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All of the students in five of Johnson County's six public school districts have updated their shots and won't have to miss any more school.
Last month, more than 300 students across the county hadn't received all the vaccinations they needed or made appointments to get them.
Most of those were sixth-graders who hadn't met requirements updated in 2010 that mandated students in Grades 6 through 12 receive additional tetanus/pertussis and meningococcal shots.
About 100 Clark-Pleasant students missed school in October because they didn't have all of the required vaccinations by the school district's deadline, and it took about two days for all of those students to receive the shots or schedule appointments. At the end of October, Edinburgh had about 50 students who hadn't received all their shots or made appointments to get them.
Edinburgh set a Nov. 1 deadline for students to either get the vaccinations or schedule appointments, and director of health services Amy Dukes spent the last week of October making phone calls and sending letters to families of students who hadn't proved they had all of the shots needed.
The follow-ups worked. All Edinburgh students received the vaccinations or made appointments by the deadline.
Students at Center Grove, Greenwood and Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson all have received the shots they need, according to health service directors Carla Slauter and Libby Cruzan and Superintendent Matt Prusiecki.
At Franklin, students have until the start of next semester to get vaccinated.
"We try really hard to work with students at the beginning of school, and then it becomes where we don't want them to get behind academically," health services coordinator Beth Arkanoff said.
About a month ago, 180 Franklin students hadn't gotten all of the vaccinations they needed or made appointments to get the shots. That meant Arkanoff needed to contact students and families to ensure they received the shots before the second semester starts in January, otherwise they won't be allowed to return to school.
Franklin students who have appointments scheduled to receive the vaccinations will be allowed at school next semester, but Arkanoff wants all students to have received the shots, not just scheduled appointments.
"It's pretty much a full-time job for the first semester. It's one of our main focuses in the health department," she said.
School district nurses and health coordinators hope online records and earlier preparation will help them make sure all students have their shots.
Recently medical offices have begun uploading vaccination records into an online database, and with parents' permission schools can access the database to see if students' shots are up to date. Dukes hopes that, as more records are entered into the database, confirming students have gotten their vaccinations won't take as much time.
At the end of the year, Dukes will start sending letters to the parents of Edinburgh fifth-graders, letting them know of the vaccination requirements and telling them to make sure their students get the shots and their records are updated.
Franklin typically sends vaccination reminders between May and July, but Arkanoff plans to start early next semester. That way parents will have more time to make appointments, she said.
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Barracuda Networks (CUDA) stock fell Friday, though the recent IPO late Thursday reported fiscal Q3 earnings, and gave guidance, that beat Wall Street expectations.
"I think it's just a cooling off following the doubling of the stock since the IPO," Jason Ader, an analyst for William Blair & Co., told IBD via email. "Very high expectations; nothing negative from the call that I saw."
Still, Barracuda stock was down 8% in early afternoon trading in the stock market today, near 36. Earlier, the stock had fallen as much as 16%.
The IPO priced at $18 and started trading Nov. 6, with Barracuda stock touching its all-time high of 41.30 on Jan. 2.
For the quarter ended Nov. 30, the maker of security storage products reported earnings per share minus items of 1 cent, where analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected break-even.
Revenue rose 15% to $59.4 million, beating views of $57.9 million.
For the current quarter, Barracuda expects EPS ex items of break-even or a penny, where analysts forecast break-even.
The company expects revenue of $58.5 million to $60 million, up 11% to 14%, where analysts have forecast $58.2 million.
"Barracuda reported solid fiscal 2014 third quarter earnings — its first quarter out of the IPO gate — beating numbers across the board, delivering strong profitability and guidance above expectations," analyst Ader wrote in a research note Friday. "Billings were driven by across-the-board strength in the company's product segments.
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Is the bolt contacting the bullet guide?
Going a little nuts on this one.
The Rifle fires and Cycles. Cleaning and manually cycling the Right Bolt lug stops as it enters the trunion .
Checked/measured everything I can think of, can't fix it.
Rails are fine, ejector not to long, Trunion not canted etc etc.
What makes it even worse, is with two other rifles I can put the BC+Bolt in the troublesome action and there's no drag, smooth and loose.
Even using a Spare Galil B.C (a Little tight) Bolt slides right on in.
It has to be the carrier ??, but what ?
Also, Carrier by itself is free all the way, as is the Bolt by itself.
Any ideas folks.
Hope you can follow what I'm attempting to illustrate.
Been a long hot day , so forgive, if it's as "clear as mud"
Is the bolt contacting the bullet guide?
Yes, at the point it rotates.
The middle pic. is where it is still free moving.
The bottom pic. is where the rubbing starts.
I've Lapped the hell out it with Lapping Compound. The contact is even on the Lug.
Was tempted to Mill off a thou. or two off the the the Lug top.
Didn't though.
Did you polish the upper left of the top of the carrier or is that wear? Is the carrier riding up into the RSB when the bolt is in place etc?
I never had "wiggle" in the Piston , so decided to remove Piston, chase thread in an attempt to get it.
Just a Strip of Emery and lightly rubbed over it. Habit that's all. It's going to be re-Phosphated anyway.
Carrier runs true into RSB, almost dead center with and without Bolt.
Thanks for the pointers Guys,
It's fixed.
Compared Bolt with a couple of others and two spare Galil Bolts I've got stashed.
I was wrong on the carrier being the cause. All other Bolts, including the Galils slid into full rotational lock position under gravity only.
Armed with this "knowledge" , I thought I pull out my Secret Weapon-------Newly acquired Harbor Fright Magnifying headset with interchangeable lenses.
Saw a little ledge on forward upper of left Bolt lug , which I'd overlooked previously.
