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Services will also be held at Westminster Abbey in London, where Dr Jim Swire, who lost his daughter Flora, will speak, and at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, and Syracuse University, which lost 35 students. One hundred and eighty-nine Americans died in the bombing.

On the eve of the anniversary, David Cameron paid tribute to the "fortitude and resilience" of those affected by the tragedy and told them that terrorism would never prevail.

The Prime Minister said the bombing remained "one of the worst aviation disasters in history and the deadliest act of terrorism" ever committed in the United Kingdom.

He added: "Though 25 years have passed, memories of the 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 Lockerbie residents who lost their lives on that terrible night have not dimmed.

"To families, friends, neighbours, loved ones, and all those caught up in the painful process of recovery, let us say to them: our admiration for you is unconditional. For the fortitude and resilience you have shown. For your determination never to give up. You have shown that terrorist acts cannot crush the human spirit. That is why terrorism will never prevail.

"And even in the darkest moments of grief, it is possible to glimpse the flickering flame of hope."

Alistair Carmichael, the Scottish Secretary, who will be at Westminster Abbey, said the memory of the shock and horror of the disaster was as strong for him today as it was 25 years ago.

Alex Salmond will attend a wreath laying and memorial service in Lockerbie, as will Lord Wallace of Tankerness, the Advocate General for Scotland.

Kenny MacAsckill, the Justice Minister who controversially freed the only man found guilty of the bombing, will take part in an evening service at Dryfesdale church.

Mr Salmond said the memory of the bombing was sharp for anyone living in Scotland at the time, adding: "On this 25-year anniversary, and as the country prepares once more to relive the harrowing events of that terrible night, it is important that we remember that the pain and suffering of the families and friends of those who died has endured since that winter night in 1988.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian domestic maids may return in big numbers to Malaysia under a proposed deal announced by the Malaysian and Indonesian governments yesterday.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said, after wide-ranging bilateral talks with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Jakarta, key private sector groups in both countries might be roped in again to handle the recruitment of maids.

Arrivals of Indonesian maids in Malaysia have dwindled after the government capped the cost structure of hiring the maids at RM4,511, well below the Malaysian Association of Foreign Maid Agencies' (Papa) proposed rate of RM7,500.

"I have agreed that the MoU (signed in Nov 2011 in Bali, Indonesia) on the cooperation in labour, especially with regard to domestic maids, be expanded to include the private sectors that represent both nations," he told a news conference at the presidential palace.

"An MoU should be signed between Papa and Apjati (its Indonesian counterpart -- Association of Indonesian Manpower Services).

"If both sides sign the MoU, I am confident that the number of Indonesian domestic maids in Malaysia can reach our desired levels.

"So far, only 513 maids have arrived in Malaysia under the current (government-to-government) mechanism."

Indonesia imposed a temporary freeze on the supply of maids to Malaysia on June 26, 2009, following reports of abuse by employers.

The freeze was lifted following an agreement between Najib and Susilo in December 2011.

Meanwhile, Apjati was optimistic that the latest arrangement agreed by the two leaders would help resolve the impasse on the arrival of foreign maids to Malaysia.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian domestic maids may return in big numbers to Malaysia under a proposed deal announced by the Malaysian and Indonesian governments yesterday.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said, after wide-ranging bilateral talks with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Jakarta, key private sector groups in both countries might be roped in again to handle the recruitment of maids.

Arrivals of Indonesian maids in Malaysia have dwindled after the government capped the cost structure of hiring the maids at RM4,511 (S$1,746), well below the Malaysian Association of Foreign Maid Agencies' (Papa) proposed rate of RM7,500.

"I have agreed that the MoU (signed in Nov 2011 in Bali, Indonesia) on the cooperation in labour, especially with regard to domestic maids, be expanded to include the private sectors that represent both nations," he told a news conference at the presidential palace.

"An MoU should be signed between Papa and Apjati (its Indonesian counterpart -- Association of Indonesian Manpower Services).

"If both sides sign the MoU, I am confident that the number of Indonesian domestic maids in Malaysia can reach our desired levels.

"So far, only 513 maids have arrived in Malaysia under the current (government-to-government) mechanism."

