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FORMER All Black Shane Howarth rescued an Allied Dunbar Premiership point for Sale with a penalty kick almost five minutes into injury time. Howarth, whose boot had already collected 20 points with six penalties and a conversion, crushed Wasps who were within sight of their second away win of the season until they were caught offside in front of their own posts. Wasps looked set for two valuable points when they went ahead with a Huw Rees drop goal five minutes from time.
ROCKVILLE, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 15, 1999– Point of Care Technologies, Inc. (Point of Care- NASDAQ: OTCBB: PCIT) announced today that it has signed a letter of intent to sell substantially all of its assets to Dade Behring, Inc. Closing of the transaction is subject to, among other conditions, the completion of due diligence, negotiation and execution of a definitive agreement, certain regulatory approvals, and approval of Point of Cares stockholders.
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PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 13, 1997–Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector Tuesday announced the introduction of a set of board level products aimed at the variable speed motor drives market. The two-piece tool set consists of a digital motion control board featuring the MC68HC708MP16 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) and an IGBT power stage board. The power stage is designed to drive 3 phase motors up to 1 hp from DC bus voltages up to 380 volts. The included 64 pin, 8MHz, MC68HC708MP16 MCU incorporates two timer interface modules (4ch 2ch) with input capture, output compare, an 8-bit, 10 channel A/D converter, and a 6 channel, 12-bit pulse width modulator (PWM) featuring programmable frequency polarity, center or edge alignment, dead-time generation compensation, distortion correction, hardware fault pins and 20 mA sink capability. Also included are SCI, SPI, low voltage reset, crystal or ceramic resonator and 37 bi-directional I/O lines.
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Before choosing equipment, be aware of the many factors that affect this vital department HOW DO ELECTRICAL SUPERVISORS DECIDE what is needed for running tests, especially load tests, of a-c motors? (Were speaking here only about operating tests on complete motors, not component, diagnostic, or in-process testing-balancing, vibration measurement, surge comparison, or core testing.) Readers may suggest a fourth concern-that of data analysis. We wont go into that here, primarily because (except for the mental effort involved) even the most complex testing to the most exacting requirements can be evaluated without computers or elaborate software (Figure 2). Although hardly anyone does so anymore, it is possible. For the less complex tests, the task is not too difficult.

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In A Matter of Choices, Palomba and Banta (1999, 331) write that assessment can be conducted in various legitimate ways. As such, the process of planning and implementing assessment programs requires many choices, between philosophically different alternatives. However, these pairs of alternatives need not be seen as mutually exclusive; in fact, they should complement each other in striking a balance that works. They discuss three critical sets of choices that institutions must face in quest of balanced assessment: * improvement versus accountability as motivations for assessment * quantitative versus qualitative means of assessment
THE NAfMA assessment process consists of three stages. In the preliminary stage, all completed applications undergo the preliminary assessment process to ensure compliance with the entry requirement. An applicant qualifies for the next stage if the entry requirements have been fulfilled. Preliminary marks are given as a guide by an independent assessor. The participating companies are assessed based on criteria that include leadership, partnership management, value creation, business results (performance measurement) and corporate social responsibility.

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Editors note: This article is adapted from Menke and Bobbins Integrative Chiropractic, scheduled for release in 2007 by Elsevier Health Sciences. “The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health care, but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a lifelong patient.” “Medicalizing” is forcing conditions into familiar diagnostic categories for medical management.1 Every complaint has an antidote, whether it needs one or not. ; Treating natural consequences of living as diseases that must be vanquished, leads to too much treatment and too much dependence on the authoritative “professional.” We tend to grant most, if not all of our decision-making authority to an expert in highly complex technologies. In the case of medicine, this often complicates the commonplace condition and prolongs selflimiting ones. Today, diseases and drugs are way oversold.
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The national survey of more than 2,000 adults was conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality The survey also showed that Americans rely on the recommendations of friends and family more than standardized quality indicators when selecting a health care provider, and people have little confidence that employers will give reliable information about the quality of health care providers. And despite the undeniable draw of the Internet, people still trust doctors and pharmacists more than advertisements and the Web for information on prescription medications, the survey shows.

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Freight transport saw the volume of road freight transport drop in the third quarter of 2006 after three years of its robust growth. The volume of rail freight transport picked up by 4.2% in Q3, year on year, while the volume of road freight transport fell by 4.3%. International transport performed by freight vehicles registered in Slovenia decreased by just 0.8%, whereas transport within the country recorded a stronger drop of 16.1%. This was the first year-on-year quarterly fall of road freight transport since Q2 of 2003. Q3 of 2006 also witnessed a 10.2% fall in the volume of maritime freight transport. This activity registered the second consecutive year-on-year quarterly decrease, whereas in 2005 it still enjoyed robust growth (41.7%), driven by the boom in the industry. Harbour freight transport surged by 27.6% in Q3 and also recorded a high nine-month year-on-year increase (24.6%). Over the last five years, road freight transport surged by more than 50%, which was almost entirely due to the increase in international transport. In Q3 of 2006 over Q3 of 2001, road freight transport picked up by 56.5% or 1,003 million tonne kilometres (tkm). The shipment of goods out of or into Slovenia rose by 49.1% or 534 million tkm, whereas transport abroad and cabotage (the shipment of goods within another country) shot up 4.3-fold, i.e. by 450 million tkm. Meanwhile, national road freight transport increased by a modest 3.5%, or 19 million tkm. Within the EU, Slovenia is one of the few countries that perform the highest number of per capita road shipments (measured in tkm). The favourable transit position and the countrys smallness (a high share of international trade) underpin Slovenias high proportion of international transport, whose growth has been additionally boosted by the process of Slovenias integration in the EU. The last administrative barriers to carrying out freight transport abroad were removed as Slovenia became a full EU member, which led to the boom in activity seen in recent years.
Freight transport saw a surge in harbour transport and an over 10% increase in road transport. The volume of rail freight transport picked up by 5.4% in the final quarter, year on year, while the volume of road freight transport rose even more, by 9.7%. Although road freight transport declined by a few per cent in Q3, its annual increase in 2006 still reached a high 9.8%, which contributed significantly to the total increase in the transport, storage, and communications sector (road freight transport generates almost a quarter of the value added in this sector). Maritime freight transport fell by 6.4% in 2006 after having surged by 41.7% in 2005 amid the boom in this branch. In the final quarter of 2006, the volume of maritime transport already rose by 4.4%, year on year. Harbour freight transport recorded the biggest increase in Q4, by 17.0%. It also enjoyed the highest annual growth within freight transport (22.5%). Road freight transport has been growing strongly in the past few years, including in 2006, due to the increasing international transport (see the graph). The volume of international road freight transport increased by 12.5% in 2006 while national road freight transport even fell by 3.5%. Within international transport, cross-trade transport and cabotage (transport performed in another country) recorded the highest increase of 16.4%. Measured in tonne kilometres, international transport comprised 81.2% of the total transport of goods by road while national transport totalled 18.8% of the total road freight transport (if the volume of transport is measured solely in tonnes of goods carried and the travelled distances are disregarded, national transport prevails with a 82.5% share). 56.3% of international transport was performed by companies, while slightly over 50% of national transport was carried out by sole entrepreneurs. Own-account transport comprised 3.0% of international transport and 31.1% of national transport (the rest was transport for hire or reward).

