When Andrea Daniels discovers that she can't get pregnant, she attempts to coax herself into trying in vitro fertilization but stops just short of taking the plunge. After falling into depression, she decides to try adopting a child. An intimate meeting with a young birthmother results in the opportunity to bring home the child she has longed for, but Andrea is unprepared for the wave of emotions she feels for both the baby and his birthmother. Not long after her son arrives, however, Andrea realizes she still craves the challenge of her career. When she accepts a new position, she discovers that everything has changed and that finding good childcare is a full-time job. A menagerie of inept nannies parades through her door, but help is just around the corner when Andrea's craving for a second child begins . Part memoir, part novel, "It Could Happen" is a moving tale of discovery, heartbreak, and love.

Andrea Daniel not only compares headquarters and subsidiary managers' perceptions of a subsidiary's role, but she analyzes the implications of perception gaps for the headquarters-subsidiary relationship.

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Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 2,0, Berlin School of Economics and Law (Postgraduate Masterstudiengang Europaisches Verwaltungsmanagement), language: English, abstract: The underlying thesis of this essay is that the EU Lisbon Strategy and its overall goal of stimulating and fostering socially and ecologically sustainable development, growth and employment started a process of policy convergence that led to the Lisbon Strategy occupying several other policies' agendas and objectives. This applies especially to the EU Cohesion Policy and the Structural Funds as well as to the structural part of the Common Agricultural Policy. The essay also shows some of the limitations the implementation of the EU's policy agenda faces, especially because of budget limitations and shared responsibilities between the EU and national authorities of the Member States. A short chapter on the funding policy of the EU, e.g. the Research Framework Programmes, completes the essay.

Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: A-Grade with Distinction, South Bank University London (Faculty of Art and Human Sciences), language: English, comment: The Dissertation was awarded the Course Director's Prize as best of the year in European Policy Studies., abstract: The thesis of this work is that the European Community is a self-standing federal state with inadequate political power, as the Member States keep essential core competences in the fields of Foreign, Defence and Monetary Policy to themselves or limit them to the intergovernmental "pillars" of the European Union. Although it is not yet adequately filled with political competences, the structural shell of the European Community is suitable to fulfil all tasks that should, in the best interest of all Member States, be fulfilled on the federal level. Today's European Community has developed the three elements of a state (Territory, Original Power and Permanent Population). The European Community has outgrown the former restrictions and limitations of e.g. the direct effectiveness of the legal order, the "originality" and quality of legisla-tive, executive and judiciary power and of the self-standing quality of the Citizenship of the Union. A comparison with the structural, legal and legitimistic elements of the German and the Canadian federations shows that the Community's system has adopted very similar, sometimes even almost identical, features. The state quality, which is regarded as a "given" when it comes to Germany or Canada, should there-fore no longer be denied to the Community. Still not vanished but very much reduced is the Community's traditional "democratic deficit." The competences of the Euro-pean Parliament have been significantly expanded and the Community also found other ways of civil society's participation. Besides that it adopted the doctrine of "checks and balances" of separated state powers. The tr

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: A-Grade with Distinction, South Bank University London (Faculty of Art and Human Sciences), course: European Policy, language: English, comment: The essay analyses the ability and the limitations of economic "rationals" to stimulate political integration in the European Union., abstract: The essay analyses the question how EU-legislation on economic integration has shaped policy and decision-making processes as a "motor of political integration." Economic legislation, although on the first look restricted to one policy area and one "policy mode," can influence other areas and policy modes. Mainly focused on the example of the "Services Directive" the distribution of power between the EC institutions is analysed. At the same time the limits of economic integration in overcoming other political interests of Member States or interest groups like Trade Unions becomes visible. The Directive is a kind of "model case" of how a legislative act on economic policy can engage other policy fields, like social policy issues, labour market issues etc. At the same time it shows how economic or structural interests shift the political positions of MS as well as of interest groups, with groups which otherwise would form a solid block suddenly pursuing different goals. Therefore the Directive proves to be a good example of the complex multi-layer decision-making process on EC legislation. ...]

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: A-Grade with Distinction, South Bank University London (Faculty of Art and Human Sciences), course: European Policy, language: English, comment: Subsidiarity is described as a condition sine qua non for federal systems of shared competences and the EC's procedure is analysed on the example of the directive on the ban of tobacco advertisement., abstract: The subject of this essay is the implementation of the subsidiarity-principle in the EC's legal order. While EC-laws have supremacy over national laws and become a part of the national legal order, self-standing national laws are applicable where the EC has no legislative competence. In this aspect, the EC's system is comparable to e.g. the German federal system. The essay shows that the EC's legislative system balances the powers of the supranational and the national level by certain legal instruments: The principle of "limited empowerment," the distinction between exclusive and competitive competences and the necessity of a "legal basis" for every supranational legislative act. As their justiciability is essential for the lower levels' protection from power centralisation the Member States can litigate at the European Court of Justice against "lack of competence" when the EC meddles in affairs for which it is not empowered. The theoretical implementation as well as the - sometimes unsatisfying - practical application of these instruments is illustrated on the examples of two EC-directives on the ban of tobacco advertisements and the German litigation against them for "lack of competence."

