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DOVER, Del. - Neighbors who live in one part of Kent County say they're fed up with speeders.They say on several occasions they've had to replace their mailboxes because drivers keep running into them. "It's not a good, safe road to be honest with you," said Betty Welch who lives in the 2900 block of Kenton Road of Dover.Welch says she has lived in her home along for more than 30 years. She says traffic has increased in recent years and so have accidents."I knew they knocked those mailboxes down but that's nothing. I've had about three I'd say all together," said Welch. Welch says she's had to replace three mailboxes after drivers hit them. Other neighbors say they've had to replace as many as five.Neighbors tell WBOC, an accident happened on Friday night involving a teen driver who hydroplaned and hit a tree that knocked a utility pole out of the ground.Workers were out Tuesday and Wednesday repairing lines. "It's pretty bad here. I mean, it's really busy," said William Steele of Dover. Steele says most speeders come out at night. "We've had people barely run into you and usually try to avoid you because they'll go into the ditch or they'll hit your car," said Steele.Welch says she's spoken to officers before about going beyond the 40 mph zone. "I told him, I said all I can say is if you patrol this road more you'd make a salary," said Welch. Steele and other neighbors say they think the speed limit should be reduced. "It's actually a good thing to look into because my mom has a lot of grandchildren that come here, so it's kind of important. We have animals here as well we don't want them getting hit," said Steele.Neighbors say in the meantime, they're doing what they can to stay safe and hope they don't have to spend even more money for a new mailbox. A DelDOT spokesperson tells WBOC that a traffic study has been submitted for Kenton Road.It is unclear when that study will be conducted to see if the speed limit could be reduced.
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Its Hurts....I hate having sunburn. I have had the worst sunburn in the world, since Sunday, and here I am on Thursday, and the pain is just STARTING to lessen up! I hate having sunburn1 I wish just once, I would tan instead of burning!
deleted 26-30 1 Response 0 Aug 20, 2009
PainfulPeople often tell me, - you're so white, - you are as white as a ghost, - don't you think you need to take some sun? Yes, I do think these comments are annoying and I am a white and not that white. I never liked taking the sun but I won't lie as I tried a few times...
Whateverrrrr 36-40, F 1 Response 0 Apr 13, 2010
Ginger! =)I'm a ginger so clearly I get sunburnt ALL the time. Recently, I was told by a friend that I should start using SPF Daywalker...clearly my skin is just too damn white. =P oh well. Hail to all the gingers who suffer my fate!
sgm213 18-21, F 1 Response 1 Sep 23, 2010
😡Ugh!!!! I'm in soooo much pain!!!! Darn this fair sensitive skin of mine. I love summer and swimming. However being allergic to sunscreen makes summer difficult for 😞
sapphire601 31-35, F 1 Response 0 Jul 14
Is There Anyone Who Actually Likes It?Just sayin'... Ok yeah, knowing EP there probably is. And it took me until now to look at the pic for this experience, stare at it in horror, sit up in my chair and squint at it, before realising it was indeed NOT a guy peeling a layer of skin off the girl and both of them...
maydaybandit 22-25, F 0 Nov 21, 2011
Hate ItEver since I was little, I've always burned really easily ....I can just never seem to put enough sunscreen on. I remember this one time... I went to an all day out doors concert and it was ridiculously hot. Well stupid me... only put on one thin layer of sunscreen that whole day...
Astory4supper 22-25, F 3 Responses 0 Dec 7, 2010
SunburnSunburn,Hate it,Nothin' worse,The pain,Discomfort,Haven't been burnt for years,An early learner.
storywriter2 46-50 0 Apr 4, 2012
Teenage HubrisThe summer I was 17, I went with a mob of other teenagers to a water park. Being the bubble-head that I was, I managed to forget to bring sunscreen. Being seventeen and immortal, I decided to do without.Have I mentioned that I have extremely fair skin?Eight hours in the water...
Plaid 31-35, F 0 May 28, 2012
Grrrr. I Hate Them Sooo MuchI am not just white i am pasty white. Last summer i took my son to the pool for 30 min because it was hot, he wanted to go, but only for 30 min because i didn't have any more sun block in the house. My son doesn't suffer my affliction, his daddy is Hispanic, and so passed down...
tearmedown 22-25, F 0 Jan 12, 2012
Too PainfulI'd been to three beaches last month. The first time put me into a severe flood of excitement which made me care less to the scorching heat of the sun while I played with the waves. I bathe in the sun from 10am- 1pm while wallowing with the water. The pain won't subside for...
4BlackForest 36-40, F 4 Responses 0 May 1, 2011
Of Course!It was a cold day so I didn't think I needed sunblock and it was too cold to be in the shade so what'd I do? Sit in the sun. Big mistake. I didn't even notice it until some time late. It hurt like hell! And sleeping was the worse! I love sleeping on my back but had to sleep on...
cfgone 18-21 0 Aug 23, 2013
Royal Pain In The..../Yeah sunburns really are annoying but those that blister so you can peel are fun. Kinda gives you something in those boring times.
