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It is a one-day event with four train trips scheduled during the course of the day.

The Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield needs volunteers at the event to act as characters such as elves and chefs. They also need all-around volunteers to commit to meetings and help with set up and clean up of the event. Volunteer elves must be 15+ years old and all other volunteers must be 18+ years old and submit to a CORI background check. Community service hours will be awarded to volunteers. Marshfield High School Girls Varsity Basketball and the Key Club are already on board to help out with the event.

The Boys and Girls Club has already sold 1,000 tickets and Train Ride 3 is close to being sold out. This event is sponsored by Tiny & Sons Glass, Rockland Trust and Vertex. All proceeds from the Polar Express event benefit the privately funded, non-profit the Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield.

“This should be a spectacular event, but we really need volunteers to successfully pull it off,” said the club’s Executive Director Greg Jackson. “We’re excited to have MHS Girl’s Basketball and the Key Club involved and certainly welcome other groups as well.”

Tickets for the “Polar Express” event are $20 each and on sale now at the Boys and Girls Club. Tickets may also be purchased online at marshfieldpolarexpress.com.

About the Boys and Girls Club

The Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield’s purpose is to establish a safe haven for recreation, which includes a variety of supervised activities for greater than 4,000 youth (between the ages of 6 to 18 years old) within the town. The Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield has five Core Areas: Character and Leadership; Education and Career; Health, Sport Fitness Recreation and Life Skills; The Arts; and Technology. These Core Areas serve as the foundation for all programming.

As a privately-funded, non-profit organization, the Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield relies tremendously on the generous philanthropic support of individuals.  Financial gifts assist in providing the financial strength necessary to continue the club’s mission “to enable and inspire all young people to realize their full potential as productive and responsible citizens, as well as become tomorrow’s capable leaders.”

For more information about the Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield, please contact (781) 834-CLUB (2582) or visit the website at MarshfieldBoysAndGirlsClub.com or write to the club at P.O. Box 311, Marshfield, MA 02050.

Do you want to take your career to new heights? Can a language study programme help you with this? No doubt learning a foreign language adds to your portfolio and even creates many job opportunities for you. But what is the right method to learn a foreign language? Which is the best language school available? These questions must have boggled your mind. But now with language study programmes from ESL Languages, you can put your mind to rest.

Have you ever thought how easily you can speak your national language as compared to the other foreign languages? The simple answer is that you have grown up in the environment where your national language is spoken. Following this approach, ESL has designed the best language studies abroad courses. You can easily learn a foreign language by simply immersing yourself in the culture that speaks it. In such a condition, you will be naturally forced to adapt to the local language.  If you get surrounded by speakers of the foreign language and everyone around you is interacting in that particular language, then definitely you can learn that language at a fast pace.

So, now you have an opportunity to learn English in England. ESL has the best English schools in England that offer multiple courses each designed with great precision to serve the various needs of each individual prospective learner. Such a programme is not only beneficial for learning a foreign language but it also gives you an opportunity to visit the most exciting destinations around the world. Just imagine you are learning English in the beautiful environment of England. Experience historical cities, captivating landscapes, the rich culture of England and lots more and among all these you are on your language study stay in England. Such language study abroad programs not only offer you sessions on the language but also let you discover the beauty of the country and its vibrant culture.

ESL study programmes are categorized into four major categories as adults, juniors, gap year and professionals. These programmes are made to cater for learners of different age groups. ESL has a very big network of language study schools each providing world class infrastructures, the best teaching staff, hostel facilities, free flights, placement assistance and lots more. It has partner language schools in around 160 destinations in more than 40 countries around the globe.

ESL has seven language schools in England at destinations like Ardingly, Eastbourne, Kingham, Cambridge, Torbay, Warminster, Windlesham and Brighton.  Each of these destinations has a rich history and culture.

As a parent you have many things to worry about. What to feed your child for breakfast, what school to send him/her to, or what kids he/she should hang out with. Another important issue to think about is what toys are suitable for your child. If your child is a newborn (age 0-2) then the toys you let your child play with are important. You must make sure the toys you buy for your young child are safe. What does this mean? It means they should be large to avoid choking hazards, and they should be free of lead since babies have a habit of putting toys in their mouths.

For toddlers, you don’t have to worry about choking hazards as much as babies, but it should still be in the back of your mind when you are purchasing toys. For toddlers, try to get toys that come in various shapes and sizes (blocks are a good example). Make sure the toys come in various colors too, which aids in color recognition for your developing child. Don’t focus on getting toys that require too much hand eye coordination just yet, as your toddler probably won’t possess enough skill to play with the toy anyways.

