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As STI continues to diversify its business model, the company also chose EarthLink's Cloud Hosting to run its new SchoolWheels Direct program, a recently launched fee-based busing system direct to parents. SchoolWheels Direct runs in the cloud out of EarthLink's data centers, including the new STI application, SafeStop™, a mobile app for parents and school districts to securely monitor SchoolWheels vehicles while en route to and from school. Additional features include a custom Alert Notification System that can be used to communicate weather, traffic, emergency and other safety information in real-time.
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The Riverside Storm Shelter has nonperishable food items and water available for residents of Riverside in need.

The pavilion and playground adjacent to Riverside City Hall is closed until further notice due to hanging limbs and other debris from storm damage.

Riverside residents may bring tree debris (limbs, branches, leaves) to the designated area in the northwest corner of Coleman Park on Depot Street. The designated area has tape around it. No construction or other house debris is allowed at that area.

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So thinking about my Glock with no manual safety and moving into the realm of the defensive rifle. I've been wondering if I should disable (remove) the safety on my HD AR-15.
My reasoning is that the gun sits in a locked steel cabinet and it never comes out unless there would be a reason to shoot it. Anything I can do to make it easier for my wife to employ it at 0330 would be a plus to me.
Also as MAC stated it's one less way Mr. Murphy can get involved.
For years I played top amateur/pro paintball and we always removed the safety to insure Mr. Murphy wouldn't get involved in a $15,000 moment and cause a failure. It was never a problem, but then again that was paintball. This would be real life...and real death if you were careless.
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PUBLISHED: 14 May 2013 00:28:57 | UPDATED: 15 May 2013 00:08:32PUBLISHED: 14 May 2013 PRINT EDITION: 14 May 2013Brisbane has made the list of the world's top 10 most expensive retail rents, ahead of Moscow and into ninth place in property group CBRE's global retail view for the quarter. Brisbane's prime rents were up 15 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared to the final quarter of 2012, according to CBRE.
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While Gareth Bale, Luis Suarez and Wayne Rooney continue to dominate the headlines in the summer transfer window, there have been some big deals going through in the MSFL.
I've been struggling to get out of the Maccabiah bubble if I'm totally honest, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
I've slept with my medal around my neck for most of the week, sharing some great memories with friends, family and work colleagues alike.
Well, that's the Maccabiah done for another four years, and what an unbelievable experience it was once again.
"Do you have anything to declare," was the question asked at Luton airport as we went through customs on Wednesday night. "Absolutely," I replied, proudly
If ever there was a time for reflection then this is probably it.
As I write this piece from the hotel lobby at the Leonardo Basel Tel Aviv, I await a visit from the Team GB medics, hoping they can save my Maccabiah.
The first few days at the 19th Maccabiah Games have been something quite special.
Two days at pre-camp featured some incredible sights, as the majority of the 453-strong Team GB squad converged on Jerusalem.
I'm sure Eilon Kennet won't mind me comparing his return to London Maccabi Lions to that of Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool a couple of years ago.
I may not have won the £157m Euromillions lottery this week, but being called up to represent Team GB at next month's Maccabiah Games is simply beyond my wildest dreams.
This all appeared little more than a pipe dream 12 months ago when I was lying on a hospital bed following surgery, but I like a challenge …
Welcome to Hell. That famous slogan was all that was missing from the venue that hosted London Maccabi Vale's most recent cricket match.
My teammates and I were eagerly anticipating Sunday's Chess Valley League encounter against Finchley CC – that was until we turned up to the venue at Woodside Park Sports Club.
In the end Israel's victory over England counted for little, but you try telling that to the people who matter at the IFA.
I'm sure if you had offered Guy Luzon a four-point return from matches against Norway, Italy and England before the competition, he'd had bitten your hand off, and it would be fair to describe that tally as beyond his wildest dreams.
And so it begins, the summer of sport in Israel. The Uefa under-21 Championship finals kicked-off in style, amid a fanfare of colour – an ocean of blue and white.


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For the second straight year, the Carolina Cup Racing Association is offering its ticket and a T-shirt promotion for the Carolina Cup steeplechase races.
Horses prepared at Kip Elser's Kirkwood Stables in Camden have been wearing out a path to the winners' circle in the month of February.
Camden-based Fenwick Equestrian, owned and operated by Wilhelmina McEwan and her brother, Fred McEwan, will once again be the corporate and presenting sponsor for the second annual Camden Winter Classic horse show.
COLUMBIA --- McKay, Cauthen, Settana, & Stubley, P.A. and its' marketing affiliate, McKay Public Affairs, LLC, recently announced their plan to sponsor a hospitality tent with the City of Camden, Kershaw County Tourism and the Kershaw County Committee of 100 at the 81st running of the Carolina Cup.
Friday is the final day for last year's reserved space holders to guarantee securing their former space(s) for this year's Carolina Cup steeplechase races.
Horses, horses and more horses.
For the second straight year, the Carolina Cup Racing Association is offering its ticket and a T-shirt promotion for the Carolina Cup steeplechase races.
