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You have learned this month that i really love this series however i must admit that not all the books gave me the same pleasure. So i will let you make your own opinion on it.
St. Martin's
Publication: 2011
Genre: urban fantasy, romance, suspenseSource: bought
Violence: strong
Langage: normal
sex: mild
Public: 18+
Violence: strong
Langage: normal
sex: mild
Public: 18+
Short description from goodreads :
Dark magic, unknown enemies, monsters of every stripe—FBI profiler Jace Valchek has seen it all. In this bizarre parallel universe, shape-shifting werewolves and blood-thirsty vampires don't even warrant a raised eyebrow. That is, until Jace has to face what life might look like as one of them …
It starts off as just another run-of-the-mill assignment: to track down the rogue don of a mafia werewolf family before he upsets the delicate balance of the underworld. But Jace wasn't counting on being bitten…and soon she's fighting the growing wolf inside her with a startling antidote—vampirism. Stopping a bloody gangland war won't be easy when Jace is feeling some new, and very inhuman, desires …
My opinion:
I really love this series but this book kind of disappointed me. The rhythm is still rapid, the action well described, the plot and investigation well written but the humour was not as present as in the first book while the romance is put up front.
Jace wants to help doctor Pete and still feeling guilty for what happened because of that she isn't as cautious as she was in the first book ( and it was already quite a lot to say^^). Then when she is infected she is acting even more out of character though it's normal, believable and really well written. I enjoyed seeing her when she struggles with new instincts and senses. However as she does her job she doesn't see immediately who is behind, she doesn't try to see the problem in global point of view when normally she is keener on discerning manipulations and such thanks to her profession. It bothered me a little.
The whole mob of werewolves is interesting and we get to see a bit more how it works however even there she is not at her best and since the first part happens before her infection that's not an excuse. For the first time she is fighting to stay human and taking a lot of risks with that, it was a good way to go deeper in her psyche to have a glimpse of her vulnerability and all but it was done by sacrificing the humour presents in the first 3 books that lightened the atmosphere. This book is darker than the other so far.
While this book is all about Jace and her new problem, we also get to see a new side of Cassius and about his past. We also learn a bit more about the human enclave only cited before. We discover that their world is as bad as ours with their own kind of traffic of living beings. Charlie and Jace have a great partnership and it works better than before even if for protecting the other one has to lie sometimes. Finally too, Jace starts a relationship but until she had her mind on it she wasn't suspecting anything. Galahad is still there, cuter and s loyal, as well as the other secondary characters
It 's a good in a whole and i'm really curious about the next one, DD Barant keeps surprising me i just hope i will find again the same felling with book 5 that did with book 1-3.
Really a good series of urban fantasy with a lot of suspense and action in a universes complex but described in a master's way.
Score: 3,5/5
Disclaimer: All opinions are my own and no compensation was received in exchange for this review
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Almost since the day I started working with her, I've been harassing my co-worker, Lydia Vega, to teach me how to make her family's authentic tamales. When she finally agreed earlier this fall, I decided it would be fun to make a party of it.
As it turns out, you don't make tamales without having a party.
First, the recipe lends itself to huge batches that are made to be shared. Second, while not difficult, stuffing the tamales is time-intensive work that is also better shared. Third, well, who doesn't love spending an afternoon drinking wine, making delicious food and catching up with friends? I can't think of a better way to beat the January, post-holiday doldrums.
Since I couldn't invite you all, I took good notes to share. Before we get to the recipe, though, a few general tips:
• You may have to visit a few different stores to find the ingredients, but I was able to find them all locally. The masa that Lydia recommends is called Arturos masa, and it comes frozen. The peppers I bought did not specifically say "mild," but Lydia said that as long as they don't say "hot" they should be fine.
• Pull out the largest pots, bowls and pans that you have for mixing the masa and meat. Lydia has a huge mixing bowl that she brought with her, but if she hadn't, I would have used my trusty canning pot.
• Have something for your friends to take tamales home in. At the end of the day, we all walked around the table, each adding one tamale to a zip-top bag until they were all gone. It was a bit like ring-around-the-rosie!
Lastly, I highly recommend making tamales around your kitchen table or some place where you can all see each other. Is it a bit messier than doing it on the kitchen counter? Probably. But the rewards in conversation are well worth it.
Here's the recipe.
The Vega Family Tamale Recipe
(Makes about 70 tamales)
Boston butt pork roast, about 10 pounds
1 large bag mild New Mexico chili pods
10 pounds Arturos masa
3 16-ounce boxes lard
1 bag of corn husks
1 Tablespoon cumin
4-5 cloves of garlic, diced
The night before your party, you'll need to cook the roast. To do so, add the roast to your largest pot — I used my canning pot — and cover with water. Boil the meat, checking the water level every so often and adding more as needed, until the roast falls apart when you pierce it with a fork. For me, that took 4-5 hours. Once the meat is cool, shred it with a fork and refrigerate. Save several cups of the cooking broth, too, as you'll need it later.
You should also prepare the chilies ahead of time. In a large pot, cover the chilies with water and bring them to a boil. Let them cook for about 15 minutes. The goal is to get them re-hydrated. Remove the stems, and put the chilies in a blender or food processor to break them down. Once you have a rough paste, run the chilies through a food mill to remove the skins and seeds. Save the resulting smooth paste; discard the skins and seeds.
Once your friends have arrived, it's time to prepare the masa. Using your hands and the biggest bowl you can find, mix the lard into the thawed masa. Add about 4 Tablespoons salt and some of the reserved juice from cooking the meat. The masa is ready when it forms an easily spreadable paste. (We ended up adding about 2 cups of cooking juice to get there.)
While one person is preparing the masa, have another person soak the corn husks. To do so, put the corn husks in your clean kitchen sink and fill with hot water.
Meanwhile, another person can be preparing the meat. Mix the chili paste with the garlic, cumin and a few teaspoons of salt. Add in enough of the reserved cooking broth to make a watery paste. Add the chili paste to the meat and mix until well coated. This is a good time to let everyone have a little taste to check the seasoning.
By this time, the corn husks should be softened. Pop them in a strainer to drain off excess water.
With all the prep work done, now it's time to make tamales:
The corn husks have a rough side and a smooth side. With the smooth side up, and holding the husk in your hand, use a spoon to slather masa on the bottom two-thirds of the husk. While the thickness of the masa is a matter of personal preference, Lydia advised spreading fairly thinly. As a guess, I'd say our masa was about 1/4-inch thick.
Once you have the masa spread evenly, add a spoonful of the meat filling to the center. Then, fold one side over, fold the other side over that, and tuck the resulting tail underneath to form a neat pocket. Keep going until you run out of meat or masa.
To cook the tamales, steam them for a least an hour. Lydia said two hours is better — particularly if you're doing a larger batch — but who can wait that long?
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Second of Four Parts…
The Republicans Face Flak
The fate of Obamacare dominates the news—again. Eight years ago, anti-Obamacare Republicans and Tea Partiers were on the offensive. Today, it's pro-Obamacare Democrats, perhaps joined by "astroturf" activists, on the offense.
In the first installment of this series, we looked at the hot political issue of pharma drug prices. Now we'll look at an even hotter political issue, the fate of Obamacare—and we'll also see how it ties into the question of pharma drugs.
As Republicans grapple with Obamacare, the Main Stream Media headlines are, well, daunting. For example:
The New York Times, February 2, "GOP Campaign to Repeal Obamacare Stalls on the Details."
CNN, February 13, "Republican lawmakers grow wary of 'town hall' events."
