive and very helpful for the students. But aspirants should use this feedback and analyses for their improvement.
When are they conducted?
MOCK test series, provided by various service providers in MBA entrance test preparation industry, typically begins in the month of July-August and continues till CAT, ie just before the third Sunday of November.
For other non-CAT entrance examinations like XAT, MOCK tests are generally conducted after CAT.
How expensive is it?
You can enroll in a MOCK Test Series programme at a price ranging from Rs 1,000 to Rs 4,000 depending upon the number of MOCK Tests and whether other facilities like web-analysis, all India ranking etc are available or not.
But the price should not be the primary consideration. Before enrolling in a programme, an aspirant should be sure of the quality of the tests and availability of other facilities.
Gautam Puri is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore and managing director of Career Launcher (CAT training institute).
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REKS took the underground scene by storm with his debut LP, Along Came The Chosen (2001). The album featured production from a then eighteen year old Statik Selektah and the critically acclaimed LP was featured in the Source, XXL, Vibe, and REKS was named to URB Magazine's "Next 100". The album's single "Skills 101" reached #45 on the Billboard Singles chart, and put him on tours and doing shows with huge national acts. REKS released his highly anticipated sophomore LP, Grey Hairs, in 2008 and the momentous album featured production from DJ Premier, Large Professor and ten-tracks from Statik Selektah and featured collaborations with Lil Fame of MOP, Consequence, Skyzoo, Termanology & Jon Hope. Grey Hairs lead to REKS being profiled by XXL Magazine in their "Show & Prove" section. REKS' profile was imminently raised with the release of R.E.K.S. (2011) which included production from DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Alchemist, Sean C & LV, Nottz, Sha Money XL, Hi-Tek & Statik Selektah and guest appearances from Styles P, Freeway, Lil Fame & Termanology which was culminated by REKS winning the "Underground Music Award" for "Best Album" in 2011. Still basking in the praise that his collaborative LP, Straight No Chaser, with Statik Selektah generated upon its release less then two-months ago, REKS returns to make his presence felt in two consecutive quarters with his latest full-length project Rebelutionary. Though he collaborated with Statik Selektah on Straight, No Chaser, REKS linked up with emerging producer Numonics for Rebelutionary. While Rebelutionary is being released on the heels of the critically acclaimed Straight, No Chaser, there was never a second thought given to delaying it, as REKS explains, "Numonics is such a talent that I wasn't concerned about following up Straight, No Chaser so quickly because the recording process was so smooth and I knew it was necessary now. It was crazy that we could link up together on a project we both felt so passionate about; and one that is essential for today's climate." REKS continues to grow exponentially with each project and that growth is again apparent on Rebelutionary, as he tackles social and political issues. "REKS and I made Rebelutionary to express the strong social and political views we both share. Inspired by great leaders like Fred Hampton and Malcolm X, the album sheds light on issues that need to be touched on at this time. Whether it's institutionalized racism, or pointing out the hypocrisy of the establishment, REKS paints a vivid picture of the world we live in with this project. I feel blessed to have worked with such a strong and emerging voice in Hip-Hop and his immense talent shines throughout this project" opines Numonics. Likewise, REKS also laments, "The flow of the album is superb in my opinion. The idea was to give today's youth an intelligent piece of work that didn't come off preachy or dated. I know we succeeded in doing so." The first leak from REKS' Rebelutionary is Shotgun: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shotgun-feat.-jon-connor-single/id523010380 (featuring Jon Connor & Vanessa Renee) Rebelutionary will be released in conjunction with Gracie Productions (the label behind such releases as Royce da 5'9" "Success Is Certain" and "Street Hop", Joe Budden "Mood Muzik 4", DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles "KoleXXXion" as well as several others). Track listing and credits for REKS Rebelutionary LP: 1. Intro 2. Unlearn 3. Hallelujah 4. Bang Bang f/ J NiCS 5. Shotgun f/ Jon Connor & Venessa Renee 6. War Is A Racket (Smedley Butler interlude) 7. Rebelutionary 8. Ignorance is Bliss f/ Termanology 9. Passports 10. Avarice (Interlude) 11. Avarice f/ Knowledge Medina 12. The Jones' f/ Krondon 13. The Edge f/ Lucky Dice & Chi Knox 14. La Luna f/ Sene & Koncept 15. Gepeto 16. Obedient Workers 17. Outro 18. Shotgun (Remix) f/ Ea$y Money & Boycott Blues
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My husband is also a descendant of Dorcas Blair and Noah Reeder through their son, Albert Green Reeder.Albert Green Reeder married Nancy Caroline West May 20, 1853, in Kansas or Arkansas.I have received this information from others and have not researched the records myself.
Their son, Edward Franklin Reeder, was born March 26, 1869, possibly in Kansas?He was married (January 18, 1891) to Lovie Jane Hatchett, born February 15, 1872, in Texas.
Would love to know more about Dorcas Blair Reeder and her ancestors.She is buried in Poston-Odle Cemetery, near Valley Mills, Bosque Co., Texas.
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Polka dot nails are simple and cute. To complete a pink and yellow polka dot manicure that is perfect for spring, you will need pink and yellow nail polishes of your choice.
You will also need a dotting tool to make the designs and a clear nail polish to use as a base and top coat. To recreate this look, you will use your pink nail polish as the base color and yellow polish to create the polka dots. Here's how to create cute pink and yellow, polka dot nails in four simple steps:
Paint one, thin and even coat of clear nail polish onto your nails. This is the base coat that will prevent your nails from being stained by the pink polish. Allow your base coat to dry completely.
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ACT preliminary data indicates strong February Class 8 net orders
Net orders for heavy-duty Class 8 commercial vehicles continue to maintain a strong growth rate, according to data from ACT Research, a provider of data and analysis for trucks and other commercial vehicles. In a preliminary reading of net orders for February, ACT reported that there were 24,300 units ordered in February, which is 3,000 less than January, which came in at 27,300 units and was up 320 percent from January 2010.
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Net orders for heavy-duty Class 8 commercial vehicles continue to maintain a strong growth rate, according to data from ACT Research, a provider of data and analysis for trucks and other commercial vehicles.
In a preliminary reading of net orders for February, ACT reported that there were 24,300 units ordered in February, which is 3,000 less than January, which came in at 27,300 units and was up 320 percent from January 2010.