Camden's Jeff Teter, Executive Director of the Carolina Cup Racing Association, will represent the South District as part of the National Steeplechase Association's Race Chairmen's Committee.
Horses, horses and more horses.
What better way to kick off the New Year than with having a couple winners come out of your barn.
Bernie Dalton had the best seat in the house when it came to being there for Pierrot Lunaire's unlikely run to the 2012 Eclipse Award for steeplechase horse.
ARCADIA, Cal. --- Eblouissante, a 4-year-old half sister to the legendary Zenyatta who is also conditioned by John Shirreffs, faced winners for the first time in Thursday's $58,000 Mojave River Purse at Santa Anita and at odds of 1-2, left little doubt that she has stakes races in her future, winning by 1 ¾ lengths while covering 1 1/16 miles in 1:44.89.
Steeplechase horses in the Carolinas whose owners and trainers have an eye cast on the early season openers now have a place to give their horses a final go 'round prior to the races which count.
Dogwood Stable president Cot Campbell will be the featured speaker at Saturday's South Carolina Thoroughbred Owners' and Breeders' Association's annual awards dinner.
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Demand for young, stakes-caliber mares, led by the $1.3 million paid for 2011 American Oaks (G1) winner Nereid, ruled opening Monday at Keeneland's January Horses of All Ages Sale.
Two more horses with Camden connections will try and stay on the Kentucky Derby trail when they go head-to-head in Saturday's $400,000 San Felipe Stakes (Gr. II) at Santa Anita Park.
With three weeks and a day to go before the 2015 Carolina Cup Steeplechase Races in Camden, reserved parking spaces are starting to fill up.
Three Kershaw County teenagers have brought home the Zone 4 Region 4 High School Championship along with their team, Creekside Farm, under the direction of Adrian Mack and Emma Phillips.
Previous year's box seat and reserved parking space holders have until Friday, Feb. 13, to secure their spaces for the 2015 Carolina Cup Steeplechase Races in Camden.
Even though the calendar just turned to January and cold weather is on the way, it is not too early to be thinking about the warmer days of spring.
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Seen in another thread that went off the tracks.
SHould the Consumer Product Safety Commission regulate guns. In another thread someone said that guns without external safeties were unsafe and that government should regulate them.
This is a discussion on Should the CPSC regulate guns within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Seen in another thread that went off the tracks. SHould the Consumer Product Safety Commission regulate guns. In another thread someone said that guns without ...
Who's the CPSC?
Yes, guns should be like all other products and be regulated.
No, this would be a way to ban guns.
The CPSC can't keep lead painted toys out of the US, regulate guns?
Seen in another thread that went off the tracks.
SHould the Consumer Product Safety Commission regulate guns. In another thread someone said that guns without external safeties were unsafe and that government should regulate them.
Procrastinators are the leaders of tomorrow.
Seeing as I believe in free trade and market forces vs. Soviet regulation I think the 'Consumer Product Safety Commission' should be abolished as an unconstitutional waste of taxpayer money. Consumers are responsible for examining the quality of the product before buying it, they only have themselves to blame. The protectionist nanny bureaucracy has no use other than increasing the price of products and restricting the availability of goods.
If you generally believe government hand-holding is a good thing then I'd say no, guns are completely different, owning a firearm is a basic right and allowing the federal government to regulate them even more than they do is to allow more encroachments on the RKBA.
In any case, regulating the dangerous cop-killer assault porcelain pistols would be the domain of the BATFE, so this question really should be 'should the BATFE regulate the trade and manufacture of weapons more than they already do'.
Last option. If they can't protect us from simple issues, why in the heck would we give them another job when they can't currently do the one they have?
...He suggested that "every American citizen" should own a rifle and train with it on firing ranges "at every courthouse." -Chesty Puller
Joffe and Sammy, you've about covered it.
I think that product regulation should be privatized. The Underwriters Laboratories evaluates more than 19,000 types of products and they are a totally private organization. They are considered by many to be more efficient than any government institution and are highly respected. They evaluate nearly all electronic products in the U.S. and the U.S. is considered to have some of the safest electronic products in the world.
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The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting. It is about keeping the government in check. This requires that the citizenry is well armed and at all times has immediate access to arms.
+1. I think there does need to be some sort of independant consumer product evaluation organization, but there's no reason it should be government controled or even funded. Let the market set these things up, and let buyers take or ignore their advice as they choose. Personally, I know I'm not qualified to do a serious evaluation of certain things I buy (food and drugs come to mind) without advice or endorsement, but there's no reason the advice can't be privately available.
"A well-educated electorate, being necessary to the continuance of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed."
Is this hard to understand? Then why does it get unintelligible to some people when 5 little words are changed?
What we really need is to regulate the number of bureaucrats and their span of authority.
Exactly. What you need to keep in mind is that this is privatization, not 'outsourcing'. If you outsource government functions you won't improve much. The difference is that the Underwriters Laboratories can either praise, approve or condemn - but they cannot regulate or ban. The end decision belongs to the consumer. That is very important, no use of arbitrary government force is creating market distortion.
