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  Where is John Galt?

  Posted by Cort Christie on 03.24.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I sit and watch the events going in our great nation and ask myself what happened to reason. Our country was once made up of free thinking independent minded people who respected each other for their ability privide for themselves. Today, like never before, people look toward goverment for the for the solutions. Our republic [...]

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  Anna Nicole Smith: a legacy of not planning for the future

  Posted by Derek Rowley on 02.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  There is an Associated Press article on Law.com about the mess that Anna Nicole Smith left behind for her estate. In addition to the paternity suits, DNA tests and jurisdictional wars between the Bahamas and the U.S., there is also the highly personal tragedy of an infant daughter who will never know her mother.  This tragedy, [...]

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  The Lost Art of Giving Thanks

  Posted by Derek Rowley on 11.21.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  My appreciation for the Thanksgiving holiday has matured over the years.  There was a time when all Thanksgiving really meant to me was a great meal by my grandmother that inevitably turned into an eating contest with my younger brothers, followed by a football game on TV as we lay on the floor, writhing in [...]

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  New Blog Authors

  Posted by Derek Rowley on 09.22.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Welcome to the new blog authors!  A number of our most talented and knowledgeable employees, contractors and advisers have been teamed up to participate with me in this blog.  I am very excited to welcome each one of the new blog authors, and I think you will shortly agree that they will add a lot [...]

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  Record Standards for Registered Agents

  Posted by Derek Rowley on 08.18.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  There is a new concept being floated that will begin to surface in state legislatures starting in 2007 to provide a uniform set of rules for companies that provide registered agent (what Nevada calls “resident agent”) services for business entities filed in each state.  I had have had a phone conversation and exchanged email with [...]

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  Business lessons from snow camping with Boy Scouts

  Posted by Derek Rowley on 01.22.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  This weekend I spent Friday and Saturday in the company of 11 young men and 4 adult leaders on an overnight snow camping expedition in the mountains.   This involves digging a cave in the middle of a snowfield, and spending the night in it.  For us, the temperature dropped to about 5 degrees.  I’ve done [...]

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  My prayers go out to the tsunami survivors and families who lost loved ones

  Posted by Derek Rowley on 12.29.04 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have been particularly moved by the news reports about the Indonesian earthquake and the resulting tsunami that has wrought such unimaginable devastation throughout much of the world.  It hits close to me because I lived on the island of Penang, Malaysia in 1983, and spent a lot of time in the homes of people [...]

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  I thought I’d try something new

  Posted by Derek Rowley on 12.05.04 | Permalink | Comment?

  It seems that I eventually catch up to every new technology.  Not that blogging is new, as anyone who reads this already knows, but that eventually I get to the point that I am more aware of how much sense it makes for me.    So, I’m starting a blog.
  So, today I blog; tomorrow the world!
  - Derek [...]