Indonesia imposed a temporary freeze on the supply of maids to Malaysia on June 26, 2009, following reports of abuse by employers. The freeze was lifted following an agreement between Najib and Susilo in December 2011.

Meanwhile, Apjati was optimistic that the latest arrangement agreed by the two leaders would help resolve the impasse on the arrival of foreign maids to Malaysia.

Najib and Susilo, who had an hour-long meeting, followed by their delegation meeting at their annual consultation, also discussed a host of other issues, including haze, transnational crime, student visas, trade and the marketing of palm oil.

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In New York, it looked like a straightforward case: an obscure young diplomat at the Indian consulate was accused of lying on visa forms so she could bring her maid to the U.S., paying her less than $3 an hour. The diplomat was arrested, processed through the legal system like anyone else and quickly freed on bail.

In India, though, the hours that Devyani Khobragade spent in custody have set off a diplomatic storm. Government officials roared about her public arrest, particularly her strip search. Cabinet ministers warned of international conspiracies. An Indian official compared the search to a gang rape. Heavy concrete security barriers were dragged by police from around the U.S. Embassy. The Indian media fumed over the country's humiliation.

Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid summed up the feelings of many people here. "It is no longer about an individual," he told Parliament in an angry speech Wednesday. "It is about our sense of self as a nation and our place in the world."

Because what happened in New York was not just about an arrest, or about one young woman. Instead, the incident pinballed through a series of cultural land mines, causing an uproar in a country where a woman's honor is supposed to be publicly defended, insults are profoundly felt and the treatment of one's maid is, for most, considered no business at all of the authorities.

As for the arrest itself: Only the powerless and poor would face arrest for lying on a government form. For someone in the educated elite, a strip search would be unthinkable.

"There's an expectation here that if you speak English in a certain way you will be treated with a certain deference by the authorities," said Mihir Sharma, a New Delhi writer and associate editor of the Business Standard newspaper.

It's an expectation that means police rarely harass drivers of Mercedes, and wealthy Indians convicted of brutal crimes can spend years free on medical leave.

Then there's history. The arrest mingled with long-harbored worries that the U.S. condescends to India, treating it as a poverty-wracked nation with poor sanitation instead of as the world's largest democracy and a nuclear power. Also, while New Delhi and Washington have become close allies over the past decade, that followed many more years of Cold War distrust, when India had close ties to the Soviet Union, the United States had close ties to Pakistan and the U.S. Embassy here was regarded as little more than a walled CIA encampment.

Among the Indian elite, and particularly among senior foreign service officers, it's not hard to find people who still look at the United States with deep-rooted suspicion.

"For (so) long these Americans ... have taken us for granted, and we loved to surrender every time they insulted us, interfered in our affairs and humiliated our citizens," Tarun Vijay, a Hindu nationalist and member of the upper house of Parliament, wrote in the Times of India. "Our ministers are subjected to humiliating searches and we kept quiet."

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ROUND MOUNTAIN, Texas (KXAN) - A flash mob broke out at a wedding in the Hill Country town of Round Mountain during a maid of honors speech.

My wife Bethany Blankenship (who is the American Sign Language signer that starts the video with her speech) had been planning the flash mob for about three months, said Chris Blankenship.

Blankenship sent in the video using our ReportIt feature, saying the couple got legally hitched in New York because the two women couldnt do that in Texas.

However, they did come back to the Lone Star state to celebrate at Three Points Ranch, only a few miles outside of Marble Falls.

After being together for about 12 years, Adrienne Sneed and Claudia Secor-Watkins finally tied the knot.

It didnt come without some courage, however.

Adrienne also had only recently come out to her dad about a year ago when the two decided to get married, said Blankenship. He struggled with the issue for a while but ended up accepting her because they [the couple] are so happy together.

Blankenship adds an interesting detail about the flash mob organized by his wife, who is an ASL interpreter at Austin Community College: My wife chose signs that reinforced homosexual equality.

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Maid service, cleaning service, apartment cleaning and janitorial service are terms more modernly describing a specialized outside service, providing a specific service to individuals, businesses, fraternal clubs and associations as well a home.

These services may be different, than what is generally thought to be the historically prevalent services performed by a maid and these services may be provided by both male and/or female individuals.

