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Medical services in Namibia are of a very high standard. However, the availability of most services is restricted to the main towns.
Emergencies and accidents that occur in remote areas do attract a high cost when transport to the main towns is required. Host establishments should be able to organize these services when requested.
There are no mandatory vaccinations for travellers from Europe. If you arrive from a country where yellow fever vaccinations are mandatory you need to produce proof that you have been vaccinated. Take the usual precautions: ask your doctor whether you should renew your vaccinations against polio, diphtheria and tetanus. S/he might also advise to take precautions against Hepatitis A and B. Unfortunately there is no vaccination against malaria.
Malaria remains one of the most feared illnesses world-wide. In southern Africa Malaria is second to HIV/Aids in causing illness and death. In Namibia, however, this applies primarily to the local population in the northern parts of the country, as protection becomes too expensive in the long term. Holidaymakers can protect themselves efficiently. Please note that the following information is not intended to replace an individual consultation with a doctor or pharmacist!
Malaria is transmitted through the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito which carries the pathogen in it because it has previously bitten a person already infected with malaria. This means that if there are no mosquitoes there is no malaria either. Do note, however, that where there are mosquitoes there is not necessarily malaria. Since Namibia does not have much stagnant water the risk of contracting malaria is minimal in most parts of the country, or limited to a specific time of the year.
- High-risk areas are the river meadows in the north, north-west and northeast. If this is where you will travel, you are advised to take precautions at any time of the year.
- Kaokoveld, the Etosha National Park, the Otavi Mountains and the east including Bushmanland are areas of medium risk. Precautions are strongly recommended during the rainy season (November to April).
- The risk is small in the area between Otjiwarongo and Windhoek. This does not mean, however, that you should not use mosquito repellent.
- The coast, the Namib Desert and the south are regarded as almost risk-free.
The characteristic symptoms of malaria are similar to those of diarrhoea or flu: high fever with shivering fits, headache and aching limbs, severe sweating and dizziness. Malaria can cetainly be treated if recognised early; without treatment it can become life-threatening. Incubation for the disease is four to six weeks. Should you experience cold-like symptoms during this period you see a doctor immediately and inform them that you have been to a malaria area!
Although there is no vaccine against malaria, several prophylactic medicines are available, including homeopathic ones. Ask your doctor or one of the many institutes for tropical diseases for advice. In most European countries malaria prophylaxis is available on prescription only. In Namibia it is sold over the counter and it often costs less than overseas. Doctors and pharmacists in Namibia can also advise you on which prophylactic to choose. Usually you need to start taking the tablets one week before you travel to a malaria area and continue for four weeks afterwards. Unfortunately there is no protection on which you can rely 100%.
Should you notice any of the symptoms despite taking prophylaxis, you should still see a doctor without delay. However, due to the prophylaxis the test may show positive even if you only suffer from a cold and you might be treated for malaria without having the illness. In addition, malaria tablets are known to cause nausea, illusions and upset stomachs. With this in mind, many people discard the prophylaxis and rely on the most effective protection – avoid mosquito bites!
How you keep mosquitoes at a distance:
- Put on repellent, especially in the evening, at night and in the morning. Effective repellents like 'Peaceful Sleep' and 'Tabard' are widely available in Namibia.
- At dusk and during the night wear clothes which cover arms and legs and choose light colours.
- Use insect sprays or repellent incense sticks and spirals in your room. These are available in supermarkets and pharmacies.
- Sleep under a mosquito net which is usually fixed above your bed if you are in a high-risk area.
- If you sleep in a tent, make sure that the flap and windows are fitted with mosquito gauze.
- If you need a mosquito net, purchase one. They are available at most NamPost branches and safari outfitters, and they are sold directly by 'Mossi Nets' in Otavi (P.O. Box 163, Otavi, Tel and Fax +264 (0)67 234011, additional Fax 242899).
Snakes & Scorpions
Just to put you at ease: most visitors never see a snake or scorpion during their stay in Namibia. In any event, about 75% of Namibia's snakes are not poisonous. Most snakes beat a hasty retreat when humans approach and therefore are never spotted – they pick up the tremors caused by footsteps. The lazy puff adder may become dangerous, as it is not able to disappear fast enough and you might unwittingly get too close. When walking in the 'wilds' you should always wear sturdy shoes, preferably covering the ankle. Watch your step and listen to sounds – snakes usually warn you before they attack. Refrain from picking up or turning pieces of rock, and do not put your hand into holes in the ground or into rock crevices, as these are favourite hiding places for snakes and scorpions. Always carry a torch in the dark. When camping, zip your tent completely and shake out your shoes before putting them on in the morning.
Other Illnesses
Bilharzia is transmitted by microscopic worms. They occur only in stagnant water in some places in the north-eastern Kavango Region and in the Kwando-Linyanti-System.
Sleeping Sickness is transmitted by the Tsetse Fly which resembles a horsefly. This sickness occasionally occurs in the Caprivi.
Rabies can be transmitted by all warm-blooded animals. Be careful if untamed wild animals (like ground squirrels) behave very friendly!
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On Monday, the law firm King and Spalding reneged on its agreement to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court. Following the Obama Justice Department's decision not to defend the federal law in court, the U.S. House of Representatives took up the case and hired former U.S. solicitor general Paul Clement, a lawyer at King and Spalding until yesterday, when he quit the firm and joined another in order to honor his commitment.
King and Spalding's vague reason for dropping the case is that its vetting process was "inadequate," but Republicans are accusing the firm of putting "politics and profit" first. Indeed, the Human Rights Campaign, the country's leading gay rights activist group, took credit for applying the "pressure points" needed to "make it happen."
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Two members of the Salinas City Council abruptly dismissed swirling rumors Thursday that rogue Councilman Jose Castaneda is now leading an effort to have the citys east side secede from the rest of Salinas.
Its ridiculous, said Mayor Joe Gunter. It comes down to this -- would the people of the east side be better off by forming their own city? The answer is absolutely not. They would be harmed by such a thing.
Pure nonsense, said District 2 Councilman Tony Barrera of the idea.
Barrera then echoed Gunter:
Its OK for people to express their frustration but Id really like to know how these people proposing this think the lives of those living in my district and throughout east Salinas will actually be improved, he said.
Gunter said he heard the group advocating secession will hold a series of community meetings next month. The mayor did not know when and where the meetings will be held.
Well, so far, I havent been invited. But if they invite me I will go. Id be happy to outline briefly what would be in store for them, Gunter said.
