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The nation has been whipsawed this year by budget arguments in Congress that run perilously close to forcing a shutdown before coming back from the brink, just briefly, before the whole cycle starts over again.
Beyond the obvious stress on federal employees, who can't count on having a paycheck during the period when the shutdown looks possible, this isn't good for anyone, except for posturing members of Congress. And maybe not even for them.
Congress didn't reach a final agreement on the fiscal 2011 budget until April, more than halfway through the fiscal year. And before that, the last budget Congress passed was on April 29, 2009. The country has been largely running on continuing resolutions, temporary stopgap measures that preserve existing or reduced levels of funding for a set period of time and then expire, starting the negotiations all over again.
This calendar year, those negotiations have been contentious enough that the very real chance of a shutdown has arisen three times (twice over spending bills, once over the debt ceiling), and there'll be at least one more opportunity before the year ends. (That fourth chance will be in a different fiscal year.)
At least one member of Congress, Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-NY), tried to give her colleagues more incentive to pass a budget. A bill she introduced in June, the "Just Do Your Job Act of 2011" (HR 2372), would have defunded Congressional budget committees and majority leadership offices if Congress failed to pass a budget.
But her bill, despite having attracted six co-sponsors, was referred to the Committee on House Administration on the day it was introduced and went no further, according to the Library of Congress's Thomas.loc.gov site. Buerkle's bill applied only to the budgets for fiscal years 2011 and 2012, but many FCW readers have similarly suggested that Congress should not get paid when it fails to pass a budget. However, given that the very people who can't get budgets passed are the ones who would vote on such a proposal, it seems like an unlikely step.
We're not sure how to solve this problem, but we are pretty sure it's going to become an increasingly dangerous problem if it's not solved soon. The nation can't function for long on stop-gap funding and angry rhetoric. Congress just needs to do its job.
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Let get the President to invoke an executive order stating that congress must have a balanced budget for him to sign or they don't get paid until they do each year and no retro pay for failure. Instead forefeiture of pay and get the judical branch to back it. You'll be amazed at how easy they will balance the budget. It just takes someone with a brain to think up things that really do work. Too bad there aren't any of those in washington dc.
A law or constitutional amendment stating that starting January 2 of each year, Congress SHALL be in session at least 6 days a week, with no recesses allowed until the appropriation bills for the following fiscal year are passed, and that no other bills may be considered until they are ALL passed.
Pass an amendment that says that congress and their assistants get no pay until after the budget is passed and that they can get no more than 90 days back pay. That might get budgets passed April.
The problem is that congress is too representative of the people. When almost every constituent that is vocal is "NIMBY" (or the reverse) on every issue that might possibly have a negative consequence for them, then congress has no sense of what America wants because what one person wants is diametrically opposed to what someone else wants. There is no solution to this that I can come up with. Anyone that does have a solution to this is "NIMBY" (or the reverse) and is trying to divert attention to or from their particular interest.
I think final approval should rest with the People. This is supposed to be Government for the People by the People - not Government by the Politicians for Special Interests and Lobbyists. I wholeheartedly agree that they should not get paid if they can't do their jobs and the approval for such a law should not rest with them - who have only their own interests at heart as has been shown repeatedly - but with the PEOPLE. Let the People be the conscience they are so evidently lacking.
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Bold statement from Durant, but then again, it's hard to argue the facts.
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Glad to know Milberg cheated at basketball as well as in litigation. I wonder how much Bershad paid to Stephenson out of the "slush fund" to get him on the Bball court originally.
Milberg is LAME and so is news related to it. Also, Arthur Miller has basically been 'of counsel' for a while. He spent lots of time there, especially around Passover because Mel made yummy matzo brei.
Hiring a ringer to play on your hoops team is a trick as old as the day is long. I've been doing that in B-More for years. Barksdale boys never knew what hit 'em.
Bershad is a sick demented guy who is getting less then he deserves. This guy wasnt a hypocrite, bc his values were always the values of a weasel not a man. I dont know what nonsense he fed his children or what he told god on the high holidays when he begged for forgiveness for his pathetic existence, but Bershad at best was a peon who was in the right place at the right time, and made a lot of money. Money is the only value this guy ever demonstrated and I am sure his children are very distressed that he wont be bringing home any more of it.
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Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
what were u smoking?
