General-partnership

I needed a book to guide me in forming an Illinois LLC after I had done research to determine the pros and cons of the structure. In other words, I needed a good rundown of the potential options for an operating agreement, and I needed clear instruction on the application/filing process.

This book was too generic on operations, and the actual formation of an LLC in Illinois requires one form and a check, but the book's description of the filing process for Illinois was not clear.

I noticed another book which goes through an operating agreement almost clause by clause - it was cheaper, too, but I have forgotten which book that one is. I wish I had bought that one.

This book has a good explanation of the ins and outs of forming an LLC. However, in most cases, you create an LLC by filling the blanks in a state form, and then optionally create an Operating Agreement by filling in the blanks in a sample version included in the book.

The value of this book is in the state-by-state reference and in the sample Operating Agreement (and accompanying explanations). It doesn't tell you much of anything about what else you need to do to start a business or run it, referring you to other books written by the author.

Given the relatively light content, I wouldn't have expected it to be on the high end price range of Nolo's offerings. The book's real value for me was filling in some gaps in Nolo's excellent "Small Business Start-Up Kit for California" by Peri Pakroo.

An excellent intro to LLC's, in a generic sort of way. However, the sample operating agreements leave much to be desired...there are more thorough versions out there. In addition, the differences between the various state laws on LLC's make it necessary that you consult an attorney just to be on the safe side. Overall, I would recommend this to anyone who is thinking about getting into business.

This book discusses partnerships from a macro point of view and is very vague. If your are interested in learning how to structure joint ventures and/or partnerships - this isnt the book.

Easy to read and the most useful for people initiating alliances. Attention to the soft side of alliances is the most useful. Very few people deal with this critical aspect of alliances. My colleagues and I want to hear more from this author.

This is a thorough, well researched collection of case studies and best practices. Makes the case for why and how strategic, cross boundary relationships are the new models for doing business in todays marketplace.

Dr. O'Callaghan forces his own unbalanced opinions upon the reader. Hopefully, anyone reading this book will also take the time to read information based upon facts and widely accepted viewpoints and theories, not just one person's beliefs. It would be nice to think that all problems children have could be resolved as simply as the author implies. Recent studies have shown otherwise. But, one could chose to ignore these facts and studies,as Dr. O'Callaghan does.

I have worked with J. Brien O'Callaghan and seen him implement his model in the CT. School Systems. His step by step accountability based approach are very helpful and have helped many students succeed. This model works best with oppositionally defiant and conduct disordered children. Brien's model has become a standard assessment tool as a school psychologist and family therapy intern to help families try to re-balance the levels of "control" and "protection" in their families.

O'Callaghan's book is well-written, well-informed, and persuasive. His structural approach has now been tried in several school based locations, including one recently featured in ACA's newsletter. This material is useful for school-based counselors, school teachers and administrators, and recipients of school referrals for counseling for troubled children.

