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Aishwarya Donates Cash For Cancer Patients; Daughter Aaradhya Sings; Hubby Abhi Thanks Fans...
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who celebrated her big day yesterday, had a quiet birthday with family and close friends. She celebrated the occasion by donating cash for cancer patients.
Aishwarya said that she believes in doing social service. Aish, who came before media in beautiful red salwar suit on her big day, said that every year she helps cancer patients and this year also she did the same by donating some amount. She added that her parents have taught her to do something meaningful as it makes a difference to those people.
Aish addressed media on her birthday. She was quoted by PTI as saying, "Heartfelt thank you to everyone for the wishes. It's a good coincidence that my birthday comes with Diwali... It's a celebration time. I am thankful to God for this life... Thankful to my parents for this gift of life. It means a lot to me. I embrace everything that life gives me."
Aishwarya married Abhishek Bachchan in 2007. She said her daughter Aaradhya Bachchan means the world to her and is the best gift to her.
Born to a family with no showbiz connections, she appeared in style bible American Vogue. At the age of 17, she started modelling, and became Miss World.
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No, its not a post for me missing my naps.
The boys are being quite the stinkers about napping lately. The last week or so they just mostly refuse to, I can hear them playing and what not, but they know its nap time, so they don't cry to get out. Eventually they fall asleep on the floor and wake up maybe 30min later, which is just not enough. When they miss their nap or take a short one they are seriously grouchy come about 6pm (bedtime is at 8). I mean screaming about anything and everything for the next 1.5-2hrs. Its awful! The last few weeks they have also learned to somehow get the child doorknob lock off their door. They don't take it off every day, but every few days, and then they come out. Today they did this, and when I went back upstairs to put them in bed Abram was showing me his hand, "ow hand". and his fingers were bleeding, I asked what he hurt it on and he said, "winnow" I ran for their bedroom, and thankfully the window was not broken, but their cheapie blinds are all bent up, so I am assuming that it what he cut his finger on.
I have a friend with 4yr twin girls who were just a handful. She said she sat in their room on the floor at naptime for a year! A year! And that now (at 4) they have no problems and will stay in their room even with the door wide open. For one, I don't know that it would work with my clingy babies, I think they would just be wanting me to hold them, so I would have to stand the entire time, and even then, I just don't know. For two, that is not always feasible. Nap time is often my only time to get showered or have a minute to use the bathroom in peace, or relax for a minute. lol. And a few times a week I watch my cousin's daughter who is almost 3. I can leave her unattended to play for a few minutes while I get the boys down, but not longer than that. My friend had an older child too, probably preschool age at the time.
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A balanced analysis.
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Jim Hamilton has a list of seven "pieces of legislation amending the Dodd-Frank Act passed the House in the 113th Congress by a bi-partisan vote, sometimes an overwhelming bi-partisan vote, but were never taken up the Senate."
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I found this to be a very interesting paper:
This paper supports the objective of the proposed revision of the Shareholder Rights Directive (Directive 2007/36/EC), that is, to contribute to the long-term sustainability of EU companies. However, it expresses concern that the measures being considered will not achieve their intended purpose, and worse, that they may have unintended negative consequences. The fundamental issue is that shareholder empowerment will not, on its own, improve corporate governance or contribute to sustainable growth in the EU.
Short-termism was one of the root causes of the financial crisis. It has not been adequately addressed to promote sustainable European growth over the long-term. Despite the Commission's well-intentioned efforts, the proposed revision falls far short of addressing the underlying causes of short-termism so as to prevent future crises.
The current proposal relies exclusively on shareholders to drive the shift to a longer-term perspective. Especially after the financial crisis, there is no clear reason for this exclusive reliance on shareholders. Although shareholders have and should have specific rights in corporate governance, shareholders do not own companies. Their relationship with the company is a contractual one, just like that of creditors and employees. Moreover, shareholders differ considerably in their time frames and approaches. Some shareholders are committed to holding for the long-term, whilst others only hold for the short-term. It is important that the former group become more engaged; however, there is a danger that the proposed revision will further empower shareholders with a short-term orientation. For this reason, there is a need for further measures to complement the proposed revision and achieve the goal of a longer-term approach to corporate governance. The paper suggests minor changes to the proposal and canvasses some more far-reaching changes.
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Walter Olson has the details. Here's the key point:
According to [WaPo] reporter Sudarsan Raghavan, these provisions "set off a chain of events that has propelled millions of [African] miners and their families deeper into poverty." As they have lost access to their regular incomes, some of these miners have even enlisted with the warlord militias that were the law's targets.
But go read the whole thing.
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As I explained in my book The Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley:
SOX § 203 requires registered public accounting firms to rotate (1) the partner having primary responsibility for the audit and (2) the partner responsible for reviewing the audit every five years. The audit committee must ensure that the requisite rotation actually takes place.
There now appears to be evidence that rotating audit partners does contibute to improved disclosure:
The main purpose of audit partner rotation is to bring a "fresh look" to the audit engagement while maintaining firm continuity and overall audit quality. Despite mandatory audit partner rotation being required in the U.S. for over 35 years, to-date there has been limited empirical evidence speaking to the effectiveness of U.S. auditor partner rotations given that audit partner information is not disclosed in U.S. audit reports. Using SEC comment letter correspondences to identify U.S. audit partner rotations, we provide initial evidence among publicly-listed companies suggesting that audit partner rotation in the U.S. supports a "fresh look" at the audit engagement. Specifically, we find that audit partner rotation results in substantial increases in material restatements (129 to 135 percent) and write-downs of impaired assets (one percent of market value). Overall, these findings suggest that audit partner rotation supports auditor independence and is an important component of quality control for U.S. accounting firms.