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My husband and I closed a purchase loan with Keane in June 2013, after having a fantastic experience closing a HARP loan with him in October 2012. He is very knowledgeable, friendly, helpful, and responsive. He worked well with our Realtor and made sure we were all well-informed and on track throughout the whole process. I can't say enough good things about Keane and his team. We will definitely call him the next time we buy or refinance a home.… MoreLess
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Jan Svěrák
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Jan Svěrák (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈsvjɛraːk]) (born 6 February 1965 in Žatec) is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He and his films have received awards including the Academy Award, Crystal Globe, Golden Globe, and Tokyo Grand Prix.
He currently lives in Prague.
- Ropáci (Oilgobblers) (1988), Academy Award for Best Student Film
- Obecná škola (The Elementary School) (1991), Nomination for Academy Award
- Jízda (The Ride) (1994), Crystal Globe Award at Karlovy Vary Festival
- Akumulátor 1 (Accumulator 1) (1994)
- Kolja (Kolya) (1996), Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Tmavomodrý svět (Dark Blue World) (2001)
- Tatínek (2004)
- Vratné lahve (Empties) (2007)
- Kuky se vrací (2010)[1]
- Tři bratři (2014)[2]
- ^ Spáčilová, Tereza (2010-01-29). "Jan Svěrák a jeho plyšák na nás políčili v temném lese. Podívejte se" (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
- ^ http://www.kinobox.cz/film/370607-tri-bratri?ref=hpp
External links[edit]
- Jan Svěrák at the Internet Movie Database
- Personal website
- Jan Svěrák - profile
- Biography
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Niçoise I've just watched The Singing Detective all
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That said, allow me to interrupt this moment of froufara with a bit of a reality check.
I remarked to my wife this morning that we've finally stepped into the 21st Century. And she said, "No, we've stepped into the 20th."
She's right. Race and gender should have been a non-issue. We should have walked away from that crap decades ago. By now we should have already seen this. Instead, we have had to grind our way through years of bigotry and fear just to get to this point.
Not to reduce Obama's achievement, because it is an immense achievement, but he had help. If it wasn't for the GOP fucking things up so badly over the course of the last 8 years I don't think he would have stood a chance in some key states. I think The Onion nailed it on the head with their story this morning, Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress.
The United States did not vote for the Democrats, we voted for Obama. He was responsible for pulling people together, for bridging divides and getting the votes of conservatives and liberals. The Democrats got lucky with a man who can comport himself as a leader, rather than just a runner of a country. They haven't had that sort of candidate in a very long time.
The nation is still just as purple as it was yesterday. The Democrats did not wake up to some liberal Utopia. Same sex marriage was banned in three states, for example, two of which had gone clearly for Obama. Though the Democrats made some sweeping changes to the political landscape, they owe it hands down to him.
The economy is still in the toilet. We're still in Iraq with no clear way out. Our energy policy is a shambles. Come January 20th, when Obama takes the mantle of his office, all those things will be true.
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A Taste of the Divine
Julian Baggini Aeon Magazine
We have taken our places. This evening's performance, sold out months in advance, is about to begin. The programme, handwritten in a traditional script on a rolled parchment, tied with string, tells us to expect a prologue, two chapters and an epilogue, without interval. I'm nervous with anticipation but I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that it's not because I am waiting for the curtain to rise on a Wagner opera or a Shakespeare play. I'm actually waiting for my dinner.
This is no ordinary meal, however. It's the 19-course tasting menu at one of the world's best restaurants, Frantzén/Lindeberg in Stockholm. Ranked number 20 in Restaurant magazine's influential annual survey, it earned two Michelin stars in its first two years and is almost certain to get a third. Food doesn't get much, if any, better than this.
Yet there seems something wrong about the effort and expense that fine dining like this involves. And when the average bill is the stiffest in the Nordic region, around €350 (or £280) per head, that unease can turn to moral outrage. What on earth could justify spending so much money on what is ultimately just fuel for humans, especially in a world where almost one billion people still go hungry every day?
Answering these questions was the main reason I was at the table at all. I was writing a book on food and philosophy and felt I needed to experience some of the extremes of food luxury. Of course, I also love eating, so it was a wonderful excuse. But I really don't think I could have justified the reservation without some rationale other than pure pleasure. After all, this was going to be the most expensive three hours of my life.
Earlier, I had interviewed the head chef Björn Frantzén and he had played down expectations. He told me that he likes eating the sausages sold at football matches. Also that 'I know there's so many things wrong with it, but I think McDonald's is nice'. And that 'At the end of the day, let's not forget, it's a restaurant, you go to a restaurant because normally you're hungry and it's just food.' As it turned out, he could not have been more wrong. This is not just food, and hunger is not the reason to eat it.
