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By Guest Blogger Diane Graham
So, I made my stand but my knees were about to go out from beneath me because I was shaking so hard. My husband, the dear sweet man, caught me as I re-entered the house. The kids were crying and all talking at once but I was in a tunnel. I prayed hard in those moments. I prayed that God would lead me in the right direction. First things first, I had to snap out of the funk; my kids needed me. I ask my kids what happened at school. My girls were overflowing with information.
A little more back-story to help you understand. I had always been the mom active in her children's education. I was at the school everyday and always knew what was going on with my kids because I asked. The week before, my oldest daughter came home crying. I asked what was the problem and she told me. She had an issue with one of her teachers. I usually allow my children to address their problems but it was something Priscilla could not deal with on her own at twelve years old.
The next day, I went to the school and set the teacher straight. That afternoon, when I picked the kids up from school, Priscilla was crying again. I asked again and she told me that the teacher in question had taken her to the side and scolded her for telling on her. The teacher told my daughter that she had better stop telling her mom everything that happened at school.
I didn't even pull out of the parking lot. I told the kids I would be right back.
I found the teacher and let her know that she had better never tell MY CHILD not to talk to me again or I would have her job. She apologized to me and I walked her bottom out to my van so she could apologize to Priscilla. She did and I thought that was the end of it. Ha!
Back to May 1st. My daughters tell me that the same teacher interrogated them at school that day. She told my youngest daughter Madison that her older brother had molested her and she knew it. Priscilla and Madison adamantly denied these accusations but the teacher told them they were lying and she was going to make sure she got to the bottom of it. The girls asked to call me and she refused their request. She then, called my second son Nicholas and interrogated him. He also denied the accusations but the teacher also called him a liar. She made an anonymous call to CPS. No evidence, no accusation by my children, just a grudge.
You may be thinking that this could never happen in our country but I assure you it happens everyday. Public schools DO NOT adhere to the Constitution. As a matter of fact, they consider your children more theirs than yours. How are they able to interrogate your children without your knowledge or consent? It is a contract. You know, the handbook you sign at the beginning of each school year? Unless you place a parental rights document in their file each year, you and your children are not protected. Scary,huh?
I'll write more tomorrow. Peace, love and God's will.
Log on next Wednesday for Mountain Life 5-
Diane Graham lives in the mountains of eastern Oklahoma with her husband and five children. She is an avid reader and lover of all art forms that encapsulate imagination and goodness. With her novel I Am Ocilla, she was a winner of Marcher Lord Press Premise Contest 2009. Diane's novel will debut with Splashdown Books in March 2012. Read more of Diane's work at Diane's Website or The New Authors Fellowship.


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With room at its kitchen table for two ex-hippie parents, a Valley girl and Michael J. Fox as the decade's iconic yuppie, Family Ties bridged the '80s generation gap. "We had a new kind of family," says series creator Gary David Goldberg. "Audiences started to see themselves in those characters."
Michael J. Fox
"He was flawless," declares Meredith Baxter, "totally self-involved, a real mercenary at times and very shallow." In other words he was Michael J. Fox playing her TV son, the redoubtable Alex P. Keaton. But in Fox's hands, Baxter notes, the ultimate Reagan youth "had a warmth and depth. Who wouldn't connect with that?" Very few, it turns out, as ratings soared and the show, originally centered on parents Baxter and Michael Gross, was retooled to focus more on Fox, now 39. "People had to make adjustments," admits series creator Gary David Goldberg. "It wasn't going to be the show everyone signed on to do. We had the magic of Michael. That was just luck." And hard work, says Gross. "When I first met him, I saw ambition, in a very positive way. I thought, 'He just wants to swallow this whole.' " Fox was tapped in 1985 to star in the first of three wildly successful Back to the Future movies, filmed at night around the Family Ties schedule. "Even when he had the No. 1 movie and a No. 1 TV show," says Goldberg, "he never asked to have his parking space moved or his dressing room enlarged. He was the first one to show up and the last one to go home." Sadly, in 1998 the star and co-executive producer of the current hit Spin City announced that he has Parkinson's disease. Last month, Fox left the show to spend more time with his wife of 12 years, actress Tracy Pollan, 40, and their three children at their Manhattan home. He also plans to raise money for Parkinson's research. Amid an outpouring of sympathy, Fox remains optimistic. "Michael is very much a person in the present," says Gross. "He doesn't obsess about the dark side of the future."
Tina Yothers
Her band is called Jaded, but she's not. "You can bash childhood acting all you want, but it was a great experience," says Tina Yothers, 27, who became the Keaton clan's towheaded tomboy at age 9. With them she found a role model in her TV sister Justine Bateman ("I wanted to be like her so bad") and plenty of inspiration for her current gig as lead singer and co-lyricist for her band, which released its own CD, www.jadedonline.com, last year and will tour this summer. "Family Ties taped next door to Solid Gold," says Yothers, who lives in L.A. and dates Las Vegas club owner Robert Kaiser, 35. "So I got to see every Top 40 act coming through. I'd miss rehearsals and get scolded." But not by her TV dad, Michael Gross. "Tina was a gas," he reports. "We used to play tag. When we ended the show in 1989, I tagged Tina last. So she's been 'it' for 11 years now!"