Citation: Laurion, Henry and Lawrence, Alastair and Ryans, James, U.S. Audit Partner Rotations (October 27, 2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2515586
Note that this result does not support audit firm rotation. As I also noted in my book Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley: Understanding How Sarbanes-Oxley Affects Your Business, as a matter of good practice, a company ought to consider rotating audit firms periodically so as to get the benefit of a fresh set of eyes. Some corporate governance experts recommend doing so at least every ten years. In addition, governance experts recommend rotating audit firms if a substantial number of former company employees have gone to work for the audit firm or vice-versa.
But should good practice be made mandatory?
My concern is that consolidation of the accounting profession has made auditor rotation extremely difficult. As I explained in my book Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley: Understanding How Sarbanes-Oxley Affects Your Business, SOX prohibits a public corporation from obtaining a wide range of non-audit accounting and consulting services from the accounting firm that performs their audit. Many public corporations get a wide array of such non-audit services from all 3 of the other Big 4 accounting firms. Rotating the auditing firm thus will be pretty complicated, as firms have to reshuffle their non-audit services. It'll be even more complicated if the firms are subject to some sort of cooling off period between when they provide audit services and can begin providing non-audit services (and vice-versa).
One key reform of the accounting profession thus ought to be promoting smaller accounting firms as viable alternatives to the Big 4.
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In my essay Corporate Governance and U.S. Capital Market Competitiveness (October 22, 2010), available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1696303, I explained that:
During the first half of the last decade, evidence accumulated that the U.S. capital markets were becoming less competitive relative to their major competitors. The evidence reviewed herein confirms that it was not corporate governance as such that was the problem, but rather corporate governance regulation. In particular, attention focused on such issues as the massive growth in corporate and securities litigation risk and the increasing complexity and cost of the U.S. regulatory scheme.
Tentative efforts towards deregulation largely fell by the wayside in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Instead, massive new regulations came into being, especially in the Dodd Frank Act. The competitive position of U.S. capital markets, however, continues to decline.
This essay argues that litigation and regulatory reform remain essential if U.S. capital markets are to retain their leadership position. Unfortunately, the article concludes that federal corporate governance regulation follows a ratchet effect, in which the regulatory scheme becomes more complex with each financial crisis. If so, significant reform may be difficult to achieve.
If you believed the Obama administration and the Democrats' hyoe, the JOBS Act was going to solve the problem. They were wrong, according to a new study by some economists (which I'm more inclined to accept that ones done by law professors masquerading as quants):
We examine the effects of Title I of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS) for a sample of 213 EGC IPOs issued between April 5, 2012 and April 30, 2014. We show no reduction in the direct costs of issuance, accounting, legal, or underwriting fees, for EGC IPOs. Further, the indirect cost of issuance, underpricing, is significantly higher for EGCs than other IPOs. More importantly, greater underpricing is present only for larger firms that were not previously eligible for scaled disclosure under Regulation S-K. EGCs that are more definitive about their intentions to use the provisions of the Act have lower underpricing than those that are ambiguous. Finally, we find no increase in IPO volume after the Act. Overall, we find little evidence that the Act has initially been effective in achieving its main objectives and conclude that there are significant consequences to extending scaled disclosure to larger issuers.
Interestingly, one of the authors - Kathleen Weiss Hanley - was until very recently an economist at the SEC,
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I just came across an excellent article on the pressing need for reform of the proxy advisor business.
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I recommend a new paper:
Davidoff, Solomon and [Zarig] have put together a paper on the litigation between the government and the preferred shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Do give it a look and let us know what you think. Here's the abstract:
The dramatic events of the financial crisis led the government to respond with a new form of regulation. Regulation by deal bent the rule of law to rescue financial institutions through transactions and forced investments; it may have helped to save the economy, but it failed to observe a laundry list of basic principles of corporate and administrative law. We examine the aftermath of this kind of regulation through the lens of the current litigation between shareholders and the government over the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We conclude that while regulation by deal has a place in the government's financial crisis toolkit, there must come a time when the law again takes firm hold. The shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who have sought damages from the government because its decision to eliminate dividends paid by the institutions, should be entitled to review of their claims for entire fairness under the Administrative Procedure Act – a solution that blends corporate law and administrative law. Our approach will discipline the government's use of regulation by deal in future economic crises, and provide some ground rules for its exercise at the end of this one – without providing activist investors, whom we contend are becoming increasingly important players in regulation, with an unwarranted windfall.
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act created a new obstruction of justice law that imposes stiff criminal penalties on anyone who "knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under [the Bankruptcy Code]." Just how literally are we to take the term "tangible object, however? A new article discusses an upcoming Supreme Court case whose facts push that question to the outer limits:
Abstract: Occasionally the Supreme Court of the United States hears a case simply to correct an injustice. That happened in Yates v. United States. Yates, a fishing captain, threw back three undersized fish. He later was convicted of violating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a statute designed to prevent corporate fraud, on the ground that he destroyed a "record, document, or tangible object," even though the fish could not remotely be deemed a financial record or an information storage device. The court of appeals upheld Yates's conviction by relying entirely on a dictionary definition of the term "tangible object." That literal-mindedness lead to an uncommonly silly result. The Supreme Court should not only reverse the judgment of conviction, but also underscore two canons of construction. First, courts should use common sense when interpreting criminal laws, rather than be slaves to the dictionary. Second, the Rule of Lenity is a "rule" of lenity, not just an "option" of lenity, and it is an especially important rule when a defendant faces a potentially severe sentence.