Toys that are suitable for kindergarten aged children include LEGOS, Kennex, and other such toys that let your child build things from their imagination. By now, your child will possess enough skill to put together LEGO blocks. LEGOs are also nice because your child can build anything they want. Spatial reasoning is also taught at an early age which is critical in your child’s development.

For kindergarten aged girls, Toys that are suitable would include dolls, doll houses and toy horses. Not to imply that girls can’t play LEGOs, but chances are she would not be so interested. Dolls like Barbie are great for your young girl. They offer her a chance to play ?make believe? with a doll and dress her up any way she wants. Dolls also offer a great way to socialize with other girls her age by playing dolls together.

Other toys that children may like are board games. They are great because they involve the entire family and often offer educational opportunities. Such games include Monopoly and Yahtzee. Both involve heavy math calculations. It is advisable to only play Monopoly with children age 10 and above. Kids often get bored of Monopoly and they could have a hard time following what is happening.

Some other toys that are suitable for your older children are video games. Sure, you’ve heard that too many video games are bad, and this is true, but 30 minutes of video games per day won’t hurt anything. Make sure the video games you are buying are appropriate. Check the ESRB rating on the box before you make a purchase. Generally anything that is rated ?teen? and above will be inappropriate for most children. Monitor how many hours per day your child spends playing video games. If it is over an hour, consider placing restrictions on how many hours per day they can spend playing video games.

As the economy has shifted about and soured, many people have decided to go back to school for additional training or a degree to give themselves an edge in the job market.  If you are one of them, congratulations on making the investment in yourself and your future.  Now, it’s time to make sure you are saving all the money you can with your new student status.

There are all kinds of student discounts out there that are official and advertised.  However, there are also substantial savings that can be had by simply letting others know that your lifestyle has changes.  One place to look for those savings is in your car insurance premiums.

When you take on full-time student status, many of your usual routines will change.  Students don’t have regular commuter schedules.  They often walk, bike, or take public transportation to get around.  Their cars spend long stretches of time parked instead of out on the road.

As a result, students don’t have the same risk profile as regular drivers.  You just aren’t facing the same things on the road as a corporate warrior who has to drive in peak traffic five days a week.  You may fight for a good spot close to your building on campus, but you aren’t fighting urban traffic to get a good spot in a competitive corporate lot.

Thus, you should explore how your changed risk profile as a driver can save you money on your car insurance.  The first step is to realize that your standard car insurance cover likely isn’t pricing your premium right any more.  You’re paying average, working driver rates, subsidizing a lifestyle that simply isn’t yours any longer.

When you look for new insurance, you will want to look for an insurer that is going to make the effort to differentiate between you and average drivers.  You’ll want a company that is willing to keep up with the changes in your life and price your insurance cover accordingly.  After all, why pay money for coverage that doesn’t fit your needs?

The process of establishing yourself as a lower risk driver, or at least a different risk level driver, involves using a more inquisitive quotation process.  It can be done completely online, between classes or whenever you have the time.  Just answer additional questions about the number of days that you drive, where you usually keep the car, and your average driving distance to start separating yourself from the commuter crowds.

When you get back your quote, you can be confident that the cover you are offered has been priced based on your true risk level.  You may be quite surprised at the amount of money you can save with customized premium pricing on car insurance.  However, as a student, finding extra money by cutting out unnecessary spending is a great way to find the money you need to get the most out of your education.

The titles implication means that there would be no affiliate marketing with out internet marketing and the better the internet marketing is the more effective affiliate marketing will be because of it. Make no mistake affiliate marketing is one of the quickest, easiest ways to earn a hefty residual income and if done right you don’t have a high overhead either.

There are many strategies and techniques that can be used for businesses to grow online. The fresher, up-todate and proven internet marketing methods are the better the results will be. Affiliate marketing is when a person is allowed to sell a vendors/merchants products and when a sale is made there is a commission paid to the person who made the sale for the merchant. Since the beginning of the internet affiliate marketing has become a favorite avenue for earning income at home.

Internet marketing skills are what puts people and products together but learning intricate ways of selling, building relationships, product research, understanding audiences (the various different groups of people searching for products within a niche), understanding niches, understanding relevance,  web design, how to set up campaigns and more all comes from learning internet marketing. It’s the biggest reason newbies and anybody who thinks that they can just go online and make money just because a work at home program says no experience necessary gets taken so easily and in more ways than one. Clearly it’s a sales tatic for many programs. Experience is always a plus.