They are the item to regulate out of business.
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I answered no. Partly because I believe it would lead to a ban, but also because I believe the CPSC should not exist, at least not in it's current form(controlled by the government). This falls right in line with the new bill they're trying to push through to give the FDA *MANDATORY* product recall power.
-The Mist (2007)"My God David, We're a Civilized society."
"Sure, As long as the machines are workin' and you can call 911. But you take those things away, you throw people in the dark, and you scare the crap out of them; no more rules...You'll see how primitive they can get."
Huh, can you say Second Amendment?
And in Missouri we have Article 23 of the Missouri Constitution.
"We don't need no stinkin' CPSC regulations..."
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I'm with Pogo ........ and add to the ''span'' - also ''and power". 'Authority' varies and in some cases power seems absolute.What we really need is to regulate the number of bureaucrats and their span of authority.
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Title | Engineering, institutions, and the public interest: Evaluating product quality in the Kenyan solar photovoltaics industry |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2007 |
Authors | Kammen D, Jacobson A |
Journal | Energy Policy |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | 5 |
Pagination | 2960-2968 |
Date Published | 05/2007 |
Keywords | Solar energy; Market regulation; Afric |
Abstract | Solar sales in Kenya are among the highest per capita among developing countries. While this commercial success makes the Kenya market a global leader, product quality problems have been a persistent concern. In this paper, we report performance test results from 2004 to 2005 for five brands of amorphous silicon (a-Si) photovoltaic (PV) modules sold in the Kenya market. Three of the five brands performed well, but two performed well below their advertised levels. These results support previous work indicating that high-quality aSi PV modules are a good economic value. The presence of the low performing brands, however, confirms a need for market institutions that ensure the quality of all products sold in the market. Prior work from 1999 indicated a similar quality pattern among brands. This confirms the persistent nature of the problem, and the need for vigilant, long-term approaches to quality assurance for solar markets in Kenya and elsewhere. Following the release of our 2004/2005 test results in Kenya, the Kenya Bureau of Standards moved to implement and enforce performance standards for both amorphous and crystalline silicon PV modules. This appears to represent a positive step towards the institutionalization of quality assurance for products in the Kenya solar market. |
URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V2W-4MHPC0H-1&_user=10&_coverDate=05%2F31%2F2007&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1736285000&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1& |
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text: On 11/13/2012 01:21 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > Why not just sysklogd, syslog-ng or rsyslog do there job? > What about logrotate? > From my point of view, systemd tends to integrate all low level components like kernel device manager, system logging mechanisms, service handling, module loading, kernel configuration. You are free to use whatever you like. I personally use rsyslog and journald together so that I get classic log files in /var/log. As for logrotate, journald tends to rotate its files as far as I've seen. > My gripe with systemd is I already have proven tools that do what systemd does, > why should I have to abandon them to use systemd? > Why does one have to learn a completely new system that does what the older system already does? Well, at one point you had to learn the current init system. Were you born with that knowledge? init system = all stuff about current init system including bash scripting, service manipulation, etc. > There are tried and true and work very well for me. > Also I don't want to take a collage course to learn how to use and admin systemd. > I already know how to admin my systems and learning systemd is of no benefit. Good. > As it is said here my distro my rules, not what lenart seems to think I need to do. > Lennart just sees things from different perspective. I don't agree with everything, but I tend to agree with at least something. You are not alone out there. Distros want to support lot of systems with lot of different setups and systemd seems to help them accomplish part of that. The one thing that I completely agree with him is "Don't hold back programs that can benefit a lot from Linux just to keep it 'portable'." Some people tend to understand that if you write software that can only run on one platform that you make other systems less important. You have the freedom, port it yourself if you like. It is my (or someone else) freedom to write software for whatever I want. That beats gazilion of bash scripts out there that were used for something that could be accomplished with fewer lines of C code (yeah, I know - hard to debbug in some cases) with speed benefit (and somewhere speed benefit is just what is needed - there are environments where every second matters). > This quest that the linux community is on is just crazy, look at all the cruft that has been added to the kernel. > Why the kitchen sink as well as the bathroom sink is it there. In a world with 7 bilion people where lot of people/companies/systems have different needs it is really hard to keep it that minimal.


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The venue may change but the names are familiar, as once again Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing have been presented with their FIA Formula One World Championship trophies at the FIA Prize Giving Gala.
Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena cemented their status as the most successful driver and co-driver in the history of motor sport when they won their ninth consecutive FIA World Rally Championship title this season. The duo was re-united with their trophies this evening on the occasion of the FIA Gala held in Istanbul, Turkey.
The FIA officially crowned Rob Huff as the 2012 FIA World Touring Car Champion at its Gala awards evening in Istanbul, Turkey, today.
The eighth season of the FIA World Touring Car Championship saw the three Chevrolet works drivers fighting for the Drivers' Championship and giving the American car maker its third consecutive Manufacturers' Championship.
