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Morning guys. How was everyone's weekend? Here in SA we are midway through a long weekend. It is wonderful. In my first post here on English Muse I shared an Autumn inspired palette with you. It has gradually been getting colder here, but I know that most of you are steadily marching through Spring and cannot wait for Summer. So, as requested, today I will be sharing a funky neon palette with you- perfect for the warmer weather.
Various shades of pink are at the heart of this palette. From soft pastel to a richer Magenta. Pinks can easily become sugary and a tad too girly for the man in your life. Keep it funky and current by adding a touch of neon to the mix.
Every time I spend few minutes reading through interior blogs or surfing Pinterest I am overwhelmed by the amount of pastel/neon combination shots that are doing the rounds. This combo seems to be super popular in Europe. What about in the States? Have you guys been seening it around?
Neon is no longer banished to the rave or hard core punk scene, it is actually becoming increasingly feminine. The trick is to keep the neon element to a minimum. You simply want a touch of neon, to bring the overall look to life.
This palette has many fun applications- it can used in a baby-, toddler, teenage or adult bedroom. It just depends how you combine the shades. Keep it softer for a more feminine look. The more neon, the edgier the scheme. Make sure to use plenty of white though. A strong scheme such as this one requires a good foundation. White walls and light flooring would be an ideal starting point. Incorporate colours in soft furnishings, accessories, art and lighting.
I would definitely use this in a teenage girls' bedroom. What do you think? Fad or fabulous? Look at these examples I found on the Decor8 blog.
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CAFCASS officer seems to have changed his mind!(13 Posts)
If the original idea was an extra night every week, and the proposal is two nights every other week...then that isn't actually more nights, is it?
Hi strongandfocused,
Your child is 9 and so his wishes and feelings should be represented in the s7 report. I agree with lostdad in that it is not the determinative factor in a welfare report. It should, under the Welfare Checklist, be addressed.
CAFCASS recommendations can be overturned- usually with good questioning. Very often it's about questioning the argument.
I appreciate that you don't want your child to spend two nights with Dad in the week. I would be interested to learn his reasons for wanting extra contact, especially if he's in a stable routine. Courts favour a status quo and I would highlight these points in your statement.
The court will usually go with the recommendations of the CAFCASS report although it can be challenged in a final hearing and those recommendations overturned. I have known it to happen.
At the age of 9 your son's wishes and feelings do count but they are not the only determining factor.
It it's any consolation I hear an awful lot of fathers saying the same thing about CAFCASS (I once had one tell me that by changing the night my son was permitted to see me was maintaining the routine, but keeping the same one he'd had since being a year old represented a change. I must be thick or something, because I couldn't see the logic there).
The whole contact being `every other weekend and teatime once a week' is from the `Henry Ford' school of thought - just because it's `normal contact' doesn't mean it's appropriate for every child.
The judges may not see through this. I had one excellent judge, who knew exactly what women are faced with, but then two male judges who sided with my ex. Needless to say, Cafcass sided with ex, omitting my evidence of years of abuse, because he came arcoss as plausible, doting and concerned. How could a nice middle class man do all the things I had accused him off? And they didn't even take into account all the times I tried to leave him.
So, my advice is to be prepared re report. Question all areas of concern. Make them justify why they wrote what they wrote and then ask them why they didn't include, or give even weight, to your evidence.
You have nothing to lose. In my experience, if a judge knows about women's unequal position and has a thorough understanding of it in these situations, then they will do the fair thing, and if a judge doesn't, no matter what you do or say, he will 'win'.
The judges may not see through this. I had one excellent judge, who knew exactly what women are faced with, but then two male judges who sided with my ex. Needless to say, Cafcass sided with ex, omitting my evidence of years of abuse, because he came arcoss as plausible, doting and concerned. How could a nice middle class man do all the things I had accused him off? And they didn't even take into account all the times I tried to leave him.
So, my advice is to be prepared re report. Question all areas of concern. Make them justify why they wrote what they wrote and then ask them why they didn't include, or give even weight, to your evidence.
You have nothing to lose. In my experience, if a judge knows about women's unequal position and has a thorough understanding of it in these situations, then they will do the fair thing, and if a judge doesn't, no matter what you do or say, he will 'win'.
I feel for you I really do, I am just at the start of all this and this is my experience with cafcass so far -
My ex is taking me to court for a shared residence application even though he stopped contact himself months ago, he has made her have a dna test and now has the cheek to take me to court! His application is extremely bias and paints me as being uncooperative and he is just the poor dad trying to get contact back with his daughter. There is no mention of the dna tests or the fact he said he didnt want to see her as I won't facilitate all the transport arrangements.
Anyway, the CAFCASS person had already spoken to him before ringing me and it was clear that she agreed with my ex that contact should just go back to how it was. She made comments such as 'well I dont think offering him 3 hours per week is enough do you' (even though I have said given his behaviour I think any re-introduction should be gradual), 'would you describe him as a committed dad before this incident'. When I explained that I wanted any arrangements to be around her social activities especially as she gets older she remarked that contact with parents should always take precedence over any social activities. I was under the impression this is part of the welfare checklist to ensure her physical and social development!!
Needless to say I am now terrified of CAFCASS's involvement if they can be so biased before they have even been asked to make a report.
Thanks for all your advice. Ive been advised to just agree to one day but not 2 and meet him half way. I've just put that in my final witness statement.
His final witness statement also includes lots more terrible things that I supposedly have done wrong...including incidents when he's tried to bully me in public but twisted it round and said I was shouting at him! I cant believe how pathetic and what low lengths he is stooping to, are the judges any good at seeing through all this? Ive lodged evidence of his behaviour towards me in numerous police reports...
I feel that CAFCASS has just gone along with everything he's alleged against me as if it was true...
Im just so stressed and exhausted tonight I can hardly move...
ditto what cestlavie said. You need to have strong and compelling reasons for why you do not want your son to have more contact with his father. Shared residency does not mean equal time.
CAFCASS know full well that children want to please their parents, and most likely they want to please resident parent most as they have more to lose from upsetting them. If your child senses you are unhappy with this he may well be saying to you no to 2 days to please you. Then again he may not.
ps not asking you to say on here if you dont want to but you will need to come up with strong reasons in the hearing . enough to convince a judge.
shared residencey coul still be in theorder - as it doesnt mean equal contact time - but it gives very equal rights to both parents.
you need to be clear on terminlogy here.
residency and contact.
(not custody)
in terms of contact on face of it it doesnt seem illogical to have more days with dad unless there are very good reasons not to - ie school disruption or other specific reasons.
what is the reasonsing behind Ds views? why doesnt he want more time with dad? regardless of what cafcass report says, judge will need strong reasons why DS should not be spending more time at dad's house (past abuse? or what???) and that maybe needs to be practicalities not just "dont want to"
I'm sure you will anyway but make sure that in your witness statement you emphasise what your son has said, and the fact the Cafcass officer appeared to accept what your son said but now seems to have changed his mind without putting forward any justification. If your son is 9 this will be very disruptive to his school week - and next year he will be doing SATs.
Is your ex actually able to collect him from school and take him there the next morning himself? If he isn't, you could argue that the actual amount of contact time does not make the disruption worthwhile.
It is the child's right to have a meaningful relationship with his father, but this is perfectly possible to maintain every other weekend and half the holiday time.
Good luck.
same old story you hear time and time again! CAFCASS dont listen to the children despite what u may think they are there to give the non resident paRENT THERE CONTACT WISHES to get it out of the clogged up courts and judges usully agree with them.
cafcass are absolutely usless and a waste of time. the whole system should be condemmed.
all you acn do is say how u feel at courtn and hope u get a decent judge im affraid although i wouldnt get my hope up.
Im at the end of a 5 month custody battle with my ex. He wants joint custody and extra time in the week. He already gets every other weekend, half school hols and half terms.I have my reasons not to agree with any more contact
we have all had our cafcass interviews. My ds plainly said he did not want contact to increase he liked it the way it was but if pushed he would bear one extra day in week "but definitely not two" He is 9 and very intelligent and articulate.