Actually internet marketing helps to take much of the guess work out of making affiliate sales by giving the marketer knowledge about things as simple as relevance. Staying relevant about a product from the entire web page to the keywords to the ad when promoting to a relevant audience is not a very easy thing to do when you barely understand anything at all about the internet. It’s definitely easy to see how internet marketing/affiliate marketing gets such a bad rap about not being what it’s all cracked up to be. Truth be known it is exactly what it’s cracked up to be.

Sadly most people enter it from the very start with the wrong thinking. Most of us go to school for at least 12 to 13 years learning everything we know yet just because someone puts on their product no experience necessary many think that they can take that program and go out and make a million dollars in record time with no education about the main vehicle that’s to fuel the program which is internet marketing.

Remember that without internet marketing skills an affiliate marketing program is basically a big guessing game of hit and miss. Who in their right frame of mind would want to stake their future on that. Only people who are much too desperate to realize that they can’t possibly do this type of venture and expect good results. Affiliate marketing is not a game, it’s a business and it’s very real. It’s a great way to make a lot of money but you must learn everything you need to know about the system that is the pinnacle of it’s success and that is internet marketing.

The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry have published specific criteria and guidelines for diagnosing ADHD.  If ADHD is suspected, the child should have a clinical evaluation, which may include:2. Often gets up from seat when remaining in seat is expected.Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder affects an estimated 3 to 5 percent of children of school age.  ADHD frequently gets identified when a child is consistently having trouble in school, whether he (significantly more boys than girls are diagnosed with this disorder) is home-schooled or attends public school.  The necessity of sitting still, focusing for relatively long periods of time, performing in spite of distractions, and/or getting along with a number of other children can bring ADHD symptoms to the fore and make very obvious what may have been only suspected before.

ADHD affects a child’s performance in school and his relationships with other people.  Parents of an ADHD child can feel exhausted and frustrated.  The child may feel like he is stupid or bad.  It can be a heart-breaking situation.  The disorder involves problems with being inattentive, over-active, and impulsive–all three together, or in varying combinations.

The following criteria have been specified by the American Psychiatric Association as diagnostic for Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder:

DSM-IV Criteria for ADHD

I. Either A or B:

A.     Six or more of the following symptoms of inattention have been present for at least 6 months to a point that is disruptive and inappropriate for developmental level:

Inattention

1. Often does not give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, work, or other activities.

2. Often has trouble keeping attention on tasks or play activities.

3. Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly.

4. Often does not follow instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores, or duties in the workplace (not due to oppositional behavior or failure to understand instructions).

5. Often has trouble organizing activities.

6. Often avoids, dislikes, or doesn’t want to do things that take a lot of mental effort for a long period of time (such as schoolwork or homework).

7. Often loses things needed for tasks and activities (e.g. toys, school assignments, pencils, books, or tools).

8. Is often easily distracted.

9. Is often forgetful in daily activities.

B. Six or more of the following symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity have been present for at least 6 months to an extent that is disruptive and inappropriate for developmental level:

Hyperactivity

1. Often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat.

2. Often gets up from seat when remaining in seat is expected.

3. Often runs about or climbs when and where it is not appropriate (adolescents or adults may feel very restless).

4. Often has trouble playing or enjoying leisure activities quietly.

5. Is often “on the go” or often acts as if “driven by a motor”.

6. Often talks excessively.

Impulsivity

1. Often blurts out answers before questions have been finished.

2. Often has trouble waiting one’s turn.

3. Often interrupts or intrudes on others (e.g., butts into conversations or games).

A diagnosis of ADHD means that the child has at least six symptoms in the inattentiveness category, or six symptoms in the hyperactivity and impulsivity categories.  According to the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, the symptoms must have been present for at least six months, and there must be clear evidence of severe impairment in at least two of these major areas of the child’s life:

• in the classroom
• on the playground
• at home
• in the community
• in social settings

Some symptoms must have been present since before the age of seven.  Symptoms cannot be present only during the course of another disorder, or better accounted for by another diagnosis. Three major subtypes of the disorder have been identified: 1) Predominantly Inattentive Type a)Criterion 1A is met but Criterion 1B is not met for the past six months b) Most symptoms are in the inattention category c)Fewer than

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The Takeover Code or substantial acquisition of shares.