Politico, February 14, "Republicans face anger over Obamacare repeal during town halls: Obamacare supporters showed up in huge numbers to voice concerns over repeal."
The same day, Politico bannered this headline, too: "Doubts grow that GOP can repeal Obamacare."
The Wall Street Journal, February 18, "Trump Agenda Is Beset by Opposition on Many Fronts."
The Washington Post, February 19, "The prospects of a quick Obamacare repeal are sinking fast."
You get the idea. And below the level of headlines, some of the texture might be unnerving to some—especially voters. In another New York Times story published on the 13th, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) was quoted as telling a town hall in his suburban Milwaukee district:
It's kind of like, you know, getting a 30,000-piece jigsaw puzzle for Christmas, and, you know, cleaning off the dining room table and seeing how long it takes to put all the 30,000 pieces together in the right place. It's not going to be easy.
A 30,000-piece jigsaw puzzle? Has anyone, in the history of the universe, had an easy time putting one of those together? So what does that say about prospects for a smooth overhaul of Obamacare?
Whoa! Wait a second, the reader might protest: Those are all MSM articles. Of course, the MSM wants us to believe that Republicans are ineffectual and heartless, all at the same time. So are all those headlines skewed, maybe even "fake news"?
Maybe. Yet if that's the case, then why are news items from the right not much better? On February 20, The Drudge Report blazed the headline, "Prospects of quick Obamacare repeal sinking fast." And the next day, the 21st, a Drudge header was even more emphatic: "CONGRESS STALLS TRUMP AGENDA."
Also from the right, Christopher Jacobs, writing for The Federalist on February 21, declared that the House Republican plan, as outlined in advance of actual legislation, was "a great disappointment."
That same day, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), the leading champion of libertarianism in Congress, was blunt:
My worry now is that many people are talking about a partial repeal of Obamacare. If you only repeal part of it and you leave some sort of Obamacare light, which some are talking about, my fear is the situation actually gets worse.
There's a phrase: "Obamacare light." And whether one sees that as an insult or a compliment, that does seem to be where Republicans are headed. Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), the influential chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, offered this cautious take on Obamacare's possible future:
There are some of these provisions in the law that probably will stay, or we may modify them, but we're going to fix things, we're going to repair things.
Such incrementalist talk will no doubt infuriate many among the activist Republican base, but most GOP officeholders seem to be looking at bigger numbers—such as the national polls. And those polls show that only about a fifth or less of Americans support immediate repeal.
For example, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll from early January found that 47 percent of Americans want to keep Obamacare, 28 percent want to see it repealed only when a replacement plan is firmly in place—and just 20 percent want to see it repealed immediately. And a more recent Quinnipiac Poll found that support for immediate repeal is actually declining.
To put a Republican name next to these numbers, we might consider Rep. Tom McClintock, who for the last eight years has represented a district in north-central California. McClintock seems to have a safe seat, and yet as The Sacramento Bee notes, 47,000 people in his district now have health insurance thanks to a single provision of Obamacare, the expansion of Medicaid. We might observe that it's the rare politician who wishes to antagonize so many potential voters, especially when the Democrats stand ready to contact and mobilize each and every one of them.
Thus McClintock has urged caution on his colleagues. As he told the assembled House Republicans at their recent retreat in Philadelphia, if they alter Obamacare, "Republicans will own that, lock, stock, and barrel." In other words, for better or for worse, they will bear full responsibility for the American healthcare system.
Meanwhile, on Fox News, Charles Krauthammer made the same point:
The problem is that if you get it done, you own the entire system of American medicine. . . . If you replace, you are going to have to redo all of American medicine all over again, and then you become responsible. . . . So if something goes wrong in anybody's life—denied coverage, lousy coverage, no available doctor, premiums increasing, whatever it is—whether or not it is caused by the replacement bill, you will be responsible for it and blamed.
In the meantime, the Democrats and the left are, indeed, turning up the heat. So should Republicans be worried? Some observers say yes.
On February 14, Jim VandeHei and David Nather, writing for the buzzy Beltway publication Axios, observed that some 147 million Americans benefit from government-backed health programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and VA benefits. The Democratic strategy, they added, is to scare all these beneficiaries about Obamacare repeal. That is, lump them all together and message them so that they all feel threatened. Will it work? We'll have to wait to find out, of course, but here's how the Axios scribblers see it in the meantime:
This year's version of "government takeover" is "throwing 20 million people off of health insurance." Democrats have been throwing that line around, even though Republicans are trying to find a replacement plan that covers people in other ways. (Their problem: They can't guarantee it will cover all 20 million.)
Continuing, the two write:
Democrats in Congress are under direct orders from party leaders to crank up their own protests, to build on the loud and angry demonstrations at Republican town halls. And there is every reason to believe they will be highly effective. How do we know? Because Republicans exploited the same fears, energy and trends to do unto Democrats as Democrats are about to do unto them. [emphasis added]
Again, no one is an all-seeing oracle, but just on February 21, in the early days of Resistance Recess, came some indicators. One was this New York Times headline, surveying the activist activity surrounding Republican lawmakers' meetings in Iowa and around the country: "Republicans Return to Town Halls, and Protesters Follow." And this, from Politico: "This time, [Sen. Chuck] Grassley hears pro-Obamacare voices: The Iowa senator's 2009 town halls helped kill bipartisanship for the health law. Now, the crowds worry about repeal."
Once again we might ask: Is all this noise simply journalistic hype?
We'll have a better handle on that question this spring, when Georgians go to the polls to fill the vacancy in the 6th Congressional district left by the departure of Tom Price, now Secretary of Health and Human Services. Price himself handily won re-election to the House last year, but Trump won the district by just a single percentage point. And so, of course, the Democrats will seek to make the voting a referendum on Trump, not Price.
The balloting takes place on April 18, and, if needed, a runoff will be held on June 20. In the meantime, we can observe that special elections are typically low-turnout affairs, with the advantage going to the side that can bring out the most "mad as hell" voters. So Peach State Republicans will have to get themselves energized to keep the seat.
Moreover, looking beyond that special election, we can see that the precise details of the Republicans' repeal/replace/repair legislation will be vital to their fortunes in the 2018 midterms. So if we recall Rep. Sensenbrenner's jigsaw puzzle analogy, we know that each tiny detail of the GOP plan will be critical.
We might further observe that it's the American middle class that finds itself right smack in the middle of the Obamacare fight. And why is that? It's because the rich and the upper-middle-class have all the insurance, and the money, that they need. And the poor already have Medicaid and charity. So that leaves the middle class at the mercy of the health-insurance tides.
Veteran health observer Robert Laszewski, a frequent critic of Obamacare, offers these words of warning to the GOP and, in particular, to the Trump coalition:
If you take Obamacare as it looks right now, [about half of enrollees] don't get a subsidy because their incomes are too high. They make $90,000 or $100,000 a year but are in the individual market. These tend to be Trump supporters. So if [the administration's forthcoming legislation] further destabilizes this thing and there are 20-to-50-percent rate increases, he'll be screwing his own people.
Stepping back and surveying the situation, Chris Krueger, a Republican Capitol Hill veteran, now penning an influential newsletter for investors, observed on February 14:
The GOP is completely wrapped around the axle on ObamaCare and has shifted their messaging from "repeal" to "replace" to "repair." This is a legislative Vietnam and it is going to take a while to find an exit strategy.
Yikes! Does the Republican healthcare effort resemble, even metaphorically, the disastrous US quagmire in Vietnam? Or is that just one man's opinion? We'll have to see. And it's worth noting, of course, that no actual legislation has emerged. So we shouldn't rush to judgment, even if the MSM wants us to.