The cafcass officer told me immediately after he had interviewed my ds what he said and said he agreed with his views and that things should stay the same and that shared residency would not work in this case,\
I have now just read his report and he the matter of shared residancy is as he told me but he now appears to have changed his mind about contact. He has completely ignored my sons wishes and feelings and has decided that every other week one extra day wold be best increasing up to two....
Im totally shocked that he seems to be putting my xs wishes and feelings above my sons.
Im about to file my last and final witness statement for the final hearing (2 days early part of next week)
Does this mean the judge will go along with all his recommendations. One extra day would have been more bearable for my son but two...!!!!
would really appreciate anyones views on my situation as I feel very depressed about my sons wishes not having been taken on board.
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Michigan week, for Ohio State, though, began about five hours after the team's 42-14 victory against Indiana on Saturday that moved the Buckeyes to 11-0.
"Once 12 o'clock hits, everybody knows exactly what time it is, what game is coming up," junior linebacker Ryan Shazier said in the immediate aftermath of the Indiana game. "It's the biggest rivalry of all time."
It won't take much convincing to make Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer to feel that way as well.
A native of Ashtabula, a disciple of both Woody Hayes and Archie Griffin, Meyer told a story at his introductory press conference about going shopping with his mother Gisela around the Thanksgiving holiday and hearing The Game over the loudspeakers. As he told it, his hardscrabble hometown on the windswept shores of Lake Erie didn't stop on every game day, but it "shut down" on The Game day.
It was no "310 days" speech, but it certainly immediately set the tone that Meyer understands what it means when the silver helmets meet the winged lids on a cold November day.
"I have great respect for this rivalry, humbled to be a part of it," Meyer said Saturday. "When I say great respect, it almost makes me in awe. Eight of my nine (assistant coaches) are from the state of Ohio. One wishes he was from Ohio.
"I'll say this, the responsibility sometimes can be overwhelming, what we have to do next week. So we take it very serious. We're working the game as we speak. We're all going to go home, see our families, we're coming back tomorrow and ready to go."
The Buckeyes better be ready. Undefeated and going to the Big House to take on 7-4 Michigan, the Scarlet and Gray could be in the crosshairs for one of the upsets that in many ways define the series. Bo Schembechler's 1969 upending of what was supposed to be college football's greatest team is the most famous example, but it was matched by one coach coming in – Jim Tressel in 2001, on the 310th day, if you remember – and one going out – a fedora-clad Earle Bruce in 1987. Those, of course, are just scratching the surface.
"We're going to get their best shot like we do every single game," OSU defensive lineman Michael Bennett said. "It doesn't matter what their schedule is or what they've done up to this point. They're going to come out and they're going to operate on all cylinders, and we need to, too."
What most players first notice is the physicality of the game. The most famous stretch in the rivalry's history, the Ten-Year War between Hayes and one-time protégé Schembechler, was essentially organized combat on a gridiron, a physical, smash-mouth, run-based showdown devoid of subtlety in most every way.
The style of football has changed a bit but not the hard-hitting, smack-talking nature. David Boston and Charles Woodson came to blows in the 1997 game. Five years ago, Malcolm Jenkins body-slammed Greg Mathews to the ground on Michigan's first play from scrimmage. In 1973, the Buckeyes ran out from the tunnel and tore down Michigan's famed "M-Club" banner.
Jenkins learned the physicality of the rivalry while seeing sporadic action as a true freshman in 2005.
"I just saw the difference in the seniors and the starters in their preparation and their intent as they were playing," he said. "They were really – I could tell – trying to hurt people out there. I could tell they had stepped it up to a whole 'nother level."
That is what winning The Game often takes – elevating the level of play to a point that has not been reached all season long. When asked what he'll tell his younger teammates about The Game, Shazier – who had 15 tackles as a freshman in 2011 – had a knowing answer.
"I'm just going to tell them, this is going to be the biggest week of your life, the biggest game of your life," Shazier said. "It's so much at stake on this game. It doesn't matter what our records are. We can be 0-11 right now and they could be 0-11 and it'll still be the biggest rivalry in football. Everybody's eyes are still going to be watching. We just have to do our job and continue to work hard and win. A lot of freshmen and younger guys are going to see how important this game is this week."
The Game is so important that it's shadow is never far from the players' minds. Both schools have countdown clocks in their respective weight rooms ticking off the days and minutes to the second until the ball goes in the air each year. That doesn't happen for Indiana.
Tressel famously instituted a "Maize and Blue" period, a five-minute span of each practice in which effort-based drills reminded the Buckeyes of what would need to be done to beat Michigan at the end of the year. There are no Maroon and Gold drills that we know of.
"We have a clock up on the wall that we're working out in front of all the time, waiting for this week," Bennett said. "So now that (the Indiana) game is behind us, it's about That Team Up North, all about beating them."
It's a game where talk is cheap and actions speak louder than words, but the last word is often one delivered with a barbed tongue. "A funny thing happened on the way to the sunset," Kirk Barton crowed after OSU won its fourth in a row vs. once-ballyhooed Michigan in 2007, but "only the good ones" travel from Ohio to wear Maize and Blue, Dennis Franklin said in the 1970s.
So we'll close with a quote from one of the best talkers left in the rivalry, Ohio State cornerback Bradley Roby. When asked about the rivalry Saturday evening, he was the one Buckeye player to use the one word that many think but precious few say when discussing the rivalry – hate.
It's The Game. It shouldn't be any other way.
"I love it because the fans are crazy (in Ann Arbor)," Roby said. "They're all against us. We don't like them and they don't like us. I hate them, so I can't wait for the game."


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Building Yaffs into Linux
This video shows you how to compile Yaffs into Linux. It's just over 10 minutes long, and if you download it, it's 325MB. After watching this video you should be able to include Yaffs in Linux. Once you have Yaffs available you will be able to mount a simulated NAND device, or if you have a Flash device attached, you will be able to use it. The demo was run in a Virtualbox system, and is available as a Vagrant box from our Downloads section with details of how to build and use a simulated NAND device.
The script for the video:
Hello, today I'm going to show you how to compile Yaffs into the linux kernel. Yaffs is the most widely used file system which is specialised for Flash memory. It's used in millions of devices, both under Linux and other operatings systems. It's available under the Gnu Public Licence – the GPL – and commercial terms. You can find out more about Yaffs at yaffs.net.
Today we'll be targetting intel x86 but with some slight changes we could target another architecture – for instance ARM. This demo is being run in a Virtualbox machine, and the resulting system is available as a Vagrant box, so you can download the image and test it yourself. If you've never used vagrant, it provides a way to get a virtual system up and running in a few minutes.
We're starting off with a stock Ubunutu Precise 12.04 386 server. We're using 386 because it's the lowest common demoninator, so the virtualbox will run on any system capable of running virtualbox, but this works just as well for 64 bit architecture.
Here we are at the command-line of a brand-new installation. To make a kernel with Yaffs you will need all the usual kernel-build tools for your distribution, the kernel source code, and the Yaffs source code.
If you skipped the first video, you won't have seen how to download Yaffs. Here's a brief clip of retrieving a GPL licenced copy of the Yaffs source.
git clone git://www.aleph1.co.uk/yaffs2
We're starting off in the directory where I stored the kernel and Yaffs source.
The next step isn't strictly necessary, but it's useful to if you are going to be doing development: I'm going to make a branch for my changes to the kernel. Of course if you are using subversion, cvs or some other system for version control then you'll want to skip this step or replace it
Let's list the branches
git branch
Only one makes it easy.
Git checkout master -b yaffs-demo-x86
Okay, so we've created a branch.
git branch
And the star indicates that we are working in our new branch.
Now we have the kernel source, but we need to include Yaffs.