Few strokes with a stone, problem gone. Surprised though all the Valve Grinding compound didn't take care of it.
Thanks again.


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Do you like the witty, family movie Willy Wonka? Well you can make the movie come to life by making a golden ticket!
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1Get yellow or gold paper. Either color will do.
2Draw your desired border e.g waves, zig-zag, etc.
3Write "Amanda" (if your name is Amanda...) on top of it.
4Write "Greetings to you, the lucky finder of this golden ticket, from Ms. Juno and the Grade 4 Class Alpaugh! I shake you warmly by the hand! Tremendous things are in store for you! Many wonderful surprises await you. For now, I do invite you to come to our Chocolate Fair and be our guest for one whole hour — you and all others who are lucky enough to find my Golden Tickets. I, Ms. Juno, will conduct you around the fair myself, showing you everything that there is to see, and afterwards, you may choose several of the tasty treats to sample and take home with you a recipe book of all the tasties you may want to make in the future. — In your wildest dreams you could not imagine that such things could happen to you! Just wait and see!
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It might be annoying to pay attention to more schools and to clutter so many in a smaller area, but in the end, it's worth it. I've done extensive experimentation with this, and I've found that 1 school with full bus funding effectively equals about 3 schools with 0 bus funding.
If your city gets to be a reasonable size, perhaps 20k, you might have about 10 elementry schools. Counting only the bus funding, you are paying 2,000 dollars a month in just bussing your students. With 30 schools, you pay 0 a month in bus costs. And even though there are more schools, you do not pay more per month in educating your sims because you control the local funding. Regardless of the number of schools, residential areas only put out a certain number of students.
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Doing this is also better for when you start building up your city after you've filled it with low-density zones. If you have bus funding set to full, and you rezone your low density residential to high density, your schools will get maxed out easily and you will have to demolish existing structures and overlap them. So not only are you wasting money on bussing, your schools are overlapped and closer together anyways!
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Thrombopoietin/MPL participates in initiating and maintaining RUNX1-ETO acute myeloid leukemia via PI3K/AKT signaling
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Oncogenic mutations in components of cytokine signaling pathways elicit ligand-independent activation of downstream signaling, enhancing proliferation and survival in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The myeloproliferative leukemia virus oncogene, MPL, a homodimeric receptor activated by thrombopoietin (THPO), is mutated in myeloproliferative disorders but rarely in AML. Here we show that wild-type MPL expression is increased in a fraction of human AML samples expressing RUNX1-ETO, a fusion protein created by chromosome translocation t(8;21), and that up-regulation of Mpl expression in mice induces AML when coexpressed with RUNX1-ETO. The leukemic cells are sensitive to THPO, activating survival and proliferative responses. Mpl expression is not regulated by RUNX1-ETO in mouse hematopoietic progenitors or leukemic cells. Moreover, we find that activation of PI3K/AKT but not ERK/MEK pathway is a critical mediator of the MPL-directed antiapoptotic function in leukemic cells. Hence, this study provides evidence that up-regulation of wild-type MPL levels promotes leukemia development and maintenance through activation of the PI3K/AKT axis, and suggests that inhibitors of this axis could be effective for treatment of MPL-positive AML.
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Professor Moser specializes in the study of electoral systems, political parties, and Russian politics. He has written numerous book chapters and articles on democratization, elections, and political parties in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. His articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, and Post- Soviet Affairs. His research has been funded by SSRC, IREX, and the Ford Foundation.
He was appointed the William D. Blunk Memorial Professor for 2005-06 in recognition of his undergraduate teaching and advising and was awarded the President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award in 2002. Most recently, Moser received the 2008 Harry Ransom Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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Electoral Systems and Political Context: How the Effects of Rules Vary Across New and Established Democracies (with E. Scheiner) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Is Democracy Exportable? (coedited with Z. Barany) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Ethnic Politics After Communism (coedited with Z. Barany) (Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005)
Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001)
Russian Politics: Challenges of Democratization (coedited with Z. Barany) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
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"Between Science and Engineering: Reflections on the APSA Presidential Task Force on Political Science, Electoral Rules, and Democratic Governance," (Htun et al) Perspectives on Politics, Sept. 2013
"Electoral Rules and Political Inclusion," (with Mona Lena Krook) in Political Science, Electoral Rules, and Democratic Governance. Report of the Task Force on Electoral Rules and Democratic Governance, Edited by Mala Htun and G. Bingham Powell, Jr. (2013)
"Layers of Ethnicity: The Effects of Ethnic Federalism, Majority-Minority Districts, and Minority Concentration on the Electoral Success of Ethnic Minorities in Russia," (with Regina Goodnow) Comparative Political Studies Vol. 45, No. 2 (2012), pp. 238-264.
"Do Ethnic Parties Exclude Women?" (with Stephanie Holmsten and Mary Slosar) Comparative Political Studies Vol. 43, No. 10 (2010), pp. 1179–1201.
"The Impact of Minority-Majority Districts: Evidence from Ukraine," (with Julie George and Marko Papic) Post-Soviet Affairs Vol. 26, No. 1 (2010), pp. 58-76.
"Strategic Voting in Mixed-Member Systems: An Analysis of Split-Ticket Voting," (with Ethan Scheiner) Electoral Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2009), pp. 51-61.
"Electoral Systems and the Representation of Ethnic Minorities: Evidence from Russia,"
Comparative Politics, Vol. 40, No. 3 (2008), pp. 273-292.
"Strategic Ticket Splitting and the Personal Vote in Mixed Systems: A Reconceptualization with Data from Five Countries," (with Ethan Scheiner) Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. XXX (2005), pp. 259-276.