After finishing twice in third position (2008 and 2010) and once second (2011), Huff eventually claimed his first World title, beating his team-mates Alain Menu and Yvan Muller.
The FIA honoured the 2012 World Endurance Champions during the FIA Gala in Istanbul, Turkey, surrounded by the other champions from world motor sport.
Audi secured the Manufacturers title with its R18 e-tron quattro, adding the FIA World Endurance crown to the 24 Heures du Mans title the German manufacturer secured in June, which was the first victory for a hybrid car at the prestigious 24 hour race.


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'Python posse' set to hunt Florida snakes. Is it overkill?
Most are feral – the offspring of pets let loose in the wild. Some say their danger to humans is actually low.
Uma Sanghvi/ The Palm Beach Post/ Newscom
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is convening the nation's first "python posse," an extraordinary hunt to cull a population of up to 150,000 slithering beasts from state lands and, potentially, Everglades National Park.
The bounty hunt proposal comes after the recent death of a Florida toddler by an escaped pet python and a congressional hearing last week where Florida Sen. Bill Nelson (D) unrolled a 17-foot skin from a python captured in the Everglades.
Senator Nelson says it's just a matter of time before a python of similar size attacks a tourist in the Everglades.
"There's one way to do this: kill the snakes," Nelson told The Miami Herald in an e-mail.
To be sure, a hunt for feral snakes in the "river of grass" responds to many peoples' primal and mythical fear of snakes and other man-eating animals, especially non-native ones.
The Burmese python, which can grow to 20 feet and is known to eat alligators, established a wild population in the 1990s after being released by humans who'd kept them as pets.
But is killing the pythons really the right answer?
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the animal rights group, says no.
"This is the alligator in the New York City sewer times 100,000, and all this could have been avoided by common-sense legislation," says Martin Mersereaux, a spokesman for PETA in Norfolk, Va. "It's not these snakes' fault that they're proliferating, and now we have a massacre at hand."


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2Sa 12:20 - So David arose from the ground, washed, anointed {himself,} and changed his clothes; and he came into the house of the LORD and worshiped...
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Tuesday - Barely There (Sleek)
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A bit like my week in MAC lipsticks I thought I'd challenge myself to a week in drugstore lipsticks. And yes, "challenge myself" is the correct term, because all week I was desperate to put on my new Viva Glam Nicki! You may also notice that I only lasted five days. I've definitely learnt that while there's nothing wrong with a drugstore lippie once in a while, I'm certainly a MAC girl at heart and the quality speaks for itself. My lips have taken a battering this week and feel really dry, so I'm looking forward to wearing something a bit more nourishing!


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An elegant soup made of wild rice and cranberries laced with sherry.
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Rinse the rice, then place in heavy pan with water and salt over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover, and simmer about 45-50 minutes, until slightly chewy. Drain and set aside.
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When Alex Close, a father of children ages 6, 7 and 8, first heard about the Connecticut elementary school massacre Friday, he rushed over to Sam Houston Elementary to stand in the hallway and pray a blessing for all the children's safety.
"I just wanted to see my children," he said. "I visited them in the classroom."
But Close returned to the school Monday and noticed again how easy it was to walk in the building and go to the office to get a visitor's pass.
"Anybody could walk in," he said. "I think the door should be locked during school hours, and a person would buzz an intercom and have to say what you're here for."
That prompted him to scratch out some hastily made signs urging more protection for schools.
He held them while he stood across the street from Sam Houston Elementary on Monday afternoon with three others to protest the security system at Wichita Falls Independent School District schools.
He'd like to see an officer stationed in the elementary schools just as there are in the secondary schools or, at least, a metal detector installed.
"Even if you have a police car parked there," he said. "Think about it." No burglar breaks into a house with a police car parked outside, and the presence of a police car could turn away other troublemakers, he said.
Close said he wants to collect the names and phone numbers of at least 100 parents who believe as he does, and he will be visiting various elementary schools this week to collect them.
Today he will go to Alamo, he said.
This first visit, however, scared the Sam Houston staff, who saw him carrying a sign across the street from the school and began slamming school windows and locking the school up tight, calling for a police presence.
They misunderstood his intentions, he said, but he liked the result of seeing the school security tightened.
WFISD policy is to keep the schools' doors open until the school day begins, when all doors are locked except for the main front door, said Bill Horton, WFISD police chief and security director.
Visitors must stop by the office, where they sign in and are escorted to their destination in the school building, he said.
Since the Connecticut elementary shooting Friday, Horton asked principals to review their procedures. "They've been trained. We want them to just pay attention and reiterate what we do when an incident occurs."
Safety directions are posted in every classroom, he said.
WFISD schools also conduct live drills to help children and staff know what to do in an emergency.
The Texas School Safety Center in Austin reported Monday that 78 Texas school districts have submitted faulty safety plans or have failed to submit one at all, according to a report by The Associated Press.
Attorney General Greg Abbott said Monday the districts "can't let another second tick" without having a safety plan to deal with the possibility of school violence.
Abbott and the Safety Center did not identify which districts were not complying with the law.