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Name: Sukant Vikram

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Class: 5th year BBA LLB

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Symbiosis Law School

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With the announcement of the policy of globalization, the doors of Indian economy were opened for the overseas investors. But to compete at the world platform, the scale of business was needed to be increased. In this changed scenario, mergers and acquisitions were the best option available for the corporates considering the time factor involved in capturing the opportunities made available by the globalization.

But soon the predators with huge disposable wealth started exploiting this opportunity to the prejudice of retail investor. This created a need for some regulation to protect the interest of investors which were done through -:

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1.Enactment of SEBI Act, 1992
2.Enactment of SEBI (Substantial acquisition of shares and takeover) Regulations, 1992.

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In the light of then present circumstances, the need for some law to regulate takeover was strongly felt. Moreover to achieve its objectives as stated in SEBI Act, 1992, SEBI enacted SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeover) Regulations, 1994 in exercise of powers conferred under section 30 of the Act which laid down a procedure to be followed by an acquirer for acquiring majority shares or controlling in another company, so that process of takeover is carried out in a fair and transparent manner.

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Thereafter, these regulations have been amended a number of times to address the changing circumstances and needs of corporate sector. In 1997 SEBI Takeover Code has been rechristened by enacting SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeover) Regulations, 1997 substituting SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeover) Regulations, 1994.

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Merger&Acquisition Trends in Current Scenario —- Structured Reconstruction

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In India it was only in 20th century that the concept of takeover took birth but even then the concept of hostile takeovers was not known to anybody. This concept emerged when Swaraj Paul started efforts to takeover Escorts Ltd. and DCM Ltd. He was the first hostile raider among the raiders of Indian stock market. Although Paul could not succeed in his efforts because the incumbents fend him off by using the technicalities of rules governing non-residents but this created a need for a takeover code.

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This need was further accentuated in 1990s when the government initiated the policy of liberalization and globalization which resulted in growth of Indian economy at an increased pace, and it created a highly competitive business environment, which motivated many companies to restructure their corporate strategies by including the tools of mergers and takeovers.

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In the meantime, SEBI was established in 1992 as a body corporate under the SEBI Act, 1992 with the main objectives to- i) protect the interest of investors in securities market, and ii) to provide for the orderly development of securities market. Thus while the possibility of takeover of a company through share acquisition is desirable in new competitive business environment for achieving strategic corporate objectives, there has to be well defined regulation so that the interest of all concerned are not jeopardized by sudden takeover threats.

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In the light of then present circumstances, the need for some law to regulate takeover was strongly felt. Moreover to achieve its objectives as stated in SEBI Act, 1992, SEBI enacted SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeover) Regulations, 1994 in exercise of powers conferred under section 30 of the Act which laid down a procedure to be followed by an acquirer for acquiring majority shares or controlling in another company, so that process of takeover is carried out in a fair and transparent manner.

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Thereafter, these regulations have been amended a number of times to address the changing circumstances and needs of corporate sector. In 1997 SEBI Takeover Code has been rechristened by enacting SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeover) Regulations, 1997 substituting SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares a

by: Geoff Ficke

One of the signal economic thinkers of the 20th century was the Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman. His many books and papers, interviews and television specials have left us a valuable trove of thoughts and observations that should serve as guideposts during our current difficult economic times. His death has left a void that no contemporary thinker has been able to fill. That is most unfortunate, especially now. 

Recently, I revisited my copy of Professor Friedman’s signature work, Free to Choose. It is still as pertinent, fresh and poignant, as it was the day it was first published. His reasoned defense of economic and personal freedom, strictly limited government and the rule of law need to be reviewed and protected fiercely by each citizen, that values these sacred rights. 

“Thank heavens we do not get all of the government that we are made to pay for”, stated Professor Friedman in one of his most oft quoted observations. The simple, but powerful clarity of these 17 words serve as testament to the deep understanding and concern he possessed about the ever-expanding role of centrally planned, distant government and the excessive price we pay for it. We see the detritus of insatiable government in every aspect of our lives, and yet, we seem incapable of slowing, preferably stopping the rapid growth of this corrupt, inefficient monster.

The Federal Government is nearing a 3 trillion dollar annual budget. No one really knows the exact amount of deficit spending we incur each year, but it is massive and growing. The more revenue the government realizes, the faster spending increases. We have un-funded liabilities of somewhere around $53 trillion for Medicare and Medicaid, and $25 trillion for Social Security. These are just estimates; no one can state the absolute accurate numbers. And, remember the government refers to these obligations as “un-funded liabilities”, not debt as private citizens and industry would be required to report and account for. 