"The industry is continuing in 2011 where it left off in 2010," said Steve Tam, VP commercial vehicle sector for ACT, in a statement. "The strength in orders continues to restock industry backlogs and fuel increasing build as the industry moves through the year."
This growth follows a 2010 which finished with a strong fourth quarter, with ACT officials noting that the uptick in orders continues to restock industry backlogs, setting the stage for significant production increases into 2011.
One primary reason for such a significant annual gain is because January 2010 was when the Environmental Protection Agency's 2010 mandate for implementing federal emissions standards in heavy duty trucks. Trucks manufactured in January 2010 and beyond cost on average $8,000-to-$10,000 more than before these efforts went live. This resulted in a mini pre-buy towards the end of 2009, and in early 2010 there were not a lot of Class 8 truck purchases occurring.
In a recent interview with LM, ACT President and Senior Analyst Kenny Vieth said that truckers continue to universally say that they are not adding capacity. But he pointed out that there is a difference between adding capacity and getting capital expenditures back to where it needs to be.
"Generally, truckers have been at below maintenance level capex for the past two or three years," said Vieth. "Ultimately, it is payback time, as trucks need to be replaced. In addition to the domestic side of the story, the order activity is broad-based, with all of the OEMs participating in all of the North American geographies and not just the U.S. Canada and Mexico are strong right now, as are non-NAFTA markets that are ordering trucks like crazy. It is broad-based, and we are seeing the same thing in the trailer market, with U.S. trailer orders being very robust over the past few months."
Another factor influencing an increase in orders are increased freight volumes, coupled with truckers being profitable, and what Vieth described as the easing of credit conditions. And fleets are aging coupled with capex being neglected for a few years, which Vieth said has led to truckers having confidence that the recovery may be here to stay. He also said there is a belief that truckers can make capex investments without having to deal with another recession six months down the road.
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We Vote Every Day (A Poem by James Tracy)
Amazing how one single day can have so many meanings.
For some of us in the U.S., tomorrow's elections will bring busy hours of phone banking, door knocking, waiting in line (perhaps for hours), and gathering breathlessly to watch the results. For others, it may also be a bitter day of disenfranchisement — whether because of immigration status, a felony conviction, or dubious "voter fraud" protections. For still others — millions, living outside the U.S. — it may be a day of side-eyeing an imperialist behemoth whose policies will continue to affect (and probably afflict) your life, and the lives of those you love.
For all of us, it will be another day of breathing in, breathing out.
I'm grateful to have heard this poem recently. For me, it's a centering meditation on the significance and insignificance of a day like tomorrow, among so many other days of action and inaction. As always, would love to hear your thoughts.
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Tracy has edited two activist handbooks: the Civil Disobedience Handbook and the Military Draft Handbook, both on Manic D Press. Works of Poetry include co-editing Avanti Popolo: Italian-Americans Sail Beyond Columbus, and Sparks and Codes.
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Fast forward to 2004. Everyone is obsessed with building "secure" software. Some say we can never be secure with Microsoft technologies.
If we look at what has happened over the last five years, perhaps we can see what might happen in the next five.
1) For scalability, expectations have leveled. In 1999 everyone believed they were building the next eBay and Amazon. Today, nobody is over-hyping the ability to go from 0 to huge overnight. I don't foresee the same leveling off of expectations for secure software. If anything, the expectation is just starting to grow.
2) Security, interoperability, and flexibility have pushed scalability off the radar screen. On Aaron Skonnard's list, scalability is not even in the top 5 qualities to look for in enterprise software. Most shops with limited resources have to carefully select the qualities to focus on - we can't have it all. Looking ahead, security and interoperability are here to stay for the next five years.
3) Scalability is easier today because of the platform and runtime. We moved from building web pages with loosely-typed interpreted pages to strongly-typed compiled pages. In some ways, the underlying platform lost features that were abused (think of ADO and server side cursors). Security in the next five years has to get easier too. It is currently hard to run as a non-admin. It is currently hard to run assemblies without full-trust. The platform and runtime can get better in this area, but not make them completely painless.
4) Scalability is easier because of the tools. It's easy to set performance benchmarks and measure scalability with software. It's easy to catch possible bottlenecks with syntactic analysis of an application: a cursor declaration in a SQL query, a static constructor in a class. Many security problems require the tougher task of semantic analysis. Where is the application saving a plaintext password? Is this string concatenation putting user input into a SQL string? These will be tough problems to uncover. Additional expertise and heuristics will need to exist in security tools.
5) Scalability education has been constant over the last five years. Follow some guidelines and work with the framework instead of against it, and you'll have a decently scalable system. Don't write your own connection pooling and thread pooling libraries – chances are the ones in place will work for 95% of the applications being developed. Security education, on the other hand, is still in infancy. You'll find a good example on any given day in the newsgroups. Someone will post a solution which opens and disposes a database connection in an efficient manner, but somewhere in between concatenates a textbox value into a SQL string. This education takes some time.
In five more years I think we will be better off, but not completely there. We moved from being obsessed with scalability to expecting it out of the box in five years. However, after five more years we will still be obsessed with writing secure software, because security will still be difficult. As they say on Wall Street, past performance is not indicative of future returns.
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. – Butler Lampson
Since the dawn of the HttpModule class in .NET 1.0, we've seen an explosion of URL rewriting in ASP.NET applications. Before HttpModule, URL rewriting required an ISAPI filter written in C++, but HttpModule brought the technique to the masses.
URL rewriting allows an application to target a different internal resource then the one specified in the incoming URI. While the browser may say /vroot/foo/bar.aspx in the address bar, your application may process the request with the /vroot/bat.aspx page. The foo directory and the bar.aspx page may not even exist. Most of the directories and pages you see in the address bar when viewing a .Text blog do not physically exist.
From an implementation perspective, URL rewriting seems simple:
If you want a comprehensive article about implementing URL rewriting and why, see Scott Mitchell's article: "URL Rewriting in ASP.NET", although I believe there is a simpler solution to the post-back problem (see the end of this post). I'm still looking for an ASP.NET topic on which Scott Mitchell has not written an article. If anyone finds one, let me know. Scott's a great writer.