Luckily Yaffs comes with a script which automates the source changes necessary to include it.
cd ../yaffs
It's always a good idea to check the README file. Especially if you are doing this yourself.
less readme-linux.txt
So the script we use to patch the kernel is
./patch-ker.sh c m ~/kernel/source
The c tells the script to copy the changes rather than linking them, and the m indicates that we want the multiprocess option because more than one process might be using Yaffs at one time.
Right, Yaffs has been patched into the kernel. Now we need to configure the kernel build.
Because I'm working on a virtual machine, I don't need to worry about different flavours of the kernel configuration. I can just go ahead and edit the default configuration. To avoid a long compile, I'm going to remove pretty much all of the non-essential drivers, and most of the hardware – remember this is running on a virtual machine.
make menuconfig
To include Yaffs we need to enable two things.
The memory technology device support (MTD) and the caching block device access for MTD.
The MTD settings are in the Device drivers section. Usually it will be on. The caching should be on too. Once those are enabled, Yaffs becomes available as an optional file system.
Go into File systems, Miscellaneous and enable Yaffs.
Here's a look at the various options.
I've set up Yaffs. Now I'm going to go ahead and turn off all the things that I don't need in this kernel. There are a lot of them, and there's no need to watch hundreds of items being unticked.
…Skipping ahead….
Once the config is suitable, we can exit and save.
Okay, we're ready to build the kernel. Just to make sure that everything is fine..
fakeroot make-kpkg clean
and let's kick the build off
fakeroot make-kpkg –initrd –append-to-version=yaffs kernel-image
and now, since this is running on a uniprocessor virtual machine, I'll be going for some lunch. But there's no need for you to wait…
So, the build is finished. It took about 1/2 hour. Your mileage will vary.
We have a Debian package, and I'm going to go ahead and install that.
sudo dpkg –install
We should have our new build in the grub. If we reboot, we'll have Yaffs available. In the next video we'll show you how to set up a Yaffs file system. You can download a copy of the virtual machine but you'll need vagrant to use it. Details are on the site.
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Officials: Hanover has a drug problem
There are 100 comments on the Evening Sun story from Jan 16, 2008, titled Officials: Hanover has a drug problem. In it, Evening Sun reports that:Hanover Middle School principal Pam Smith discusses how to talk to children about substance abuse during a town hall meeting in Hanover Tuesday.
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#23 Jan 17, 2008
The U.S. government spends $600.00 a minute fighting the drug war. All that money and the war is still never going to be won.
#24 Jan 18, 2008
It sounds to me like the police are involved in the task force and are making attempts to do their best. Read the local magistrate's docket, police log, and check the FBI's web site for UCR (Uniform Crime Report data). Plain truth is that everyone, every community, every police department is behind the power curve. The constitution that we provides us with our essential freedoms also protects the drug dealers from unlawful search and seizure, illegal questioning, and techniques that would most likley turn the tide and make a difference that would benefit the youth of our nation.
The answer to this probelm..same as any war is the following: more troops or cops, stricter enforcement of existing laws, curfews, and relaxed societal views/court decisions on arrests, search and seizure, and use of force...
If you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.
Keep up the good work and give 'em hell, Chief Whitson.
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#25 Jan 18, 2008
Thank you Erin James for covering the meeting and writing an excellent article about it. The comments are interesting, and some indicate just how much we need to educate some people.
My son comes from a two-parent, actively- involved Christian family, loved attending our summer church camp, even served as a counselor there for two summers. We ate dinner together almost every night. I only worked part-time in order to spend time with my kids. He was in sports, youth clubs and musical groups. He was a good student. He also suffers from chronic depression. He turned to drugs.
He knew exactly who to go to get heroin or oxycontin. We had a hard time finding the right combination of antidepressant, doctors and therapists -- and if we found them, sometimes insurance wouldn't cover the cost.
What the bible-beaters and "discipline 'em right" writers ignore is that each person has free will, and will make their own choices. They also don't realize that substance abuse is often a problem coupled with mental illness, and once a person abuses the drug, they have the disease of addiction. We know that diabetes and heart disease are related to and exacerbated by our lifestyle choices. As a society, do we punish the person on insulin or Lipitor? No, we treat them. Let's treat people who abuse drugs.
Since: Jan 08
United States
#26 Jan 18, 2008
Citizen, what you are describing is akin to the Gestapo. Do we really want this in our country? Our freedoms are slowly being taken away. Huckabee, the Bible thumping candidate, actually said he would like to outlaw smoking in the United States. What a nut job.
#27 Jan 20, 2008
Look i lived here for 8 years and I am the youth of hanover im 23 now and this town is growing it soon to be a city with city problomes.It brings new people and new probloms. what we have is a problem with crack and harion. Weed is not so bad of a thing. there are no jobs in this town no were to go on the weekend nothing to do. So some trun to drugs as away to get by to pay there bills but not do them. AND SOME DO THEM JUST TO PASS TIME THAT IS THE PROBLOME. You cant stop what is going on but you can chang it give options some were to go get them befor thay do.
#28 Jan 20, 2008
You really need to learn better grammar and spelling. Maybe you could find a job if you furthered your education.
#29 Jan 21, 2008
We are glad you are not affected by drugs. However, if you read what I said I was talking about statistics. There are plenty of people who do not believe in God yet do not do drugs. But the majority of those that do, are not raised in Christian homes. I in no way meant to offend you. Everyone has a right to deny God. He gave us a free will. But I ask this, if you were to die today, where will you end up (no, not talking about your body in the ground, I am talking about your spirit) Has nothin to do with holy rollin! All I know, is when I roll outta this place, I am rollin' on to Heaven to be with Jesus!!!
Since: Jan 08
United States
#30 Jan 21, 2008
Well Concerned, with the risk of starting a pointless debate on God and the afterlife(since neither side has proof of their belief), that is what you believe. That does not make it fact. I myself am not sure what will happen when we die, but without proof,as a reasoning,thinking human being I cannot say without a doubt what will happen.
#31 Jan 21, 2008
Read the book, "90 Minutes in Heaven" and then you tell me! I'd rather live life as though there was a God and die to find there was no God, than to live life as though there was no God and die and find there was a God.
Since: Jan 08
United States
#32 Jan 21, 2008
I was always under the impression that scripture states that the judgement comes after the resurrection. Why this person would go directly to heaven is not scripturally sound.
#33 Jan 22, 2008
Have you read the book?
#34 Jan 22, 2008
Hopefully you will understand better by reading this book. Quite interesting.
#35 Jan 22, 2008
Raised by 1 parent.
Went to Church sometime.
Always went to school, because you just did!
I was always told and taught drugs are wrong. "Don't ever let me catch you with them."
Perhaps the fear of my parent was enough - whoops, again - it was those 2 things called respect and discipline.
That's all it took me AND my 4 siblings.
I turned out just fine, I think!
#36 Jan 23, 2008
I think what Cathy is doing is great. It gives other parents a chance to learn more and have someone to talk to. I was lucky and never had this problem with my own children, but I feel for the parents who have to go through this. God Bless you for your work.
#37 Jan 27, 2008
the problem isnt the drugs its the way hanover police handle them u could tell them till ur blue in the face who has them were they r and how 2 bust the people selling them. but they r 2 tied up w traffic duties i think they r scared of the out of town dealers as well .its 2 eazy 2 become a cop and most of u r either under qualified or its just ur job like the fast food guy who takes ur order wrong .do ur job and quit harassing inocent people and mayb u can bust more crack and heroin dealers and less potheads . ur wasting tax payers money and then telling them 2 mind there own buisiness basicaly . i could bust these people myself in a day and have personaly affered my services . y havent u done ur jobs? keep collectin ur checks or am i on 2 something if u bust the hand full of them u might not have a job huh guys and girl. either way the job u r doing is pathetic.