The city incorporated the area known as the Alisal from Monterey County in 1963. Since that time, the city has, in fact, struggled to bring the former county area up to city standards -- especially related to roads, street lighting and sidewalks.
Both council members said the finances behind such a move -- if it were ever put before the voters -- would be mind-boggling. Everything the city now provides the citizens of the area, from police and fire response to libraries to sewer systems would all have to be contracted by the existing city structure to the new community.
What this amounts to is just is another distraction exactly at a time when we don't need one, Gunter said.
Castaneda since being elected to the District 1 seat has been at the heart of a number of political stunts. Two of those include his alleged violation of state law by refusing to give up his seat on the Alisal Union school board and his involvement in the ongoing effort to recall Gunter from office.


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With that in mind, a new company hopes to turn the process on its head by helping hopeful singles find their perfect match based on their chemical compatibility. A new company, straightforwardly called Pheromone Parties, organizes singles events in cities like L.A., London, and NYC. The premise: Single ladies and gents are instructed to wear a clean T-shirt to bed every night for three nights before the party — then bring it to the event. Each shirt is placed in a plastic bag marked pink (for women) or blue (for dudes) and assigned a number. Party guests then take a whiff of as many bags as they want. If they like what they smell, they pose for a photo with the bag; these pictures are projected onto the wall for the other guests to see. If you see your bag posing with a cutie patootie, then it's on you to seek them out and put those pheromones to good use.
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Although it's only 4:30, it's getting dark enough that I have to squint when Pedro opens the door to his home, introducing me to his wife, Victoriana. Her bright pink dress stands out from the dull interior, a single room flanked by a concrete floor and wooden boards that don't quite match up for walls.
I'm here for what's in the back left corner, a pair of stone slabs, one of which holds a large metal pot that's slowly spitting steam into the air. The heat feels nice. As my eyes adjust, I see I'm not the only one who feels that way—a calico cat and her mouse-sized kitten are curled up under the pot for a warm late-afternoon nap. Making corn tortillas is the lesson for the afternoon in the Belizean Maya village of San Jose, population 1,000.
In this Central American country, it's easy to have a luxury ecotourism experience that's popular among adventurous yet convenience-craving travelers. Check into Francis Ford Coppola's Blancaneaux Lodge and ride horses through the wilderness by day, order room service with the touch of a conch-shell-concealed button by night. Or dive along the Belize Barrier Reef and then lounge by your resort-style pool on Ambergris Caye. But it's just as easy—or rather, just as possible—to have the kind of local, no-special-accommodations experience Belize became known for when redefining the concept of ecotourism a couple of decades ago. Today, that's what I've chosen.
"You sit there," Victoriana says authoritatively. I crouch down on the low wooden stool, fidgeting with how to arrange my legs. "No, wash your hands!" she barks, her angular jaw becoming more pronounced as she points toward the corner.
I dip my hands into a cold bucket of water and look for soap and a towel to dry off with, but neither is available. I shake my wrists a little and head back to my perch, a sheet of wax paper now waiting. Victoriana plops a blob of dough down, then gets to work on her own.
"How are you named?" Victoriana's 16-year-old daughter asks, as she expertly swivels her dough, creating corn tortillas in the kind of perfect circles I could only accomplish with a cookie-cutter. I tell her: Haley.
"Your parents still alive?" It becomes the question most commonly asked of me while I'm in the village, always followed by: "How old are they?" My response is invariably taken in with a thoughtful look of contemplation on the questioner's face, as if this has provided great insight into who I am and why I'm here.
"You married?" she continues. I tell her that I'm not. "You have a… friend?" she presses on. I smile and say no. "Do you?" I ask. She blushes and casts her eyes downward.
While picking up assorted facts—like that the word dessert doesn't exist in this culture and that Victoriana's daughter has dropped out of school, not uncommon here—I concentrate hard, reshaping the edges once I've pressed out all the dough in an effort to cheat my way to the desired spherical shape. The end result reminds me of the way a preschooler writes her name, with the "e" inevitably backward and letters scattered about the page—it may not be exactly right, but the point gets across. Each tortilla gets a little better. Victoriana goes to toss my latest masterpiece into the basket, where the cat has taken up residence on top of the tortillas. So much for washing my hands.
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The Novel, Potent and Orally Available GPR119 Agonist AS1790091 Enhances Insulin Secretion and Insulin Promoter Activity, Preserves B-Cell Function, Improves Insulin Resistance, and Reduces Body Weight Gain in Type 2 Diabetic Mice
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Authors: SHIGERU YOSHIDA, HIROTSUGU TANAKA, HIROYUKI OSHIMA, YASUHIRO YONETOKU, TAKAHIDE OHISHI, TETSUO MATSUI, MASAYUKI SHIBASAKI
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Results: GPR119 is a Gs-coupled receptor expressed predominantly in pancreatic β-cells and enteroendocrine cells in the small intestine. Activation of the receptor leads to glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) and incretin secretion via an increase in intracellular cAMP. Synthetic GPR119 agonists therefore represent a promising target in treating type 2 diabetes. In this study, we evaluated the therapeutic potential of AS1790091, a novel synthetic GPR119 agonist with an EC50 value of 0.5 µM for human GPR119. AS1790091 (0.1-10 µM) dose-dependently enhanced insulin secretion in the mouse pancreatic β-cell line MIN6B1 and transiently activated human insulin promoter transfected in the mouse pancreatic β-cell line NIT-1. The maximum efficacy for human insulin promoter activity occurred at doses of 10-30 µM, which was comparable to that of GLP-1 analog exendin-4 at 3 µM. Multiple once-daily dosing of AS1790091 (0.3-3 mg/kg, po) for 2 weeks in diabetic db/db mice significantly reduced blood glucose and increased plasma insulin levels at 1-3 mg/kg. Similarly, AS1790091 markedly improved pancreatic insulin contents that intend pancreatic preservative effects. In KK/Ay mice, a model of type 2 diabetes with hyperinsulinemia, multiple once-daily dosing of AS1790091 (0.3-3 mg/kg, po) for 1 week improved blood glucose and pancreatic insulin contents at 1-3 mg/kg, findings similar to those observed in db/db mice, particularly with regard to reduced plasma insulin levels. Further, AS1790091 induced a reduction in body weight at 3 mg/kg in both db/db and KK/Ay mice. We found that AS1790091 improved not only GSIS and preservation of pancreatic β-cells but also insulin resistance and body weight. Taken together, these findings suggest that GPR119 agonist will help research move on from the GLP-1 pathway as a new generation agent for type 2 diabetes with obesity.
