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Progress report of 14 August 2013
Speaking at a press conference on 19 July where she presented her eight-point programme for better privacy protection, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel stated: "Germany is a land of freedom." In our society, security is also a fundamental value – freedom and security are two sides of the same coin. The Federal Government is conscious of its responsibility to protect the people of Germany from terrorist attacks, crime, and from the invasion of their privacy. In order to maintain the right balance between freedom and security, the relevant legislation has to be constantly revised and adjusted. Germany is part of a globalised world and maintains multiple and diverse international links. For historic reasons, different countries – with their different histories – vary in their views on what constitutes the correct balance between freedom and security. In response to recent events and their media coverage, our citizens are rightly demanding answers about the protection of their privacy. The Federal Government is taking their concerns seriously: it remains in close contact with the United States and other friendly states. Moreover, it will advocate higher standards of privacy protection at international level, whilst also giving appropriate consideration to national security and the needs of the business community. At national level, the Federal Government will consult with policy-makers and representatives of associations, the länder, science, the IT sector, and companies that use these technologies, to find ways of promoting the use of IT security products developed by trustworthy manufacturers. The following is a detailed list of the measures the Federal Government has taken since 19 July 2013 and is vigorously pursuing: 1) Cancellation of administrative agreements These agreements that were concluded between Germany and the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and France in 1968/1969 laid down a procedure whereby foreign authorities could request that data protected under the principle of privacy of correspondence, posts and telecommunication be passed on to them in the interest of the safety and security of their troops stationed in Germany. These requests had to be lodged with the Federal Office for the Protection or the Constitution or the Federal Intelligence Service. On behalf of the Federal Government, the Federal Foreign Office exchanged diplomatic notes with the United States of America and the United Kingdom on 2 August and with France on 6 August, whereby the respective administrative agreements were terminated by mutual consent. This also marked the successful conclusion of this part of the initiative that was begun by Federal Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich on 12 July 2013 during his trip to the United States.
Furthermore, the Federal Government is in favour of a declassification of the administrative agreements with the United States and France, so that this information can be made available to the public. The Federal Government had already achieved the declassification of the agreement with the UK in 2012. 2) Talks with the U.S. Talks with the U.S. to establish whether and to what extent data has been mined in Germany are continuing at expert level. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has set up a working unit for "NSA surveillance". Their findings will be reported to the Parliamentary Control Panel. The Federal Government is pursuing its dialogue with the U.S. authorities to secure answers to the questionnaire that has been submitted to the U.S.
The Federal Government responded to the first media reports about U.S. surveillance programmes immediately and commenced its investigations. From the outset, numerous channels have been used in pursuit of answers. The Federal Chancellor has held in-depth talks with President Obama on the subject, asking for the facts of the matter to be elucidated. To reinforce this political message, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and Minister of Justice Sabine LeutheusserSchnarrenberger have made similar requests to their respective counterparts, Secretary of State John Kerry and Attorney General Eric Holder. In the various discussions he has held with Vice-President Biden and others, Federal Minister of the Interior Friedrich has been pressing for answers in the interest of transparency. Other talks have been held at expert level. Furthermore, back at the beginning of June, the Federal Ministry of the Interior submitted a questionnaire to the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. These initiatives have been key in ensuring that the matter is investigated further. The U.S. side has now stated that its actions are in line with German and U.S. law. Neither the Federal Government, nor the operators of large internet exchange points in Germany have any evidence that the U.S. is conducting activities to intercept data on German soil. The EU-U.S. Working Group will continue to pursue its investigations. Following the talks Federal Minister of the Interior Friedrich held in Washington in July 2013, the U.S. have launched a large-scale declassification process so that parts of the U.S. data collection programme can be revealed to the public. Talks about this process are continuing, not least at expert level. At the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, work has begun on a "Special evaluation of U.S., UK and French technical intelligence services" activities pertaining to Germany". Under the chairmanship of the authority"s Vice President, experts from across the different Directorates-General have formed an interdisciplinary working group to investigate these matters.
