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Activision Blizzard Inc. and a group of investors led by its top executives are buying most of Vivendi's stake in the world's largest video game publisher in an $8.2-billion transaction.
The deal would free the Santa Monica company from the financial woes of its French corporate parent and enable it to focus on the fast-evolving gaming industry.
Activision said late Thursday that it would acquire 429 million shares from the Paris conglomerate for about $5.83 billion in cash, or $13.60 a share.
Separately, Activision Chief Executive Bobby Kotick, Co-Chairman Brian Kelly and their investor group would buy about 172 million shares from Vivendi at a cost of $2.34 billion. The managers would contribute a combined $100 million of their own money.
The combined transactions would reduce Vivendi's majority stake in Activision Blizzard to 12% when the deal closes, which is expected in September.
"We expect to emerge from this transaction even stronger than we are today," Kotick said Friday in a call with Wall Street investors. "An independent company with a best-in-class franchise portfolio and the focus and flexibility to drive long-term shareholder value and expand our leadership position."
Investors reacted positively to the announcement, driving Activision Blizzard shares up 15% to close at $17.46 on Friday.
Vivendi has been looking to shed assets. The water utility turned media conglomerate is struggling under the weight of $17 billion in debt.
The company said it plans to use the proceeds from the Activision Blizzard transaction to pay down its debt. Earlier this week, it said it was in discussions to sell its controlling interest in the North African phone company Maroc Telecom for about $5.5 billion.
Vivendi sold another of its Hollywood assets, its minority stake in NBCUniversal, in 2010. It plans, though, to retain its holdings in music, television and cinema. It owns the world's largest recorded music company, Universal Music Group, and a pay-TV firm, Canal Plus.
The fate of Activision Blizzard has been unsettled since last July, when Vivendi began working with investment bankers to explore the sale of the video game giant.
"Now the speculation is finally over," said Doug Creutz, media analyst for Cowen & Co. "This resolves the situation in a way that is going to be favorable to shareholders."
Vivendi acquired its majority stake in Activision in a 2008 deal intended to create a more powerful rival to Electronic Arts. Its investment brought together Activision, maker of such popular console games as "Call of Duty," with Vivendi's Blizzard Entertainment unit, creator of the online role-playing game "World of Warcraft."
"Five years ago, we made one of the best decisions in the company's history when we joined forces with Blizzard Entertainment," Kotick said during the investor call.
"By bringing Activision and Blizzard together, we united in one company some of the best creative and business talent in the industry, and some of the most important entertainment franchises in the world," he said.
Kotick said Activision Blizzard has achieved continued success with such bestselling titles as "Skylanders Giants" and "Call of Duty: Black Ops II," which reached $1 billion in revenue faster than James Cameron's blockbuster movie "Avatar." He said the transaction will make the game company independent once again, leaving it with more flexibility in charting its future.
The transaction largely frees Activision from Vivendi, which rolled up operating losses in its games business in the years before the 2008 merger with Activision, said Wedbush Securities video game analyst Michael Pachter.
"This is good," Pachter said, "because ... you're taking out a clueless third-party investor that had control."
Activision Blizzard is to emerge from the deal with more than $3 billion of cash on its balance sheets.
The deal clears the way for Activision to focus on challenges the industry is grappling with, including how to allocate its development resources across the next generation of game consoles: Microsoft's Xbox One, Sony's PlayStation 4 and Nintendo's Wii U. Another question for Activision is whether to enter the fast-growing field of "casual" games played on smartphones and tablets.
"They are facing the same secular challenges that everyone's facing," Digital World Research CEO P.J. McNealy said.
"One is they have to place their resources behind the Xbox One, the PlayStation 4 or the Wii U and figure out what's the right combination. That's a hard bet early on," he said. "And two, they really have to position themselves to take advantage of the mobile platforms. That requires a different development tool set that they, by in large, don't have."
After the deal closes, Vivendi's representatives on the board — including Vivendi Chief Financial Officer Philippe G.H. Capron, its management board Chairman Jean-Francois Dubos and Universal Music Group Chairman Lucian Grainge — will step down, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Kotick told Wall Street analysts that a nominating committee would identify the independent directors and that he and Kelly would serve as board representatives for the ASAC investment group.
Separately, Activision released preliminary second-quarter results, reporting revenue of $1.05 billion, down slightly from $1.08 billion in the same quarter last year. It posted earnings of 28 cents a share, up from 16 cents.


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During President Barack Obama's speech in Jerusalem Thursday, he was interrupted by a heckler.
It was unclear what the person was shouting -- reports indicated it was about Jonathan Pollard, an American who spied for Israel -- but it was Obama's reaction that got immediate buzz.
"This is part of the lively debate that we talked about," Obama said, bringing the audience of students to its collective feet.
"We actually arranged for that, because it made me feel at home. I wouldn't feel comfortable if I didn't have at least one heckler."

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As Browns owner Jimmy Haslam deals with the fallout from a federal investigation that resulted in a surprise raid of Pilot Flying J headquarters nearly four weeks ago, he must balance not saying things that will compromise his legal interests with saying enough to help his business interests.
On Thursday, the pendulum will swing toward the latter, when Haslam speaks at a trucking company seminar in Indianapolis. The crowd could be a little hostile, given that Pilot Flying J allegedly preyed on trucking companies deemed sufficiently unsophisticated to spot that they were being shorted financially.
"We were invited and considered it a good opportunity to communicate with the trucking industry," Pilot Flying J spokesman Alan Carmichael told the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Making the opportunity even better for Haslam is that he'll speak for 20-25 minutes and then answer previously submitted questions, allowing Haslam (and his lawyers) to hand-pick the topics to be addressed and to script the things Haslam will say.
"We don't want to put anyone in the position of having to answer questions off the cuff, especially when they're under a federal investigation," said Gregory Feary, the president of the law firm hosting the seminar.
It's a fair point, because anything Haslam says can and will be used against him by the feds, if/when he or anyone else is prosecuted for customer rebate/discount fraud. So anything and everything he says will be determined based on what impact, if any, it will have on the federal investigation.
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by Jason Schwartzman, ChildFund Team Leader for Child & Youth Involvement
My visit to ChildFund programs in the state of Orissa continues with more opportunities to talk with youth about the challenges they face and the options they have.
I eventually come around to asking my core question, "If you and a group of your friends had to choose one issue that is the greatest challenge to youth in this area, what would you choose?"
It's interesting because there is wide consensus — it's not too difficult for them to come to an agreement. For young women, its migration to find work, and for young men, the issue of migration is there, but they focus more on alcoholism. Young women in rural villages have a profound sense of vulnerability that comes with migrating to the major towns and cities. Without the support of their extended family, friends and community, the chances of abuse are high. And even for those who don't migrate and stay at home, many bear the additional burden of maintaining the household in the absence of an older sibling or parent who has left. More responsibilities at home often pull them out of school, narrowing the choices and options they have in their lives. This is what they talk about.
While young men talk about the risks of migrating for work, and they have heard all the horror stories about exploitation, such as being penniless and in a strange city or being arrested by the police for vagrancy — they tell these stories to me — their feeling of vulnerability after leaving home is not as profound as with young women.
Instead, alcoholism is the issue top of mind for these young men. Drinking is a widespread problem in their community as is the social violence that often comes with it. When fathers and mothers are drunk, their children find themselves struggling to cope with a mix of emotions and fears. They're also deeply concerned about their peers who drink too much. Young people are making choices, sometimes passively and sometimes actively, but they are acutely aware that these choices are not leaving them in a good place.
They candidly talk about feeling unconfident because they have not taken advantage of education, and now they feel ill prepared to earn a livelihood.
I thank them for their frankness. They ask to sing a song to close our meeting. They sing three.