Justine Bateman
It was all an act—a good one. As a ditsy, shopaholic teen, Bateman's Mallory "was more a departure from her real self than anybody else on that set," says her TV dad, Michael Gross. "Justine was no airhead." But unbeknownst to her castmates, Bateman battled an eating disorder during her Ties days, a revelation she made to TV Guide in 1996. "There were all these feelings that I never let myself feel," she said. "And all that builds up, and it never had a release." She has credited her recovery to a 12-step program she joined in 1993. Today, Bateman, 34, a born-again Christian who is single and lives in L.A., keeps a low profile. Her appearances have been limited to local poetry readings, the first season of 1996's Men Behaving Badly and roles in indie movies, including the not-yet-released romantic comedy Say You'll Be Mine. "She's terribly gifted," says Mine coproducer Michael Corrente. "I think she turns down more work than she accepts. She should be working all the time."
Brian Bonsall
When 4-year-old Brian Bonsall joined the Keaton clan in 1986, his TV sister Tina Yothers was thrilled. "I was no longer the little one. I loved it," she says. So did Bonsall—for the most part. "Michael J. Fox taught me how to dive in his swimming pool," he says. "And he always listened to me." The downside: "I was with adults all the time and had to be patient like they were, and I'm not really patient." When Bonsall would refuse to do a scene, says creator Gary David Goldberg, "the guy who was able to bring him back was Michael Fox." Bonsall, now 18, who quit acting when his family moved to Colorado in 1994, has just graduated from high school. A guitarist, he's focusing on his hardcore band, the Late Bloomers. "Even if the band doesn't work out, I want to be associated with music somehow," he says. From a distance, Keaton matriarch Meredith Baxter can't resist some motherly fretting. "To think he's a punker," she says. "Just don't pierce your tongue, honey. That's all I ask."
Michael Gross
"It was about a family who could and did disagree without breaking up," says Michael Gross, 53, explaining why Family Ties touched such a nerve. Truth be told, the character of Steven Keaton at first got on Gross's nerves. "He seemed ridiculously sane and responsible, a knee-jerk liberal who always did the right thing and did it easily," says the Yale drama school grad, whose favorite episode had Steven contemplating, and deciding against, having an affair. "I was not nearly as patient, kind and understanding as he was." Oh, posh. "He was my best friend for seven years," says his TV Mrs., Meredith Baxter. "He played with me more than anyone else did," says his TV daughter Tina Yothers. Gross, adds series creator Gary David Goldberg, was also "very gratified that Steven was revered by his kids, but they weren't afraid of him." While on Ties, Gross stepped into a ready-made family of his own when he wed Elza Bergeron, now 59, one of the show's casting directors, in 1984. "With Family Ties came a wife, two children, my first house, my first car, a dog," he says. "I was reeling from all the changes." After some time spent painting in the Southwest, Gross—who has made several appearances on the TV-movie crime series In the Line of Duty and last month played a therapist in Michael J. Fox's final episode of Spin City—now lives in Manhattan and is appearing as Ross in Macbeth. "I'm doing Shakespeare on Broadway," he says. "I'm exactly where I should be right now."
Meredith Baxter
It happens all the time. In a restaurant recently, "the young man who was waiting on us came up and said, 'Excuse me, I just want to say that I always wanted you to be my mother,' " says Meredith Baxter, 53. So did much of America. In fact, Ties creator Gary David Goldberg wrote the part of unflappable Elyse Keaton with Baxter in mind. The actress had already spent four years on ABC's Family and "was a known quantity," says Goldberg. "She set the tone from the beginning." Ties was also a stabilizing force for Baxter. By the end of the run, her 15-year marriage to actor-director David Birney, with whom she had three children, was on its last legs. "Doing the show saved my life," says Baxter (who has two grown children from a first marriage and is newly separated from screenwriter Michael Blodgett). "I had a place to go." Baxter, who has appeared in some 40 made-for-TV movies (including last month's Wednesday Woman), launched a skin-care line in 1999 ("I use it, and my skin looks nice for an old broad," she says). She also played Fox's mom in two 1997 episodes of Spin City and last year reunited with Gross to perform onstage in Love Letters. Taping Family Ties' fast show was "heartbreaking," Baxter says. "We just stood there and wept in each other's arms."
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Former Stratford standout Bobby Ison continues to serve as the catalyst for the Charleston Southern baseball team this season.
Ison, a sophomore outfielder for the Buccaneers, has team highs in at-bats (142), runs (27), hits (48), total bases (62) and stolen bases (7). He's second in batting average (.338) and is tied for the team high with 20 RBIs.
To boot, with only four strikeouts he's fanned less than any CSU starter. He has eight doubles and two homers to his credit.
This past weekend, the Buccaneers took two out of three in a series against VMI. Ison's two-run homer in Game 2 was key in the 6-4 win. He had two hits to help lead the way in a 7-4 win in Game 3 on Sunday.
His numbers have him on pace to better last year's performance.
As a freshman, he batted .333 with 10 stolen bases and eight extra-base hits.
The Buccaneers are 14-22 overall and 5-7 in the Big South. They host Presbyterian College this weekend.
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Former Knight and current senior Ryan Gunther is 4-4 with a 4.29 earned-run average as a starting pitcher. He was the winning pitcher against VMI in the second game, striking out 10 batters and scattering five hits over seven innings.
Freshman reliever Kyle Dyson (Hanahan) is 1-0 with a 5.91 earned-run average for the Bucs. He's fanned eight batters in 10.2 innings pitched.
Citadel freshman Skylar Hunter (Hanahan) is one of the top closers in the country for the Bulldogs. His save on Saturday against Georgia Southern was his eighth of the season, tying him for 18th in the NCAA Div. I statistics.