The Federal Government has been reporting its findings to the Parliamentary Control Panel (in its meetings on 12 and 26 June, 16 and 25 July, and on 12 August 2013) and will continue to do so. The relevant Bundestag Committees have also been informed. 3) UN Agreement on Data Protection At international level, the Federal Government is advocating negotiations for an Optional Protocol to Article 17 of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 19 December 1966. Under Article 17, "no one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence". The Optional Protocol to this Article would provide for privacy protection in the digital sphere. On 19 July 2013, Federal Minister of Justice Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Federal Foreign Minister Westerwelle wrote to their respective counterparts in the EU Member States to suggest an initiative for better privacy protection in the digital sphere. This initiative involves drawing up an Optional Protocol to Article 17 of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 19 December 1966 to ensure that no arbitrary or unlawful interference with a person"s privacy, family, home or correspondence occurs. As part of the Federal Government"s effort to promote this initiative, Federal Foreign Minister Westerwelle presented it at the meeting of the External Relations Council on 22 July and at the meeting of the four Foreign Ministers of German-speaking countries on 26 July 2013. The Federal Minister of Justice will be raising the matter at the meeting of the four Ministers of Justice of German-speaking countries on 25 and 26 August. The motivation behind the initiative is to enshrine digital civic rights in international law. Furthermore, at the margins of the informal meeting of Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs on 18 and 19 July, Federal Minister of the Interior Friedrich made a proposal for a Digital Rights Charter for data protection. This autumn, the Federal Ministry of the Interior will be tabling specific proposals, which, following discussions within the Member States and subsequent harmonisation, will be available for discussion at all international levels. 4) General Data Protection Regulation Germany is a driving force for the work on a General Data Protection Regulation at European level. The Federal Government is in favour of introducing a provision that will require companies to inform the authorities whenever data is passed on to third countries. France and Germany have launched a joint initiative to this effect.
On 31 July 2013, the Federal Government submitted a proposal for EU legislation that would require companies that submit data to authorities in third countries to report such steps and seek prior approval for them. The regulatory proposal envisages that in the future, the transmission of data to third countries will have to be subject either to the strict procedures of legal and administrative assistance (always in the field of criminal law), or to advance permission by the data protection authorities. Moreover, the Federal Government reiterates the call for an immediate evaluation of the Safe Harbour system, which the two lead Ministers in the area of data protection, Minister of the Interior Friedrich and Minister of Justice Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger had already voiced alongside with France, at the informal meeting of Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs on 19 July 2013. The Federal Government is seeking to include safeguards in the General Data Protection Regulation, which – in line with the principles of Safe Harbour – will provide for suitably high standards for certification systems in third countries. The intention is to create a legal framework that will ensure that companies which operate within systems like Safe Harbour firmly commit to certain minimum standards for the protection of personal data and that their compliance with these standards is monitored in an effective way. Moreover, the Federal Government is in favour of convening special meetings at expert level in September where the Member States could debate on future rules on the transmission of data to third countries and also look at the German proposal. This way, the Ministers could make the necessary political decisions as soon as October. 5) Joint standards for intelligence services The Federal Government advocates joint standards for the foreign intelligence services of EU Member States, to be drawn up by the Member States. The Federal Government advocates for joint standards for the foreign intelligence services of EU Member States, to be drawn up by the Member States. The Federal Government has asked the Federal Intelligence Service to draw up a draft proposal. The Federal Intelligence Service has responded to this request by inviting representatives of its EU counterparts to a first meeting. Furthermore, there are plans for an agreement with the United States, based on the following principles on which oral agreement has already been reached with the U.S.: No violations of each other"s national interests; No spying on each other; No industrial espionage;
No violations of the respective law of the land.