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In the senior year every student takes a comprehensive examination in the major field. The examination is designed to test the breadth and depth of understanding of the field, and to assess how well material from individual courses has been integrated.
The nature of the examinations varies from department to department. Some are developed entirely by the department, while others may consist of a national standardized test supplemented by locally developed questions. Some exams include an oral or laboratory component or a recital. Both general and departmentally specific guidelines for comprehensive exams are available from all academic division chairs.
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Members of the Department of Chemistry and Physical Science have been awarded summer research grants to support their ongoing work.
Dr. Jeanne Buccigross will continue her work at the intersection of science, art, and pedagogy as she develops and publishes "A Rock Art Primer for Students and Teachers."
Dr. Christa Currie, working with Dr. Clarissa Rosas from the Department of Education, is helping to ensure student success using new teaching formats such as online and blended (part online, part face-to-face) and with new technologies such as the Blackboard learning management tool. Their project is entitled "Evaluation of a Blackboard Orientation Module of Online and Blended Learning."


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If you want a good view of where BlackBerry 10 is today, check out this video. TechCrunch is at CTIAĺs MobileCon in San Diego and they're taking BB 10 through its paces. BlackBerry 10 looks like a little bit of Android mixed with a little bit of webOS.
Overall performance seems to be fluid and fast, and it looks like RIM has put a lot of thought into this OS. It seems like they're very late to market as it will not be out until next year, but at least they're headed in the right direction.
The hardware seems clunky but I'm assuming it's just an early developer model that will be refined when BlackBerry 10 launches.


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As usual, never consider the following commentary associated with these photos as a formal interpretation of the National Electrical Code (NEC). Without criticizing anyone or any product, the following scenarios present us with serious safety questions.
Jeffrey Young, president, Young's Electrical Service, Chester, N.J., sent in these photos he took of a recently installed elevator control panel. One shows the flexible metal conduit and associated wiring in the wall cavity behind the control panel, and the other shows the wiring that enters the lower portion of the control panel.
The list of rules as to what's wrong can begin with 110.12. This isn't a neat and workmanlike installation.
The broken and loose flexible metal conduit indicates lost equipment-grounding conductors. The panel's interior speaks for itself.
A reader in Scottsburg, Ind., found this interesting installation when he pulled into the drive-thru at a fast food restaurant. He noted that this wasn't a good way to demonstrate so many different wiring methods. "A little bit of EMT, a little Greenfield, a bit of IMC, and some SealTite thrown in just to keep it interesting," he wrote. He assumed the ½-inch EMT (with the set screw connectors) was bent when the wire was pulled through it. He added, "And if it looks this bad on the outside, just imagine the actual wiring violations on the inside of those JBs."
Intermediate metal conduit, flexible metal conduit, and liquidtight flexible metal conduit can't be installed where it will be subject to physical damage [90.4, 110.2, 110.3, 348.12(7), and 350.12(1)]. Electrical metallic tubing can't be installed where, during installation or afterward, it will be subject to "severe" physical damage [358.12(1)].
Ed Peyton, owner, Ed's Electric, Albuquerque, N.M., got a call from a customer in the midst of a bathroom remodeling project who noticed discoloration of the fiberglass insulation backing around electrical wires and became concerned. Apparently, this wasn't the first time the house had undergone remodeling.
"At first, I couldn't make sense of the circuitry from the connections that were present so I started looking in cracks and such," Peyton wrote. "When I stuck my head up through the hole where the exhaust fan had been removed I observed a mass of wires at the other end of the joist space. We removed the finished ceiling and found what is shown in the photograph. The ceiling joist was charcoal for about a ½ inch into the joist. Only providence kept the house from burning down. No box, no mechanical connections, no ground, and the installer didn't even maintain the polarity of the neutral and hot conductors. I convinced the customer to have me rip out all the old wiring and redo it correctly."
A few rules for polarity in Art. 200, and for grounding and box requirements found in Art .250 and 300 would apply.
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The book will not merely be a copy of the site here. While the tone will be similar, and many of the things here will appear in the book, additional information will also be included. In addition, there are some things which we are limited in our address of on the site, and those limits are not as stringent in print.
That said: I'm curious if any of you have found there are things we have failed to address on the site, things you want more information on and can't find, sex information you feel is essential to have in a sex information book, geared to 13-21 year-olds.
It's a bit like telling folks what you want for your birthday: can't make any promises, some things I may simply not be interested in including or see as workable, or cannot due to limits in scope, ethics or legalities, but I'd love to know your wants and needs to be sure I'm addressing them as best I possibly can.
So, ideas? Shout'em out! Thanks!
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One of the hradest things, actually, in terms fo getting the book to be accepted by a publisher was that I was very dead set on NOT having a "queer" book or a "straight" book, but something that addressed all out issues.)
Okay, I hope some part of that was helpful..
It's amazing to me to be surrounded by people in college that really dont know anything about their sexual well-being. There are girls who are constantly saying they forget to take their pills and then they start spotting...and then they go and have sex without a condom with random strangers that they meet at frat parties and never get checked for STI's or STD's and they think nothing of it.
I remember feeling the same way in highschool too(its a lot of thanks to this site that i consider myself so knowledgable...I even knew more than the girls i went to highschool with who were a lot more sexually active than i was). There were girls who seriously thought they could get pregnant from swallowing after they had engaged in oral sex. I had a friend who also thought "well his penis is in my mouth anyway, i might as well just swallow it" and didnt think anything about it.
I dont think people really understand STI's and STD's and how they can be contracted. I know they didnt talk about any of it in Sex Ed in highschool, particularly because my gym/health teacher was a man and he did not want to talk about any of it so he just handed us a text book and told us to answer the questions at the end of the chapter...he did NO teaching NONE. Not to mention the book was from the 80's...so there really wasnt any new information in it. I remember i once tried mentioning this site to him and telling him he should do more lectures and he looked at me like I had three heads and said, "what is the website?! I dont think so, it sounds like a child porn website." I ARGUED with him that it was much more educational than his class and he just blew me off.
I think when you finish this book, you should try to get schools to use it as their text...maybe kids will actually learn something for once.
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It's probably going to be difficult getting this book into school libraries, let alone classes, but wouldn't that be awesome if it did get worked into health classes?
------------------Laurel LemmingScarleteen Advocate
And when her spirit left her body/How it split the sun/I know that she will live forever/All goes on and on./And she goes/And now she knows she'll never be afraid... - Neutral Milk Hotel
It's funny, I was talking about this with my roommate too, and she was telling me how she had to correct her health teacher in highschool (a man as well) because he told the class that the vaginal opening was the urinary opening. Now, this was a married man with children...how could you have intercourse with your wife, watch the birth of your children, be a health TEACHER and NOT know which is the vaginal opening?! It just amazes me how uneducated even our teachers are sometimes.
I mean dont get me wrong, I'm sure there are pleanty of really great informative teachers out there. But for the ones that are horrible, wouldnt you think if you were going to school to be a health teacher you would at least know what your teaching? Isnt that part of wanting to be a teacher? It amazes me.
I cant wait until this book comes out, because as soon as it does I want a copy for myself. I want to own a copy of this book and when i have kids later in life i want to pass it down to them...or if there's a new volume to it buy it for them... I would want at least MY children to be educated, especially since i know most schools dont teach the right things.
i cant wait for the first health teacher to bring in their own personal copy of this book to present to their students, I would be so happy to hear about it. I think if just ONE teacher did this, its making a difference in our teaching everywhere. I cant wait until the day
I commend you Heather Corinna for taking on this project, and I cant wait until the day that you show people what they should be teaching their students.
I love that Scarleteen has articles on the site about these things. I've seen some pretty great topics about some of them too. I would love to see these go into the book.
(These poor teaching practices is my theory on why our school that has about 250 females aged 11-19 has 25-30 pregnant teens or mothers.)
I think you just need to have a big old chapter called Yes It Can Happen To You (If It Couldn't, This Book Wouldn't Exist). Coming from a state that has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates it seems like everyone is suffering 'it doesn't happen to me' syndrome. And it's not jut the ignorant, its the drunk, the stupid, the I know better but I can't help it, the he made some excuse, the she made some excuse, the everyone's making excuses and no one's taking responsibility. My mom was a labor and delivery nurse and she's delivered babies for 10 and 11 year olds, it's ridiculous and easily prevented.
Also, a chapter about communicating with your parents. I know that for most teens they keep their sex lives to themselves and that's fine, to a certain extent. My friend was pregnant earier in the year - her parents didn't find out until she was in the middle of having a horrible horrible miscarriage and needed someone to drive her to the ER.
Also a section on No One's Looking At You and No One Cares That You're Getting Laid. Cashiers have sold condoms to hundreds of people, skinny people fat people hot people ugly people people's of twos probably people's of fives, people that are buying a pack of condoms and an electric toothbrush. The dude at 7-11 doesn't care that you're having sex, go to one on the other side of town at 3 in the morning if you're really worried about seeing someone you know. And remember folks, the kids that don't buy condoms one day are the kids that are buying pregnancy tests a month later.
Bow-chika-bow-wow. And that's all I have to say about that : )
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"Foreplay is for sissys" *Collapses into giggles*
Seriously though, a chapter on femme/femme loving, and identity (and how the femme/femme relationship is portrayed in the media as opposed to reality). Probably getting too political but hey, I love that stuff.
I agree with the whole chapter to whack College people over the head with. Not even the campus organizers are switched on - no free condoms in the O-week showbag (but we got sultanas - damn fruit growing regions). That's why I'm the deputy pres of the student union.
I have another idea - a chapter on starting your own social/support/activism group (e.g. GSA, stuff like that)!


