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A small piece of spyware can affect the individual’s PC very adversely. An affected PC rapidly becomes infected with wide arrays of spyware elements. Often, users notice unwanted degradation and behavior in their PC’s performance. Most of them cost around $30 though there are more sophisticated species that may cost a little bit more.

Minority SMBs and entrepreneurs that don’t have an IT department or somebody’s son/ daughter is your IT department then they will have some form of anti-spyware to keep computers free of spyware and running at the speed/reliability it was intended. Spyware can eventually or sometimes immediately bring any computer to the point where you cannot even logon to your account or computer. Your web browser will look like a neon sign for toolbars and other ‘browser helpers’ that only help to send hackers info you don’t want them to have in the first place. Data loggers, key loggers are just a few programs which harvest info from your computer. Winclear is the only program created specially to auto remove such spywares. Although computer users are becoming much more adept at protecting themselves from online identity theft threats such as viruses the public is only just now starting to take notice of the huge increase in crimes enabled by the use of spyware. That is why every computer owner needs winclear.

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The site also recommends using a browser other than Internet Explorer, as IE is generally more vulnerable to attacks than other browsers. It is important to note that hackers have the ability to make an e-card or email look like it came from a reputable site, and even a friend or relative. If the e-card is sent by someone you know, it might be a good idea to contact them and confirm that they indeed sent it before you open it. Additionally, if it’s sent by a “secret admirer,” or other anonymous source, don’t take the chance. Winclear is the only software which is capable of removing keylogger programs. People now a days love their computer as if they are not going to live with out it. Winclear has been the industry leader in fighting keyloggers for the last 8 years.

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Just as you would never operate on yourself, you also should never attempt to represent yourself in a court of law. There are a number of lawyers across Iowa who specialize in bankruptcy cases that can help you understand the legal process behind filing and what implications it will have on your life. Often these lawyers will counsel with you at first to look at options other than filing for financial relief with the courts. Sometimes there are better solutions that filing and these attorneys will do what it takes to make sure you know all the choices available to you.

In Iowa, there are certain laws which govern who may file for bankruptcy and under what circumstances. Lawyers who specialize in this field are constantly keeping up-to-date on the laws and how they relate to individual cases. Many times the law may change on a yearly basis and a skilled attorney will keep up on the changes so that they may bring expertise and value to their client both inside and outside the courtroom.

Never be afraid to ask your attorney if there are any other options available to you besides filing for financial relief. Many times they will know of counseling programs and special payment relief programs that are available to help you get through a tough financial time without having to declare yourself bankrupt. Remember, a filing and relief judgment from the court will remain on your credit report for 10 years and seriously impact your ability to borrow money or get credit during that time period.

On July 30, 2001, the ‘Narcotic Control Regulation’ was amended and the ‘Marijuana Medical Access Regulation’ came into force. This sparked the beginning of a heated national debate, the subject in question being the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes in Canada. While marijuana is still considered an illegal substance in Canada, it is approved for use under certain circumstances. It is available for applicants who have a terminal illness with a prognosis of a life span of less than 12 months, those who suffer from specific symptoms associated with certain serious medical conditions, or those who have symptoms associated with a serious medical circumstance, where conventional treatments have failed to relieve symptoms (Health Canada, “Medical Marijuana”).

Due to previous stigmatizations associated with marijuana use, as well as its previous legal implications, public favor was not in support for the recent Bill C-17; a Bill for cannabis law reform in Canada, which was passed on November 1, 2004. The legislation allows a person to have up to 30 grams of marijuana in their possession, within limitations, while only receiving a fine (Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy, “Cannabis Law Reform in Canada”). This Act is the closest the Canadian government has ever before come toward legalizing marijuana. It is becoming increasingly apparent that through Bill C-17, there will be potentially beneficial monetary implications for the federal government, false social perceptions will lessen, and medical benefits of cannabis use will become further appreciated. In the future, marijuana use will not be perceived as the social ‘evil’ it once was, or still is. In light of the following information, it will become clear that it is not necessary to prohibit marijuana use, but rather to regulate it.