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Case-insensitive Regexp matching for Windows-1252 not working for ŠšŽžŒœÿŸ
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By chance I had a look at enc/iso_8859_1.c and found
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# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
s1 = "\u0160".encode 'windows-1252' # 'Š'
r1 = Regexp.new("\u0161".encode('windows-1252'), Regexp::IGNORECASE) # /š/i
s1 =~ r1
# => nil
s2 = "\u0178".encode 'windows-1252' # 'Ÿ'
r2 = Regexp.new("\u00FF".encode('windows-1252'), Regexp::IGNORECASE) # /ÿ/i
s2 =~ r2
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s3 = "\u00C0".encode 'windows-1252' # 'À'
r3 = Regexp.new("\u00E0".encode('windows-1252'), Regexp::IGNORECASE) # /à/i
s3 =~ r3
# => 0
So case-insensitive matching works when both characters are in iso-8859-1, but not when one (ÿŸ) or both (ŠšŽžŒœ) characters are not in iso-8859-1.
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Is this correct?
#2 Updated by Martin Dürst over 1 year ago
Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
Is this correct?
Thanks a lot for this very quick work!
Unfortunately, it's not correct. I haven't checked everything, but at least cp1252_get_case_fold_codes_by_str doesn't deal with the special cases in get_case_fold_codes_by_str for ss/SS/ß.
I suggest that we do some more exploratory work before addressing this bug directly.
First, I suspect that other (windows-12xx,...) encodings have very similar problems.
Second, I found this bug because I was trying to find out what information that the encoding primitives already provide for case folding and case conversion.
I have only just started that, but depending on what I/we find, we may want/need to:
1) use this information and be done;
2) use this information and add some more information separately;
3) change this information (e.g. add or change some primitives) so that it covers all the needs for case conversion;
4) provide the information for case conversion completely separately.
I suggest that we wait with fixing this bug until we are able to rule out choice 3).
If there is a (short, up-to-date) summary of what each of the encoding primitives does, that would help me a lot (Japanese would be okay).
#3 Updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada over 1 year ago
I've forgotten the test file, "test/ruby/enc/test_windows_1252.rb", and added it now.
What tests are needed?
#4 Updated by Martin Dürst over 1 year ago
Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
I've forgotten the test file, "test/ruby/enc/test_windows_1252.rb", and added it now.
What tests are needed?
Kimihito Matsui, one of my students, is working on tests (not only for windows 1252, but also for other encodings).
Can you (or somebody else) tell me what the case-related encoding primitives are supposed to do?


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Reno, Nev.— Brandon Watson fell just a home run short of his second cycle of the season, but Reno lost the lead in the ninth and went on to fall 12-10 to Colorado Springs Tuesday night at Aces Ballpark.
Reno jumped out to a 7-2 lead early, but couldn't hold on for the victory in the longest nine-inning game in Aces history (4:08). By the third inning, Watson already had a single, double and triple, and the Aces had a 7-4 advantage. However, Colorado Springs fought its way back to within two runs heading into the ninth. The Sky Sox exploded for four runs in the final frame to take the lead, and the Aces went quietly in their half of the inning, as Colorado Springs salvaged a series split.
Travis Blackley started for Reno, throwing three innings in a game that saw the Aces use six different pitchers. Scott Dohmann (0-1) took the loss for Reno after giving up all four ninth-inning runs.
Colorado Springs used four relievers after starter Alan Johnson started, getting a no-decision, while Matt Herges (2-1) picked up the win and Joel Peralta nailed down the ninth for his fourth save of the season.
Ruben Gotay went 2-for-4 with two RBIs, and Ed Rogers added a pair of RBIs as well for the Aces. The two teams combined for 20 walks, just six shy of the all-time Pacific Coast League record.
The Aces finish the homestand winning five-of-eight games. They head east Wednesday for an eight-game road trip to Omaha and Iowa. Wednesday's game against the Iowa Cubs at Principal Park will feature Reno's RHP Billy Buckner (6-3, 3.71 ERA) against Iowa's RHP Esmailin Caridad (5-10, 4.21 ERA). First pitch is slated for 5:05 PT, and can be heard live on Fox Sports Radio 1450 AM.
The Aces return home Friday, August 14, for an eight-game homestand. For tickets, stop by the Aces Ballpark Box Office, call (775) 334-7000 or visit www.RenoAces.com.
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WP—Herges (2-1); LP—Dohmann (0-1); S—Peralta (4)
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Archive for Thursday, June 21, 2001
Donald R. Kurtz
Services for Donald R. Kurtz, 75, LaCygne, formerly of Gardner, were Tuesday, June 19, at Bruce Funeral Home, Gardner. Military graveside services and burial were at Oak Lawn Memorial Gardens, Olathe.
Mr. Kurtz died Tuesday, June 12, 2001, at Dwight D. Eisenhower VA Medical Center, Leavenworth.
He was born March 30, 1926, in Eudora, the son of Elmer Charles and Amanda Mae (Weatherford) Kurtz. He grew up in Eudora, and lived in Gardner, Spring Hill and LaCygne before moving to the VA facilities in 1994. He graduated from Gardner High School in 1944. He was an assistant postmaster for the U.S. Postal Service in Gardner. He retired in 1970. He also was a municipal judge for the City of Gardner for five years and the Johnson County Sheriff's Department.
He was a member of the Gardner Presbyterian Church, Gardner. He was a member of the NRA, VFW, American Legion, Gardner; DAV, Spring Hill; Kansas Peace Officers Association; National Arbor Day Foundation and the National WildLife Federation. He served in the Marine Corps during World War II.
Two brothers, Fred Kurtz and Ira Kurtz, preceded him in death.
Survivors include three sons, Patrick Allen Kurtz, Pittsburg, Phillip Walter Kurtz, Everett, Wash., and William Charles Kurtz, Pittsburg; two brothers, Clifford "Bud" Kurtz, Edwardsville, and Martin Lee Kurtz; and a sister, Barbara Newbanks, Olathe.
The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Leavenworth VA American Legion Auxiliary Fund, c/o Bruce Funeral Home, P.O. Box 192, Gardner, KS 66030.