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Cowherd has been absolutely amazing this year, his picks effect the Vegas line. If you do a search on Colin Cowherd Blazing 5, the returns include a lot of betting sites that mention Colin. To be honest, I have a lot of respect for the guy, he's a work-a-holic and knows his stuff. I wouldn't want to hang around him because that voice and attitude would wear thin very fast, but I respect the man.
Here's a quote from a guy that hates him about his picks:
"Each week, Cowherd offers his "Blazing Five" NFL line picks. With those picks, he's 35-15 on the season—70 percent accurate. That's essentially unheard of. The Las Vegas Hilton has a "SuperContest" in which the city's best sports gamblers pick five games a week. The best entrant in that contest is 33-15-2, or, in other words, not as good as Colin Cowherd."
Also, here's a link to a page with his previous Blazing 5 picks. He's full of himself, but he has every right to be, his picks are phenomenal.


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Kuala Lumpur, November 23rd :- The Pusat Sains Negara in Bukit Kiara will turn into Jurassic Park this December as one of the world's biggest life size exhibit of dinosaurs, Dinos Alive! will be on display from December 1st to May 31st 2011. A joint venture between Total Sports Asia and Pusat Sains Negara will bring the Dinos Alive exhibition to Malaysia after the Tour had successful stints in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Visitors to this veritable dinosaur extravaganza will be treated to a complete pre-historic experience with over 25 dinosaurs. One of the highlights will be the Tyrannosaurus Rex, which stands at a towering height of 5 meters in height which is equivalent to two Sumatran elephants stacked on top of another and the largest exhibit, the Apatosaurus measuring 21 meters in length is close to the size of the world's largest mammal, the blue whale. Some of the dinosaurs will appear life like thanks to the sound and light effects.
Total Sports Asia group CEO, Marcus Luer said that the feedback has been phenomenal in the other venues with over 100,000 visitors in Manila over less then 2 months and we are expecting the largest turnout to date in Malaysia over the course of six months.
"Dinos Alive" is interactive edu-tainment, a "walk through" exhibition with dramatic displays of our life size Dinosaurs and fun activities for children. There will be an area furnished with a fossil dig pit for the little ones too. This tour will be an interactive educational experience for kids and adults," said Luer.
Professor Madya Dr Irmawati Ramli, Director of Pusat Sains Negara quotes:
"Pusat Sains Negara (PSN) committed to make science fun and interesting through thematic and world class exhibition. Bringing 'Dinos Alive' at the Pusat Sains Negara will spark off and inculcate interest of Malaysian citizens to science learning orientation especially on the prehistoric world with ancient creatures, Dr. Irmawati Ramli, the Director of PSN says."
The Dinos Alive tour is sponsored by CIMB Group Holdings Berhad (CIMB group). In conjunction with the sponsorship CIMB Group will be organizing events at the Dinos Alive tour specifically for children as part of its CIMB Junior Day campaign. The events will be held on the 12 and 19th of December, 16th of January, 20th February, 13th March and 17th April 2011. CIMB Junior Savers Members get free entrance at Dinos Alive with one free entry per card.
The 'Dinos Alive World Tour – Malaysia will be set up at the Pusat Sains Negara from 1st December till 31st May 2011, 9am-5pm daily. Tickets are available for purchase at the door. Ticket prices for adults are RM 10, kids below 17 years old are RM 5, Students with Student IDs are RM 5 and the family package costs RM 25 (2 adults+2 kids). Pusat Sains Negara is located in Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, off of Sprint Highway.
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I didn't see any Ruth Madoff masks on Halloween night, but it wouldn't have surprised me if I had. The wife of disgraced Wall Street Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff is Pariah No. 1 this week, followed closely by her son Andrew. The two, along with Andrew's fiancee, appeared on "60 Minutes" on Sunday night to promote their "authorized family biography," "Truth and Consequences."
"I have been eager, I would say almost desperate, to speak out publicly and tell people that I'm absolutely not involved," Andrew told Morley Safer. Ruth, a tiny, gravelly voiced blonde whose Connecticut WASP-like looks seem to be warring against her native Queens accent, said repeatedly that she had no reason to suspect her husband was up to any kind of malfeasance. "I trusted him," she told Safer. "Why would it ever occur to me that it wasn't legal? The business was — his reputation was almost legendary."
This isn't exactly a revelation. Madoff's story all along was that he acted alone. And as difficult as many find it to believe that his sons, Andrew and Mark, who essentially worked for him, had no knowledge of what was happening at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, nothing has surfaced to disprove the family's claim that the brothers ran a legitimate securities trading firm on a separate floor. Also fairly well known is the story line about the brothers cutting off contact with Ruth because of her refusal to sever ties with her imprisoned husband, a stalemate that continued until Mark committed suicide in December 2010.
The only juicy news that the book appears to offer is that Ruth and Bernie attempted suicide. On Christmas Eve just a few weeks after the scheme was discovered, the couple ingested large quantities of Ambien in the hope that they wouldn't awaken the next morning (though Ruth says she was glad when she did). This detail seemed almost shoehorned into the narrative. Sure, they took the pills (can you blame them?), but as a suicide mission it seemed too inept to be altogether earnest, and I thought Ruth spoke of it almost as if she'd only recently recalled it.
On the other hand, I believed Ruth and Andrew Madoff's claim that they knew nothing about Bernie's crime. Despite the garish reminders of their former 1 percent status (the jet, the yachts, the multiple homes), they didn't seem wholly different from a lot of families who are so fiercely loyal to one another that they manage to ignore the reddest of red flags. In fact, in Ruth I saw shades of the fictional Mafia wife Carmela Soprano, another bottle blonde whose domestic duties included not just looking good for her man but looking the other way when it came to the "family business" that kept everyone fed, clothed and sheltered in such high style.
Of course it's easier to forgive made-up criminals than a real-life one. Even if the Madoffs were to prostrate themselves before society in every conceivable way, if Andrew were to spend a lifetime turning every paycheck over to his father's victims, if Ruth ended up eating out of trash bins, it's unlikely that the hate mail and name-calling would stop, let alone give way to sympathy. That's because the Madoffs' disgrace isn't your everyday variety. It's a symbol of the disgrace of something much larger than them or even Bernard's towering crime: the whole banking industry, the government that enabled it and a lot of other practitioners of "irrational exuberance." The Madoffs are absorbing the hatred not just of those who were defrauded by Bernie but the resentment of a nation that feels defrauded by schemers who are not as easily rounded up and placed in the public stockade.
In many ways, the question of whether Madoff's wife and sons knew exactly what he was up to is now almost irrelevant. The bankruptcy suit on behalf of the victims seeks $60 million from Andrew; it essentially asks that the family hand over everything they have because, well, they "should have known." There's an appealing righteousness in that assertion, but as is often true of righteousness, there's also a failure to recognize certain realities of human nature. In other words, Ruth and Andrew Madoff are guilty all right — if not of fraud then of that crime most families commit in one way or another: denial. In the absolute first degree.
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Meghan Daum is an essayist and novelist in Los Angeles.