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#38 Feb 13, 2008
i think its funny how most of you people have never been involved in drugs,especally in hanover but you all seem to know what to do about the drug problem,and all this christian bible pushing bs is for the birds.and you people that say we should kill drug dealers,should be killed your self.i was a heroin dealer in hanover,and im a heroin addict in hanover.i sold to support my habit.i have a family,im a normally good hearted person,i just have a drug problem,should i be killed?i grew up in a normal home in hanover and i just got caught up with the wrong people.i dont use b/c im depressed,or have underlieing issues,i just like to get high,i like to stick needles in my arms,in fact i love it.who has the right to tell me what i should be able to put in my body,MY BODY!its also funny how people will put down drug addicts and say how wrong it is,but then when you go home at night you pour yourself a nice drink,to "relax"and thats ok?so what i do heroin,so what i smoke pot,im harming no one but myself.and as far as the hanover bourogh and penn township police are concerned there just a bunch a lazy fat pigs who are currupt and harrass people,including myself for no reason.they suck at there jobs aND they all have a grudge because they couldnt make it in the city,so they come to hanover and act like there big stuff.IF ANY POLICE READ THIS YOU STINK AT YOUR JOBS,STOP DRIVIN AROUND LIKE YOU KING SH** AND FACE THE FACT YOU COULDNT HACK IN IN THE CITY AND MOST PEOPLE HATE YOU,AND THIS GOES TO RANDY WILSON,DET.SNERRINGER AND ALL THE "BIG SHOTS"YOU WILL NEVER STOP DRUGS IN HANOVER,YOU WILL NEVER WIN.YOU ARE A JOKE AND IF IT WERNT FOR SNITCHES YOU WOULD HAVE NEVER BUSTED THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE B/C YOU ARE TOO LAZY TO GET OUT THERE AND DO IT YOURSELF.
#39 Feb 13, 2008
Rizzo you definitely need help!!
#40 Feb 13, 2008
parenting is the ticket!!!!! don't have any problems like this because i talk to and do things with my kids. and always have! never dumped them off at day care or babbysitters. it was tough but my wife and i did it. went 1000s of places we didnt wont to go or have the time to go. but we did it. u know i am telling you if your droping your kids off at the mall, bowling alley, friends house, and handing them money and thier under 18 your in trouble im afraid .[well i trust them] they want to fit in, they are popular, who cares? its not like that. dont fall pray to that! there your responsablity! do things with them! and u will be fine no matter what they encounter. dont trick yourself !have so much planned for them they dont have time to go or do things with anyone but you. and things they want to do not you. now its tough mind you but it can be done if you really care!
#41 Feb 14, 2008
Rizzo is obviously a product of the drugs he/she consumes. I guess being a drug dealer or user makes you some kind of expert on everything... no, I guess not. Maybe it would be better to just disregard Rizzo's babble as the excrement that it is.
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#42 Feb 14, 2008
yea iam a expert of sports,ive been through more sh** than you ever will,so i know what im talking about,and to young father,i agree with some of what you say,but my parents took me everywhere,and always did things with me,and i still became a drug addict,there is a time when you have to let you kids loose or they will resent the fact that you sheltered them there whole life.if you sheltler them too much they will one day hit the real world and then want to experiment with things they prolly shoudent just to rebel against you.i do wish you luck and hope that your kids and you will never have to experince drug addiction first hand.and when i say its my body and i can put in it what i want im referring to myself as a adult,im 22 years old,im not condoning children useing drugs in anyway.
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Jeep / Wrangler Shops inside 128?
I'm fairly new to Wranglers. Always liked them. Got a '00 TJ last March and got the bug so just ordered a '12 JK.
Any good shop recommendations inside the 128 area (Quincy, up to Woburn, out to Netwon) that does a wide range of mods (bars, lights, lifts, bumpers, etc..)? I'd like to just generally talk with someone who's an expert who can do what I want (which is still TBD itself).
Talking on here and god knows there are hundreds of thousand of posts to search through, but sometimes at the end of the day, the person I am going to have do it is the one who I want to feel comfortable with.
I'm from the Lowell area and have searched for shops for almost two years. So far the only one I have got tons of positive feedback was Steve's keep country in Epsom NH (yes I just said Epsom). There is a shop in Plaistow nh and literally I just found a shop in Townsend ma yesterday http://www.4wdcenter.org/
Which I plan on checking out.
eilas out in townsend are awesome,,, lou and chris do the best work around.
Elias 4 Wheel Drive Center
The more I read about Elias the more I seem to make plans for heading out to Townsend.
There is also South Shore Automotive in Plymouth, they do great work on Jeeps. Give Chris a call and let them know what you want.
So mote it be mayo.
So I just got off the phone with Lou from Elias 4wd center. That guy is half way to saint hood!!! I'm very ADHD and spastic on the phone (usually why I don't talk a lot on the phone). Lou was patient, super informative, and very descriptive about what he would do and very informative about the parts I wish to have installed.
I'll report back as this goes forth
We seem to have Brothers everywhere!
Haha this is true!
Holy crap what an amazing shop! Great people all around. I learned more about my jeep in twenty minutes with Chris than I could believe. Lou the owner was kind courteous and informative on the possibilities and different directions the jeep could take. Couldn't have had a better expierience. Can't wait to figure out how I'm going to figure out how to get the wife on board with a lift, new bumpers, and skid plates, oh and might as well throw the winch in there to those dreams
glad you made it out to see lou and chris, cant beat those guys,,, even the dog diva is friendly ...
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Seattle-area artist Michael Ferguson displays his versatility in his new exhibit "Impressions" at American Art Company. Many of the paintings are the Northwest nature scenes he is known for, while others show him venturing into urban areas for his inspiration. Ferguson is adept at using acrylic and oil paint. His brush strokes can be light or heavy in either medium. "Kachess View," which depicts a mountain lake, and "Seahurst Logs," a beach scene, are both oil paintings on boards. Ferguson uses heavy brush strokes on both. "Cascade Lush" is an acrylic painting on canvas. It depicts a creek with pale blue water. The rocks are purple and pink, while the trees have green branches with hints of purple. "Box Blanket" is a departure from the nature scenes that are Ferguson's typical subject matter. It is a still life work, acrylic on board. Odd-shaped red and green apples rest on a table with flowers behind them. "Three Waves" is an acrylic on board piece that depicts two waves of green water crashing onto the shore. In the distance is an ominous gray cloud. Brush strokes of orange and blue add color to the ocean. "Rialto Logs" is a beach scene in acrylic on board. Large rocks jut upward from the ground along the shore. They are brown, with hues of green, purple and orange. The logs and other objects on the beach have an odd, almost vague, appearance.
Along one wall are several small, oil on board paintings. Here we see Ferguson depart from the nature scenes for some urban scenes of Tacoma. "Alling Park" depicts a park in the city, while "11th Street Bridge" shows the structure on Thea Foss Waterway as seen from the south. Boats docked at the marina in the foreground have a hazy appearance. A large piece that takes up an entire wall is "5 O'clock Moon." The moon is at the top of this acrylic on canvas painting, with bare red trees in the foreground. Another large work of acrylic on board is "Dandelions and Bluebells." Here again we see Ferguson using a different style, depicting the plants in bright shades of orange and bright and muted shades of green. "City Maple" is an autumn scene in acrylic on board. It depicts a red tree that has shed most of its orange leaves to the ground. "Impressions" runs through Jan. 19. American Art Company is located at 1126 Broadway. It is open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.


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Moving Around in a Workbook: MS Excel
When you begin a new workbook, the "active cell" is located at the top-left corner of the worksheet (in Cell A1). To create your worksheet or make changes to it, you must move around in it.
Getting around in a worksheet quickly is the mark of an experienced Excel user. You want to learn the quickest way to get from place to place so you can use your time more efficiently.
Keyboard Shortcuts for Moving Around in a Worksheet
You can move around in the worksheet by pressing the arrow keys and other direction keys on the keyboard. When you use the keyboard to move around in the worksheet, you move the location of the active cell. You then begin adding or editing the contents of the active cell.