Take, for instance, the bone-marrow with caviar and smoked parsley. Delicious but, for all that, you might say it's just an ephemeral experience. The obvious rejoinder is that of course it's ephemeral: all experiences are; life itself is. The difference is that unlike, say, opera, when you are eating food you can never forget that fact. Certain aesthetic experiences of high art create a sense of transcendence, a feeling that you are somehow transported beyond the merely mortal realm to taste something of the divine. Indeed, that is precisely why some people believe art is so important.
I would argue the other way. The problem with art is that it can fool us into forgetting that we are mortal, flesh-and-blood creatures. The culinary arts, on the other hand, remind us that we are creatures of bone and guts, even as they delight us with creations no other animal could ever produce. Fine food is about the aesthetic of the immanent, not the transcendent. A mouthful of Frantzén's diver scallops, truffle purée and bouillons transports you to heaven while never letting you forget it is a perishable place on Earth. Through experiences like these you come to know the potential intensity of being alive, what it means, as Thoreau recommended, to suck out all the marrow of life.
So yes, eating is ephemeral, but some experiences are so extraordinary they are worth it for their own sakes. Life is not just about such peak moments but it is very much enriched by them. 'Mere experiences' can also provide a kind of first-hand knowledge of the heights to which skill, flair and determination can take us. Perhaps it doesn't matter which of the myriad forms of human excellence we most enjoy.
You have to be obsessive to push your cooking to such limits of originality and ingenuity, always at the edge, looking to create 'the perfect restaurant, the perfect service, the perfect plate, the perfect menu'. To pursue excellence so doggedly, the restaurant has to come first, certainly above creaming off profit. 'Let's say the average spend here is, to make it easy, €350,' says Frantzén. 'It costs us €349 to sell for €350. Everything goes back to the customer. Everything. Our margin is almost zero.'
Even if the economics justify the expense there is still, of course, a great deal of conspicuous consumption in high-end dining: showing off, being seen, being served by the servile and paying over the odds to do so. But the same is certainly true of opera. Any expensive art is going to attract a mixture of the true connoisseur and the conning poseur. However, this kind of restaurant is not just for show. You can't get away with serving inferior food on silver platters as you might once have done. Frantzén and Lindeberg define the mood of the restaurant as 'casual elegance': focused on the cooking rather than the prestige the customer can glean from being seen there. This is progressive, not decadent.
The meal I had was without doubt the most incredible eating experience of my life. So many dishes were outstanding that there came a point at which the very word was meaningless. How can more things stand out than not? Perhaps that's why, for all the wonder of the evening, it really would be wrong to do this kind of thing too often. The extraordinary should not be allowed to become ordinary, no matter how good it is.
There is also an inherent risk in splashing out at a really expensive restaurant, one that worried me when I bit into the very first dish of the evening, beef with lichens and ash. It was pretty tasty, but nothing amazing. Taste is so personal that you could save up for what is supposed to be one of the great gastronomic experiences in the world and be left cold. But again, the same can be true of great art, which you can admire without loving. As Frantzén said, at even the best restaurant 'I might not like everything. I can leave and say, "It's not actually my cup of tea, but they're fucking great."'
So as the bill arrived and, along with it, a wax-sealed brown envelope containing a typewritten copy of the menu with a list of the wines we have drunk, two questions arose. Could I justify the cost? And was it worth it? Despite the case I've made, I'm not sure I can confidently answer the first in the affirmative. But to the second, my heart and head both scream yes. It's a contradiction some will find easier to digest than others.
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Myleene Klass Ditsy Print Tea Dress
Bold, bright and beautiful, this yellow tea dress by Myleene Klass will become the pick of your summer wardrobe.
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A classic of Lebanese home cooking, this sauce can be prepared with or without meat; it is ideal for warm days because the yogurt sauce is not cooked; it is a perfect meal for any day of the week when cooking elaborate meals is the last thing on the agenda.
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Ryan Shaw's Soul
I attended a showcase last night at the Cutting Room in NYC for a really awesome new singer named Ryan Shaw. His music is old-style soul and he just belts it out. His material is really catchy, his stage presence is very good, and his voice is awesome–very rangy and powerful.
He was accompanied by a 5-piece band, which only had 3 instrumentalists: a solid drummer; a bass player named "Tiny" who was about 6'5″ and grooved steadily on a 5-string throughout (and then blew away the audience with a virtuosic slapping-and-popping solo); and a guitarist who played lots of little three-and-four-note, high-voiced chords that were a throwback to Stax and Steve Cropper. The other two band members were male background singers who provided harmonies and counterpoint to Shaw's vocal stylings.