To drug policy reformers, prohibition of marijuana is not just a cause to be supported, but a mandatory way of life, necessary to uphold society’s moral fiber. These activists do not consider marijuana to be safe. Even when scientific information supports the lack of harmful effects of cannabis on the body; many still categorize it with dangerous substances such as cocaine or heroin. It is these ‘marijuana myths’ that continue to influence the opinions of so many Canadian citizens, even though there is a lack of fact-driven information to support common social stigma.

A widespread belief amongst the public is that marijuana is a ‘gateway drug’, leading to the use of more harmful substances. Never has there been a consistent relationship between the use patterns of various drugs. While marijuana use has fluctuated over the years, harder, more addictive drug use, such as LSD, remains the same. In fact, in 1999 less than 16% of high school students who smoked marijuana report trying cocaine (qtd. in Zimmer, 2). Another frequent misconception is that high levels of marijuana use can be profoundly addicting. While lab rats that are injected with THC and then given a cannabinoid receptor-blocker do experience some withdrawal symptoms, such as disturbed sleep and loss of appetite, humans are never given ‘blockers’. THC slowly leaves the human system, causing no serious withdrawal (Zimmer et al. 47). A study such as this is not relevant to physical addiction in humans.

Lastly, many people still believe that the damaging effects of smoking marijuana are greater then that of smoking tobacco products. Although, except for their psychoactive ingredients, tobacco and marijuana smoke are nearly identical, tobacco use is far more dangerous than the latter. Mainly because of nicotine (cigarettes’ addictive quality), cigarette smokers tend to smoke 10 cigarettes a day, while regular cannabis smokers smoke fewer than 5 (Zimmer et al. 62). Marijuana smoke also effects the lungs in a different way than tobacco smoke does. “The nature of the marijuana-induced changes were also different, occurring primarily in the lungs’ large airways - not the small peripheral airways affected by tobacco smoke. Since it is small-airway inflammation that causes chronic bronchitis and emphysema, marijuana smokers may not develop these diseases” (Zimmer et al. 64).

These are just a few basic examples of the social stigmatization surrounding marijuana use, as there are many others. When closer examined, none of these ‘myths’ provide a solid foundation for the prohibition of marijuana use; therefore its ban remains unfounded.

Alex Simms is a content writer for Avalon Studios, a Web Design & Development firm working with small businesses.

How necessary is cleaning your Civil War Uniform?

The every day Confederate or Union soldier’s uniform was actually never made to be washed. They wore out so fast that many of them were never cleaned - ever.

This leaves us with the question -

Do you really need to wash or dry clean your Civil War uniform?

Some reasons for cleaning a uniform may be

1. To prevent it from smelling really bad.

(Some hardcore reenactors feel that smelling really bad is part of the mystique? What do you think about having an “authentic smell?)

2. To prevent the various body chemicals that the uniform can absorb or acquire like sweat, body oils, from destroying the integrity of the fabric.

3. To have your uniform look good.

4. To do some type of seasonal, yearly, monthly maintenance to preserve your uniform.

So, considering all of these things, if you still want to clean your uniform, here are my suggestions.

1. Do as little as possible. Less is better.

2. Jackets, pants, and vests (wool/jean cloth) - None of mine have ever been laundered.

3. What I do is I put them outside on the porch on a hanger and let them air out.

4. If I want to get some of the dirt out, I use a nice stiff brush and brush the dirt out of it.

(A stiff hairbrush works fine.)

5. If you still really want to clean it, I would suggest soaking it in cold plain water with some type of wool fabric cleaner like Woolite.

Any cleaning tips you have please send them to coach@civilwaruniforms.net, so we can pass them on to other reenactors.

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© 2004. Permission granted to reprint this article in print or on your website so long as the contact information is included to coach@civilwaruniforms.net and http://www.civilwaruniforms.net

Coach McCoach has been creating patterns and making Civil War uniform items for 25 years. His Civil War uniform designs have been seen in the movies GETTYSBURG, ANDERSONVILLE and the Antietam Visitors Center. For more information, contact coach@civilwaruniforms.net or visit http://www.civilwaruniforms.net.