He's fanned 28 batters in 21 innings pitched and has a 3.86 ERA.
Hunter's former HHS teammate Bret Hines, a freshman infielder for the Bulldogs, has a .321 batting average.
• Anderson University senior Erick Sanderson (Hanahan) is one of the cornerstones for the Trojans.
He's batting .268 with four home runs, 11 doubles and a team-high 36 RBIs. He has started all 49 games for Anderson.
He's also 2-4 on the mound as a pitcher.
Anderson sophomore Evan Jordan is also from Hanahan. He's struck out 19 batters in 19-plus innings pitched and has a 0-1 record with a 4.19 ERA.
• Two area major leaguers aren't off to sparkling starts this season.
Baltimore Orioles catcher Matt Wieters (Stratford) had a .200 batting average with three RBIs heading into a series with the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday.
He started off 6 for 14 but is just 2 for 26 since.
Seattle Mariners first baseman Justin Smoak (Stratford) is at .191 heading into a series with the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday. He does have five walks and has hit safely in four of the last six games.
• In softball, junior catcher Erin Schattle has played in 25 games for the USC Upstate Lady Spartans, the 24th ranked team in the most recent Div. I softball poll. She's got a .319 batting average for the Lady Spartans, who have a 35-5 record.
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Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum Advances Resilience to Climate-Related Disasters
11 June 2013: The 34th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF) was organized by the Intergovernmental Governmental Authority on Development's Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) and other partners to formulate a regional climate outlook over the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA), which is prone to extreme climate events, such as droughts and floods, that severely impact on key socioeconomic sectors.
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Regional Climate Outlook Forums (RCOFs) have been useful for regional consensus building for seasonal predictions and applications. Users from a variety of sectors, such as disaster risk reduction (DRR), health, water resources, agriculture and food security, together with civil society and development partners, participate in formulating potential impacts of the climate outlook on their respective sectors. This year, the outlook indicates an increased likelihood of below- to near-normal rainfall over much of the GHA, although in central parts of the northern sector of the Horn, and in coastal and western parts of the equatorial sector, above-normal rainfall is more likely. To formulate such forecasts, experts drew on input from the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO's) Global Producing Centres for Long Range Forecasts (GPCs), national meteorological and hydrological services, and other sources. These inputs are combined into a regional outlook using probabilistic and deterministic modeling, alongside expert analysis and interpretation.
A partnership project between IGAD and UNITAR's Operational Satellite Application's Programme (UNOSAT) on 'Disaster Risk Reduction Capacity Development for East Africa using Geospatial Technologies' was also introduced during the Forum.
The Workshop on Water Conflict Management and Cooperation took place after the Forum, and focused on experiences from ongoing water cooperation programmes. The event, which was organized within the framework of the UN International Year for Water Cooperation 2013, addressed skills building training on managing and transforming conflict. [Forum Announcement] [Intergovernmental Governmental Authority on Development Website] [IGAD-UNOSAT Partnership Project Announcement]


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A 27-year-old Molokai man tried to escape authorities by jumping into the ocean off Molokai while being transported on the ferry from Molokai to Maui on Friday afternoon, police said.
Just as the Molokai ferry began pulling away from Kaunakakai Harbor at about 4:15 p.m., Imua Mawae, who had been arrested Friday morning for violating his probation, claimed to be suffering from seasickness and asked to use the restroom, said Maui police spokesman Lt. William Juan.
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While an officer stood near the restroom door, Mawae jumped over the railing of the ferry and into the ocean, Juan said. His hands were still handcuffed, according to a ferry worker, who wished to remain anonymous.
Mawae made the short swim back to shore and was quickly located and placed back into custody, Juan said. Mawae was transported to Maui on the ferry Saturday morning.
He was arrested and charged with escape in the second degree. His bail was set at $2,000.
Man arrested in assault on another man
A 24-year-old Kihei man was arrested in an assault on another man last week outside a Lahaina bar, police said.
Douglas Taylor was released after posting $1,000 bail on a charge of second-degree assault, according to police records.
Police said the assault occurred at 12:37 a.m. Nov. 17 outside LuLu's Lahaina Surf Club and Grill at Lahaina Cannery Mall. Witnesses reported that Taylor punched the other man before fleeing in a vehicle with other males.
The victim was transported to Maui Memorial Medical Center, where he was treated for injuries including a concussion, nasal fracture and head trauma, police said.
Taylor was arrested at 11:56 p.m. Friday when he was located in Wailuku by Wailuku patrol officers.
Missed refuse pickups slated for today
Staffing shortages prevented refuse pickups in parts of Kihei on Monday, according to the county.
Trash in those areas will be collected today.
The areas affected are along both sides of Piilani Highway from the north edge of Kihei to streets near the Aston Maui Lu.


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Merrill Edge is looking to add financial advisers in the Garden State.
The unit of Bank of America is holding a meet-and-greet recruiting session Wednesday in Jersey City with investment professionals interested in joining the company's ranks.
The event takes place between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. in Merrill Lynch's offices at 15 Exchange Place. In addition to financial advisers, the company is looking to hire investment salespeople, operations staffers and other services.
Most of these new jobs will be based at the company's Hopewell call center, though there is a chance of being staffed at a Bank of America branch in the region, said Alok Prasad, head of Merrill Edge, in an interview today. Ideal candidates include those with securities licenses, such as Series 7 and Series 66, and experience in the investment area.