Shaw's CD will be coming out on Columbia in early April. Definitely watch for this guy, he has the talent to really go places. I'm also glad to see a resurgence in old-style soul music (check out James Hunter who's another soul revivalist). Shaw will be touring soon with Robert Randolph, so check him out.
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Have you ever thought other than cutting nails and applying cosmetics on them?
Well it is these fingers in your hands.
Fingers pokes and points and enter the realms of your mind.
They shows us the way
And gear up for a punch to keep trespassers at bay.
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But if pointed at someone, others deal it with a negative eye.
But as the Mahatma says," An eye for an eye makes the world blind",
This is what everyone fails to decipher that after all it is these fingers that helps us in the ties that makes us bind.
The precursor to every happening is sighted by them at first and then the rest.
They point at the sky promising a beloved to bring her stars and moons,
They bring hope when kept on other's finger.
They begin a new beginning when they are clasped together with their counterpart.
They tie; they break, building a new array of high hopes with no chokes.
But they don't ask for anything more,
It is only you who needs to feel the worth of their existence,
Dreams are real though,
These fingers are real, since, they are as we see them to be.


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Here are slides on the Airgas case and slides on the underlying gating issue of long/short term perspective that drives much of the corporate governance debates and is rarely confronted by the "governistas" that advocate all sorts of standardized practices they consider to be value enhancing. I used these materials this month in a class co-taught by Lucian Bebchuk and Scott Hirst at Harvard Law School – hence, the reference to being "in the belly of the beast." The slides are available here and here.
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Reflections on Airgas and Long-term Value
If the Delaware Court of Chancery Got Airgas Right, Professor Bebchuk's Op-Ed Got it Wrong
I wrote my comment "Delaware Court of Chancery Gets Airgas Right" (posted on the HLS Forum on March 1, 2011) before reading Professor Lucian Bebchuk's op-ed "An Antidote for the Corporate Poison Pill" that was published in The Wall Street Journal on February 24, 2011. As such, my comment did not address Professor Bebchuk's op-ed directly, but rather served as a counterpoint, providing another point of view. In this comment, I offer a more direct response to Professor Bebchuk's op-ed.
The fundamental difference between Professor Bebchuk and me stems from Professor Bebchuk's applying Athenian democracy principles to corporate governance (or, if you will, the French Revolution approach) while I favor a more Platonic representative structure (the American Revolution approach). My approach recognizes the central role of directors in corporate change-of-control transactions, regardless of their form, balanced by imposition of fiduciary duty obligations that are subject to court review. No such balance exists if unfettered power is given to shareholders, who have no such fiduciary duties as a check, whose access to information, no matter how robust the disclosure, is likely to be more limited than the board's, and whose actions often can be controlled by a subset of shareholders with a short-term perspective.
…continue reading: If the Delaware Court of Chancery Got Airgas Right, Professor Bebchuk's Op-Ed Got it Wrong
Delaware Court of Chancery Gets Airgas Right
Chancellor Chandler's decision in Air Products and Chemicals Inc. v. Airgas, Inc. (Del. Ch., CA No. 5249-CC, 2/15/11) upholding the board's maintenance of the company's shareholder rights plan in the face of an unfriendly cash tender offer the board determined was inadequate has justifiably received a great deal of attention and analysis. Despite his reluctance, I believe the Chancellor got it right. By permitting the Airgas board to keep the rights plan in place under the facts of that case, he upheld the foundational director-centric model for governance of Delaware corporations and recognized the importance of long-term value creation as a critical focus for Delaware corporate enterprises.
…continue reading: Delaware Court of Chancery Gets Airgas Right
An Antidote for the Poison Pill
In a major decision issued last week, William Chandler of Delaware's Court of Chancery ruled that corporate boards may use a "poison pill"—a device designed to block shareholders from considering a takeover bid—for as long a period of time as the board deems warranted. Because Delaware law governs most U.S. publicly traded firms, the decision is important—and it represents a setback for investors and capital markets.
The ruling grew out of the epic battle between takeover target Airgas and bidder Air Products. Air Products made a takeover bid for Airgas in 2010, increased it several times, and kept it open until last week's decision. Airgas's directors argued that defeating the premium offer would prove, in the long run, to be in shareholders' interests. As the Chancery Court stressed, however, the directors based their opinion solely on information publicly available to shareholders. Why should shareholders, who have powerful incentives to get it right, not be permitted to make their own choice between selling and staying independent?
The Airgas Ruling and the Professors
Chancellor Chandler's monumental ruling in the Airgas case, which is available here, provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the evolution and current state of Delaware's law concerning the use of defensive tactics and the limits to boards' ability to "just say no." In doing so, the opinion considers the body of academic work on the subject, and significantly engages with work done by academics affiliated with the Harvard Program on Corporate Governance, including the following:
Delaware's Intermediate Standard for Defensive Tactics: Is there Substance to Proportionality Review? In reviewing the evolution of Delaware's doctrine, Chancellor Chandler devotes considerable attention to this article by Reinier Kraakman (co-authored with Ronald Gilson). This article introduced the idea, subsequently incorporated into Delaware doctrine, that defensive tactics can be justified by concerns about "substantive coercion" – that is, a board's concerns that shareholders would tender to a non-coercive offer out of "in ignorance or mistaken belief" of the value of remaining independent.