And yet, probably even the most optimistic Republican has to admit that Obamacare has proven to be a thornier issue than the GOP first thought.
So some might be inspired to ask: What, exactly, have Congressional Republicans been doing for the past seven years? Yes, it was on March 23, 2010, that Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and so Republicans have had plenty of time to think through their preferred alternative.
The Bottom-Line Question of Health Insurance
So what's been the hang-up on the Obamacare rethink? Part of the answer is that the GOP has never really come to grips with the basic question: Do Americans have a right to health insurance?
For some on the edges of American politics, the answer is simple: "No," or, even, "Hell no." The 2016 Libertarian Party platform, for example, is forthright in expressing that opinion:
We favor a free-market health care system. We recognize the freedom of individuals to determine the level of health insurance they want (if any).
Without a doubt, that's an honest viewpoint. The problem for the Libertarians is that it's not a widely held viewpoint; we might recall that the Libertarian presidential candidate last year, Gary Johnson, won 3.2 percent of the vote.
Meanwhile, Republicans, striving, as always, for actual majorities, have a more complex task: They must uphold Republican ideals of liberty and limited government, while at the same time keeping faith with the basic needs of American citizens.
Perhaps the most articulate champion of most Republicans' thinking on healthcare is Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. In his February 7 debate on CNN with Sen. Bernie Sanders, Cruz was a veritable machine gun of facts and figures, perforating the foibles of Obamacare. Hands down, Cruz won the debate on points.
Yet for his part, Sanders, in his dogmatically dogged way, had a powerful point of his own to make that night: People need health insurance. And so when a woman in the audience, one Neosho Ponder, a breast cancer survivor, told both Senators that she was worried about losing her healthcare without Obamacare, Sanders flashed a look of triumph.
Yet Cruz, fast on his feet as always, had a solid response: Republicans, he said, support prohibiting insurance companies from canceling coverage. And the Texan added that GOP proposals would "prohibit companies from jacking up the insurance rates because [people] got sick or injured."
That was a good answer that seemed to satisfy the questioner, but now we are reminded of just how complicated the Republican repeal/replace/repair agenda will be. That is, how do we maximize freedom while at the same time guaranteeing coverage—and at reasonable prices? To be sure, there are answers to these questions, but they are complex answers. So the GOP will need Cruz-like lucidity to make their case to the American public.
As an aside, we might also note that Cruz has a second arrow in his healthcare quiver: the idea of medical cures. In that same February 7 debate, Cruz made the case for reform of the Food and Drug Administration, as well as other steps needed to spur medical innovation. As he said:
The four most devastating diseases in terms of human life and dollars [are] heart disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer. We ought to be investing everything we can to cure those diseases. Just curing cancer, an incredible achievement, would save $50 trillion and countless lives across the globe.
So yes, Cruz has a point there, too. And yet as we all know, in 2017 the big healthcare fight will be over Obamacare.
So now we come to another dilemma of the health insurance debate, which is actually a kind of cosmic joke. And that is this: For the epic fight over Obamacare, pro and con, it's a fact that today, after seven years of national health insurance, more than 28 million Americans do not have health insurance.
So we can see: For all the vast ambition of Obamacare's conception, for all the political perdition suffered by Democratic politicians in the midterm elections, and for all the heavy-handedness of its actual implementation, Obamacare has not achieved its mission. It would seem that the American people will simply not sit still long enough to be enumerated by Uncle Sam.
Thus we might conclude that the dream of universal coverage is just that: a dream. That is, the goal of covering 100 percent of the population has become a kind of theology—and on earth at least, theologies are impossible to prove.
Indeed, as Republican health-policy veterans Tevi Troy and Lanhee Chen argued in The Washington Post on February 2, it might be best for Republicans to think of fresh ways to move toward the Obama goal of coverage—such as, for example, new kinds of tax credits—even as they recognize that perfection can be found only in a higher realm.
So now, down here on earth, we are starting to see the likely outcome of Republican healthcare efforts this year: Obamacare will go away, but the replacement will have unmistakable traces of, um, the Affordable Care Act.
That's a solution that won't please purists on either side, but as they say in DC, a good legislative product might not be a work of art, but it can be artful work.
Yet still, for all the storm and stress over health insurance, the point that Cruz makes about the cost of disease, and the value of cures, is worth bearing in mind. After all, health insurance is only as good as the health system backing it up. If an American is diagnosed with, say, pancreatic cancer, there's an 80 percent likelihood that he or she will be dead within a year, health insurance or no health insurance. And if an American is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), he or she is likely to need years, even decades, of costly care.
So once again, health insurance, by itself, is no answer to the human and financial cost of death and disability. The goal of human health requires professional caregivers and the best technology; financial mechanisms can play no more than a supporting role.
And so we come back to the issue of actual health, which we touched upon in the previous installment. Actual medicine offers the best and easiest hope for relief from horrible illnesses. And medicine is ultimately cheaper, too, because good health is less expensive than illness.
We'll return to this topic, and to pharmaceutical drugs, in the next installment.


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At each NATCA convention, union members and employees who have done an exceptional job representing NATCA values are honored with the Tim Haines Memorial Award of Honor and Distinction, otherwise known as the "Timmy Award." This prestigious award was originally named the "Natty Award," first presented by former President John Carr at the 2002 NATCA Cleveland Convention, then at the 2004 St. Louis and the 2006 Boston Conventions. The "Natty Award" was changed to the "Timmy Award" during the 2008 Miami Convention in honor of Haines, who, with hard work and dogged determination, successfully implemented a reclassification project into NATCA's third contract, the Green Book.
Starting as a controller and then facility representative at Pittsburgh Tower (PIT), Haines was elected Eastern Region RVP in 1991. Haines is remembered as a NATCA member who never backed down. Because of this staunch dedication to his union, NATCA appointed him to a reclassification project that would revolutionize the way in which members of the union are paid fairly. Many did not believe this project would be successful and thought the FAA would never agree to it. But Haines never faltered in his resolve to protect his profession and the well-being of each and every member of his union.
After 18 months and 200 facility site visits to observe air traffic operations, Haines and his team collected loads of data and presented their proposal at the 1994 convention in Tampa. Shortly afterwards, FAA managers came onboard and the project was put into effect in the 1998 Green Book.
Haines passed away in 2006 and this award recognizes members of the NATCA family for their relentless dedication and Haines-worthy commitment to NATCA.
2018 Honorees
Doug Pincock
Kevin Peterson
Tom Adcock
Phil Hughes
Richard Kennington
Jimmy Lake
Mike Odryna
Ryan Smith
Sandy Tighe
Mike Robicheau
2017 Honoree
Eric Labardini
2016 Honorees (Presented at the San Diego Convention)
2015 Honoree - Aaron Fishman


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WASHINGTON (CNN) - The House of Representatives Monday rejected a $700 billion plan to bail out the financial system, putting a roadblock in front of the largest government intervention in the market since the Great Depression.
Watch: GOP blames Pelosi
Republicans and Democrats blamed each other for the failure of the bill, which President Bush had urged Congress to approve.
Watch: GOP 'punished the country'
It was intended to reassure financial markets by giving the government the power to buy "illiquid assets" such as bad mortgages.
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Turn off the light people. AMERICA is bankrupt
Good. Nancy Pelosi and the dems should just shut up and stop playing the blame game, alot of people in Washington had a hand in this. The feds need to not only look at the top execs at these firms that received millions of dollars but also at the politician's that gained from these firms as well and take action. It's all about I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine politics. If we really want to fix the economy then give every adult person in America one million dollars so we can pay off all our debts and pump back money into the economy. I believe our population is somewhere around 350 mil or so. It sure beats the 700 billion dollars Washington wants to take from us taxpayers! What do you say America? Forget about being Red or Blue, it's time we unite as "ONE" and stand up to Washington!
