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Susanne Posel
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January 7, 2014
The US National Weather Service (NWS) has warned that winter storms are "deceptive killers" because exposure to extreme cold temperatures can lead to hypothermia and frostbite.
Seth Podolsky, emergency room doctor for the Cleveland Clinic, said : "Prevention really is key. The more time and the more skin exposed, the worse it is."
Hypothermia occurs when the body temperature falls below 35 degrees Celsius. Although a human can survive, there will be irrevocable damage to the liver, kidneys and pancreas.
Warning signs of hypothermia include:
• Uncontrollable shivering
• Memory loss
• Disorientation
• Incoherence
• Slurred speech
• Drowsiness
• Apparent exhaustion
Frostbite occurs when extreme cold damages the skin and underlying tissues on the part of the body farthest from the central warm core. Those areas will lose sensation, turn white or black and die.
Body parts affected by frostbite are:
• Fingers
• Toes
• Ear lobes
• Tip of the nose
Recommended ways to protect against frostbite include:
- Get into a warm room
- Put the affected area in warm — not hot! — water, or warm using body heat (such as putting a frostbitten hand in your armpit)
- Do not rub the area! This may damage it further
- Don't use heating pads or other artificial heat sources to warm frostbitten areas — since the tissues are numb, you might accidentally burn yourself without knowing it
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state that having an "emergency cold kit" full of supplies such as extra batteries (batteries drain faster in the cold), extra blankets and/or sleeping bags, a fire extinguisher, carbon monoxide detector would help residents in affected areas remain safe.


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This is the terrifying moment a balaclava-clad robber brandished a gun at staff in a Sandwich travel agency.
Pointing the weapon at two shocked women, he was one of two raiders who targeted Thomas Cook in King Street.
The robbers forced the women to hand over money before fleeing towards Short Street.
Detectives believe the men, who were wearing high-visibility tabards, were in the town for several hours before the robbery on Monday morning.
Now they have released these CCTV images in a bid to trace witnesses.
DC Tom Wilson, from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said: "The men may have been in the town since 6.30am. Perhaps they were seen by people on their way to catch a train and going to work."
The pair entered the King Street premises at about 10am. One of the men had a gun and pointed it at the two female staff members.
The women were forced to hand over money - both cash in various currencies and travellers' cheques.
Kent Police said the workers were left "very shocked" by the robbery and one was taken to the QEQM Hospital, in Margate, for a check-up.
The men are described as black and one was taller than the other. They had balaclavas over their faces and dark sports bags over their shoulders.
One of the men was wearing a white hooded top and dark trousers. The other was wearing a dark hooded top and trousers. His gloves did not match as one was red.
Anyone with information is asked to phone Kent Police on 01303 289353 or 101, giving reference number ZY/35204/12. Kent Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Which do you prefer?
Also, any middle name suggestions for Olive would be really helpful!
I love Olive but not Matilda so Olive Matilda gets my vote. Some other ideas:
Olive Clementina
Olive Theodora
Olive Amandine
Olive Josephine
Olive Lorelei
Olive Adelaide
Olive Isadora
Olive Ursula
Olive Genevieve
Oooh, I love BOTH of these!
Olive Matilda is really pretty, but my one hindrance would be the popularity of Olivia. Matilda Olive is equally as beautiful, but Matilda is nowhere near as popular.
That's a hard one! I think I prefer Olive Matilda
Olive Tallulah
Olive Simone
Olive Noelle
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Nico Hulkenberg clocked up 74 laps in the VJM07.
Andrew Green, Technical Director: "The final day in Bahrain saw a continuation of yesterday's work improving the car balance, collecting tyre data, and some long runs. Our programme ended slightly early with a suspected component failure, which was a result of high mileage, and so we didn't manage to complete our target number of laps. Nonetheless our time in Bahrain has gone largely to plan with the mileage achieved during the previous three days leaving us in good shape going into Melbourne. We're feeling positive about our reliability and have explored some encouraging directions for improving car performance. The other focus has been on our race readiness and we've done a great deal of homework to prepare the drivers for the challenge that awaits them in Melbourne."
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July 7, 1999
East Lansing, Mich. - Five Michigan State University student-athletes have been recognized for excellence both on the playing field and in the classroom and have earned the school's highest athletic awards for the 1998-99 school year.
The awards include the George Alderton Male and Female Athletes of the Year, the Big Ten Conference Medals of Honor, the Chester Brewer Leadership Award and the Dr. James Feurig Achievement and Service Award.
Basketball player Mateen Cleaves (Flint) and hockey player Mike York (Waterford) have been named co-winners of the George Alderton Male Athlete of the Year award, marking just the third time since 1982 that co-recipients have been selected. Softball player Carrie Carpenter (Dearborn Heights) takes home the top two honors for women, the Alderton Female Athlete of the Year and the Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor.
Cross country and track and field standout Steve Schell (Dearborn) is the male recipient of the Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor, while field hockey player Melissa Pryor (Ann Arbor) is the recipient of the Chester Brewer Leadership Award and the Dr. James Feurig Achievement and Service Award.
(Presented to the top female athlete of 1998-99)
(Presented to a male and female student-athlete at each conference institution for outstanding athletic and academic achievement)
WINNER: Carrie Carpenter (Softball)
Senior Carrie Carpenter saved the best for last, turning in a career year in her final season as a Spartan. The centerfielder was second on the team with a career-high .344 batting average, good for seventh on the MSU single-season chart. A four-year starter, Carpenter led the Spartans with a .380 average in conference play to become just the eighth player in school history to earn first-team All-Big Ten honors.
The Dearborn Heights native guided the Spartans to 41-23 overall record, the third most wins in program history, and a fourth-place finish in the Big Ten with a 13-9 mark. She helped MSU advance to the NCAA Regional Finals in just its second NCAA appearance ever. Carpenter helped lead MSU to more wins (159) than any other class in the 26-year history of Spartan softball.
A second-team All-Great Lakes Region honoree, Carpenter stole 23 bases in 1999 to rank second on the seasonal chart. She ended her career as MSU's all-time leader in that category with 60 steals. Carpenter also proved to be a stellar defensive player, running down numerous balls in the outfield and committing just one error in 95 chances in 1999.
Carpenter ranks among MSU's all-time leaders in games played (231/2nd), batting average (.286/8th), at bats (549/T-6th), hits (157/T-7th), runs (98/T-2nd), walks (47/8th) and sacrifices (43/2nd).
Carpenter carries a 3.64 cumulative grade-point average in family community services. She garnered GTE Academic All-America Softball first team honors, as well as Academic All-Big Ten and GTE Academic All-District IV recognition.
PAST WINNERS - ALDERTON FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: 1998-Jill Lusher (field hockey); 1997-Sevatheda Fynes (track & field); 1996-Val Sterk (volleyball); 1995-Karen Winslow (soccer); 1994-Susan Francis (track & field); 1993-Jodi Blotcher (gymnastics); 1992-Misty Allison (cross country/track & field); 1991-Julie Farrell-Ovenhouse (swimming & diving); 1990-Julie Farrell (swimming & diving); 1989-Julie Farrell (swimming & diving); 1988-Michelle Ingalls (gymnastics); 1987-Odessa Smalls (track & field); 1986-Mary Schoenle (swimming & diving); 1985-Kelly Becker (volleyball); 1984-Deanne Moore (softball); 1983-Judi Brown (track & field); 1982-Molly Brennan (track & field).
BIG TEN CONFERENCE MEDAL OF HONOR - RECENT FEMALE WINNERS: 1998-Melissa Pryor (field hockey); 1997-Val Sterk (volleyball); 1996-Patti Raduenz (softball); 1995-Laura Bell (cross country/track & field); 1994-Laura Bell (cross country/track & field); 1993-Ruth Aguayo (gymnastics); 1992-Misty Allison (cross country/track & field); 1991-Emily Coatney (soccer); 1990-Eileen Shea (basketball); 1989-Mary Schoenle (swimming & diving); 1988-Kim Hartwick (gymnastics); 1987-Lisa Marino (golf); 1986-Julie Polakowski (basketball); 1985-Kelly Belanger (basketball); 1984-Anne Pewe (cross country/track & field); 1983-Karen Wells (basketball); 1982-Lisa Speaker (golf).