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The BWHS began in 1995 when 64,500 US African-American women 21 to 69 years old enrolled in a long-term health study of African-American women by completing mail health questionnaires. The present study is based on the 4-year follow-up period from 1995 to 1999. The final sample, 11,196 women, included 9966 who remained nulliparous, 598 nulliparous women who had a first child, 387 primiparous women who had a second child, and 245 women with two or more children who had another child during follow-up. Over a 4-year period of follow-up of women 21 to 39 years old at entry to the BWHS, BMI increased by an average of 1.6 kg/[m.sup.2], or 0.4 kg/[m.sup.2] per year, equivalent to a weight gain of approx.1.1 kg/year. The proportion of women who were obese increased from 24% in 1995 to 32% in 1999. Childbearing influenced BMI gain among BWHS participants. The BMI of women who had a child increased more than that of nulliparous women, and women who had a first child gained more weight than those who had a second or a later child. The weight gain associated with childbearing increased as baseline BMI increased and was appreciable among the obese women. For example, among women 25 to 29 years old with a baseline BMI of 36, the BMI increase of those who had a first child was an estimated 1.1 kg/[m.sup.2] more than the increase in nulliparous women, equivalent to a difference in weight gain of approx.3.0 kg. Low level of exercise was a strong predictor of weight gain in the BWHS, in accord with many studies. There was no association found between total caloric intake and the percent of calories from fat in 1995 with weight gain. In summary, the present data indicate that childbearing among African-American women increases weight gain. The childbearing-related gain increases as baseline BMI increases and accounts for an appreciable part of the total gain among heavier women. Interventions to prevent obesity in African-American women should discourage excessive weight gain during pregnancy and encourage weight loss after the pregnancy, particularly among women who are already overweight.
A recent investigation set out to test a novel approach to sustaining long-term contact with individuals after participation in a structured behavioral weight loss program. Two hundred and fifty-five (209 women and 46 men) overweight and obese adults were recruited through newspaper advertisements for participation in the study. Criteria for participation included age over 18, BMI greater than or equal to 25 kg/[m.sup.2], and a computer with adequate memory and connection speed. All subjects participated in an identical 6-month behavioral weight control intervention conducted over interactive television (ITV). Following weight loss, subjects were randomly assigned to one of three weight maintenance conditions: 1) Internet support (IS); 2) frequent in-person support (F-IPS); 3) minimal in-person support (M-IPS). All subjects were seen for assessment measures at baseline and at 6 months, 12 months, and 18 months. Main outcome measures included body weight, program adherence, and social influence components. There were no significant differences among the groups in weight loss (mean [+ or -] SD) from baseline to 18 months (7.6 kg [+ or -] 7.3 kg vs. 5.5 kg [+ or -] 8.9 kg vs. 5.1 kg [+ or -] 6.5 kg, p=0.23 for the IS, M-IPS, and F-IPS, respectively). Participants assigned to an Internet-based weight maintenance program managed similar weight loss over 18 months when compared with face-to-face counseling. It appears that Internet-based support is a viable means for promoting long-term weight maintenance.
SLIMMERS across Ireland have lost an incredible 333,690Ibs to get to their ideal weight using the popular WeightWatchers programme. Thats the equivalent of 22 fully-grown elephants, 166,885 bags of sugar or 55,615 heavy house bricks. Another 47,000 people are also shedding thousands of pounds in their bid to beat the battle of the bulge.

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Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 4, 2000 eFax.coms two million subscribers can now access iPrint.coms business printing services via a link on the eFax.com Web site. iPrint.com lets eFax.com members easily create and order printing supplies such as custom stationery, business checks, and signs and banners at prices that are up to 50% less than traditional quick print shop rates. Members also get 25% off any other iPrint.com product when they order their free business cards or address labels.
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Printing is a competitive business and an expensive operation. When government subdivisions are competing against the private sector for the same business, it makes it even more competitive, said Jim Grammer, owner of Gowdy Printcraft Press. The main printing production headquarters of the U.S. Government Printing Office is the largest information processing, printing and distribution facility in the world. Many of our nations most important information products, such as the Congressional Record and the Federal Register, are produced at the GPOs main plant, a 1.5 million square-foot complex in Washington, D.C., said Bruce James, the chief executive officer of the GPO. The GPO is the federal governments primary centralized resource for gathering, cataloging, producing, providing and preserving published information in all its forms. However, James said the majority of the governments printing needs are met through a long-standing partnership with Americas printing industry, dating back to the beginning of World War II.