This happened to you!!??!?!? if u are the pube muppet then it did. what were u smoking man!! How culd u get a russian and an idnian mixed up?
Im russian!!!
I also hat to tell u that was me... i died and became the devil.
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Grab Luke Gregerson! Ah, that's how you start a post. Some sweet, sweet SAGNOF. It's like when I walk into a room and it just lights up. Guys and four girls be going, "Ooh, what's his name, and can I get his number?" My mustache is yours. *eye wink* There's plenty of me to go around. On the other hand (wasn't that the first hand?), there hasn't been that many closer jobs changing hands (there's those hands again). This weekend us save chasers caught a lucky break when Sean Doolittle came down with a strained intercostal. Yes, he strained the highway that runs down the side of Florida. What the H do I know? Handsome, that's the H I know. Now, go grab Gregerson and come back for some straight fantasy flavor from the Fantasy Master Lothario (don't abbreviate it, thank you). UPDATE: A's said they might go to or Eric O'Flaherty, the dad from Freaks and Geeks. I'd grab both Gregerson and O'Flaherty until the situation worked itself out. Anyway, here's what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?If Miggy were a Russian nesting doll, the first doll under him would be Avisail Garcia. They look like so similar they could do Sister, Sister-type stunts. "I don't want to face Felix Hernandez today, you take my jersey and you face him…Then take my algebra exam." "Okay, sis, but you have to go out with Bobby for me. Pinky swear!" That's them conspiring to use their physical similarities on unsuspecting people. (Bee tee dubya, I've never seen an episode of Sister, Sister, and if I missed the general gist of the show, I apologize to all the prankster twins reading for generalizing. But, I will say, twins should apologize for looking similar, it's disconcerting. The first time you see them you have to ask yourself, "Am I on peyote right now? No, I'm not, I'm looking at a twin." Any the hoo!) Comparing him to Miggy doesn't give the whole picture of Avisail. Well, it does, but, okay, bad choice of words. It doesn't tell you what kind of hitter Avisail is. He's not a 40-homer hitter. At least not yet. He has some speed, even stole 20 bases one year in the minors, when he was only 18 years old. He also probably won't hit for more than 25 homers all of next year. He can hit for a solid average. Last year, while only 21 years old for half the year (no, he doesn't have two birthdays a year; I mean he was 21 for half the season), he hit .370 in the minors. He reminds me more of a young Matt Holliday — think around 25 HRs, 15 SBs and .315. Definitely someone I would be aggressive about in keepers. As for this year, now that he's fully recovered from his torn labrum, an injury that sounds like it would happen to a gymnast, he's someone I'd look at in all leagues. Anyway, here's some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Amish text states vociferously that a Quackenbush should not render thou's biblical nature moot. Stating, "Eroticism is the devil's electricity, and our brains should not be hardwired to flip any switches when our nature's bell rings. You may want to churn butter into the Quackenbush–" I just realize I had a smudge on my Amish Schoolchildren Early Education textbook and it's not Quacken, it's Quaker. That is my bad. So, Joaquin Benoit could be headed to the DL, and even if he's not, he's dealing with a shoulder issue and may not be effective. In every league I needed saves, I'd grab Kevin Quackenbush. And, if truly desperate, I'd even grab Dale Thayer. As for a Quaker bush, well, caution is advised. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?"Richards is talking to trainers but remains on back. Injury appears to be serious." That's how the news was tweeted out yesterday by the Angels beat writer. If Agatha Christie were around today, she'd adapt that tweet and name the novel, 140 Characters On A Train Wreck. Then it would be re-released after a train disaster with its new title, The Pitcher's Trap. No matter the title, there was and will only be one antagonist, the Fantasy Baseball Overlord, who gets his jollies from the misery of fantasy baseballers. You sit on his lap; he says, "What do you want this season?" "A healthy pitcher." "Ho, ho, ho, no." Arm injury, oblique, hip impingement, parallel parking impingement because of a stupid cone, broken toe, Tommy John surgery, Tomas Juan surgery in Mexico, forearm strain and now a knee. The Angels best options are Wade "Joey" LeBlanc, Randy "Team Jacob" Wolf and Chris "Lord" Volstad. They are all horror shows. Mean's while, it sounds like Garrett Richards will miss the remainder of the season, but hopefully will be fine for next year. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Chris Tillman went 8 IP, 1 ER, 4 baserunners, 9 Ks, lowering his ERA to 3.55 while dropping his 2nd half ERA to 2.14 in 46 1/3 IP. Still, the best thing about him is he doesn't currently have a duet with Nicki Minaj on the radio. He's the one person in the western hemisphere. You are so lucky, eastern hemisphere! Assuming you, Eastern Hemispherers, move to the western hemisphere in the next six months and don't get all of our hand-me-down crap songs next. I lived in London in the fall of 1996, so I had a jumpstart on "Tell me what you want what you really want, what you really really want" by the Spice Girls, then when I moved back home, it just got here. I had a good solid 12 months straight of one stupid Spice Girls song. I called it A Clockwork Spice. Ready for me to tie this in? I bet you are! I was in on Tillman in the preseason the past two years, convinced he could make the jump to fantasy number two. I held him both years in the 1st half, as he got battered around, then in the 2nd half of both years after I dropped him, he buckled down and showed the kind of pitcher he can be. Unlike last year, his peripherals this year are pretty poor — 6.2 K/9, 3 BB/9, 4.31 xFIP. I'd definitely own him while he's going well, but I don't think he's become anything more than a decent fantasy number four to five. Right now, he's a Wannabe. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?When you get a little cumin, coriander, curry, power and speed in the same dish, you got a Marte party! Whatever happened to that Next Food Network Star? She disappear with every other one, except Guy Fieri? As Anthony Bourdain aptly said, Fieri is the Poochie of the Food Network. Due to Fieri's success, they keep trying to sandwich (pardon the word) new personalities onto their network. This past season they awarded a Hee Haw Fieri. Instead of the frosted hair, he had a cowboy hat. We call this show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Farting By The Fire! Any the hoo! Going into yesterday's game, Starling Marte was tied with George Springer and behind Michael Morse on our Player Rater. To that, The Count would say blah blah blah. Crazy enough, Drew Stubbs was above all of them, and in the top 40 outfielders. By the power of Coors, I pronounce you fantasy worthy. Of course, Marte went 3-for- 4 with his 7th and 8th homers yesterday, so he'll probably shoot above those aforementioned outfielders. Marte's a little behind his pace from last year, but I'm going to like him next year for one simple reason: a guy that can hit 12 homers and steal 40 bases is very valuable as long as he doesn't hit .220. That's like a manhole in Fantasy Town! Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Hello, I'm Keith Morrison of Dateline. Today's story is about a young closer who had the life that we all dream about — money, girls, Tony La Russa's private phone number to find out if a product used animal testing. What Trevor Rosenthal didn't have, his shut 'em down stuff. We pick up the story right after Rosenthal took the mound on April 7th. He was in for his third save, but there was something wrong. Could it have been he lost his control? Or was something else lurking deep in his past — perhaps a high school sweetheart who assumed the identity of Rosenthal's favorite Starbucks barista, who was putting Visine in his favorite latte drink. Visine that has been known, when digested, to cause runs. Coming up later, Rosenthal can't find the strike zone for three months, he blows numerous saves, Pat Neshek looks incredible in a setup role and Matheny groans. This is the story of The $12 Salad That Became A Brain Freeze. So, the Cards have been patient with Trevor Rosenthal, even while he hasn't looked good for the majority of the year, but recently he's been hideous. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cards go to Neshek, who has a 0.86 ERA, 0.57 WHIP and four saves already. Yesterday, Seth Maness (no relation to Brandon Guyer) got the save, but that was more because Neshek had thrown already in the game. As for the title, you may not stay…for Trevor stung! Anyway, here's what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Yeah, last week I told you to buy Kris Bryant. This week it's Jorge Soler. Next week, it'll probably be Jody Davis Jr. After that, we're all going to move to the north side of Chicago, get one of those beef sandwiches they say are Italian that don't look like anything any Italian I know would eat, then we'll chow down on some pizza that could double as mattress padding and we'll say da instead of the. Chicago's my kind of fantasy prospect town. The only reason why I'm talking about these Cubs prospects — well, not the only reason, but a good reason — it's late in the year and prospects are called up on September 1st. Specificlly talking about Cubs prospects, because