Historical imperative is mercyless:Federations do not survive.Anybody who asserts that a group of heterogenic nations in every respect-cultural,linguistic,religious,racial,ethnic.-could coexist within one virtual border and where like Brown's Movement will persist difusion of uniformitarian tendencies that serve to create common identity,is simply ignorant utopist,that fails true vision of history and "Us and They" factor as product of vigorius separatistic forces which promote diversity,quite unlike authors solipsistic "unity in diversity" social outlooks.Convergence is not the option and it could contribute towards escalation of particularistic sentiments,and it is absurd by the virtue of its own egalitarian sentiments because creolisation which will be created will exhaust itself in capability to promote generation of acceptable to all cultural modalities,unlike the model of clearly defined social coexistence,which has infinite potentials for progress within balanced preservation of complexities of group identitys.Interesting is that a new kind of identity has suplanted ancient ethno-cultural loyalities namely continental identity.Thus people speak of themselves as "Europians","Africans","Asians"-as if Irish,Greeks,Swedes or Japanese,Philipinos and Aphganistanians are something different from others,and this is clearly case of subconciouss emulation of Mondialistic identity model,nurtured by those Social Engineers like Marx,Popper,Russell and others who would assert that "global citizenship",presumably one that is born under Guiding Force-temporarily functioning enforcing center(role that U.S.S.R. tried to play once),will eliminate regionalisms and lead to Eternal Peace,where conflicting defence systems would be merged into "planetary police".It is precisely that unnatural policy that has lead to "Heider Phenomenon" in Austria.Xenophobia will ultimately show itself victorious over mediocretisationing of masses,streching their collective identity too far into wide areas of Cartesian deductionist aculturisations ,and it would be impossible to establish illusion of neutral relations in such collectives,without massive,faceless bureucratic machinery.It is living truth that majority of those people who were engaged furiously in ellimination of communism during 1989,had sympathy for the regime,that claimed virtualy the same ideals, without mental reservations.All those "dissidents" and "martyrs" who were persecuted,tortured,maligned,barefooted,derogated,maligned again,marginalised etc. are only product of their own conformism,and if some other "ism" were to be triumphant it is likely that many of them will join the mainstream,representing evilness of curent social reality.With regard to N.A.T.O., it was perhaps pragmatic nessecity of the time,but now idea of collective deffence,under the euphemism of partnership,is as absurd as Planet Earth's football team.It is clear who are Russians and who are Estonians or Armenians within the Alliance.History will witness massive resistence within the N.A.T.O member states to risk their citizens lifes and resources,for what are somebody else's problems,even when outcome may be benneficciary. Simply,Greeks and Americans are not 300.000.000.And they are partners-but only complementary up to the certain point,and rigid enforcement could provoke only ambivalent relations.Therefore,N.A.T.O. has reached its fifteen minutes of glory and speaking of its future is highly hipocritical euphemistic exposure of relation-Hungary was occupied,but now it's partner,U.S.S.R was ruthless Empire,but West is voluntary created Commonwealth.Hopefully, perhaps such globalistic ideology will transform itself peacefully,in accordance to some of its own ideals,and that there will be no need for illusions of "security guaranteed" within what seems to be a fast evolving Power Monopoly-evolving into advocate of everything that was against for.

Reviewed by NIGEL CLIVE in International Relations, Volume XIII, No 5, August 1997