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Harrington Memorial Hospital today announced that Edward H. Moore will be joining the Hospital as Chief Executive Officer.
Harrington Memorial, based in Southbridge, Massachusetts, is a 113-bed hospital serving 17 towns in South Central Massachusetts and Northeastern Connecticut. The Hospital is governed by a volunteer board compromised of community leaders.
Mr. Moore will join the Hospital effective July 30, 2007. He is an experienced healthcare leader who brings more than thirty years of management and operational experience across both community and teaching hospitals. In 2004, he joined MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, as its Chief Operating Officer. Following the hospitals acquisition by Vanguard Health Systems, he was appointed as interim Chief Executive Officer. He was subsequently asked to become Administrator/Chief Operating Officer of the 140-bed Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, Massachusetts, also a Vanguard hospital.
At Leonard Morse, Mr. Moore had full profit and loss responsibility and increased volume through the creation of new programs, such as bariatric surgery and pain management. Under his direction, the Hospital recruited 30 physicians and also created a full-service hospitalist program.
Were delighted that Mr. Moore has elected to join our organization, noted Hamer Clarke, Chairman of the Board of Harrington Memorial Hospital. He brings a wealth of experience in managing and growing outstanding community hospitals, and we look forward to his leadership of Harrington Memorial Hospital.
Finding top healthcare leadership talent is always a challenge, according to Alan Peppel, Chairman of Harrington Memorial Hospital Search Committee. We were fortunate that we were able to establish early an effective process to vet our needs and to identify some truly outstanding candidates. Mr. Moore was clearly the best of those candidates, and were extremely pleased he has accepted our offer.
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Helen Brown on a fictional portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The last time most people saw Elizabeth Barrett Browning's name in print was probably at a wedding. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" is always a safe choice of nuptial verse.
It's easy to forget that the doe-eyed and spaniel-ringletted woman who wrote such romantic lines was also a subversive.
The Barrett family fortune came from Jamaican sugar plantations, and when slavery was abolished in 1834, their income was severely reduced.
Elizabeth's beloved brother Sam was sent out to manage the Barretts' plantation in the late 1830s, and was said to have been particularly abusive to the "freed" slaves who cut cane for the pittance he paid.
Yet Elizabeth was a devout abolitionist, deeply troubled by the suffering that bought her privilege.
In 1849 she wrote a poem from the perspective of a runaway female slave, who has been raped by her white master and kills the resulting child. The baby's face recalls "the master's look, that used to fall / On my soul like his lash, - or worse, / Therefore to save it from my curse, / twisted it round in my shawl."
"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" was probably based on true stories the poet had heard and, in turn, the poem has inspired Laura Fish's second novel.
Fish was born in England in 1964 of Caribbean parents and adopted by a white family. In her early twenties she found her biological father. He was living in Jamaica, in a house once owned by the Barrett family still full of the Barretts' possessions.
She was gripped by the "treasure trove" and "developed a deep love and passion" for the poet who had so bravely extended a sisterly hand across the social and racial divide.
Strange Music is set in the late 1830s and narrated by three women: Kaydia, a Creole maidservant on the Barrett estate in Jamaica; Sheba, an indentured labourer; and Elizabeth Barrett herself.
The 33-year-old poet, bedridden with the lung disease that has afflicted her since her teens, is taking the sea air in Torquay. She pines for company and misses her brothers - she did not meet her future husband, Robert Browning, until 1845. She is devoted to her Papa, but "bloated with guilt" over the plight of the sugar-cane cutters.
A prisoner of medical and parental restrictions, she too yearns for freedom - especially to write, since her doctor forbids versifying. She frets over flannel waistcoats and the romances of her brothers, thwarted by a father who wishes none of his children to marry. Headaches are "like some creature trying to escape".
Fish has worked from her subject's letters and has the exclamation-mark-laden tone down well. But it makes hard going for a modern reader - especially since Barrett is also taking opium and drifts into hallucinations.
The dialogue is often delivered in an expository style seldom heard outside of The Archers: "You know what happened Bro, … he changed his mind when an article on increased taxes for cargo imported at the London docks appeared in The Times."
Fish's writing becomes more powerful when she's imagining her way into the lives of her two Jamaican characters. Freed from the shackles of staying true to a "real" character, Fish creates some dense and atmospheric poetry. She builds a world of relentless toil, machetes and whispered unrest in a humid setting of mud and luminous blooms.
Sheba wants to flee the fields before her proud lover oversteps the mark and brings the militia down on their heads. Kaydia is working for Sam Barrett, trying to protect her young daughter from the sickly sweating Englishmen who "have too much of de spirit rum" and "like black woman's pum-pum too much".
Fish's phonetic rendering of their patois isn't always successful. One second its all "cyaan" and "fiah", then there are sentences such as: "Moonlight falls coolly over Leah's sandy backyard."
Fish does turn a nice trick in linking all three women's emotions to the oceans that separate them. While frail, virginal Elizabeth takes a boat trip from Torquay and finds the cold sea to be "liquid passion" and "visible poetry", Sheba sinks sobbing to the tropical shore, aching for the salt breath of her lover, and Kaydia rushes seaward through a swamp of blood and rum.
Strange Music is a timely book. We in the West live a little like Elizabeth, guilty at the overseas suffering that supports our privilege. And Fish is a passionate and poetic writer.
But this novel reads too much like an overambitious exercise for its promising ideas and characters to get afloat.