6) European IT Strategy The Federal Government is working with the EU Commission to develop an ambitious IT strategy at European level. This strategy must be based upon an analysis of the system capabilities that are currently lacking in Europe. Its aim is to strengthen European companies so that they have the capabilities to develop innovative solutions that can give both Germany and Europe a competitive advantage as centres for business. Such solutions are also needed in order to ensure secure internet use. Europe needs successful providers of web-based business models. The Federal Government is providing support for German business and science so that they can broaden their expertise in key information and communication technologies. This support is targeted at hardware and software development, particularly in the area of internet technologies. Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Dr Philipp Rösler is currently involved in close dialogue with the business community and research institutes in the interests of conducting an unbiased analysis that seeks to identify the strengths and weaknesses of Germany/Europe as an IT base and to pinpoint strategic fields of action to ensure for a European ICT strategy that is fit for the future. A key point of such a strategy would be to encourage young entrepreneurs to set up new companies, and the Young Digital Economy advisory council at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology is developing specific recommendations for action on how the Government can foster entrepreneurship and IT start-ups in the digital economy. Federal Minister for Education and Research, Prof. Johanna Wanka, remains committed to ensuring that the areas of privacy, IT, and cyber security are given greater attention within Horizon 2020. The Federal Government is to develop key elements for an ambitious national and European ICT strategy and is to bring these to the discussion at European level. Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Dr Philipp Rösler has already made contact with the European Commissioner in charge in order to compile an agenda in preparation for the meetings that are to take place at expert level shortly. The discussions will not only focus on solutions for secure data communication, e.g. for secure cloud computing, but will also revolve around opportunities for better cooperation between the young digital economy and established industries. The working groups of Federal Government"s National IT Summit are assisting with the drafting of a joint European ICT strategy. Initial results will be presented at the National IT Summit to be held on 10 December 2013. In addition, the Federal Government is pushing for the bundling of measures aimed at improving cyber security in the European Union and is calling for effective implementation of the cyber security strategy that has been presented by the European Commission and the
European External Action Service. The proposed measures are designed to maintain industrial and technical resources for cyber security in Europe, to boost the internal market for IT security products and to foster research and development in the area of IT security as well as strengthen the competitiveness and credibility of the IT security industry. 7) Round Table on IT security technology A Round Table on IT security technology composed of representatives from politics, research institutes and the private sector will be implemented at national level. The Federal Office for Information Security will provide expert support to panel the members representing the policy-making side. One of the aims of the Round Table will be to establish better policy conditions in Germany which are also especially favourable for producers of security technology. Federal IT Commissioner and State Secretary Cornelia Rogall-Grothe has sent out invitations to the Round Table, which is to be held at the beginning of September. The outcome of this meeting will provide policy-makers with important input for the next parliament and will also be discussed at the National Cyber Security Council. The results of the discussions will also be fed into the Federal Government"s National IT Summit process. The Round Table is being convened in order to make Germany more independent in the area of ICT. It will be bringing together representatives from politics, associations, the länder, science, IT companies and companies using IT technologies for discussions on issues including funding for IT security measures as an indirect means of boosting the market, possibilities of how government can steer and pool demand for innovative IT security products and foster research in this area, as well as possible ways of better serving the national interest in public procurement of ICT – within the bounds of EU procurement law. The idea for a new IT investment programme, which would promote the development of IT security technology by making use of this technology in the IT and electronic communications systems of the Federal authorities, will also be brought to the table. Furthermore, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research provides funding for three scientific centres of excellence for cyber security, whose "Security by Design" report, which provides important input for future research and development, was recently presented to the National Council for Cyber Security. 8) "Deutschland sicher im Netz" [Germany securely online] The "Deutschland sicher im Netz" Association will be scaling up its work to inform and educate both the general public and businesses about how to best protect their data. "Deutschland sicher im Netz. e.V." was launched in 2006 as part of the Federal Government"s IT Summit and operates under the patronage of Federal Minister of the