The sad thing is people don't realize how this will not "trickle down" to them, it will FLOOD them.
Too bad our educational system doesn't teach basic economics.
Queue "Chariots of Fire" theme song with slo-mo video of McCain hobbling as fast as he can to his private superjet to get back to DC and rescue the bill by tomorrow afternoon, maybe Wednesday, by weaving his messiah-like bipartisan voodoo over his allegedly recalcitrant party in order to bring them to their knees before the almighty wrath of his shining mavericky goodness, thus pulling the country back from the brink of economic apocalypse and saving us all. YAWN. Do you think McCain's campaign actually bothered to get the copyright from West Wing to use this script?
We are screwed!
Some people will cheer this. They apparently dont know whats going to happen in less than a week!
America is going to fall!
Congrats to you Mr. Obama. Partisan bickering has prevailed once again. The economy is terrible right now and in 6 weeks, it will be much worse. This will deliver to you a landslide election victory.
Maybe now is just not the time. Haste makes waste. Did the President sign the bill that was put on his desk Saturday to sign?
Would be interested to know
Thanks for handing the election to the Dems. Once the economy really tanks, it will be all wrapped up for Obama/Biden.
I say let the market crash...but then again, we may not ever be able to retire. Was THIS is the trickle down effect the Bush administration talked about when he cut taxes for the rich?
This is not good at all!! May God be with the next president !!!
I wonder how anyone could make jokes about this.
Jenny, Rio Vista, CA
Why? So he can tax us on top of this?
Our Dem congress hard at work I see.... glad I moved to international stocks a couple years back...
I sometimes think well...if we survived Enron and the fall of the dot-com companies, can't we ride this one out too? And don't forget, the the world didn't crash when it tuned 2000 (when everyone thought the millenium would cause all kind of mayhem by computers crashing because the dates were going from 1999 to 2000, even though the millenium actually occurred in 2001).
LOL James – democrat failure? If my memory serves me correctly, it was the Republicans (led by McCain) to put all the de-regulation in place that led to this mess.
REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISTS are RISKING our economy so they can play POLITICS with this important legislation! Call them out on it!
This is a great day.Americans have said no to socialism.The message to you libs is clear,no more free ride.If you want something you have to work for it,like we republicans do.Thank god for McCain blowing up this bill.Obama once again looks like a moroon.You libs will never take my money for your laziness and lack of responsibility.
The problem here is that the vast majority of the American people don't trust their government. IT IS HARD TO BLAME THEM as they have been cheated so often…
We wish we can tell you what to do…but for sure get rid of the current government first and then try to figure this out.
DO NOT ASK FOR ADVICE from
1. rich politicians
2. banks who stand to loose money
3. millionaire and billionaires
Go to your educated people in Universities and those that do not have a direct interest in the bailout – check your sources very carefully!
Best to you my friends!
Mcain went to Washington and killed the bill...can you imagine the "maverick" being elected POTUS...shooting first, asking questions/rationalizing later.
He has no substance, is not trustworthy and his campaign lack transparency.
Awesome sorry no free hand outs should have read the mortgage paper at closing and if you cant read you shouldnt buy a house......
Sorry Bonnie Frank and Chris Dodd HAHAHAHA
Funny how the McCain created economic disaster needs a Bush policy to fix it.
McCain: The problem to all of our solutions!
Go ahead and vote for Mccain you republicans will be crying within a years tops when our financial system implode's while the rich get their tax cuts and Mccain ride's out the bad time's in any one of his 7 houses and his 13 cars, well if he wins he'd ride out the storm in the white house.
Wow. Love how members of the House step up to the plate in times of crises. Lead, follow or get out of the way, but don't drag me and my kids down with you, please.
Deep down in everyone's gut, you have to know this bailout plan was not the right course of action.
There is no guarantee the bailout would work, nor was there a guarantee they government wouldn't come back to the taxpayers and ask for more money.
The people have spoken, now lets get to some real decisions about how we are going to get business rolling again. Lets get back to basics: enforcing our laws, simplify the tax codes, lower tax rates (our corporate tax rate is over 30 %, while Ireland, Russia, and Georgia all have a tax rate of around 12-14 %.... hmmm, where would you start your business?) get rid of capital gains taxes, and then we can talk about helping HONEST people who got screwed by the crooks in this financial mess....
I know there are some crooks out there who have their hands in this financial mess, and they deserve to go to jail.
I'm just afraid its some of the same people who are trying to craft this bailout- which is far from a "clean" bill- in fact, its loaded with discretionary and special interest spending. It is a dangerous and disastrous bill, and it should die a miserable death.
I don't get it, either the economic experts are wrong, lying, or congress just made the worst economic mistake in my lifetime.
You'd think they'd be smart enough to fix the McBush mess.But Republicans are too self centered to admit their mistakes.


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Solid musicianship along with The Humbuckin' Pickups genuine enjoyment and thrill at performing and roaring vocals translates into a truly great show. The Humbuckers are story tellers, grabbing tales from wherever they travel and bringing the stories to life through song.
One minute you'll be in the 1800's traipsing the floor boards of a country pub with an Australian icon, next you'll be surviving a shipwreck in Namibia, or even shedding a tear for a rose loving ghost. With an equally strong Americana influence The Humbuckers will also have you kicking up your heels and singing along to songs of drinking and dubious life choices.
Forming in 2012, the core Humbuckin' couple of Ewan and Nadine, have been leading various musicians to festivals and astray ever since.
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Rangers defenseman Marc Staal took a shot at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby:
Q: What would you say drives you?
A: Winning that Cup. You don't go through the playoffs and the grind of it for nothing. You go through it to win that ultimate prize and win it with your teammates. It's what keeps you coming back.
Q: When you were a boy, did you have a dream about hoisting the Stanley Cup?
A: Absolutely. Every year as kids, we watched the Stanley Cup finals, and that game, when the Cup is presented, we were allowed to stay up and watch it. It's something that you do dream about as a kid to be on that team throwing that Cup over top of your head. That's something that's extremely hard to do, and right now we're having a lot of fun trying to chase it.
Q: Do you remember watching clips of Mark Messier holding the Cup for the Rangers in 1994?
A: For this city and the franchise at that time, there was nothing bigger. Obviously hoping to make some of those memories for our team.
Q: You were hit in the right eye with a puck vs. the Flyers on March 6, 2013. How scary was that?
A: You're terrified, actually. You don't know where it's gonna go when something like that happens. For a moment, you don't know if you're gonna be able to play the game again.
Q: Do you remember the low point?
A: It wasn't even a week later after it happened, they were holding out optimism that I was gonna make a full recovery, and then in the doctor's office, told me that wasn't gonna happen and that there was gonna be damage in the eye, and that was a pretty hard day. And from there, it was figuring out how much you're gonna improve and how to adapt when it stops.
Q: Was time the major healing factor?
A: Time was a big thing and then getting my brain and everything adjusted to what I was seeing, and combining that all into competing on the ice again.
Q: Is your vision close to 100 percent now?
A: I don't know how to put a percentage on it, 'cause it's hard to explain, but I can see everything clearly.
Q: What was it like the first time you stepped on the ice after the injury?