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Chapter 9 (v.1) - Book 2 - Chapter 6
Book 2-Chapter 6
"Ahhhemmm" I heard someone cough from the door, but I still chose not to stir too much, I didn't bother opening my eyes because I knew it was Micheal at the door; he didn't have a heartbeat like my human companions it was far softer and slower. "Care to explain why you are sleeping in the same bed" I felt Myrnin shift, he removed his hand from around my waist and sat up in bed, still not willing to move much further.
"That would be because there was no room anywhere else, plus I had already slept so Eleanor took the bed" He was acting posh again, and not his natural posh. He had turned into a very educated Englishman although Myrnin wasn't English like I was, in fact no one really knows where he comes from, he has an accent. sure, but no one actually knew what it was.
"Then why are you in the bed then" Micheal's eyes were boring into us, so I picked up the pillow slowly from behind my head and lobbed it blind at the doorway; I think it hit Micheal square on as I heard an "Oooft" as it collided with his face.
"Micheal, you are not one to ask questions about what I do in bed. But if you must know, I could not sleep, as if you managed to forget, my boyfriend went out on a death mission yesterday. Myrnin was here, he offered to stay with me, so I agreed. Now Pi*s off before I decide to throw a lamp at you, or worse, a stake" I still had my eyes closed but dug out a silver tipped stake that I always kept in my belt and held it up for Micheal to get a good long look at, before he closed the door and shuffled off into the lab.
I rolled onto my back, my head still a little fuzzy and red rimmed from being held close all night, when I finally opened my eyes I saw Myrnin still sitting upright watching me as though I would vanish any second. "You keep a stake on you?" He said, his voice flat and slightly sarcastic.
"Yes, so if I meet any bad vampires I can put them in their place." I poked the stake gently into his chest, just denting his shirt but not pressing through and he collapsed onto the bed next to me, clutching the stake as though I had staked him and being the drama queen he always was. I pinned him down and took the stake off him again, but I felt a longing flow through me as I hovered on my arms over him. I pushed back up into a sitting position and shoved the stake back into my belt. But Myrnin wasn't ready to get up yet, so he grabbed me round the waist and pulled me back into him as he loomed on his knees behind me. He swung me round so I landed flat on my back and he was the one hovering above me on his arms, looking deep into my eyes.
"Why did you let me stay last night?"
"Because I wanted you to." neither of us moved and as Myrnin was coming down on top of me, his eyes flashing over my lips the door was kicked open wide and Shane stood their in the doorway looking at us with wide eyes.
"What the heck did I just walk in on!...actually I don't want to know" He flung his hands up in surrender and continued on, his eyes looking anywhere other than the bed. "We still haven't heard any news from Jason." I pushed Myrnin off me then and sat bolt upright, I flung my feet over the edge of the bed and stood up, my legs a little unsteady.
"Shane, whatever you saw; never happened...got it?" I looked up at his tall frame but he glanced between Myrnin and me and shrugged.
"I didn't see anything" and with a smirk walked back out into the lab.
The Lab had been turned into home-from-home central when I staggered in still a little confused.
I had just spent the night, in the same bed as Myrnin whilst my boyfriend is on a death trip.
I felt so ashamed and so exhilarated at the same time and I did not like it.
"Hey guys" I said as I rounded the small corner. All the marble tables had been pushed to the edges of the room and on top of each was a thin travel mattress, and beneath each table was another. Almost like makeshift bunk beds. In the centre of the floor was a ring of pillows, cushions and bean bags and in the centre of this was a coffee table made from stacked up books and a sheet of cardboard on top. It looked a little like a homeless house. But in fact, it kind of was.
"Hey" They all chirped, looking surprisingly happy but Shane gave me a look and a smirk that told me he had not forgotten about what he had seen. I could have compelled him to forget but it seemed kinda cruel to wipe your own friends memory.
"So any idea about what to do about getting Jason back or are we sticking with the plan?" I didn't want to sit down, sitting down would ruin my questioning, that and the fact that I knew if I sat down my legs wouldn't let me stand back up. I scanned the scene; Shane wouldn't stop smirking, Claire was tidying books, Eve was huddled next to Micheal with yet another cup of almost black coffee and Micheal was looking hungry. Actually so was I. We hadn't had a blood ration for almost a week and I was really contemplating how good Shane's neck looked for a bite. NO! Eleanor you are not going to turn into the monster, not again! It had happened before, I was one of the worst vampires out there, I was worse than Jason on the number of kills I had.
"No we are sticking with the plan, there is too much risk involved if we went to find him and like you said yourself; if he does come back, it won't be for the right reasons" Micheal was still looking hungry but at least his mind was still in tact.....for now. I just nodded in approval and took the huge mug of coffee Eve offered me.
"We are going to need blood soon" I didn't even hear Myrnin come in but he was there, still in his rumpled clothes and long jacket but now with the addition of his vampire bunny slippers which had always made me laugh. It was true though we did need blood, and soon. I prized my gaze away from the slippers and met his eyes; his face changed when I met his gaze.
"I agree with Myrnin, we need blood and asap. Otherwise no one is going to get out of here alive; whether that's due to starvation or us killing you." The us was for the vampires. Myrnin and Micheal had far more control than me, I was borderline killing spree as it was, I didn't need people with a pulse too close even if they are my friends.
Micheal made some approving noises from the floor and my gaze turned from his back to Myrnin's. "So how are we going to do this....The humans need food, the vampires need blood and the people up there....." I motioned to the ceiling, above which was the street and the Day house. "......want all of us dead." I leaned on my hip, putting a hand on the other and Myrnin's eyesbrows rose making me feel slightly uncomfortable about the whole situation.
He managed to keep his expressions under control and began pacing picking out odd books from the shelves Claire had just fixed and flipped randomly through the scruffy, musty pages. "We split up, the humans get their food, the vampires get the blood and we all arrive back here before the humans kill us...its simple really." He continued through his book as though the whole situation was in a novel.
"Myrnin, this is not simple. They have hundreds of the Morganville population searching for us. The only reason they haven't already found us is because we are in your cement sealed lab" I turned away from him and crossed my arms in anger. After the air was thick with tension my stomach growled and I realised it was our only possible plan. "Eugh, FINE!! Claire, Eve, Shane you take the portal directly to the store, me and Micheal will go get blood, Myrnin; you have to keep the portals open, both, If anything happens close ours and keep Claire's open, we have a better chance of surviving than they do." He nodded solemnly but Shane butted in.
"I think Micheal should go with the girls; he can protect them better than I can and I will go with Eleanor. I might not like the idea of blood shopping but I would rather that than watch the girls die because I couldn't stop an attack" I looked directly at him and knew he was right. Micheal could protect the girls far better than Shane could.
"Okay, that's a deal, but Mynin, make sure you close our portal only if something happens. Shane's a true fighter and they cant kill me with most of their weapons. Sure they will hurt but I will live" He nodded again but there was something darker in his eyes. Something I couldn't read, I wasn't even sure I wanted to.
We restarted the portals and went our separate ways, praying to anyone that would listen to help us to stay alive....
It was strange being alone around Shane, he was always with someone, usually Claire or Micheal but I don't think I have spent more than a few minutes around him alone since I arrived. That was months ago now but it was only on chance that I found them at all. I was on my way across America to catch up with a few friends, I got questioned by the police when I crossed the border and it was only the fact that Micheal claimed I was with him that I managed to get away from them. I found out I quite liked Morganville, I mean sure the town is run by a set of violent vampires but I was no better and now I had real friends for the first time in my whole life. And I wan't willing to give that up, I wasn't going to let them die.
We stepped out of the fuzzy portal into the blood bank car park. Looking back I could see Myrnin watching us through the portal as we walked away. It was early afternoon and the streets were filled with students hurrying from the University and the odd person lurking on a street corner. Luckily the blood-bank seemed pretty empty, Well duh!! Eleanor, I is the middle of the day, if vampires are out this early they are mad. "SHIT, its daylight!"I stopped in my tracks at the base of the steps leading up to the bank. Shane continued on for a few more steps before turning back to face me looking bemused.
"What?" he almost ran to me, probably thinking someone had silently done something to me.
"Its daylight, what about Micheal?" I was scanning through all the possible outcomes of Micheal being in the sun and none ended happily, all usually with him burning into a pile of ash. I shook with the idea but Shane was there to steady me.
"Don't worry, the portal takes you into one of the back rooms of the store, Claire told me." He looked down symethetically before setting off again up the steps. This time I managed to follow without any more mental images of Micheal burning, popping into the head. It was dreary in the blood bank, but not in the same way a hospital was, the decor didn't match the buildings purpose so it gave it an odd look, a mix between a salon and a dentists with the horrid smell of a hospital, not a place I would like to come often. Luckily Micheal was usually the one to collect the blood seeing as I wasn't meant to be a vampire, and especially not a daywalker. But now that my secret was now known throughout most of Morganville I thought it was better to risk it. Stepping up to the main desk there was a plump dark haired lady with tiny glasses possisioned at the very tip of her nose. She didn't look very friendly but the pink nurses outfit lost the menacing look for her.
"WHAT!" she barked at us from her seat.
"Erm, we came to collect the blood for the Glass house and Myrnin." I tried to look as innocent as I could but she was seriously pissing me off. She was paying no attention to me, but flicking through a teen magazine with pictures of a topless Zac Efron and had some terrible music blearing from the iPod on the desk. I almost allowed my eyes to go silver but I kept my patience long enough to still talk. "Did you hear us, we are here to collect the blood?" My voice came out as a snap and she shot her eyes up from a partly nude image of Justin Bieber to match mine. She narrowed them and abruptly stood up from the desk. I expected her to be tall and head teacher like but in fact she was around four foot and very large looking more like an angry fairy god mother than head mistress. She stormed off into a back room and returned with a cool box which she abriptly slammed down on the desk.
"Here, but watch yourself; everyone is after you" did she just help us?
"Than-thank you" she nodded in aproval and went back to her magazine.
"Did she just help us?" Shane was looking about as confused as I felt, but then as we turned away from the desk to head for the door I stopped. It was an automatic reaction, to something I couldn't see; as though something was warning me. I gripped Shanes arm to stop him next to me. "What's wrong?" He wispered it as though he knew it was something bad.
"Somethings wrong, and it's waiting for us outside" We walked carefully and silently, not drawing any unecessary attention and reached the main glass doors; and there just as I had suspected was a band of fifteen big burly men all lead by Jason. He was different, scruffy again but he still kept his hotness. I almost ran into his arms as I pushed open the glass doors but kept control long enough to share a worried look with Shane.
"Eleanor...." Jason said breathlessly as he ran forward. Pounced on me and pushed me to the ground before succeeding in pinning me down. And it was then that I saw the portal flicker and blink out behind him; just like that, our only escape route was gone. Something happened with Claire, Eve and Micheal!it was the only reason Myrnin would close our portal. But soon my attention was drawn back to Jason's face, so close to mine but looking angry and alost evil. He glared at me and leaned close into my ear, wispering his words...
"...I had to Eleanor; I'm sorry, I thought you were in danger so I went to made a deal. These men behind me are here to kill you; if you play along I can get you far away from them and to a safe portal, but you have to trust me okay" he still had a bitter aftertaste to his words but it was all for show, I hoped. "Please Eleanor, remember who I was just hours ago, I am still here; I am just on the wrong side now" I nodded slightly as not to give away his proposition to the tattood monsters behind him who were watching Shane as though he was a cow they could butcher. Jason roughly picked me up and threw me against the wall, he took out a silver stake and drove it into the centre of my chest, only milimetres away from my heart. I gasped but looked into his appologetic eyes rather than at my chest. I heard the roar of grunts and cheers as I went limp over Jason's shoulder. "The only way for you two to make it out alive is if you act like a normal vampire, not yourself."He pulled an arm around me keeping me tight onto his shoulder and began walking away, "Even if you are a hot strange vamp" I chuckled silently and motionlessly to myself as I played dead on his shoulder. I could j see Shane marching behind us being manhandled by two men almost a foot taller and at least two wider than him.
"Men, why don't you take the afternoon to search for the others, I will have these two.....disposed of" He had an evil voice when he tried and I really believed he would do it if it were anybody other than me and Shane. The men didn't ask questions but walked away bumping fists and high fiving. It took only an overshoulder look from Jason to the two men holding Shane for them to release him and run after the others. We rounded the corner and entered one of the old run down alleys before Jason put me down. "Now, you are going to run as fast as humanly possible back to where-ever it is you are staying. Don't stop till you get there okay. He held me at arms length and pulled the stake out of my chest. I had almost forgotten it was there, minus the splintering pain in my ribcage. I was speachless he was going to leave me again, and for what; I was alive he didnt need to go against us.
"Why?" One word was all it took for me to break down in streams of uncontrolable tears. "Jason, Why do you have to go back, why leave again." He held me tight into a hug, combing his fingers through my hair comfortingly, but I could hear his heartbeat race.
"Because I made a deal with someone high up, and now I have to follow through; I am so sorry Eleanor but for now, you will just have to trust that I will do anything to keep you guys safe." He gave me a fleeting kiss and was gone, back down the alley and into the blinding sunlight. He was gone....again.
"Come on" I had a burst of energy and grabbed hold of Shane's hand and the box of blood and took off vamp speed down the alley. It took us straight across the town and back into blinding sunlight. It was only a few blocks to the day house and we kept running, well technically I kept running dragging Shane behind me, his feet never once touching the floor as the world moved as a blur around us. I was different from others, I knew that; but my speed was so fast no one could see us they could only feel a burst of wind as we sped past. In only minutes we were outside the concreat blokade that was where once upon a time Myrnin's shack had stood. I stopped dead causing Shane to stumble forwards into a wall and through a freshly opened portal. I didn't let go of his and and was flung head over heals back onto a concrete floor. When I looked up Micheal, Claire and Eve were all panting on the floor. "What happened?" I was directing it mainly at Micheal but he was looking slightly singed and half dead. I dug into the box and threw a blood bag at him before turning my question on Eve.
"We were ambushed in the store, a couple of brutes almost staked him" him meaning Micheal "But we managed to get back to the portal in time, what about you?" I froze in my attempt to get up off the cold floor. My eyes becoming bleary with tears again.
"He was there" That got everyones attention, even Myrnin came over, "Jason was there, he helped us escape" I instantly drew my hand up to touch my lips where he had kissed me and Myrnin's eyes became sad and low. "He ambushed us with a bunch of guys, but he lied for us and we got out alive" Micheal was now looking sightly better and Idarted my gaze to where he was looking, the red stain in my already battered shirt, "Oh its fine, he did it to get us out without suspect but he's not coming back guys.....its just us now" And then everyone went silent. he was gone till this was all over, and who knew how long that would be.......
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GWEN IFILL: Pope Francis will be formally installed on Tuesday. Vice President Joe Biden will lead the U.S. delegation.
We get more now on the historic selection of Pope Francis from Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter.
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS, National Catholic Reporter: Good to be here.
GWEN IFILL: The first obvious question is, who is he?
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: Some of us are all scrambling. I think he was a surprise choice in part because of his age.
What we have learned is he's a very simple and A humble man who, when he became the archbishop of Buenos Aires, chose not to live in the big mansion, but got a small apartment. He takes public transportation and did away with the limousine. He's obviously doctrinally conservative. And I think you will see — none of the candidates were what we in America would consider doctrinal liberals.
And most importantly he's from Latin America, and for the last 50 years the issue that the Latin American bishops have been dealing with is what does the preferential option for the poor mean and trying to wrestle with that on — theologically, but also practically?
Is it going to be just words, or is it really going to galvanize the church to care for the poor?
GWEN IFILL: Was it also important that the pope come from an area of the world where there is growth, population growth in the church?
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: I think so.
I think this gets to the heart of the Gospel, which is good news for the poor. And I think sometimes in America and in Western Europe, we're simply too affluent to really hear it anymore in the way it was intended. But, in Africa, Latin America, where there are desperately poor people, for them it is still good news.
GWEN IFILL: But he has no Roman experience, as it's known, that is, work inside the Vatican. He didn't come from that experience. Does that put him at a disadvantage at all?
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: And this is the danger is obviously he — although he's been on several congregations as a cardinal, so he might know his way around, he's never worked in Rome.
And the danger is that the old guard will say, you know, we're not going to tell you where the bathroom is unless you do what we want. So we will see. But he's a very strong leader in Buenos Aires, has a reputation as a decisive man, and I suspect has a mandate from the cardinals to clean up some of the messes that are there.
GWEN IFILL: One of the things he said when he came out in the square today was — or on the balcony — was that he would be the new bishop of Rome. He specifically talked about the city of Rome. What was that about?
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: Again, this is our hope. And at this point it's all speculation.
On too — there's been so much centralization in the Catholic Church in Rome over the last 150 years. And I think bishops out trying to do their best don't want to be considered just branch managers. The bishop of Rome is the pope, but that doesn't mean you're the bishop of the entire world. And too many pontiffs have acted in that way and been not giving local bishops the authority and the decision-making power that I think that they want. And, hopefully, he will pursue that kind of a decentralization of authority.
GWEN IFILL: Now, even though Pope Francis wasn't the front-runner, if there is such a thing, since we don't really know what goes on inside that conclave, he's still considered or it's been reported that he was the runner-up in 2005 to Pope Benedict.
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: It's hard to interpret that.
One wonders — you know, those were 40 votes that he supposedly got in 2005 who were not voting for Joseph Ratzinger, and that may indicate a certain amount of change. I just — I want to caution. I think a lot of Americans think, oh, when they think of reform and change, they think we're going to have women priests. That wasn't a realistic expectation, given the cardinals who were in there.
I think what they mean by reform touched on other issues, partly reorganization of the Curia, its relationships with local bishops, and again, are we going to focus a little bit less maybe on the traditional Latin mass and a little bit more on caring for the poor?
GWEN IFILL: So this is not a pope or a papacy where we're going to see any kind of change when it comes to things like abortion or …
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: Of course not.
GWEN IFILL: … gay marriage …
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: Of course not.
GWEN IFILL: … or adoption or any of those social issues that get us so worked up, especially in the United States?
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: No.
And these are not issues in the Latin American church. When 50 percent of your people are living below the poverty line, shame on you if you're worried about other issues like that. You have got to be very hands-on worried about feeding your people so they don't go to bed hungry at night.
GWEN IFILL: He was quoted as saying not too long ago, "If the church remains closed in on itself, self-referential, it gets old."
Does that hearken some sort of change that's imminent?
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: You know, my worry is that the church sometimes does become very self-referential.
And when they talk about the new evangelization, they reduce it to like teaching bishops how to use Twitter. And it has to mean more than that. It's curious he chose the name Francis. Francis actually faced a very corrupt church and a very degenerate culture in his day. And he changed it by kissing a leper.
GWEN IFILL: We're talking about St. Francis of Assisi.
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: St. Francis, right.
And that's how the church changes, that's how the church reforms, is by becoming again the gospel church that reaches out to the poor and embraces them and loves them.
GWEN IFILL: We have to go back a little bit to this process and how he came to be pope. Was there anybody besides Americans — were there anyone besides Americans who thought an American would be pope?
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: There was evidently a strong candidacy for Cardinal O'Malley. It was being pushed by an African cardinal and a couple of …
GWEN IFILL: The Boston archbishop.
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: Yes, and a couple Latin American cardinals who were big fans of Cardinal O'Malley.
We will find out within the next couple of weeks, get estimations and guesses about what the vote totals were. But I think that was a real — there was a real buzz there. That wasn't just the media.
Michael Sean Winters of National Catholic Reporter, thank you so much.
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS: Thank you.