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Marcia Narine is a rising star in corporate law academia and the blawgosphere who I've been following with interest for some time. In her latest post at Business Law Professor Blog she poses the following questions as Dodd-Frank turns 4. So I thought I'd try my hand at offering some answers:
1) When Dodd-Frank turns five next year, how far behind will we still be, and will we have suffered another financial blip/setback/recession/crisis that supporters say could have been prevented by Dodd-Frank?
I'm not a macro economist, so I have no idea whether the economy will tank in the next year (but if forced to guess with a gun to my head, I'd say no). As for being behind, she is referring to the fact that the regulatory agencies have only adopted about half of the rules Congress mandated in the Dodd Frank statute. My prediction: In July 2015, about 65% of the required Dodd Frank rulemaking proceedings will have resulted in a final rule but at least 15% will still not have even resulted in a proposed rule.
2) How will the results of the mid-term elections affect the funding of the agencies charged with implementing the law?
Obviously, the big question here is whether the GOP takes control of the Senate. My current guess is that we end up with a 50-50 Senate, with Biden throwing control to the Democracts (and thereby being so busy that he has no chance of beating Hillary for the 2016 Democrat nod). If so, we're looking at high odds of a budgetary train wreck.
3) What will the SEC do to address the Dodd-Frank rules that have already been invalidated or rendered otherwise less effective after litigation from business groups such as §1502, Conflict Minerals Rule (see here for SEC response) or §1504, the Resource Extraction Rule (see here for court decision)?
Both of those rules are pet favorites of the left, so I see the SEC's three Democrat members facing enormous political pressure to get them into law by 2016.
4) Given the SEC's failure to appeal after the proxy access litigation and the success of the lawsuits mentioned above, will other Dodd-Frank mandates be vulnerable to legal challenge?
I think the SEC has finally figured out that it has to throw a lot of resources into doing cost/benefit analysis of its rules and that it has to stick to the limits of its statutory authority. If I'm right, their new rules should be less vulnerable to challenge. In addition, given that Obama's finally been able to tilt the DC Circuit to the Democrat side (7-4), the odds are much better that any challenge will be decided by a pro-SEC panel.
5) Will the whistleblower provision that provides 10-30% of any recovery over $1 million to qualified persons prevent the next Bernie Madoff scandal? I met with the SEC, members of Congress and testified about some of my concerns about that provision before entering academia, and I hope to be proved wrong.
I have no idea. But I did read an interesting article on health care fraud whistleblowers in today's WSJ. Does that count for anything?
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Peter Wallison commemorates the sad day:
Dodd-Frank has already overwhelmed the regulatory system, stifled the financial industry and impaired economic growth.
According to the law firm Davis, Polk & Wardell's progress report, Dodd-Frank is severely taxing the regulatory agencies that are supposed to implement it. As of July 18, only 208 of the 398 regulations required by the act have been finalized, and more than 45% of congressional deadlines have been missed.
The effect on the economy has been worse. A 2013 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas study showed that the GDP recovery from the recession that ended in 2009 has been the slowest on record, 11% below the average for recoveries since 1960. ...
[Dodd Frank-caused regulatory] uncertainties, costs and restrictions have sapped the willingness or ability of the financial industry to take the prudent risks that economic growth requires. With many more regulations still to come, Dodd-Frank is likely to be an economic drag for many years.
I called Dodd Frank "quack corporate governance." It's a conclusion I stand by despite the naysaying of numerous nattering nabobs of negativity.
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I liked this article a lot: Fisch, Jill E., The Broken Buck Stops Here: Embracing Sponsor Support in Money Market Fund Reform (June 16, 2014). U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-24. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2456255:
Abstract: Since the 2008 financial crisis, in which the Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck," money market funds (MMFs) have been the subject of ongoing policy debate. Many commentators view MMFs as a key contributor to the crisis, in part because widespread redemption demands during the days following the Lehman bankruptcy led to a freeze in the credit markets. The response has been to deem MMFs a component of the nefarious shadow banking industry and to target them for regulatory reform.
Determining the appropriate approach to MMF reform has proven difficult. Banks regulators prefer a requirement that MMFs trade at a floating NAV rather than a stable $1 share price. By definition, a floating NAV would prevent future MMFs from breaking the buck, but it is unclear that it would eliminate the risk of large redemptions in a time of crisis. Other reform proposals have similar shortcomings. More fundamentally, pending reform proposals could substantially reduce the utility of MMFs for many investors, which could, in turn, dramatically reduce the availability of short term credit.
The complexity of regulating MMFs has been exacerbated by a turf war among regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission has battled with bank regulators both about the need for additional reforms and about the structure and timing of any such reforms. Importantly, the involvement of bank regulators has shaped the terms of the debate. To justify their demands for greater regulation, bank regulators have framed the narrative of MMF fragility using banking rhetoric. This rhetoric masks critical differences between banks and MMFs, specifically the fact that, unlike banks, MMF sponsors have assets and operations that are separate from the assets of the MMF itself. Because of this structural difference, sponsor support is not a negative for MMFs but a stability-enhancing feature.
The difference between MMFs and banks provides the basis for a simple yet unprecedented regulatory solution: requiring sponsors of MMFs explicitly to guarantee a $1 share price. Taking sponsor support out of the shadows provides a mechanism for enhancing MMF stability that embraces rather than ignoring the advantage that MMFs offer over banks through asset partitioning.