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Ideally, go to Venice to see Tiepolo this autumn while there is a magnificent exhibition, celebrating the tercentenary of the painters birth, at the Ca Rezzonico. That palazzo — usually the Museum of Eighteenth Century Venetian Art - is consequently as thronged as it can have been since Cole Porter threw parties there in the Twenties. Next spring more or less the same show moves to New York, but it will not be, could not possibly be the same because in and around Venice numerous other palaces, churches and institutions form a parallel, permanent exhibition of Tiepolo. You are encouraged, rightly, to visit these too, in conjunction with the exhibition. The visiting paintings amplify and illuminate the resident ones to make this a unique opportunity to see this extraordinarily fecund painter whole. One comes away convinced that Tiepolo was a towering figure in European art. Such praise might come as a surprise to those who visited the Glory of Venice at the Royal Academy two years ago. There Tiepolo was pitted against his contemporary and rival G.B. Piazzetta, altarpiece for altarpiece, and did not come off all that well. The slow-working Piazzetta, inclined to a dun-coloured palette, seemed the more serious and the deeper of the two. Though there were fine Tiepolos on display, in comparison he seemed - as he often has to earnest Northern Europeans - brilliant, but also distastefully insipid and sugary. A visit to Venice puts one right about that. It demonstrates very quickly that even a largish selection of portable paintings such as was at the RA gives only a partial impression of Tiepolos gifts. A major problem is that much of his finest work was - to use the ugly jargon of the present day - `site-specific. That is to say, it was painted for a particular place, and, indeed, in the case of a fresco indissolubly linked with its structure. There is no substitute for going to that building and standing opposite, or more often in Tiepolos case beneath the painting.
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HOW MANY would have thought that the pest control business could mean big bucks for entrepreneurs in the country? Well, hows this for starters? The estimated total business turnover of the pest control industry in Malaysia is about RM80 million. As Dr Lee Chow Yang, Associate Professor (Urban
Its been a long rime since I have reviewed gopher control in the vineyard. Its appropriate, given the time of year, so I thought we would take a look at it this month. All three rodents damage vines by chewing on them. New plantings and established vines are susceptible to both root damage and girdling. In addition to plant damage, these rodents will also move enough dirt to redirect water away from vines and literally into a hole in the ground. Ground squirrels specifically will chew drip lines and damage emitters. I have observed squirrels chewing things for no other reason than the fact that they are there. Control of these pests is broken into three fairly broad categories: biological, chemical and trapping.
Rodent control is taking some interesting and not so encouraging turns. There is an initiative that will be introduced in California on the November 1998 ballot (assuming it gets the 500,000 signatures needed, which is a slam dunk in California). It is called an Initiative to Ban Cruel Traps. This initiative, in a nutshell, will make it illegal to use a body gripping trap. one that grips the mammals body or body part, including, but not limited to, steel-jawed leghold traps, padded-jaw leghold traps, Conibear traps, and snares. This initiative also states that, it is illegal for any person, including employees of the federal, state, county or municipal government, to use or authorize the use of any steel-jawed leghold trap, padded or otherwise, to capture any game mammal, fur-bearing mammal, non-game mammal, protected mammal, or any dog or cat.Now, stop and reread that paragraph and think about it for a minute. This initiative decides for us that we cant control agricultural fur-bearing pests any longer. For that matter, it specifically states that you cant trap anything that has fur on it for any reason, and that the U.S. Fish Wildlife Service, State Department of Fish Game and your local county ag commissioner or county trapper cant do it either. It does make provision for the protection of human health and safety (pretty considerate - you know how vicious those gopher and mole attacks on children have been lately), and it will allow you to use mouse traps in your basement. Oh, and by the way, it introduces two chemicals that can no longer by used - Compound 1080 and sodium cyanide. What are these used for? Well, its not rodent control. The state has been experimenting with these two chemicals for coyote control. They make a collar to put around a lambs neck. If the animal is unfortunate enough to be a victim of a coyote attack and the coyote punctures the collar its lights out for the sheep killer. The point here is precedent - get these two and then work your way on to household chemicals for insect and rodent control and sweep everything up in between.Since this is not a political editorial, all I can say is watch out for this one. Agriculture will lose big time, so tell a friend and lets make sure that we dont get tied down by bad law written by extremists. If you want a copy of this initiative yourself, again, hit me on the e-mail, and Ill send you a copy. You can read it yourself and decide on your own. I think it is very important that we dont make our decision based on whats on TV. Hollywood is anti-trapping and they have a lot of money to spend to support their position. If you want a recent case history lesson you may look at the fine State of Colorado, which had a similar initiative pass last year by a 51% margin. After the smoke cleared, it was disclosed that Hollywood spent just a little over a quarter million dollars to promote the initiative. All the local state and county representatives, combined with the agriculture and fur trapping industries, could muster was $48,000, and they lost.

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After completing the acquisition of three commercial printing companies at the end of April, Teldon International became one of the largest printers in lower mainland British Columbia. This current success is ironic because when the company was founded in 1969, and for close to 20 years after, it didnt own a single press.In the 1980s, Teldons management began researching the printing industry. “We decided that a large part of our program was on printed paper, like calendars. We decided to manufacture it ourselves,” says Michael McAdam, general manager and COO of Teldon International. To begin its internal printing capabilities, the company purchased a sheetfed press in the early part of the decade, then a Miller 66 half web press in 1989. Even after this printing expansion, the company still did not consider itself a printer. The presses were only used to manufacture the printed promotional products in the Teldon line.”Weve always viewed our promotional product side as our primary business,” says McAdam.
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ROGER HILTON: THE FIGURED LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT by Andrew Lambirth Thames Hudson, £35, pp. 288, ISBN 9780500093344 £28 (plus £2.45 pp) 0870 429 6655 Perhaps it accounts for the surprising fact that this is the first major study to be published of the life and work of a much loved and extremely influential artist. In his concluding chapter Lambirth considers the reasons why Hilton has not received the critical attention he deserves: his work was too various; his career (interrupted by the war: in spite of poor sight, a chronic skin condition and varicose veins he was a Commando, captured in the Dieppe Raid) too short; he was too awkward a customer and his reputation in Britain has remained under a polite cloud. Also, though he admired American art in the 1950s, he was, as his Times obituary noted, perhaps the last major artist to be entirely free of American influences.
When Michael Wishart would telephone me to say, I was wondering if you might be free this evening, it meant an evening closer to the end of the last century than this. Michael believed in that boheme as established by the French. The tragic messages of Rimbaud and Verlaine, Baudelaire and Proust excited his mind as if they had been with us only yesterday. This infatuation with his heroes encouraged him to sample hedonism and to take up a life frequently at odds with the dedication required for painting. As a young man, he set himself adrift in Paris and London, entering the milieu of Cocteau in one, and the Gargoyle Club in the other. In the still moments the paintings happened, but the self-destructiveness of an obsessive love - or other mishaps — always returned to taunt him. That explosive relationship between Rimbaud and Verlaine always haunted him a mirror, perhaps, of his own life. He painted portraits of Rimbaud, and also of Rimbaud and Verlaine together. He strew the paintings with wild flowers, or wide open lilies, fans, marigolds and - in one - let the ill-fated lovers appear to float decapitated on a blue sea. There was often an hallucinatory aspect in his work. Francis Bacon compared Wishart to Odilon Redon. Michael had a precocious start. He had his first London exhibition at 16 and was considered an artist to watch. This was followed quickly by a second show which received great accolades. Over the years he was to find expectation increasingly hard to level with. His private life took over - love affairs with his own sex, marriage, and, to steady a fragile sensitivity, an abuse of alcohol and sometimes drugs. None helped. But his need to paint was always stronger than a desire to go under. `Days without painting are agony - even more than days with, he writes in his journal. He was always mindful that he had to push out further with paint.