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CyberCrime an ethical issue
Posted on Mar 6 2012 at 11:55:47 AM in Computers & Internet
Cyber Crime is unlawful doings that implicates a computer and a network. Now days it is emergent threat to humanity by the illicit or irresponsible activities of computer entities who are taking benefit of the extensive use and susceptibility of computers, the Internet and other networks. It thus dowries a major challenge to the ethical use of information technologies.
Revealing youngsters to technology, computers, internet and other such stuff since the day they are innate. These all availabilities of technological atmosphere pretenses risks in the lives of these children at later stages. In today's living standards parents allow their kids access to cell phones, video games, MP3 players and computers at fresher and younger ages. And till the age they get mature they have developed views about each technology which they are used to either its ethical or unethical. Several of those assessments encounter with the recognized values or codes of morals assimilated by various organizations. I would try to express some of the effects on our society with standpoints of ethics and computer addiction.
Before going to details and discussing the impact of cyber activities on our society I would like to start with a case study or one anecdote that will itself explain some of the behavior. A person Dave was happily living his married life and job until he has to leave his job and stay at home. His wife used to go to work so he was all alone at the time of rigidities. So he found an activity for him and stood buy all the day in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) sites.
His wife came to know that his husband is using internet immensely and living in his own imaginary world due to this internet usage. He was mainly in contact with the people living in unites states. Instead of finding job or some work he dedicated all his time and energies with this activity. This behavior disturbed his life; he lost his wife, his work and his abilities to do something good for his family. The question which arises here was Dave a computer addict? But I can say this obsessive behavior of Dave was a result of high participation in Internet Relay Chat sites.
What stimuli lead a distinct personality to accomplish unprincipled acts or contribute in cybercrime activities? Accepting the lack of consequences to past behavior or the behavior of others is an influencing factor. Mostly youngsters don't think with respect of ethics and morality, they do such stuff because it's thrilling and exciting. If they perform any activity which results no undesirable penalties, they tempt to it and they try to perform it once again because it did not happen from which they were little bit scared first time. A research reveals that 88% students of computer sciences at U.S. University acknowledged pledging an unlawful act online.
With advancements in technology and internet security measures and ways should be improved as well. As Cyber criminals always in search of some loophole where currently used safety measures and tools has become impotent. In addition, as legislatures continuously drop back the event, new commandments are obligatory. In the case of computer ethics, its acceptance is even leisurelier. Despite of any potential barricades to, and the complications in the implementation of computer ethical management is very important and needed. Computer ethics and Information security is always related to each other, to set ethical rules is necessary but these rules will not make sure that the criminals will not take unethical steps as they are made to intrude and find ways to disrespect other privacies. But we cannot let them to do it openly and without any interference. It is our social duty to aware and educate people towards ethical behaviors and actions. Proper education of computer ethics many help to implement better information security management.
Online integrities are significant since they highlight the requirement to relate the similar good standards of moral behavior equally in the digital and physical world. At minimum may be any unprincipled behavior online uncover a person to a larger danger of becoming a cybercrime prey. But at worst many be this activity lead him towards felony level corruption under law. But the thing is in both cases we must follow the moral standards of ethics when you are working online. To do any illegal activity online may not only indulge you doing a criminal transgression but exposes a person to bigger hazard of becoming a victim. Digital property rights should be respected in the same way that property rights are respected in the physical world. It's not just the correct legal choice; it is also the best way to stay safe online. If we will respect for other, they will do good for us.
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JERUSALEM (Apr. 18)
A group of prominent American Jews, who believe their views "truly represent the majority views of American Jews," charged here this week that the government of Israel is not really interested in peace.
The group wound up a five-day visit Wednesday expressing concern that the talks between Israeli leaders and U.S. Secretary of State James Baker were getting nowhere, and they blamed the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
Theodore Mann, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that whereas Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini is "as moderate a Palestinian as one is likely to find," Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens does not seem to change his views on the conflict.
Their fact-finding mission was sponsored by Project Nishma, a Jewish educational project that supports the views of Israel's Council for Peace and Security.
The council is composed of retired Israel Defense Force senior officers who maintain that Israel's security needs can be fully satisfied without continuing to rule over more than a million Palestinians.
"We believe our views truly represent the majority views of American Jews," Mann said. "We expressed concern that the present 'window of opportunity' may not remain open much longer," he added, recalling the group's meeting with Arens.
"Window of opportunity" is a favorite metaphor of the Bush administration to describe the situation in the Middle East since the Persian Gulf war.
Mann said his group came to Israel under the impression that it was heading toward peace. "Maybe we are wrong; perhaps things are going on between Shamir and Baker that we don't know about," Mann said.
But he was not hopeful.
"It is clear to me that this government is no more interested this year in withdrawal (from the administered territories) than it was last year," Mann said.
He warned that in the event of a political stalemate in the Middle East, the United States would exert pressure on Israel and on the other parties to the conflict, "because without such pressure, peace would be difficult to achieve."
In addition to Mann, the group of 14 included such leaders as Hyman Bookbinder, former Washington representative of the American Jewish Committee; Esther Leah Ritz, past president of JWB and of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation; and three past national chairs of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council: Michael Pelavin of Flint, Mich.; Jacqueline Levine of Metro West, N.J.; and Jordan Band of Cleveland.