Conceptually, URL rewriting is a layer of indirection at a critical stage in the processing pipeline. It allows us to separate the view of our web application from it's physical implementation. We can make one ASP.NET web site appear as 10 distinct sites. We can make one ASPX web form appear as 10,000 forms. We can make perception appear completely different from reality.
URL rewriting is a virtualization technique.
URL rewriting does have some drawbacks. Some applications take a little longer to figure out when they use URL rewriting. When the browser says an error occurred on /vroot/foo/bar.aspx, and there is no file with that name in solution explorer, it's a bit disconcerting. Like most programs driven by meta-data, more time might be spent in an configuration file or database table learning about what the application is doing instead of in the code. This is not always intuitive, and for maintenance programmers can lead to the behavior seen in Figure 1.
|Figure 1: Maintenance programmer who has been debugging and chained to a desk for months, finally snaps. It's the last time that machine will do any URL rewriting.
Actually, I'm not sure what the behavior in figure 1 is. It might be a Rob Zombie tribute band in Kiss makeup, or some neo-Luddite ritual, but either way it is too scary to look at and analyze.
One important detail about URL rewriting that is often left out. In the destination page, during the Page_Load event, it's important to use RewritePath again to point to the original URL if your form will POST back to the server. This will not redirect the request again, but it will let ASP.NET properly set the action tag of the page's form tag to the original URL, which is where you want to post back to.
Without this line, the illusion shatters, and people rant. I learned this trick from the Community Starter Kit, which is a great example of the virtualization you can achieve with URL rewriting.
John Woods stopped in yesterday to clarify some of the finer points of the nasal demon effect. John has another contribution to the world of knowledge:
"SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why you have to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain every now and then."
The toolkits worked. We moved a tremendous amount of information about mortgages back and forth. Of course, there were some hitches here and there, but nothing we couldn't figure out after a quick search of soap-user. It was simple – just so plain and simple.
Because of this experience, I have great deal of reservations over all of these WS specifications. I believe if I were to approach that same project today, the experience would involve considerably more pain. Someone would want to use a WS toolkit here and there, and we'd be buried just trying to pass an XML fragment back and forth. It is going to take at least 3 to 5 years to shake out everybody's interpretation and implementation of the specs to reach a plateau of interoperability, as well as revisions and fine-tuning to the specs themselves. You might say I am a member of the loyal opposition.
Do we need more standards? Yes. Do we need them now? Yes. Amazon could use them. Ted says the WS stacks are overkill for Amazon, but even though they may do millions of web service transactions, these are transactions in the loose sense of the word, not transactions in the cash flow sense of the word, just ask Carl. Everyone seems to agree the specifications are bulky and opaque. What company would offer web services for the masses based on specifications the tool vendors can't keep up with?
After four years of web service hype, simple is still the only approach that works for everyone. It's going to be a long, slow road. It will give everyone time to mix in practical experience with the thoery of specifications.
A source entrusted me with the following paper she found at a Starbucks this summer. The hand written notes are proof of a hidden agenda lurking in the world of SOA.
I'm trying to get this to Dan Rather, but he is not returning my phone calls.
Building enterprise scale health care software is a massive effort. Not only do they need the general business functionality of inventory, accounting, and payroll, but there are specialized needs in every corner of the hospital: nursing, radiology, pathology, microbiology, blood bank, admissions, pharmacy, and patient care records, just to name a few. Every one of these areas has specific needs to addresses with software.
I'll take a wild guess and say that by 2006 this team will have 500 developer-years of work in the project. I know some other established companies in the US market. I'll make another guess and say they have 5,000 developer-years of work invested in their solutions - but there is a huge difference.
The companies I know work in C++, and they work from scratch. They write their own hardware abstraction layers, their own device drivers, and their own proprietary database formats. It's easy to burn 5,000 developer-years building software this way, and here is the end result: They give thier customers a custom report building application that requires instructions like the following:
VAL=IF{@account^/R.SEG.TAP %Z.rw.segment("ACT.TAP.cust.first.statement.date. VAL=",@.db)},/R.SEG.VAL["FIRST"]
That's not from legacy software, that's from the most recent shipping version. It sure keeps the consultants and trainers busy.
On the other hand, if someone builds the software using .NET, an off the shelf relational database engine, third party reporting tools, and lets the a commercial operating system take care of, well, operating the system, they can catch up pretty quickly. At least in theory. It will be interesting to see how far they go by 2010.
I tried to update my Linux distribution this week by starting over on a fresh virtual PC. I tried SuSE 9.1 Personal only to have a kernel panic early in the installation. Then I tried Fedora Core 2 only to have another kernel panic. That's when I began to suspect a more sinister problem and found this bug entry - complete with a 57 step work around.
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Roland had watched him come and go periodically throughout the summer, and always The Man in Black wore the same black cloak. Hence the nickname. As if he could feel eyes tracking him from behind, the man stopped and turned abruptly, piercing the boy with one dark eye. Roland could distinguish neither iris nor pupil, just a glint of reflected light bouncing out from the shadows gathered beneath his disapproving brow. The eye flicked left and right, as if unsatisfied by what it saw. Perhaps the man sensed that someone else was spying, someone hidden.
Roland looked down abruptly, pretending that he had been focused on his flipped upside-down bicycle the entire time. The man continued walking, cloak billowing behind him as he turned and strode purposefully down another cobbled lane toward the river, where the boy sometimes poked a stick into the muddy shallows, hoping to see a fish or turtle. His mother had told him more than once that nothing lived in that stinking water, and he was under no circumstances allowed to wade into it. He had once, on one sweltering July day, and been so disgusted by the slimy ooze creeping between his toes that he hadn't attempted it again.
The man disappeared into the monotonous rows of tumbledown brick house, and the boy dared look up again, simultaneously attempting to rub the thick black grease from the bicycle chain off his fingers and onto his legs, without success. Underneath the grease, many of the chain links were rusted. His bicycle was a patchwork of mismatched parts scavenged from other bicycles, and he spent almost as much time repairing it as riding it. It was apparently time to find a new chain.
"Here, let me take a look at that," said the woman, who had appeared again just as quickly as she'd disappeared a few minutes ago. "I used to bike everywhere, and my chain would lock up and pop off like that occasionally."