A: I played one game in the playoffs that year. Obviously it was a little nerve-wracking, and exciting at the same time, to be back on the ice competing. I remember the crowd bring great when I stepped back on the ice, and you didn't realize how much you missed the game until you step back on the ice again, and you start competing and realize how much fun it is. At that moment, I kinda knew I was gonna be back.
Q: When you were fearing the end of your career, did it reach the point where you had to start thinking about what else you might do with your life?
A: (Chuckle) No, that would be too scary, I think.
Q: So you consider yourself a lucky guy, I would think, right?
A: I do yeah. It's an unlucky play on the ice, but I was lucky that maybe an inch lower, and it could have been a lot worse.
Q: What's your scouting report on Marc Staal?
A: I hate doing these things. … Defensive defenseman. I take care of my own end … try to be great positionally and have a good stick, and make sure I'm getting out of my end quickly, not spending a lot of time there … get transition, give it to the forwards, and let them do their thing.
Q: What's your on-ice mentality?
A: I try to keep it as level-headed as possible, and obviously there's certain moments in every game where that can change quickly. I like to try to keep myself in a good mind frame of where I'm still competing at a high level but not crossing that line where you're putting your team in jeopardy.
Q: Do you play with intensity, with fire?
A: When you go into the corner, I want to be the guy coming out with the puck, and I would do everything I can to try and do that, so the competitiveness, the one-on-one drive to not lose a battle on the ice and compete every shift is something that I try to take into every game.
Q: Superstitions?
A: I have routine. I'll have a coffee the same time every day before the game. I put the right side of my equipment on first — like my right skate, then my left; my right elbow pad, then my left; right shin pad, left shin pad.
Q: Pregame meal?
A: I switched up halfway through the year — salmon and brown rice.
Q: What was it?
A: Pasta and chicken.
Q: Describe your wife Lindsay.
A: We just had our first child [daughter Anna Veralyn] in February so,
she's been an incredible wife and mother. She's beautifully,
incredibly supportive.
Q: How has fatherhood changed you?
A: It turns you from being incredibly selfish to incredibly unselfish. All the things that you used to just enjoy doing and doing them whenever you want change pretty quickly, and all of a sudden, you don't really mind at all.
Q: On a scale of 1-10, how good are you as a diaper changer?
A: I can do that blindfolded now. I gotta be a 10.
Q: What is Alain Vigneault's coaching style?
A: He's a calming influence. He's extremely confident in what he's telling us as far as game plans and what to do, and tendencies of other teams. We know that he's putting the time and effort to give us the best possible chance to win the hockey game.
Q: Is it more of a relaxed atmosphere than it was under John Tortorella?
A: Yeah, you could say that. There's still accountability. He leaves a lot of it to the leadership in the room to make sure the guys are coming in every day working hard, doing the right things. … But yeah, I would say more relaxed.
Q: Describe Henrik Lundqvist.
A: Extreme amount of competitiveness to win hockey games and to be at his best all the time. He's not satisfied with mediocrity.
Q: Chris Kreider.
A: He's a manchild, that's for sure. Extremely fast, very hard to play against. Would not want to be a defenseman on the opposite side of him, that's for sure.
Q: Martin St. Louis.
A: Great person, great personality. A huge talent on the ice. One of the hardest workers that I've seen since I've played here in New York.
Q: Ryan McDonagh.
A: He uses every one of his abilities to his advantage, and he's pretty impressive to watch every night.
Q: How does your game differ from your brothers' — Eric and Jordan?
A: Obviously they have a little more skill than I do offensively. But we're similar in a lot of ways as well.
Q: Why does your brother Jordan call you the family goofball?
A: I'm not that much of a goofball, I think my youngest brother's [Jared] probably got me on that. Our family's obviously very close, and we like to give each other a hard time, and I like to give those guys a little harder time than they do me.
Q: What was your 2011 All-Star Game experience like?
A: It was pretty cool. When you grow up, you watch those skills competitions in the All-Star Game, watching those players in that setting play against each other and they're all on the ice having fun with each other, I always thought that was cool, and then to be on the ice with all those great players at that time, I was honored to be there.
Q: What was it like going from Thunder Bay, Ontario, to New York City?
A: I would say definitely culture shock. I didn't really know what to expect coming in to the city. I'd never ridden a subway before in my life and I was riding one to a hockey game, so that was a pretty big eye-opener coming in, from a small town in Canada to New York City. I love it now.
Q: Describe Thunder Bay.
A: It's a very blue-collar town, people work hard, extremely friendly, people are great. And it's cold, and they're long, cold winters. So in the summertime everyone's always out and about doing stuff, excited for it not to be winter any more (chuckle).
Q: What are your favorite NYC things?
A: The restaurants. Love the amount of restaurants, the amount of variety. Anything you want, you can have delivered very quickly.
Q: Any favorites?
A: Pick-A-Bagel right down the street, they got top-notch coffee. There's this Thai place called Yum Yum's.
Q: Any Italian places?
A: Scalinatella.
Q: Steak?
A: Porterhouse in Time Warner.
Q: Boyhood idol?
A: My dad.
Q: Why?
A: Growing up watching his work ethic — just the way he worked hard, never complained about it.
Q: Your memories working on the sod farm?
A: We started at a very early age — probably 7, 8 years old — every summer till I signed my first professional contract, so I definitely have a lot of memories. We would lay sod, and a lot of times when we laid sod, you'd have a lot of your friends or cousins be with you, it always made it a lot of fun. Definitely hard work and long days, but there's a lot of fun.
Q: You and your dad were Maple Leafs fans growing up.
A: We would watch Saturday night "Hockey Night" in Canada, it was the only game we got.
Q: Describe Norwest Arena in Thunder Bay.
A: Very cold (chuckle), and probably the hardest ice I've ever skated on. But obviously spent a ton of time there … spent more time there on the weekends than I would at our own house.
Q: You had a pond in your backyard before the rink was ready.
A: We'd get home and have dinner and then head out on the ice, and we could skate until my mom a lot of times would just shut the lights off on us.That usually was our cue to come in.
Q: Hobbies?
A: Big fishing guy.
Q: Favorite movie?
A: "Gladiator."
Q: Favorite actor?
A: Jim Carrey.
Q: Favorite entertainer?
A: Mumphord and Sons.
Q: Favorite meal?
A: Chinese food.
Q: Describe Rangers fans.
A: They know what's going on with the team. They're very diehard that way. They're tough when you're not going well and they're incredibly supportive, they'll cheer you on when things are going well.
Q: What do you like best about this Rangers team?
A: A lot of things I like about our team. The first thing is we're finding ways to win, and there's nothing more fun than winning, and love coming to the rink with our group and knowing that everyone in that room is gonna do whatever they can to try to win a hockey game, and that's a good feeling to have. And that's the feeling that we've had all year long, and it's something to be proud of.


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Swedish funds industry urges restraint on proposed commission ban
The Swedish Investment Fund Association has again urged local regulators and lawmakers not to go further than EU requirements when contemplating proposals for a commission ban affecting fund sales.
The call has come in an article penned by Sifa's CEO Fredrik Nordström for local business-to-business publication Pensioner & förmåner, which targets the local pensions industry.
In the article, Nordström notes that the local funds market already benefits from strong consumer protection combined with simple and transparent processes for the long term saver, which have combined to make funds a popular form of investment among households.
The regulatory framework for the market has grown over time, even as Sifa has developed guidance for its members to ensure good practice. Now Sweden is waiting for the proposals in law for implementing EU rules on advice and commission.
While Sifa sees benefits in a regulatory regime supporting independent advice through a commission ban, it is concerned that the proposals currently put forward in Sweden would result in a broader ban that would "have serious consequences for savers' abiliity to choose funds from a broad range."