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India's Leander Paes and his unheralded partner Vishnu Vardhan fought
valiantly before bowing out of the Olympics men's doubles tennis event,
succumbing to a the wild card French pair in a three-set tussle at the Wimbledon
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First review, hopefully it helps someone along the way. I recently damaged my Salomon Sick Stick beyond repair and went on the hunt for a quick pow board replacement. I decided to go out on a limb and got the 163 Burton Juice Wagon. I knew they would not be the same boards as the ss was flat to rocker and the jw is full camber. I was a little apprehensive to go back to camber for a go to pow board, but enough reviews said I wouldn't be disappointed.
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Conditions were a blustery chopped pow day as the day prior was fresh and not a lot of snow had filled in. So it was pow/packed pow/chopped pow with plenty of fresh spots. Mt. Bachelor also has many natural features to hit, slash, plow over, and boost off of, which I intend to do all of with this board.
My overall impression was thoroughly pleased. So as I stated before it wasn't the surfy replacement board but it was delightfully responsive in the trees and just ate the pow. The nose drives right through the fresh stuff and had no problem keeping float in the deep sections as it's a massive shovel pow nose. On the chandler chopped pow it just blows right over everything without bumping around. I loved the benefits from the camber in the board. Out on the open runs it just wanted to go. However I never felt like it was controlling me. I think the combination of the NOW bindings and the channel made for a very confident ride. In tight spots I still felt like it was right with me the whole time and never had any catchy moments. It's been a while since I had ridden camber but it's a great addition to the quiver.
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Not my idea of a powder board. My buddy bought one, rode it only a couple times and threw it in his garage and picked up the far better Landlord.
His complaint was that with the bindings set all the way back in the c-channel, his nose was still too short. We switched boards on 2 runs, he rode my 161 Barracuda and I grab the 163 JW. within the first 3-4 turns I did not like it, too stiff (flex and edge to edge) and way to centered of a stance for my likens. I couldnt wait to get back on my Cuda.
To each their own, but we didnt like it and between us we have 50 years of riding expierence, so we've ridden plenty of boards/brands/shapes.
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With a heat wave engulfing the city, the officers were faced with the following problems this week...
- Investigating a disturbance, Peck and Epstein ended up inside the home of a woman whose water broke a month early. She hadn't left the house in 18 months, so these two were forced to deliver the baby. Epstein came though big time and led the way, even convincing the lady to go to the hospital after the boy safely arrived.
- Diaz was having problems with how rude and selfish people were. He booked a total of 62 individuals and then complained to Peck about not wanting to become like so many others in the city. But his hope was restored near the end of the episode when he kinda rude neighbor set up a candle light dinner for Diaz and hosted a fun party for the neighborhood.
- Andy pursued a lead that involved a missing 13-year old girl and ended up in a building with Shaw. They separated as they took a look around, only for Shaw to actually get shot by the guy that abducted the girl. Andy saw this happen and followed the guy down into a basement. She saw the girl tied up and then found the guy, holding Shaw's gun. She follow protocol and told him to drop it, but he raised it and she had no choice but to make her first kill.
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The song is called Things to Forget, by Sarah Harmer.
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Prompt: Oscar's niece is sick, and staying with Oscar and André while her family is at a Christmas party in Versailles.
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Christmas Eve, 1783
It was a cold afternoon in France, and miraculously, the de Jarjayes house was quiet despite the fact that they had a little visitor.
"They're gone, aren't they?" Oscar asked her longtime friend André, falling backward onto the couch in the drawing room. She had been up since early that morning when Hortense and her husband had come calling. It was a little unusual for a daughter to stay in contact with her family after marriage, but Hortense's husband was a very understanding man, from what Oscar knew, and his own family had died several years earlier.
Normally, Oscar went to the parties in Versailles, especially the important ones. In fact, she had never missed a single holiday party since she had joined the royal guard. The Colonel of the Royal Guard was usually required to attend, or at least…that was the unofficial order. Technically she didn't have to go, but it made her look good if she did.
At any rate, she wasn't going. No, not this year.
She leaned back and sighed.
"They're gone now," her friend replied. "They just went through the gates."
"Oh, thank God." She closed her eyes slightly and sighed again. "I'm going to my room. I think I have work to do." With that, she slowly got to her feet and gave André the most pathetic attempt at a smile that he had seen all day. "Call me if something comes up."
"As long as the little monster—I mean, child—stays asleep, there should be nothing to call you about."
Hortense and her husband had left with Madame and Monsieur de Jarjayes for the party—rather upset that Oscar was not attending—and that left their daughter, Loulou, in the care of Oscar and André. Nanny was resting in her room; she had been given the entire day off.
André wondered why he had insisted that he and Oscar would do fine in taking care of Loulou alone. The child was absolutely impossible to keep still for even one second! Except, of course when she was asleep. And luckily for both André and Oscar, she was. Fast asleep, as a matter of fact.
And sick. Very sick. The longer the child slept, the less time either one of them would have to spend in her presence, and that meant less of a chance that either one of them would get sick. André had horses to take care of and carriages to drive, and Oscar had work to attend to. (And the colonel never took time off for being sick if she could help it.)
He watched Oscar disappear up the stairs and shrugged slightly to himself. Hm…now what could he do for a few hours?
Oscar was nothing short of relieved when she made it to her foyer without the sound of her name being shouted. She was infinitely tired, and she had a ton of work to do. Work, work, work… Well, it took her mind off of other things. It was much better than watching Marie Antoinette and Fersen exchange doe-eyed, star-struck gazes all afternoon while she leaned against a wall out of the way of the crowds and sipped a glass of wine.
Oh, wine…
She grabbed a bottle and a glass and took the liberty of pouring some for herself. She would need it, she thought. If not to finish her work, to deal with her niece, who, once awakened, would be bouncing off of the walls, sick or not.
Loulou wasn't such a bad kid, really… Just full of energy. She wondered where the little girl had gotten it from. Certainly not from her mother. Hortense had always been quiet and very, very ladylike. Well, maybe not. She was almost sad to realize that she hadn't known Hortense very well growing up.
Well, with Hortense being the eldest, and Oscar the youngest, they had only seen one another on the rarest of occasions.
Shaking her head to clear it a little, the blonde commander took a seat at the table by the window in her foyer and started on the mountain of paperwork that she had to finish. Maybe, she thought sourly, she should have just gone to Versailles. But then the paperwork would have been waiting for her on Christmas Day, and honestly, she didn't want to deal with it then.