"Mixed Electoral Systems and Electoral System Effects: Controlled Comparison and Cross- National Analysis," (with Ethan Scheiner) Electoral Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2004), pp. 575-599.
"The Effects of Electoral Systems on Women's Representation in Post-Communist States," Electoral Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2001), pp. 353-369.
"Electoral Systems and the Number of Parties in Post-Communist States," World Politics, Vol. 51, No. 3 (1999), pp. 359-384.
"Independents and Party Formation: Elite Partisanship as an Intervening Variable in Russian Politics," Comparative Politics, Vol. 31, No. 2 (1999), pp. 147-165.
"The Impact of Parliamentary Electoral Systems in Russia," Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 13, No. 3 (1997), pp. 284-302.
"The Impact of the Electoral System on Post-Communist Party Development: The Case of the 1993 Russian Parliamentary Elections," Electoral Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4 (1995), pp. 377-398.
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U.S. Navy Seaman Gene Miller, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 from Port Hueneme, Calif., installs barbed wired at the top of a 2.4 kilometer perimeter fence here May 29. The battalion constructed the fence around the Bosnian-Herzegovinian military compound to meet force protection requirements for the participants of Shared Resilience 2012, a two-week U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff sponsored medical exercise. NMCB 3 is an expeditionary naval construction element currently assigned to U.S. Naval Forces Europe 6th Fleet's Task Force 68 to provide construction, engineering and security services that support national strategy, naval power projection, humanitarian assistance and contingency operations.
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So my mom and I were tested years ago for food allergies, but the office lost my mom's test results. My allergies were corn and yeast, which were reactive with results of 11x12 and 24x32(!), respectively. Those results are from 13 years ago, but the doctor said that it was less likely that I would develop more allergies than that I would grow out of allergies, so it would be ok if I held off on testing again for now. He said I can try eliminating them and see if that clears up my issues and get a new test if it doesn't.
Well, my mom....my poor, poor mom....went to get tested again on Thursday, and these are her results:
Soybean: 10x9 initial, delayed result 13x13, then tested again and got 11x10
Cow's milk: 12x12, second test 9x10
Tomato: 10x10 initially, then the next 2 days 13x13
Corn: 10x10 initially, then 11x12 the next day
Codfish: 10x9 initially, then 13x18 the next day, and 11x12 the day after
Wheat: 11x10 initially
Eggs: 11x10 initially
Orange, chicken, potato: 10x10
Baker's yeast, peanut, cashew, cacao, oat, rice: 9x10
Beef: 9x9
The ones in yellow are those that they said she is positive for. They told her that anything over 11 on either number is positive. Cow's milk she was immediately reactive to, and the second test was fine, but soybeans gave her a delayed reaction a while later. She kept an eye on the sites for the next 2-3 days, and we measured those that got bigger. She has been so so so sick the ever since. During the test, her eyes broke out in a huge rash and got swollen, and she has had terrible muscle aches, heart palpitations (a chronic problem she's had for 7 years and is being treated), dizziness (also a chronic problem), and irritability. I have noticed when I'm having a reaction, I go a little crazy and I get upset really easily. She had a bout of that today, got super upset about something right before we were about to pray over the food at our Super Bowl party, then she had to sit on the floor during the prayer because she was having palpitations and got super dizzy. She had to then lay on the floor before she was able to get up, about 5 minutes later. She was so embarassed and didn't want to make a scene. I just feel so bad for her, and, even if eliminating these foods could answer all of her health woes, it just seems like a huge task to take on. She's super overwhelmed and doesn't know where to go from there.
The nurse said the she was "borderline" on almost all of them, so she said to eat fruits and vegetables alone for 4 days, but how does she get any protein that way? The booklet they sent and the info we've received since suggests that just those 11 or greater should be eliminated for 4 days, then introduced again one at a time. They highlighted cow's milk and soybean to say she should test those very first.
So tell me about your experiences, your numbers, foods you actually can eat with these allergies, and the difference it has made for you (or your family member/s) so that I can tell her some success stories. Also, is it possible that she's more reactive to other things simply because her body is reacting so strongly to these few? So, I guess I'm asking, is it possible she isn't really allergic to all of these 7 things? Is it like an intolerance, and she might be able to eat some of these things in moderation? I guess there's no way to really tell for her without trying the diet, but has anyone else ever had a "moderate" allergy to something like soy?
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- Some years the talent comes in bunches. Other years, classes are thin with talent. Like the monster 141 crop last year, that means the 141 crop from some previous year proved less stellar. It happens like that. Just because they are the 10 best this year (or thought to be) doesn't mean they will have any sort of proportional impact as the previous five classes.
- Give me studs! I value the crème de la crème. While every graduating class contains prospects that prove success that I slept on, the vast majority of your college AA's were identified by the time they were HS seniors. I value quality over quantity. Ten mid-tier college prospects will invariably beget a sub-par college line-up.
- The number next to the name may be deceiving. Rankings are largely what they've earned in high school, not what I (or college coaches) perceive their college potential to be. There are some kids ranked in the top five that I'm frankly not high on going forward. There are others in the double digits that I have big expectations for. In the end, sometimes the individual numbers don't jive with the collective team rankings.
- I like classes that make sense. Sometimes the constituents of a class should equal a higher ranking than I give them. (See: Minnesota). Sometimes I rank a small(er) class higher than one would anticipate. (See: Ohio State). I value fecund and economical classes, which often blurs the line of sum : parts. Overall, and all things considered, I look at the likelihood of the recruits actually getting into the line-up to differentiate otherwise equal classes.