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When more animals than people show up at your evangelistic meetings, there must be something else going on.
And, indeed there is more, a lot more, with Thousand Hills Mission.
Thousand Hills is a ministry that delivers essential veterinary supplies, services and training to people of developing and third world countries.
"Our first purpose is evangelism," emphasized Mark McBride, president of the organization, and a member of Moore, First. "We make sure they hear the Gospel before we treat their animals."
McBride and Larry Quinton, associate minister of evangelism and missions at Moore, First, said there were 150 professions of faith recorded during their first mission trip to Nicaragua in 2003.
"The numbers have gone down some each year because it is a small area, and more and more of the people are hearing the Gospel," said Quinton.
McBride said the area they minister to in Nicaragua is somewhere mission teams don't ordinarily go.
"There is no electricity, and the only way to get there is on mules," he said.
McBride said treating the farm animals helps open up the opportunity to share the Gospel.
"The economies of rural villages in developing nations are highly dependent upon small, family farms," he noted. "In these areas, animals and humans substitute for the heavy machinery we normally associate with farm operation. The reliance upon animals only increases the need for treating them with a care regimen other parts of the world consider fundamental."
McBride, who works in construction, but has been a farmer and rancher most of his life, started the mission with his wife, Alana, J.P. Fox and Gus Downing after his first trip to Nicaragua in 2003.
"We went with a medical team from our church, and we also vaccinated animals," he recalled. "On the way home, he and his wife discussed the possibility of a ministry that worked just with lifestock.
"In lands where there's an absolute dependence upon cattle, oxen, mules, horses, pigs, sheep, goats and chickens, necessary treatment for these animals-vaccinations, wound dressings, antifungal preparation-are not affordable or available," he said. "We bring veterinary and agricultural expertise, a teaching mentality and vital supplies so that the people may begin to care for their animals in a manner that is both vitally important and ultimately humane."
The mission teams work with local veterinarian Luz Luna, who Quinton led to the Lord during the first trip there.
Thousand Hills is planning a to construct a building where the people can have Bible studies and also where children can attend school. The building will be dedicated to McBride's 21-year-old son, Trevor, who was killed recently in an automobile accident.
McBride said they hope also to build a veterinary clinic and a small medical clinic in a area with a larger population that people can go to maybe twice a month to receive help.
In addition to about three trips a year into the Nicaraguan mountains, McBride also organizes a spring break trip for college students involved in Christian Veterinary Fellowship.
"We have taken groups from the University of Tennessee and Colorado State University, and are working now with a group from Oklahoma State University hoping to arrange a trip for them," McBride said.
McBride said the reason teams return to the same area is they want to develop relationship, not do hit-and-run missions.
"These people are farmers, ruffians, tough guys, my kind of people," said McBride. "They see Americans willing to get dirty with them, and realize we don't think we are better than they are. They know we've brought them goodies, but the best thing we've brought them is salvation."
McBride told of one man who lives at an intersection and has people of all faiths coming and telling him their way is right.
"They never come back," the man said. "But you came back."


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MIC'D UP: Griffin III Vs. The CowboysPosted by on January 2, 2013 – 10:34 pm
When everything was on the line, the Washington Redskins turned to their young leader to guide them to their first NFC East title since 1999.
Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III orchestrated that performance last Sunday in Washington's 28-18 victory over the Dallas Cowboys, a win-or-go-home matchup that led to Sunday's Wild Card Round playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks at FedExField.
Griffin III was mic'd up for this critical NFC East championship game for NFL Films and the league's show, "Sound FX," much like middle linebacker London Fletcher was in this year's Monday Night Football game vs. the New York Giants.
The Griffin III video is below; but first, here's some of my personal favorites from the quarterback in this game:
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VIDEO: Griffin III Consoles Romo On FieldPosted by on January 2, 2013 – 9:57 pm
There weren't many people at FedExField last Sunday who felt bad for Tony Romo.
But after Romo threw three interceptions in the 28-18 loss to the Redskins — including a pick late in the fourth quarter to outside linebacker Rob Jackson that led to Washington's final touchdown — the Dallas Cowboys quarterback had at least one supporter wearing burgundy and gold.
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Ask Josh Wilson Anything TomorrowPosted by on January 2, 2013 – 4:04 pm
Ever wanted to ask Josh Wilson what it was like to pick off Tony Romo in Sunday's NFC East championship game?
Or why he carries around his father's NFL trading card?
What about asking him how he became the top football student-athlete in the Atlantic Coast Conference during his time at Maryland?
Well, you have the chance to ask the Redskins cornerback these questions and more with this week's reddit "Ask Me Anything" (AMA), which will be happening around 3:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Participating is easy:
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Griffin III: Newest Member Of The Media?Posted by on January 2, 2013 – 3:05 pm
It wasn't quite good enough schtick to be a segment on MTV's "Punk'd," but Robert Griffin III pulled one on Mike Shanahan today.
The rookie quarterback sat in on his head coach's weekly press conference at Redskins Park, and even took to the microphone to ask Shanahan a question.
Tags: mike shanahan, press conference, Robert Griffin III, washington redskins
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Some Sorry For Counting Redskins OutPosted by on January 2, 2013 – 11:22 am
There's many, many NFL experts and analysts who have spent their Holiday season eating crow about how they believed the 2012 season would turn out for the Washington Redskins.
Though we at the Redskins Blog are in the process of recovering some of those same experts' predictions from weeks and months ago, it's also worth bringing up those who have admitted when they were wrong.
NFL.com Around The League editor Gregg Rosenthal did just that yesterday.
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Catch RGIII, Shanahan Talking Live TodayPosted by on January 2, 2013 – 10:00 am
Be sure to catch Redskins' quarterback Robert Griffin III and head coach Mike Shanahan as they address the media live today after practice.
Griffin III will lead off today's press conferences shortly after 1:45 p.m.., with Shanahan following up his rookie signal caller.
Accessing the live video feed is easy.
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Jo In Hyuk's Pastel PortraitureJanuary 24, 2014
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Korean illustrator Jo In Hyuk's female subjects are captivating. These women all seem heavy-hearted and lost in thought. This series has a focus in pastel tone portraiture. Be sure to take a look at Jo In's other works including a set of gorgeous leather goods and tools.