I want to get in a Hot Tub Time Machine with them and go back one minute every other minute so I can stretch out my time with them. Like a real romantic! So, on Jorge Soler. He's hot butter on Oprah's thigh with Stedman moving in. Sexy and weirdly erotic. Soler, Bryant and Baez are like 1A, 1B, there's no 1C and 1D. Soler missed a month earlier in the year with a hamstring injury, but he's been fine for a while now. Shoot, I'd even say F-I-N-E, fine. He has some slight speed, 30-homer power and a .280 average. Basically, every All-Star outfielder of the last ten years. Unlike Bryant, Theo hasn't said Soler won't come up. Soler almost definitely will. Grabbing a guy with something to prove with this much talent, this is what H2H leagues are won with! Or any leagues, for that matter. Look at Baez, he's on a 70-homer pace. What, you don't want 70 homers? I'd stash Soler now. Anyway, here's some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Low voice, "Wow." Digs ditch, steps down, "Wow." Need more emphasis. Buys a mini-excavator, consults with architects about installing a down escalator, begins construction, gets behind on schedule, fires a guy that smokes more than he digs, hires a foreman that seems like he knows what he's doing, foreman runs off with money, tracks foreman down in Aruba hanging out with Andruw Jones, punches foreman, watches Andruw Jones make diving catch of forearm's body, heads back to the States to oversee completion of down escalator, breaks champagne on escalator, travels down a full story and, "WOW!" Do you see what I go though to emphasize something for you? After Mike Fiers struck out 14 Cubs in 6 innings, he can have anything he wants. Sleep with my Cougs, she's all yours! He now has a 1.29 ERA, a 10.3 K/9 and 2.1 BB/9 after 21 IP, after blowing through the minor leagues with a 11.3 K/9. I grabbed him in one 12 team league and looked to pick him up in every league, but he wasn't there. I forgot the most important lesson, you couldn't get Michael Fiers if you were f***ing Michael Fiers! Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Yu Darvish hit the DL with elbow inflammation. In Grey's 2nd half rankings, he said, "BAM! What? (Darvish) should be in the top 20 with the rest of the big-name pitchers, but I'm worried about an injury, so I ranked him much lower and that gets a BAM!" And that's me quoting Grey! Dayum, son, Grey called that one. Sure, he called it so long ago that no one even remembers it, but he called it neverthehoo! Actually sounds a bit like Grey is writing this. Oh, shoot, here he comes! Hey, who wrote those previous, beautifully written sentences? Sure as heck wasn't me! Guess that's what I get for leaving my computer open at a Starbucks while I order a double foam, half-Sanka, half-espresso mocha, goochie, goochie, ya ya latte, LaBelle-style. Well, I told you I had concerns about Darvish and when I have concerns, I make it happen with my mind like some crazy, telekinetic-fantasy-baseball-Scott-Baio-in-Zapped mofo! The Rangers haven't given a timetable for Darvish's return yet, but like I also said in the 2nd half rankings, the Rangers have nothing to play for so they could shut him down. Give him more time with his lady friends. What does Darvish's girlfriend call Yu's erections? YD Bulger, and it's in hiding. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
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Meredith: A bunch of prudes. You know, Oscar's allowed to wear sandals, but I'm not allowed to wear open-toed shoes? [pulls down dress, office gasps] Is that how it goes?
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Stanley: Did you tell him how sick of him you were?
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Michael: Yes.
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Kelly: She could be.
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Gray sea, gray sky, but fire in the woods and the trees aflame. No heat, no smoke, but still the forests burned, crowning with red and yellow and orange; a cold conflagration with the coming of fall, and the leaves resignedly descending. There was mortality in the air, borne on the first hint of winter breezes, the threatening chill of them, and the animals prepared for the coming snows. The foraging had begun, the filling of bellies for leaner times. Hunger would make the more vulnerable creatures take risks in order to feed, and the predators would be waiting. Black spiders squatted at the corners of their webs, not yet slumbering. There were still stray insects to be had, and further trophies to be added to their collections of withered husks. Winter coats grew thick, and fur began to lighten, the better to blend in against the snow. Contrails of geese arrowed the skies like refugees fleeing a coming conflict, abandoning those forced to stay and face what was to come.