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I am a huge mayonnaise fan. I can eat it with almost anything. It's one of the first things in my grocery cart and I panic when I am running out. It is what I believe to be the true condiment for french fries. People like me are a dying breed I tell you. There is always a bottle in the cupboard, but when I have time, I like to whip some up from scratch.
I'm sure this is common knowledge, but let me just reiterate so nobody misses out: No bottle of mayonnaise on your grocery shelf can compare to homemade mayonnaise. I don't care if it costs a king's ransom and is made from the oil of a special nut only found on the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro which is only harvested during a full moon.
My grandmother makes, in my humble opinion, the best mayonnaise. Even as a child I loved its strength and headiness. You see, she used extra virgin olive oil which really lent the mayonnaise a divinely intense flavor, along with a deeper color. It elevated regular sandwiches and tuna spread into sublime versions of their otherwise ordinary selves…not to mention the wonders it could do for a potato salad! It was a condiment worthy of the grandest dishes.
I have a ton of mayonnaise recipes stashed about, but the one I'm posting here is a variation on a recipe from Donna Hay's Modern Classics Book I. I like it because it is simple, and a good basic recipe to have. Instead of using the vegetable oil that the recipe calls for, I used olive oil just as my grandmother does. I also used black pepper instead of white because I actually like the look of the black specks in my mayo.
I used my food processor for this because I had been wanting to try the "emulsifying disc" attachment. Doesn't that sound mysteriously dangerous? Like some alien weapon? "Quick! Take cover! It's launching the emulsifying diiiiiiisc!"
Mayonnaise with olive oil
(Adapted from Basic Mayonnaise from Donna Hay's Modern Classics Book I)
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- Sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper
- 1 cup extra virgin olive oil
– In a blender or food processor, process the egg, lemon juice, mustard, salt and pepper until well combined.
– While the motor is running, pour the oil in a slow, thin, steady stream and process until the mixture is thick and creamy (with the emulsifying disc it came together very quickly…not bad at all for its first time out).
That's it! You've got wonderful, tasty, homemade mayonnaise! Use it with your tuna spread or egg salad for outstanding sandwiches. It makes a great condiment as well for fish dishes…especially fried fish. Blend in some roasted garlic for an awesome aioli. You can also use this as a base for salad dressings. And of course, it is perfect with french fries 🙂


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Packers tight end Jermichael Finley got a lot of attention this week for saying the Bears defense might be better without linebacker Brian Urlacher.
If you want to take a less controversial position, you could say that the Packers defense is worse when linebacker Clay Matthews isn't in the lineup. Unlike the Bears, it doesn't appear the Packers will be without their guy this Sunday.
Matthews has been listed as probable by the Packers and Mike Vandermause of the Green Bay Press-Gazette reports that coach Mike McCarthy said he expects Matthews to make an impact against Chicago. He also said that he'd likely limit Matthews' snaps in his first game back after missing the last four with a hamstring injury.
As expected, wide receiver Jordy Nelson was ruled out for the Packers. Guard Josh Sitton didn't practice on Friday because of a hip injury and he'll be listed as questionable for Sunday.


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By Richard G. Wallace, past governor of district 7470 and member of the Rotary Club of Blairstown, New Jersey, USA
I believe Rotary is every Rotarian's "Passport to People" through the fellowship we share, and endless service opportunities available to us. For over 37 years, I have come to cherish this passport because it has taken me to people not only in my community but in distant countries and cultures.
My most recent trip to Sierra Leone is an example.
Like many Rotarians in the United States, I have been presenting student dictionaries to third-graders here in Blairstown, N.J. However, in the past few years we started sending them to schools and orphanages in various African nations as well as Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Peru through mission groups.
In January 2011, I was invited by a friend, a citizen of Sierra Leone, to visit and help the children in schools there. I jumped at the chance and with the sponsorship of The Dictionary Project, a few inoculations, and a visa, I arrived for an incredible 11-day visit in May 2011.
My purpose was to distribute over 1,200 Rotary-donated dictionaries, along with other school supplies, clothing, and sneakers collected by our Interact students, to schools in the rural area of the Kono District in eastern Sierra Leone. The materials arrived before we did and were waiting for us at the Port of Freetown. After loading our trucks, we began the 225-mile, six-hour drive over very rough roads to the town of Yengema.
The Kono District was severely damaged by the10-year civil war that ended in 2002. Many people were killed, many children were orphaned, and many more saw their homes, schools, churches, and roads destroyed. It is an area without infrastructure – even now electricity, sanitation, and water systems are non-existent. It is equatorial and thus very warm. I was fortunate to have purified water to drink. The people depend on local wells often located a long distance away, with the water carried by young boys and girls.
Despite the destruction, I found the children, teachers, parents, grandparents, and villagers most welcoming and hospitable and very grateful for the simple gift of a dictionary for their children, a Gift of Knowledge. It is an experience I will not forget because of the strength and determination of the people to do the best they can in their circumstances, including maintaining a proud heritage and culture. There's no electrical light, but there is firelight and conversations around it. There are no stoves, but there are cooking fires, which they prefer.
During one of my school visits, we were visited by several village chiefs, as well as Sierra Leone's education minister and the United Nations ambassador. The ambassador thanked Rotary, and quickly picked up on the Ludwig Wittgenstein quotation written on the cover of the dictionaries — "the limits of your language are the limits of your world" — in his comments to the children, and emphasized the need for them to study.
Many clubs and Rotarians in the United States participate in the Dictionary Project, and we all enjoy seeing the smiling faces of third-graders receiving their dictionaries. I have now witnessed children of Africa with the same smiles, same joy, and excitement that our children express under quite different circumstance. I am so proud of them.
When I left, I knew we helped stretch the limits of their world through Rotary and my Rotary Passport to People.