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A few weeks ago I was at a vineyard looking at some equipment that can be used with netting. After taking up two hours of the growers time we decided to head up to the tasting room and enjoy a little fruit of the labor. I had a couple of people with me who were from the Eastern part of the country and hadnt had a chance to taste some of the California wines, so they were more than happy to spend some time tasting, and buying, as it turned out. While we were working I had noticed a couple of other vehicles passing through, headed toward the tasting room as well. Once we entered, our host was immediately recognized. The first question out of everyones mouth was, What were you doing out there? When bird control was the answer, I could tell from the look on the faces present that we were in for a show. The next five to ten minutes were spent covering everything from propane cannons to netting to chemicals. The amount of misinformation was amazing. These people clearly felt that anything that had to do with bird control was a complete waste of time, irritating to look at and listen to. Why? Well because, those birds cant possibly be that damaging to your wine-grapes - theyre just little birds after all.When you have enough experiences like this you begin to get a feel for the public perception regarding animal damage control. As a grower or winemaker you are involved so heavily in the industry that some things are taken for granted. Everyone realizes that gophers, ground squirrels, starlings and finches are vineyard pests who damage grapes - right? Wrong. A very large percentage of your customers, lets say 75% conservatively, do not think you have any sort of problems with wildlife.What do you think of when you see a deer, or a covey of quail, or some cottontail rabbits in your vineyard? I can guarantee that the terms, Oh, how cute, or Hey, look at those deer dont usually come to mind. I cant print what usually comes to mind for most growers. However, for the people that we encountered in the aforementioned tasting room, as well as for a large percentage of your customer base, seeing wildlife is all part of the vineyard experience.
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Hulbertus v. Amelunxen, Stefan Iglhaut, Florian Rotzer, Alexis Cassel, and Nikolaus G. Schneider, eds. Basel: GB Arts International, 1996. 308 pp., color ills. $59.95. Malcolm McCulloughs Abstracting Craft makes a particularly compelling argument for the validity of embodied knowledge. “Academics,” McCullough states at the outset, “despite a growing faction interested in body criticism, generally ignore the hands in their epistemologies of mind” (5). A professor of architecture at Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Design, McCullough notes that within the limited experiential frame of computer production there are major obstacles to the acquisition of what he refers to under the rubric of craft. His argument reflects an ongoing concern expressed by traditionally trained artists as they watch a new generation adept only at scanning, appropriation, and the use of software. (Their fear: computer design students never learn to draw.) His suggestion is to reconceptualize electronic tools so that they are used not “so much for automating tasks as for abstracting craft” (81). Paradoxically, what McCullough bemoans is the process of abstraction that introduces the distance between hand and material, mind and process. By emphasizing the hand as an instrument essential to epistemological development, cognitive processes, and artistic articulation, he proposes a synthetic resolution of traditional craft and new technology rather than pitting them in an apparently inevitable, unproductive opposition. Unfortunately he stops short of assessing the ways in which the conceptual premises of software products have ignored or incorporated assumptions about what constitutes embodied knowledge in specific terms. Immersed in Technology, an anthology edited by Mary Anne Moser and Douglas MacLeod, also address issues of physicality. A welcome counterpoint to the exaggerated rhetoric of popular journalism on the topic, this sophisticated volume came out of the Canadian Art Centre at Banff, which has provided a forum for ongoing investigation of the intersections between art and technology. The books contributors are artists who are either technicians or are sufficiently close to the technical processes to have no illusions about them. These are people directly involved in working with so-called immersant technologies (three-dimensional, real-time illusions involving multiple sensory stimulation). The editors establish the tone of the book in their introduction, where they frankly acknowledge the sometimes contentious character of exchanges among the artists involved (certainly a healthy feature of an anthology). Katherine Hayles notes that even the core notion of virtual reality was fraught with misleading inaccuracies and says that the Banff group proposed the term “embodied virtuality” as an (albeit controversial) alternative. The books finely honed critical edge, informed by a cultural studies approach to gender and politics, succeeds in deflating mythic fantasies about the virtual. Chief among these is that of total escape from ones body, identity, and life that drives much of the Wired-type hype surrounding electronic art.
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Radio continues to be an inexpensive way for dealers and suppliers to reach their increasingly mobile customers Last year, the Minnesota-Dakota Hardware Association used $130,000 in co-op funds provided by five companies — Ace Hardware, United Hardware Distributors, TruServ, Briggs Stratton and 3M — for a five-month-long radio campaign extolling the virtues of the independent dealer over its warehouse competitors. Radio, which traces its roots back to the 1870s when it served as a point-to-point wireless telegraph, has survived several technology revolutions and continues to provide a reliable venue for dealers promotional efforts. Its relatively low cost and access to people while they are mobile are making radio a preferred and efficient medium for more companies. At least one study has even found that online dealers, with their cutting-edge approach to marketing and selling, are using radio ambitiously to get their messages out to shoppers.