The ravens were motionless. Many of their far-northern brethren had headed south to escape the worst of the winter, but not these birds. They were huge yet sleek, their eyes bright with an alien intelligence. Some on this remote road had noticed them already, and if they had company on their walks, or in their automobiles, they commented on the presence of the birds. Yes, it was agreed, they were larger than the usual ravens, and perhaps, too, they brought with them a sense of discomfort, these hunched beings, these patient, treacherous scouts. They were perched deep among the branches of an ancient oak, an organism approaching the end of its days, its leaves falling earlier each year, so that by the end of every September it was already bare, a charred thing amid the flames, as though the all-consuming fire had already had its way with it, leaving behind only the smoke smudges of long-abandoned nests. The tree stood at the edge of a small copse that jutted slightly at this place to follow the curvature of the road, with the oak as its farthest point. Once there were others like it, but the men who built the road had cut them down many years before. It was now alone of its kind, and soon it too would be gone.
But the ravens had come to it, for the ravens liked dying things.
The smaller birds fled their company, and regarded the intruders warily from the cover of evergreen foliage. They had silenced the woods behind them. They radiated threat: the stillness of them, their claws curled upon the branches, the bladelike sharpness of their beaks. They were stalkers, watchers, waiting for the hunt to begin. The ravens were so statuesque, so immobile, that they might have been mistaken for misshapen outcroppings of the tree itself, tumorous growths upon its bark. It was unusual to see so many together, for ravens are not social birds; a pair, yes, but not six, not like this, not without food in sight.
Walk on, walk on. Leave them behind, but not before casting one last anxious glance at them, for to see them was to be reminded of what it is to be pursued, to be tracked from above while the hunters follow remorselessly. That is what ravens do; they lead the wolves to their prey, and take a portion of the spoils as payment for their labors. You want them to move. You want them to leave. Even the common raven was somehow disturbing, but these were not common ravens. No, these were most uncommon birds. Darkness was approaching, and still they waited. They might almost have been slumbering were it not for the way the fading light caught the blackness of their eyes, and how they captured the early moon when the clouds broke, imprisoning its image within themselves.
A short-tailed weasel emerged from the rotted stump that was her home and tested the air. Its brown fur was already altering, the darkness growing out of it, the mammal becoming a ghost of itself. She had been aware of the birds for some time, but she was hungry and anxious to feed. Her litter had dispersed, and she would not breed again until the new year. Her nest was lined with mouse fur for insulation, but the little larder in which she had stored her surplus of slain rodents was now empty. The weasel had to eat forty percent of her own body weight each day in order to survive. That was about four mice a day, but the animals had been scarce on her regular routes.
The ravens seemed to ignore her appearance, but the weasel was too shrewd to risk her life on the absence of movement. She turned herself so that she was facing into her nest, and used her black-tipped tail as bait to see if the birds were tempted to strike. If they did, they would miss her body in aiming for her tail and she would retreat to the safety of the stump, but the ravens did not react. The weasel's nose twitched. Suddenly there was sound, and light. Headlights bathed the ravens, and now their heads moved, following the beams. The weasel, torn between fright and hunger, allowed her belly to choose. She disappeared into the woods while the ravens were distracted, and was soon lost from sight.
The car wound its way along the road, traveling faster than was wise and taking the bends more widely than it should, for it was hard to see vehicles approaching from the opposite direction, and a traveler unfamiliar with this route might easily have found himself in a head-on collision, or tearing a path through the bushes that lined the road. He might, were this the kind of road that travelers took, but few visitors came here. The town absorbed their impact, the apparent dullness of it dissuading further investigation, then spat them back the way they came, over the bridge and toward Route 1, there to continue north to the border, or south to the highway and on to Augusta and Portland, the big cities, the places that the peninsula's residents strove so hard to avoid. So no tourists, but strangers sometimes paused here on their life's journey, and after a time, if they proved suitable, the peninsula would find a place for them, and they would become part of a community with its back to the land and its face set hard against the sea.
There were many such communities in this state; they attracted those who wished to escape, those who sought the protection of the frontier, for this was still an edge state with boundaries of wood and sea. Some chose the anonymity of the forests, where the wind in the trees made a sound like the breaking of waves upon the shore, an echo of the ocean's song to the east. But here, in this place, there were forest and sea; there were rocks ringing the inlet, and a narrow causeway that paralleled the bridge linking the mainland and those who had chosen to set themselves apart from it; there was a town with a single main street, and enough money to fund a small police department. The peninsula was large, with a scattered population beyond the cluster of buildings around Main Street. Also, for administrative and geographic reasons long forgotten, the township of Pastor's Bay stretched across the causeway and west to the mainland. For years the county sheriff policed Pastor's Bay until the town looked at its budget and decided that not only could it afford its own force, it might actually save money in the process, and so the Pastor's Bay Police Department was born.