She blinked out of the window at the light snowfall and turned back to her quill and ink and paper. She had a lot of good memories of the snow, but she was too old and too tired to go out in it. She wished she had the energy, though. Maybe throwing a big wet wad of snow at André's face would make her feel better.
She gave a slight smile and took a long drink of wine. She needed it. Her father and mother, not to mention Hortense and her husband, would be at the party until the midnight mass, and then they would return home afterward. She had a long evening ahead of her, and she wasn't exactly looking forward to it.
All she really wanted to do was sleep. And sleep.
She had felt that way all day long, and possibly even the night before—it was amazing what one too many glasses of wine could make you forget—but she wasn't certain.
But no… Sleep was something she wasn't going to do for a good long while. It was still early in the afternoon, and…
Another drink of wine and she had to refill her glass. The very next day…she would be twenty-eight years old.
Twenty-eight, and as tired as someone in their fifties, she thought, struggling to keep her eyes open. She really needed to concentrate on her work.
The quill was in her hand. She dipped it carefully into the ink and started to write, but stared in disbelief when her elegant handwriting turned into a long, dark line. So much for getting work done. She crumpled her ruined report up and tossed it into the trash before starting over.
She had to get this done. It was important to get it done, because when Loulou woke up, she would be demanding attention and probably entertainment. Only God knew how long the little spitfire would be awake before falling asleep again… She'd never get any paperwork done after her niece woke up.
And she wasn't sure that she would be able to stay awake long enough afterward to accomplish anything, either.
She sighed, her thoughts completely jumbled.
What was she doing, again?
With a shake of her head and another long drink of wine, she was ready. She'd get all of her paperwork done, and then… Then she would check on Loulou.
Three hours, a cramped hand, a migraine, and one too many glasses of wine later, she was finished. She stretched her arms over her head and arched her back in an attempt to work out her exhaustion, but the motion really just made her want to fall over onto her makeshift desk and sleep for the rest of the evening.
It was too bad that she couldn't do that.
Reluctantly leaving her not-quite finished bottle of wine, she made her way down the hall to one of the guest bedrooms. It had, at one time, belonged to one of her sisters—Catherine, perhaps—but now it sat vacant. Oscar had wondered many times why André hadn't taken Catherine's room for his own when she married and left home. Instead, Josephine had taken it, and he had taken that room instead. At least his room was relatively close to hers, still. As children, it had actually worked out perfectly.
Josephine's old room was at the corner of the house, and the sill outside of her window was easy to access if one bothered to climb out of Oscar's window and carefully—very carefully—make their way across the roof and down one of the side gutters.
She almost smiled as she opened the door to the room Loulou was staying in when she remembered scaling that roof what had seemed like a million times.
Briefly, she wondered if she could still do it, but she shook the thought away. Twenty-eight-year-olds did not scale roofs. The only way she would ever try that again would be if she had to. Like, she thought, if that Black Knight bastard bothered to show his face at the de Jarjayes estate. She wouldn't hesitate to risk climbing across the roof if it meant unmasking the thief.
She peered inside of the darkened room and saw a tiny little lump under the blankets. Well, her niece appeared to still be sleeping, but the little girl definitely didn't take after her mother's side of the family. No, most of the people in the de Jarjayes family slept heavily and were hard to wake up. (Oscar was the worst of them all though she'd never admit it.)
Well, even if Loulou woke up, now, it wouldn't matter too much. She had finished her paperwork for the next day or so, and it wasn't like she got the chance to see the little girl very often, anyway.
With an "I'll regret this" look on her face, the Colonel of the Royal Guard crept forward silently and peered down at the usually rambunctious, sometimes slightly devious daughter of her eldest sister. She looked relatively harmless at the moment. Pulling a chair from against the wall, she set it down next to Loulou's bed. Normally she would have just taken a seat on the edge of the bed, but with the way her eyelids kept drooping, she was afraid that she would fall asleep.
Sighing a little, she leaned on one of her elbows on the edge of the bed and reached her free hand out to smooth away a few unruly strands of hair that were in Loulou's face. The girl had such curly hair, and Oscar really had no idea where she had gotten it from. She pulled some of her own hair forward and stared at it. It was blonde, and slightly curly; only the ends of her hair chose to curl. But Loulou's brown hair was a mess of curls. When she grew up, if someone could manage to tame her hair, there was no doubt in anyone's mind that she would steal some lucky fellow's heart.
Before she could contemplate further on the subject, André's voice broke into her thoughts, startling her.
"Well, well, well," he said smugly. "And I thought you had work to do."
"I've only been here for five minutes," she practically snapped as she turned around. He was carrying a glass of juice and a couple of slices of toasted bread. "Why in the world would you want to eat in here, André? That's a little unsanitary, isn't it?"
He rolled his eyes and set the tray on Loulou's nightstand. "It's not for me," he told her, resisting the urge to add some kind of insult to the end of that sentence. "It's for when she wakes up."
Which, apparently, was that very moment. Oscar had a feeling it was André's fault that her niece awoke. The little girl absolutely adored the dark-haired stableman, and she blinked at him with wide eyes before she sat bolt upright.
"André!" Her hands reached out for him, and with a lot of hesitation, he leaned over and let her attempt to squeeze the life out of him. "You look very handsome today," she said in a sleepy, but very matter-of-fact voice.
Now that, Oscar knew she had gotten from her mother. Or at least, her mother's side of the family.
André flushed in embarrassment and pulled away. "Are you hungry?"
She nodded excitedly and eagerly grabbed up the little tray he had prepared for her.
"I think you taught her your bad eating habits," Oscar observed.
Loulou looked up and managed to say Oscar's name around a mouthful of toasted breadcrumbs and a gulp of juice before she looked back at André. "Tell me a story!" she demanded.
Well, her cheeks were flushed with fever and…well, who could tell her no? Certainly not André! Especially when Oscar nudged him firmly in the side.
"Yes, André, tell her a story."
That…gr. That woman. She was enjoying this, was she? Well…fine. Two could play at that game.
"Well, since it's Christmas Eve," he said, settling down on the edge of Loulou's bed to make himself more comfortable, "how about I tell you all about good ol' Saint Nicholas?"
The little girl nodded in excitement, practically bouncing in her bed. She sneezed loudly and reached for the handkerchief placed carefully next to her. "Yes, please, André," she said.
"Well, at the North Pole…"
Oscar sighed. Not that story…not again… She didn't really care for it at all, but…oh well. Little kids seemed to like it. Loulou seemed to like it. So she would endure it for her sake.