Her accent was strange, but her voice itself was comforting, and he stepped away from the bicycle as she knelt before it, cutoff jeans riding up her bronzed thighs. His light blue eyes jumped away to her arms as she rolled up her plaid sleeves, stopping at the elbows despite the heat. He heard her muttering to herself under her breath, and saw a flash of movement. Her hands seemed to flutter about the bicycle without actually touching it. He must have looked away without realizing it, because suddenly the chain was back on and running smoothly along the chain wheel as she cranked the pedals.
"Here you go, all fixed," she said, flipping the bike over and holding it out to him by the handlebars. He took it by the seat and turned the pedals himself to confirm that, yes, the chain was unkinked. The bent teeth on the chain wheel were also straight, now.
"Thank you, miss," he whispered, glancing anxiously at his own house, though he knew his mother wasn't home from work yet and couldn't yell at him for allowing a stranger to fix his bike if she wasn't around to see it.
"That man in the house at the end of street," she said, tilting her head toward The Man in Black's house. "How often does he come and go?"
"Every now and then. I see him once maybe every other week," he answered, intrigued that someone else found The Man in Black as fascinating as he did.
She looked thoughtfully into the direction he'd gone. "So he won't be back anytime soon? He won't come back this evening, for instance?"
"I don't think so. He doesn't come and go often."
She nodded. "Thanks," she said. "Do me a favor. If he ever asks, I was never here."
"He won't. He never says anything. I tried saying hello once and he scowled and said," and here he lowered his voice in imitation of The Man in Black, though he couldn't get quite deep enough, "didn't your mother teach you not to converse with strangers?"
The woman didn't smile, she didn't seem capable of it, but for a moment he saw a flash of life in her dull brown eyes. "Still, just in case," she said. She turned to go, then turned back for a moment.
"You know, if you never talk to strangers, you won't ever get to know anyone," she said. She turned once again and took a few steps down the walk before stopping a second time. "Just be careful about who you choose to talk to."
Roland watched her retreating figure for a moment, then jumped onto his bike and began pedaling down the street, tires thumping over the uneven stones as he flew all the way to the corner before turning back and circling around.
"A witch used to live in that house," he boasted.
"A witch?" she asked, clearly not believing him. "Did you ever see her?"
"Yes, she'd come out and yell at anyone who walked across her back garden."
"So you crossed it a lot then, I suppose?"
"Mostly on accident," he said, eyes shifting deviously.
"Did she ever turn you into a toad?"
He shook his head. "No, but she threatened to hex anyone who came asking for sweets on Halloween, or who came caroling at Christmas."
"How awful," she said, not sounding like she meant it. "So what happened to her?"
"She died, I guess. That's when The Man in Black began showing up."
One eyebrow arched upward, and once again her eyes flashed as she asked, "The man in black?"
"The one you're following."
She gazed off down the street, eyes looking very far away. "Interesting," she murmured. It was several seconds before she turned back and asked, "Do you ever go to the playground?"
"Sometimes," he said, circling lazily to keep pace with her. He, too, paused before continuing,"Me and my friends used to play It."
"It? Is that where someone has to run around, trying to catch everyone else?"
His dark, sweaty hair flopped up and down as he nodded.
"We called that Tag in my neighborhood," she said, eyes running over the boarded-up windows and un-mown grass that plagued many of the houses on Spinner's End. "It's very quiet along this street."
"Taking tea," he mumbled. It was also true that most of his friends had moved away. Families never lingered long on Spinner's End, his mother said, not if they could help it. Their own stay had proven to be longer than she'd initially promised.
She glanced at her wristwatch. "Oh, right. It is that time. What about you? Why aren't you eating, now?"
"My mum's not home, yet. I'm not hungry, anyway." That was half-truth. He was hungry, but there'd be no food for tea until his mother returned from work with take-away.
She nodded and continued walking. Seven blocks to the playground. She walked slowly, observing that the houses improved the farther she got from the mill, but not by much. The mill's chimney brooded over the neighborhood like a gigantic middle finger shouting, "Fuck you!" to everyone living in its shadow.
The three-bedroom house she'd grown up in was larger than these, though about as well-kept. At least she'd had a real yard, clear air and water that didn't smell like death. Spying on Snape was turning out to be only slightly less depressing than attempting to track down Remus had been. Maybe that was an exaggeration. That had been pretty damn depressing. She hadn't even found him.
The playground was sad as playgrounds go; with rusted swings, lopsided roundabout and a warped slide. Perhaps they had been painted brightly once, but now they were all the same faded gray. Sharp, dry grass grew up through myriad cracks in the pavement. They stopped and watched the empty swings for a moment, as if there were invisible children playing there that only they could see.
Finally, the boy pedaled around in one final long, slow turn to continue back the way he came. "I'm off, then," he said.
"Wait," she said, as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a chocolate bar. "Thanks for chatting with a stranger. Remember the favor I asked."
He hesitated for just a moment before taking the sweet. If he ate it before she got home, then his mother would never know. "You were never here," he said, pedaling away, adding Miss Sad Eyes to his short list of Mysterious Visitors to Look Out For. He'd liked the way the air had crackled when she handed him the chocolate; it was similar to the crackle he felt whenever he fiddled with the telly or radio.
Clio watched him dwindle down the street, thinking that perhaps it was just static electricity she'd felt. She didn't dwell on the other possibility for long, but turned the corner and headed down the next street; feeling momentarily nostalgic for the carefree act of riding a bicycle through a distant tree-shaded neighborhood that she'd long outgrown.
Seven more blocks to her house. City blocks: short and easily navigable by even small children, especially when there wasn't anywhere else for them to play, or anyone else to play with.
Fourteen blocks, total, from his house to hers.
Remus emerged cautiously from his door, inhaling deeply to get a sense of his surroundings before leaving the safety behind. Garbage, car exhaust, rat poison, heavenly smells from the chocolate factory half a mile away and finally the more immediate, salty smell of raw meat from the butcher shop one block over and two blocks down. Now his stomach began rumbling.
It was an hour before dawn, and the few working street lights were still lit. He stole quickly through the alley, stealthy in his movements though he was alone except for the rats that scuttled from his path. He no longer took the rats' presence for granted, but kept a lookout for bald patches and missing toes. He ignored the contents of the dumpsters along this stretch, his goal the bounty that he knew lay ahead.