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Business Editors High Tech/Medical Writers eMRO is a privately held company that has developed a unique software platform whereby clients in the medical industry can deliver their applications and data securely over the internet. eMROs software solution allows legacy based applications to take several large strides towards supporting Internet environments. The software shortens the development cycles for application vendors that need to migrate their products into the ASP space but are concerned about the resources necessary to fully web-enable their applications. By shortening time-to-market for these entities, this approach can accelerate revenue generation for ASPs. Clients can retain their own servers and manage their own security and policies. eMRO delivers its services based upon a subscription basis, and enables the clients to focus on core competencies rather than software management and infrastructure. The system makes HIPPA compliance possible with minimum cost.
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The diffidence of Devlins endorsement of the jury trial is matched by a rather general vagueness in legal writings (including decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada and other courts) about just how reliable and beneficial the jury trial system is. To non-lawyers, this may seem bewildering, since lawyers, judges and legal writers have made such a to-do about the greatness of the jury trial for a long time. Yet most nonlawyers, if asked, would probably think that jury trials are a fine idea and a good way to conduct criminal law business. So why not matrimonial cases? Pointed questions to the legally trained about whether a jury would be the best means for resolving facts in any form of dispute tends to be met by the grey answer it depends. The jury trial has been cemented not only in North American consciousness, but in North American Constitutions: see s. 11(f) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the sixth Amendment to the American Constitution. But there are limits, and those rights refer only to proceedings taken by the state against individuals. Even with that, the jury trials reputation as a bastion of freedom in a democratic society, comes despite the fact that its form has actually changed a lot from its sources in antiquity. The bottom line in Canada remains that juries are involved in only a small percentage of criminal cases. Civil jury trials are even more infrequent. And jury trials concerned with family law issues do not happen.
Family Law and Family Values. Mavis Maclean, ed. Oxford, United Kingdom, and Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2005. Pp. xi+342. $80.00 cloth; $44.00 paper. It is the nature of expectations about family relationships, and the extent to which the values that are incorporated in family law coincide with these expectations, that is the subject of this rich collection of 18 essays edited by Maclean. Like the previous two volumes on family law that Maclean edited, this one is also based on meetings held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati, Spain and, like its predecessors, the approach here is interdisciplinary and its scope is European and North American. The book is divided into five sections. The first presents different approaches to the study of the nature of family values alongside those values put in place by legal systems; the next three chapters deal with the regulation of the relationships between adults and children, adult couples, and adult children and elderly parents, respectively; while the final chapter deals with diversity and standardization in family values and family law.
Why do we concern ourselves with such things? The concept of the contract allows people to make commitments between themselves that the state will enforce–the result being future stability of relationships, avoidance of conflict, and general societal harmony. How odd, then, to apply these concepts to family law! It might fairly be said that the whole of family law concerns itself with addressing members of society where relationships are no longer stable, where conflict abounds, and where harmony has ceased to exist. The concept of family, I think, arises only in the context of some directly stated or some implied commitment. A husband promises to share his life with his wife. Beyond the formal commitment of marriage, separate or same-sex couples can likewise expressly, or by implication, promise to share their lives with their partners. Parents promise to care for and support their children. Each of these commitments could be said to be some form of express or implied commitment between people.

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Health and Welfare during Industrialization, edited by Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud. A National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 465 pp. $72.00. The first paper, by S.L. Egerman, frames the collection with an introduction to the historically vehement debate regarding standard of living during industrialization. This discussion also traces the evolution of measures used to evaluate economic change and welfare during industrialization, drawing attention to the main logistical, methodological, and theoretical problems with these attempts, including those using stature. Subsequent papers present analyses of trends in stature, economic growth, and a variety of other indicators (economic, demographic, and anthropometric) for each of the eight countries. The concluding chapter by Steckel and Floud is commendable for its impressive synthesis of what is an overwhelming array of information from the individual papers. The editors acknowledge the distinct patterns of industrialization, each nation experiencing the process with different pace, timing, and circumstances. They reveal common patterns and attempt to clarify the variability in overall trends, proposing three explanatory mechanisms: (1) the timing of industrialization in each country vis-a-vis the public health movement and the rise of the germ theory of disease, (2) the degree of urbanization in each country, and (3) factors that affected diet and nutrition levels. Data from France, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Japan suggest that these countries did not experience markedly declining living standards, as evidenced by relatively steadily increasing stature. Germany experienced temporary, short-lived stature declines, and the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia had more pronounced downward trends in stature during the course of industrialization. The major early industrializers, specifically, the United Kingdom and the United States, where significant economic and social change occurred substantially before the late nineteenth century advances in medicine and public health, appeared to pay a “biological penalty” (p. 433), manifested by prolonged trends of decreasing stature among men. Steckel and Floud further suggest that “no single indicator . . . adequately captures the diversity and complexity of the process” (p. 426); however, they are enthusiastic that inclusion of biologically based variables, especially stature, has greatly enhanced the previously myopic methods to assess human welfare during industrialization.
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A survey of management holidays in the Wall Street Journal last week claimed that there is a Catch-22 for senior workers: “The enhanced mobility of wireless communications is making it harder for people to disconnect.” According to the report, numerous European high-flyers are spending the beach bars Happy Hour talking to colleagues back home on their mobiles. Technology, naturally, is to blame. The simultaneous arrival of the mobile phone and laptop means theres no escape. The only solution for hard-pressed senior executives is to switch their phones off and claim they are in a location too remote for a signal. But deputies remember - bosses deserve it, thats what they get paid for.