2012-Specific Notes
- Evaluating the collective class of 2012, and in comparison to recent years, this crop appears to lack immediate impact types. Sure there are some. Maybe your Taylor Massa's and Jordan Rogers' and Jason Tsirtis'. But they're a rarity. While there is certainly depth, it comes in 'prospect' form. As much as anyone likes to think they know how recruits will pan out, 'sure things' are few and far between this year; the value of the following harvests will be determined not in 2013, but down the road, after many redshirt seasons, and as development (or lack thereof) dictates.
- There are a larger number of post-grads and grey-shirts this year. Because we were in an Olympic cycle, there are several studs who deferred their eligibility. Destin McCauley, Nathan Burak, and Jesse Thielke all graduated in 2011, but factor in to recruiting rankings now. There's a significant number of transfers to be calculated too. The more years of eligibility remaining, the more value they add to their new team's class ranking.
- This is the first year I've done the flashback feature. In going back and examining previous classes, it's incredible to see the turnover. Almost unilaterally, ever program has been plagued with 'misses'. There is a good percentage of recruits from the previous two or three classes that are not on respective rosters any longer. It highlights just how inexact a science recruiting is.
I don't think it's an issue of a wrong evaluation; generally speaking, the kids highly coveted by college coaches and highly ranked by scouts like myself were properly identified. In the vast majority of cases the kids that left programs did so not because of a lack of talent but because of burn out, character, work ethic, grades, etc…
#1 – Iowa Hawkeyes
Three Year Cycle: #22, #1, #6
- PG-Nathan Burak, CO (197)
- #3-Nate Skonieczny, OH (141)
- #4-Sam Brooks, IL (184/197)
- #5-Thomas Gilman, NE (133)
- #5-Alex Meyer, IA (174)
- #7-Corey Clark, IA (125)
Others: Topher Carton, IA (133); Connor Ryan, IA (141); Isaac Lundgren, IA (141)
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With five Top 7 kids and another that would be had he not been in a greyshirt year, the Brands brothers put together a fantastic class. Unlike a lot of other schools, Iowa doesn't just chase rankings, but nabs talent that fits their demeanor. Every one of these kids can be described as blue-collar brawlers. For the second time in three years, the Hawkeyes get our nod for the nation's top class.
Why they're here
Burak had a great Fargo last summer and has trained at the OTC the last year. He gets big points as an immediate impact guy in a weight that hurt the 23-time National Champs last year. In some permutation, Gilman-Clark/Clark-Gilman, are the future lead-off batters for Iowa. To grab both supreme talents like this in the same class is outstanding.
Burak will step in to a starting spot this year, while Clark/Gilman, and Brooks will almost assuredly be in the line-up the following year. That's filling 30-40% of the toughest line-up to crack in America with four-year starters in a single class. One heck of a recruiting job.
It's difficult to find any downside to this class as the Brands Bros. addressed needs with impeccable athletes and proper timing. One thing that stands out is the odd circumstances that surround 149. Iowa hasn't quite been able to figure out that weight class since the incomparable Metcalf. What's their answer here? They didn't address it in this class, lending to the theory that A) they're confident in Dziewa and/or Ballweg or B) they're earmarking Skonieczny for this spot. On one hand, it would have been nice to see them more clearly address 49, on the other, there really wasn't a can't-miss, immediate impact guy at this weight outside of Jason Tsirtsis. In the end, we're nit-picking here.
The #1 Class of 2010 has produced two regular starters (Evans and Telford). Dziewa and Ballweg will most likely be in the line-up this year, meaning (potentially) the constituents of the last two #1 Iowa classes will comprise 7 or 8 of the 10 starters for '13-'14 on a team that will almost assuredly contend for a title. Great work.
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(I have zero knowledge of programming. I can just about blindly copy/paste text into those little red TeX code boxes, but I don't know what I'm doing.)
I'm trying to sort out the single appendix in my koma-script book. I originally inserted the appendix using Document/Start Appendix Here. I've now unchecked that option and inserted
\appendix into a TeX red box just before the start of the appendix. That worked in so far as in the ToC the appendix was then listed as "A. My appendix name". Ideally, I'd like it to read "Appendix" or "Appendix - My appendix name".
I tried pasting
\appendix\noappendicestocpagenum\addappheadtotoc instead of just
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I've now found a not perfect but good enough for me solution to this. With the Document/Start Appendix box still unticked I deleted
\appendix etc and inserted
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Sept. 15, 1951. It was the day Phil Aker peeked over his fence in Arizona and saw five sisters moving in next door. His eyes landed on the oldest, a 12-year-old redhead named Jeanine Fetterly.
"She's cute," he told his younger brother. "I'll take her."
Before long, they were inseparable. They'd meet in the alley between their houses. They'd sneak out in the dead of night to go skinny dipping. Fetterly and Aker dated for three years until Fetterly ended the relationship. She thought he wasn't romantic enough.
Weeks later, she met the guy who would become her husband. Aker moved on, too. They each had children. And grandchildren. Eventually, they both divorced. But they always thought of each other. Fetterly often flipped through diaries from her schoolgirl days, marveling at how Aker was on almost every page.
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Seven years ago, Aker, who lives in Los Angeles, was coming to the San Francisco Bay Area for a conference. So he tracked her down and they had dinner. Save for a brief encounter two years before, Fetterly and Aker hadn't seen each other for 35 years. Yet the sparks flew. And they've been together ever since.
"We find that all the things we loved about each other when we were young are still things we love and admire in each other now," says Fetterly, now 71 and living in Oakland, Calif. "I think when you have an extraordinarily close relationship very young, you bond in a way you never can with someone you meet later in life."