But when locals spoke of Pastor's Bay it was the peninsula to which they were referring, and the police were their police. Outsiders often referred to it as "the island," even though it was not an island because of the natural connector to the mainland, although it was the bridge that received the most traffic. It was wide enough to take a decent two-lane road, and high enough to avoid any risk of the community being entirely cut off in foul weather, although there were times when the waves rose and washed over the road, and a stone cross on the mainland side attested to the former presence on this earth of one Maylock Wheeler, who was washed away in 1997 while walking his dog, Kaya. The dog survived, and was adopted by a couple on the mainland, for Maylock Wheeler had been a bachelor of the most pronounced sort. But the dog kept trying to return to the island, as those who are born of such places often will, and eventually the couple gave up trying to hold on to it, and it was taken in by Grover Corneau, who was the chief of police at the time. It remained with Grover until his retirement, and a week separated the deaths of the dog and its owner. A photograph of them together remained on the wall of the Pastor's Bay Police Department. It made Kurt Allan, Grover's replacement, wonder if he also should acquire a dog, but Allan lived alone, and was not used to animals.
It was Allan's car that now passed beneath the old oak and pulled up before the house across the road. He looked to the west and shielded his eyes against the last of the setting sun, bisected by the horizon. There were more cars coming. He had told the others to follow. The woman would need them. Detectives from the Maine State Police were also on their way following the confirmation of the AMBER Alert, and the National Crime Information Center had automatically been notified of a missing child. A decision would be made within the coming hours on whether to seek further assistance from the FBI.
The house was a ranch-style dwelling, neatly kept and freshly painted. The fallen leaves had been raked and added to a compost pile at the sheltered side of the building. For a woman without a man to help her, a woman not of this place, she had managed well, he thought.
And the ravens watched as Allan knocked on the door, and the door opened, and words were spoken, and he stepped inside, and there was no sound or movement from within for a time. Two more cars arrived. From the first vehicle stepped an elderly man with a worn leather physician's bag. The other was driven by a woman of late middle age wearing a blue overcoat that caught in the car door as she rushed to the house. It tore, but she did not stop to examine the damage after wrenching it free. There were more important matters to which to attend.
The new arrivals had come together and were halfway across the yard when the front door opened wide and a woman ran toward them. She was in her late thirties, carrying a little weight on her waist and her thighs, her hair flying loose behind her. They stopped suddenly at the sight of her, and the middle-aged woman raised her arms as though expecting the other to fall into her embrace, but instead the younger woman pushed her way past them, jostling the doctor, one of her shoes falling from her foot, and the white stones on the drive tore at her skin so that she left smears of blood across them. She stumbled and landed heavily, and when she rose again her jeans were ripped, and her knees were scratched, and one of her fingernails was broken. Kurt Allan appeared in the doorway, but the woman was already on the road and her hands were at her mouth and she screamed a name over and over and over…
"Anna! Anna! Anna!"
She was crying now, and she wanted to run, but the road curved to the right and to the left, and she did not know which way to turn. The middle-aged woman came to her and wrapped her in her arms at last, even as her charge fought against her, and the doctor and Allan were approaching as she screamed the name again. Birds took flight from the surrounding trees, and unseen creatures burst from brush and scrub as though to carry the message.
The girl is gone, the girl is gone.
Only the ravens remained. The sun was at last swallowed by the horizon, and true darkness began to fall. The ravens became part of it, absorbed by it and absorbing it in turn, for their blackness was deeper than any night.
Eventually the weasel returned. The fat corpse of a field mouse hung limply in her jaws, and she could taste its blood in her mouth. It was all that she could do not to tear it apart as soon as she had killed it, but her instincts told her to control her urges. Her self-restraint was rewarded, though, for a smaller mouse had crossed her path as she returned to her home, and she fed on that instead before hiding its remains. Perhaps she would retrieve them later, once her larger prize was safely stored away.