The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence, and Policy: Chancellor Chandler also relies on and engages with the 2002 Stanford Law Review article by Bebchuk, Coates, and Subramanian, the first academic work to highlight and empirically demonstrate the special significance of staggered boards in the age of the pill:
- (1) Chancellor Chandler relies on the concept of an "effective staggered board" (ESB) as introduced and defined by Bebchuk, Coates, and Subramanian to refer to situations in which a firm's governance documents do not provide shareholders and/or a bidder with ways to get around or weaken the impediments posed by a staggered board.
- (2) Chancellor Chandler explains in detail why the case before him is different from the "paradigmatic case" on which the Bebchuk-Coates-Subramanian study focused. According to Chandler, that paradigmatic case is one in which a company has a fully effective ESB and the bidder won one election on a "let the shareholders decide" platform. Chandler notes that Vice Chancellor Strine expressed openness to considering redeeming a pill in such circumstances in his Stanford response to the professors' article, The Professorial Bear Hug: The ESB Proposal as a Conscious Effort to Make the Delaware Courts Confront the Basic "Just Say No" Question, and in Strine's opinion in the Yucaipa case.
Bebchuk vs. Lipton on Just Say No: In a section, titled "Pills, Policy and Professors," Chancellor Chandler reviews the debate that has taken place over the past three decades over the role of takeover defenses. Chandler comments that "two of the largest contributors to the literature are Lucian Bebchuk (who famously takes the 'shareholder choice' position that pills should be limited and that classified boards reduce firm value) on one side of the ring, and Marty Lipton (the founder of the poison pill, who continues to zealously defend its use) on the other." Bebchuk and Lipton have long debated the subject in print. The most recent exchange between the two was published in the University of Chicago Law Review in 2002, when Bebchuk published The Case Against Board Veto in Corporate Takeovers, a comprehensive statement of the case against board veto in such transactions, and Lipton published a response, Pills, Polls, and Professors Redux, in which he defended such board power.
Delaware Court Reaffirms the Poison Pill and Directors' Power to Block Inadequate Offers
Almost thirty years ago, our Firm announced there was a way — the poison pill — to level the playing field between corporate raiders and a board of directors acting to protect the interests of the corporation and its shareholders. Despite great skepticism about the pill in the legal and banking communities, the Delaware Supreme Court in 1985 agreed with us and affirmed that directors, in the exercise of their business judgment, could properly use the pill to protect the corporation from hostile takeover bids.
…continue reading: Delaware Court Reaffirms the Poison Pill and Directors' Power to Block Inadequate Offers
Staggered Boards and the Wealth of Shareholders: Evidence from the two Airgas Rulings
The Program on Corporate Governance just issued our paper Staggered Boards and the Wealth of Shareholders: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
While staggered boards are known to be negatively correlated with firm valuation, such association might be due to staggered boards either bringing about lower firm value or merely being the product of the tendency of low-value firms to have staggered boards. Our paper uses a natural experiment setting to identify how market participants view the effect of staggered boards on firm value.
In particular, we focus on two recent rulings, separated by several weeks, that had opposite effects on the antitakeover force of the staggered boards of affected companies: (i) an October 2010 ruling by the Delaware Chancery Court approving the legality of shareholder-adopted bylaws that weaken the antitakeover force of a staggered board by moving the company's annual meeting up from later parts of the calendar year to January, and (ii) the subsequent decision by the Delaware Supreme Court to overturn the Chancery Court ruling and invalidate such bylaws.
We find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that the Chancery Court ruling increased the value of companies significantly affected by the rulings –namely, companies with a staggered board and an annual meeting in later parts of the calendar year – and that the Supreme Court ruling produced a reduction in the value of these companies that was of similar magnitude (but opposite sign) to the value increase generated by the Chancery Court ruling. The identified positive and negative effects were most pronounced for firms for which control contests are especially relevant due to low industry-adjusted Tobin's Q, low industry-adjusted return on assets, or relatively small firm size.
Our findings are consistent with market participants' viewing staggered boards as bringing about a reduction in firm value. The findings are thus consistent with institutional investors' standard policies of voting in favor of proposals to repeal classified boards, and with the view that the ongoing process of board declassification in public firms will enhance shareholder value.