- Left arrow: One cell to the left
- Right arrow: One cell to the right
- Up arrow: Up one row
- Down arrow: Down one row
- Home: The cell in column A of the current row
- Page Up: Up one screen Page Down Down one screen
- Ctrl+Home: Cell A1
- Ctrl+End: The cell at the intersection of the right-most column and the bottom-most used row (the lower-right corner of your work area)
- Ctrl+arrow key: Jump to the end of a series of blank or nonblank cells in a given direction
Use the Scroll Bar
You can also use the mouse to click or drag the scroll bars to view different parts of a worksheet. If your mouse has a wheel button, you can also use it to scroll through the document. Rotate away from you to scroll up; rotate toward you to scroll down.
The difference between using the keyboard and the scroll bars is that when you use the keyboard, you are moving the active cell. On the other hand, using the mouse to scroll up or down in the worksheet merely changes the view. You must click the mouse in the worksheet to move the active cell.
Moving to a Specific Cell
To jump directly to a specific cell, click the Name box on the left side of the formula bar, and type the cell address (that is, its column letter and row number, such as A1 or B6) and press Enter.
As soon as you press Enter, the Excel screen displays that cell (and the ones near it) and makes it the active cell.
Moving to Other Worksheets
Workbooks typically contain three worksheets (although you can easily add or delete sheets which I'll cover in another article). To use or view a different worksheet, click the tab on the bottom of the worksheet. The tabs are labeled Sheet1, Sheet2, and Sheet3 until you rename them.
When you click on a worksheet's tab, the sheet is displayed so you can work on it.
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MANCHESTER, N.H.- The Merrimack men's soccer team suffered a 4-3 overtime loss to Saint Anselm Thursday afternoon. The Warriors fall to 7-3 overall and 3-3 in the Northeast-10. Saint Anselm improves to 3-6-1 on the year and 3-3-1 against conference opponents.
Senior Ben Paradis (Tiverton, R.I.) opened the scoring 19 minutes into the contest, tallying his first goal of the 2010 season. Merrimack held the 1-0 lead for less than 10 minutes as Saint Anselm notched an equalizer at the 28 minute mark.
The two teams headed into halftime deadlocked at a goal apiece. The Hawks would jump ahead 2-1 in the opening minutes of the second half.
The Warriors tied the score on Adam Leone's (East Northport, N.Y.) second goal of the season. Leone buried a loose ball in front of the cage to knot the game at 2-2 with 20 minutes remaining.
Less than three minutes later, Robbie Sabadoz (Ottawa, Ontario) netted his team-leading eighth goal of the year to make the score 3-2 in favor of Merrimack.
The Hawks battled back and tallied their third goal of the match with nine seconds on the clock. Keesan Howe's second goal of the season sent the match into overtime.
Saint Anselm fired six shots in the extra frame. Joshua Rocco knocked in a rebound to give the Hawks a 4-3 win.
The Warriors attempted 22 shots in the match while Saint Anselm managed 15. Eleven of Merrimack's 22 shots were on target while the Hawks fired seven shots on goal.
Kevin Joyce (Mansfield, Mass.) made four saves between the posts for Merrimack. Eric Moriarty turned aside nine shots in the contest for Saint Anselm.
Merrimack returns to Warrior Field to host New Haven in a Northeast-10 match, October 9.


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Tickets for 2013 NCAA Women's Basketball Bridgeport Regional On Sale Dec. 11
Release: December 07, 2012
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Bridgeport, Conn. - All-session tickets will be available for the Bridgeport Regional of the 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn. on Tuesday, December 11.
All-session tickets are available for purchase starting at $54.50 for adults and $49.50 for students and senior citizens, with end zone all-session tickets available at $39.50 for adults and $24.50 for students and senior citizens. All-session passes grant admission to both regional semifinals on Saturday, March 30 and the regional final on Monday, April 1. Tickets can be purchased by logging onto the NCAA.com/tickets website or by calling 800-745-3000. Fans can also purchase all-session tickets by visiting the Webster Bank Arena box office starting on Wednesday, December 12.
"The MAAC, Fairfield University and the Webster Bank Arena look forward to hosting a successful NCAA event in Bridgeport," Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Commissioner Rich Ensor said. "Fans from the area and throughout the country will have an opportunity to watch quality women's college basketball as four teams vie to play in the 2013 NCAA Women's Final Four in New Orleans."
The regional semifinals on Saturday, March 30 will tip-off at 12:00 p.m. and approximately 2:30 p.m. Monday's regional final is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.
"We are excited to host the 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Regional at our home court, the Webster Bank Arena," Gene Doris, Director of Athletics at Fairfield University. "Fairfield University looks forward to again working with the MAAC and the Arena to bring March Madness to the region."
Fairfield and the Webster Bank Arena has previously hosted the Bridgeport Regional of the 2006 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship in addition to the first- and second-round games of the 2004, 2008 and 2012 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship, the East Regional of the 2009, 2011 and 2012 NCAA Division I Ice Hockey Championship, the 2011 Spark Energy MAAC Basketball Championships and the 2007 Bank of America MAAC Basketball Championships.
"The ability for fans to come see an NCAA tournament game at the price we are offering is outstanding," Howard Saffan, President of Harbor Yard Sports & Entertainment, said. "Our building is one of a kind, with the latest additions of the digital scoreboard and the 800-foot ribbon board. We are thrilled to be the host venue for the 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Bridgeport Regional."
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The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod began missionary work in Sudan in 1998, when Sudanese refugees living in western Iowa requested help with evangelistic and social development work in their war-torn homeland. As a result, the LCMS, through the ministry of Rev. John and Kathy Duitsman, established work in three areas: the Nuba Mountains, the Shilluk Kingdom, and the Western Upper Nile. The following brief history of the work in the Nuba Mountains is a typical example of how God grows His Church in Sudan. Rev. Duitsman met a young Nuba man named Younan Bashir, whom he trained in Lutheran doctrine and then sent home to establish a Mission Training Center (MTC) to train more leaders. Bashir began worshipping with a few others under a tree. In three years, 38 Lutheran congregations were planted in the eastern half of the Nuba Mountains, with opportunities to expand into the western half. Even so, today there are only four pastors to serve this vast region. As shown in the example above, the LCMS most often provides theological training. Those trained sow the seed of God's saving Word. The Word is shared and soon worshipping congregations spring forth. It is inspiring to see the response to the Gospel despite wars, genocide, famine and a lack of modern transportation and communication infrastructures. The Lutheran Heritage Foundation (LHF) has also provided theological training over the years. They administer a seminary called the Concordia Lutheran Institute for Holy Ministry (CLI/HM). CLI/HM was opened in 2000 in Khartoum and the first class trained pastors, deaconess and church administrators. The school was relocated to Yambio in Southern Sudan in 2008. In 2010, there were about a dozen students enrolled, and they hailed from parts of Sudan as varied as Nuba Mountains, Upper Nile, Jonglie, Western Equatoria and Bahr elGhazal. CLI/HM is in recess during 2011. In November 2001, ELCS President Rev. Andrew Elisa (now deceased) reported that the church body had about 5,000 members in 23 congregations and that he was the only ordained pastor. By 2005, the Sudanese church had doubled in size and was worshiping in 63 congregations. President Elisa noted that the church body will need to safeguard its current membership while securing three things: manpower to lead outreach endeavors, transportation to reach remote areas and the wherewithal to print materials and construct shelters for preaching stations. Today, the ELCS has between 15,000 and 20,000 members and is led by Interim President Rev. Japheth Dachi and Secretary General Rev. Edward Sunge Nzeme. There are 26 ordained pastors, one deaconess and 80 evangelists who serve at 79 congregations/preaching centers. Many Sudanese have fled their homeland over the past decades and have sought shelter in the United States as refugees. Many such Sudanese leaders are now in a unique position to give back. For example, many Nuer Sudanese in the U.S. have organized themselves into the Sudanese Lutheran Mission Society (SLMS), and they make several trips per year to their native land for evangelism, humanitarian projects and leadership training. Many Anuak Sudanese pull together to do the same. The LCMS has supported mercy projects in Sudan since 1999. The initial grant was for a grinding mill. Other projects soon followed such as: borehole wells, dams, literacy programs, peace-making workshops, farming tools and agricultural support, brick machines, medical supplies and blood banks, vaccinations and health clinics and refugee assistance. Other entities are currently supporting mercy projects such as a primary school and a poultry project to generate local income — both in Yambio.The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sudan (ELCS) is the fruit of faithful efforts by of all the above partners who are working toward firmly rooting a single Lutheran church body in Sudan. Note: The ELCS is not yet an official partner church of the LCMS.