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Every year, in the month of meenam (April-March) on the Malyali Calendar, thousands of devotees gather in the Sree Kurumba Kavu Kodungalloor temple to sing and chant and cheer the Goddess Kali who resides within. Legend speaks of her victory in battle against Darikan that left her raging, until her soldiers gathered around her and sang to uplift her mood. Re-enacting that to this day, the devotees gather and sing the Theri Pattu in honour of the goddess, and to seek redemption for their sins. Wrapped in yards of vermillion cloth often stained red with blood.
What makes this festival particularly spectacular is a ritual called kaavu theendal. Hundreds of oracles, both male and female, throng the temple grounds for three days. Bedecked in jangling bells and smeared with holy ash they stumble through the compound chanting and striking at the temple walls, and themselves, with sticks and swords. The devotees too lash out at the rafters of the temple, tossing offerings in over the walls.
The festival is one of it's kind, surging with energy that soars unabated for three days until the local king, seen as the temple keeper, gives blessings to the devotees lying prostate before him. It's an otherworldly experience that can make you question your beliefs about spirituality and human society, and a great reason to travel!
To get to Thrissur you can fly directly into Kochi from most major airports in the country, or take a train. From there it's a quick 3 hour drive or an additional 2 hour train journey.


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1. Jersey Shore's Snooki is considering ditching her signature pouf style. [CocoPerez.com]
2. Courtney Love has launched her own fashion blog. [MTV.com]
3. Lo Bosworth of The Hills fame has also launched her own blog TheLoDown.com. [People.com]
4. Has the Yankee's late George Steinbrenner become a fashion icon? [Styleite.com]
5. Stella McCartney is the official sportswear designer for the London 2012 Olympics. [InStyle.co.uk]
6. Guess how much the average woman spends on a pair of jeans? [StyleList.com]


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Current vaccine controversies (Proceedings)
Vaccination is a key component of preventing infectious disease in individuals as well as reducing the risk of exposure to (and by) others. Testing for the presence of feline leukemia virus (FELV), feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) in our patients is also crucial in prevention of the spread of preventable diseases between cats.
Vaccination Guidelines Immunization is a method of enhancing or influencing the immune system and to develop resistance to infectious disease by inducing the production of antibodies and/or immunologically sensitized cells. A vaccine consists of material administered to induce immunity and is a preparation of weakened (attenuated), killed or immunologically active subunits of active virus or bacteria, which are unable or unlikely to cause the disease against which they are designed to protect. Vaccines are usually administered parenterally by injection or by mucosal route.
In 1998, the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) released Feline Vaccination Guidelines intending to review, update and summarize vaccine-related issues affecting how a practicing veterinarian chooses to formulate vaccination strategies for cats. Controversy arose as some practitioners feared that reducing the frequency of vaccine administration might result in outbreaks of well controlled infectious diseases and that clients would visit veterinary clinics less frequently thereby preventing early detection of disease and implementation of medically valuable preventative care opportunities as well as threaten a cornerstone of practice revenue.. This resulted in much beneficial discussion within the profession. An update was published in 2006. Both documents are available at http://www.catvets.com/ in the Guidelines section.The following is an attempt to summarize the key points of the 2006 document.
1. Vaccines continue to play an important role in the control of feline infectious diseases in an overall preventative health care program for cats.
2. Vaccinations should be selected for each patient based on risk of exposure to specific pathogenic agents.
3. Core vaccines are those recommended for administration to every cat because of a) severity of disease, b) transmissibility between animals and/or c) zoonotic potential. As such, panleukopenia (FPV), feline viral rhinotracheitis virus (FHV-1), feline calicivirus (FCV) and rabies are considered core vaccines for cats. In the newest version of the Guidelines, FELV is highly recommended in kittens.
4. Non-core vaccines are those whose use should be restricted to individual cats deemed to be at a reasonable risk of exposure based on their lifestyle or environment. These would include FELV in adult cats, chlamydophyla, feline infectious peritonitis (FIPV), FIV, bordetella and giardia vaccines.
5. While vaccine administration is not an innocuous procedure, the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks for the majority of cats. We must continue to vaccinate our patients to prevent recrudescence of infectious diseases we now control. The objective of feline vaccination protocols should be to vaccinate more cats in the population, vaccinate individuals less frequently, and only for the diseases for which there is a risk of exposure and disease.
In other words, rather than being viewed as a routine, annual requirement and the driving force behind the annual exam, vaccination should be a carefully considered medical procedure discussed thoroughly with the client. At each visit, vaccination requirements should be revisited as the risk factors for that patient change through life.
When developing a vaccination protocol for an individual cat, the following questions may be considered. Is this individual at risk for this disease? Does this disease have high morbidity? Is it readily treatable? Realistically, could this agent cause fatal illness? It may be inappropriate to use a vaccine against a disease that is rare or against a disease that is not associated with a high morbidity. What kind of protection do I expect from this vaccine (prevention vs. decreased severity of illness)? What side effects or adverse reactions might this vaccine cause? How long does immunity last and when did this cat receive this vaccine last? Each infectious agent is different; in general those that cause severe systemic disease result in lifelong immunity (e.g., panleukopenia) whereas those that cause superficial infections produce more transient immunity or a carrier state following recovery (e.g., FHV-1).


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Live your life,
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Love forever <3
Abritamine Sep 10, 2012
the last line doesn't conclude it well enough for me but nicely written :)
CarolinaHeartbreak Sep 10, 2012
I like it. It's simple, but deep. Great job and keep writing! :)
alexander2583 Jul 13, 2012
loved it! very nice some much to say in so little lines. voted
JazzBlack Jul 06, 2012
totally my kinda poem.. :) i loved it.. expressing loads thru such a few lines.. VOTED !!!
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I love that you so so much in a short poem...That is the true key to clarity and dept.
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i love it =) its short but elegant with a lot of meaning in it =) well done =D


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The shadow Orson Welles cast during a prolific and profligate lifestyle had less to do with his gargantuan girth than the net he used to nab some of the world's best talent to take part in his evocative and echtian productions.
Caught in that shroud — and the shrapnel stitched inside — were Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright, co-stars — and co-habitats off-stage — of Welles' attempt to introduce Ionesco's "The Rhinoceros" to the American stage 47 years ago.
The steamy stampede that was the stars' affair — with Olivier's frail wife, Vivian Leigh, laying down her own ground rules as the trampled-on part of the troika — was often more dramatic than the action on stage, giving the title character of "Rhinoceros" the least rambunctious role in the show.
And if Austin Pendleton's "Orson's Shadow," beginning a monthlong run this week in a Philadelphia Theatre Company production at Plays & Players Theatre in Center City, speaks the backstage language of theater at its most tempestuous, who knew it would do so with a Yiddish accent?
Not that Rachel Botchan, who plays Plowright, has one here. But certainly, her many years as a seasoned performer with the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre has her reflecting and inflecting her part with the experience that comes from answering a question with a question.
And Laurence Olivier (Brent Harris) has a lot to answer for.
"Yiddish theater is very classical, with a heightened reality and love of language, with roots in Stanislavsky and method acting," relates Botchan of traits that cross over into the theater shaped by Welles' ways.
But the Folksbiene's shadow wasn't nearly as extensive as Orson's as Botchan — "I spent three seasons with them and still have ties to the theater" — "went back and forth" between stages of her life, which also included much regional work, as well as performances with the acclaimed off-Broadway Pearl Theatre Company
On the other hand … "Whenever you delve into a tradition" — as the Folksbiene afforded her the opportunity — "it enriches you in other areas. When you perform in another language, it's very transformative; it helps your acting."
No help needed with this performance; Botchan plows right into Plowright with the verve and nerve characteristic of the legendary actress herself.
"She represented the modern theater at the time," says Botchan of her achieving alter ego, "and was open to exploring anything to help make her acting the best it could be."
Botchan also senses that Plowright's sense of humor helped add a comic touch to the touching performances she gave over the years. And "Shadow" traffics in that wit and wisdom.
"She's a delightful personality," says the actress, "surrounded by all these neurotic people. She seems to have a center that is very refreshing; people seemed to love her."
Love the woman, love the part, attests Botchan, who wonders herself what all those caught up in "Orson's Shadow" would have thought of Yiddish theater as competition.
"I wonder how much they even knew about it," she laughs.
But Botchan knew it backwards and Forward. Tomashefsky's shadow?
Well, not so dark, not so deep: "Actually," she says impishly, "I didn't know Yiddish all that well. I learned a little from my grandmother and then studied it."
And she has since turned into a study of multicultural accomplishment.
No carping, no complaints; no whine before her time to get up on stage. Just a sense of appreciation for her newly added character, whose "wit and humor I hope to take away with me."