Candidates who attend have the chance to speak directly with recruiters, and some may be offered a job on the spot, Prasad said.
"For the right candidate, we are confident about making job offers right there," he said.
Prasad said he does not have a target number of candidates he expects to hire out of the event, but he said the fast-growing Merrill Edge plans to add about 100 workers in the New Jersey region over the next year.
Merrill Edge has grown to 1,700 workers nationwide, about 850 of whom are based in the New Jersey region, Prasad said. He said the company needs to grow its workforce to keep up with demand for its service.
Opened in June 2010, Merrill Edge's target clientele is the so-called mass affluent , or households that have between $50,000 and $250,000 in investible assets, which it aims to help them meet long-term investing and savings goals, such as retirement and college-savings plans.
The recruiting comes at a time when other parts of the banking and investment sector are paring workers. Bank of America, for example, in March announced plans to lay off 469 workers from a mortgage servicing center in Newark. Other banks are undergoing broad cutbacks as well.
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How long will mag springs last loaded?
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> How long will mag springs last loaded?
Rollo Tamasey
May 1, 2007, 10:59 PM
Has anyone left a magazine loaded for a long time and then had the spring loose its spring. If so how long have you left it loaded and what kind of gun was it for?
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May 1, 2007, 11:28 PM
I have a MAB model D in .32 ACP that I always kept the magazine loaded in its police holster in my bedside table. I kept the mag always loaded for a little less than a year and I sure noticed a lack of springiness for lack of a better word. It still works fine but when I close the slide on the first round, sometimes the bullets angle jams the slide. I just have to make sure I give the magazie a good tap before loading and it usually works fine.
May 1, 2007, 11:33 PM
Good quality springs lose their "spring" from use, not compression. In other words, load them and don't worry about it.
May 1, 2007, 11:37 PM
Has anyone left a magazine loaded for a long time and then had the spring loose its spring. If so how long have you left it loaded and what kind of gun was it for?
Yes. Glock 7, 9mm. The special graphite-polymer springs were utter crap.
1 old 0311
May 2, 2007, 06:05 AM
Jeff Cooper wrote that he loaded a .45, went off to WW2, and four years later was still fine.
May 2, 2007, 10:20 AM
Go to the Seecamp sight and read their FAQ - pretty funny actually.
Among other comments, he points out that automobile springs don't "set" just because the car is compressing them in the parking lot. It's the flexing of springs that causes wear.
May 2, 2007, 10:25 AM
They last until they corrode too much to function.
May 2, 2007, 10:43 AM
there were several "test" done in 1995 on Colt mod.1911A service pistols that were loaded in WW II and left alone.all functioned and went "bang" seven times. other posters are right,compression of a spring doesn't hurt it. jwr
May 2, 2007, 11:53 AM
Another one of those once-a-month questions for which there isn't any answer likely to suit everyone.
I've asked this same question in more than a dozen armorer's classes over the years.
I've asked it of factory technicians.
I've asked it of a couple of spring vendors, one of whom is a major manufacturer of springs.
I've asked it of many other LE firearms instructors and armorers.
It does to seem to vary a bit from single column to staggered types, and somwhat among different designs, models and calibers.
Nothing really definitive has ever really been forthcoming.
They'll last until they become too weakened to provide for consistent desirable feeding and functioning.
Your experiences may vary.
I've seen some exhibit obvious signs of becoming too weakened for optimal consistent functioning within a rather short time, and then I've seen them last a surprisingly long time ... under similar conditions of having been left fully loaded ... and everything in between.
I've listened to other armorers discuss similar variable experiences.
I've heard it recommended by firearms manufacturers & LE armorer instructors that they should be changed whenever they start to feel like they're losing tension, or after a recommended service life (tracked by either rounds fired and/or time left fully loaded).
Not all springs are made of the same materials, or in the same manner, or intended to function under the same conditions or in the same manner.
Some springs are expensive, and some less expensive.
Specifications can vary, depending on the desires of the customer, even when the springs are made for the same purpose.
If a vendor ships a container of 10,000 springs, there may be some variation if springs are selected at random and tested to see how well they may meet the requested specifications.
Experts can disagree with each other.
I replace my magazine springs on a preventive maintenance basis nowadays, which can admittedly vary from one platform (including design, size, etc.) and caliber to another.
Predictable is preventable, to some extent, from a risk management perspective.
Folks will generally do as they wish, for whatever reasons, real or imagined.
May 2, 2007, 06:11 PM
Theoretically I say it could happen, practically maybe not. A lot depends on how highly stressed the springs are in the fully compressed state. Some metals can exhibit what's called "stress corrosion cracking". Kind of like fatigue failure, but without the cycling of load. Basically the stress on the part can cause microscopic fractures to form around grain boundaries or small irregularities in the metal (which ALL metal has, even mirror polished surfaces).
Another related parameter is called "creep" in materials in which they can slowly deform over time under a load. I don't think a car spring analogy is very accurate. I believe fully loaded mag springs tend to have a much larger percentage of deflection from a resting state than an average car spring. This should mean the actual mag spring coils are more highly stressed than a car spring (even though the car spring is carrying a much higher weight)
Zach S
May 2, 2007, 06:12 PM
My P14 magsprings dont last if I load to 14 rounds, but do fine at 13. Those are the only ones I have wore out by leaving them loaded.