Half an hour later, André was still rambling on about fat guys in red suits with beards who slid down chimneys and…ugh. She was hardly able to keep her eyes open. She almost wanted to shake André and demand that he stop, but her niece was soaking up all that he said like a sponge.
When the story was finally over, André grinned wickedly at Oscar—her bored expression was his revenge for having to tell a story—and gave Loulou an exaggerated bow. "If you ladies," he said, making quotation marks with his hands around ladies, "will excuse me…"
The blonde colonel stuck her boot out in an attempt to trip her friend, but her efforts failed, and he escaped the room, leaving her alone.
"Oscar," Loulou said, her eyes still wide as she snuggled down under her blankets. "If I sleep, an' I'm good, then Santa will bring me gifts, really?"
"Only if you're good," she replied. Well, she hated lying, and she hated lying to kids, but…Loulou believed anyway, and…heck, if it would make her behave herself…
"I'll be good," the little girl insisted. "I'll be real—" Another sneeze interrupted her words and Oscar passed her a clean handkerchief. "I wish André would come back," she muttered. "Maybe he could tell me more about Santa."
Oscar wasn't really paying much attention. The snow outside was far more fascinating than anything inside the house, at the moment. Well, to her sleepy, wine-induced brain, anyway. She didn't even realize that Loulou was saying anything until the little girl spoke again, her voice quiet and thoughtful.
"I'm going to marry André someday, okay Oscar?"
The colonel blinked and whipped her head around to see her niece grinning tiredly, her cheeks flushed from fever, the tip of her little nose all red from blowing it. "You look like Rudolph," she murmured.
"Rudolph? Who is that?"
"It's just a story," Oscar told her. "About one of Santa's reindeer. He had a red nose, you see, and none of the other reindeer liked him because he was different. But on one Christmas Eve night, the sky was so foggy that none of the regular reindeer could see the rooftops that they had to land on so that Santa could deliver presents."
"But Rudolph could?" Her eyes were wide.
"His red nose glowed brighter than a candle," Oscar told her, tweaking Loulou's nose. "So of course he could."
Suddenly, a noise in the doorway made her turn her head. There, standing in the doorway, was Santa Claus.
Oscar's first reaction was to reach for her sword—which, of course, she did not have—to skewer the intruder. But then she realized, duh, it was André.
Loulou's squeal of excitement made her wish that she had more wine in her system. She glared at her childhood friend and his quickly put together costume, but all he could do was grin sheepishly.
André couldn't help himself. Really, it was too funny seeing Oscar reach for a sword that wasn't there. Later he would have to chide her for making a half-hearted attempt to kill Santa Claus. His costume consisted of a few pillows, a quickly thrown together outfit, a white wig and a white beard. It all kind of itched.
But Loulou was happy, and Oscar looked like she wanted to kill herself. It was all worth it.
"Ho ho ho," he managed to say in a voice that hardly sounded like his at all. Oscar rolled her eyes, but Loulou's grew wide with anticipation.
"Santa!" she shouted out.
"Why, yes, little Loulou!" he answered, taking a spot on the edge of her bed. "I heard that you were sick and I thought that I would come to visit one of my favorite children! And when I get here, what do I see?" He picked up a breadcrumb off of the bed and tossed it onto the floor before he patted her on the head. "Breadcrumbs in her sheets and her hair's all tangled up!"
"What about Oscar?" the little girl whined good-naturedly. "Her hair is tangled more!"
"Ah, yes," he said, turning slightly to grin deviously at his blonde friend.
She glared at him.
"Oscar's been a naughty girl this year—" That got him a swift kick in the shin from Oscar. "And if she doesn't straighten up, Santa won't be able to leave her any presents." He pretended to look very, very sad, and Loulou looked pleadingly at her aunt.
"You have to be good," she insisted.
Oscar reached out a hand discreetly and pinched André's leg, hard. "Oh, I'll be good," she answered innocently.
He flinched, but covered it nicely so that Loulou didn't notice. "Now let's see what we can do about your hair," he chuckled, pulling out a beautiful, brand-new hair ribbon.
Loulou gasped excitedly, "For me?"
"Only if you sit still while I brush out all of these knots!" he told her, and she nodded seriously, reminding André of Oscar when he had first met her.
He took out a brush—which, Oscar would remind him later, was hers, and dammit, why had he been in her room anyway?—and began to work his way through the little girl's hair.
She whined a little bit, which…Oscar was actually impressed by. She remembered when she was younger and Nanny would insist on untangling her hair. She shuddered to remember how the older woman had pulled at it. It always felt like her scalp was being ripped from her head! She would always shove and push and shout and run away if at all possible, much to Nanny's dismay and her father's annoyance.
Well, Loulou was doing rather nicely, she thought. Fifteen minutes later, and the little girl's hair was tied back in a lovely pink ribbon.
"That looks much, much better," André—er, Santa—said.
"Thank you! Now, do her." She pointed right at Oscar.
Dammit, she was tired and…ugh. She didn't want to put up with this. André could tell just by looking at her.
He grinned as he took the hairbrush and slid off of the bed to stand behind her.
"I hate you," she whispered under her breath when he leaned forward to pull all of her hair behind her shoulders.
"No you don't," he whispered back cheerfully, happy for an excuse to run his hands through her hair, even though the excuse was terribly innocent. At least Oscar wouldn't attempt to break his arm in front of her niece.
He grinned and started to whistle Adeste Fideles absently as he ran the brush through Oscar's blonde hair. It was rather tangled, too. Loulou wasn't kidding!
Though she stood up straight and stiff in her chair at first, after five minutes or so, she started to relax, and there was absolutely no way that he was going to stop. She looked about ready to fall asleep…and hey, he had never known she might like the feeling of someone else brushing her hair.
He grinned and, after ten more minutes, stopped.
She blinked confusedly, almost like she had fallen asleep—though she hadn't—and twisted her neck around to stare at him. "Are you done, yet?"
"Oscar!" Loulou admonished. "You should be nice to Santa or you won't get any presents!"
"Yeah," André said, bending over slightly to whisper in her ear. "Be nice to Santa." Then, louder, as he straightened up, "Sorry, Oscar dear, I don't have a ribbon for your hair."
She bit her tongue to keep from saying something terribly rude, and in front of her little niece, no less!
"Now, Loulou," he continued, "are you going to behave yourself tonight?"