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Kill Will Remain In Booth Against Penn State
MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota coach Jerry Kill says he will remain in the coaching booth and not return to the sideline this week against Penn State.
The Golden Gophers (7-2, 3-2 Big Ten) have won three straight conference games, and Kill says he wants to stick with what's working. Kill left the team to seek more treatment for his epilepsy a month ago. He returned to watch the game against Northwestern from the booth and has done the same for victories against Nebraska and Indiana.
Kill says "I guess I'm the CEO right now."
Defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys has served as the acting head coach on the sideline. Kill says he will head down to the sideline if need be. But right now he feels this arrangement is best for the program.
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Well to be fair there were people supporting an incest coupling for Nunnally and Lelouch, so it isn't strange that Rolo would get that same "love". Though it does seem overboard dressing Rolo like a woman, it screams "We're doing this for the Fanservice only!".
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I should have made it more clear, but I was referencing to his clothes. The kid is wearing 'please-do-me' shorts that looks like a skirt, and I think he also put some yellow tank top over his shirt as well as the weirdest vest I've seen.
Granted, Lelouch wears some weird clothes, but he strangely can pull it off (sometimes), but Rollo just surprised me with this picture.
Edit: Also, I'm not sure about this, but I think he put his cap on his phone, which makes his look even more ridiculous given his getup.
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I love Code Geass too, and I will defend it neutrally.
I like seeing Milly and Lulu too, although it was late (r2) in the series that Milly's one sided love for Lulu was finally confirmed (although I had a hint in R1)...
I think why its a little low, coz of the low interaction between them and I have a hunch before that Milly will play the big role in r1 and r2 (probably to counter diethard since they made her a reporter much), since her family the ashford choose to hid Lelouch than report him alive...
May contain some randomly fanart and official ones...
Spoiler for Guess who...:
early design of uniform and Shirley???
Spoiler for Shirley...:
For new fans , its their first time seeing them , but for old fans, this is a look back...
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And the new comic.
The day after Ougi's marriage, Kaguya go to the camper where Lelouch is hidden and....
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@Eragon your pic is not showy again...
That guy is Lelouch Lamperouge, the one attending parties... (and he just won number 3???)
clearly the magazine credits says. After R2 I think to play safe, they used Lelouch Lamperouge on every credits of every official art that we can see...
If I'm not wrong the guy on the death list is Lelouch vi Brittania... The one that the writers keep on insisting...
On the upper box of Shirley its Written:
Zero requiem
Lelouch vi Brittania
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I dont think so, as far as I know only CC (not sure yet of Suzaku) knows the real answer to your question. And refrain wont work on CC, maybe on Suzaku yes. But if its a dead party wouldnt it be nice if Euphemia and Shirley also there? and if its on a dream world it maybe the world of c also, but its clearly not
Lelouch Lamperouge wasnt listed as dead, so that guy on the magazine scan isnt a dead man.
this are the last few scans which are officially credited as Lelouch Lamperouge
Even in this pic (he is wearing the Emperor outfit) the guy stated in the scan is Lelouch lamperouge.
Lelouch Lamperouge and Lelouch vi Brittania
Look at the spelling of each in Japanese, the guy on the pic is Lelouch Lamperouge which is clearly not on the dead list not Lelouch vi Brittania.
Athough in the other issue I'll just keep mum coz its clearly still 50-50 to me until said movie appears.
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That's just keeping it vague for no reason at all. The creators said that Lelouch was dead, even if he was alive I doubt Suzaku would be willing to party like that with Lelouch considering everything that happened and he's forced to wear that mask until his death. Or why would Suzaku be hanging out with C.C. either? He barely knows her and she vanishes at the end while he's stuck caring for Nunnally.
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if they really really intended him to be as good as dead, if I were the writer I will write this on the official Guidebook whole and stop trolling us..
although in some of the series I wa sure Spike chan is dead. In this series I'm not that sure.
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The real aftermath of Villeta
Even CLAMP agrees Suzaku should be the one who died...
what is my LulU really wearing here???
my reply to this fanart
from Lost Colors I guess
they were trying to cook this before...
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Regulations Governing the Use and Assignment of University Facilities (IV.B.1)
Volume IV: Facilities and Safety
Chapter B: Use of Facilities
Issuing Office: Executive Vice President and Treasurer
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Responsible Office: Environmental Health and Public Safety
Originally Issued: August 1, 2004
Most Recently Revised: November 18, 2011
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The Indiana General Assembly has granted the Trustees of Purdue University the power and duty to govern the disposition and method and purpose of use of the property owned, used, or occupied by Purdue University, including the governance of travel over and the assembly upon the property of Purdue University. This grant of power and duty also permits the University to govern, by specific regulation and other lawful means, the conduct of students, faculty, employees, and others while upon the property owned, used, or occupied by Purdue University. The Trustees of Purdue University have delegated these powers and duties to the Executive Vice President and Treasurer (EVPT).
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- University Facilities shall be used only by persons authorized by the EVPT on the West Lafayette campus and by the Chancellors of the regional campuses and only in the manner and for purposes authorized by the EVPT. All work that involves the physical construction, alteration, or improvement to University owned, leased, or occupied facilities, or any improvements to land owned or leased by the University, must be performed with the full knowledge and written consent of the EVPT or authorized representative. This applies whether the work will be performed by University employees (either Physical Facilities or department staff), students, or outside contractors. (See University's Remodeling, Alteration, and Improvement Policy, IV.B.4)
- No person shall deny to others the lawful and authorized freedom of movement on the campus or the right of lawful and authorized ingress and egress to University Facilities. No person shall willfully refuse or fail to leave any University Facility upon being requested to do so by the EVPT or authorized representative, if such person's presence would deny, interfere with, or disrupt the authorized use of such University Facility, or disrupt, impair, or obstruct the lawful missions, processes, procedures, or functions of Purdue.
- Use of University Facilities in any manner which results in financial gain, either directly or indirectly, to individuals or non-University approved organizations or groups is prohibited, except for income earned from sales specifically approved regarding canvassing, peddling, and soliciting and the delivery of merchandise; earnings from services performed under contracts with Purdue University; or fees paid to performers or speakers. The amount and type of fees paid to performers are to be approved by the EVPT or authorized representative. Student organizations may use certain University Facilities for activities involving paid admissions with the approval of the EVPT or authorized representative, provided that such use will not result in financial gain, either directly or indirectly, to individuals or non-University approved organizations. Rental fees will be charged when appropriate.
- University Facilities shall not be used for the commission of any act that constitutes a criminal offense under the laws of the State of Indiana or of the United States.
- University Facilities include areas (1) that are open to the general public ("Public Areas"); (2) areas such as classrooms, laboratories, offices, and residence halls which are not open to the public ("Controlled Areas"); and (3) areas which are off limits to unauthorized persons such as utility areas, roofs of buildings, and any area that has been marked so as to indicate that access to the area is limited to authorized personnel only ("Restricted Areas"). The University controls access to the latter class of Facilities in order to promote and maintain: (1) the security of University students, faculty, staff, and visitors; (2) the security of University records, research, and property; and (3) the continuity of official University business that is conducted in such facilities. Prior authorization from the EVPT or authorized representative is necessary to obtain access to Restricted Areas.
- Specific Uses Prohibited
- The use, possession, distribution, or sale of controlled substances as defined in Indiana Criminal Code in University Facilities is prohibited, except as expressly permitted by the laws of the State of Indiana.
- The possession, use, or distribution of any explosives, guns, or other deadly or dangerous materials or weapons reasonably calculated to cause bodily injury is prohibited in University Facilities, unless specifically authorized by the EVPT or authorized representative or required by or used in the course of a University activity and under the supervision of a University representative. The EVPT or authorized representative may make reasonable search of patrons, fans, or visitors for any explosives, guns, or other deadly or dangerous materials or weapons as deemed necessary for the protection of the University Facility and its occupants.
- The possession, consumption, distribution, or sale of alcoholic beverages, as defined by Indiana State law, is prohibited in University Facilities, with the following exceptions:
- Personal possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages are permitted in the Purdue Village complex, resident rooms in the Graduate Houses occupied exclusively by students over 21 years of age, and by registered occupants of guest rooms in the Union Club and Graduate Houses, subject to compliance with all University regulations and applicable Indiana State laws.
- Possession, consumption, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages are permitted, with advance approval of the EVPT or authorized representative, in areas designated by the University and under the supervision of the Purdue Memorial Union, subject to compliance with all University regulations and applicable Indiana State laws.
- Smoking in enclosed University Facilities is prohibited. Smoking within thirty (30) feet of the entrance of a building is prohibited.
- Animals shall be prohibited, except as necessary and required in authorized teaching, public service, or research activities of Purdue or to aid persons with disabilities, or as specifically approved by the EVPT or authorized representative.
- Signs, placards, banners or other display materials are prohibited in or on University Facilities without the prior approval of the Senior Director of Buildings & Grounds. Once approved, the Building Deputy will direct individuals and groups to areas within the Facility that have been designated as appropriate for such materials (if any). Please refer to the University's Postings Policy, IV.B.2
- Peddling, soliciting, advertising, or canvassing will not be permitted in or on University Facilities except as authorized by Purdue Regulations. Please refer to the University's Regulations Regarding Retailing, Commercial Soliciting, Canvassing, Sponsorship, and Marketing Activities on the Campuses of Purdue University, IV.B.3.
- The use of decorations or staging in any University Facility, which create a potential fire or other hazard to persons or property, are prohibited, unless expressly approved by the Senior Director of Environmental Health and Public Safety or designee.
- Obstruction of stairways, corridors, and other access and exit areas of University Facilities is prohibited. Occupancy in excess of limits for any room or other portion of a University Facility as established by Purdue, the National Fire Protection Association, the International Building Code, and the State of Indiana or by any other governmental authority having jurisdiction thereof is prohibited.
- Entrance to any University Utility Facility or use of any utility services of Purdue is prohibited unless authorized by the Vice President for Physical Facilities.
- The following uses of University Facilities are prohibited without approval of the EVPT or authorized representative: athletic contests; food service; fires; camping; driving or parking of motor vehicles; or use of sound amplification equipment.
- Student organizations and groups otherwise authorized to use University Facilities may invite speakers of their choice to address their meeting in University Facilities, in accordance with applicable University regulations.
- Scheduling of University Space
- The Provost is responsible for the assignment of space in all University Facilities related to the academic and administrative functions of the University. The Provost may delegate such responsibility with respect to any specific University Academic Facility. All requests for the use of academic facilities beyond the regularly scheduled class period shall be submitted to the Office of Space Management and Academic Scheduling on forms prescribed by that office. Such scheduling of University Facilities will be done in coordination with the Events Office. Students and student organizations requesting the use of University Facilities shall also obtain prior approval from the Dean of Students.
- For Non-Academic Facilities, the manager of the specific facility is responsible for scheduling, in coordination with the Events Office, when appropriate.
- The EVPT retains the discretion to prohibit activities in University Facilities that pose unusual risks to the safety and/or well-being of the University community or conduct which is or may be injurious to the welfare of the University.
- General Operating Policies
- When approved by the EVPT, charges will be made to persons using University Facilities. Such charges may include reimbursement for the cost of heat, light, water, building services, trash removal, Environmental Health and Public Safety services, other special services, and/or damage to property or equipment.
- The EVPT, or authorized representative, including the Building Deputy, may close, lock, or vacate any University Facility, or any portion thereof, at any time if in his/her judgment such action is necessary or advisable for safety reasons or for maintenance or housekeeping operations.
- Building Deputy
The Senior Director of Building and Grounds approves the appointment of a Building Deputy for each building. The Building Deputy's duties include the day-to-day coordination of facilities and staff activities in his/her building, maintaining the keys to the building, and acting as a communication conduit for resolution of questions or issues from building occupants concerning the building's operation.
- Persona Non Grata
The EVPT or authorized representative may designate any individual or group who has demonstrated an inability or unwillingness to exhibit conduct in accord with University policy or applicable laws in or on University Facilities as "persona non grata," thereby barring the individual or group from campus or any part thereof for a specific period of time or indefinitely. Any designation of an individual or group as "persona non grata" will be consistent with published University procedures which provide for written notice of the reason for the designation and an opportunity for the individual or group to dispute the designation in writing. Please refer to the University's Persona Non Grata Policy, IV.A.5
These regulations are enacted pursuant to the authority conferred by the laws of the State of Indiana upon the Board of Trustees of Purdue University to govern the disposition, method, and purpose of the property owned, used, or occupied by Purdue University and to make all rules and regulations required or proper to conduct and manage Purdue.
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Authority, Application, and Enforcement
These regulations apply to the West Lafayette Campus. The EVPT shall enforce them under the general supervision of the President. It shall be the duty of the Department of Environmental Health and Public Safety to assist the EVPT in the administration and enforcement of these regulations. The President is authorized to amend these regulations and to promulgate additional regulations governing the method and purpose of use of Purdue facilities.
Regulations for Specific University Facilities
- The following University officials are authorized to implement supplemental regulations governing the use and assignment of the specific University Facilities indicated. Such regulations shall be effective when approved by the EVPT:
- Vice President for Physical Facilities
- Vice President for Housing and Food Services
- Vice President for Student Services
- Director of Intercollegiate Athletics
- Upon the approval of the Provost, Space Management and Academic Scheduling is authorized to implement supplemental regulations regarding scheduling University Academic Facilities.
The University's Postings Policy, IV.B.2.
The University's Regulations Regarding Retailing, Commercial Soliciting, Canvassing, Sponsorship, and Marketing Activities on the Campuses of Purdue University, IV.B.3.
The University's Persona Non Grata Policy, IV.A.5.
The University's Remodeling, Alteration, and Improvement Policy, IV.B.4.
November 18, 2011: Policy number changed to IV.B.1 (formerly I.4.1) and Related Documents section updated.
October 13, 2008: Prior to October 2008, the four related documents referenced above were included as appendices to this policy. They are now indexed as individual policies.
This policy supersedes Executive Vice President and Treasurer Memorandum No. A-16, dated October 15, 1997, on the Use of Facilities on the Campuses of Purdue University, and Executive Vice President and Treasurer Memorandum No. A-16 Amendment, dated April 2, 1999, on Regulations governing the Use and Assignment of Facilities at the West Lafayette Campus, as well as prior Memoranda and Policies as referenced in the related documents.