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Jonathan Adler weighs in:
In an opinion by Judge Raymond Randolph (joined by Judge David Sentelle), the court concluded that compelled disclosures of commercial information are subject to the same level of First Amendment scrutiny as are other regulations of commercial speech (under the Central Hudson test), unless the disclosures are limited to "purely factual and uncontroversial information" and the mandatory disclosure is "reasonably related to the State's interest in preventing deception of consumers."
Because, as the SEC conceded, the conflict mineral disclosure requirements have nothing to do with preventing consumer deception, the court concluded the rules should be evaluated under Central Hudson. Under this test, the requirements must serve a substantial government interest, directly advance that interest, and be narrowly tailored. Whether or not the SEC could demonstrate that its conflict mineral disclosure rule satisfies a substantial government interest, the court found the SEC offered no evidence that its rule was narrowly tailored. On this basis the court struck down the requirement that companies declare that products "have not been found to be 'DRC conflict free.'" Insofar as Dodd-Frank requires other disclosures, including reports to the SEC, such requirements were upheld.
Go read the whole thing.
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The DC Circuit's decision in NAM v. SEC, which partially struck down the SEC's conflict mineral disclosure rule is doubtless an important decision. But let's not get carried away. If anyone thinks that the conflict minerals case presages constitutional invalidation of the mandatory disclosure, they would be reading way too much into the opinion.
First, it seems clear that the court is not foreclosing all conflict mineral disclosure rules, just this one. See footnote 14 of the majority opinion:
The requirement that an issuer use the particular descriptor "not been found to be 'DRC conflict free'" may arise as a result of the Commission's discretionary choices, and not as a result of the statute itself. We only hold that the statute violates the First Amendment to the extent that it imposes that description requirement. If the description is purely a result of the Commission's rule, then our First Amendment holding leaves the statute itself unaffected.
Second, note the majority's discussion of SEC v. Wall Street Publishing Institute at page 20-21 of the opinion. It rather clearly suggests that SEC securities regulation that plausibly can be linked to preventing consumer deception will be reviewed under the commercial speech standards.
Third, note the concurrence/dissent's discussion of the pending American Meat Institute v. United States Department of Agriculture case. As Judge Srinivasan notes, the en banc panel in that case "will receive supplemental briefing on the question whether review of 'mandatory disclosure' obligations can 'properly proceed under Zaudere' even if they serve interests 'other than preventing deception.'" The panel decision here assumes that the answer to that question is no. But what if it is yes?
Finally, beyond the scope of the present decision, there are lots of precedents suggesting that the constitutonality of the basic mandatory disclosure regime is beyond peradventure. See, e.g., Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Ass'n 436 U.S. 447, 456 (1978) (stating in dicta that: Numerous examples could be cited of communications that are regulated without offending the First Amendment, such as the exchange of information about securities . . . ."); Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton, 413 U.S. 49, 61-62 (1973) (noting that "both Congress and state legislatures have ... strictly regulated public expression by issuers of and dealers in securities ... commanding what they must and must not publish and announce"); Full Value Advisors, LLC v. SEC, 633 F.3d 1101 (D.C. Cir. 2011) ("Securities regulation involves a different balance of concerns and calls for different applications of First Amendment principles." ); United States v. Bell, 414 F.3d 474, 484-85 (3d Cir. 2005) (holding that the government may regulate speech so as to prevent consumer deception and, accordingly, that "mandatory disclosure of factual, commercial information does not offend the First Amendment"); Blount v. SEC, 61 F.3d 938, 944-47 (D.C. Cir. 1995) (holding that the SEC's anti-pay to play Rule G-37 survived strict First Amendment scrutiny); SEC v. Wall St. Publ'g Inst., Inc., 851 F.2d 365, 374-76 (D.C. Cir. 1988), cert. denied, 489 U.S. 1066 (1989) (holding that an investment newsletter could be required to disclose whether it was being paid to run an article touting a stock article).
In sum, don't bet the house on a constitutional challenge to mandatory disclosure.
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As my Competitive Enterprise Institute colleague Hans Bader and I have written in blog posts, articles, and regulatory comments, the conflict disclosure mandate creates a compliance nightmare, hurts American miners and manufacturers, and does the greatest harm to those it was intended to help — the struggling worker in and nearby the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
Fighting violence in the Congo is a laudable goal, but it defies common sense and basic civics to pursue foreign-policy objectives through a banking and investment bill. The government entity charged with enforcing this provision is neither the State Department nor the Defense Department, but rather the Securities and Exchange Commission — which no one would call an agency well-schooled in the nuances of foreign policy.
The Court looked at this leap of logic and decided that the provision could not survive the First Amendment's prohibition against "compelled speech," even under the lesser standard for "commercial speech." As Judge A. Raymond Randolph wrote in the majority opinion, this compelled speech is not even "reasonably related" to the SEC's mission of "preventing consumer deception." The opinion concludes, "By compelling an issuer [publicly-traded company] to confess blood on its hands, the statute interferes with that exercise of the freedom of speech under the First Amendment."
I agree with much of what Berlau says, although I would caution that I read the majority opinion as making a rather narrow ruling:
This brings us to the Association's First Amendment claim. The Association challenges only the requirement that an issuer describe its products as not "DRC conflict free" in the report it files with the Commission and must post on its website. ... That requirement, according to the Association, unconstitutionally compels speech. ...
Specifically, the Commission argues that issuers can explain the meaning of "conflict free" in their own terms. But the right to explain compelled speech is present in almost every such case and is inadequate to cure a First Amendment violation. See Nat'l Ass'n of Mfrs., 717 F.3d at 958. Even if the option to explain minimizes the First Amendment harm, it does not eliminate it completely. Without any evidence that alternatives would be less effective, we still cannot say that the restriction here is narrowly tailored.