Interior Friedrich. The Federal Government has now stepped up its co-operation with the association and supports its work of distributing information material and running awareness-raising campaigns. New so-called "commitments for action" are about to be drawn up by the members of the association and its advisory council. At the last meeting of the National Council for Cyber Security on 1 August 2013, the Federal Ministries agreed to consider co-operation with the association on future awarenessraising campaigns. Furthermore, the Federal Office for Information Security is further expanding its successful co-operation with the association by increasing its online information services, which are available at: www.bsi-fuer-buerger.de. The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, in its work to raise the issue of IT security, is targeting small and medium-sized companies in particular. A compilation of useful information on the secure use of ICT is available at: www.it-sicherheit-in-derwirtschaft.de. In addition, the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection has long been actively supporting projects seeking to provide consumers with information about data protection online, particularly on secure surfing and data protection in social networks: www.verbraucher-sicher-online.de, www.surfer-haben-Rechte.de;www.watchyourweb.de. Other legislation under review In the interest of better protection of the citizens' personal data, the Federal Government will also be reviewing the existing legislation pertaining to telecommunications and IT security for any need for amendments and to establish how to promote the use of secure ICT technology so that members of the public and companies can communicate securely in private. Under the Telecommunications Act, foreign security agencies are banned from accessing telecommunications data collected in Germany. Should these agencies require such data from Germany, they have to lodge a request for mutual legal assistance with the German authorities, which will examine the request and instruct the network operators to act accordingly. Transmitting data collected in Germany to foreign security services without such authorisation is an offence punishable by fine. The Federal Government is currently reviewing the need for stronger data protection and IT security standards for telecommunications companies. As part of this review, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology is having the relevant provisions of the Telecommunications Act reviewed in the light of recent developments. The Federal Network Agency and the Federal Office for Information Security are jointly reviewing the existing security requirements to see whether there is a need for adjustment. Companies and the general public alike can increase their levels of protection against spying by making more use of IT security technology to protect their personal and corporate data. The Federal Government will be looking into possibilities of fostering this and will be raising the matter during the upcoming negotiations for an IT Security Act.


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Motorcycle Sales Made Easy is not only a great guide to selling motorcycles, it also applies to anyone in sales who finances their product. It is full of great tips mixed with an incredible outlook both in sales and in life. This book can change and rearrange your attitude, as well as your selling techniques.
"Great infomation"
For three decades, Steve Lemco has been hiring and training new and existing motorcycle salespeople with tremendous success. One day, Steve was talking to one of his favorite clients about the fact that he was going to retire soon. His friend said that he should write a book about the amazing system he developed over the years. Steve took his advice and here it is. Steve begins with getting prepared for the responses from the help wanted ad. He shares the ad that has worked super for him.
"Very dated sales style from decades ago"
Even though this book is written more for the beginner automobile salesperson, top salespeople will still benefit tremendously from hearing it. Steve Lemco has spent 40 years in the sales game. Steve has been hiring and training salespeople for 30 of those years with tremendous success. From the young to the old to new salespeople or the seasoned pros, this book is a road map to making automobile sales easy. Steve makes it easy for the salesperson and easy for the customer.
"Great Sales Book"
Trivia with a Twist has hundreds of facts in it that many people have wondered about. The best part is that several times throughout the book, the trivia is told with comedy. Many solved mysteries and hundreds of smiles await the listener.
Just like the first two trivia books, Steve Lemco's Trivia with a Twist 3 has hundreds of facts in it that many people have wondered about all their lives. The best part of the book just might be that several times throughout the book, the triviality is told with comedy. Many solved mysteries and hundreds of smiles await the listener. Learning and laughing is a great combination for the brain and soul. May you learn and laugh a lot and have a brighter day because of it.
Trivia with a Twist 2 provides the same great trivia facts along with the many humorous lines that author Steve Lemco injects in. Trivia with a Twist 2 has hundreds of facts in it that many people have wondered about all their lives. The best part of the book just might be that several times throughout the book, the triviality is told with comedy. Many solved mysteries and hundreds of smiles await the listener. Learning and laughing is a great combination for the brain and soul.
When Steve first wrote You Gotta-Wanna, it swept through the motorcycle business and is hailed as one of the best sales and motivational books ever written. It is not just a sales book. It is a book about life and the attitude we all should have. It is a road map to contentment and a perfect guide to sales success. It truly is a must-hear, even if you are not in sales.
"XLNT life advice for anyone"
I tell the true stories of how Joe Walsh and I became friends, from the James Gang to the Eagles with Barnstorm in between. There were many obstacles to overcome in meeting Joe, but a path was laid before me by an LSD premonition I had when I was a teenager. You will believe in it, as I most certainly do.
Have you ever done something wrong and felt bad about it afterward? Before you did the deed, did you know that it was wrong to do, but you did it anyway? Do you think you might repeat the same mistake? If these things are true, then you are going through the war between flesh and spirit. It can be an ongoing war that you will be battling your entire life. Yet it is this war that just might save your soul. The important thing to know is that God still loves a sinner.