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My first Monday off, I trekked over to Hillsboro (Oregon) to visit the public library which is an hour long drive. Since I was in the neighborhood, Hillsboro being the county seat for Washington County, I had been wanting to go to the County Clerk's Office and pick up the marriage record of my great grandparents. Earlier in the week I emailed the office to ask if they housed those records and the procedure on how to get the record. A nice email came back and asked me for the names of who I was looking for so I answered them and got a fairly quick response with the book and page number. I printed the email and took it with me to their office and in a few minutes they printed off a microfilmed copy of the record and I paid them $4.00. These folks were very pleasant. The information on the record didn't give me any new data, but now I have the proof.
The purpose of my visit to the library was that I knew that they had the microfilmed newspaper called the "Hillsboro Argus" and for a long time I have wanted to get copies of the obituaries of 2 sets of great great grandparents and great grandparents and their siblings. My May and Hutchison families arrived in Washington County around 1886 and a good group of them are buried in the Arcade Cemetery which you can find the stones and inscriptions on "Find-a-Grave". Several of these families had settled in the little communities in the county and had died there as well. I knew that I could learn more about where the children lived and married names for the daughters.
Going on a Monday had great advantages! It was quiet and not so busy. The reference desk was so helpful and patient and helped me set up my films, and even sold me a flash drive so that I could download the records right onto the drive. Brilliant me, not even thinking about that! Being armed with death dates and systematically looking through the films, I found a good portion of who I was looking for. I ended up with 18 obits all in all.
This was found this on the April 23, 1903 Issue Page 1:
Daniel Hutchison was my 2nd Great Grandfather. I wrote a post about him at: http://deliasgenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/weekly-genealogy-prompt-26-daniel.html
Was this an easy project? At times it was. The newspaper was published weekly for decades so that narrowed down the search tremendously. Other times, the film was extremely blurry and even trying to focus the reader didn't help matters. For years they fitted the death notices all over the paper probably wherever they had space. That made it very hard to scan and find them.
Was this a worthwhile project? I learned a few things in the obituary posted above:
Death place. Was not aware he died in the hospital or which one. I was mistaken in learning that he died in another county and city. Big correction for my records.
Did not know he died of paralysis and suffered from a stroke in 1893. I knew from the 1880 and 1900 censuses that he was not in good health.
Reafirmation of death date. Civil War pension file stated date of death and so did his gravestone. Oregon began recording death dates in 1903 just after he died no death certificate has been found.
Did not know he belonged to the United Brethren Church.
Marriage date and to whom and where. This would have been a great find if the record had not been located earlier.
Birth date and place. Very valuable resource! Secondary source but great to have.
My May and Hutchison families arrived in Washington County around 1886 and a good group of them are buried in the Arcade Cemetery which you can find the stones and inscriptions on "Find-a-Grave". Several of these families had settled in the little communities in the county and had died there as well. The 4 Hutchison children married 4 May children which produced 4 sets of double cousins! Later family married 2nd cousins.
Taking the time to research original records can glean much information in learning more about your family. These newspapers are not likely to be digitized anytime soon. If they are, I can fine tune my search and look for daily ancedotes and their more day to day activities. I wish I could have read everyone of those older newspapers!