We therefore hold that 15 U.S.C. § 78m(p)(1)(A)(ii) & (E), and the Commission's final rule, 56 Fed. Reg. at 56,362-65, violate the First Amendment to the extent the statute and rule require regulated entities to report to the Commission and to state on their website that any of their products have "not been found to be 'DRC conflict free.'"14
14 The requirement that an issuer use the particular descriptor "not been found to be 'DRC conflict free'" may arise as a result of the Commission's discretionary choices, and not as a result of the statute itself. We only hold that the statute violates the First Amendment to the extent that it imposes that description requirement. If the description is purely a result of the Commission's rule, then our First Amendment holding leaves the statute itself unaffected.
It seems to me that that court left the SEC (and Congress) a lot of room to go back and adopt new conflict mineral disclosure rules. Such rules would be a bad idea, but they could doubtless be crafted to pass constitutional muster. After all, the whole SEC disclosure apparatus regulates speech and nobody with any sense thinks federal courts are ever going to strike down that apparatus as a violation of the First Amendment.
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With two beautiful grown-up daughters his return to Umuofia would attract considerable attention. His future sons-in-law would be men of authority in the clan. The poor and unknown would not dare come forth. (20.14)
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I got a "spam email" from www.jobhunting.com which requested I fill out a form to look further into their company. It was straight forward enough, like all the other forms recruiters make you fill out. And, I looked at the company website a bit, it looked pretty 'legit', it had a valid phone number and address, so I did it.
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Two days later...I met the GM who had the corner office, John Gardner. He showed me in...looked me over with a quick glance. He asked me a few questions. Then he left me in his office to fill out the form or was it so I can admire his office...with pictures of his children...are they really his???...a few pictures of Gordie Howe...one even signed and in a custom picture frame...bought from the Hockey Hall of Fame gift shop down the street??? The office was 'dressed to impress' and so was Mr. Gardner.
After about ten minutes, he came back in and glanced through the form I had just filled out. "I like what you have written here about wanting to succeed", he said. "We are here to manage your career", he continued. "Would you be willing to pay a fee to get where you want to go?", he asked. "How much would that fee be?", I asked. "I don't know".
What a joke??? A GM who don't know how much they charge their clients. That was about the end of it for me. But he said he wanted to set up a second meeting because he thought he could get me a job overseas and wanted to meet my wife to get her approval on this matter. "Sure", I told him...just like I told the guy who tried to sell me some swamp land in South America last year.
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Graduation time is finally here, but the girls of the Sakuragaoka Girl's High Light Music Club aren't going to let the end of high school be the end of all they've built together. First though, they have to keep a promise to take a trip together, and like everything else they do, they're not doing it halfway. So it's time to hop on the bus - the double-decker bus that is - and go around the world as the band heads for the birthplace of the British Invasion: the United Kingdom! And on the way they're going to have to solve that one last big puzzle that's been vexing them: what to get for their underclassman rhythm guitarist Azusa, who will be taking over the club once they don their caps and gowns and leave Sakuragaoka for the last time. Get ready for a Magical Musical Tour as the whole gang takes in the sights and sounds of London and prepares for one last amazing encore.
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Bumper returns make farming 'star of economy'
Published 21/09/2011 | 05:00
The secret's out -- agriculture is flying. Farmers had been doing their level best to brush off suggestions that they were experiencing bumper returns for the last while. But they knew the game was finally up when they listened to President Mary McAleese tell the nation from the Ploughing Championships that farming "is the star of the Irish economy".
While collapsed property prices continue to be the millstone around the neck of the wider economy, farmland prices are actually turning a corner. Even NAMA's boss Brendan McDonagh admitted that he was relying on a buoyant farm sector to hoover up thousands of acres of land which represents 40pc of the state agency's loanbook.
Several golf courses around the country are also expected to be re-absorbed into the food chain over the coming months as negotiations are finalised with local farmers keen to put the redundant fairways back into productive use.
The general public will see the sight of pristine greens disappearing unceremoniously under the plough as a further sign of how far we've fallen. But farmers will look on the events as being only proper. They always considered it a terrible shame that the country's prime farmland was being increasingly consigned to concrete and leisure-time pursuits.
But how did this U-turn happen? Only a few years ago, our government officials had decided that farming was a sunset industry, part of the old economy. The other F, financial services, was where the real action was at.
However, a number of issues were about to come to a head. World supplies of food were not keeping up with demand as burgeoning Chinese middle classes developed a rapidly insatiable appetite for richer, westernised diets, complete with Big Macs and super-sized Cokes.
At the same time, the financial sector's house of cards began to implode. Hedge fund managers suddenly needed somewhere else to sink the billions that they hoarded for investors. Once considered old-fashioned and dull, suddenly every food commodity from wheat to whey powder was where the smart money was going.
The result has been a roller-coaster ride for the farm sector. While once insulated from gyrating world prices through the EU's complex web of tariffs and subsidies, Irish farmers now find themselves buffeted by the fortunes of global markets, with the resultant booms when prices are good and the inevitable busts when prices collapse. Milk and grain have already gone from boom to bust to boom again in the last four years.
Grain prices are 75pc higher than 2009, milk prices are 50pc higher, while beef, sheep and wool prices are also up significantly on the back of growing economies in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and South America.
And for the first time in a generation, the farm sector is being looked to as a possible saviour for the wider national economy. Snippets from cabinet meetings tell us that the Finance Minister believes food and agriculture will be the most important driver of growth, jobs and the creation of wealth over the foreseeable future.