In current descriptive, "maid" is a female employed in domestic service. Once part of an elaborate hierarchy in affluent homes and profitable businesses, today a maid may be the only domestic worker that upper and even middle-income households can afford, as a household domestic-help employee. Maids perform typical domestic chores such as cooking, ironing, washing, cleaning, grocery shopping, walking the family dog, and tending to the household children.

In the Western world, comparatively few households can afford live-in domestic help employees, in lieu of this affordability, the alternative, generally termed as a maid service is utilized as a periodic cleaner. In developing nations, differences found within income and social status between different socio-economic classes, lesser educated women, with less opportunity are believed to provide a labor source for domestic work.

Maids, per se, perform typical domestic chores such as cooking, ironing, washing, cleaning the house, grocery shopping, walking the family dog and taking care of children. In many places in some poor countries, maids often take on the role of a nurse in taking care of the elderly and people with disabilities. It is believed that many employers of maids require the individual to wear a uniform, of the traditional style.

Socio-economic opportunities, not being confined to any specific global location, may allow cleaning services to perform 'cleaning' as their source of business as a service.

Utilizing a maid service may be considered due to a number of personal factors, including but not limited to geographical location, social standing, lack of personal time, lack of experience.

Historically, utilizing a maid service was thought to be affordable only to the affluent, these services though, have become increasingly common in many developed cultures, partly because of the rise in dual-income families.

A maid service may be more expensive than simply hiring a part-time maid, but it offers a number of advantages. Usually the service will provide not only someone to do the cleaning, but also all of the necessary cleaning supplies. Also, as a bona fide employer, the service is responsible for withholding Social Security and other income taxes. Third, a service is insured and often bonded, so it can be held accountable if something is stolen or missing.

Janitorial service often refers to the use of a cleaning service for businesses rather than just residential. The advantages to using a janitorial service are the same as using a maid service for residential above. Janitorial services in the United States employe thousands of workers from all parts of the world.

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The Government is reworking the system of sending Indian domestic helps abroad to work with diplomats even as the controversy over the maltreatment of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade became murkier with India saying the US embassy had given visas to the husband and two children of the absconding maid despite being told that she was wanted by a Delhi court.

The family boarded an Air India flight for New York on December 10, just two days before Dr. Khobragade was arrested and strip searched.

New Delhi also sought to shift Dr. Khobragade to Indias Permanent Mission in UN where she will get full diplomatic immunity. The attempt to move her has been made against the backdrop of the US claiming that officials working in consulates get immunity only for acts done in their line of work. This has raised fear of the possibility of the diplomat being harassed again.

Ms. Richard's family was given US visas even though New Delhi had been regularly petitioning the Americans to trace her after she went missing in June. There was also a court case against the maid after the Khobragade family complained that she had absconded with her diplomatic passport. The court subsequently issued a warrant against her and this fact was also brought to the notice of the US authorities yet her family was given a visa.

In another twist to the tale, Ms. Richards husband had filed a case in July demanding the Government locate his wife but he withdrew the petition later. There was no confirmation of reports that her father works with the US Embassy.

India is demanding the diplomat be allowed to return home and all charges against her dropped. Unlike two previous cases, this was the first time the US Government had filed criminal charges.

Taking the cue from this case, the Government is now accelerating a proposal pending with the Union Finance Ministry to designate Indian domestic helps working abroad as government servants on contract in order not to fall foul of minimum wages laws in developed countries. The Ministry of External Affairs had moved the proposal after the case of another Indian diplomat hit the headlines in 2011.

Under the pool system, a fixed number of domestic helps are available and their services are called upon by diplomats according to need. If this is coupled with short-term Government contacts, most of the issues that bedevil Indian diplomats will be sorted out they will not be held personally culpable in case of a contractual dispute and the contract system will take care of the minimum wages issue.

India has refuted the contention that security of the US Embassy had been compromised with the removal of concrete barricades. The police picket and the usual complement of the diplomatic security force still keeps tabs on the security around the embassy.

As for narrowed parking space around the embassy, this was a reciprocal gesture after the reserved parking slot opposite the Indian Embassy in Washington was converted into a general parking lot.

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