I mentioned this in a recent thread, but I have a Randall magazine that came with the AMT hardballer I got about six years ago. I dont use it, but do find it occasionaly and toss it in my rangbag when I do. Next visit to the range, I run a box of shells though it. I get home, lose the mag, and do it over again when I find it again.
The mag has been loaded since I got the pistol, and Randall went out of business in 83 or so. The mag has never failed.
May 2, 2007, 06:17 PM
What breaks springs is everyday unload and load up in the next morning.
I left a HK USP .45 12 round magazine lay around for 4 years and it worked without any problem.
May 2, 2007, 07:18 PM
According to my gigantic University Physics textbook-cum-body armor, springs can pretty much last indefninitely unless streched beyond their mechanical limits (kinda like how once you bend a piece of slinky wire, you can't really ever get it to sit flat again).
The springs in your car are made from pretty much the same material as the springs in your gun. They operate hundreds of thousands (millions?) of times per day and last for decades.
Neither normal use (loading and unloading) nor extended compression will cause springs to wear out.
Now, you could have a lemon spring that gives out quickly, or one with poor metallurgical properties (many cheap springs are not properly made or treated for long life), but in general springs made by a quality manufacturer will last for the life of your firearm barring any serious issues like being exposed to high heat, being physically streched beyond their limits and being deformed, or a few other conditions.
Steve C
May 2, 2007, 07:59 PM
I had a surplus GI Colt 45 standard 7round magazine loaded with Speer 200gr JHP (flying ashtray) ammo that spent 10 years in my vehicles glove box. When I sold the vehicle I tossed all the stuff from the glove box into a shoe box and it resided there for another 6 years as I had changed my vehicle gun to a .357 mag. When I came across it again I took it too the range and every round fed and fired perfectly. It even locked back the slide on my Colt Commander. the magazine is still in use and function perfectly to this day 12 years later.
From my experience I'd say that a single column magazine spring pretty much lasts a lifetime.
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Hi Summer-People! What is summer making you dream of? Or perhaps you are living the dream? I am as usual obsessing about some interior project, however this obsession is about creating a room outside. We will one day make our roof into a lush garden, and that day is getting closer and closer, so these days I am drawing and drawing on foundation, skylights, planting and what not! One thing that this garden will have an abundance over is greenery! I want to look out into the garden and get a feeling we are far away from the city. And then have the luxury of just walking out the front door and actually be in the city. Here are some images to start of the week, and I will let you in on ideas in the next few days.
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Wood, Stainless Steel, Concrete?
Our house is industrial, but at the same time I feel I can give it any characteristics I want. Our one-day-fantasy-kitchen will be the heart of the home and set the tone for the interiors, so I feel the style I choose and the materials that will be used will have important impact. Do I go for a wooden kitchen? A stainless steel kitchen? Or perhaps use concrete as main component? So many choices..
Mar 24, 2011
Maximalist Kitchens
The previous kitchens I have shown you this week has been in very minimalist surroundings. I am not sure I can pull that off, as I am a maximalist at heart. But I do enjoy clean lines, and anything that will minimize messiness. There has to be some sort of fusion between the two, for sure. I know I would enjoy any of the three kitchens below, and feel right at home.
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Mar 23, 2011
The Kitchen Island
Another kitchen I am drooling over these days is this one right here. Our fantasy-ceiling will be very high and a simple kitchen island with no clutter would stress the height even more. It is just so stylish and elegant, dont you think?
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Mar 22, 2011
Earth House
Remember this amazing pool i posted last week? Well, it belongs to an equally amazing house, with one of my favorite kitchen islands. I just love the simplicity of it, and the reddish hue of the worktop that goes so well with the sandy colorings of the rest of the interiors. And dont you just envy them all that light? The ceiling is a almost sculptural. I could see myself live here for a day or two, for sure!
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Mar 21, 2011
Kitchen Obsession
I am utterly, and flutterly, obsessed about kitchens these days. I am drawing our fantasy-onedaywhenwecanaffordit-kitchen over and over again. Trying to get the colors, proportions and relations just right, and make sure it is warm and welcoming, avant-garde and timeless all at the same time. Piece of cake, right? I'll share some of my favorite kitchens with you this week. To start you off, drool on these:
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Mar 18, 2011
Livestock Tanks for Pool
Yesterdays post on Olle Lundberg's cabin pool has led me to believe I can take inspiration from it and make something on my own. His pool was made of a livestock tank and clad with wood from winebarrels, and was standing on the ground allowing them to use it on the terrace on the second floor. Our garden will be on the second floor, so my vivid fantasy are imagining plonking one right on the floor of the first floor, and have it pierce the ceiling up to the roof where the garden will be. Easy Peasy. Install a pump, and Voila! Oh well, we'll see.
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Olle Lundberg and his Perfect Cabin Pool
Ok, I know I said yesterdays pool was my idea of a perfect pool for the backyard/roofgarden. Well, this is my idea of a perfect pool, full stop. And so my brain has been busy trying to come up with a way of incorporating the two pool-ideas. Will fill you in more about this tomorrow, now I want to show you this livestock tank pool that amazing architect Olle Lundberg has in his cabin. Enjoy!
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Casa Honoré
Casa Honoré is one divine place. It is situated in Marseille, and I kick myself for not visiting when we were in south of France last summer. It is high on my list of amazing houses to stay in, and I bet you on day I will come back just to stay for a night or two. It used to be a sowing factory when a family bought it and turned it into a home as well as four room mini hotel. The draw to this place is definitely the lap pool in the backyard. It is my idea of perfection for a backyard/rooftop garden pool; secluded, easily accessible, integrated and lush with all the greenery! (They also have a wonderful kitchen which I will talk more about on a later occasion)
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And There it Is!