They say you never forget your first love. For many, the experience was so powerful, so pure, that reuniting, or attempting to reunite, feels natural. With an ever-shrinking dating pool (or maybe it just seems that way, particularly for older singles, looking back for love makes sense. People ask themselves, "I wonder what he is up to?" "Will she remember me?" Whether it is a mutual friend, a school reunion or fate that brings them back together, couples have inspiring stories to tell about ending up with the one who got away.
Fetterly and Aker don't have a perfect relationship, Fetterly says. But she loves that she doesn't have to prove anything to Aker. "He still looks at me like that 13-year-old trying to get to sneak out on an adventure," she says. "It's warm and comforting to be back in the arms of the first boy I ever kissed."
Not every reunion is an instant fairy tale. The past is a good place to look for love as long as you remember that caution, friendliness and nostalgia are your best tools when approaching an old flame, says Pepper Schwartz, a relationship expert with Perfectmatch.com. "Even if they're single, don't assume you know what's going on in their life, or that their memories are the same as yours," she says. "Maybe you forgot that there was a nasty breakup."
Keep expectations in check. Remember that you haven't had contact in years, if not decades, and that a person's values and challenges can shift, she adds. Take it slow. "Obviously, if both people feel the same way and walk off into the sunset, that's great," Schwartz says. "I just wouldn't be engraving the wedding invitations too soon."
Childhood sweethearts Patricia and Louis Jackson of Richmond, Calif., tied the knot. But it wasn't until their third time around, in 1996.
The first time was grade school. It was 1954, and they lived in the same San Francisco housing project. Patricia's family owned a dry-cleaning business, and Louis was always around. They played together. They shared ice cream cones. Years later, both families would relocate to Menlo Park, Calif., — Patricia's moved a few years before Louis' — but they'd since lost touch. So, when the two met again as teenagers, dated, fell in love and went to the prom, neither had any idea they were with that child from the third grade.
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Louis left for the Vietnam War in 1963, and the two went their separate ways. They married. Had children. By 1989, they were both divorced and single. Nelson Mandela was speaking in San Francisco that year, and Patricia came from her home in Sacramento for the speech. She missed her exit on BART and wound up in Union City, where she ran into Louis' sisters. She'd thought of him often and saw the mishap as a sign. "Have your brother call me," she said, handing them her number.
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Jacqueline Rossman Hensel and Jerry Hensel of Fremont, Calif., walked away from each other in 1954 after a broken teenage engagement. Hensel called it off before he joined the Air Force. All Rossman Hensel had to remember him by was the silver anklet he had given her. She carried it in a cellophane envelope in her wallet for 49 years, along with a photo of him in his basic training uniform. Unbeknown to her, Hensel never forgot her, either. "She was my first true love," says Hensel, now 74.
In 2002, Hensel, who had been married for nearly 50 years and subsequently divorced, asked his high school class president, who was organizing a reunion, to track Rossman down for him. She did. Eventually, Hensel called up Rossman Hensel on Valentine's Day, asking her to his 50th reunion. He didn't know if she was single or married. But he took a chance.
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Rossman Hensel, who had been widowed for 18 years when she got the call, says the only thing that's different about her first love is his curly locks. They're gone. Otherwise, he's the same boy she fell in love with nearly 49 years ago. "We play all the time," says Rossman Hensel, now 73. "We end each other's sentences."


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Leslie D. LaRue, 37, aka Leslie Likens, of Vancouver faces charges at her Nov. 22 arraignment of criminal conspiracy, second-degree assault and first-degree robbery.
Judge Barbara Johnson held her on $100,000 bail and appointed Vancouver attorney Tony Lowe to defend her.
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Penn Pauline
Penn Pauline has faced many challenges in life, among which are the death of her sister in the labor room, during delivery; the death of her brother after a severe sickness; and inadequate capital to setup and finance a business of her own.
Nine times, Penn Pauline has taken and repaid her loans and she says that, with the new loan requested, she will expand her firewood, beans, groundnuts, egusi, rice, and groundnut oil sales in her quarter. She is positive this business will succeed because she has been doing it for a long time, has experience, knows the techniques of the business, and the demand for firewood in her locality is very high.
With the profit from the loan, Penn Pauline will educate her children, take care of her family's medication, and cater for other family needs. She says a Grounded and Holistic Approach for People's Empowerment (GHAPE) loan is preferable because of low interest rates on loans and gradual repayment intervals.
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This loan is administered by Grounded and Holistic Approach to People's Empowerment (GHAPE), a non-profit non-government organization based in Bamenda, Cameroon. GHAPE takes a multi-faceted approach in working towards the empowerment of the poor and poverty alleviation. Every client is trained in business management, basic health, life skills, financial management, profits and losses, and family values. Clients are also required to contribute a small amount into a personal savings account; most clients save much more than the minimum requirement. GHAPE instills a sense of family and community among its clients and staff and has developed a strong bond of trust between the organization and its clients.
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Screwball Comedy Twentieth Century On Stage from Theatreworks
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The last date listed for Twentieth Century was Sunday February 8, 2009 / 2:00pm.
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A cute story. Not a memorable, deep plot that stays with you but rather a light, amusing 2 hours of entertainment. Very fine acting.
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It was an entertaining show with some very good talent.
Sets and production were up to the standards of other theaterworks productions. Liked it for its' lightness but lacked much depth as a show.
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1930s! We came a little late and had a hard time getting into the production's comedy style. Everything was so exaggerated/dramatized to the nth degree. The acting was of that period ...I Love Lucy drama. The main characters' "oh my god" and...continued
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A clever attempt to revive this 1930' comedy achieved some success... The two lead actors were very appealing, the costumes and set a delight.