The Texas School Safety Center was created in 1999 after Colorado's Columbine shootings. The state education code requires public schools to conduct safety audits once every three years, according to AP.
Horton said WFISD will now push its own security audits at each school to top priority. "We will go out and do a security audit at each school and see what we need to do to upgrade security at each school."
Some WFISD schools are more than 100 years old and were not built to stop people in the entrance, he said.
"Containment is very important," Horton said.
While some teachers said they worried about copycat shootings, Horton said vigilance at all the schools is peaking now, making such an incident less likely.
"It's foolish to be a copycat. You'd have a better chance of being caught now than a week ago," he said.
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You woke up really early the next day. It felt like you had gone to bed early last night anyway, so maybe that was all that was keeping you from sleeping in. Yawning, you stretched and got your clothes for the day on. Not bothering to have any one of the servants to come along, you went out of your room and headed for the garden. You walked down the stone steps and onto the lawn, right before the huge maze of hedges and flowers.
"Miss?" a quiet and timid voice called from behind you. Turning, you saw a very pretty woman with silvery hair and skin like caramel. She had on a navy maid uniform and a white gauze and wrap around her left eye. You blinked at her for a second then smiled nicely.
"Hello. I'm afraid I haven't met you yet," you told her politely.
She bowed, not ever making eye contact with you, and apologized quickly. "My apologies Miss. You can call me Hanna if you wish. I was just going to tell you that breakfast is going to be done shortly. The Master is not awake yet, but I just wanted to inform you..."
You nodded at her. "Thank you. It's no problem, I was just going to go one a little walk to explore this beautiful garden. You and the others do a wonderful job here."
"Thank you Miss..." she trailed off again, still staring at the ground.
Your gazed soften more at her, then put on a cheery smile and stuck your hand out toward her in a friendly manner. "My name is (Name) (Last Name). Pleasure."
The woman lifted her head to look at the hand put in front of her and she smiled gently for a second. She shook the hand with a loose grip while you grabbed it like she was an old friend.
"You do not care about the classes very much do you?" she said in almost a whisper.
"Hmm? Me? Oh, not really. I think they're silly. Why should someone who was more fortunate than someone else treat that person poorly? There's no real sense in it after all~ I don't feel bad for people who are supposedly "lower class" than me, but I don't treat them any differently than I should treat someone else. I don't understand the prim and proper ideal for aristocrats either. I would much rather have a friendly greeting than one where I have to be mannerly and bow. What say you, Hanna?"
She looked at you for a second, her soft smile still there which made you happy she was slightly more relaxed. "I believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I do say that you're philosophy would be much better on the moral scale."
Nodding thoughtfully, you turned toward the garden again. It was so whimsical... A sudden thought of all the strange goings on around the house struck you for a second and you turned to Hanna tentatively. "Hanna? May I ask you something?"
"Of course. But whether I may be able to answer it or not is debatable."
"Right. So, why is there this pressure lingering around?" you asked carefully.
"Pressure, Miss?"
You nodded, still watching the garden as the sun was coming over the tree line a bit more. "This feeling... It comes from all of you, except for Alois. It's almost like an eerie shadow is everywhere. The Phantomhive's butler had the same feel. Can you tell me what's here? Is there any reason you can think of that this may be happening?"
Hanna was silent for a moment, deciding on whether she would tell you or not. Glancing at you, she answered, "Well Miss... I would love to tell why you have this feeling, but I don't know if my Master would approve of you knowing."
"Hmm. I understand. Maybe I'll ask Alois again later... Thank you Hanna," you said nicely.
"I think, though, that you are a smart human. You may be able to figure it out."
"Thank you. Hanna, do you really feel these polite emotions toward people, whether it be me, Alois, or the rest of society? Or is all this fake?" you inquired.
She looked to you, quite surprised. Hanna let out a tiny laugh and looked to you sheepishly. "You are a clever human indeed. There are few I have feelings for, but then again it is almost rather impossible for someone of my type to have feelings about anything..."
You silently thought this over. The way she called you human made you think her as a different species and then she referred to someone of her type. It didn't sound like she was talking about her position as a maid. Slowly, you put the pieces of the puzzle together: the Phantomhive's "one hell of a butler," the eerie feeling, the duel, the way Hanna was talking to you, and most of all the way that two young teens that had gone through so much hardship end up with two mysterious servants serving them.
Smiling softly, you glanced back to Hanna for a second. "Hmm. I see now. It's quite amazing actually..."
Hanna turned to you, giving you full eye contact and remarked with a kind smile that you didn't expect could ever be possible for 'one of her own kind,' "I guess it is... But what do you think is the most amazing part? The part of our existence?"
You shook your head and explained, "No. That part could be perfectly believable to the open-minded person. I find it amazing that someone could fall so far as to need you. It's amazing, but sadly so."
"I think you are the first person to think that."