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At the end of 1998 it was estimated that around 171.8 million people had access to the Internet throughout the world. Canada and the US held the largest share of the Internet market with 56 per cent in 1998. However, the combined percentage share is set to decline considerably as Europe and the Asia-Pacific region catches up with 24 per cent and 18 per cent, respectively, by the end of 1999. In the Asia-Pacific region, Japan has the largest share of the market.
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Electric GuitarDeveloped in the early part of the twentieth century, the electric guitar has become one of the most important instruments in popular music. Todays solid-body electric guitar derives from the acoustic guitar, an instrument first introduced in America as the Spanish-style guitar. Even though body designs of modern electric guitars often differ from their acoustic predecessors, all guitars are constructed with the same simple template. All guitars, acoustic or electric, are built with a bridge, body, and neck. The most significant difference is that acoustic guitars are hollow while electric guitars have a solid body.For years, the acoustic guitar was limited to a supporting role in large musical ensembles because of its volume. Thus, the major motivation that drove the creation of the electric guitar was instrumentalists desire for greater volume. Predecessors of the modern electric guitar were amplified acoustic guitars crudely modified by inventors who attached wires, magnets, and other pickup attachments. (Pickups are electromagnetic devices that increase volume.) However, as technology started advancing in the 1930s, newer versions became more complex, and the electric guitar became a solo instrument, a development that helped expand musical styles.

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Colorado Springs new policy of checking IDs of anyone entering major city buildings has some questioning whether the city sees itself as Big Brother. Citing national security risks, Colorado Springs recently instituted a requirement that anyone entering City Hall or the City Administration Building must sign in and show photo identification to a guard. Kathy Borja, who wrote the policy, said it is consistent with the Homeland Security bill, which calls government buildings vital infrastructure that should be protected. No City Council members have objected to the new rule.
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Photography 2.0 Speakers Include Over 30 Photographers and Buyers from the Front Lines of American Photography NEW YORK — Photography industry leader PhotoShelter has teamed up with Hewlett-Packard, JPG Magazine, liveBooks, Samys Camera, X-Rite and others to produce Photography 2.0, the first-ever series of traveling photography town hall meetings designed to bring together active image buyers and photographers from all sides of the business to discuss the impact of the Internet on their industry. The series will commence in New York City on September 14, 2007, with subsequent events to be held in Atlanta, September 17; Chicago, September 19; Portland, OR, September 24; San Francisco, September 26; and the Los Angeles-area, September 28. Photographers of any experience level who are interested in the future of commercial photography are encouraged to attend. Photography 2.0: The Business of Photography in the Web Era, will feature more than 30 working photographers and image buyers and is expected to be, to date, the most rigorous, challenging and productive debate concerning the issues of online marketing, image selling and distribution. Speakers include: Brittney Blair, Art Director for Chicago Magazine; George Pitts, Professor of Photography at Parsons School of Design and former Photography Director at Life magazine; Marnie Beardsley, Global Director of Art Buying, Weiden + Kennedy; Jennifer Miller, former Director of Photography, JANE magazine; Shannon Hall, Photo Director, BlackBook Magazine; Asha Schecter, former Photo Research Editor, The New Yorker; and over 20 photographers including Bill Frakes, Chase Jarvis, Amanda Marsalis, Chris McPherson, Brian Ulrich, Michael Zagaris and many more. For the image buying community, the Internet has made accessible a whole population of unknown, yet truly creative and talented, photographers, said Jennifer Miller, former Director of Photography, JANE. What makes Photography 2.0 so exciting is that it will bring together buyers, established photographers and undiscovered talent and hopefully expand boundaries of creativity for commercial photography overall.

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Health is a measure of quality of life that is difficult to define and measure. In the 1940s, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. At the first International Conference on Health Promotion in Ottawa, Canada (1986), the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion built on the WHOs concept and further defined health as a resource for everyday life. a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capabilities. Good health enables one to function independently within a changing environment.
School physicals To celebrate National Community Health Centers Week, Community Health is offering a special rate for school and sports physicals. Through Sept. 1, the physicals will cost $25 - or less for those who qualify for further cost reductions. The usual charge is $71. The physicals are offered from 10 a.m.- noon and 3-8 p.m. weekdays at Community Healths Immediate Care Clinic, 2858 International Circle. No appointments are necessary. For information, call 630-6440, Ext. 6363.
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A bacterial protein called Bt toxin makes a safe and effective pesticide. But Bt-proof bugs could render the agricultural resource useless. So researchers at North Carolina State University are helping to develop a test kit that gives farmers early warning of Bt resistance, allowing them to give the affected area a break from Bt before a “super pest” emerges. Each well holds insect food mixed with an indicator dye that turns bug feces blue. Bt susceptible pests sickened by the toxin dont eat - and therefore dont defecate. But resistant bugs produce blue droppings - a quick, colorful warning for the farmer, who would otherwise have to wait a week or so for the insects to die. A large-scale field study of the test kit, sponsored by Cotton Inc., should be completed this spring. (Technology Review, January/February 1999)
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SQUIRREL: Grey squirrels have proliferated almost without check and driven the red squirrel to the point of extinction. Although they damage trees and property, many enjoy watching them. BADGER: Badgers are seen by nature lovers as gentle creatures that bring benefits to their environment. Farmers say they should be culled because they spread bovine tuberculosis. MOLE: Unpopular with gardeners and farmers, moles create untidy hills. Yet, thanks partly to The Wind in the Willows, they have attracted a loyal following.

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Scott Burnett, licensed partner, Realtor and office administrator for the Jerry Long Real Estate Group at RE/MAX Associates of Topeka, has earned the nationally recognized e-PRO certification, a designation that is held by less than 1 percent of real estate agents nationwide. Burnett joined the Jerry Long Real Estate Group in March 1999. His primary responsibilities are general office management and client care, coordination of property showings, maintenance of current listing inventory, contracts pending and closing activities. Burnett is also actively involved in the creation of marketing and promotional materials. He attended Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City, Mo., and the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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Business Editors Lasik Vision Corporation (CDNX:LSK.)(LasikVision), announced today that it has filed a Statement of Defence and Counter Claim with respect of the allegations set forth in the lawsuit filed on August 18, 2000 by Michael Henderson in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The Company sees no foundation or merit in this complaint and will defend this lawsuit diligently and aggressively.
Scientific studies1 have shown LASIK patients develop dry eyes immediately after surgery, and these symptoms usually resolve by the 3-month post-operative visit. However, patients with preexisting dry eye are at risk for severe postoperative dry eye with decreased tear function, which may persist for a year or more.In one study,1 dry eye patients treated with cyclosporine ophthalmic emulsion 0.05%, (Restasis) following LASIK surgery experienced better outcomes in visual acuity for vision correction than dry eye patients using artificial tears.Dry eye patients who underwent LASIK and were treated with cyclosporine reported fewer dry eye sensations such as grittiness or a sensation of a foreign object in the eye, according to results from questionnaires given to patients participating in studies.