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"A thrilling funhouse ride!" — The New Yorker
By Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (Based on a play by Charles Bruce Millholland)
Adapted by Ken Ludwig
Directed by Robert Kelley
Broadway ballyhoo meets Hollywood hustle aboard the Twentieth Century Limited, the legendary locomotive that plays streamlined host to this classic screwball comedy from the 1930s. Polished to a deco sparkle by Tony Award-winning farceur Ken Ludwig, it matches an on-the-outs impresario with a mercurial silver screen starlet in a madcap battle of the sexes, hurtling from havoc to hilarity on the disorient express.
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Innovative, fun, and always entertaining, TheatreWorks' high-energy brand of performance will captivate you! With a national reputation for artistic innovation and integrity, TheatreWorks was named Best Repertory Theatre in the Bay Area by prestigious San Francisco magazine. The company offers a year-round season of musicals, comedies and dramas staged in the state-of-the-art Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts and in the graceful, California Mission-style Lucie Stern Theatre complex in Palo Alto.
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Transactions Mr. Drago has handled include the acquisition and financing of large tracts of land for the development of master planned, mixed-use communities, the disposition of finished lots to merchant builders and the acquisition, disposition, and financing of multifamily, office, retail and hotel properties. He represents landlords and tenants in lease transactions involving office, research and development and retail space.
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Wildfire Update
Posted: 07/13/2008 - Progress against some fires, as rain moves in
Posted: 07/13/2008 - Progress against some fires, as rain moves in
Posted: 07/13/2008 - Bertha weakens to tropical storm in Atlantic
Posted: 07/13/2008 - Thunderstorm spawns huge slide in eastern CA
Posted: 07/12/2008 - Tony Snow dies at 53
Posted: 07/12/2008 - Victims airlifted to Rockford Memorial Hospital
Posted: 07/12/2008 - Residents petition door-to-door
Posted: 07/12/2008 - Boating prohibited on Rock River in Winnebago and Ogle Counties
Posted: 07/12/2008 - 440 have applied, FEMA approves $3.6 million
Posted: 07/12/2008 - Just when they thought it was safe to start cleaning up, river levels are creeping up again. Shore Drive in Machesney Park is now shut down between Wilshire and Gilbert and only residents are allowed in.
Posted: 07/12/2008 - Battle continues in California
Posted: 07/12/2008 - Crews 'turn the corner' against 1 Calif. wildfire
Posted: 07/12/2008 - FEMA officials to visit hardware stores, fairs
Posted: 07/12/2008 - Wisconsin sends firefighters, trucks to wildfires
Posted: 07/12/2008 - Feds approve $3.6 million in Illinois flooding aid
Updated: 07/12/2008 - Car falls into creek after rural bridge collapses
Updated: 07/11/2008 - July marks one year for Beloit's smoking ban.
Updated: 07/11/2008 - This weekend head on up to Beloit Riverfest, where they put the "rock" in Rock River.
Posted: 07/11/2008 - Chad Michael Bennet of Rockford has now been charged with first degree murder
Posted: 07/11/2008 - Local flood victims can now cash in on a $100 voucher.
Posted: 07/11/2008 - The pain at the pump isn't all bad news.
Posted: 07/11/2008 - People around the world who lined up for hours are getting what they wanted: Apple's new iPhone.
Updated: 07/11/2008 - Two researchers say today's high gas prices could cut auto deaths by as much as a third as driving decreases. The effect may be particularly dramatic among teenage drivers, who are more price-sensitive than adults.
Posted: 07/10/2008 - Rockford kids attend school in a district full of challenges. Thursday night board members held a special meeting to talk through some of those root issues and how to tackle them.
Updated: 07/10/2008 - More than a hundred Belvidere parents come together to address a pair of attempted child abductions in the city.
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My name is Tim and I am new to this forum. I have been riding off and on for many years. Presently I ride a Peugeot 12 speed road bike, and recently traded my mountain bike for a new Trek Navigator (better for the back etc). While I have never biked real seriously, my wife and I did take a 120 mile bike ride over two days several years ago. I also biked back and forth to school and work in the 70's.
I am from Boston, Massachusetts, but I am lucky enough to have a house in Truro, on Cape Cod, where there are several great bike trails. I plan to retire at the end of "08 and have begun biking more frequently and more seriously.
I look forward to being a member of the forum in order to exchange ideas and viewpoints, from the "older guy" perspective.


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I wondered about a way to get fitter, work out without having to go running outside (although that is very healthy). I didn't think the Wii balance board would do the trick, as the Wii games where reported not to be very intense, and the board itself is to hard for running on it. So what is different about the Swiiboard is that can absorb running effort, measure the effort and perhaps that it can use those measurements to control a virtual environment. It turned out this can be achieved using a Wiimote controller.
For sure, it looks like he's suffering a lot doing that. However, instead of going through that forest of cylinders, this invention calls for EA's Fred & Ginger Sim.
Here is how the board is "built".
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ERNUL � Little Swift Creek Volunteer Fire Department in Ernul will receive a $37,810 grant from the Department of Homeland Security�s Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program.
U.S. Senator Kay Hagan, D-N.C., announced the grant Thursday for funds designated for operations and safety projects within the fire department.