In 1976, President Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education. Before then, education was largely a local affair. This boondoggle has grown massively since its inception in employees, budget, programs and un-funded mandates. Less than 7% of the $60 Billion annual budget for the DOE is returned to state and local schools as grants. The rest is consumed in “bureaucracy heaven”. Can anyone seriously argue that public school performance has improved since we were blessed with the Department of Education and the thousands of theoreticians, consultants and knowledge brokers that this cesspool supports? You can actually graph the decline of graduation rates, the increase in truancy, lowered standardized test scores and achievement tests from the date we were blessed with the DOE.

The government enjoys natural monopolies in many areas. The Postal Service, the Passport Office, AMTRACK, The FAA, and so many more government agencies provide we citizens with one stop shopping. In every case, the result is subsidy, waste, and mismanagement. Waiting up to 90 days to receive a passport is ridiculous. The Postal Service and AMTRACK require subsidies every year, while FedEx, UPS, and the railroads make billions of dollars in profit each year. Why would any thinking person believe that government should be expanded into even more areas of our lives.

Thomas Jefferson, a soul brother to Milton Friedman said, “He is governed best who is governed least”. And yet, an ever-growing segment of our citizenry constantly seeks to redress perceived grievances and personally poor decision making by petitioning politicians for outcomes favorable to their desires. We know with absolute certainty that government is too large, inefficient, duplicitous and wasteful to solve problems. 

Government is not in business to solve problems: it is in business to institutionalize problems! Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Welfare, Food Stamps have all grown exponentially. The problems these programs, and many others, were supposed to address have grown even more exponentially. Bureaucracies are not in the business of solving problems and shrinking, then going out of business as they successfully complete their mission. The very core of the nature of a bureaucracy is to grow insatiably. 

As more citizens abdicate their personal responsibilities and seek government support, there are all too many politicians, lobbyists, issue advocates and social engineers ready to comply and satisfy this sycophancy. We see many people campaigning for a government takeover of the health care system. When government provides free health care: that is when health care will get really expensive! How in the world can so many people, be so blind about so much. 

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Unless global high school biology curricula have changed, Collagen has tended to be one of the few important things that go unmentioned over the duration of the typical high school biology course. Yet looking at it carefully, collagen turns out to be one of the important components that make human (and for that matter any animal) body, and which no one can claim to have a good working knowledge of the human body without a knowledge of.

Did you know, for instance that more than a quarter of the body’s protein content is actually made of collagen? If you didn’t, then this will be for you the first important and surprising fact about collagen. It gets even more interesting when it is mentioned collagen is the main substance that makes the connective tissue in the typical animal body: which is another way of saying that collagen is to the animal body what cement is to a concrete structure!

The second fact about collagen that you might find surprising if you have never gotten to hear it is the fact that collagen – being the main component of connective tissue in the body – tends to be the substance that is responsible for some of the miracles of the medical science like the skin reconstruction surgery that is taking place nowadays; and which is restoring the self-esteem of victims of fire accidents (and other accidents) who would otherwise have had to live the rest of their lives greatly disadvantaged, ‘looks-wise.’

Closely related to the second fact about collagen, another fact about it that you might find surprising is the fact that collagen harvested from beef cattle can actually work for humans, and is in fact the collagen that is employed in making the previously described reconstructive surgery possible. Not all beef cattle will do for this purpose though: as the employed animals have to be free an illness called BSE, which unfortunately tends to be very common among cows, meaning that only a few ‘certified’ animals can be used for harvesting collagen to be used for reconstructive surgery and other medical applications. Of course, there is also the possibility of getting collagen harvested from dead people (cadavers) and aborted fetuses; but this is hardly more appealing than the use of collagen from beef cattle, not to mention anything of the fact that the said collagen harvested from dead bodies (cadavers) and aborted fetuses tends to be much more expensive than the collagen harvested from the animals.

The fourth surprising fact about collagen, and this might be interesting to you even if you have no interests in cosmetic or reconstructive surgery is the fact that there have been studies suggesting that regularly taking collagen (in the form of the supplements it is sold in) can greatly enhance your skin quality, maintaining that youthful look which people have been known to submit to the surgeon’s scalpel in a bid to re-acquire. As with any claims of this nature, there has controversy around the fact that collagen can have this particular effect: but anyone taking the collagen supplements in question has nothing really to lose for taking them, but everything to gain should the said effects indeed start manifesting on their skin!