She did not hear the raven's approach. Her first awareness of it came with the impact of its talons upon her back, tearing through her coat and into her flesh. It pinned her to the ground, then slowly began to peck at her, its long beak carving neat holes in her body. The raven did not feed upon her. It simply tortured her to death, taking its time over her agonies. When it had reduced her to a mess of blood and fur, it left the corpse for the scavengers and rejoined its companions. They were waiting for the hunt to begin, and they were curious about the hunter who was to come.
No, the one who had sent them was curious about him, and they watched on his behalf.
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A Charlie Parker Thriller
When a girl disappears from a small Maine town, her neighbor—a recluse named Randall Haight—starts receiving anonymous letters that contain tormenting references to a different teenage girl, murdered long ago. For many years, Randall has kept a secret: when he was fourteen, he was convicted of killing that girl. Now, his former life has returned to haunt him, and he hires private detective Charlie Parker to make it go away. But in a town built on blood and shadowed by old ghosts, where too many of the living are hiding secrets, the past cannot be dismissed so easily. As Parker unravels a twisted, violent history involving a doomed mobster and his enemies, the police, and the FBI, his search returns again and again to Randall Haight. Because Randall is still telling lies. . . .
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tags: shipwrecks, England, United Kingdom, Poole wreckAn elaborately carved rudder that has sat on the seabed of the English Channel for more than 400 years has been raised by archaeologists.
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I'm settling into my new role at Search Engine Watch, ClickZ and Search Engine Strategies
I'm settling into my new role at Search Engine Watch, ClickZ and Search Engine Strategies. I'm meeting lots of new people and digging my way out of a lot of paperwork and red tape. In between, the industry has been ticking along and I've hardly had a moment to notice what has been going on. I thought it may be a good idea to have a reflection on a few things that certainly did catch my attention this week.
So, in a week when...
Adobe announced its potential acquisition of Omniture, a seemingly startled industry furrowed its brow and said: "What?"
Generally speaking, most commentary I've seen since the announcement has been based around the fact that, they can't seem to find where the fit is. Obviously, with a $1.8 billion price attached to Omniture, this is less than likely to have been an impulse purchase!
If we saw an announcement saying "Google buys Twitter" there'd hardly be a furrowed brow in sight. Or if we saw "Microsoft buys Google" we'd likely be more interested in the purchase price than, what to many, may be an obvious fit.
There are many reasons why companies get acquired by another larger company. It's not always about the fit. Over the years I've seen many acquisitions where there didn't seem to be an exact fit and yet the outcome has been totally positive and profitable. There's a case quite simply for diversity. Both Adobe and Omniture are recognized technology leaders in their respective markets, for instance. And you know, sometimes a company which simply has better management and a clearer vision of the future can take a company and turn its fortunes around to the advantage of all.
I'm not sure at all what the decisive reason (or combination of reasons) was for them wanting to go ahead and ink such a big deal. But I seem to be less surprised about the deal than most are.
There have always been the inherent problems with Flash and the web. Flash is alien to the browser so it has to be "plugged in." Trying to use analytics to track users in Flash has been very difficult by virtue of the fact that you stream an entire movie (complete with its own navigation) in one go, as opposed to page-by-page. Flash became a notorious search engine optimization enemy because it refused to rely on text and preferred glorious vector graphics. What's a search engine like Google going to index? Loading... Loading... Loading. Or maybe: "Skip movie."
However, for a short while, the use of Flash cookies was a major boon to the analytics industry which was desperately looking for a method to replace HTML cookies which end users have a habit of deleting. But more recently Adobe has graduated Flash from a purely streaming graphics medium to a platform in its own right.
At a time when clients demand much more customized dashboards for presenting the most actionable insights, the more the Flex platform (Adobe AIR, Flex Developer Tools, Flash Media Servers and the ubiquitous Flash Player) has gained popularity (it's all been renamed Flash Platform now BTW).
And Adobe's Dreamweaver product has long been a favored developers tool. What if, for the purpose of better analytics, the tool kicked out pages which were already tagged and ready to go? Who knows?
Heck, there's a lot of conversation about apps and how big they are becoming as marketing tools. Many of these apps quite simply sidestep the browser (mobile apps, for instance). Developing apps and suitable analytics tools is going to be a major part of marketing's future. In fact, just today HP announced a new non-PC device for pulling in stuff from the internet which doesn't need a browser. How do we know who's looking at that thing?