�Ensuring the Little Swift Creek Volunteer Fire Department has adequate supplies and staff training will provide for a safer Ernul community,� Hagan said. �I am committed to making sure our communities in North Carolina have the resources they need to continue thriving.�
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Eric Pincus: As expected, the Spurs sent in lettters to NBA saying Nikola Milutinov and Livio Jean-Charles will not play in NBA this year @BBallInsiders
Livio Jean-Charles Rumors
Livio Jean-Charles recently gave an interview to French site BeBasket and while his answers were by no means scandalous, there are some great nuggets there. For starters, Livio states that he doesn't know whether he is a small forward or a power forward and he and his coach will try to develop his game to be able to play both positions, which I consider great news. He also mentions that he wouldn't be too thrilled to play in the D-League, which is not great news. But the biggest takeaway from that interview has to be this paragraph: An assistant for the Spurs is by your side this season. What exactly is his role? Is it about your personal development? David was sent by the Spurs, and he will be present throughout the year. He is here to witness but also be involved with my season here. But I want to be clear, Peter Vincent is in charge of my evolution at ASVEL.
Tony Parker confirmed to TP Show (via Catch-and-Shoot) that Livio Jean-Charles will remain with ASVEL Villeurbanne next season. The guard missed the entire season due to a knee injury and will return next summer. Jean-Charles has been selected by the Spurs in the 2013 NBA Draft with the 28th overall pick. "I have already talked with the Spurs" said Parker. "He will stay with ASVEL next season. They believe he will have a breakout season" added Parker.
"Livio Jean-Charles should not play in the NBA next season. He should stay for another year or two years in Lyon-Villeurbanne," Jean-Charles' agent told Progrès.
Rumor has it that the San Antonio Spurs are interested in selecting French forward Livio Jean-Charles and then stashing him overseas for at least one year. This wouldn't be a surprise, since the Spurs have some of the best international scouts in the league and drafting Jean-Charles would give them one more open roster spot next season and allow the 19-year-old to develop before joining the team.


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Florence started as a colony of the Etruscan city of Fiesole in about 200 BC, it later became the Roman Florentia, a garrison town controlling the Via Flaminia. In the early 12th century the city became a free commune and by 1138 it was ruled by 12 consuls, assisted by the Council of One Hundred, a bunch of rich merchants. In 1207, due to problems with faction fighting, the council was replaced by a foreign governor.
The great plague of 1348 decimated the population. In the latter part of the 14th century the Medicis gained power, but in 1494 they went broke and lost their hold on power. The city fell under the control a Dominican monk who led a puritanical republic until he fell from public favor and was hanged and burned as a heretic in 1498. The Medicis returned to Florence in the 16th century, having united themselves by marriage with Emperor Charles V, and ruled for the next 200 years. In 1737 the Grand Duchy of Tuscany passed to the House of Lorraine, which was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy in 1860. Florence became capital of the Kingdom and remained so until Rome took over in 1875.
The 20th century was in many ways disastrous for Florence. WWI left it spent, shocked, and vulnerable to Fascist rhetoric. The city was one of Mussolini's most faithful strongholds. Florence was badly damaged during WWII by the retreating Germans, who blew up all its bridges except the Ponte Vecchio. Devastating floods ravaged the city in 1966, causing inestimable damage to its building and artworks, some of which are still being restored. One good thing to come of the disaster, which left the city covered in a mantle of slimy mud and left countless families homeless, was the evolution of modern restoration techniques. The salvage operation led to the refining of methods which have since saved artworks throughout the world.
Florence has rarely hit the headlines in recent times. It leads the quiet dignified life of a regional capital, under a constant influx of tourists. In 1995, a car bomb killed five people and damaged works in the Uffizi gallery and this attack was attributed to the Sicilian Mafia. Otherwise Florence has been relatively untouched by sensation. Its streets could almost beguile you into thinking you've walked into a former age, untouched by the clamor of the wider world
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Ford To Nation: Pay Attention
A recent polling of 50 media members on the topic of the national Player of the Year found Cowboys star James Anderson lagging behind.
Waaaay behind.
Anderson received but a single third-place vote.
Granted, OSU didn't play many national TV games through the non-conference portion of the schedule, let alone any meaningful TV games. But at some point, when Big Game James was consistently carving up what many believe to be America's best basketball conference, you'd think that curiosity might have overcome a few of my my media brethren across the country.
Apparently not, because otherwise Anderson's exploits couldn't be so ignored.
But is it too late? Can Anderson gather some momentum as we rush toward March?
And if so, what will it take?
Cowboys coach Travis Ford says it'll take some folks paying attention.
"It's going to take people who have a voice in it to watch a little tape and not sit at home and eat potato chips all night, or whatever they're doing. Watch tape and study the game.
"Don't just watch one conference, watch everybody. Watch the Big East and watch the ACC and the SEC and Pac-10 and the Big Ten… And figure out who the best player in the country is. It's not hard to figure out, if you watch our team and what he does for our team."
Ford isn't saying Anderson should be the obvious choice, just that he's a legitimate choice.
"Am I saying he's the best player in the country? I don't know if he's the No. 1 best player in the country. I think he definitely could be. Absolutely. I'd vote him No. 1. But for him to not even be mentioned in some polls is an absurdity. It's insane and shows the lack of knowledge of people when they don't see what he's doing.
"You look at his numbers, at what he's doing numbers wise, free throw wise, rebounding, steals, blocked shots, 3-point field goal percentage, field goal percentage, defensively. And we've won 19 games with the youngest team in the Big12.
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Exactly one year ago today, Tim and I were up in the Chicago suburbs, driving out to the DuPage County courthouse to lift up our hands and solemnly swear that we were who we said we were and get the nice lady in the sea of cubicles to hand us our marriage license, our marriage license! I remember walking out of that building, into the crowded parking lot, hand in hand with Tim and thinking, our marriage license! It's official now! Not just in terms of a giant dress in the closet and a chalkboard seating chart, but, as in, according to the government, we're actually about to do this thing. Three days from now, we're getting hitched! I know I've said this here before, but, seriously, there are so many more details involved with planning a wedding than I ever would have imagined, and, when you plan your wedding fast, like we did in six months, you learn to scrap a lot of those details in the name of staying sane---like a wedding cake maybe. We had pretty much ruled it out, thinking … [Read more...]