While house completions have come to a virtual standstill, new blueprints for the agri-sector target a 50pc increase in output from €8bn to €12bn by 2020. Food and drink exports to China are expected to grow by 20pc in 2011 alone. The dairy sector in particular is seen as one where we have a competitive advantage over pretty much everywhere else in the world bar New Zealand.
While our damp, warm climate is often the subject of public discontent, it is perfect for producing plentiful milk from low-cost grass-based systems. The thirst for expansion among young dairy farmers is such at the moment that the average herd size of 60 cows may soon be closer to 200.
This optimism is feeding into every level of farming activity. Where agricultural colleges were closing down on an annual basis in the noughties, this year Teagasc successfully side-stepped the moratorium on public sector recruitment to get extra teachers to cope with surging numbers of applicants.
It's also good for the local economy. As anyone with a connection to farming will tell you, when farmers have money, they spend it.
So while the likes of Google and Microsoft might show billions of euro flowing through their Irish accounts, the vast majority of profits are repatriated back to their home countries once the profits have availed of our low corporation taxes. In contrast, a recent study by UCD's faculty of agriculture found that not alone does practically every euro of the €8bn in Irish food and drink sales stay in Ireland, it also generates another 73c in the local economy, significantly more than every other manufacturing sector.
Perhaps the ultimate proof of how well the farm sector is doing right now is the unprecedented number of inquiries that accountants are receiving from their farming clients about incorporating their businesses. In a sector where the annual income is less than €20,000, this may seem a little odd.
But it shows that just as agri-food has quietly become a champion of the Irish economy, farmers who have been steadily up-scaling and improving their businesses over the years now have big enough tax bills to warrant the extra expenses and complications of incorporating their enterprises.
However, in this new era of exposure to commodity booms and busts, Irish farmers will also be acutely aware that their fortunes could just as easily change once more.
It may only be a matter of time before the main driver of world commodity prices, China, gets a cold. If that happens, our export-dependent agriculture sector will bear the brunt of falling prices.
For the rest of the economy's sake, let's hope that day is some distance off yet.
Irish Independent


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To help people who are coping with homelessness, CCH community organizers offer outreach at shelters, street programs, and single-room occupancy (SRO) facilities.
Each month, four field organizers – Rachel Ramirez, Wayne Richard, Keith Freeman, and VISTA organizer Dasia Skinner – offer outreach at 25 facilities serving families, youths and adults across Chicago, including programs serving Spanish-speaking families, youth and adults.
Senior Organizer Jim Picchetti also mobilizes the Statewide Network, organizing service providers in nine suburban and downstate communities — Aurora, Bloomington, Elgin, Joliet/Will County, Maywood, Peoria, Rockford, Springfield and Waukegan/Lake County.
Associate Organizing Director Hannah Willage manages the Speakers Bureau. Fifteen of our most active community leaders talk to school, civic and religious groups about their experience with homelessness. They reached an audience of 3,873 people at 83 venues in 2015. The Bureau also mobilized 239 high school and college students to advocate with city and state officials.
In other outreach, Youth Attorney Beth Cunningham runs a mobile legal aid clinic that makes 16 monthly stops at neighborhood programs serving unaccompanied youth in Chicago. She is assisted by Youth Health Attorney Graham Bowman and staff attorney Diane O'Connell. Outreach sites include the Broadway Youth Center, Center on Halsted, La Casa Norte, Teen Living Programs, the Crib and Ujima youth shelters, and legal clinics held at twice a month at Chicago Public high schools.
During outreach sessions, CCH staff offer practical information. This includes telling parents about a homeless child's right to free transportation to school, or informing low-income older youth and adults of eligibility to apply for health care through Medicaid.
Through outreach, CCH involves homeless youth, parents and single adults in advocacy campaigns that create access and economic opportunities for people living in extreme poverty. These campaigns include Fight for $15, which pushes to raise the hourly pay for minimum-wage and fast food workers.
For more information, contact Associate Executive Director Jim Field at (312) 641-4140.


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LONDON - Hundreds of thousands of public-sector workers the length and breadth of Britain defied slurs and threats Thursday to mount one of the biggest walkouts since the country's 1926 General Strike.
Defiant chants of resistance could be heard across the country as the June 30 strike - officially over pensions cuts - took hold.
Education professionals in the University and College Union (UCU), Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and National Union of Teachers (NUT) taught students a vital lesson in trade unionism by withdrawing their labor from 11,000 schools and thousands more colleges.
And public offices including courts and job centers were shut or picketed as members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) joined the day of action.
Thousands of people furious at having their retirement rights, jobs and services sacrificed following the banking crisis marched in towns and cities.
Tory ministers tried in vain to belittle the massive scale of the protests, aided and abetted by mainstream media outlets.
The images told a different story, backing up unions which reported a response approaching 100 percent from members and huge support from fellow members of the public.
In London, well over 20,000 striking public-sector workers marched against their pensions being used to pay for the "greed and stupidy of the banking sector."
Marchers walked from Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn to Westminster to cheers and whistles before attending a rally held at Central Methodist Hall where speeches were delivered to sustained applause and standing ovations.
NUT executive member and rally chairman Alex Kenny said: "We have shown the true meaning of the word solidarity and unity in strength and numbers when unions come and strike together.
"We won't sit by paying more, working longer and getting less for our pensions when the bankers are being let off the hook."
It was the first time teaching union ATL has been involved in national strike action in its 127-year history. The union's general secretary Mary Bousted said: "They thought we wouldn't do it. They thought we would lie down and let them walk all over us. They thought that we wouldn't put up a fight.