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Expensive Cell Calls
Making cell phone calls during a flight might come with sticker shock.
Ever since the FCC announced they'll consider allowing cell phone calls to be made in flight, not a lot of people are happy about it -- they don't want to sit next to someone gabbing on the phone all flight long.
But if it is allowed, those calls may be expensive -- maybe several dollars a minute. Some overseas carriers allow phone calls and the price is sky high. Many airlines say they won't allow in flight calls anyway.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Delta, Southwest and Virgin America say in-flight cell phone use is "virtually off the table."
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Last year I ordered my sti in August and got it the beginning of oct I believe.
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Last year I ordered my sti in August and got it the beginning of oct I believe.
I ordered my 2013 WRX July 1st and received it (from Japan) July 17th.
You all say no changes to the 2014, but everywhere I look, they changed it dramatically. Am I missing something?
I posted, then researched the forum. I found the section about the 2014 concept car. Thank you for pointing out that I was looking at the wrong place. LOL.
But I've been researching ALL over the internet, to answer your question. ;-)
All signs point to it being exactly the same as 2013. We can only hope 2015 sees a new body style now.
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I do love this body style. And I'm sure when or if Subaru changes it, I'm sure it will be nothing of less attractiveness than what the current body style is. I just hope they don't up the HP too much to drastically out HP the ones we have now. lol
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Noobie here,
Ordering a 2014 WRX SWP Hatchback next week. Acessories: rear bumper cover and fog light kit. Debating the body side moldings, just to help a little from door dings, any input? Planning on Kartboy sts w/ bushings. So excited, not sure how i'm going to keep my mind off of it before it comes.
Thanks for bumping my thread. Now you got me thinking about the car again hahaha. lol. Na I've been doing good keeping my mind off of it.
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I ordered a 2014 WRX Satin white pearl Hatch w/ STS on august 6th. No VIN number yet. Anybody else get their VIN yet?
I Ordered mine a week back. Waiting is killing me!
2014 WRX Satin White Hatch base with Fog Lights, Underseat Sub, Bike racks on the roof and Illumination Kit.
I read that OEB Sub are a piece of crap. Anyone has specs on this Sub? I should have done my research before putting in an order.
Also what is the best place to get winter tires and rims?
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No VIN yet, but I am not worried. I was told at the 6-8 week mark I will know some info on the car. Until then I'm not worried about it, or at least try not to worry about it haha.
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I'll never forget a Dog named Beau.
Actor Jimmy Stewart appeared on the Tonight Show in 1981 and shared a Poem he had written with Johnny and the audience about his late Golden retriever Beau. Here it is:
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He never came to me when I would call
Unless I had a tennis ball,
Or he felt like it,
But mostly he didn't come at all.
When he was young
He never learned to heel
Or sit or stay,
He did things his way.
Discipline was not his bag
But when you were with him things sure didn't drag.
He'd dig up a rosebush just to spite me,
And when I'd grab him, he'd turn and bite me.
He bit lots of folks from day to day,
The delivery boy was his favorite prey.
The gas man wouldn't read our meter,
He said we owned a real man-eater.
He set the house on fire
But the story's long to tell.
Suffice it to say that he survived
And the house survived as well.
On the evening walks, and Gloria took him,
He was always first out the door.
The Old One and I brought up the rear
Because our bones were sore.
He would charge up the street with Mom hanging on,
What a beautiful pair they were!
And if it was still light and the tourists were out,
They created a bit of a stir.
But every once in a while, he would stop in his tracks
And with a frown on his face look around.
It was just to make sure that the Old One was there
And would follow him where he was bound.
We are early-to-bedders at our house -- I guess I'm the first to retire.
And as I'd leave the room he'd look at me
And get up from his place by the fire.
He knew where the tennis balls were upstairs,
And I'd give him one for a while.
He would push it under the bed with his nose
And I'd fish it out with a smile.
And before very long He'd tire of the ball
And be asleep in his corner In no time at all.
And there were nights when I'd feel him Climb upon our bed
And lie between us,
And I'd pat his head.
And there were nights when I'd feel this stare
And I'd wake up and he'd be sitting there
And I reach out my hand and stroke his hair.
And sometimes I'd feel him sigh and I think I know the reason why.
He would wake up at night
And he would have this fear
Of the dark, of life, of lots of things,
And he'd be glad to have me near.
And now he's dead.
And there are nights when I think I feel him
Climb upon our bed and lie between us,
And I pat his head.
And there are nights when I think I feel that stare
And I reach out my hand to stroke his hair,
But he's not there.
Oh, how I wish that wasn't so,
I'll always love a dog named Beau. __________________
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Title: Five Times They Don't Make It (And One Time They Do)
Creator: drizzlydaze
Rating: PG
Setting: Post-series
Word count: 2147
Prompt: The course of true love never did run smooth.
A/N: They take turns shooting themselves in the foot.
They survive the LA showdown. Senior Partners rained hell, they stopped it. Great heroes, Champions, the lot of them. So there's celebration, team hug and all that sunshiny rainbow stuff good guys do after they (inevitably) win, and then it's business as usual. The fight never ends, after all.
Except it's not (business as usual, that is), and it has (you know, the fight).
Because the big man, Angel, is a man now. He signed it away, and that meant some kind of twisty double reward for being all self-sacrificing and noble-like. (Spike thinks he knows the real reason. The PTB have another souled up vampire Champ to string along now, so they can spare a little charity and toss Angel a bone. Angel privately agrees.) The fight's ended for him, not like he can do much as a puny human with no brains.
Not Wesley-smart. Not Fred-smart. Not Willow-smart, Angel corrects with a glare, but I do have brains.
He's a bit useful on the demon identifying side, but he's retired (a consultant, Angel corrects, and Spike admits that is a little more accurate). Anyway, the important bit is that he can't fight.
Buffy agrees.
She's overprotective as she's prone to be over humans and the ones she loves. He tries to do some patrolling, but a few centuries of skill in a superhuman form does not adapt well to regular human speed and strength. He humbly accepts this and takes a backseat. Number one vamp now a sidekick. He's not used to it. But he adapts. They live happily ever after.
She doesn't know he's alive.
Spike wants to keep it that way, thank you very much. Can't stand watching them. Can't stand knowing. Can't stand it if she knew too.
He fights the fight in LA, and everything's business as usual except now he's the number one vamp in the gang.
He's alive. She learned it from Angel one sleepy summer afternoon, with the sun high in the sky and them holding hands as she always dreamed and being happy and—Alive, Angel said.
I know you're alive, she laughed. It's everything we ever—
Spike. He's alive—not like me, but… He's in LA.
Now she stands there, glaring down Gunn and Gwen and Illyria, tapping her foot, arms crossed. Just waiting. Coiled up spring, wound up toy, coffee jittery. Waiting. For Spike. Till he comes. Not moving.
You are unreasonable, Illyria says. Incomprehensible. You tossed your two suitors around when they were both half breeds, but now relinquish your human toy for what you are designed to destroy. You continue this tiresome juggling routine even when you believe to have decided on a superior option. She does not specify what the superior option is.