"Powerful Book of truth and wonderment's."
I Opened My Eyes and Then I Saw is a fun book to use when teaching young children the names of different things. Told in rhyme, it is a fun time.
I Want to Be a Monkey is a fun and entertaining way of sharing time and knowledge with young people. All children dream of being different things. Many of those things are subjects in this book. So do they want to be a monkey? I think so :)
This audiobook contains four fun children's stories that adults can enjoy, too.
"Really good wholesome stories."
Crossing the USA is a very fun way to learn about our states. It has engaging rhymes. Children should really enjoy their time spent with this book. Even better when parents listen to it with them.
I Want to Be a Tree is a fun and goofy way of spending time with the little ones. They should enjoy the short poems in the book.
One Stuffed Animal is a very cute and fun way of learning to count to 10. Told in rhyme, this book could very well be your children's favorite counting book.
"Great performance!"
Happiness Is Free is a simple plan for and guide to dealing with all the unpleasant things that happen to us all. Life can be bitter, and we all have scars, but this does not mean we can't enjoy the day. Time is the gift of life. It can never be replaced even if you are a king or a queen, a movie star, or the wealthiest person on earth. We all have the ability to have smiles in our hearts regardless of the dog poop piles that we have stepped in along our lives' journeys and the ones that lie ahead of us in the future.
Sylvia and Charlie is a story of true everlasting friendship. Charlie befriends Sylvia in her time of need only for her to do the same for him. A very heartwarming story.
When bitter King Rupert makes Herman the Wizard cast a spell on a frog pond, strange happenings take place. You see, frogs are the happiest of all creatures, and the king hates it when others are happy when he is not. The spell makes all the frogs miserable because now they wish for things that they were always content to live without. But only one wish comes true and this makes the other frogs very mad.
"Happy as a frog!"
Life at the Bus Stop explains a great way to think and feel while living life. As Steve puts it, we will feel how we think. If you think about what you don't have, you will have nothing. If you think about what you do have, you will have everything. Life is short, but it does not have to be bitter; it can be as sweet as honey. Steve's words of wisdom are easy to understand because they are so true, but it does take the commitment that you want to be happy. If you do that and then listen to this book, your life and inner happiness will change forever.
"A great feel good book with make sense advice"
Steve Lemco has been writing since age 12. He put his 19 best poems and songs in this book. From political to humor to deep love feelings, you should enjoy this trip down his memory lane.

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Notes: Breaking up sucks. Here's to escapism! I got a bit tired of Laharl and Flonne, so instead it's another pairing I don't like at all and hate writing about.
You know, one day, to make up for all this, I'll write the absolute most depressing and grimdark Disgaea fic ever. Just you wait.
It was safe to say that Mao's private library was so large it was absurd. Of course, it was safe to say that most things about Mao were pretty absurd. Still, in an almost-infinite plane of the Netherworld which consisted entirely of the school which he was now the Dean and Overlord of, Mao's city-sized library stood out as ridiculous, even more so when one considered that Mao had perfectly memorized the location of every single book within it. This was made even more impressive by the library's...non-standard method of organization. Which is to say that everything was scattered about at random. Technically, anyone was allowed into the library, but most stayed away, for fear of becoming lost for all eternity wandering between the bookshelves. And, this being an Overlord's library, there was no guarantee that none of the books weren't both sentient and actively malevolent.
Which is why it surprised Mao to hear a familiar female voice calling his name from somewhere over by the spot where he'd left Overlord Zetta's autobiographical manga. He sped over to the source of the voice, annoyed. "Can't you see I'm very busy, Beryl?"
All Raspberyl could see was that Mao had a sticky note stuck to his head, so she wisely chose not to comment. She tried to avoid his eyes as she replied, "This'll only take a second, Mao. I need a book and I don't know where to find it."
Mao sighed. This was seriously cutting into the time he'd set aside to read Tears of a Steel Moon, a story about a secret agent trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons joining forces with a team of schoolgirls with magic powers trying to save the world from a vaguely evil legion of bad guys. For science, of course. "Can't this wait?"