She nodded, her hands folded in front of her. "Yes, most would be shocked at the existence of demons. Or, if they were open minded like you, they would most likely be jealous of their power or despise the two boys for being desperate to call forth such evil creatures and denouncing there promises to paradise. I hardly think anyone would take a step back and realize that those two have been through so much and to be fully accepting. I may not be able to have strong liking for people, but I love Alois. I feel that I do. And you... I think that you are not like the other humans."
Giggling softly, you thanked Hanna. "Thank you then. I don't have a right to have such cruel and misjudged opinions when I haven't gone through the same things. It's unfair."
"How very tolerant of you," Hanna said. She suddenly looked back down at the ground and told you quickly, "Miss, breakfast is ready. And I'm sorry about interrupting your walk."
"Really Hanna... A demon shouldn't be so below a fragile thing like a human like this. You must really love Alois," you remarked, following her into the house.
She hummed in agreement and stopped in front of the dining hall, opening the door for you. You flashed her a smile as you went to go join Alois for breakfast.


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In response to that critical need, The University of Texas at Arlington is one of 107 U.S. universities that have committed to the Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative (SMTI) developed by NASULGC, A Public University Association. SMTI institutions commit to increase substantially a diverse pool of highly qualified science and mathematics teachers in their states. Member institutions were announced Feb. 5.
"This program is significant because it allows each university to develop self-imposed goals and then create a matrix on how those goals would be met," said Donald R. Bobbitt, UT Arlington provost and vice president of academic affairs.
"UT Arlington set very high goals," Bobbitt said. "We committed to double the number of teaching graduates in science and math fields within the next 10 years."
Bobbitt said that President James D. Spaniolo and College of Education Dean Jeanne Gerlach are committed to achieving the goal. In 2008, the University had a total of 39 teaching graduates in science and math fields.
"We all agree that this initiative is critical for the future of the state of Texas and for the whole country," Bobbitt said.
One other University of Texas System institution, The University of San Antonio, also is participating in the program. Institutions will work with appropriate state agencies to identify their immediate and longer term needs for high school teachers. They will bolster partnerships among universities, school systems, state governments and other entities to address statewide needs and share best practices for the preparation of teachers.
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A Barack Obama administration proposed rule lays out for contractors the basic factors in safeguarding information systems that contain unclassified government data.
The administration's proposal would require a contract clause that would oblige the contractor to provide protective measures to information provided by or generated for the government. A system includes a public computer or website, or a system that transmits electronic information, as well as voice and fax data.
As a result, the rule would not allow companies to process government information on public computers. Instead, they have to opt for the best technology and processes with the greatest security to transmit information. The rule requires one physical lock and one electronic barrier to information as well as a cleansing of a media device's information before the device is released externally or disposed of.
The rule was published in the Federal Register on Aug. 24. The proposal would amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
This proposed rule applies to all federal contractors and appropriate subcontractors regardless of size or business ownership.
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Regulators also recognize that without the rule, the government would suffer reduced system performance and potential loss of valuable information.
"The cost of not using basic information technology system protection measures would be a significant detriment to contractor and government business," according to the proposal.
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Earlier this month I ran across an article in Freakonomics referencing a study that showed "wearing a white lab coat — a piece of clothing associated with care and attentiveness — improved performance on tests requiring close and sustained attention." The study's conclusion is that a person's perception of their clothing can affect their behavior.
If a person wearing a lab coat believes doing so will make them smarter, they will try harder or believe more in their own intelligence ... at least according to the study. So, if you give someone a badge and police uniform, will they feel more duty-bound to help others? If someone wears a suit, are they likely to act with more decorum than in jeans? And most importantly, if your staff sees their 'uniform' as being representative of a service-oriented brand, will they perform at a higher level?
Disney is a prime example of using your unique corporate culture to inspire your team to go beyond what is required. Disney prides itself on excellence in customer service and hiring the right fit. 'Cast members' aren't just hired for a job; they play a role in the customer experience. It's not just the actual characters, but every employee from Mickey to parking attendants.
Having a strong brand that represents your company's mission and values, then encouraging your staff to act on those values makes a difference. Not only to your diners but to your staff. At Disney, whether it is a tour leader for the Animal Kingdom or a waitress at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the employee has a unique 'uniform' and a nametag that identifies him or her as part of the Disney culture and experience.
Imagine if your front-of-house staff put on their 'blue polo with an embroidered logo' and smiled a little more brightly. Or if that yellow graphic tee meant they were just a little more patient and friendly.
To reach that type of uniform empowerment, first you need to take a look at your culture and brand. Uniforms should be designed around your culture, which should fit your clientele. If you run a sports bar, maybe it's referee-style shirts. Fine dining establishments tend toward black pants and white shirts. However, the more unique and branded the uniform, the more impact if should have on your staff.
Making 'brand believers' out of your staff should be an important part of your culture. If your employees aren't sold on the restaurant, why should diners be? The more engaged your employees are, the more improvement you see in retention, training ROI and most importantly the increased likelihood your diners have an exceptional experience.
Defining your culture around your brand empowers your team, and they are one of the most valuable resources you have. All it takes to make sure your team is 'dressed to impress,' is making sure that they believe in your restaurant, your brand and your culture. Inspire your team to be greater than just a job title.