Tennessee Apple Picking + Rustic Apple Tartlets (+ Einkorn Flour!)
It's Saturday. I'm awake too early, still in bed but eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling, too excited to go back to sleep. Today we're going apple-picking, which, for the joy it gives me, may as well be cookie-eating or treasure-finding, and right now, the sound of Tim's breathing next to me, all I can think about are the bright blue skies, warm golden sunshine and endless apples that await us when we do. What can I say about apple-picking that hasn't already been said? That there's something wonderful about standing amongst rows of trees, many of them heavy with fruit, the yeasty smell of fallen, fermenting apples in the air? That trekking out with your friends or family to an orchard, a basket slung over your arm, feels like a celebration, just like carving a turkey or chopping down a Christmas tree? Or maybe that picking apples, to me, is one of those activities that's so quintessentially autumn, so like pumpkin carving or sipping cider, that when you go out and do it, … [Read more...]
Butternut Squash Spelt Biscuits
I have the worst case of writer's block. I don't know what to say. I feel like Tim is going to tell me, any minute, that he's finished what he's doing and we need to go, so I can't focus on what I'm writing because I keep thinking, we're about to drive to the grocery store and we also need toilet paper and I can't forget to set my alarm clock for tomorrow morning at 5:30 a.m.! It's Thursday night, the one night this week when we haven't had something going on, and what was supposed to be a relaxing evening at home has turned into a nonstop day that continued into a nonstop night, and it's 8:30 p.m., we're only now about to go to the store, and I still haven't written a blog post. Part of the busy schedule this week has been, get this, because of food. In a strange turn of events, we ended up with three CSA boxes in the last two weeks, giving us bushel and bushel and bushel full of fresh food, all of which we needed to do something with so as to avoid the one thing I absolutely do … [Read more...]
Summer Days + Homemade Soft Serve
It's a bloody hot day in Nashville, a Wednesday, the kind of day where walking the 50 or so feet from your kitchen door to the mailbox means beads of sweat forming fast on your forehead and upper lip. Tim and I are inside, working, I at my laptop on the dining room table, he from his computer on the sofa. When I look up from the article I'm writing, I see him straight ahead; when I turn to the right, it's all blue skies and beating sunshine above our front yard. I want to be sitting in the grass, I want to be having a picnic, I want to be sipping lemonade while rocking on a giant front porch. Then I remember the heat, and I change my mind: I want to go swimming. "What time is it?" I say to Tim. He tells me it's half past noon. "Too bad," I answer back. "Wish we had time to go to the lake." And then we look at each other from across our freelance perches, and he says what we're both thinking: oh yeah, we do. So we finish our work and throw some towels in a bag … [Read more...]
Hot (!) Spiced Milk
I started making this milk within the last few weeks, inspired by the tumeric milk posted over at the beautiful Journey Kitchen. Similar to a hot chocolate my friend Carrie makes (milk + cocoa powder + sweetener + heat = bam!), it's nothing complicated or confusing. It's hot and soothing---pure comfort when paired with a big down comforter and some online TV, especially when it's as cold as it has been around here lately. And, because of the powerful spices, spiced milk is actually really beneficial for your health, too: First, there's tumeric, the bright yellow spice that colors mustard and flavors curry. Commonly used in both Chinese and Indian ancient systems of medicine, tumeric is one of the most powerful anti-inflammatory spices out there, the same ingredient I heard physicians wax eloquent about at a CCFA symposium I attended with my friend Alicia a few years ago. Because inflammation is connected to so many physical ailments, from Crohn's to eczema to heart disease, … [Read more...]
Raw Brownies + Chocolate Avocado Frosting
This past week, Tim and I did sort of a cleanse, wherein we ate mostly raw: fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, nuts, seeds, raw dairy, dried fruit. We added homemade chicken soup, nettle and Tulsi teas and, at a maximum of once a day, roasted vegetables, but otherwise it was, for the first time in our lives, an experience in raw eating. It was interesting. First of all, it wasn't hard, at least not in the way typical cleanses are. I wasn't starving, I didn't get major detox reactions, there was no need to summon all my willpower not to eat a cookie. A couple times, one of us would say to the other, doesn't a taco sound good?, but, for the most part, we felt like there was so much we still could eat: a bowl of juicy grapefruit; fresh pomegranate arils sprinkled with flax seeds and coconut; caprese salad (tomatoes, raw mozzarella, fresh basil), morning smoothies, giant green salads (and you know how I like those), frozen fruit mixed with nuts in raw milk, homemade pecan nut … [Read more...]
HOT Chocolate Cookies (+ BIG Announcement!)
Yesterday morning, I had an entirely different post planned for you today. It wasn't about cookies, it wasn't about Nashville, it wasn't about the person who likes these cookies most. But plans change. You might remember over a month ago, when I brought you these thin chocolate cookies and ice cream sandwiches, how I mentioned being on the hunt for a crisp chocolate cookie, the kind that was like a cocoa gingersnap, spiced and crisp, sharp and crunchy. What I didn't tell you then was that it was really Tim who wanted this cookie, Tim who had mentioned it and sent my mind to work. And so it was, last week in Chicago, that I first tried this new recipe, an adaptation of Mexican chocolate cookies I'd found online, while Tim sat in my parents' dining room working on his computer and I worked in a light-filled kitchen, hoping for crisp, spiced bites of chocolate. That first experiment was such a hit, I made the recipe again Monday, so I could bring them over to Tim's house … [Read more...]