Below is a more detailed description of what our paper does:
…continue reading: Staggered Boards and the Wealth of Shareholders: Evidence from the two Airgas Rulings
Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Chancery Court in Airgas Case
In Airgas, Inc. v. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., No. 649, 2010 (Del. Nov. 23, 2010), the Delaware Supreme Court, reversing the Chancery Court, held that a bylaw amendment moving up Airgas's annual meeting by eight months was inconsistent with the company's charter provision creating staggered terms for directors and permitted an improper removal of directors without cause.
Airgas has been the subject of a hostile takeover attempt by its competitor, Air Products, since October 2009. Air Products made its first tender offer for 100% of the Airgas shares at $60 per share on February 11, 2010. Between February and Airgas's September 15, 2010 annual meeting, Air Products raised its bid twice, eventually to $65.50 per share. Each bid was rejected by the board of Airgas as undervaluing the company. As part of its takeover attempt, Air Products launched a proxy contest to gain control of Airgas's staggered board by nominating three candidates for election at the 2010 annual meeting and proposing amendments to Airgas's bylaws. Each of Air Products' director nominees was elected by the Airgas stockholders at the 2010 meeting.
…continue reading: Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Chancery Court in Airgas Case
The Airgas Case and Our Work on Staggered Boards
The Delaware Supreme Court is going to be hearing arguments soon in the case of Airgas vs. Air Products. In its briefs, as well as in oral argument before the Chancery Court, Airgas used our academic work on staggered board as evidence for its position. However, our academic articles, and the empirical evidence put forward in them, support the opposite position.
The case before the Delaware courts arose from Air Products' unsolicited offer for Airgas. Facing opposition from Airgas to its offer, Air Products ran a competing slate for the August 2010 annual meeting and was able to replace one-third of the directors. (Airgas has a staggered board and thus only one-third of its directors came up for re-election at that annual meeting.) Air Products also succeeded in getting majority support for passing a bylaw moving up Airgas' next annual meeting to January 2011, thus creating the possibility that another one-third of the directors could be replaced then.
…continue reading: The Airgas Case and Our Work on Staggered Boards
Important Chancery Court Opinion for Corporations with Staggered Boards
On October 8, 2010, the Court of Chancery of Delaware issued an important opinion, Airgas, Inc. v. Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (Del. Ch. Oct. 8, 2010), with significant implications for public corporations with staggered boards. The decision arose out of the ongoing takeover battle by Air Products for control of Airgas, Inc. At Airgas's 2010 annual meeting, held last September 15, Air Products successfully obtained all three board seats that were up for election on Airgas's nine-member staggered board. In addition, holders of 45.8% of the shares entitled to vote at the annual meeting approved a bylaw amendment, proposed by Air Products, which would cause Airgas's annual meeting to be held each year in the month of January as opposed to August, when Airgas's annual meetings had historically been held. Adoption of the proposed bylaw means that Airgas's 2011 annual meeting will take place barely four months after Airgas's 2010 annual meeting was held, and Air Products will have the opportunity to replace a majority of Airgas's staggered board in the space of four months. Airgas filed suit and moved to declare the bylaw amendment invalid.
The Court determined that the annual meeting bylaw amendment was properly adopted at the September 15, 2010 annual meeting, that it does not conflict with Airgas's charter, and that it is valid under Delaware law.
…continue reading: Important Chancery Court Opinion for Corporations with Staggered Boards


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Source code for this tutorial: http://silverlightrocks.com/cs/files/folders/silverlight_2_tutorials_source_code/entry342.aspx
Now that we can rotate the ship using the game loop, let's add a way to control this rotation using the keyboard. You main forms of human input in a Silverlight application will typically be the keyboard or the mouse, I'll write a tutorial on mouse input in the future, but the mouse buttons generally behave like the keyboard buttons, and are actually a bit simpler.
Keyboard handling in Silverlight 2 consists of handling the KeyDown and KeyUp events on a FrameworkElement that has focus. The needs of a game are typically a bit different than regular text input since what we're really interested in is whether a key is currently pressed or not.
To help with this, I have added another class to the BlueRoseGames.Helpers library.
I've got some comments about this, so let me elaborate. If you handle the KeyDown events yourself and move the sprite based on these events, you're at the mercy of the key repeat timer to move your sprite. This means that it will move once immediately, and then delay a bit before moving again, and once you hit the rapid repeat time, it will move quicker. This is probably desired for some games, but for most games, you're probably more interested in starting movement when you press a key, and ending that movement when the key is released. That's what this helper class is designed to do for you.
This class in the BlueRoseGames.Helpers.Keyboard.KeyHandler class and it keeps track of the KeyDown and KeyUp events so that all the caller has to do is call a IsKeyPressed method to see if a key is currently pressed.