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The Board of Directors' evaluation of compensation of senior executives of Axis AB (publ)
Axis' compensation of senior executives is established in the guidelines that are decided on each year by the Annual General Meeting. The objective of Axis' remuneration policy for the senior executives is to offer compensation that promotes retaining and recruiting skilled expertise to the company. To monitor this, the Board has established a Remuneration Committee.
The remunerations committee's statement regarding remuneration matters etc.
Following the annual general meeting on 20 April 2017 the board of directors established a remuneration committee composed of Biörn Riese (chairman) and Bert Nordberg. During the period between the AGMs on 13 April 2016 and 20 April 2017 Biörn Riese and Bert Nordberg constituted the remuneration committee.
The remuneration committee's main tasks are to prepare the board's decisions on issues concerning principles for remuneration, remunerations and other terms of employment for the company management (including the President). The committee shall monitor that the remuneration principles for determining salaries and other remuneration to the President and other members of the company management, as resolved by the annual general meeting, are complied with. Further, the committee shall monitor and evaluate programmes for variable remuneration to the company management, both ongoing and those that have ended during the year, as well as current remuneration structures and levels in the company. The committee shall continuously report to the board of directors.
The 2017 AGM resolved to adopt the board's proposal for guidelines regarding determination of salary and other remuneration to the President and CEO and other members of the company management.
During the period after the AGM 2017, the remuneration committee followed and evaluated the application of the guidelines for determination of salaries and other remuneration to the President and other members of the company management, which were adopted by the AGM as well as ongoing and completed during the year programs for variable remuneration to the company management as well as remuneration structures and rates of compensation in the company. The committee's evaluation of the application of these principles shows that they have been complied with.
The remuneration committee's assessment is that Axis' remuneration structures and levels are appropriate and entail a reasonable balance between the objective of motivating and rewarding employees and maintained cost efficiency.
The remuneration committee has communicated to the board its recommendations on principles for determining salaries and other remuneration to the company management. The recommendations included the division between fixed and variable salary as well as the proportion of any salary increases. The remuneration committee also proposed criteria for the assessment of bonus outcome etc. The board has discussed the remuneration committee's proposals and has made resolutions based on the committee's recommendations.


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"The Teamsters are opposing this for the same reason the snake opposes the mongoose: They always have, so they always will." –John Schulz, contributing editor, Logistics Management Magazine, on the international Brotherhood of Teamsters' latest effort to nullify current hours of service regulations
This is getting ridiculous.
As you know, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, along with so-called "safety groups" Public Citizen, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, and the Truck Safety Coalition, re-filed a petition for reconsideration of the hours-of-service (HOS) regulations with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), seeking – yet again! – to dispatch these rules (put in place back in 2003) and replace them with the previous ones, which were originally formulated back in 1935.
"We have taken this action with the conviction, based on research and scientific data, that longer driving and working hours are unsafe and promote driver fatigue," the letter the groups sent ot FMCSA said. "We challenged the two major features of the HOS rule that promote even greater driver fatigue: the provision increasing permissible consecutive driving hours from 10 hours to 11 hours and the provision commonly called the '34-hour restart,' which enables drivers to drive and work substantially longer hours per week than under the HOS rules that prevailed until the 2003 HOS rule took effect."
Ah, yes, the old bromides continue: adding an extra hour of drive time per day is just a time bomb waiting to explode, with truck drivers falling asleep at the wheel left and right while truck-car collisions and fatalities go through the roof.
Just one problem – none of that is happening.
Fatalities in large truck crashes have now dropped for three years in a row, from 5,240 in 2005 to 4,808 in 2007, a total decline of 8.2 percent. Those 4,808 fatalities in '07, by the way, represent the lowest large truck fatality rate since 1992, and it is a 4.4 percent decrease from 2006.
Large truck fatal crashes also plummeted, falling from 4,551 in 2005 to 4,190 in 2007 – a total decline of 7.9 percent. On top of that 5,000 FEWER people were injured in large truck crashes in 2007 (101,000 overall) compared to 2006, a 4.7 percent reduction – with injuries in large truck crashes dropping steadily since a peak of 142,000 injuries in 1999.
Of course, the BIG bugaboo – the one all the so-called "safety groups" get hot under the collar about – is how many crashes occur in that 11th hour of driving. They predicted with breathless abandon that we'd see a huge increase in accidents within that 11th hour due to the new rules. But, hey, guess what? There've been just two in the last three years of available data – none in 2004, one in 2005, and none in 2006.
Even the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics is backing up those statistics, as its research shows the rate of occupational injuries and illnesses for the trucking industry fell by nearly 18 percent between 2004 and 2007.
Um … so how are the new rules contributing to crashes again?
Look, pardon my cynicism, but none of the brouhaha over HOS is even remotely about safety – it's all about politics, as fellow wordsmith John Schulz at Logistics Management magazine (a guy who's forgotten more about trucking than I know) so bluntly put in his own blog post about this subject.
"Sensing a political advantage with a Democrat in the White House, the [Teamsters] union and Public Citizen are once again asking for the rule to be modified," Schulz said. "In general, the argument that these HOS changes have made the highways less safe is just false. The record proves otherwise."
But to my mind it's even worse. Look, if you don't think the new rules work well, fine – but you can't argue that they don't help REDUCE fatigue. The HOS rules today gives drivers 10 hours of off-duty time; under the old rules – the ones the Teamsters and Public Citizen seek to restore – drivers only got EIGHT hours of off-duty time. That's two hours LESS rest. And we want to go back to that?
Drivers also faced a 15 hour work day – 10 hours of drive time plus FIVE hours of loading/unloading time. Well, under the new rules, it got cut to 14 hours with only THREE hours offered for loading and unloading – the type of work that's a major contributor to fatigue in the first place.
That's why I term Public Citizen and the others "so-called" safety groups – because if they were really focused on safety, they'd seek to modify the current HOS rules; not throw them out and replace them with outdated regulations that offer less rest and more work.
If the Teamsters and these others REALLY want to work on safety, here are some suggestions. First, stop wasting everyone's time battling over HOS. Second, pick up the gauntlet on some of these issues below:
Change the truck driver's labor classification: We want truck drivers to be safety-first professionals, understand computers for billing and record-keeping purposes, work a 14 hour day … yet the truck driver's job still remains classified as "unskilled" by the Department of Labor. If we want to hire and put the best people behind the wheel – people that drive safe, display good interpersonal skills, and intimately understand technology – you cannot designate the truck driver's job as "unskilled labor." It doesn't wash. This designation needs to change, allowing for a major change in pay and benefit requirements for truckers. Driving an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer at 65 mph requires skill – pure and simple. Why don't we work for that?
Waiting time penalties: Nothing causes more aggravation for driver and leads to more HOS violations than excessive wait times at shipper and receiver docks. I've seen wait time's destructive impact up close – lines of trucks waiting to unload and load as an entire unionized warehouse workforce stops for lunch, or closes up at 5 p.m. on the dot. If the economy demands that trucking must be a 24/7 enterprise, everything that touches trucking must also share that 24/7 burden. Uncompensated wait time forces many drivers back on the road when tired or in violation of HOS rules simply so they can make a living. That is a direct threat to highway safety and so must be addressed. Why aren't the Teamsters and Public Citizen fighting this?
Mandate safety technology: Former FMCSA Chief Administrator John Hill made a very valid point about trying to get the biggest "bang for the buck" when it came to reducing truck-related highway fatalities – and that came not from focusing on fatigue, but on the wider adoption of safety systems. "Look, every fatigue-related crash death is devastating – I wish we could make them all go away," he explained in his last press conference with reporters in January. "But you've got to look at the total cost-benefit analysis. Is it worth mandating technology to address the cause of 1% to 2% of all fatal crashes [i.e. fatigue]? You need to put safety technology in place where you get the most benefit: roll stability control and adaptive cruise control systems, for example. This is where you can address 30% to 40% of crash causation: from a cost-benefit standpoint, this is what gets you the most bang for the buck." So, why aren't the Teamsters and Public Citizen pushing for incentives to get such technology onto ALL commercial trucks? Their voices – joined with those of the trucking industry, which supports the use of incentives to get wider adoption of these technologies – could help make a real dent in trucking related crash statistics.
It would be nice to see movement on these fronts, for they'd really do a whole lot more to improve highway safety from trucking's angle than this continual wrangling over HOS that leads us nowhere.
But I won't hold my breath.