Buffy ignores her. She's been getting good at that, keeping her anger down. Tap tap tap.
The doors swing open. "I smelled the weirdest thing," Spike begins, tracking mud through the hotel floor. Then he stops dead. "Huh."
Gunn and Gwen tug Illyria away, and the three disappear up the stairs. Have fun, kids, Gunn calls out.
ldquo;So it's true." She walks towards him. He does not move, fixed in place. She tries to sound steely, to look steely, but she's pretty sure she's failing. He drinks her in, like he's the one who thought her dead. "You're really…" She lifts a hand to his face and moves it towards him infinitesimally—then she lets it drop down and lets out a shuddery breath. She really should punch him. She doesn't. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"At first? Physically couldn't. Then I got wrapped up in all this stuff, LA demons." He lets out a small disbelieving laugh. "Too busy, bloody classic excuse. But true. Then after the battle… you got Angel back," he seems to be struggling here, "and I figured he would say or you'd find out somehow, so I just… let it lie." It sounds like a lie.
"Happily ever after," she says. She's sure Spike can hear her heart racing, see her thoughts written across her face.
"No," she says, shaking her head. "We split."
"Oh?" His tone is careful, but his eyes fill with wonder and hope. She's surprised by how much restraint he has.
There's an anticipatory silence that neither of them fill. She thinks of all those months mourning him, forcing everything down. Thinks of him palling around in LA then. Thinks of the unresolvedness between them now.
She waits anyway. For him to speak, because he hasn't in so long. He doesn't, still doesn't.
"Well," she finally says, a vice on her heart. "Glad to know you aren't dust."
And she leaves.
They meet again, because good guys always meet up when there's evil arising. Spike mostly hangs with the Niblet, making up for lost time and ties. Angel is more sullen than usual. Buffy acts the part of general.
He avoids her, and he's pretty sure she's avoiding him too. Their last meeting is burned into his mind: the racing heart, rising hope, and silent rejection. But they still fight side by side, back to back. They're the ones best in combat (Illyria has long left to another dimension), deadly slice-dice, and he forgets the important bits when he fights with her again. Important bits like heartbreak and rejection, which are hardly new to him in his entire unlife and life, but he's hoping to be less pathetic.
He tells Dawn this one evening, when he's battered and on the brink of sleep. He only realises Buffy was listening too when Dawn informs him the next morning.
All the more reason to stick to his resolve. Stop with the fool for love act and start learning to actually survive in the world. First things first, he tells himself, take back your dignity and have a real chat with her.
Buffy begins, unexpectedly enough, with an apology. And she's looking straight at him, right in the eye. That casual but striking talk he has in mind flies out of the window, and he barely manages to keep a hold on his dignity. But he gathers his wits just before his silence becomes gaping. "Words, words. Sound nice enough. But very nearly useless." He's learned that the hard way, a long time ago. "Straight-up apology's a step up from the usual punch or avoidance, I'll give you that."
She doesn't back down, doesn't miss a beat. "You want action? Not a problem." And she steps towards him, too bloody close—he clumsily, stupidly takes a step back. He can't read her expression.
His turn. "S-so, apology accepted." He is saved the onus of saying goodbye when Giles enters the room to call them out into a meeting.
He's had the talk just as he planned. Not a fool, then—but since when had he become a coward?
She finds him reading in Giles' library and smiles. She walks up as quietly as she can; he's so engrossed that he does not hear her steps or smell her scent. Honey and vanilla, he once said. It's probably orange and plum now, because she's changed her shampoo.
It's poetry. Flowery, flowing poetry. To her surprise, it's one she knows: something about ships passing in the night.
She remembers that last year in Sunnydale, quiet nights and back porch company. She remembers when he found that old poetry book Angel gave her so long ago—Sonnets from the Portuguese, love poems pressed in the pages. He briefly mentioned Angelus, she briefly mentioned Angel, and then he lyricized, from memory:
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore
Alone upon the threshold of my door
Of individual life, I shall command
The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand
Serenely in the sunshine as before—
She's close enough now that he must know she's there. "Poetry, huh? You never did tell me that particular story."
"Story?" He doesn't look up.
He's not in a giving mood, but she didn't expect him to be anyway. "You. Poetry. Story."
He manages a stiff shrug. "Not really."
Spike? Will's calling from the corridor. Spike, where are you?
Buffy looks to him. He gives a slight shake of his head. "They want to take measurements for a bloody uniform," he volunteers.
"Dawn's idea?"
"Dawn's idea of torture."
Willow's voice fades as she moves from the corridor.
"Library's a pretty good hiding spot," Spike says. "No one comes in here. And no one would think to look."
She smiles. "Like in high school. The old, the original Scooby hideout was the library. Perfect spot, though I got conflicting reputations as delinquent and geek." The labels coalesced nicely into weirdo. She sits on the edge of the desk, making it clear she's not intending to go anytime soon.
He fiddles with the corner of the page for a few moments. Then, abruptly: "What do you want?"
Now he looks at her. She's not sure what she sees in his face, and that unsettles her. "Sometimes," he says, "it takes more courage for words than action. So speak. Spell it out."
She raises her eyebrows. "Someone's singing a different tune."
"Changed my mind," he says unabashedly. "Actions are too muddy. Words, you get intent. The right words, anyway. So. What do you want?"
He's right. Words are harder. The apology was easy enough, because she turned her wrongs over and over again in her mind till the guilt built up. The words he wants now… well, she's very good at denial. Her intent is a careful mystery even to herself. "To… go back to what it was. We've been weird, and… avoid-y." She wants to… Friends is on the tip of her tongue, should be perfect, but she can't say it. Not that label.
"Done," he says. "Anythin' else eatin' at you?"
She misses him still, and even if they fall back into comfortable companionship of Sunnydale, if they are friends, it won't be exactly right. She wants to say it now. But that means thoughts in her head and everything out there, and she doesn't do that. "No, that's all."
He's walking to the shelf to put back the anthology. "Well, gotta go head off the Bit. See you later, pet."
There's something wrong with her, pushing everyone away. Spike used to get that, read her. He used to push back, and she wishes he would now.
She's still holding back. She thinks he's not waiting anymore.
They take turns shooting themselves in the foot.
Buffy runs up from behind him, catches him on the shoulder. He wonders if she has it in mind to break that particular pattern, but it's his turn to self-sabotage.
"Words, actions, whatever," she says. "You'll just change your mind again."
Before he can react, her arms are around him—one at the back of his head, one on his back—and kisses him furiously. He can't help but sink hungrily into it. The world is drowned out and there is nothing there but her green-hazel eyes, her scent of citrus and plum, her soft gold hair, warm skin, Buffy. They break apart, Buffy gasping in a breath, and he murmurs her name raggedly, as a man starved.
He can't stop himself. He's not thinking, running on emotion—so he gasps out, "I love you." His heart feels like it's beating again.
And he steels himself for the rejection, because this is the self-sabotage he's always drawn to, inviting pain in, never…
She's looking at him with that look in her face, that look from the cavern in Sunnydale—eyes wide and wet, pinning him down more than sunlight ever could. "I love you." A smile, blinding. "I love you."
The world has stopped.
Then reality crashes in, harder than ever with piercing screams. Shouts. They know! They're here! Buffy, Spike, we need you! A quick look at one another, then they're racing down the corridor.
They take turns, they do. But Buffy caught him this time.
There's a fight, big and bloody, and they're unprepared. One of those final apocalypse-type things that roll around ever so often. Slash, magic, Buffy's on the floor.
They take turns dying too, and she is overdue.
Their story is cut short.
and one time they do
They take turns coming back.
He thinks she's a dream when she does. He's spent months and months waiting. One hundred and forty seven has passed a long time ago. Three hundred and one is the mark now. Three hundred and two today, and she appears.