Here is the source code for the KeyHandler class:
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace BlueRoseGames.Helpers.Keyboard
public class KeyHandler
Dictionary<Key, bool> isPressed = new Dictionary<Key, bool>();
FrameworkElement targetElement = null;
public void ClearKeyPresses()
public KeyHandler(FrameworkElement target)
targetElement = target;
target.KeyDown += new KeyEventHandler(target_KeyDown);
target.KeyUp += new KeyEventHandler(target_KeyUp);
target.LostFocus += new RoutedEventHandler(target_LostFocus);
void target_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
if (!isPressed.ContainsKey(e.Key))
isPressed.Add(e.Key, true);
void target_KeyUp(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
if (isPressed.ContainsKey(e.Key))
void target_LostFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
public bool IsKeyPressed(Key k)
return isPressed.ContainsKey(k);
Basically how it works is that the constructor accepts a FrameworkElement and the KeyUp and KeyDown events are wired up for that FrameworkElement. Then as keys are pressed and released, the current list of pressed keys is kept in the Dictionary. We're only really using the key of the dictionary and not the value. This gives us an indexed quick lookup of the keys that are currently pressed. Then in your game loop, you would call the IsKeyPressed() method for each key that you care about. The LostFocus event is important since if a key is being pressed when you lose focus, you won't see the KeyUp event and the key will get "stuck" in the down position. So on LostFocus, KeyHandler clears all of the currently pressed keys.
So now to use this in the SpaceRocks game.
The hardest part of this whole thing was getting focus to the Silverlight control. If the Silverlight control doesn't have focus, then you're not going to see the key presses. There have been some discussions on the forums lately about how to force focus to the control, and there doesn't seem to be a good way that works cross browser so we're stuck with making the user click on the control to make it get focus.
First we need some text to indicate that the user has to click. We'll put this after the Canvas in the Page.xaml but still inside the Grid element:
<TextBlock x:Name="clickToStart" Width="250" Height="80" Text="Click to Start!" Foreground="White" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="50" FontSize="35" TextAlignment="Center"/>
The game should now look like this:
We'll need a using statement in the Page.xaml.cs so that we can access the KeyHandler class:
using BlueRoseGames.Helpers.Keyboard;
Now we won't start our timer until after the control has focus, otherwise the player won't be able to control the ship when the game starts. We'll also want to stop the timer if the control loses focus, which will pause the game. When the control receives focus, we'll want to hide the TextBlock that tells the user to click, and on a loss of focus, we'll display it again.
One last thing we'll need to do is actually handle checking for which keys are pressed. We'll check for A or the Left Cursor Key to turn left, and D or the Right Cursor Key to turn right. This is the updated Page class in Page.xaml.cs:
public partial class Page : UserControl
StoryboardGameLoop gameLoop;
// DispatcherTimerGameLoop gameLoop;
KeyHandler keyHandler;
double rotationSpeed = 150;
public Page()
this.GotFocus += new RoutedEventHandler(Page_GotFocus);
this.LostFocus += new RoutedEventHandler(Page_LostFocus);
this.MouseLeftButtonDown += new MouseButtonEventHandler(Page_MouseLeftButtonDown);
gameLoop = new StoryboardGameLoop(this);
// gameLoop = new DispatcherTimerGameLoop();
gameLoop.Update += new GameLoop.UpdateHandler(gameLoop_Update);
keyHandler = new KeyHandler(this);
void gameLoop_Update(object sender, GameLoopUpdateEventArgs e)
// do your game loop processing here
if (keyHandler.IsKeyPressed(Key.A) || keyHandler.IsKeyPressed(Key.Left))
ship.RotationAngle -= rotationSpeed * e.Elapsed.TotalSeconds;
else if (keyHandler.IsKeyPressed(Key.D) || keyHandler.IsKeyPressed(Key.Right))
ship.RotationAngle += rotationSpeed * e.Elapsed.TotalSeconds;
void Page_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
clickToStart.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed;
void Page_LostFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
clickToStart.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;
void Page_GotFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
We're done for now, you should now be able to control the rotation of the ship using the A and D or cursor keys.
Rob Burke said:
Hey Bill -- Is there any known way yet around the fact that when you go fullscreen, you lose Keyboard support in Silverlight? Game developers using Silverlight will surely be lamenting this security limitation: "When a Silverlight plug-in is displayed in full-screen mode, keyboard events are prevented from being passed to keyboard event handlers in the application. The only valid keyboard input that is acted upon is the set of keystrokes that return the Silverlight plug-in to embedded mode. This limitation of keyboard input during full-screen mode is a security feature, and is intended to minimize the possibility of unintended information being entered by a user."
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Good question. I've asked about this a few times, and at one point it sounded like they were considering providing a way to do this. I really don't know the status of this and I think it's safer to assume it won't be available.
For my Dr. Popper game when I added high scores and the ability to enter your name, I toggle back to windowed mode when showing that dialog. This of course isn't acceptable if you want to use the keyboard for game input, like in this sample.
