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I''m the crazy fun one. Pedal to the floor, balls to the wall, party all weekend guy. The guy everybody calls for laughs and a good time. And I always deliver. So, when Ainsley Winslow and I made a pact for a summer fling, I was all in. What hot-blooded college male doesn''t jump at the chance for a no strings attached relationship? Not this one. Then summer drew to a close, and I found myself wanting time to move slower. Ainsley Winslow is a girl of her word. When fall inevitably came, she vanished. She no longer answered my calls, my texts or my knocks on her door. After the silence continued, I questioned what I was doing and who had I become. I am Braxton Brentwood...this isn''t me. Time to move on and get the party started again. And I did. Until our paths crossed again, and I remembered what we had. She wasn''t getting away a second time because our game just went into Extra Innings.

Will a mishap under the mistletoe lead to a lifetime of love?The last thing Caitlin McConnell wanted to do was spend her Christmas in her hometown of Mistletoe, Texas. The town is filled with bad memories and broken dreams. When the woman who took Caitlin in during her father''s incarceration begs her to come home, she reluctantly agrees, also letting it slip that she''ll be coming home with her fiancé. But two days before her departure, her would-be fiancé breaks up with her, and the whole embarrassing ordeal is overheard by Tristan Harding, who comes to her rescue and gets her through the night.Tristan has spent the last year struggling with his very public breakup and struggling to finish his novel. When his agent offers her home in Mistletoe as a refuge to write, he reluctantly agrees. But on his first day into the town, he runs into Caitlin and the two find they are the focus of the town''s attention. When an innocent dinner fuels the rumors circling the them, people mistakenly think Tristan is Caitlin''s fiancé. Word of their engagement gives him a break from the pressure his agent is putting on him to write, and Caitlin provides an enticing distraction to staring at a blank screen.As they agree to keep up the charade, Caitlin begins to wish they were a real couple. Will the Mistletoe mishap lead to love, or just more disappointment for Caitlin?

"The purpose of this project is to train Wells Fargo human resources call center representatives to better interpret paralanguage cues perceived through the phone which should result in increased employee and customer satisfaction. This project will be used to train Wells Fargo employees to understand and react to conflict cues as a result of paralanguage by incoming callers. Expected results of the training include increased conflict management skills, higher quality assurance numbers, and improved employee and customer satisfaction." leaves 10-11.

Being the oldest Washington Triplet hasn''t been easy for Marisa Washington. Labeled the "good one" at a young age embedded the burden she strived to build true. She graduated at the top of her class, never caused her parents trouble, and even settled down in their hometown of Chicago with her college boyfriend. Her life was "perfect", at least in the eyes of others. But when her mom unexpectedly dies, Marisa''s eyes open for the first time. She leaves her boyfriend of four years and takes a job in Alaska to gain the freedom and individuality she''s craved. After all, what would she gain by sticking around Chicago? She discovered her perfect family isn''t so perfect, and everyone she cares for left her. Starting a new life in Anchorage, Alaska, she''s unable to escape her family''s hold when her dad''s wedding announcement comes a mere six months after her mother''s death. Attempts to contact her sisters, in order to face this together, are unsuccessful, leaving her feeling even more alone. Her family issues have to be pushed aside when her employer sends her and three others to a team building retreat in King''s Gate. It''s the last thing Marisa wants to do, until everywhere she turns, she finds...Zach Greer. This is one out of three novellas in The Washington Triplet Series. All novellas can be read as standalones and there is no sequence to read them in. The Other two Washington Triplet Series books Love Discovered in New York by Danielle Allen Love Found in California by Melissa Rolka

Reviews the literature to examine the status of professionalization of fundraising. Concludes that fundraising is moving towards professionalization but is not universally accepted as a profession and is still lacking in a few characteristics that define a profession academically.

The B cell antigen receptor (BCR) plays a dual role in B cell activation. First, upon crosslinking by antigen, BCR signaling is initiated. Subsequently, the BCR is downregulated and a portion of the BCR internalizes to MHC class II loading compartments to deliver its bound antigen for processing. Current evidence indicates that BCR signaling regulates BCR internalization and trafficking. Although the molecular details underlying BCR signaling have been well characterized, it is not well understood how BCR internalization occurs or how BCR signaling regulates BCR trafficking. Here we describe a role for sphingolipid- and cholesterol-rich lipid rafts in coordinating the signaling and antigen targeting functions of the BCR. Lipid rafts have been proposed to function as platforms for receptor signaling and trafficking, and here we show that upon crosslinking, the BCR rapidly becomes enriched in lipid rafts. The BCR is phosphorylated in the rafts and subsequently trafficks to antigen processing compartments. Thus, enrichment in lipid rafts represents a novel step in the initiation and coordination of BCR signaling and trafficking.

In this paper, I argue that migration responses to push factors differ along ethnic lines. I examine this hypothesis using panel survey data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, census data, and regional-level political data from Russia. I hypothesize that nationalist political parties send signals of anti-minority sentiment, which ethnic minorities interpret as threatening to their prospects in the region. This leads to a demand for an adaptive response, generating out-migration. I estimate an event history model and find that, although ethnic minorities do not demonstrate a higher propensity to migrate than the majority group, they do respond differently to political and economic push factors, in particular, to signals sent by nationalist parties.

Michigan''s landscape has undergone significant alterations due to human activities during the nineteenth century. By the mid-nineteenth century, Michigan had become a leading lumber producer in the United States. However, by the turn of the twentieth century, the logging industry shifted from the East Coast westward. This led to fragmented landscapes, the result of interactions between the logging industry decision-makers, regional policymakers, and wood product consumers. Not all Michigan communities were equally affected by the logging boom. Some landscapes, like those around Singapore, Michigan, were transformed so significantly they were no longer economically viable. Using the photographic record, this research explores the concept of settlement abandonment due to natural resource depletion. It contextualizes the images with narratives that identify the motivations and actions of key players in the logging industry around Singapore and assesses the impacts of the logging industry on the environment and community. These materials suggest that a combination of rampant demand for lumber, a lack of government regulation, and an indifferent local population led to the decimation of the forests surrounding Singapore. Due to the pressures put on the landscape as a means of profit, this area has been forever altered.

(Cont.) Chapter 5 analyzes slow-light, band-edge waveguides for compact, integrated, tun- able optical time delays. Slow group velocities at the photonic band edge give rise to large changes in time delay for small changes in refractive index, shrinking device size. Figures of merit are defined for tuning sensitivity and signal dispersion. Exact calculations for a realistic, three-dimensional grating structure are shown to be well predicted by a simple quadratic-band model, simplifying device design. Chapter 6 derives a general, coupled-mode theory for disorder-induced scattering in strongly periodic systems. The analytical results allow the comparison of photonic- crystal waveguides to similar index-guided waveguides. In the realistic limit of weak disorder, reflections are identical while transmission is higher for the photonic-crystal waveguide. The general results, verified by direct numerical simulations in an example system, suggest a new mechanism for the design of low-loss waveguides.

The students'' feelings of comfort, preparation, and confidence in recognizing, assessing, and intervening with individuals who are in crisis and/or suicidal were also explored. The sample included 69 graduate students enrolled in school counselor preparation programs at three different southeastern universities. A pretest-posttest, control-group design was used. Students who agreed to participate were randomly assigned to one of two group conditions. All participants received the crisis intervention training. Data were collected from a survey that included a demographic data sheet and two instruments to assess the effects of the intervention: the (revised) Suicide Intervention Response Inventory (SIRI-2) and the Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Questionnaire (CISP).