My idea of a perfect rooftop garden pool is that you wake up, walk into the kitchen, draw your curtains of your floor-to-ceiling windows/doors, and -There it is! you can just walk barefoot outside and have a dip while the coffee is brewing. Here are some lap-pools that fit the bill.
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RCT. Two substudies (clinical and experimental). Main objective of the trial is to examine if oxytocin, compared to placebo shows any additional effect on the therapy achievements (outcome) of patients with borderline personality disorder, who receive an in-patient standard psychotherapy (Dialectical-behavioral-therapy, Marsha Linehan (2006)).
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State defensive lineman Tracy Sprinkle is back on the Ohio State football roster, a team spokesman confirmed as the Buckeyes opened preseason camp Monday.
Sprinkle had been dismissed from the team this summer after initially facing serious charges stemming from a bar brawl in Lorain. But the redshirt sophomore and Elyria High grad had those charges greatly reduced last week, entering a no-contest plea to a misdemeanor, and a drug charge was dropped after his attorney had him tested for drugs and none were found in his system.
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Those of you who have read my posts for some time are likely familiar with the fact that I one wrote under another blog name: A Mage's Guide to Life. The reason I relocated to here in the arcanery is that I wanted to escape the idea that my blog was a home for just mage guides, and that there was room for discussion and other random things as well.
As of right now, I have finally laid to rest AMGTL. It had a good run, and I don't regret making it, working on it, or writing under it. Looking at it one last time reminded me of how much I've learned about blogging in general, as well as other things- listening to Bre and Fim of the Twisted Nether Blogcast every week, and listening to the much anticipated blogger interviews. There are a few I remember better then others, for example the interview with Euripedes of Critical QQ– namely the line that went something along the lines of "we mages have OUR OWN CITY, floating beautifually above the peons." There was also the interview with Larisa of The Pink Pigtail Inn, which I enjoyed thoroughly. Larisa, and her bartender that she has staffed since then, always have thought provoking posts to read.
AMGTL. The blog will die today, but the name will live infinately- echoing throughout the passageways of the world wide web.
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Darcy Lewis straightened his cream linen jacket. The cruise ship's crowded ballroom was decked out in a Brazilian Fiesta theme and the live band's spicy Latin beat had him tapping his foot. Hot women in sexy dresses clustered around the room, sipping cocktails and eyeing up the men, including him.
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"Have a fling," Riley Henning had said as he and John ForsterDarcy's old surfing buddies and now both police officerspresented him with a ticket for a weekend singles cruise. The three of them had gathered one night after hours in Darcy's pub for a few drinks in honor of his fortieth birthday. "No strings attached. No emotional commitment. Definitely no moping. Just hot sex and fun."
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John clapped Darcy on the shoulder. "Riley's right, sex and fun. When was the last time you had either?"
"Been a while." First Holly's death, then the divorce His cocooned existence had involved eating, sleeping and workingnot necessarily in that order. It was time he made an effort to get into the dating scene. And this cruise was just the ticket, so to speak.
He dragged his thoughts to the ballroom and the nearest womana brunette wearing a red dress sipping from a drink with an umbrella. "Would you like to dance?"
"Thanks, but I've got a partner for this one. He'll be back any second. My friend would like to." She pushed forward the petite woman wearing a blue dress standing behind her.
"Tracey, I can find my own Oh." Emma's blue-green eyes widened. A smattering of freckles stood out against a peaches-and-cream complexion framed by flaming red hair. "Hey, Darcy."
Darcy swore silently. What were the odds? What were the frickin' odds? Of all the ballrooms on all the singles cruises in the world He pasted on a smile. "Hey, Em. What are you doing here?"
"On a cruise. Same as you." She glanced around desperately, as if hoping someone would rescue her. Or a fire would break out, or the ship would hit an iceberg. Anything to put an end to this awkward moment.
Was she looking for a good time, too? A roll in the sack? Well, why shouldn't she? She was absolutely free to sleep with whomever she wanted. It did not make him jealous. Or hurt. Much.
He started to ease away. "Sorry to bother you."
The brunette grabbed him by the arm. "Where are you going? Do you two know each other?" She turned to Emma and whispered, "Come on, Emhe's hot. This makes the third man you've passed on."
"This is Darcy," Emma hissed. "My ex-husband."
"Oh!" The woman dropped his arm as if it were infected.
Nice. What exactly had Emma said about him?
"Wonderful running into you." He gave them double thumbs-up as he moved away. "It's a big ship. I'm sure it won't happen again. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to see a man about a dog."
"Huh?" Tracey's nose wrinkled. "What dog?"
"Forget it." Emma waved a hand. "Let him go."
He felt Emma's glare burning a hole in the back of his jacket all the way to the bar. What was she saying about him to Tracey? Was she warning her? "He likes to party but if you 're looking for happily ever after, forget it."
Darcy slid onto a stool, automatically taking note of the efficient, uncluttered layout of the bar. It was set up mainly for cocktails with features he would never use. But those sliding doors on the fridges would be great instead of the swinging ones he had.
Seeing Emma unexpectedly was almost as disconcerting as sitting on this side of the bar. He had an urge to hop the divider and start polishing glasses. He caught the bartender's eye. "Coke with plenty of ice."