This latest input into the debate currently affecting the local funds industry is likely not the last as Sifa and its members have identified the proposed changes to payments between providers and intermediaries as one of the top issues they face in 2016.
The full article put forward to Pensioner & förmåner can be read here (in Swedish): http://fondbolagen.se/sv/Aktuellt/Debattartiklar/160330-Viktigt-utvardera-effekterna-av-EU-reglering-innan-Sverige-gar-langre/


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After rejoining the Eastern Conference in 1978, the Wyoming Valley Conference sent teams to the finals in straight seasons. Unfortunately for the WVC, GAR and Coughlin were unable to win their final game.
In 1980, four teams were picked as the favorites to win the WVC and perhaps break that championship drought in the Eastern Conference.
Wyoming Area, Meyers, Pittston Area and GAR were the teams opening the season with targets on their backs. And this season, WVC teams had some extra incentive in the Eastern Conference playoffs. The 1980 WVC champion earned a first-round bye and the title game was scheduled to be played on the conference champion's home field.
Wyoming Area and GAR didn't waste any time showing they were contenders. The Warriors beat up 1979 defending conference champion Coughlin, 27-9, and the Grenadiers spoiled Jim Fennell's return to Valley West with a 32-7 victory.
The Warriors got off to a sluggish start in their season opener with Coughlin. Wyoming Area turned the ball over three times in the first half and lost two starters to injuries. Despite the problems, the Warriors built a 7-3 lead at the half and then dominated in the second half.
Junior tailback Gary Dohlon finished with 120 yards rushing and touchdown runs of 14 and 35 yards. Senior quarterback Tom Langan added the Warriors third touchdown, a 19-yard run.
"They had to key on Dohlon," Warriors head coach Paul Marranca said. "He's one great athlete. The heat took its toll on both clubs, We were really hurting at halftime. We got our second wind and took control of the game in the second half."
All-star running back Ed Amendola delivered Charlie Fick's first win as head coach of the Grenadiers. Amendoala rushed for 175 yards and scored four touchdowns including an 85-yard kickoff return.
"(Amendola) ran for almost 200 yards," Fick said. "I'd say he's the best running back in the area."
At Plains Memorial Stadium, Lake-Lehman routed Bishop Hoban, 36-7, thanks to the running of Rocky Bonomo. Bonomo, known more for his success on the wrestling mat, ran for 116 yards and scored on a 63-yard touchdown run.
"What a debut for Rocky," Black Knights coach Tom Hisiro said.
Meyers needed a 5-yard touchdown run from Lance Hamilton with 44 seconds remaining in the game to beat Pittston Area 18-13 and give coach Mickey Gorhman his 100th career victory.
"I'm thrilled with the win, but less pleased with some of our play at times," Gorham told The Sunday Independent. "But we came back despite some adversity. In that sense it was a great win for us."


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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Best Buy is gearing up for a special "Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) fixture installation" on October 21: some believe this could be another signal that the much-anticipated and rumored iPhone 5 will launch then. Meanwhile, Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) is letting people in Germany secure "reservations" for the next-generation iPhone, without giving details on the name or when it will be available. (via This is my next, Bloomberg)
» HP is splitting its WebOS operation in two: the hardware division (what will be left of it) will continue to report to Stephen DeWitt; the software division is getting moved into the office of strategy and technology, and will now report to Shane Robinson. Meanwhile, customers appear to be backing away from the business. (via Pre Central; WSJ)
Read our take on the challenges for HP (NYSE: HPQ) now here.
» Rene Obermann, the CEO of T-Mobile USA's parent, Deutsche Telekom, says that the merger of T-Mo with AT&T (NYSE: T) is still "on track" despite the antitrust intervention last week. (via Total Telecom/Dow Jones)
» China's booming mobile market, and the role of iOS and Android in it, gets a long look. (via Inside Mobile Apps)
» Google's "spring clean" has also meant to some operational changes: mobile ad network Admob will now focus only on in-app ads; mobile web inventory will be run through Adsense. (via Google Blog)
» Amazon's push into tablets will put it into competition with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for developers working on Android. (via Techpinions)
Our look at the report of Amazon's upcoming tablet — and what seems to be Amazon's strategy — here.
» Intel, which developed MeeGo with Nokia (NYSE: NOK), may discontinue its work on the OS and focus on hardware. (via Digitimes)


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I'm very pleased to announce that the latest volume of Comparative Legal History, a partnership between the European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) and Hart Publishing, has been published.
- Seán Patrick Donlan (firstname.lastname@example.com), Editor
Access the issue online and purchase individual papers here.
Subscription information is available here. As the official ESCLH publication, its members receive a free subscription.
The articles in this issue include:
Geoffrey MacCormack - 'Agreement', 'Contract' and 'Debt' in Early Chinese Law
This paper examines the evidence for the development of a law of contract during the period of the Warring States (481-771 BCE) and the Qin/Han dynasties (221 BCE – 220 CE). From a study of the technical terms found in the context of agreements, in particular zhai (debt), yue (agreement), and quan (document in two parts), the conclusion is drawn that early Chinese law never developed beyond the stage of recognition of a number of distinct types of agreement to which legal consequences were attached. No 'law of contract', comparable to that developed in Rome at roughly the same epoch, emerged from these particularities. The main reason for the difference between Rome and China, it is suggested, lay in the lack of emergence in China of a class of private lawyer resembling the Roman jurists.
Marcel Senn - 'Law and Authority': A Political and Legal Paradigm by Thomas Hobbes and its Different Receptions in the USA, Canada, Britain and Germany since 1989
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is one of the few grand oeuvres representing the code of pre-modern political power. This code often legitimates our present understanding of law and state. Therefore it is necessary to discover the 'socialisation' of the interpreters – that is the impact of social, cognitive interests within scientific interpretations of law – so as to improve our understanding in a more differentiated way. The author demonstrates this in relation to three different discourses on Leviathan conducted in North America, Britain and Germany during the last twenty-five years. He thereby shows how the 'socialisation' of the interpreters is manifest in these particular discourses, and what this means to a reader's critical comprehension when he or she tries to understand an opus such as Leviathan by merely reading secondary literature.
Johannes W Flume - Law and Commerce: The Evolution of Codified Business Law in Europe
This paper tracks the evolution of the codification of commercial law and company law, also known as business law. Although the literature on codification in general is vast, little attention has been dedicated to the importance of business law in this context despite the first major moves towards codification being achieved in this field. A comparative and historical survey of the codification of business law in France, England and Germany illustrates how the European legal landscape has been affected by the process of casting the law in statutory form. Indeed, regardless of the commonly-held misconception that there is 'a' commercial code, the legislative responses to the needs of commerce have varied widely from country to country, for while company law was always in focus, the rest of the corpus differs substantially. The code de commerce of 1807 was primarily of a procedural nature, while the German commercial code of 1863 created its own 'private law cosmos' and the late English codes adopted yet another, very selective, strategy. The aim of this comparative study is to understand the foundations of the legal institutions of the nineteenth century which still form the basis of our current statutes. This in turn allows some predictions for likely future developments to be made.
Tatiana Borisova and Jukka Siro - Law between Revolution and Tradition: Russian and Finnish Revolutionary Legal Acts, 1917–18
This article compares the legislative practices of two socialist revolutions in Russia (the Bolshevik revolution) and Finland in late 1917 and in 1918. Notwithstanding the considerable differences in the social, political and economic conditions in Finland and Russia, the revolutionaries in both countries had similar legislative strategies. The revolutionary legislative policies had the same ends: to secure the success of the revolutions, and, eventually, to build a new and better society. This article seeks to demonstrate the history of revolutionary law-making as a juncture of two main tendencies: the emergence of new 'revolutionary' features of legislative politics and the preservation of pre-revolutionary law.