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Colorado Springs-area home construction continued its blistering pace in the first quarter, although one economist fears an oversupply could drive down prices in the next few years. Single-family home building permits totaled 1,392 from January through March — a 20.2 percent jump from the same period last year, according to figures released Friday by the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department. The number of permits this year puts Colorado Springs and El Paso County on pace to shatter the record of 5,059 single-family permits, set only last year.
Rebounding from a B-month low, total housing starts surged 5 percent, up from 1.54 million units in April to 1.96 million in May. Single-family starts were up 2.1 percent in May as well. The National Association of Home Builders reported increases in new home and apartment construction in May for three regions: West, up 15.8 percent; South, 8.5 percent; and Northeast, 1.7 percent.

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Never before in the history of American business has a global corporation been destroyed by acts directly related to document retention and destruction In early December 2001, Enron Corp., a large Houstonbased energy company, filed for bankruptcy, one of the largest such actions in U.S. business history. In the weeks that followed, a series of allegations of financial mismanagement and possible violations of law - began to surface. The affair soon began to spill over to Arthur Andersen, Enrons outside auditing and accounting firm. Among the allegations were charges that officials of Andersens Houston office, who were responsible for managing Enrons audits, had illegally destroyed paper and electronic documents related to their representation of Enron.
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THE bookies arent taking any bets on the Christmas No1 this year - because theyre so sure it will be the X Factor winner again. For the last two years, X Factor boss Simon Cowell has released the winners single on the Monday before Christmas. In 2005 Shayne Ward went straight to No1 - and last year it was Leona Lewis. A William Hill spokesman said: “X Factor has wiped out a national Christmas institution.”
Every continent and every ocean witnesses to Jesus”birth Among all the Christmases we have celebrated, this one is surely unique. It reminds us that the life and work of Jesus of Nazareth has influenced the world for 2000 years. We often think of that influence in terms of human lives, generation after generation. But consider how this holy season and its Gift have left their mark worldwide. Navidad, Chile; Navidad River, Texas; Isla de Natividad, Mexico, Natividade, Brazil; Mount Noel, British Columbia; Noel, Mo.; Noel, Nova Scotia; Christ Church, Barbados; Christchurch, England; Christchurch, New Zealand; Christian, Alaska; Cape Christian, North West Territories.
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LOS ANGELES — Group Is Currently In Studio Working With Famed Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC Producer Tim Coons From singing the praises of Cool Whip on 21 national commercials over the past few years to averaging over 250 annual performances, BITH is making a cappella music hip for the hip-hop generation and beyond. They have performed from their hometown of Boston to San Francisco, from Singapore to New York, in theatres and playhouses before audiences ranging from 500 to 50,000. Theyve opened for and played concerts with Jessica Simpson, 98 Degrees, Smokey Robinson and The Temptations, and last year opened at home for Gladys Knight and KC and the Sunshine Band. On July 28-29, 2005, they are sharing a bill with Kelly Clarkson, Keith Urban, Clay Aiken, Phantom Planet and Maroon 5 at the Toms River Fest in New Jersey. On days off, the group–which consists of founding members Dave Guisti, tenor, and Jon J. Ryan, vocal percussionist, and more recent additions Dan Szymczak (baritone), Aaron Loveland (tenor) and Tim Faust (bass)–has been in the studio, hard at work on their new, full length project with Tim Coons, the legendary vocal group producer who won a Diamond Award (10 million units sold) for his work on the Backstreet Boys first album.
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The ball-on-rod rolling contact fatigue (RCF) tester (1) is an element tester which is used to evaluate the RCF properties of materials, primarily steels, for bearing applications. In order to produce test results in a reasonably short period of time, the load imposed on the steel test rods is much higher than that typically experienced in actual bearing applications. The standard test condition, set forth by Glover (2J, results in a calculated Hertzian contact stress of 5.4 GPa. This high contact stress causes plastic deformation of the test rods. In addition to the ball-on-rod RCF Tester, many other accelerated RCF test rigs use high contact stresses to reduce test time. For example, the flat washer tester is operated at a contact stress of 4.1 GPa (3), the Rolling Contact (RC) rig at 5.4 GPa (4) and the Ball on Cylinder rig at 5.9 GPa (5). While these machines and test conditions are widely used, the use of the high stress conditions have been questioned as being too high for correlation to full-scale bearing tests that are commonly in the range of 2 - 2.7 GPa (300 - 400 ksi) (6)-(8). Zwirlein and Schlicht (6) felt that tests performed at high stress levels can lead to improper conclusions on how a material will respond at lower stress levels. The deformation occurring at the higher stress levels was felt to alter the residual stress state of the material and thus, influenced the test results. Lorosch (7) felt the plastic deformation occurring at the higher stress reduced the life exponent, compared to that obtained at lower stresses. Thus, data generated at contact stresses that created plastic deformation could not be compared to that generated at lower contact stresses.

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I was excited to see Ann Fielding, the snorkeler in Blue Hawaii (March, page 108). Ann was my eighth-grade science teacher on Maui, and she was brilliant, patient, and fun. Our field trips were awesome. Once we sailed to Lanai for the weekend. We camped on Hulopoe beach (before the big resorts were built), snorkeled, studied, and had a great time. The highlight was walking the tidepools at night with flashlights and having Ann teach us about all the amazing and beautiful creatures we were seeing. Ive been fortunate to have many great teachers, and Ann was one of them. LOS ANGELES
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In Print THANKSGIVING WITH THE PILGRIMSWhen Stevie decides he doesnt believe in Santa and publicly says so, worldwide naughtiness surges. So Santa decides to make a believer out of Stevie by taking him on a behind-the-scenes look at Kringle Industries. Author James Solheim and illustrator Barry Gott fill Santas Secrets Revealed: All Your Questions Answered About Santas Super Sleigh, His Flying Reindeer, and Other Wonders with lots of humor and imagination. For ages 5-8. 40 pp. $15.95 from Carolrhoda Books. To order call 800-328-4929.
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Photographic Rockhound Are you looking for new subject matter to widen your photographic skills? Maybe something that has endless possibilities? If so, try the unlimited source of beauty found in rock slabs. Here you will find pattern, color and texture that can be photographed in a variety of ways with results that sometimes come out looking as abstract as a modern painting.