He stays stock still as she speaks. She touches him then, and he breaks down, leans into her, cries out, and doesn't let go.
They fight demons and each other, save the world between doing dishes, and that is happily ever after.


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Holiday gifts from nurseries. Tired of crowded malls? Shop at nurseries. Even nongardening friends like cyclamen, orchids, miniature conifers, and other tabletop plants, vases, cachepots, decorative birdhouses, and more. Or check out the gift shops at botanical gardens for one-of-a-kind finds.
Artichokes. Even if you don't like to eat artichokes, plant one or more now for their ornamental value. You'll get handsome silvery leaves, big green flower buds, and, if you don't eat those buds, violet-blue flowers that will stop your neighbors in their tracks. (I know; I watched them from my home office last summer.)
Bulbs. Coastal, inland, and low-desert gardeners (Sunset climate zones 22-24, 18-21, and 13, respectively) can still plant spring-flowering bulbs. Tulips, crocus, and hyacinth that have been chilled for at least six weeks can go in now too.
Natives that look like holly. Ilex (holly) is fine for the acidic soils of the Northwest, but it's not the best choice for Southern California. Plant toyon ( Heteromeles arbutifolia) instead, suggests La Cañada Flintridge landscape architect and native enthusiast Ronnie Siegel. Hollyleaf cherry ( Prunus ilicifolia), hollyleaf redberry ( Rhamnus ilicifolia), and Rhamnus crocea also provide greenery that resembles holly.
Bare-root roses. Nurseries that specialize in bare-root roses include Laguna Hills Nursery in Lake Forest, Parkview Nursery in Riverside, Burkard Nurseries in Pasadena, Lakewood Nursery in Cypress, and Kniffing's Discount Nurseries in El Cajon. Visit www.helpmefind.com if you're having trouble finding a particular rose. Varieties to try: 'Julia Child', a butter-yellow floribunda with old garden rose blossoms. An All-America award winner, this is a thoroughly delicious rose, and it's also disease-resistant. Another floribunda that deserves attention is 'Brilliant Pink Iceberg'. Try interplanting it with white 'Iceberg', its classic parent, as they do at Huntington Gardens. 'Starry Night', a shrub rose with single, white flowers that look almost like a dogwood's, is another underused winner. It thrives in clay soil and hot inland climates, says Riverside gardener Susan Hinojosa.
Camellias. Add winter-blooming Camellia sasanqua to the garden for holiday blooms. Red-flowered 'Yuletide' is deservedly popular, but there are many other varieties. If you aren't finding many choices at your local nursery, visit Nuccio's Nurseries in Altadena, which specializes in camellias and azaleas. Or request a catalog and order by mail (626/794-3383).
Fruit trees. TreePeople, the nonprofit organization promoting urban forestry in Southern California, gives away thousands of bare-root apple, apricot, nectarine, peach, and plum trees to low-income families at this time of year. Visit www.treepeople.org to donate to the program.
Wildflowers. Broadcast seeds of baby blue eyes, blue and scarlet flax, California poppy, clarkia, godetia, and other wildflowers. Rake lightly to cover seeds with a thin cover of soil, or walk over seeds to press into ground. Keep soil moist until seeds germinate, or broadcast just before rain is expected.
Care for indoor plants. To counteract the dry air from heating systems, place potted plants on trays of moistened pebbles. Grouping plants together and misting frequently also helps increase humidity around plants.
Harvest winter vegetables. Begin picking brussels sprouts, starting from the bottom of stalks. Cut broccoli heads, allowing side stalks to produce sprouts for later harvesting.
Prepare for winter rains. Clean out gutters, downspouts, and swales. Buy barrels or other storage devices to collect rainwater for plants. To keep soil from compacting in the rain, replenish mulch in garden beds.
Control weeds. Pull out annual bluegrass, spurge, and other young weeds as they emerge and before they have a chance to set seed ― easiest to do after a rain when soil is soft.
Harvest greens. Conifers and broad-leafed evergreens benefit from light pruning in winter ― and you can use the clippings for making holiday wreaths and swags. Longest-lasting types include cedar, cotoneaster, cypress, fir, holly, juniper, magnolia, pines, pittosporum, podocarpus, pyracantha, toyon and viburnum.
Trim a tree for wild birds. Decorate a small conifer or other evergreen tree with garlands of unsalted popcorn, cranberries, and grapes strung on fishing line. Add ornaments of oranges and grapefruits sliced in wedges and dried corn on the cob; use fishing line again to tie ornaments to the tree.
Pest and Disease Control
Spray fruit trees. If pests and fungal disease attacked your deciduous fruit trees this year, take steps now to prevent attacks next year. Spray trees with a mixture of lime sulfur or fixed copper (on apricots, use only fixed copper) and horticultural oil. The oil smothers the eggs of overwintering insect pests; the lime sulfur or copper discourages fungal diseases like peach leaf curl. Spray all branches, the trunk, and the ground beneath the trees out to the driplines.


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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' BASKETBALL: Trojans take one on the chin
RICHLAND — Regardless of the game's outcome, Saltsburg boys' basketball coach Don Stitt drew many positives from watching his unseasoned team gain playoff experience against unbeaten Bishop Carroll on Thursday at Richland High School.
Playing with three freshmen the bulk of the game, Saltsburg kept pace with Bishop Carroll early on, only to get smothered and outscored by 35 points in the last three quarters to fall 70-28 in a District 6 Class A quarterfinal-round playoff game at the Richland High School Sportscenter.
Eighth-seeded Saltsburg, which beat Saint Joseph's Catholic Academy, 56-51, in the opening round of the playoffs, concluded its season with a record of 11-13.
The top-seeded Huskies (23-0) will take on the winner of the quarterfinal-round game between Juniata Valley (No. 4) and Portage (No. 5) in the semifinals at a date and place to be announced.
Bishop Carroll, the third-ranked Class A team in the state, according to Lehighvalleylive.com, won its last district title in 2011 before falling in back-to-back district championship games the last two seasons.
"They're not just one of the best teams in the district, they're one of the best teams in the state," Stitt said. "I give them a lot of credit. They play like a team and they hustle, but my kids, hey, they never gave up.
"We had some seniors on this team but my younger guys gained a lot of experience tonight and I hope it's going to carry them for the next two or three years. Remember this game."
Saltsburg trailed by just seven points, 17-10, heading into the second quarter, but then began succumbing to the Huskies' press and committing turnovers in bunches.
Fueled by 10 points and two 3-point field goals from sharp-shooter Brandon Martinazzi, Bishop Carroll finished the second quarter on a 25-3 run to stretch their halftime lead to 30 points, 45-15.
"I always stress to our guys, 'Just because we don't get it the first five or six times doesn't mean it's not wearing on them,'" Bishop Carroll coach Cosie Aliquo said. "We got three or four steals and a quick six or eight points. Going from six to 12 in three possessions is pretty good."
Martinazzi, who drilled a buzzer-beating jump shot at the end of the first quarter, scored 17 of his game-high 24 points in the first half.
"We came out a little sluggish off the bat, (but then) we started generating some steals in the second quarter, and then we started making some shots. We just tried to bust it open," Martinazzi said.
The Huskies limited Saltsburg to just 13 points in the second half, including four in the fourth quarter.
Bishop Carroll held seniors and 1,000-point career scorers Steve Richards and Ian Satler to just eight and four points, respectively.
The Trojans amassed season-lows in points and field goals (12).
"Honestly, the goal was, coming in, to hopefully break the press and slow the ball down," Stitt said. "But they're just so quick and athletic and they got in our passing lanes and that really got us out of our game.
"They're the best team in this district and one of the top three teams in the state and they showed why. They can go so deep, they're so athletic, they got the height, they got the shooters, they got the role players … they're great and I hope they represent District 6 well."
Frankie Plowman, one of five freshmen who played for Saltsburg, scored six points.
Dustin Filloy is a sports writer for The Indiana Gazette.
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