"Everything okay, mate?" The bartender, a man about his own age with receding blond hair, tipped a scoop of ice into a glass and squirted in the soft drink.
"Just ran into my ex-wife." He lifted the glass and took a big swig. Whiskey would have been more welcome right now.
"Still got a thing for her, do you?"
Bartenders had an instinct for people and their troubles. He knew he did but he didn't care to be on this side of the conversation. "It's complicated."
He wanted to hate Emmabut couldn't. He wished he could love her the way she wanted to be lovedcouldn't manage to do that, either. Would have liked to stay friendsthat was too painful after what they'd had together. He wished he could ignore herone look and every other woman in the ballroom faded into insignificance.
So where did that leave him? In limbo, that's whereunable to forget her, unable to move on. This cruise was supposed to be his first step toward a new life.
Instead he was torturing himself by watching her on the dance floor. Even though their last six months together had been the worst of his life, even though they were divorced now, the thought of her on the prowl for another guy twisted his insides into knots. Through the bobbing heads he glimpsed her doing the mambo with some bozo with two left feet. The guy's hands were all over her. Darcy didn't know which was worse, the liberties the guy was taking or that a terrific dancer like Emma was wasted on him.
Darcy turned around, unable to watch. He hadn't seen her in nearly six months, not since the house had sold for a song. Both of them wanted rid of the memories and had been unwilling to wait for a decent offer. She'd moved to Mornington, to a rental unit. He'd moved into the apartment above the pub once the previous tenant's lease was up.
The first night of this cruise and already her presence had ruined the whole experience for him. How was he going to chat up other women with her on board? Sure he was divorced, but it would still feel like cheating on his wife. He would be constantly looking over his shoulder. Even now he imagined he could smell her perfume
Hell. She slid onto the next stool.
Blue-green eyes fringed with dark auburn lashes flashed at him. "I can't believe you're here, too."
"I'm fine. Thanks for asking." He gulped his soda, wishing it was Scotch more than ever. They'd both resorted to animosity to cover a whole host of more difficult emotions. It worked but it was draining. "You?"
"Pretty crap, actually, now that I've run into you." She signaled to the bartender. "Can I have a mojito, please? Only instead of rum I'd like vodka, and instead of lime, I want pineapple juice. Oh, and no mint leaves, thanks. Lots of ice. And just a dash of pomegranate."
Fixing his gaze on the row of liquor bottles lined up in front of the mirror, Darcy gave an irritated chuckle. "Now I remember why I divorced you. Only those cute freckles and that pert nose allow you to get away with orders like that."
"My freckles suck. And not every bartender is a purist like you." She dipped fingers with short blunt nails into a bowl of peanuts. "Just for the record, I divorced you. But never mind that, we need to talk."
It had better not be about Holly, or their relationship or his many faults.
"Don't eat those." He shoved the bowl down the black marble bar. "You don't know whose hands have been there before you. You ought to know about germs."
She wrinkled her nose. "I'm on holiday. Don't mention nursing or hospitals or sick people or bedpans"
"Okay, okay, I get the idea."
Instead of getting down to what she wanted to talk about, she said, "How's the pub? Business good?"
"Fine. The same." He didn't know why she asked.
She'd always resented the time he spent there. In her opinion he should have been home with her and Holly more. But the sixty-year-old country-style pub he'd bought from his father when he retired was not only his heritage, it was his livelihood. The fact that he enjoyed the atmosphere and considered his local customers part of his extended network of friends was a bonus.
"How's the hospital?" he said, playing along. "Are you still in post-op?"
"No, I'm in geriatrics now. I work with Tracey. She's my friend in the red dress. Oh, and I've applied to do a master's degree in nursing. If I get in, classes start next semester."
"That's great. You always wanted to finish that."
She looked him over. "You've lost weight. Are you cooking for yourself or relying on takeaway?"
He'd lost a few pounds after he'd stopped drinking, but that was none of her business. "I'm living on peacock's tongues and caviar. You said you wanted to talk?"
She reached for the tall drink in front of her. "Why are you here?"
"Why does anyone go on a singles cruise? To meet people. And in this case, for the dancing."
"Well, I won't get in your way if you stay out of mine. That's what I came over here to say. After this one drink together we should act like we don't even know each other."
He cast her a sidelong glance. "We wish, eh?"
She played with her straw. "Are you seeing anyone? I haven't noticed you on the internet dating sites."
"I prefer to meet people face-to-face. You should be careful, hooking up with men online. There are a lot of creeps out there, married men just looking for a fling." What she did was none of his business but she'd started it by asking if he was seeing anyone. And damn it, he might not be married to her anymore but he still didn't want to see her hurt.
"I sort those out pretty quickly."
He bet she did. Emma was nobody's fool. She would tell them what she thought of their illicit activities before they could say, my wife doesn't understand me. He swirled his drink of melting ice and watery cola. "Quite the coincidence, us coming on the same cruise."
"Not really. There aren't many singles cruises sailing out of Melbourne. Even fewer cruises that feature Latin dancing, something we're both passionate about. We've been divorced for a year, the usual milestone for separated couples to take a significant step into dating. If you add up all those things, it was almost inevitable we would find ourselves on this ship together."
Great. Even single, his life had become predictable. An uneasy thought struck. "Did you hope I'd be here?"
"No, are you crazy? If I'd known you'd be on board, I wouldn't have bought a ticket. Who needs the reminder of" She quickly glanced away.