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A year and a half after state and federal officials criticized Salinas leaders for having no plan to deal with gang violence, the city has come up with a strategy based on community input and the data-crunching assistance of the Naval Postgraduate School and other institutions.
The plan, Salinas Mayor Dennis Donohue said, reflects the community's determination to stop youth violence.
"I've been mayor for four years and there's been no break in anyone's resolve on this issue," he said. "Even with a downturn in the economy, no one has said 'oh well.' There's just a clear understanding we've got to keep going."
The Community Alliance for Safety and Peace, a coalition of local agencies focused on youth violence, took on the task of crafting the 26-page draft document after a 2009 summit in which a U.S. attorney and the state's gang czar said the city lacked a strategic plan to deal with gangs.
The plan comes after a year of community meetings and forging pro bono partnerships with NPS and the Oakland-based National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
The strategy recommends one entity to oversee and evaluate the city's anti-violence efforts. The plan requires keeping youth as the city's focus and maintaining "deep and meaningful engagement" with the community.
What the draft plan doesn't do is lay out next steps — for that, an action plan is expected to be finished in May.
The draft plan "identifies goals and strategies to reach those goals," said Georgina Mendoza, senior deputy city attorney and community safety director for Salinas. The action plan, she said, will follow a meeting with NPS researchers later this month and will list the "actual steps" and deadlines for individual agencies.
The draft plan, titled "Salinas Comprehensive Strategy for Community-wide Violence Reduction," was presented to county supervisors on Tuesday. It is the first plan to be developed by the city itself, not by an outside consulting firm.
It is the first comprehensive strategy since "Cultivating Peace in Salinas" was prepared for the city by the nonprofit Prevention Institute in 1999. That report presented a violence prevention vision but suggested few ways to evaluate results.
"The times that we live in demand a focus on strategy and outcomes and measurements," Donohue said.
Under the new strategy, the city's anti-violence efforts will be measured by a combination of crime statistics and the California Healthy Kids Survey, a state-funded data collection service that measures risk factors that affect local children.
But the new strategic plan is similar to the earlier report in one way — it addresses youth violence as a public health challenge that affects the entire city.
"What is sometimes ignored," the draft states, "is that (violence) contributes to increases in health care costs, decreases in academic achievement, and inhibits economic development in stressed communities."
Overall goals
The new plan is nothing if not lofty in its ambitions.
Based on six "focus points" culled from nearly two dozen community meetings, the strategy's overall goals include improving economic conditions for families; involving young people in positive activities; redesigning the city's zoning, lighting, parks and transportation in ways that reduce violence; improving relations between police and residents; ensuring schools provide a safe, effective education; and reducing drug and alcohol abuse.
The specifics about how to achieve all this begin with choosing a central agency — most likely CASP — to coordinate the plan's information-sharing, fundraising and collaboration between agencies.
The plan drills down to six pages of detailed suggestions, such as reducing vacant housing and "dark neighborhoods," placing zoning restrictions on alcohol sales in high-crime areas, or creating a customized menu of services for dealing with specific high-risk youths.
The suggestions were gathered from Salinas residents during 23 "listening sessions," as well as from an unpublished NPS thesis written last year and data culled from Building Healthy Communities, a local initiative funded by the California Endowment.
A similar gang intervention plan from the city of San Jose served as a model. Mendoza said she will present the strategy to the Salinas City Council on Tuesday, when she hopes to get a resolution from the city backing the plan.
After that, she and Donohue will describe it to federal authorities in Washington, D.C., at an April meeting of the White House-sponsored National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention. The forum is a group of six cities, including Salinas, that share gang-reduction strategies and hope to steer federal money toward their efforts.
Addressing the weak spot
The ability to analyze data showing what does and doesn't work has long been a weak spot in Salinas' anti-violence efforts, one often noted by federal officials, academics and others interested in helping the city advance toward peace.
The plan stressed that information should not only be collected — it must be shared.
But there are obstacles to getting the city's data-gathering up to speed.
The Salinas Police Department is planning to hire a crime analyst, but the position may be at risk under the next round of budget cuts.
As funds become more scarce, local officials are counting on NPS and other institutions to share their expertise at no cost.
"It's essential that we do that in a time of scare resources," Donohue said. "Logically, you should work as smart as possible. The good news is technology and data can help with that."
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency is working on the evaluation plan for the strategy and will provide researchers Angela Wolf and Jessica Rios to help with data collection. Wolf provided similar help to the city of Richmond. Rios has worked with Santa Cruz County Juvenile and Adult Probation.
NPS students have conducted citywide surveys and plan to analyze gang members' social networks to better predict where, when and why gang warfare is likely to flare. Grant-funded technical assistance to the city's Ceasefire program is advancing that front.
CASP members say the process of developing the draft plan has helped the city meet some goals, such as more collaboration between agencies and "sharing insights with cities across the country struggling with chronic gang violence."
"The work ahead is daunting and the stakes are high," the plan's authors conclude.
And, they might add, the work is never finished.
CASP expects to re-evaluate the plan and measure its impact in 2012.
Julia Reynolds can be reached at 648-1187 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In a weird twist this season, the Canucks have all 8 of their defencemen healthy (defencemen usually are the most injury prone), and a whole whack of injuries to forward, and then of course there's Roberto Luongo. The result has been a lot of dull hockey, with the team trying to play more defensive due to their lack of fire power. With that said, here's a review of the replacements for Luongo, Daniel Sedin, Pavol Demitra and Ryan Johnson (as well as Kyle Wellwood and Rick Rypien here and there).
Michael Grabner:
Chicks are digging the speedy Austrian sniper, and why not? Grabner has been impressive with the big club. He has five points in his first nine NHL games and has been generating a lot of scoring chances. Unfortunately, a replacement for this replacement will be needed. Grabner was lost to an ankle injury that he suffered during the pre-game hallway warm-up. It's been that kind of season for the Canucks (kind of reminds me of when the Canucks lost all those defencemen in the 2007-08 season and Lukas Krajicek slipped on some ice and injured himself).
Tanner Glass:
Glass has looked good thus far. Sunday's game against Colorado was probably his best, notching a goal and hitting a crossbar. He's been pretty reliable, finishing all of his checks and responsible in his own end.
Aaron Rome:
The Canucks' forward (forward!? Yes, forward) has been impressive since being moved from defence. Vigneault moved him from defence to forward because of all the injuries up front, and must have sure liked him there. He lead all Canucks forwards in ice time in Friday's game versus Anaheim. That's clearly ridiculous, but he hasn't looked out of place at forward (unlike Mathieu Schneider who looked completely lost in his one game at forward… Vigneault clearly hasn't heard of not being able to teach an old dog new tricks).
Alexandre Bolduc:
Bolduc, like Grabner, has also been injured since being called-up. While healthy, he played pretty much error free, but didn't offer anything notable.
Sergei Shirokov:
The "Pocket Russian Rocket" hasn't been able to lift-off as of yet. In six games in the NHL, he has been unable to get a single point and is a minus four. Disappointing, sure, but even more disappointing is that he hasn't been noticeable. He has been sent to the Moose a couple of times already, and continues to rip it up down there, but so far he hasn't been able to translate that to the NHL level.
Andrew Raycroft:
Raycroft has played pretty well in his limited action. I thought he was unfairly pulled in the loss to Anaheim on Friday, but responded with a shutout against his old team, the Colorado Avalanche. He wasn't tested a lot against Colorado, but still, I have more confidence in him than any back-up goalie they've had since Alex Auld. He should get all of the starts until Luongo comes back.