"They were wrong.
"I am proud to be here with you all. I am proud to be taking a stand to ensure that teachers and lecturers, after a lifetime of service educating the nation's children, are not condemned to pension poverty."
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka praised members working at Downing Street (the equivalent of the U.S. White House) who joined the protest and the "dignity, passion and bravery" of all those on strike.
"We know there is something wrong when you have workers at Downing Street on strike," he said to a standing ovation.
"When Lord Hutton tells people on £15,000 ($24,000) a year to tighten their belts I say he can shove it."
PCS London branch rep Charley McDonald, who works for the Department of Work and Pensions, said: "They are asking us to treble our contributions so that we are having to spend an extra £50 to £70 ($80 to $112) a month from our wages.
"The £2.8 billion ($4.5 billion) the government is making from this is not going to our pensions but to the Treasury.
"Bankers are getting one-off bonuses that I would have to work 100 years to earn.
"Managers are even joining us on this strike - something is seriously wrong and we must be heard."
Originally published at Morning Star Online.
Photo: British teachers and public service workers clogged the streets of London, Thursday, July 30, as hundreds of thousands walked off the job around the country to protest pension cuts. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)


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John Elway getting off a plane in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Peyton Manning has been rehabilitating from a series of neck surgeries. (WRAL)
The Denver Broncos, and several other NFL teams, are still pursuing quarterback Peyton Manning.
According to 11 News affiliate CBS 4 in Denver, Broncos' executive John Elway and coach John Fox have arrived in Raleigh, North Carolina to see Manning. Manning has been rehabilitating there after a series of neck surgeries, giving no sign of which teams are likely to win his services next season.
ESPN, citing anonymous sources, reports that Manning will work out for the team executives at Duke. A Broncos spokesman declined comment.
In addition to the Broncos, the Arizona Cardinals and Tennessee Titans still believe they're in the running to sign the quarterback who is the only four-time MVP in NFL history. Sources say Manning also worked out for San Francisco 49ers' coach Jim Harbaugh Tuesday night. Anonymous sources told the Associated Press Friday that the Miami Dolphins were abandoning their pursuit of Manning.
The Broncos organization flew Manning to Denver last week, where he met with John Elway and Coach John Fox. Some sources have speculated that the team could be frontrunners in the negotiations.
CBS 4 says that Manning's interest in the Broncos stems from a good relationship with Elway and Fox, as well as the team's strong running game.
Manning was released by the Indianapolis Colts on Wednesday, March 7. The Colts balked at paying a $28 million bonus on the quarterback after a series of neck injuries.
Manning reportedly wants to stay in a different conference than his brother Eli, to avoid any chance that one brother could eliminate the other on the way to the Super Bowl. This could be a point in the Broncos' favor, as they are an AFC team like the Colts.
Sources say if the Broncos landed Manning, they would prefer to trade quarterback Tim Tebow over putting him in a backup position. However, Tebow's salary--$850,000 next season--would make it feasible to keep both players.


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Everton FC Westchester are proud to announce that we are running our extremely popular summer camp program again this year . The camps are a fantastic opportunity for your son to be exposed to hours of top class coaching and have fun in the fantastic surroundings of Stephinac high school on Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains .
As always the camps will be delivered by the North easts most highly qualified coaching staff .The Director of Coaching , Ryan Casey , u18 & u15 Development Academy head coach Stephen Carson and u13 & u 14 Development Academy head coach Mick o Brien have coached and developed countless players that have gone on to earn professional contracts for some of Britain's biggest clubs . They have also played professionally and have amounted over 600 professional appearances for clubs such as Everton FC, Glasgow Rangers, Swansea City , Dundee Utd and Bransley FC. All three coaches have also had the honor of representing their respective countries of Rep of Ireland , Northern Ireland and England.
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By outsourcing they have opened their doors to fraudulent affiliates that make claims that are not valid and that close their doors after they make a sum of money, leaving the customers that signed up through them with contracts that are not what they seemed to be.
I signed up from a recommendation and use the phone number 1-800-4-Vonage to do so. The offer was very good and was to good to be true in reality. I was told that my bill would be something like $19.50 a month depending on how many calls were made. The charges after 6 months rose to $37.13 a month and when I realized this I called the 1-800-4-Vonage number in July and cancelled my account.
In August I discovered that I had been billed $40.00 by Vonage and called the 1-866-243-4357 number to complain and ask for a refund. They refunded the $40.00 on August 10th but charged me another $37.13 on August 19th. I was unaware of the new charge because I assumed that my account was canceled. It was not.
On September 30th I discovered that Vonage had charged me again $37.13. This discovery was only because I was checking my bank account online and saw the 2 unauthorized withdraws.
I called Vonage 3 times and spoke with a total of 4 people. I kept telling them that the first lady had found a record of the August 10th phone conversation where I said that I had canceled and that they should not be billing me. I also requested another cancellation at that time.
The first supervisor that I talked to, Giovanni, was loud, aggressive, and rude. He told me that my account was still open and that I would not receive any more refunds. I asked to speak with his supervisor and he lied to me and told me he did not have one. I told him that I knew better and the everyone has a supervisor. Giovanni would not give me his full name or his ID number.
Finally he forwarded my call to someone named Wilson ID number 26914, and Wilson told me the same thing "No Refund". This was not acceptable to me and I told him that I wanted to speak with someone above him. He gave me the email of a email@example.com.
They did cancel my account, but I went to my bank and put a stop on any further charges to be safe. I also filed a dispute of the last 2 charges and will hopefully recoup these. I will never recoup my loss of time, the frustration, and anger that I had to endure.