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Theme is 'Grand Old Flag'
Staff writer
The annual July Fourth parade adds excitement to the celebration for which Peabody has been known for decades. This year's event is looking like it will take its place with more than 90 other parades from past holidays.
"Even though the Fourth is on a Thursday this year, we expect a good crowd for the whole day," said Fourth Celebration Society co-chairman Preston Hodges. "When the holiday falls in the middle of the week, there really isn't time for people to go any distance. Lots of people come back to Peabody for the fireworks show and the events of the day. We look for the same type of crowd again this year."
The parade will begin at 5 p.m., with lineup and registration at Peabody-Burns High School beginning at 4 p.m. The parade will leave the high school, travel down Walnut Street to Second Street and turn west to the city park, where it will end. There is no advance registration.
"There will be no wet and dry areas this year either," Hodges said. "The fire engines will be in the parade, but no one will end up getting wet."
The 2013 parade theme will be "Grand Old Flag." First, second, and third place will win prizes of $300, $200, and $100 respectively. An anonymous donor has offered a $25 prize to the child with the best decorated bicycle. All prizes will be in the form of Peabody Bucks. Shane and Morgan Marler will be in charge of the parade.
Hodges also said that once again, the judges would be from out of town.
"We hope clubs, churches, organizations, businesses, and even families will consider creating a float and taking a place in the parade," said Morgan Marler. "And we could use some clowns. We hardly ever have clowns in the parade."


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Here's an example that fades & closes the image when the user clicks on it. (It's live, so go ahead and try it!)
The protoscript above says: for an image with id avatar, fade it out when the user clicks on it and close it when the fade completes.
By combining different behaviors with different elements and events you can create complex interactions without writing JavaScript.
Want to see it in action? Here are the current set of behaviors. Click any of them to see live examples.
There is no need to install Protoscript to start experimenting! Just install this handy Protoscripter Bookmarklet.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers To Rock Super Bowl Weekend Bash in Brooklyn, New York
Red Hot Chili Peppers know all about Californication, but come February they'll be switching coasts to play the 'Big Hello to Brooklyn' concert as part of the Super Bowl weekend festivities.
The event, hosted by radio station WFAN at the Barclays Center on Feb. 1, will serve as the closing of a three-day kickoff event in Brooklyn before the Super Bowl takes place in New Jersey on Feb. 2. According to Rolling Stone, the bash will also include sets from alt-rock acts New Politics, Ms. Mr, J. Roddy Walston and the Business and Basic Vacation.
The Barclays Center will also play host to a boxing match between "Vicious" Victor Ortiz and Luis Callazo and an NBA game between the hometown Brooklyn Nets and Oklahoma City Thunder as well during Super Bowl weekend.
Tickets for the concert go on sale Dec. 20 at 10AM ET via Ticketmaster and the Barclays Center websites. The Super Bowl is set to take place on Feb. 2 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.


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November 05, 2012 19:11 ET
Internationally acclaimed artist/author to create artwork about Calgary for MARK
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Nov. 5, 2012) -
Editor's Note: There is a photo associated with this release.
Qualex-Landmark, developers of MARK on 10th, announced today that an original Douglas Coupland artwork has been commissioned for the new downtown Calgary condo project. Alberta's first large-scale Coupland art commission will present an interpretation of Calgary in the 21st century and will be revealed in January 2013.
Douglas Coupland is an internationally renowned Canadian novelist, visual artist and designer. His work has been published in 30 countries and translated into 22 languages. His first novel in 1991 was Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. He has published thirteen novels, a collection of short stories, seven nonfiction books and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television.
"We are excited to announce that Douglas Coupland is creating artwork for Qualex-Landmark's downtown Calgary condo project," says Roger Navabi, president, Qualex-Landmark, "Commissioning an artist of his stature to create an art piece for MARK enables us to play a role in developing the emerging Design District that is energizing this area of Calgary's downtown."
In 2001, Coupland began a visual practice that merges art with design, industrial design and text. While this is his first large-scale art commission in Alberta, other Coupland pieces include: Digital Orca at the new Vancouver Convention Centre, Monument to the War of 1812 near Fort York in Toronto, Group Portrait 1957 in Oshawa, and several pieces including Tom Thomson's Canoe for Canoe Landing Park in Toronto.
MARK, located at the corner of 8th Street and 10th Avenue SW, is Qualex-Landmark's fifth high profile residential development in Calgary's Beltline District. MARK is a downtown Calgary condo project with a mixed-use high-rise tower offering one and two bedroom homes starting from the low $200's. With its close proximity to downtown, universities, transportation, and entertainment districts it's location offers all the perks of urban living.
With its rooftop fitness club and lounge, offering panoramic views of Calgary's downtown and the surrounding mountains, an expansive urban garden on the third floor podium and several specialty retail services, MARK combines unique amenities with a convenient downtown location.
Full media kit here. (background, fact sheet, photos).
Limited email interviews may be available with Douglas Coupland. See media contact for details.
About MARK on 10th by Qualex-Landmark www.qualex.ca/mark
MARK on 10th is a downtown condominium project in Calgary's emerging Design District being developed by Qualex-Landmark. It is located at 10th Avenue and 8th Street SW and offers luxurious urban homes with superior amenities, breath-taking views and accessible price points. MARK is the fifth Calgary condo development from Qualex-Landmark.
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Rendering of MARK on 10th, a new downtown Calgary condo project by Qualex-Landmark in the Design District. MARK has commissioned Douglas Coupland for artwork for the building.


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Sebastian Bach and Steve Stevens Perform Hits From Van Halen, Billy Idol + More at NYC Gig
Sebastian Bach and Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens recently joined forces for a special three night run at The Iridium in New York City. They were backed by by Neil Jason on bass, Anton Fig on drums and Pete Thorn on guitar.
Each night consisted of the pair doing two sets of songs ranging from Skid Row tunes to Billy Idol hits to their favorite cover songs. From the Billy Idol catalog, the duo performed 'Rebel Yell,' with Steve Stevens introducing it, saying, "I can't come to New York and not play 'Rebel Yell.'"
Building on the current Van Halen excitement, they also played the VH classic 'Hot For Teacher.' Bach asked fans for a little help at the beginning, "You guys, help me out on this breakdown, because I feel really silly going, 'I don't feel tardy!'"
Bach first met Stevens at a Camp Freddy show and always wanted to jam with him. Camp Freddy is the Hollywood cover band featuring a who's who of rock greats from Billy Morrison to Dave Navarro to Matt Sorum, a virtual revolving door of rock 'n' roll greats have joined them on stage over the years, Bach being one of them.
There's one more run of shows tonight at The Iridium tonight (Jan. 29) if you're in the New York City area and want to check it out.