Raspberyl shook her head vehemently. "I really need help, Mao! Please?"
And for whatever reason, she looked up at him as she said this, and Mao could see, just for a second before she turned her head away again, that she looked like she had been crying. She was breathing heavily. Could she be sick?
And because Mao didn't like seeing his friends unhappy, he agreed. "Okay, okay. I'll help you. What book do you need?"
"I need Big Bub's Guide to Medical Stuff."
"B. Z. Bub?"
Mao scoffed. "What do you want that for? I thought you already knew about medicine from volunteering at the hospital."
"Well..." Raspberyl said nervously. "Someone's having some symptoms I've never seen before. I just want to learn about it on my own."
Mao shrugged. So that was it: she was probably all bent out of shape caring over someone else who was sick. "Whatever. I'll go get it."
It only took him about five minutes to find the book (it had been wedged in between Beyond Good and Evil and What Do Demons Do All Day?) and get it back to Raspberyl. "Here you go. So, who's sick?"
Raspberyl took the book from him gratefully, though not without some difficulty, as it was about as large as she was. "Oh, uh, no one you know. Thanks, Mao. I'll get it back to you soon!"
"Whatever," said Mao as he walked away. There was research to be done.
And that night, research was what Raspberyl was doing. It took her a while, since the symptoms she was experiencing were common in a lot of problems.
Periodic shortness of breath, increase in temperature, inability to meet a certain person's gaze, increased heart rate... Raspberyl tried to recount them all, and was horrified when she arrived at the result.
"The T-Virus?" she yelled aloud. "Oh, wait," she said as she read further. Apparently that one also required bleeding from the eyes for a diagnosis, and her eyes felt fine. That couldn't be it. And that left only one possible solution.
Most of the text was written in the usual style of a medical guide, except for this one entry, with Dr. Bub's typed-out technical language dropped in favor of a hand-written page dotted with hearts and rainbows, which simply read "You're in love, you idiot. Try holding hands."
"Well," said Raspberyl huffily as she shut the book, "that was just uncalled for."
Having taken a few days to prepare herself, Raspberyl now had the perfect plan. She adjusted her new clothes and called out Mao's name.
Within a few seconds, he was in front of her. It had only been recently that she'd started to notice a few things about him, and only now that she could stand to really look closely that she could appreciate them. His hair was always unkempt, but never dirty, and it spoke of how he dedicated he was to something he put his mind to. The sticky notes helped in that respect too, in their own way. And his face was so expressive...even when he was expressing anger and wicked delight, which were probably some of his most common emotions. Of course, right now it was expressing one of his rarer moods: confusion.
"Um, Beryl?"
"Yeah, Mao?"
"Why are you dressed like a ninja?"
Of course, the real reason was that the mask concealed her face, so Mao couldn't see her furious blushing. "It's a...learning experience."
"Uh huh," said Mao pensively. "And the sunglasses?"
So she could look at him without him looking directly at her, which would have made her faint. "It's bright out."
"We're inside," Mao pointed out. "And it's night."
"It's for developing darkvision."
"Right. What did you want?"
Raspberyl handed him back the book she'd borrowed. "Just giving this back. And I have something for you as a thank you." She handed him the small basket she'd brought over. "I made it myself!"
Mao tossed the book over his shoulder and peered into the basket. There was a large, heart-shaped chocolate inside. He stared at it for a while before responding. "Why?"
"I thought you might like it," said Raspberyl, hoping her voice didn't show how nervous she was that he wouldn't take it. After a while, he reached out and took a bite out of it.
"I do," he said thoughtfully. "It's not bad. Don't you want some?"
"N-no!" Raspberyl cried, a little more loudly than she'd intended. If she took her mask off to eat, she wouldn't be able to talk to him like this. "I had some earlier! That one's for you!"
"Hm," he said. They were quiet for a bit, and then Mao turned away. "Hey, Beryl. Were you sick?"
"Um...kinda. I guess. Why?"
"What was wrong with you?"
"Well...why do you want to know?"
Mao brought a hand up to his forehead. "I don't know. All of a sudden, I feel like I'm getting warmer...think my heart's beating faster, too. Dammit, were you contagious?"