She nodded enthusiastically, but her eyelids were starting to droop slightly. For that matter, Oscar's were, too. "I promise," she said.
"That's a good girl." He turned to Oscar, "What about you?"
She contemplated strangling him, or at least punching him in the face—preferably right in the mouth—because that big grin of his was annoying her, but she only sighed and agreed with a barely audible, "Yes."
He winked at her, and she had to tell herself that she couldn't kill him. Well, not in front of Loulou, anyway.
"Merry Christmas, girls," he said cheerfully, and with that, he was gone.
Oscar wanted to stab herself.
Loulou grinned. "Oscar," she said. "Would you lay down with me? Just 'til I fall asleep…"
Honestly, the colonel wanted to retire to her room to sleep for the next twenty-four hours, but her niece looked so sweet and…ugh, she just couldn't say no.
So she climbed into her niece's bed and leaned against the pillows. She wouldn't be there long, she told herself, so she didn't bother to take off her shoes.
Not even five minutes later, though, she was fast asleep.
André eventually came back, and he smiled at Loulou, who was still half-awake and sitting up in bed watching her aunt sleep. "What did I miss?" he asked her, touching the little girl's neatly brushed hair. "Your hair looks nice."
She only giggled at him and blinked before her gaze hardened. She had to have gotten that from her mother's side of the family, André thought. "Thank you, André Claus," she said, giggling again.
His eyes opened wide. "Aww, you knew it was me?" he asked, crinkling his nose slightly and scratching at his chin.
"I saw your ponytail," she grinned, climbing half out of bed to pull on it. "It was sticking out of all of your white hair!"
"Now, now," he teased, pushing her back to settle under the blankets. "You had fun, didn't you?"
She nodded. "Yes."
"But you never told Santa what you wanted for Christmas."
She crinkled her nose and looked over at her sleeping aunt and then back to him. "I want to marry André," she said seriously, but he could tell that she was trying not to laugh.
"Isn't André too old for little Loulou?" he asked.
"Well, I don't care. He's very handsome." She batted her eyelashes at him, and he wondered where in the world she had learned that. Definitely not from Oscar, that was for certain!
He chuckled a little and looked down at his childhood friend who was fast asleep. Her cheeks were flushed and he noticed her shiver a little bit. "I think you got your aunt sick," he told the little girl who was working on wriggling under her blankets.
"Aww," she said sadly, hugging Oscar's arm to her.
Oscar didn't move.
André grinned and went to find a blanket from the shelf in the closet. He returned with one and draped it over the blonde. She still didn't move. Well, it was no wonder, he thought. Ever since the bar fight a few weeks back, she had been very busy catching up on paperwork and other things, and she had worked herself almost to the point of exhaustion…
And, he thought as he tucked the blanket around her shoulders, she had also been drinking.
So she was tired, had a fever, and was a bit tipsy. That explained everything.
He sighed lightly and touched her cheek. It was burning hot, as expected.
Loulou's sleepy voice floated to him, and he turned to see her blinking at him with concern in her eyes, "Will she be okay?"
"She'll be fine," he answered, but he really didn't know. After all, he thought, gazing back at her, life had not been kind to her. But, he surmised, it could be a lot worse. She wasn't doing too bad, all things considered. "You'd best get some sleep," he said after a moment, but when he turned back to Loulou, she was already asleep.
He smiled slightly and took a seat in the chair next to the bed, noticing that Oscar still wore her shoes. With an almost devious smirk, he carefully worked them off of her feet, avoiding being kicked in the chest when he accidentally tickled the bottom of her right foot.
However, when he tickled the bottom of her other foot, it was no accident. Sleeping Oscar didn't know that though, and she tried in vain to kick at him again, twitching slightly as she attempted to turn onto her side and away from whatever it was that was invading her personal space.
He set her shoes on the floor and leaned over her to look at her face. She really was pretty, he thought, smoothing back her bangs before he could help himself. It was too bad she didn't realize it.
He looked at Oscar's sleeping niece and grinned at the way the little girl was curled into Oscar's side, her face pressed partially against her aunt's chest, her hand fisted into her silk shirt.
If it wasn't for Loulou's hair and eyes, he might have thought the two were mother and daughter. He sighed a little. Oscar would make a great mother, wouldn't she? Well, if she wasn't so stressed out all of the time… He could almost imagine her holding a little, dark-haired infant. No, wait, maybe one with blonde hair, like hers…
He felt so silly, but he couldn't help himself. He had always wanted children… And he loved Oscar…
It was only natural for him to think along those lines, wasn't it? He smiled sheepishly and reached down for a tiny bag that "Santa Claus" had left earlier. Inside, he found a medium-sized wrapped present and tucked it into Loulou's arms. The only other one inside was a small one, and that was for Oscar. From "Santa", of course. He gently pried her fingers open and wrapped them around the object.
She squeezed it in her sleep, almost experimentally, and finding it acceptable, he supposed, raised it almost to her face.
He chuckled a little, wondering what her reaction would be when she found it. It had taken him a long time to decide what to get her besides the usual piano or violin scores, or even more books. But a few days earlier, he had noticed that she had been using the same old hairbrush that she had had since she was just a kid. So he had found her a nice one that took quite a bit of money to buy.
It was worth it. Definitely.
He leaned back to watch aunt and niece sleep for just a little longer. His mind wandered immediately back to Oscar as a mother as he felt his eyelids droop slightly. No, if they had children, it would probably be best for them to look like her, not like hi—
A powerful sneeze ripped from him, and he sighed, reaching in his pocked for a clean handkerchief. Damn. Now, not only was Loulou sick, but Oscar was sick, and now he was, too.
Author Notes:
Oh, man. I'm so disappointed with this. I was hoping it would turn out better. At first I thought it would be easy to write, but Santa Claus annoys me, haha, so it was harder to write than I expected. Adeste Fideles is "O Come All Ye Faithful". That is its Latin name.
This story was impossible. So it was just for fun. "Santa Claus" is really Père Noël (Father Christmas) in France, and he leaves children gifts in their shoes. He also rides a donkey, named Gui (French for "Mistletoe"). Rudolph wasn't invented until 1939, a story written by Robert L. May.
I hope it wasn't too bad, though. I'll have to write something better to make up for it another time. Thanks for reading and please leave feedback if you have the time.
Edited: Thanks for Eternitat for pointing out that "Hortense" is actually Loulou's mother, not Anne Marie. I haven't gotten the chance to read through the entire Gaiden yet.