The original phone number that I used to signup and to cancel the account is no longer in service and Wilson told me that it was not one of their official phone numbers, but a third party number.
In summary:
For 3 months Vonage refused to cancel my account.
Vonage continues to use third party affiliates to market.
Vonage has made 2 unauthorized charges to my bank account.
Vonage has refused to refund the money that they stole from me for services that I did not use.
Vonage has one of the worst customer service departments of a service oriented company and this will be their demise if enough people complain.
When a company repeatedly makes unauthorized charges to someones account it is THEFT and it is FRAUD.
I believe that this is an intentional SCAM. They believe that the amount of money that they take in for the fraudulent recurring billing of canceled accounts justifies their actions.
I advise anyone who wishes to cancel their account to document the dates, times, and the duration of any calls to Vonage; record the names and ID numbers of anyone you speak with, and file a complaint with the FCC, this site, other scam sites, and your bank or credit card company.
You should also file a chargeback and dispute any charges made to your account after it is canceled.
These types of companies need to be held accountable for their actions and their policies. They need to feel some of the pain that they are causing their customers that wish to cancel.
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Article: Fluoxetine protects against monocrotaline-induced pulmonary arterial remodeling by inhibition of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α and vascular endothelial growth factor[Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: The selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor fluoxetine has been shown to protect against monocrotaline (MCT)-induced pulmonary hypertension in rats. To investigate the possible role of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in mediating this protective effect, MCT-treated rats were administered fluoxetine by gavage, at doses of 2 mg/kg body mass or 10 mg/kg once daily for 3 weeks. Changes in pulmonary hemodynamic parameters, pulmonary artery morphologies, and expressions of HIF-1α and VEGF were assessed. Fluoxetine at the 10 mg/kg dose, but not at the 2 mg/kg dose, attenuated the effects of MCT on pulmonary artery pressure, right ventricle index, and medial wall thickness. In addition, 10 mg/kg fluoxetine mitigated the MCT-induced up-regulation of HIF-1α and VEGF protein and reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the lungs. This dosage also decreased pERK1/2 levels and inhibited proliferation of pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells in MCT-treated rats. In conclusion, fluoxetine can protect against MCT-induced pulmonary arterial remodeling, which linked to reduced ROS generation and decreased HIF-1α and VEGF protein levels via the ERK1/2 phosphorylation pathway.
Article: Downregulation of osteopontin is associated with fluoxetine amelioration of monocrotaline-induced pulmonary inflammation and vascular remodelling[Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: 1. Osteopontin (OPN) has emerged as a key factor in inflammatory activation and cardiovascular remodelling. The aim of the present study was to investigate the involvement of OPN in fluoxetine amelioration of monocrotaline (MCT)-induced pulmonary inflammation and vascular remodelling in rats. 2. Wistar rats were divided into control, MCT and two fluoxetine-treated groups. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) was induced by a single injection of MCT (60 mg/kg, i.p.). Fluoxetine (2 and 10 mg/kg) was administered via the intragastric route once a day for 21 days. On Day 22, pulmonary haemodynamic measurements were undertaken, followed by ELISA, western blotting and immunohistochemistry. 3. Monocrotaline caused pulmonary inflammation and vascular remodelling and significantly enhanced OPN expression in the plasma, lungs and pulmonary arteries. Fluoxetine decreased pulmonary arterial pressure and ameliorated pulmonary inflammation and pulmonary vascular remodelling. At 10 mg/kg, fluoxetine significantly inhibited MCT-induced increases in the expression of serotonin transporter (SERT) and phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 and downregulated the expression of OPN, macrophage inflammatory protein-1β and matrix metalloproteinase 2/tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 2. Although 2 mg/kg fluoxetine tended to ameliorate some MCT-induced changes in the lung, the differences did not always reach statistical significance. Linear regression analysis showed that there was a positive correlation between plasma OPN concentrations and mean pulmonary arterial pressure, as well as percentage medial wall thickness and percentage wall area in the pulmonary artery. 4. In conclusion, the amelioration by fluoxetine of MCT-induced pulmonary inflammation and vascular remodelling is associated with downregulation of OPN expression in rats.
Article: Fluoxetine inhibited extracellular matrix of pulmonary artery and inflammation of lungs in monocrotaline-treated rats[Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: To investigate the effects of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) fluoxetine on extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling of the pulmonary artery and inflammation of the lungs in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) induced by monocrotaline in rats. MCT-induced chronic PAH was established in Wistar rats. After treatment with fluoxetine for 3 weeks, pulmonary hemodynamic measurement and morphological investigation of lung tissues were undertaken. The main components of the ECM, elastin and collagen, were detected using Van Gieson stain and Orcein stain, respectively, or using Victoria-ponceau's double stain. The ECM proteolytic enzymes matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-9, and the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase (TIMP)-1 and TIMP-2, were detected by Western blot. Inflammation of lung tissue was assayed using lung morphology and inflammatory cytokine expression. Fluoxetine (2 and 10 mg/kg) significantly inhibited MCT-induced PAH, attenuated pulmonary arterial muscularization and ECM remodeling, and decreased MMP/TIMP expression. Fluoxetine also suppressed inflammatory responses in lung tissue and inhibited the expression of the inflammatory cytokines interleukin-1β (IL-1β), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP-1) and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1). Fluoxetine inhibited MCT-induced ECM remodeling of the pulmonary artery and inflammation of lung tissue. These effects were related to its inhibition on MMPs/TIMPs and cytokine productions.


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