The other gleaners would be emerging soon, but he intended to be long gone by then. The scent of blood and bone in the butcher's bins, perfectly good meat going to waste, drew him like a siren. The heavy lid, effective at keeping out the rats and other vermin and thus preserving the goodies within was easily lifted, the paper-wrapped meat inside easily sifted through with his wand. He found a large cache of pork sausage today. He levitated three pounds out and into a small bag that had been charmed to keep cold for at least an hour. He preferred his meat a little less processed, but he wasn't about to turn his nose up. The real find was buried beneath: several pounds of brisket just on the verge of going bad. No matter, his stomach could handle the extra bacteria. Into the sack it went.
His meat stock replenished, he turned toward the dark, sensual smell of chocolate. He could have tread this path in his sleep, but it was in his nature to remain ever aware of his surroundings. Just a block from the factory he was pulled up short by an out of place scent. Pomegranate. It must be his imagination. He inhaled again and the fragrance remained faint but unmistakable; stealing his breath with the memory of silken hair twined around his fingers, of a soft throat pressed to his mouth.
His guilty conscience must be torturing him. She couldn't possibly have been here, but his nose told him that she had passed this way not more than a day earlier. She couldn't possibly have tracked him here, unless: had he ever mentioned to her the benefits (beyond the obvious) of living in close proximity to a chocolate factory? That the constant presence of chocolate molecules in the air provided a small but measurable protection from dementors, boosting the human immune system while weakening theirs?
He must have, during one of those moments as they walked together (her fingers caressing his, hinting at what was to come later) when he was desperately searching for something interesting to say; or later as she lay in his arms, her hair wound around his fingers, and he was once again desperately searching for something interesting to say.
He groaned: these memories were agonizing, now. They ripped him apart from the inside out, and he was helpless to stop them. The coming full moon would almost be a blessing, he thought bitterly. For one night, at least, she would be driven completely from his mind. Even the physical pain of the transformation was preferable to this.
One hand clutched involuntarily at his breast pocket, where he carried her last letter wrapped around a ticket. He still hadn't decided what to do with it. How much harder would it be to leave her a second time?
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I really appreciate you sharing your personal boundaries that worked for you and your partner. Seeing real world example really helps me understand how the underlying logistics works with this type of relationship. Kind of rubber meets the road so to speak.
We also ran into 2 incidents where I wanted to take her to a band I knew she'd like and a comedy she loves for Valentines. Both were ... for lack of better word, 'cock blocked' by 'T'. She wanted to spend time with him at these concerts. She wants to have sex with him after these concerts, which is another reason why she really needs / wants to stay overnight this weekend...
I know I sound a bit bitter, but it's just another annoying thing I can't get over. I wish there's some way I can enjoy or appreciate this NRE thing via compersion or something. For the most part though, I'm just pissed that I keep getting 'cock blocked'. ugh, sorry for the rant.
Preempting the social activities you two enjoy for time with him shows a really troubling lack of respect for your relationship. Calling it cockblocking makes it sound like it's all about sex but it's about a lot more than that. If I had a best friend who started turning me down for all the things we normally do together to go instead with a new best friend who I wasn't allowed to hang with, I'd be pissed and hurt... and this isn't a friend we're talking about, it's a partner!
She needs to understand how hurtful and damaging those choices are and commit to changing her ways if she really cares about her relationship with you. Sometimes people think that an "old" relationship doesn't need the same investment of time and energy to thrive as a new relationship, but that's just not true, in fact the opposite can be true when you no longer have NRE on your side.
Me, 30ish bi female, been doing solo poly for roughly 5 years. Gia, Clay, and Pike, my partners. Davis, ex/friend/"it's complicated." Eric, Gia's husband. Bee, Gia and Eric's toddler.
You don't need to feel guilty about what you want. We all have wants and needs, some of them come from rational and some from irrational places. Be patient and understanding towards yourself. Sometimes something you want may be unreasonable, and you can't have that, and yet it's not WRONG to feel like you want that, as long as you don't insist on having it.
Now then, at the bottom of it, the problem isn't that T is demanding on GF's time and requests hotel / weekend getaways, and comes up with numerous concerts and hiking dates. He likes her, why wouldn't he want to spend time with her. There's nothing wrong with him asking. And since he doesn't know you, he can have little consideration for your feelings, because in most cases he can't even know what they are. This is not about him, it is between you and her. GF is the person who has a relationship with you: she is responsible for taking your feelings into account. So, do you feel like they spend too much time together? When he asks her to go somewhere, does she always agree to that? What if you have plans? Have you and GF communicated about this? If there is something going on that makes you feel disrespected (what is it exactly?), there are two possibilities:
1) you haven't told your GF how you feel about that particular issue, or have told her but she didn't understand, so she doesn't know how her decisions affect you
2) she knows, but feels like what you ask for is unreasonable, but instead of communicating that to you and coming to an agreement together chooses to disrespect your wishes (or she has tried to tell you how she, in turn, feels, but you haven't understood her)
Can you see what I mean by saying that it's irrelevant what he does. It doesn't matter if he begs her to go to places, she still makes the decision of going, and has the responsibility for that decision. Both of you are responsible of communicating your feelings to each other and working on coming to an agreement.
I do think it would be beneficial for you and T to get to know each other better, since that can create mutual caring and respect between you two. Once you're there, you can expect him to care for your relationship with your GF, as well as their relationship.
Edit, wow, I hadn't read your latest post before writing that, but this is something very not cool on her part
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NRE sucks. No doubt about it. I wonder though if there is some resentment here on your part about the fact that he is male? Your "cockblock" statements make me think that there is a bit more going on here for you than you are letting on... is that so?
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The fact of the matter is, I certainly feel jealous that he gets some a sort of royal treatment when it comes to concerts / dates / camping etc. because of the NRE and the fact that somehow they "enjoy" those activity more than we (GF and I) would as a couple.
She has defended in the past that those concerts just happen to be their favorite bands, and that he's her "camping buddy". She said she'll find something that could be ours, like Jazz music (which is my favorite). I'm certainly still bitter that I'm somehow excluded from enjoying certain activity if I don't 1.) beat him to the punch in finding the concert or setting dates or 2.) activity he doesn't give a shit about, like Jazz concerts.