We argue that the pre-revolutionary practices of law-making on which the revolutionaries relied shaped their strategies and, to some extent, the criteria by which they judged the ultimate success of their revolutions. We argue that the performative effect of revolutionary slogans should be perceived, at least in part, as a continuity of pre-revolutionary legal and administrative practices. Our comparative analysis of revolutionary law-making provides a more complex understanding of the role of revolutions in modern state empowerment.
The Reviews, including a Review Article, include:
- Paolo Napoli - A review article of Giorgio Agamben, Altissima povertà. Regole monastiche e forma di vita
- Arno Dal Ri Jr - A review of Ignazio Castellucci, Sistema juridico latinoamericano: una verifica
- Peter CH Chan - A review of Lei Chen and CH (Remco) van Rhee (eds), Towards a Chinese Civil Code: Comparative and Historical Perspectives
- Jasmin Hauck - A review of Irene Fosi, Papal Justice: Subjects and Courts in the Papal State, 1500–1750
- Dave De ruysscher - A review of Stefania Gialdroni, East India Company: una storia giuridica (1600–1708)
- Merike Ristikivi - A review of Heikki ES Mattila, Comparative Legal Linguistics: Language of Law, Latin and Modern Lingua Francas
- Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina - A review of Luigi Nuzzo, Origini di una scienza. Diritto internazionale e colonialismo nel XIX secolo
- Viviana Kluger - A review of José María Pérez Collados and Samuel Rodrigues Barbosa (eds), Juristas de la Independencia
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"We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box."Unknown
Unity, by definition, is a noun that refers to the state of being joined as a whole. It also means agreement or harmony between people or groups. The word is synonymous with oneness, concord, harmony, agreement, and union.
The idea of unity comes to mind when I think of how mental illness is portrayed in the media, in books, movies and to the world in general. I have to wonder whether the day will come when we are seen as equals, instead of outcasts in a community that has chosen to close its eyes to what we are capable of as human beings. It is a sad state affair when the first words reports when a tragedy happens is that the person was suffering from a mental illness. What they do not understand is that their illness was probably not the reason the event occurred, it is simply a way to place blame. What should be broadcasted is the lack of treatment facilities, doctors, medication, research and people who are willing to find the reason behind why the brain works the way it does?
I chose the word unity because it is my wish and hope that one day we will be able to come together, everyone with an equal understanding of what mental illness is and isn't. That there will come a time that it is treated as just another illness and not stigmatized, this stigma only creates additional issues for those who live with it. The lack of knowledge by society draws those who suffer further into a corner, to hide themselves from the looks, comments and fear of what will happen if they are found.
It would surprise many to know how many people they associate with daily are mentally ill, you don't know because we are forced to live in silence. What we long for is unity with the world, the community, with each other and no longer feel the need to cry in silence because our minds just cannot handle much more.
I feel sometimes this is only a dream, a fantasy my mind creates for itself to get through the toughest hours, but there is hope, there has to be.


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I was trying to install Internet Explorer 8 and PC said i had a newer version of Explorer already installed. Do you want to replace still? i clicked yes and then it said that the files being replaced would keep main programs from running. Stupidly, i clicked O.K. Now my start menu and Desktop icons are gone and all i have is wallpaper with the mouse arrow. how do i get my PC running again? I currently in school on-line and need PC to work VERY BADLY!!!
DUMBO, Press the Alt/Ctrl/Del keys at the same time to bring up the Task Manager, click File>New Task (Run) then type in explorer.exe and click OK. If this doesn't correct the problem follow the instructions below.
Go to the link below and scroll down to line 195 (right column) and download the "Restore Desktop Icons and Taskbar" vbs file fix.
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Avoiding Infringement of Third-Party Trademark Rights
1.Do the marks look alike?
2.Do the marks sounds alike?
3.Do the marks have the same meaning or suggest the same thing?
Other factors include:
-Similarities and dissimilarities of the goods and services
-The manner of marketing the goods (Do they move in the same channels of trade? Are they sold in the same type of store?)
-The nature of the prospective consumers (Are the goods bought by the same people? What degree of care would be exercised by the purchasers?)
Trademarks, when used on products purchased by relatively sophisticated purchasers, are less likely to cause confusion about the source of goods, than when used on goods typically sold to unsophisticated buyers. Whether marks are confusingly similar is the cumulative effect of the differences and similarities in the marks and in the goods or services.
It is important to realize that the ability to register a corporate name or state trademark does not prevent infringement of another trademark. Most states have minimal examination of marks as a prerequisite to registration. Unless a substantially identical mark or corporate name is already registered with the state, a registration will be granted.
Potential trademark infringements can be avoided by investigating before adopting a trademark. Online databases, such as Dialog, provide access to trademark databases, including TrademarkScan and Compu-Mark. Trademark databases also are available on CD-ROM.
More complete searches can be obtained from professional search organizations such as Thomson and Thomson, and Corsearch Inc. in New York that maintain their own databases, and from various firms in and around Washington, D.C., that use the Patent and Trademark Office files.
Information is available not only on federally registered marks and applications but also on state registrations and common law usage (trade names and telephone listings).Worldwide searches are also available. Consult an experienced intellectual property attorney to evaluate the results of the search when using marks with a high volume or core product or any mark that your company plans to invest significant sums of money promoting.
The scope of a trademark search should be a function of the company's plans and commitment to the mark. Sometimes you can know too much. Generally, the first to use a mark in connection with particular goods in a particular geographical area obtains the "common law" rights to the mark for use with those goods in that area. However, if someone is unaware of the mark's prior use, "common law" rights don't extend beyond the area where the mark is being used.
Federal registration of the mark gives nationwide constructive notice of the use of the mark, and expands the geographic scope of the rights. Also, when an application for trademark registration based on an intent to use is granted, it is as if use of the mark on a nationwide basis began on the date of the application. This means that federally registered marks and applications for federal registration should always be reviewed before making any substantial use of a mark. Registration gives constructive notice of the mark.
However, you may not want to know about prior use of an unregistered mark because it may preclude use of the mark in that geographical area. Accordingly, if a company plans to use the mark nationally, it should be aware of the prior use and either chose a different mark or reach an accommodation with the prior user before committing substantial resources to the mark.
However, if the mark will be used in a limited geographical area, the company is actually better off being unaware of the prior use. In the absence of knowledge, the company obtains the rights to mark in those areas where it is the first to use the mark. On the other hand, the company is subject to the prior use if it is aware of the use when it adopts the mark.
Anything that distinguishes the goods or services of one company from those of another can be a trademark or service mark. A competitor can acquire trademark rights not only in logos and brands names but also in such things as user interface design, trade dress (e.g. package design), arbitrary color schemes, and in some cases, even the smell of a product. Potential issues also can be avoided by making a conscious effort to use distinctive packaging. The less resemblance to a competitor's packaging, the less likely an issue of trade dress infringement will arise.
Michael A. Lechter, a member of the international law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Phoenix, Ariz., has specialized in intellectual property law for more than 20 years. He can be reached via E-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com
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My work exists at the intersection of art, biology, metaphysics, and response to the natural world. The concept that things in the universe devolve toward entropy or evolve into being, the simultaneous dynamic of destruction and construction, is evident in the interplay of organic matter and sculptural forms. These sculptures pay homage to the organic forms that inspired them, a poetic response to each found object. The hope is that the viewer observes things that otherwise might have gone unseen, and perhaps perceives the natural world in a new way.