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I have been overplucking my eyebrows for years now, and they won't grow back fully. Is there any way to help them grow back properly?
Making Overplucked Eyebrows Grow Back
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Over plucked eyebrow hairs will not likely grow back (because they were over plucked).
Overplucking and Eyebrow Loss
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes: > I agree that it is a bit misleading, though. A boolean > "MyXactMadeTransactionControlledXlogEntry", like the > "MyXactMadeXLogEntry" and "MyXactMadeTempRelupdate" variables would be > cleaner. I think at one time the back-link nature of the variable was actually exploited --- it was used to make an additional back-link in XLOG record headers. But it's true that it isn't much more than a bool at present. regards, tom lane
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Leave it to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, protector of lands and beautifier of traffic intersections. Leave it to them to dig in (literally) and clean up one of the city's all-too-prominent eyesores, Bates Street below the Boulevard of the Allies in Oakland.
That short, hilly stretch of Bates between the boulevard and the Parkway East and Second Avenue is seen by 90,000 motorists a day. Many of them are going to hospitals, universities or the South Side.
Regardless, what they've seen are trash-strewn hillsides and overgrown thickets of invasive plants. But all that is about to change.
With a plan, volunteers and contributions from UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh, the conservancy has some of the resources needed for a $150,000 project to beautify the corridor. Forty-five trees will be planted there May 8-9, and Oakland Planning and Development Corp. is still seeking people who'd like to help (email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 412-621-7863, ext. 24).
Unlike one of the conservancy's traffic island plantings, this ambitious, multiphase project will take three years and contain native trees, shrubs and ground plants. It's a beautification effort of a higher order -- one that will bring the soft aesthetics of nature to an asphalt streetscape, courtesy of the conservancy, OPDC and their partners.opinion_editorials


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When I launch Rescue and Recovery on my T61p by pressing the blue ThinkVantage button on startup, I get complaints from Express Repair that "Errors have been detected in an operating system file". I have chosen to repair the supposedly corrupt files twice and the same immediate result is that I have to re-install various Windows Updates!
I have Windows XP SP3 and maintain my system with all the latest updates, etc. I also use Lenovo System Update frequently. Has anyone else had this issue because it only started to occur in the last month or so.


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So you've met Mr. Right. (Or Mr. Right Now.) You're a good girl, so you've waited the requisite amount of time and you just know that tonight is the night you've been dreaming of all year/month/week/minute.
You look good, you smell good and you're wearing the only matching lingerie set you own. All signs point to go.
You'd think with this many green lights that there's no way a lady could mess this up. Maybe you'd think that, but you'd be wrong. Here are just a few of the ways this could go south in a hurry:
1. Don't depend on him for birth control. Yes, he should carry condoms, but ultimately it's up to you — it's your body and you need to keep yourself safe. I'm not saying that's the way it should be, but the sad fact is, even the nicest seeming guy isn't always as invested in keeping us disease and pregnancy-free. Even if you're the kind of traditional lady who insists your date pay for everything (after all, you're giving him the gift of your company), do not let stubbornness get in the way of your safe good time. And nothing ruins a good time like a below-the-belt itch or unplanned pregnancy.
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Here is the file ID: 602788
Actually, I know how to do this in Access or openoffice.org. I do not have Access at this point on this new win 8 computer, but I do have the openoffice.org version.
Well that is what I was trying to avoid. I can do that myself. I thought there would be a way to script something like that in VB? Well I guess I am going to take a whole different approach on this. I have to rethink this whole idea. Thank you for your time.
Thank you. I need to rethink. Does this mean for a No Go that I am paying this whole amount?
Sorry that I disagree. But I asked for something specifically and you should have answered with NO. Not give me a workaround that is not a solution for me AND then change direction and tell me this is out of your control since I do not have some other software and now make it my fault that this cannot be done. A simple answer no not possible would have done for your services and that is not worth $ 60.00 or whatever the fee was. As an expert you should have handled it this way and not drag it on so you can "justify" a fee!!
I tried your services, just answer, the fourth time now and this will be the last time. I gave it another chance. But I tell you, you need to read the specifics in the previous post. I was very specific. But it seems to me that you really are not an expert because you do not even understand what I said. You are a joke. AND by the way I am willing to pay. I would have paid you $ 100.00 if you would have solved my issue. You did not ... other than telling me it cannot be done. Again as an expert to tell somebody you cannot do it, asking that kind of money is outrageous and a plain rip off!!! I still know what is right and what is wrong in this society! Do not come with I do not want to pay argument. First you need to deliver my friend.
I never downloaded it because that is not a solution to go copy paste. I could have done that myself. Sorry but you keeping to try to pretend that you found a solution for what I asked is not going to make it happen. I told you that copy and paste is not a solution. You said yourself it is a workaround. I am not looking for workarounds from an expert!. The way you behave is making you even less of an expert sorry. But this conversation is over. I have a company to run here. You have a good day.
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text: Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao today expressed pleasure at the Karnataka Government for keeping its promise of releasing 0.5 tmc waters to Mahabubnagar district for drinking water purpose. The Karnataka irrigation officials informed to Telangana irrigation top official Khagender Rao about the release of 0.5 tmc waters from Narayanpur to Mahabubnagar district. The officials also confirmed that the waters reached Priyadarshini Jurala project on Monday morning and the rest of 0.5 tmc will reach the same on Wednesday. Bangalore officials reportedly said that the Congress lobby stalled the immediate release of 1 tmc waters as was sought by Harish Rao. It may be noted that Harish time and again discussed with his Karnataka counterpart MB Patil who agreed to release waters. (NSS)


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Updated from 11:37 a.m. ESTShares of Maytag ( MYG) were among the NYSE's losers Friday, falling 10.5% after the appliance maker posted fourth-quarter earnings and sales that were below estimates and cut 2005 earnings guidance. Excluding items, the company earned 8 cents a share on sales of $1.16 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson First Call were expecting earnings of 17 cents a share on sales of $1.19 billion. Lower Hoover floor care sales, lower sales of vending equipment in commercial products, and higher steel and energy-related costs hurt the company's recent quarter. Looking ahead, Maytag now expects 2005 earnings of $1.10 to $1.30 a share, below previous guidance of $1.50 to $1.60 a share. Both estimates include 5 cents in restructuring charges. The dour outlook comes less than two weeks after Maytag announced the departure of two high-level executives, William Beer and Thomas Briatico. Both men had played pivotal roles in Maytag's "One Company" restructuring initiative. The restructuring combined systems, facilities and personnel from Maytag Appliances, Hoover, and Maytag's corporate office all in an effort "to form a leaner, more efficient organizational structure," Maytag said. Shares traded down $1.79 to $15.26. Escalade ( ESCA) fell 7.9% after the company warned that 2004 earnings would fall significantly below year-ago results. The maker and marketer of sporting goods said it expects 2004 earnings of $7.8 million, or 60 cents a share. A year ago, the company earned $14.85 million, or $2.29 a share. The shortfall is due to "unexpected excess inventory adjustments; adjustments to the restructuring costs recorded in the third quarter; and legal and other costs associated with the company's European operations," it said. Escalade expects to post full results on Feb. 11. Shares traded down $1.20 to $13.95. Shares of Olin ( OLN) rose 4.6% after the chemical company posted fourth-quarter earnings above expectations. The company earned $22.8 million, or 32 cents a share, on sales of $487.3 million. Analysts were expecting earnings of 25 cents a share on sales of $487.5 million. An improved pricing environment, especially for the company's chlorine and caustic soda, contributed to the solid fourth-quarter results. Looking ahead, Olin expects first-quarter earnings of 40 cents a share, as earnings in Olin's chlor alkali business continue to improve. Shares traded up 97 cents to $21.99.
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Emmaus, PA, United States, 2011/07/20 - Greg Bartels, president and CEO of IPS, is spoken to by Ken Congdon, editor in chief of Healthcare Technology Online. Congdon's story covers digitizing and streamlining accounts payable in hospitals - HealthCareTechnologyOnline.com / AltitudeMarketing.com.
Ken Congdon, editor in chief of Healthcare Technology Online, recently wrote an article,Digitize Healthcare AP Processes, where he speaks to Greg Bartels, president and CEO of IPS.
Congdons piece covers digitizing and streamlining accounts payable in hospitals. Congdon recommends leveraging a digital mailroom solution which would allow hospitals to centrally scan invoices as they enter the facilityeliminating the long, error-prone process of manually completing invoices, then routing them electronically for approval.
Greg Bartels, president and CEO of IPS, was consulted in the article. IPS has a wealth of experience in digitizing AP systems for hospitals and health care systems.
Through integration of digital mailroom, intelligent capture, electronic workflow, and digital repository technologies, weve been able to cut the cost of processing AP documents from $25 per invoice to less than $5 per invoice, said Bartels in the article. No matter how effectively a manual AP process may be structured, you cant move this type of information around in an analog fashion and approach the results generated when the information is digitized.
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Founded in 1991, IPS enables clients to move from legacy, analog, document processes to innovative, 100% digital processes including document scanning, conversion, archiving and workflow with near-perfect 99.995% data accuracy. IPS skillfully combines superior technology with human intelligence, customer-specific business rules and rigorous quality control in a cloud-based environment for maximum compliance, security and ROI. Defining best practices for decades, IPS transforms daily transactions into predictable, streamlined, fully digital processes.
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