Totally sounds childish and ridiculous. These are instance where I just wish we could go back to being monogamous, where we can enjoy activity together as a couple, not fighting over finite amount of time / attention available.
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It is difficult to find any reviews for Polk RTi A9. Seems the series is pretty new. I did some price research and in India, these are seemingly the best in the price range I can afford. I need help to decide between them. I am trying to audition them, but they are not available in stores near me, so it will take some time.
Pair of fronts would cost:
Polk RTi A9 - $1600
Klipsch RF82 - $1350
May be better, but out of budget:
Polk LSi 15 - $2k - above my budget of $1.5k. Moreover matching center/ sub/ surrounds are expensive as well - not sure what I can mix/ match with them.
Klipsch RF83 - Can't afford. $3500
I will use for both HT and music. HT may take up most of the time on these speakers, but when I put music on them it should sound good.
Room is 20ft wide x 30ft deep - but seating would be 10-15ft from the 20ft wide wall - effectively 20ft x 15ft. Rest of the room is used for other activities.
I will expand it into a full 5.1/ 7.1 system over several months, as my pocket and wife would allow :-)
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Speakers likely affect the sound of a system more than any other component, and reviews are only what we the reviewers hear and perceive.
The only person who can decide which speaker is best for you and your tastes is you, so do try to listen to the speakers you want, and buy the one that sounds best to you, after all , you will be the one living with them in the end.
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Thanks Kenny. I agree with what you said.
However, I would rate my own ears as very untrained to find the difference in a demo. And they aren't going to remain that way for long - so I would like to go for something that I don't like later. I think I can trust the users here (and reviewers too) to a good extent.
Can we compare in terms of technology, power, range of sound they produce, number of drivers (is having more drivers better) etc? Is the speaker technology evolving like it does for avrs etc? Klipsch has very high efficiency - would that be better?
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Can we compare in terms of technology;
While technology does affect a manufacturers ability to accomplish their goals, the speaker still needs to sound good to you.
Speakers, for the most part aren't powered, Def Tech does add powered subs to enhance bass and it works well for them.
range of sound they produce,
Not sure what you mean here, if it is 'type' or timber of sound, then that is up to the individual designers, and also why you must decide what you like in a speakers sound. Certainly some speakers can be more dynamic than others, again, comes down to designers and your tastes.
number of drivers (is having more drivers better) etc?
This one is easy,NO, it all depends on how they are made/implemented. I have heard five ways sound like crap and two ways go down to 18Hz....
Is the speaker technology evolving like it does for avrs etc?
No, speakers, as all audio gear is constantly evolving, but the technology is, in my opinion, far closer to a plateau than AVR's, which have been slammed with changes. I consider speakers and amplifiers to be the most stable part of a system. I have had ten and fifteen year old amps that sounded great and would do me just fine in my HT, and I still own a pair of speakers I bought in 19846 after my freshman year in college that are awesome, but I have sold receivers that were a year and a half old as they were dated.
Klipsch has very high efficiency - would that be better? Efficiency translates into a higher sonic output with lower power (they play louder) so again it depends on your taste. I haven't owned Klipsch in so long I can't really comment on their new speakers, but in my time with them, they were always pretty edgy up top, and that is not to my taste so I got out of them and haven't even gone back.
Hope that helps.
I hate to be a broken record, but go out and try to listen to everything you can with material you are familiar with ands see what sounds best to you, this is the ultimate test.
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Listen to everything with your own material, enjoy the experience, make a discussion.
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I'm also looking at Polk RTi series (A3 bookshelves though) Seem to get great reviews for HT and music, but I haven't had a chance to listen to them yet. Let us know if you get a chance to compare those 3 you mentioned. Keep in mind that LSis are 4ohm you may need to upgrade amp as well, pretty big price hit since RTis are so well regarded.
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Law Beat: Raucci pension case raises wider legal issue
Updated 6:51 am, Wednesday, January 2, 2013
On Thursday, the state's highest court will hear arguments on whether Steven C. Raucci should receive a monthly $5,800 pension from the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System.
Raucci, the notorious former Schenectady city school official serving 23 years to life in prison for setting off explosives, says yes. So does his wife and attorney.
The state Office of Victim Services says no.
The Court of Appeals will rule in the dispute.
The body that can provide a more definite answer to this question — regardless of how the Court of Appeals rules — is a short walk away in the state Capitol.
That's the state Legislature, whose members are entrusted with passing state laws. Of course, many state legislators have also broken the law in recent years — and managed to keep collecting pensions.
Given the large number of state lawmakers convicted of corruption and other crimes in the last decade alone (and it is a list too long for the space allowed for this column) it would be naive to not suspect one or more future felons is within the present Legislature.
With that mind, the issue over pensions becomes a little trickier.
Let's say the Court of Appeals agrees with the arguments of Raucci's attorney, Alan J. Pierce, who contends it is clear that pension checks are exempt from seizure under a state law that protects public employees' pensions from "execution, garnishment, attachment, or any other process whatsoever."
If that happens, would the Legislature be open to changing the law knowing it could keep some of its own members from collecting future pensions?
This will be an issue to bear watching after the Court of Appeals renders its decision.
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A judge has ruled that a Kinderhook justice must turn over court transcripts to Columbia County prosecutors — the latest in an ongoing tug of war between the district attorney's office and the local judiciary.
Shortly after he was elected last year, Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka wrote a letter to the county's town and village justices informing them that his office would handle all cases and pleas and make final decisions on whether to drop charges in cases.
Czajka, a Republican who is a former county judge, said he made a campaign promise to streamline prosecutions in the county's municipal courts. But Czajka has run into resistance which prompted some justices — such as Kinderhook Village Justice David Dellehunt — to take their own stance because they believe Czajka's position is removing them from the process. They have kept cases on their calendars and ordered defendants to appear in court even though Czajka has notified defendants that he would drop their charges and would not be in court.
Taghkanic Town Court Justice Jeffrey S. Tallackson fired off a stern letter to the district attorney on June 14, saying "the court is not a rubber stamp."
Czajka sued Dellehunt in state Supreme Court after the justice refused to provide his office with tape recordings to transcribe court proceedings on Oct. 2, 2012. That night, Czajka argued, the justice put dozens of cases on the calendar for bench trials the district attorney had dismissed; the prosecutor's office wants a record of what transpired.