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Please be aware that this article is accurate as of January 29,
2006 This article is intended to be used as general information
only, not as legal advice.

Question:

I am applying as a skilled worker. I have two sons, aged 21 and
22 years of age, who I want to add as my dependent children on
my application.

My application takes one and a half years to process, and by the
time the immigration officer finally makes a decision regarding
my case, you sons have finished their schooling, are no longer
financially dependent on me, and are aged 23 and 24.

Are my two sons still eligible on my Canadian immigration
application as “dependent children”?

Answer:

Yes.

Dependent Children

Non-Canadians are allowed to apply to immigrate to Canada in the
“skilled worker” category, which assesses an applicant’s ability
to immigrate to Canada based on a combination of many factors,
including work experience, education, and language ability.

Applicants in the skilled worker category are allowed to include
their spouse and their and dependent children on their
applications, in order to allow their spouse and dependent
children to immigrate with them to Canada, if their application
is successful.

For the purposes of skilled worker applications, “dependent
children” are defined as including (among other factors),
children who are less than 22 years of age, or children who are
22 years of age or more, but who have been substantially
financially dependent on their applying parent since before
reaching age 22, and who has also been, since before age 22, in
school on a full-time or continuous basis.

However, one important factor which is not defined in the
statutory rules is exactly when information regarding dependents
is “locked in”, or be “frozen” on the application form. In other
words, will a child’s age and financial dependency be calculated
as of the application date, or as of the immigration officer’s
decision date, or as of some other date?

Lock-in Date for Age

The Canadian immigration officials (Citizen and Immigration
Canada, or “CIC”) has internal policies regarding the locking-in
of age for children. Their rules make the lock-in date for
dependent children of skilled workers the date of the
application.

The CIC policy manual gives the following definition of lock-in
date:

Lock-in date

The lock-in date is a reference point used to freeze certain
factors for the purpose of processing applications. Neither the
Act nor Regulations define it. It does not overcome any
requirements of the Act and Regulations applicants must satisfy
when an officer admits them…

Refugee and Economic class: Lock-in (of age) occurs when a visa
officer has accepted a submission as an application…

This policy does not conflict with jurisprudence in this area
(jurisprudence over-ruling CIC policy in cases of conflict).

Therefore, in the example above, your youngest son would
continue to be eligible as your dependent child, even a year an
a half after the date of application, for he was 21 at the time
of the “lock-in” date for age.

Lock-in Date for Financial Dependency - NEW

In contrast to the lock-in date for age, in the past CIC
maintained that the lock-in date for financial dependency was
the date of the application being decided.

Therefore, in the example above, according to former Canadian
immigration policy, your oldest son would not be eligible as
your dependent child as of the day that an immigration officer
made a decision on your file, one and a half years after you
applied, for at that time he was no longer financially dependent
on you, despite his financial dependency on the date of your
application. Combined with his age, he would thus no longer be
considered a “dependent child”.

However, this has now changed, at least for the time being. In
Hamid, a Federal Court of Canada court case decided in December
2005, the court held that, in the absence of a contrary
statutory requirement, the lock-in date for financial dependency
for the dependent children of skilled workers is the day of
application. The court in Hamid explained that the lock-in date
for age logically should also apply to that of financial
dependency - that there is no principled reason for an applicant
to be penalized for a delay in processing, for this is beyond an
applicant’s control.

Therefore, since Hamid, an applicant’s children may be
considered dependent children, and therefore allowed to remain
on the applicant’s application for a longer period of time.

Keep these points in mind

The following points are very important to keep in mind:

- This article is accurate as of January 29, 2006. The law
changes often, so be sure that you are aware of the most current
law. Please be in touch with me at any time in order to request
information regarding the current law. I can be reached at
skalman@canada-immigrate.ca.