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This woman dealt with the situation silently on her own. She was trying to make it bearable and decided to sacrifice her own sexual pleasure to have an, otherwise, wonderful man in her life. She reported that she rarely even self-satisfied with masturbation because her house was never quiet, with two young kids running around. This woman was starving for sexual satisfaction causing an underlying irritant that was affecting her whole life.
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Vodafone India, and Grow-Trees.com, the exclusive Indian Planting Partner for United Nation's Environment Program's Billion Tree Campaign, asked me to be a part of the formal launch of their joint initiative to create India's first private wildlife corridor. This corridor is being developed between Kanha-Pench wildlife reserves by planting 3,00,000 trees over a 3-year period. The trees will be planted over 100 hectares of forest land between the two reserves.
I was in middle of my Vogue Honours 2014 campaign, travelling to 9 states in a hunt for new talents in fashion institutes. This seemed like a welcome break and a fun trip to the greens of Madhya Pradesh. Getting to meet new people is one of the most amazing things you can do when out of home.
Surprisingly though I met my college class mate Rahul Nanda at the Airport travelling with me with Adfactors' Robin Abraham and Ankita Sinha, a travel blogger. Later during the trip we met Amrit Vatsa, founder of 3minutstories.com, Anusha, a trekker and Rusen who runs a SCR magazine.
It was so much amazing inside of a van enroute to the Kanha-Pench corridor. I have never seen so many people living their dreams. Entrepreneurs, explorers, influencers all in one. I can easily call myself the lowest denominator in a bus full of so much cool.
Anyways though, we got to know each other well through the 4 hours bus ride up and down each and learned about their work and what they plan to do and use their new media influence to promote the efforts by Vodafone & Grow-tree.
I thought I will share what all they created to promote the Grow Tree campaign:
Amrit Vatsa
Amrit has created this amazing film with interviews of Grow-trees CEO and the local MP Vodafone team.
Ankita Sinha
Ankita, the traveler share her experience as it happened. Her commentary of the events and the story of the locals will give you an idea on our trip, the #iPledgeATree program and the overall experience with the locals at Kanha-Pench corridor.
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Nanda is a friend since college. He is one of the most amazing people to hang out with and a brilliant person. He made some vines that show you almost everything we did in the greens.
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Anusha has such amazing stories, a former journalist, blogger, traveler, mountaineer, survival expert. Her stories make you a part of them. She was probably the only one of us who actually had the most relevant questions for the locals, vodafone team and the grow-tree team. She definitely packs a punch.
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Rusen, spoke about his experience and writing about CSR efforts of corporates like the one above.
All in all this was a tour where I met amazing people, Learned about jabalpur and Kanha-Pench reserve up-close, and got myself ready for an amazing trip that followed after i pledged a tree.


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Increased cancer mortality in diabetic people treated with insulin: a register-based follow-up study
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The national 10-year Development Programme for the Prevention and Care of Diabetes (DEHKO) was launched in Finland in 2000. The program focused on improving early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and preventing diabetes-related complications. The FinDM database was established for epidemiological monitoring of diabetes and its complications. This study monitors mortality trends among people with diabetes during the DEHKO programme.
A database obtained from a compilation of several administrative national health registers was used to study mortality in people with diabetes in 1998–2007. Relative excess mortality between people with and without diabetes was analyzed using Poisson regression models.
The number of diabetic people in Finland increased by 66% from 1997 reaching 284 832 in 2007. Like among non-diabetic people, all-cause mortality decreased in people with diabetes. Overall excess mortality remained high in people with diabetes; in 2003–2007 RRs in the non-insulin treated was 1.82 for men and 1.95 for women and in the insulin treated 3.45 and 4.29, and excess coronary heart disease mortality in the insulin treated: RR was 4.71 in men and 7.80 in women. A striking result was mortality from neoplasms; an increase in mortality emerged in almost every age group of insulin treated women.
Compared to non-diabetic people our monitoring showed declining excess mortality in non-insulin treated diabetic people mainly due to a decrease in mortality from cardiovascular diseases. For insulin treated, relative overall excess mortality remained unchanged and mortality from neoplasms increased among women.


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Half a movie at full price, the latest installment of J.K. Rowling's beloved boy-wizard saga lands with a dull thud of unresolved conflicts and logistical scaffolding. Much like last summer's underwhelming Half Blood Prince, Part 1 of Deathly Hallows doesn't even pretend to be a standalone film, existing solely to supply more laborious setup for next summer's final chapter.
It's become nearly impossible to review these last few Potter pictures, as they've clearly lost all interest in anybody who hasn't read the books. Jumping right into mid-sentence media res without the slightest bit of recap for us Muggles in the audience, Deathly Hallows assumes an intricate knowledge of Rowling's world.