Acting state Supreme Court Justice Cathryn M. Doyle ruled Dec. 26 that Dellehunt must provide the recordings to the district attorney's office.
"To have a transcript produced from an electronically recorded matter any person, including but not limited to a litigant, reporter or nosy neighbor may request that a copy of the disk be sent to a transcription service," Doyle wrote in her ruling. "In the interest of values placed on open court proceedings, this court sees no legitimate reason for a court to deny the district attorney's request."
Dellehunt, who works full time as a clerk for George Ceresia, the administrative judge of the Third Judicial District (which includes Albany, Rensselaer, Columbia, Schoharie, Greene, Ulster and Sullivan counties) would not discuss the matter with the Times Union.
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Mike Knuble: 'We just want to keep playing well'
After scoring the decisive goal in the fourth round of the shootout against his team's biggest rival, Mike Knuble still managed to downplay the Caps' 4-3 victory over the Pens tonight.
"You can make what you want out of the game," the veteran winger said when asked if the win made a statement. "But it was a pretty good effort. [Goalie] Jose [Theodore] played really well, kind of held us in the first until we got going, but we were kind of leading ourselves down a bad road with penalties and stuff. We were lucky we were able to come back, but, you know, we just want to keep playing well."
Lindsay Applebaum
March 24, 2010; 10:10 PM ET
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Honk, Honk, HONK!!!
Posted by: large23220 | March 24, 2010 10:19 PM | Report abuse
caps win - pens lose - great night for hockey
Posted by: Capt_Kirk_in_AZ | March 24, 2010 10:19 PM | Report abuse
Dear Pittsburgh,
We're better than you.
Posted by: edheger | March 24, 2010 10:20 PM | Report abuse
If we do play the Penguins in the playoffs and the refs call an even series, I think we smoke them. If we play 7 games of this nonsense, then we might get beat. It doesn't concern me when referees call the same play both ways, but I don't feel that's what happened tonight.
The trip they called on us in the second period was called 30 seconds after a similar trip in the penguins end was overlooked. The hold on Crosby looked similar to the hold/hook/interference on Flash during our penalty kill in the second.
Just call it both ways zebras. As much as I'm happy with a SO win, I'm rather displeased the refs kept the game as close as they did.
Posted by: Raber | March 24, 2010 10:23 PM | Report abuse
How about Green and Corvo combining for 0 giveaways and 3 takeaways?
I'm not saying Corvo played great but he did seem to minimize his mistakes - at least in comparison to most of his games since joining the team. He may have been able to play that Penguins PP goal better but I need to see the replay.
Green didn't make any mistakes that stand out in my mind but I may have missed a play or two. He was +3 with a nice shot pass on Fehr's goal and I didn't notice him getting caught pinching or out of position all game.
Shaone Morrisonn with 9 non-steroid-induced hits!
Posted by: tmac2yao | March 24, 2010 10:27 PM | Report abuse
tmac, that's beautiful!
Posted by: wocoliz | March 24, 2010 10:30 PM | Report abuse
Penguins fans need to shut up about the fact they werent playing without Malkin. We were playing without Laich, ok? Crosby's whining has obviously infected their fanbase, who whine and make up excuses more than any fanbase in the league.
Posted by: khuddle01 | March 24, 2010 10:33 PM | Report abuse
I wish the NHL would keep Devorski away from us.
Posted by: ccCapsfan | March 24, 2010 10:40 PM | Report abuse
Great game, great time at the Verizon Center tonight. But I can't stop getting angry about the biased officiating! It's become so obvious you would think that the NHL would be forced to do something - here's a quote from the ESPN.com synopsis of the game:
"The Penguins were whistled for only one penalty. Ovechkin was tripped making a run in overtime, but no call was made."
If it's obvious to journalists, why aren't they writing about it? If something stinks, bring it to light and embarrass the League into fixing it. We know GMGM and Ted can't comment publicly and I assume they're talking privately, but until there is public comment and outcry about this garbage, we'll keep getting it every time we play Pitt. It's hard enough to have to beat the team, but to also have to beat the refs???? I noticed they called fewer penalties on the Caps after Semin's shortie! But they still didn't call that blatant trip against Ovie in ot.
Tarik - isn't there a Post journalist who wants to take this on?
Posted by: DevilsCapsGal | March 24, 2010 10:47 PM | Report abuse
I don't like to get caught up in the individual awards but I can't help it.
H. Sedin already has 2 points tonight to tie Ovechkin.
Posted by: tmac2yao | March 24, 2010 10:51 PM | Report abuse
Another effort of resiliency on display despite a slow start and solid play by the Penguins.
Down a goal in the third - no problem.
Down 2-0 in a shootout - no problem.
A great job by Jose Theodore. The man is getting locked in for the postseason. Clutch saves and shut the door even after the first two Pens shooters scored.
Semin - great effort tonight. Beautiful goal.
Referee's were an absolute joke tonight. Let's call everything on Washington tonight. Still it didn't matter. That's some of the most one sided officiating I've seen in a while.
Either way - it's a win.
A quick jump down south to take on the Hurricanes tomorrow.
It's been a two point night.
Posted by: Jonathan6 | March 24, 2010 10:57 PM | Report abuse
Very rare to see the media discuss officiating in stories because of the blackball factor. You'll see Tarik blog about it every now and then but rarely write about crappy officiating unless it is a sincerely blown call (like the phantom breaking stick last Pens game).
It is one of the reasons I'm a fan of Bill Simmons on ESPN-- the fact he isn't traditional media (i.e., reliant on access to locker rooms and league officials) lets him call it as he sees it, even if he is an admitted homer. I wish he'd cover hockey more, would love to see if he'd make any comments about the general state of NHL officiating. He does call Crosby boring, so he gets bonus points from me for that.
Posted by: TheGJ | March 24, 2010 11:02 PM | Report abuse
I don't want the refs to keep track of how many penalties they've called during a game or to even things up... I just want them to call a penalty when they see one throughout the game consistently
the calls made against the Caps were rather obvious ones, easy calls to make... could the Caps have had a couple more PPs tonight? I suppose but I didn't think the refs missed anything anything obvious
Posted by: joek443 | March 24, 2010 11:07 PM | Report abuse
Officiating stunk (stunk!)