- The new rules regarding the lock-in date for financial
dependency applies to applicants under the skilled worker class
only - it does NOT apply to applicants under the family class.

- The lock-in date applies for applications that are complete
and in compliance with all statutory requirements. In other
words, until an application made properly and fully, there is
not lock-in date.

- Hamid will likely go to the Federal Court of Appeal, and once
the case is heard at that court, there may be a decision that a
different lock-in date is more appropriate than the date of
application.

Did you know that Donald Trump and his companies have approximately 300 hundred files in New York public records. A lot of them were UCC initial, assignment, continuation or termination.

Other files include mortgages, assignments, declarations, certificates and deeds. Some are condominium sales. One transaction had a transfer fee of over $45,000. That’s a lot. Another transaction was for $200,000,000 in Manhattan. It was a 60 page mortgage document ID_1560006201156, reel-page= 2663-1205. It was recorded on 8/11/98 at 12:10 a.m.

A deed was recorded on 12/9/04 in Manhattan for over $3,000,000. Oh and a power of attorney was filed as well as satisfactory pieces.

Ed Koch has one piece of real estate in New York and one in Placentia, Florida. He also had a limited Power of Attorney for approximately one year.

Anyone can find out all kinds of information, including but not limited to; divorce, marriage, wills, power of attorney, property ownership, history of conveyance, liens, judgements, tax sales…Please rate and tell friends.

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We all know times are tough and, for some of us, bills are getting harder to pay each month. If the debts you owe are more than what you can afford, you should read on.

Filing a bankruptcy can be the answer to your problems. A bankruptcy is a way to discharge your debts completely so you can have a fresh start in your financial and personal life. You can only file a bankruptcy once every 6 years and once filed, it can become part of your credit history

Before filing, you want to know two things: 1) that your monthly expenses (i.e. rent, phone, medical payments and just about anything else paid by you for the living expenses of you and your family) are more than your monthly net income and 2) that your assets (all property you own at its current market value) are worth less than your liabilities (that is, the debts you presently owe and that you will list in your bankruptcy petition).

The next step in filing a bankruptcy is to have the actual petition prepared. The petition is an extensive document listing all of your income, assets and liabilities as well as other information with respect to your financial history. You must list all of the creditors that you owe money to and want to be discharged from that debt. Any creditor that you do not list will always remain your creditor. For example, you may want to keep one of your credit cards if you do not list that credit card company on your petition then you can continue to use that line of credit (of course, you will continue to make your monthly payments for that credit card).

Your petition will be filed in the bankruptcy court for about a $150.00 fee. The moment your petition is filed an automatic stay is in place that means your creditors listed in the petition must stop their collection procedures during your bankruptcy proceeding.

Only those creditors you list in the petition will be notified with respect to your filing for bankruptcy. In about 30 days from your filing date, you will be scheduled for a first meeting of creditors (called a section 341 meeting). At that meeting, the bankruptcy trustee (the person from the court) will ask you some questions. The trustee is interested in discovering whether you have any property or assets available for the benefit of your creditors. By law, you are allowed to keep certain property and the trustee’s questions are very straightforward and not at all intimidating. When the trustee is finished, your creditors are given an opportunity to speak. If none of your creditors appear then an additional 60 days is set for anyone to make any objections or file any additional papers. If nothing happens in that 60 day period, your bankruptcy will be granted and you will be relieved from all debts listed in your petition.

This article is certainly not all inclusive and is intended only as a brief explanation of the legal issue presented. Not all cases are alike and it is strongly recommended that you consult an attorney if you have any questions with respect to any legal matters.

Any questions and/or comments with respect to this topic or any other topic, contact:

Law Offices of Susan Chana Lask

853 Broadway, Suite 1516

New York, NY 10003

(212) 358-5762
Susan Chana Lask, Esq. c 2004

About The Author

Susan Chana Lask is named in the media as New York’s “high powered attorney”. She practices sucessfully all civil, criminal & appeals cases in State & Federal courts nationwide. http://www.appellate-brief.com

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