The end of the Cold War was not foreseen on either side of the Atlantic. The consequential need to rethink and update strategic, political and economic relations between America and Europe in a global context has spurred a contingent of leading RAND thinkers to sketch out the contours of a redefined Atlantic partnership. This welcome project has already been praised by Henry Kissinger and George Schultz. No less welcome would be a similar academic initiative from the European side. The readiness of Europe to accept greater responsibility could encourage internationalism in the United States where the latest evidence shows public preference for shared world leadership. Indeed, both Atlantic partners need to raise their sights to the idea of a global endeavour. The Bosnian war has made the European Union (EU) begin to assume a leading role in the Atlantic partnership within Europe, and it is clearly in a better position than the United States to ensure the economic and political stability of East Central Europe, the Baltic States, Ukraine and the Balkans.
Ronald Asmus's examination of the new partnership after the end of the Cold War involves enlarging the EU and NATO eastward. The second enlargement means broadening the horizon beyond the European continent where the United States and Europe share vital interests. NATO should expand its responsibility from that of defending Western Europe to that of managing security in Europe as a whole, as when Alliance troops were used to implement a Balkan peace plan and prevent instability from spreading in Europe. Asmus argues that if one wants to have a strategy for fighting wars together, one should first develop a common strategy for preventing them. This underscores the need for a coordinated and political and economic strategy.
Gregory Treverton outlines an economic agenda for the new era. He puts forward ideas for a more ambitious Atlantic partnership in trade and other economic policies and examines how growing European interests in world trade might bring advantages to both parties as they exert global economic partnership. New military structures in NATO are advocated by James Thomson, who proposes a new NATO major command to deal with contingencies outside the NATO area, most importantly in the Persian Gulf. He acknowledges that there are serious problems on both sides and recalls that the Bosnian peace deployment debate was a close call. John van Oudenaren shows guarded optimism about the multiplicity of partnerships that span the Atlantic. The United States has every reason to encourage initiatives by the EU, but the fact that the US is still needed in Europe to contribute to European security introduces a major asymmetry in the American-European relationship. It means they can never be truly equal partners outside Europe.
According to David Gompert, the strength of the integrated world economy is to the new era what the containment of the Soviet Union was to the old. The more integrated the core of the world economy, West Europe East Asia and North America, the more indivisible is its security. In varying shades, the threat comes from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria and North Korea. On most matters of global significance, the United States seeks the support of its European partners in the United Nations, G7 and NATO. But it will take US initiatives to persuade Europeans that the Atlantic relationship needs a new purpose, a broader scope and reformed institutions.
Stephen Larrabee describes the security challenges on Europe's eastern periphery where the main challenge in Russia is helping to stabilize the reform process and integrate Russia into the broader European structures. Restructuring NATO to focus more on crisis management (Article 4) rather than territorial defence (Article 5) would help to build a more cooperative relationship with Russia. In view of Russia's hard line on NATO expansion, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, not the United States, should take the lead in campaigning for the Baltic states to join the European Union, not NATO. Security cooperation with Ukraine would be part of the Partnership for Peace programme, This would be an indirect means of drawing Ukraine closer to NATO. Polish-Ukrainian defence cooperation could also become a useful way for NATO to enhance its ties to the Ukraine 'through the back door'. Finally, the United States and Europe need to develop a common strategy for dealing with the two issues left out of the Dayton agreement: Macedonia and Kosovo. Challenges in the Greater Middle East is the subject of Zalmay Khalizad's essay. The United States, Europe and Japan need the free flow of oil from the Middle East at reasonable prices. Regional instability in the Middle East poses the first threat to an American-European partnership. The second threat is terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Despite their common interests, there is no US-European common strategy, especially with regard to Iran.
This collection of American viewpoints calls for a European comment which is well provided by John Roper. He agrees that less attention is given in Europe than in the United States to the risks of proliferation of nuclear weapons. There have been differences in perception and approach in dealing with hard-core outlaw states, and Roper concedes that Americans are generally correct in criticizing European strategic myopia. Europeans will need a 'leap of imagination' to accept a full partnership role with the common European voice in world trade negotiations, but progress has been much slower in the politico-military field. The global partnership has to be to the mutual benefit of the United States and Europe. Greater European coherence can only make a working partnership easier to achieve.
David Gompert and Stephen Larrabee conclude that the new partnership must be both more global and more equal than the present European-American relationship. Unless NATO's strategic rationale includes the protection of common interests beyond Europe, its vitality within Europe will erode. Americans must accept that only a more cohesive Europe can be a more responsible and effective partner. If the European Union is perceived by Americans as not pulling its weight, the American world outlook and role could change in ways that could leave European economic and security exposed. As a final thought, the two editors claim: 'it is high time for European and American leaders to reflect on how a partnership would help them achieve their highest priorities. Prosperity and security, political and economic freedom on a global scale can only come through vision and leadership.'
NIGEL CLIVE

Just when you thought it was safe to venture into the psychology section of your local bookstore, this anthology of stupefying nonsense appears. Demonstrating the most intellectually flaccid tendencies of third-wave feminism, _Young Wives' Tales_ is a psychobabblish collection of anecdotes in which various women tell readers how they found love. The prerequisite for submitting to the editors of this volume must have been poor writing skills; all of the included authors are foggy sentence machines. Worse, all demonstrate what Adrienne Rich calls the middle-class fantasy that one can resolve the political and historical dilemmas of marriage in purely personal ways. Hence the series of embarassing, improvised "commitment ceremonies" documented in the volume -- all of which seem designed to provide thier participants with fodder for the next therapy session.

Heavy on self-expression and light on analysis, this book is like an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show: it's earnest, it means to improve people,and it's peppered with new age terminology. In brief stylistically undistringuished first-person essays, a series of female authors discuss their erotic parnterships. Most are married. Some aren't. All consider their amorous narratives to be somehow awesome. Readers are regaled with embarassingly personal and sentimental accounts: one woman's struggle to have an orgasm, another's tacky Las Vegas wedding, yet another's goddess ceremony in which she and her partner worshipped corn (that's right). It's not clear why we should care about any of this; because the writers have no finesse, they appear to be a group friends selected by the editors at random, so the collection has the feeling of an all-girls slumber party -- a buncha spoiled upper-middle-class chicks sittin' around rapping. And there's a deeper problem. Virtually each smarmy essay presents marriage as the path to self-improvement (in the words of one author,getting married has made her kinder toward herself). This reactionary sentiment is hard enough to take when it comes from the columns of women's magazines, but packaged as a feminist manifesto, it's truly offensive.