Of course, I'm just thinking aloud, as usual. As we look at HTML and the HTTP protocol and wonder what the next platform is likely to be, many in the developer community have mooted Flash as an alternative. And as we consider an internet which was invented more than 30 years ago, maybe it's time for a shift from the IP protocol to something new. Certainly these guys in Germany are thinking seriously about this.
In fact, there's a whole lot of speculation about what happens next with the web which is fascinating. So maybe, in their secret meetings, Adobe and Omniture realized that the potential for both companies is somewhere way down the line and not necessarily at this precise moment?
The stock market saw a slip in the price of Adobe shares while Omniture soared. I hang a lot with our cousins in the analytics field and heard some time ago that Omniture was being shopped around. And no, I probably would never have guessed at Adobe as a potential purchaser. But hey, if both companies can carry on and grow in the market place together, I don't know that I'm so worried about whether there's a perfect fit at this time.
In a week when...
I spend a lot of time looking at the industry wondering how and where social search is going to emerge as an obvious development and verified search tool. One place where there's a lot of activity is over at Aardvark who just released their own app (it can be downloaded from the iTunes store).
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Having hung up my ClickZ columnist hat I was forced to find time to write another final column. Until I find a replacement for myself I have to fill what would have been a lot of empty white digital space. The column is focused on real time search. Because I couldn't squeeze in the tons of stuff I've been looking at recently, I simply highlighted a couple of great living experiments. Certainly one well worth a much deeper look at is the IBM/BBC Sound Index venture.
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Very nice buck bud, I'm jealous. Congrats! !
Looks like a good one, great cutters!!
cool buck, pic, and story. glad you were able to get good use out of the tag that took you so long to draw. congrats
looks like one heck of a cool hunt. good job
I cant speak from experience but im guessing packing out a bull all by your lonesome is a pretty tall order, but im also guessing it was worth every step. congrats on a hard earned bull
love the color of those antlers, just awesome. congrats man
ya no kidding, I don't think ive ever seen one like that before. definitely unique. congrats
Hey good job man
Looks like one to be proud of. Congratulations.
Good job guys, I'm taking a first timer out this year too. We're taking off next Monday.
Great mass great cutters great buck
That one had some great cutters. Really good looking buck.
Pretty good group of bucks there. Good job.
Sorry about the sideways pic guys.
Well I ran all over the unit for a couple days before the season opened and saw surprisingly quite a few bucks. Mostly mediocre bucks though. I did find a few a nice ones. I was able to get setup...
Very nice buck tick. Good luck cobbs.
Tell the boys good shooting and great goats. It looks like in that second pic like your boys actually like each other. That's incredible, my boys usually want to kill each other haha. Congrats to...
Looks like it should be close to around that 80 mark. No matter the score you got a good one that you should be very proud of and he'll make a great trophy for you, antelope always do, especially...
nice buck man, congrats
yowza looks like a good one
holy smokes, you are an antelope killing machine.
thank you, that was my buck from wy last year. he's my best to date and I was very happy with him. I should be getting him back from the taxidermist pretty quick here. the worst part about waiting...
good going! was this spot and stalk or sitting in a blind?
very nice buck, good job and congrats


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Can Heaven Wait LyricsArtist: Luther VandrossAlbum: Luther Vandross Telling me to get here quick Said your girl is in a bad situation They don't know if she's gonna make it As I hurry to be by her side I ask a thousand times, why oh why There's no rhyme or reason in my life With you lying here this way I'd give anything just to trade places with you So I'm begging heaven down on my knees To help you make it through 1 - Tell me can heaven wait Can heaven wait just one more night Tell me what it's gonna take To keep you with me in my life Giving up the shame of my other life Now I'm seeing things in a whole new light Lord, I vow to change if you just make it right Can heaven wait one night Thinking back on times that I've wasted I should have cherished every day All the different flavors that I tasted Can't compare to you, no way As I reminisce by your side Tears of guilt are streaming from my eyes All the things I did that weren't right Wish I could apologize I'd give anything if I could trade places with you So I'm beggin' heaven down on my knees To help you make it through Repeat 1 I'm gonna stop the world, reverse the time Do whatever it takes to keep you alive Heaven has to wait one more day Baby, take my breath so you can breathe I need you here so don't you leave Heaven has to wait Repeat 1 until fade
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