"I hope so," Raspberyl said, before she could stop it. "I mean-" and then she wisely decided it would be a good time to run away.
"What was that?" yelled Mao. "Treason! Sedition! Heresy!" he yelled as he started to chase her around the library. When he caught up to her, he grabbed her and threatened, "You listen, Beryl, if you made me sick, then so help me I'll-"
And then, in his annoyance, he pulled down Raspberyl's ninja cowl and sunglasses. In her shock, she didn't even register what was happening, taking a few seconds to realize that not only was she looking directly into Mao's eyes, they were only a few inches from her own.
She would have passed out entirely, but before she could, Mao jerked away and spun around. He looked like he was fuming, but Raspberyl just made out a hint of redness in his face. "Great," he muttered, "for some reason, when I look at your eyes, it gets worse. You really did make me sick!"
"Maybe..." she said softly, "well...the book said there was a way to make it better."
"Yeah?" he said, not turning.
Raspberyl stood next to him and cautiously took his hand in hers. Small as Mao was, he still towered over her, so she actually had to wrap his hand around her own. He didn't react.
"Is it helping?" she asked.
It took a while, but eventually he responded, "Yeah."
They stood there for about a minute, not looking at one another, before he spoke again. "Does this cure it?"
"The book said there's no cure. This kind of thing just helps the symptoms."
Mao nodded sagely. "Good enough."


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SACRAMENTO — Police Sgt. Peter Sarna's law enforcement career was advanced to lieutenant by Oakland's former mayor, then he proceeded to the state Attorney General's Office when Jerry Brown was elected California's top cop.
But his promising career and $132,000-a-year job ended with a car crash at 12:45 a.m. Aug. 10 in Walnut Creek while Sarna appeared to be driving under the influence, which led him to quit Friday.
"He offered to resign, and we accepted his resignation," said Brown spokesman GarrethLacy, who declined further comment.
Sarna expressed regret in his resignation to the Justice Department but said he made a mistake and accepts the consequences. Sarna could not be reached Monday for comment.
Sarna's state-owned 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe collided with a tow truck while trying to pass on the eastbound Highway 24 Ygnacio Valley Road exit in Walnut Creek, said California Highway Patrol Sgt. Les Bishop, a spokesman for the Golden Gate Division.
Officers said Sarna appeared intoxicated but refused a request for a field-sobriety test.
"The officer took him into custody and brought him to the CHP's Martinez office for a breath test," said Sgt. Les Bishop of the California Highway Patrol. "Based on the test results, Sarna was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence."
He was issued a citation for a misdemeanor DUI and was then released.
No one was injured in the crash, which heavily damaged the state car. Repair or totaling of his SUV may come at taxpayers' expense.
Sarna remained on administrative leave with the Justice Department for about a week during investigation of the incident.
Sarna, a 37-year-old Clayton resident who commuted to work in Sacramento, had been in law enforcement for 16 years.
While Brown was mayor, Sarna headed special operations, including gang-suppression efforts. He'd taken on similar responsibilities at a statewide level.
Sarna, as a sergeant, was among a select few Brown asked to respond to a domestic dispute involving former Brown confidant Jacques Barzaghi in July 2004. Barzaghi was fired later that year amid sexual abuse allegations and other charges.
In January 2005, Sarna was promoted to lieutenant. In January, Brown named Sarna deputy director of the Justice Department's Law Enforcement Division, where he helped oversee hundreds of department investigators and other employees.
Sarna had a reputation in the department and community of being a confidant of Brown.
MediaNews staff writer Malika Fraley contributed to this story.
Contact Steve Geissinger at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Autumn brings startling perspective and talent to the literary space on the page and at the mic at the October Sunday Salon! We're excited to welcome four remarkable writers with new novels, short stories, and poetry. Join us at our current venue, Von Bar at 3 Bleecker St. (It's super cool.) At 7pm.
Michael Hawley's short stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Boston Review, The New Yorker, Post Road …
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LocalBitcoins.com is one of the most popular exchanges in the UK.
You can buy or sell bitcoins direct with people via your bank account.
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Where to Buy Bitcoins
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