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Located in the heart of downtown Decatur in a original 1929 stained glass and marble storefront is a shop which stands out from all the rest: Eichhorn Jewelry. A full-service jewelry store, Eichhorns specializes in customer satisfaction. Not only does it offer quality products, it also gives customers quality time, educating them about their purchases. Customers can make evening appointments if they cannot visit the store during business hours. In addition to the areas finest collection of diamonds, gemstones, gold jewelry and watches, Eichhorns offers an extensive collection of unusual colored stone rings, pendants, earrings and bracelets.
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Over 300 Exporters Attend Annual Lunch On 25 November 2005, the 70th Anniversary of the Institute of Export was marked by inviting key players in the world of export to take part in superb Question Time session, chaired by Peter Sissons. This event, sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), took place at the Millennium Conference Centre in Gatwick. The above questions took many minutes to answer, but it was crystal clear from the first answer that enormous amounts of time and investment would be totally wasted if the complex administrative routine created for inward investment by the Chinese regional and national regulations were not followed to the letter. In reply to a question on whether open account trading should be expanded due to globalization, Ross Walker, from RBS, confirmed that exporters should keep close to their customers and open selective offices in many regions (where sufficient business was justified). secured trading is still important in China and India. RBS has a strong presence in China with many branches, employing local specialist banking staff of the highest calibre, with an enormous amount of local knowledge.
EXPORTINGExporting is sometimes thought of as a practice that is largely the province of large businesses and international corporations, but exporting can also be helpful to a small business in a variety of ways. A small business that establishes its products in the international marketplace can increase sales and profitability, enhance its domestic reputation, reduce its dependence on domestic markets, reinvigorate the sales potential of existing products, stabilize seasonal market fluctuations, sell excess production capacity, and increase awareness of possible foreign competitors.
Export successes At a time when a number of exporters have said to me that the high pound and the euro are affecting their sales, I thought that it might be useful to give a few examples of successes in exporting where there is considerable competition.

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LEGAL SERVICESThe high costs of retaining a lawyer often make it seem as if competent legal services are out of reach of most small business owners. But there are reasonably priced methods of obtaining such services, such as pre-paid plans and legal software. In addition, experts emphasize the dangers of entering into legal agreements without first obtaining advice from a qualified attorney. In many cases, this attempt to cut corners can turn small problems into big problems for small business owners. Perhaps your tax structure is not to your best advantage, or you are not adequately protected from liability, Charles Poling noted in the New Mexico Business Journal. If youre in a regulated business, you might run afoul of the law simply because you havent gotten educated by your lawyer. Failing to consult with a securities or financial lawyer when youre raising capital can cause serious problems.The type of legal services a small business should obtain varies with the size and age of the business. Exactly what type of lawyer you need depends on what business youre in, and what stage its at, Poling wrote. A general business lawyer can help you as day-to-day questions come up, reviewing contracts and tax questions. But for more complicated matters, you might need a specialist. Just starting up? Find someone who specializes in forming corporations or partnerships. Going public? Find a securities lawyer. Other specialties include environmental law, banking, patenting, copyrighting, medicine, nonprofit corporations, employment law, and so on.
As Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. re-launches a bigger version of its television programming guide, the company faces rising legal costs associated with a Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry of its former officers. Several former officers, including founder Henry Yuen, are under investigation by the SEC for inflating licensing revenues. The trial has been put on hold as both sides battle over whether their severance payments may be frozen. For the April-June period, Gemstar reduced legal expenses by $5.8 million to $600,000. But the company also filed a complaint last month against its former insurance carriers alleging they have failed to pay claims filed under its policies.

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MORATORIUM ON NEW CAR PURCHASES Would you buy a used car from Gov. Kathleen Sebelius?
Since 1989, when Jay Leonard opened the first Preferred Automotive Group used car dealership on Speedway Drive in Fort Wayne, he has developed several ideas that have become trademarks for his business. The first idea was the Preferred Auto motto: “Home of the 100,000-Mile Warranty.” “If we repair a car before it sells, its an investment. If we repair a car after it sells, its an expense. On average, we invest $800-$900 into each of our vehicles before we put them on the lot for sale.”
Climb Everest, become a lion tamer, or buy a car. Statistically, whats the most dangerous thing that you could possibly do? You wont be surprised to hear it is probably buying a used car. Just think of what could go wrong - it could fall apart, or break down, or maybe just not be an appropriate vehicle. Whatever happens, it will cost a fortune to sort out. That is why used-car warranties were invented. “You only get what you pay for,” says Mark Barton, RAC marketing executive, who is adamant that a cheap warranty means spartan protection if something goes wrong. “Consumers have to read the small print and negotiate longer- term cover. Some dealers fob customers off with three months, but you should negotiate for 12 months or more. Of course, anything backed by the RAC is a first-class warranty.” Hes right of course - if you dont read about the level of cover before you take the car, you cant moan if it breaks down and youre left in the lurch. Legally, when buying from a dealer there is an implication - provided you pay the retail price and provided phrases such as “sold without warranty”, or “sold as seen” are not used - that the dealer will ensure the car survives satisfactorily for three months. If a dealer includes a warranty in the price - “free” warranties do not exist - then it is a mechanical breakdown insurance (MBI) package. The insurance is based on variable factors such as the age and mileage of the car cross-referenced with maximum claim limits and all sorts of complicated exclusions. Technically, then, an MBI is not a warranty and dealers should not describe it as such, but they do.

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