Bloody hell. Darcy reached out, his hand hovering over her shoulder. Don't touch her. It'll make seeing her even harder than it already is. His fingers curled into his palm as he withdrew his hand.
Emma lifted her head, unaware of his near caress, and shook off her distress. "I told myself I wasn't going to think about her this weekend. Or talk about her."
He grunted, not trusting his voice. Grief was like that. It came out of nowhere, struck like a ninja when you least expected it. He missed Holly, too, and wished he and Emma could have found comfort by talking about her with each other. But the grief was still too raw, and there was too much blame on both sides. Their daughter was one topic that was strictly off-limits.
Emma looked him in the eye, waited a beat then said, "I'm here to meet someone. I want to get married again. I want another baby."
Darcy's sympathy hardened instantly into a simmering resentment. In the months following Holly's death Emma had pressured him to try for another child right away. She'd pushed and pushed him to get her pregnant on the grounds it would bring them closer. Nope. Eventually she'd pushed so hard he'd gone right out the door.
"You can't replace her."
"I know that." She blinked and touched her eyes with a cocktail napkin. "I'm thirty-five. The clock is ticking. This time around I want to fall in love with a man who wants the same things I do. A home and family."
When they'd married he'd wanted those things, too. He'd loved Emma passionately and thought he couldn't be happier. Then Holly came along with her red-gold curls and sparkling eyes like her mother's. He'd adored her with an inexpressible joy. And then then Suddenly she was gone, his little girl run over in the driveway by a drunk friend leaving their party.
He couldn't understand Emma wanting another child so soon. How could she just forget Holly? Where did she find the courage to risk that kind of anguish again? He'd tried to tell her it wasn't like getting a new puppy when the old dog died, although any dog lover knew that wasn't easy, either. She hadn't listened. She wanted everything to be perfect and she went to great lengths to achieve that. She didn't understand that life wasn't perfect. People weren't perfect. God knows he wasn't.
Having another child to make up for the loss of her first one wasn't fair on her next baby. And what about the guy, rushed into marriage to satisfy Emma's longing for a family? It was a recipe for disaster for everyone concerned.
"I think you're making a mistake" He held up his hands at her glare. He would have to be a masochist to have this discussion again. "But what do I know? Just don't settle for the first man who is willing to give you a baby. Don't sell yourself short."
"Of course I won't." She paused. "What about you? I would have thought the ladies would be lining up once you were free. I thought you'd have a girlfriend by now."
"I'm not looking for a relationship."
"In other words, you're here for sex."
"Don't make it sound so crass." The opening bars of a salsa had Darcy swiveling to face the dance floor. "Women go on singles cruises looking for a fling, too."
"Some are looking for a fling. Some are looking for the white picket fence." Emma turned around and crossed her legs, the side slit in her dress revealing smooth bare thigh. She nodded discreetly at a woman wearing a modest dress, a frozen smile and a red hibiscus tucked behind one ear. "She's searching for Mr. Right."
"How can you tell?" Darcy was truly curious.
"She's trying to look 'fun' and not pulling it off. She's probably a librarian from the suburbs who never gets asked out. She came on the cruise hoping to meet a dentist or an accountant, someone respectable but not too challenging."


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Hi Johannes,
Yes we had exactly the same experience after sp4a and OS5sp4 had been
applied. However in our case the only NLM which came up as out of date was
the filesys.nlm (bit strange really as the version already installed was
later than the version BE was trying to install). Anyhow to resolve the
situation we let BE overwrite the existing file and then copied back the
original over the file BE had installed and all was then well. Incidentally
I lodged an email support request with Veritas over this issue a week ago
but have not had any response.
Rod Harrison
"Johannes Ambrose"
wrote in message
> Hi,
> The BE 8.5 install process offered to upgrade system files on
> our NW5 server with SP4.
> I said ok, but on the next boot I got a series of "Fatal errors"
> that killed the server. I had to re-install everything. I re-installed
> BE 8.5 but declined the offer to upgrade system files. BE won't
> run. I get an error message about out-of-date NLM's.
> The files in question seem to be:
> nwpa.nlm
> vollib.nlm
> nwidk.nlm
> mm.nlm
> Has anyone had a similar experience?
> regards


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http://baselinescenario.com/2009/02/26/convertible-preferred-stock-capital-assistance-program/Under the new Capital Assistance Program (CAP), the government will invest in banks by buying preferred shares with a 9% dividend. This is like the old Capital Purchase Program (used last fall for the first round of recapitalizations), but with one huge twist. Now the bank, AT ITS OPTION, (((can choose to convert the preferred shares into common, at 90% of the average closing share price during the 20 days ending on February 9))) (the day before the new Financial Stability Plan was "announced").An example would probably help here. Let's say that Bank of America (BAC) needs another $25 billion in capital. The government will give BAC $25 billion in cash, which BAC has to pay back in 7 years (that's the mandatory conversion date). In the meantime, BAC has to pay 9% interest, or $2.25 billion, per year. But, at any time, BAC can convert any amount of that to common shares, at $5.49 per share. (The average closing price over the 20 days was $6.10.) If it converted $5 billion into common, the government would get about 910 million (5 billion divided by 5.49) common shares, but now BAC only owes the government $20 billion and is paying 9% interest on only $20 billion.In short, BAC has just sold the government 910 million shares for $5.49 each.
Someone recently posted that the share price would hit 50 cents before it ever hit $1.50. It appears that the poster was correct.