Offense DID miss Brooks
Jose Rocked the House!
and, I hate shootouts
Posted by: bluejeener1 | March 24, 2010 11:08 PM | Report abuse
Re: refs calls (or non-calls)...
While it's fairly apparent this eve's game was called with two different sets of rules, it's also apparent the heirachy of the League is content to allow the refs to CONTINUE to add their own coloration to each game's proceedings (see: ref Stephane Auger/Canuck Alexandre Burrows, etc). As such, it's imperative for the Caps to not get caught up in the BS that accompanies games involving the NHL's favorite son. Filling the net tends to allleviate the necessity to argue the nonsense the refs perpetrate. LET'S GO CAPS!
Posted by: MetalCapsFan | March 24, 2010 11:11 PM | Report abuse
Get ready for the discrepancy in the power plays in the playoffs. It happened 2 years ago against the Flyers and last year against the Pens. In the Pens series, the Pens deserved more, but not to the disproportionate extent that they got them. The Flyers series was truly ridiculous. Even a single game in which the goonish Flyers have more power plays is highly questionable, but to have it happen for a full series gets into the realm of probable fraud.
Posted by: zmega | March 24, 2010 11:16 PM | Report abuse
Where has this Shaone Morrison been all season. He's been great the last 10-15 games. He's hitting everything that moves. He and Carlson pretty damn good back.
That Semin wrist shot is amazing. Jose played great as well. If we can't get any calls in our own building, I wonder what it's going to be like in Pitt.
Posted by: CAPSHOCKEY2 | March 24, 2010 11:20 PM | Report abuse
you drive to the net and you get more penalties called in your favor... the Caps of last year and the year before weren't exactly known for crashing the net.
they've been doing a lot better job of it this year and they will have to continue to do so in the playoffs
Posted by: joek443 | March 24, 2010 11:22 PM | Report abuse
@joek443: I understand what you're getting at, but I counted two or three trips, a slash, a rough, and an interference that were committed by the Pens right in front of a ref and were not called.
I have no issue with what was called on the Caps - those were legit - the problem was that the Pens got away with just about everything and anything. Good thing their power play is terrible - maybe the refs wanted these two teams' weak units to get some practice! Yeah, that's the ticket. Heh.
That said, we have to expect this in the playoffs. Some teams get the calls and the Caps are not one of them. The Pens are. The key there is that we have to expect to get none of the calls and win anyhow. I think that this team can do that - they're so dominant at ES that they can outscore when they get fewer PP's.
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policydoc writes:
This is already happening. National and local guidelines are in place, and for most major disease conditions health care systems, facilities, and sometimes physicians are being profiled on adherence to these practices. There are now a number of "pay for performance" initiatives for physicians.
Unfortunately, there are some obvious flaws in this system. The first is that physicians only partly control the process: in the end, the patient has to agree to (and use) a treatment. The bigger concern, however, is statistical: physicians usually have a small panel of patients with a specific condition, it only takes one or two bad cases to make one look bad. The solution is to get that patient out of your panel - selecting a better population is a much better way to look good than trying as hard as possible to do a better job.
The incentives have to be carefully structured to deal with these issues, and there is still a great deal of empirical research into the best way to define, measure, and reward good care.
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A process-based compensation scheme would be helpful in solving what I call the diet doctor conundrum. A couple of years ago I was seeing a diet doctor, an endocrinologist. My health care plan doesn't compensate for the cost of the medical treatment of obeisity, but it does offer out-of-network coverage. So my doctor would give me a bill to submit to the insurance company with the diagnosis codes for hypertension and hypothyroidism, neither of which I have. I am not well-versed enough in the insurance business to say whether or not this is fraud. But let's say for the sake of argument that it's not fraud but kind of pushing the edge of the envelope. This doctor may feel that I need weekly visits to monitor my weight loss progress, which is not really necessary, but would maximize returns to her. Under a process-based system the doctor would have to adhere to the guidline of what is acceptable treatment for obesity or hypertension or hypothyroidism and would make it difficult to game the system in this way.
On the other hand, every case and every patient's needs are unique and it is wrong to think that there's a one-size-fits-all guidline. For instance the choice to treat prostate cancer surgically or radiologically is a complex one that depends at least in part on the patient's willingness to endure the costs and consequences of these procedures. The risk-benefit analysis will vary according to individual preferences and there is no way to write a guidline that will account for this.
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Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring and Testing Assistant Manager - Financial Crime Compliance
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Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring and Testing Assistant Manager - Financial Crime Compliance
Location: Asia Pacific-Hong Kong-Kowloon-Tai Kok Tsui
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Financial Crime Compliance aligns current activities within Global Risk and helps to build these into a more integrated framework to conduct Customer Due Diligence which enables HSBC to manage financial crime risk more effectively. It builds stronger controls to improve the way Financial Crime Compliance risks are managed in order to spot gaps as well as trends so that the team can take action. It proactively gathers and analyses financial intelligence in a smart way so that suspicious transactions, activities or connections can be identified and we can adequately protect our customers from the threat of financial crime.
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Satellite nodules – a limited factor for the extracapsular dissection of the pleomorphic adenoma of the parotid gland
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Introduction: The enucleation of the pleomorphic adenoma of the parotid gland, which was one of the general type of treatments in the last century, was discovered as one of the main risks for recidives and thus replaced by lateral parotidectomy. During the last years, it became increasingly common to replace the lateral parotidectomy by an extracapsular dissection. At this the emergence of satellite nodules might influence the risk for negative recidives.
Method: In a retrospective analysis 313 pleomorphic adenomas of the parotid gland were removed at the department of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery at the German armed force hospital in Ulm between 1999 and 2006. They were histologically examined and evaluated in respect to their frequency of satellite nodules.
Result: In 24.7% of the pleomorphic adenomas, which were removed in the first surgery, satellite nodules were discovered. The majority of this group (64%) are actually pleomorphic adenomas of the stroma-rich subtype.
Conclusion: The frequency of satellite tumor nodules of the overall samples was much higher than expected. Stroma-rich pleomorphic adenomas were represented the most. From this perspective, it is reasonable to rethink the replacement of lateral parotidectomy by extracapsular dissection.