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Audits, FDIC and Glass-Steagall have been replaced with annuities, sub-prime, and multi-million dollar a year CEOs. Banks and regulatory agencies are in disarray, and the financial impact is being felt in corporate boardrooms and couples' bedrooms everywhere. Jamie Wilde realizes his personal and professional life is in crisis, and the only way to survive is to combat a CEO and his army of finance and security personnel. But twenty-two years of mergers, the ebb and flows of the economy and executives' harebrained ideas has taken its toll. Jamie knows the next predicament may come from any direction, but someone must slow the decay of the organization and corporate values before they bring down the bank and its customers. He is literally in the battle of his life.
This book is a celebration of life. It is the colorful story of one man’s personal search for happiness. It is a collection of stories about unusual, even unique circumstances and events in life from which essential lessons can be learned about how to be happy, regardless of circumstances.
The Redondo Beach Police Department dates to May 9, 1892, when Marshall S. Rogers was appointed as the city's first marshal. One of the first city ordinances prohibited the discharge of firearms within city limits and provided the option for hiring of a deputy "if needed." He was needed, of course, as the city would grow into a major West Coast resort by the 1920s. The department adapted through the changes brought on by the Depression, World War II, and the postwar boom, serving and protecting citizens and fighting crime both unique to beach-city life as well as changing times while enforcing all laws for residents and tourists alike across the dawns of two centuries. In the 21st century, more than 250 sworn officers, support personnel, and volunteers serve one of Southern California's most respected and innovative departments.
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This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history. It explores problems involved in applying modern theories of humour to historically-distant contexts of humour and points to the importance of recognising the divergent assumptions made by different academic disciplines when approaching the topic. It explores problems of terminology, identification, classification, subjectivity of viewpoint, and the coherence of the object of study. It addresses specific theories, together with the needs of specific historical case-studies, as well as some of the challenges of presenting historical humour to contemporary audiences through translation and curation. In this way, the handbook aims to encourage a fresh exploration of methodological problems involved in studying the various significances both of the history of humour and of humour in history.