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: A-Grade with distinction, South Bank University London (Faculty for Art and Human Sciences), course: Postgraduate Course on European Policy, language: English, comment: The EU has formed self-standing legislative and executive competences on competition policy. The development and the procedures of this policy field are explained on the example of the prohibited merger of two low-cost airlines., abstract: This essay examines the theoretical background and the practical application of the EU's "antitrust policy." As mergers are one way for firms to gain a "dominant position" in the market, the Commissionapplies the merger regulation to control such developments. The operation of this policy is analysed with the case study of a prohibited merger of "Ryan Air" and "Aer Lingus." The case also shows the high degree of legislative and executive powers the EU-institutions have gained in the significant economic area of competition policy. Although seemingly of purely economic purposes, EU competition policy serves "integrative" purposes too. "EU-Integration" can be defined as the EU-Member States voluntarily foregoing their power to formulate only national political and legal measures. Instead they formulate common policies which are determined in a coop-erative process of decision making. Cooperation can either take place in an intergovernmental framework or by transferring national sovereignty to the EU-institutions with the subsequent subjugation of national law under EU Law. Since the Treaty of Rome in 1957 expressed the determination of the European Economic Community's Member States to build an "ever closer union," economic integration parented EU-integration. With the new Treaties from the Single European Act onwards other than economic policies were added to the EU's agenda, e.g. cultural policy, foreign or security policy, but economic integration stayed a

This book is part of a diary which traces the author's reflections and observations about politics, macroeconomics, war and peace during and between skiing trips in northern New England and then back to his semi urban working existence in Somerville, Massachusetts, a small city adjoining Boston and Cambridge. Employed in a fortune 500 corporation, he applies home schooled social science insights in an effort to understand why things are as they are and how they might change for the better.

He attempts to get inside the heads of his coworkers as well into the heads of more public political actors in order to give the reader a sort of inside out look at the thinking and implicit thinking that may well be driving the decisions that American society makes. Topics addressed include but are not limited to the usual suspects: the effects of addiction to television and oil consumption, the effects of the oil lobby on the TV news business, an attempt to reframe the way Democrats frame the problem of disparate racial accomplishments in such a way as to allow that party to regain some or all of the influence it has lost as a result, it is alleged, of the way these disparities are currently framed. The writer has a blog on the Internet. The blog is at
defoggingthedata.blogstream.com.

When Andrea Daniels discovers that she can't get pregnant, she attempts to coax herself into trying in vitro fertilization but stops just short of taking the plunge. After falling into depression, she decides to try adopting a child. An intimate meeting with a young birthmother results in the opportunity to bring home the child she has longed for, but Andrea is unprepared for the wave of emotions she feels for both the baby and his birthmother. Not long after her son arrives, however, Andrea realizes she still craves the challenge of her career. When she accepts a new position, she discovers that everything has changed and that finding good childcare is a full-time job. A menagerie of inept nannies parades through her door, but help is just around the corner when Andrea's craving for a second child begins . Part memoir, part novel, "It Could Happen" is a moving tale of discovery, heartbreak, and love.

Essay aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Note: A, South Bank University London (Faculty of Art and Human Sciences), Veranstaltung: European Policy - Seminar "Comparative Analysis," Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: After investigating the active employment measures of the United Kingdom and Germany as well as their reforms of the Employment Services since the creation of the European Employment Strategy in 1997, it can be said that Germany adapted huge parts of the British system. The British set the European Employment Strategy's agenda and extended their policy model to the European level. Via the European Employment Strategy, the British system significantly changed the German one from a highly protective to a liberal model. The German state transferred the responsibility for protection from employment related "common risks of life" to the citizens, reducing its own measures to supporting services and a mere "guarantee of survival." Although this convergence of Employment Policy was caused by the European Employment Strategy, it did not contribute to the merging of a unified European Employment Policy or to a public awareness of the European Union's role in this policy area. While Germany obviously respected the European Employment Strategy as a "superior guidance" and treated it as a self standing "European Policy," the British used it to extend the reach of their national policies. A real integration of national policies into an EU-policy did not happen. In the United Kingdom as well as in Germany, the reforms of the employment policies have not been determined and implemented in a process of broad public participation but mostly as a "top-down" process, with decisions made by a professional elite. The European Employment Strategy with its set of policy methods (Open Methods of Cooperation) had not been able to reach its goals of a more democratic policy making and more public awareness of an independent role o