Which I suppose is all well and good, since these books sold approximately a zillion copies. But if the books are truly as wonderful as y'all keep telling me they are, then it's tough not to see these films as a massive missed opportunity and almost complete artistic failure. Director David Yates conjures a pleasantly chilly atmosphere, playing up the smallness of our teen protagonists on the dank, oversized sets. Ralph Fiennes has malevolent, noseless presence as the dark Lord Voldemort, and just about every great actor in Britain gets to shuffle onscreen for a line or two.
And yet I still don't know what the hell they're talking about most of the time. Deathly Hallows is chock full of callbacks and plot points dating back to the earliest of the pictures, which some of us haven't seen in nearly a decade and, honestly, have no desire to revisit. A massive chunk of screen time here is devoted to Harry, Hermoine and Ron wandering through the woods feeling sorry for themselves, the teen-angst quotient cranked so high that at times I felt like I was watching a Twilight movie.
Sure, the fans love it. I spotted a few openly shedding tears over the demise of a character I can't recall even appearing in the last four movies. But these films have become illustrations instead of stories. Muggles need not apply.
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The 25-year-old is the second successive Leeds players to scoop the accolade following the success of Robert Snodgrass in September. Beckford has scored 11 goals in 14 league matches this season and last month fired a late winner against Norwich, grabbed two in the 4-0 win at Bristol Rovers and another on Saturday in the home victory over Yeovil. Meanwhile, Leeds' league clash with Swindon on November 14 is under threat with up to seven of United's first-team players possibly away on international duty. Robert Snodgrass (Scotland), on-loan Sam Vokes (Wales), Patrick Kisnorbo (Australia), Rui Marques (Angola), Bradley Johnson (USA), Lubo Michalik (Slovakia) and goalkeeper Alan Martin (Scotland Under-21s) could all earn call-ups for their respective countries. Leeds' league clash at Bristol Rovers, originally scheduled for October 10, was postponed for similar reasons and replayed last week.
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Paris is often thought of as one of the main fashion hubs in the world - alongside London, New York and Milan.
The city often holds fashion events throughout the year that brings all the big names of the industry under one roof for a brilliant show.
Later this month is no different as the prestigious Salon International de la Lingerie is returning to the city.
It is the focal point for lingerie fashion and all of the latest trends will be on show.
Visitors to Paris hotels will be able to look at works from the best designers in the world, as well as enjoying the catwalk shows during the event - running from 19th to 21st January.
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How you feel today is very much a result of how you spent your yesterday.
Maybe you do this too. I wake up in the morning and the first thing is to stumble into the kitchen to get that first cup of coffee. Around lunch time grab my Diet Dr. Pepper, and finally, late afternoon coffee again before I head home.
I don't like always feeling groggy in the morning and sluggish in the evening. I want to be that energetic mom for my kids. I want to feel refreshed.
I realize it's my own fault, but you know the old saying, 'if mama ain't nobody's happy.' I need to take better care of myself. There is so much I want to accomplish. I want to raise my kids to love and serve God. I want us to make a difference as a family. How are we going to do that if we are always tired? Life never slows down. My pastor recently said, "the biggest lie you can ever tell yourself is that life will slow down after this."
My mom emailed me an article that said, "How you feel today is very much a result of how you spent your yesterday."
It's not just for my kids that I want to be refreshed and energetic, I want to be that way too. Like you, I want to make a difference, but I have to be ready and alert for when the opportunity comes.
So to make tomorrow a better day, we have to have to impliment what they called, "a ritual of good healthy habits" today. I hate to give you another list but they make things easier.
Here is the stuff that you probably already know:
· Get more sleep
· No Caffeine after 3pm
· Eat smaller meals and drink mostly water throughout your day.
· Work out.
There were some new things that I saw:
· Eat a banana at breakfast. Researchers say you'll increase your energy 20% for two hours straight because it stimulates muscles, nerves, and brain cells to function at their peak.
· Get into the light. When you have breakfast, open the windows or sit outside. It wakes you up and makes you more alert.
· Pop in a stick of peppermint gum instead of that afternoon coffee or soda. It boosts your alertness within 3 minutes.
Our family deserves us to be more energetic and refreshed, you deserve it, and God does too. Tell me how you can impliment this today for a better tomorrow.
I don't know about your mom, but mine is always right.
My typical routine at night is after the kids go to sleep I call friends and family so I don't feel alone.
Last night, I called mom, and had one of those long talks. As we were about to hang up, she out of the blue says…"You know Amanda, you are free to be happy."
I cried. She reminded me that I made it through a valley recently. I may have little things to complain about at the end of the day. I may be tired, a little lonely and my kids may be "spirited", but I have the choice to be happy. You do too.
We are all free to be happy.
I am reminded every day about that life I want to lead by my baby girl, Zoe Grace. She's the third, I call her my "Exclamation Point!" She's a bold red head full of life.
Her first name, Zoe, means Abundant Life. Her middle name, Grace, means Unmerited Favor.
I want that Abundant Life that God has planned for us. It's a choice you can make everyday, not to dwell on the bad stuff. You are free to be happy! So smile!
At the end of the week we all have things we can complain about. Tell me what you have to be happy about.
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