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Health Research and the EU – Money for Homeopathy?
April 17, 2011
The European Commission has just launched a public consultation on the Green Paper for the next round of funding for research and innovation after 2013. (In the current programme, 2007-2013, the EU is spending some €143bn in this area.) Health and aging is seen as one of the focal points of the next programme.
Advocates of complementary medicine held a meeting in the European parliament recently, hosted by Marian Harkin MEP, and called for more EU investment in research in homeopathy and anthroposophic medicine.
I'm not a fan of complementary (and alternative) therapies generally although I'm open to any specific treatment that is supported by good science. I do see three difficulties, though, about the idea of spending taxpayers' money on research in this area.
First there has already been a lot of research, founded on good science, in this area. The overall results have not been encouraging, to put it mildly, to homeopathy and other forms of complementary or alternative medicine. It's not hard to find this research on the web, and in peer reviewed journals, but let me just cite one paper here – an article in The Lancet by Dr Ben Goldacre. One advantage of this article is that it was heavily criticised by advocates of homeopathy to whom the author responded in his Bad Science blog and elsewhere, so it is possible for those interested to follow the debate and form a view of the competing arguments. I'm on the side of Dr Goldacre. (As it happens, I had not previously read or thought much about homeopathy; I've read a bit more since, both from advocates and critics.)
There is also a good article here on homeopathy from Prescrire International.
The second difficulty in funding (further) research in complementary medicine is that many (not all) advocates explicitly decry "traditional" or "old-fashioned" science as a measure of the effects of their therapies – which raises the question of what kind of science the EU should fund, should it decide to invest in research in complementary medicine. What precise hypotheses should be tested, and how?
The third difficulty I see is that complementary and alternative medicine is not based on a single defined set of theories or hypotheses that can easily be tested in some general sense. Homeopathy seems to have a more agreed set of underlying principles than many other therapies but even here it is hard to tie down a sufficiently explicit hypothesis that can be tested scientifically – apart of course from randomised double blind controlled tests of outcomes as compared to placebo (not an easy thing to do). Anthroposophic medicine seems to suffer even more from the same problem, so far as I can see.
I do see one danger in the new research programme in relation to health – that it may be overly influenced by the concerns of the pharmaceutical industry, as the current programme is.
I hope therefore that many independent and critical voices, from the independent drug bulletins, consumer groups and others, will respond to the Commission's public consultation (before 20th May) on the proposed new programme. ENDAuthor : Jim Murray


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On your way to a housewarming party but don't want to give the standard plant or casserole? Give the new homeowners something they can really use by assembling a group of practical items in a jar that will most likely become invaluable over the days and months to come. Use some of these ideas and incorporate your own based on the specific homeowner's needs. You'll be not only a hit with the homeowner, friends will want to re-produce your gift for future use.
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Assess Homeowner's Needs
Method 1 of 3:
1Identify the homeowner's life stage before shopping for items. For a first time home owner, the basics such as screwdrivers, extension cords and tape measures are a great idea. However, if this is the homeowner's second, third or even fourth home, you may want to stuff the gift with items that may be specific to either the new area or home (for instance, moving from a large home to a condo).
2Consider adding a special touch. In addition to the practical, find at least one item that may have function, but also is unique and/or speaks to the individual homeowner's taste. For example, if the homeowners have a fondness for all things British, include a Union Jack hand towel in the jar or Royal Family coasters.
- Gift cards to home improvement or bed and bath stores are also a good idea and add a special touch.
3Don't overwhelm the jar. The idea is to give a gift that has thought and function but not to provide all the tools they need. For instance, instead of the value-pack of nails opt for a smaller pack. If the homeowner needs more, he or she can get them--the idea is to offer something to get the homeowner started.
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Gather Items
Method 2 of 3:
1Shop for the container first. Before you fill the container, you need to know the size and amount you can add. Consider purchasing a container that can also be re-purposed and used later to hold a variety of items but something that isn't so big the homeowner will need to find a place for storage.
- Make sure the container either has a lid or can be sealed. You can also seal the top with a piece of fabric and ribbon if you fall in love with the container and think the homeowner will too.
2Purchase gift items. Gather items to fit inside the container and envision everything someone might need during those initial days in a new home. Consider making a list before you shop and possibly bring the container along for the shopping spree to ensure everything fits inside.
- Consider going with a theme for your gift, such as a picture hanging theme. Purchase everything needed to hang multiple pictures/paintings in the home including a mini hammer or small electric screwdriver.
- Don't over-spend on items, especially if you aren't sure whether the homeowner already owns the item or not. For example, don't purchase the top-of-the-line screwdriver in the event the homeowner already has one (or may have one in storage or packed in boxes).
3Remember to get your specialty item. This item will hopefully be positioned front and center inside the jar so make sure it is sized accordingly and fits amongst the other items.
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Build Your Gift
Method 3 of 3:
1Remove price tags from purchased items. Depending on how the tags are placed, either use a razor blade to lift tag stickers or you can cut away the area of the package that contains the sticker. Using a black Sharpie marker to black out the price may also be a solution.
2Examine packaged items to ensure they fit nicely inside the container. In some cases you may want to remove the item and allow it to free-float inside the jar. For example, a screwdriver or mini hammer can be removed from the packaging to accommodate for space.
3Place items inside container. There's no special way to do this, however make sure everything fits comfortably, leaving space for the special item to be positioned toward the front/outside of the container.
- When positioning special item, slide it in last and make sure you can see it after everything is in place.
4Add lid and seal. If you are using a standard lid, just screw lid on and add a ribbon.
- Consider including a gift tag along with the ribbon. This can include a special message from you and/or a list of items inside the container.
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When choosing a contractor, it's important to choose one that is ultimately trustworthy. However, as well as this factor, customers also seek out contractors that can complete the work to a high quality standard, as well as doing the work in a safe manner.
Television programmes on rogue contractors and businesses can make customers more cautious of who they select to undertake work – and rightly so. To help ensure work done fits the customer's needs and expectations, it is wise to look for companies who are accredited.
What is accreditation and why is it important?
Accreditation is a process of officially recognising a company for being qualified to perform a particular activity. There are different types of accreditation, but when choosing an automatic gate company, such as Portcullis Gates Automation, it's important that the company has the relevant construction accreditation.
By being accredited, it highlights that a business is trustworthy, completes work to a high standard and completes work whilst complying with health and safety regulations. Accreditation is important for a business, as it helps promote the safe standards that the business work in. It is also a great tool for allowing customers to pick contractors based on their accreditation, as having more of these can be appealing for customers.
Portcullis Gates have recently renewed three of their seven accreditation. The renewed accreditation include; Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS), Door & Hardware Federation (DHF) and Alcumus SafeContractor.
Having a CHAS accreditation means that Portcullis meet their health, safety and wellbeing obligations during the work they do for customers. This helps solidify Portcullis as industry leading experts for health, safety and wellbeing. Door & Hardware Federation is the only unified body representing the interests of industrial & garage doors, metal & timber doorsets, powered gates and the building hardware sectors. DHF's aim is to raise standards in the industries it represents and reassure customers that they are using products and services of the highest quality that conform with the latest legislation and technical specifications.Finally, their recent renewal of Alcumus SafeContractor, shows how Portcullis are compliant in risk management when undergoing services for customers.
It is crucial that customers choose a contractor that not only fits their requirements and budget, but also one that will complete the work in a safe manner, without compromising on quality.


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