I found this book to be witty, charming and honest. It offers examples of how heterosexual relationships are challenged and penalized by gender hegemonhy and the social narrative of heteronormativity. Moreover, it's far from a dry or verbose scholarly text. It is clever and fun to read.

Since my husband has sarcoidosis of the lungs and central nervous system, I was quite excited to find another book on this subject. I read Karen Duffy's book when it was first released, and I enjoyed it immensely. This book, however, is an insult to sarcoidosis patients and their families. This book contains the worst grammar and spelling I have ever seen in print. I cannot believe that I spent 20 dollars to read someone's account of this disease; someone who obviously feels the need to criticize everyone he has ever encountered who has not treated him as he is extraordinary because he is ill. My husband and I have approached treating this disease with humility, and therefore, have been treated with respect from all the professionals we have encountered during this long journey. We have a good attitude and don't expect special treatment by anyone. Of course, it can be extremely frustrating to not "be cured" of this disease, however, my husband has never taken out his frustration on anyone. The only positive experience of reading this book has been that I now have a much greater respect for my husband and the manner in which he is coping with sarcoidosis.

I just completed the revised edition (which had the editing issues corrected) as other members of my family are now reading it as well. It was enlightening to finally read a book from an average person that must deal with the same experiences as I do. I was finally diagnosed with sarcoidosis in my lungs and on my skin in 1993. The author does not flinch from outlining his most personal symptoms in a very direct approach. Considering he spent over 4 years being misdiagnosed there were several negative experiences however I did not feel that he felt any self-pity or unjustly bashed the professionals he was exposed to but instead just told the truth and in the end gives credit to those who were able to help him. For me it was a roller coaster of emotions. I appreciate the fact that he gave much due respect to God, his loving family and those who supported him. Although the book is over 300 pages, it touches on every aspect of living with chronic health conditions and the physical and mental stress involved. I admire Mr. Barr's courage to tell his story in such a direct manner and open up to the world. The only thing I found insulting about this book were some of the experiences we all experience and they needed to be told.

As a sarcoidosis patient since 1989 I found it refreshing to finally read a story from a fellow patient such as myself. The story was very emotional for me but yet inspiring as I could relate to many of the experiences written about throughout the book. I would recommend this book to any patient with sarcoidosis, family member or caretaker. We need more stories like this!

Frisco Styer was a business woman who was very good at her job. She was speechless when her father told her that he had mismanaged the family business to the brink of bankruptcy. She coldn't let her mother know cause she knew her mother would not take it well. She will do absolutely anything to save the company, including stopping Lucas MacCanna who tried to takeover the company. Lucas was a cold ruthless businessman who only love to win. Until he met beautiful Frisco, that he decided to mix business and desire into one. He offered her a partnership in business only if Frisco will be her lovers. Frisco turned the offer around by gave Lucas another offer, it will be a marriage and then they will become partners in business. When Lucas accepted it, she just realized that she probably did a great mistake. Frisco was fallen ahead in love with Lucas but the man was seem so far to reach. After all, the man married her only for the business and pleasure in bed. Was Frisco dare enough to took all the risk in order to obtain Lucas love, but realizing she could also lost him by doing just that? Although the book was enjoyable, it was not the best of Joan Hohl. The plot was too cliché and lots of absurdity. Example, how can a father thrown his own daughter who he loved so much into a marriage just to save his own hide? But all in all, this book is still readable. The characters were strong, it also include secondary characters that was quite intriguing. If you love romance story with all the love and hate situation between the hero and heroine, this book will answer to your need. But if you decide to skip this one, it wouldn't be a great loss.

Although self-consciously and unapologetically Roman Catholic, Father Sweetser offers a theologically sound vision of covenantal relationships that could help to form any Christian parish. His advice, based on more than 30 years of pastoral experience is not new, but it is practical. This program could reasonably be exercised in most congregations. Father Sweetser dares to address the taboo subjects of those whose Christianity is only marginally expressed and the various ways that the Church drives individuals to such isolation. Any bishop, priest, pastor, deacon, parish administrator or parish council president could benefit by reading this book.

This book is an invaluable guideline for first-time clinical supervisors of student teachers. Sample observation forms and letters of reference are given for various scenarios, as well as advice on troubleshooting and dealing with problems in the field.

Forty authors contribute to this anthology of essays discussing issues such as the gender wage gap, work and family benefits, temporary and part-time work, and female leadership in unions.