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Proposals also include classroom and office spaces for a local nursery.
The practice were invited to compete in the competition following the completion of their facilities for the Salvation Army back in 2003.
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Lynch said in a news conference that his lack of playing time heading into this season was a reason for his departure."It's been a real tough last 48 hours - coming to this decision in my heart. What simply happened is the situation just didn't feel right. And I've always been one to follow my gut and follow my heart in my decisions and when I've done that, things have worked out pretty darn good for me," said Lynch.Broncos Coach Mike Shanahan told Lynch earlier this week that if the season were to start right now, he would be a first team safety, but would face limited use, especially in nickel and dime defensive formations.Lynch concedes it's been a tough week, especially because he sees good things ahead this year for the Broncos."I really like the feel of this team, and that's what made this an extra hard decision. This team has a great chemistry to it and I think they're going to do very well," he said.Shanahan allowed Lynch his release because of his dedication to the Broncos and to the game of football and recounted their conversation leading to the decision."I said… 'You've given me too much and you've been too much of a pro.' I don't think I've ever been with more of a pro than a guy like John Lynch. I mean, he's the type of guy you look at in the future, and say, 'Hey, could this guy be the president of the United States?' He's that type of guy. And so I felt like I owed it to him," said Shanahan.Lynch told reporters he had already gotten one significant job offer."Someone called and asked me if I would coach fall baseball now for our 9-year-old son, so I got one job offer. I feel good about that," he said.Lynch was entering his 16th season in the NFL.
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COVINGTON -- On Feb. 19, 2000, the Covington Family YMCA moved from a small red brick building known as the "teen can" on Newton Drive into its current facility next door.
Since that time, membership and programming have grown substantially. This year, the YMCA is marking its 10th anniversary in its present building, made possible in large part through community donations.
The YMCA first gained a foothold in the community in the early 1980s in the brick building donated by Covington Rotary Club. Programming was limited to soccer, summer day camp and a few aerobics classes.
"With the YMCA, you don't just decide you want to come into a community. The community asks you to come and help meet the needs," Interim Executive Director Louly Hay-Kapp said. "Several local leaders back at that time established the need along with the Metro Atlanta YMCA for a YMCA in Covington. They typically follow that same pattern of finding space to start and generating enough interest to get to the point to where they can do a capital campaign to build a facility."
The new facility included a workout area with cardio and weight equipment, a group exercise room and an outdoor pool. By the time it opened in 2000, the Y had 102 membership units -- a unit is counted as an individual or family membership. Today, that number has grown to 850. The soccer program has grown to six times its original membership of 80 to 500 and day camp has grown from 22 attendees to about 160.
Today, YMCA programs reach people of all ages: Most recently, there has been a spike in memberships of older adults.
"That's something about the YMCA. It's kind of a hub of all different kinds of people -- all income levels, shapes, sizes. It's a nondenominational place where everyone can come together," Hay-Kapp said.
Additional programs have been added during the past decade, including an after school program; football; T-ball; swimming; cheerleading; and basketball, along with the annual Cheerios Challenge, a walk/run commemorating Healthy Kids Day. In addition, the YMCA recently opened a new outdoor facility off Stone Road in Oxford.
YMCA staff hope to continue to expand as funding allows.
"There is a huge need for an indoor pool in Newton County. We would love for the YMCA to be able to meet that need, but as with everything, that requires funding. We wish we could make it happen overnight, but right now we have to figure out about funding it," Hay-Kapp said.
It's largely due to donors and volunteers that the YMCA has been so successful, and its future success will depend on that same support base, she said.
"Volunteerism has helped the YMCA in Covington for years. YMCA's are volunteer-driven organizations and there have been some people giving of their time and resources since back in the '80s for the vision of this building and they continued to support it once we got into this building. We're grateful for that continued support, time and effort that these donors and volunteers give in all of our programs," she said.
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Officials from De Pere and Wisconsin Department of Transportation have possible changes with traffic flow in the city's busy Main Avenue corridor on their radar again.
A year and a half after planners started looking at ways to ease congestion and improve safety on the west-side thoroughfare, the matter is gaining some traction.
The city and DOT hosted a meeting Thursday night, March 21, at De Pere Community Center to get residents, business owners and representatives from St. Norbert College up to speed on the ongoing Wisconsin 32 corridor study. ...


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"EVERTON, a parish in the hundred of Biggleswade, county Bedford, 6 miles N.E. of Biggleswade, and 11 east of Bedford. Potton is its post town, and the Sandy station on the Great Northern railway is about 3 miles south west of the village. It is situated on the borders of Cambridge, a portion of the parish being in that county. The village is very small. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Ely, value with the vicarage of Tetworth annexed, £200, in the patronage of Clare Hall, Cambridge. The church is a small building, dedicated to St. Mary. The charities amount to about £6 per annum. There is a National school for both sexes. There are two manors in the parish-Everton and Tetworth. Stephen and Edward Thornton, Esqs., are lords of the first, and the Hon. Octavius Duncombe lord of the latter."


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Toyota of Naperville Official Blog
Our Buyers Spoke and Toyota ListenedBy emarketing | Posted in New Toyota Specials on Friday, October 15th, 2010 at 12:05 am
Responding to customer feedback, Toyota announced earlier this month that new Toyota and Scion vehicles would come standard with Toyota Care and Scion Service Boost. The services cover normal, factory-scheduled maintenance and 24-hour roadside assistance for two years or 25,000 miles, whichever comes first.
The move is a first for a full-line manufacturer and comes after an early experiment in offering the program proved popular with customers. As part of a seasonal sales program in the Spring, Toyota launched the program on a limited basis to rave reviews. In a press release, the company said it found that 73 percent of customers said it improved their confidence in Toyota. That led the company to make the plan standard on all new vehicles.
"The two complimentary maintenance plans were developed to help improve overall cost of ownership and provide invaluable peace of mind for our customers," Toyota Division group VP and General Manager Bob Carter said. "The new programs were inspired by owner feedback and once again reflect how Toyota listens to its customers."
The Toyota and Scion maintenance plans cover normal factory-recommended maintenance as described in vehicle owners' manuals. The plans cover oil and filter changes, tire rotations, and chassis lubrication. the plans also cover a 19-point inspection and provide 24-hour roadside assistance. In its press release, Toyota says this covers such events as lockout protection, flat tires, towing, and jump starts.
For more information on this and the many other benefits of Toyota ownership, stop by Toyota of Naperville.
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