I was thinking that if they were to implement keyboard in full screen, they would probably pop up a warning and force the user to click ok to confirm that they know they are going into fullscreen with keyboard enabled. I'll try to find out the status of this when I go to Redmond in a couple of weeks, and if I can share any info I will.
gabouy said:
Hi Bill,
I'm working on a very basic breakout clone, I'm handling key events for left and right cursors directly with the KeyDown event handlers where I set the Canvas.LeftProperty for my paddle player, and it works ok but the experience is not very good (check the link). There's some sort of delay when shifting left to right.
Do you think this effect would dissappear if using your BlueRoseGames.Helpers class? or that's as good as it gets?
Yes that's really what it's all about. Using KeyDown, you're at the mercy of the repeat rate of the keyboard. With the keyboard helper, you can check each frame whether the key is currently pressed and act accordingly giving smooth movement and immediate response.
chrisaswain said:
Thanks for the helpers!
Hey Bill, really great stuff and easy to grip. I was wondering when the next part for this game will be posted?
The Black Sheep said:
Hey Bill, great stuff! Its helped me a lot. However, I was wondering if Kit3D was something worth using for 3D Silverlight games? Just wondering what you thought about it.
Bill Reiss said:
I haven't really played with Kit3D, I'm more of a 2D games guy, I suppose it could help in certain situations, but since Silverlight doesn't have a distort or perspective transform (yet), Kit3D is faking their image mapping and mapping a stretched/skewed image to a perspective distorted face. this may or may not be "good enough" for your particular game. Also I would assume that you may run into performance issues. If you do decide to investigate this path, please follow up and let us know how it goes.
r4 said:
Useful article.
Thanks for helpful information you catch up us with your instructional explanation.
Mike said:
Seems like some keys will work in full-screen in Silverlight 3, covering the controls needed for this tutorial at least:
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The smaller chain is seeing much stronger sales momentum than the market leader.
Wendy's (WEN) may describe itself as "the world's third-largest quick-service hamburger company," but the Dublin, Ohio, company has been growing and nibbling away at the market share of fast-food giant McDonald's (MCD).
According to the restaurant industry website QSR, 2013 saw a major evolution in the menus at many fast-food chains.
Economic pressures and changing consumer demands have forced a lot of dollar menus to make way for multi-priced value meals, as well as the higher-priced customer favorites.
"It was inevitable that stratification was going to happen," Dennis Lombardi, executive vice president of foodservice strategies at WD Partners, an Ohio design and consulting company, told the website. "It was like trying to keep gasoline at $1."
Both Wendy's and McDonald's changed to multi-priced "value" menus last year. And Wendy's executives credited their better-than-expected third quarter results in November to the success of their Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger and other recently introduced premium items.
"Our third-quarter two-year Company-operated same-store sales increase of 5.9 percent was our strongest comp growth since 2005, driven by the highly successful Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger promotion," Wendy's President and CEO Emil Brolick said at the time.
"We have also seen a solid response to our October Pretzel Pub Chicken sandwich promotion," he added, "and our third-quarter results give us the confidence to raise our 2013 Adjusted EBITDA outlook to approximately $365 million."
As for McDonald's, while its title of world's largest restaurant chain by revenue is unlikely to be challenged for some time (if ever), it's been struggling in its home market.
The company reported its November same-store sales were down 0.8 percent in the U.S. and down 2.3 percent in its Asia/Pacific, Middle Eastern and African markets. European same-store sales, however, were up nearly two percent.
In a video interview for The Wall Street Journal's MoneyBeat blog, reporter Sara Murray pointed out McDonald's launched several new products in 2013, including Fish McBites, Mighty Wings and Egg White Delight McMuffins -- many of which didn't go down well with its customers.
"The products they rolled out ended up actually making service slower," she noted, "because there were so many new products, and none of them really excited customers."
And while she doesn't think the position of McDonald's President and CEO Don Thompson is in jeopardy, she said, the company is surely "going to be pushing him to come up with a hot product that really gets people excited."
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I'm 67 years old, and over my years I've eaten a lot of McDonalds and remember when Wendy's started up? Wendy's had a square burger served bare, then you took it to the 'fix it the way you like it' salad bar. The Wendy's burgers were better then, but lost ground when they became 'just another' fast-food place? McDonalds? Used to have those long fries fried in beef fat. Today, they are all different sizes, and just average in taste.
I can make a better burger at home. Fries? The oven-baked fries are just as good. And the whole meal is a whole lot cheaper, and takes about the same time to fix as going to a fast-food joint, then going home.
I like that Wendy's introduces new menu items regularly. if they work, they work. If not, they try something else. I'm more apt to go there if I can try new stuff like the pretzel bacon cheeseburger. That was good. Also, I like Wendy's fries better than McDonalds. Wendys' fries are soggy less often.
If mcdonalds would serve their breakfast menu all day long, I'd eat there more often.
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