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Posted on: January 14th, 2013Special Features → Israel Elections 5773
Netanyahu and Yishai have been discussing 'the day after' the January 22 elections.
Posted on: January 10th, 2013Special Features → Israel Elections 5773
The Sephardi Haredi party Shas, who had reached as many as 12 seats, are down to 9 in this survey.
Posted on: January 9th, 2013Special Features → Israel Elections 5773
The spot shows a Russian born bride to receive her instant giur-conversion document by fax.
Posted on: January 8th, 2013News & Views → Israel → IDF & Security
"I think it's none of our business in Israel to intervene in American domestic decisions."
Posted on: January 2nd, 2013News & Views → Eye on "Palestine"
Talk of a two-state solution, while widely prevalent, is largely irrelevant.
Posted on: December 30th, 2012News & Views → News Briefs
Netanyahu asked Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky to look into the matter.
Posted on: December 27th, 2012News & Views → News Briefs
After 10 years of marriage, with 2 children, the wife began an affair with her female boss.
Posted on: December 26th, 2012Special Features → Israel Elections 5773
Bennett benefited from the attacks on him.
Posted on: December 24th, 2012News & Views
Rabbi Bakshi Doron is suspected of allowing underlings to make an extra shekel through for-pay ordinations.
Posted on: December 17th, 2012News & Views → Jewish
The election of the next chief rabbis will take place after the 19th Knesset is convened.
Posted on: December 4th, 2012News & Views → News Briefs
The world did not erupt in flames. Even the Muslims preferred to keep mum about it.
Posted on: December 3rd, 2012News & Views
One of the two was the first openly gay man elected to the Knesset.
Posted on: December 2nd, 2012News & Views → Israel
Parents of students from the Raqia preschool in the Nofei Yam neighborhood in north Tel Aviv have expressed outrage that their children's school will also serve as a synagogue on Shabbat and holidays.
Posted on: November 27th, 2012News & Views → News Briefs
The relatively new religious leaders on the Likud roster owe some of their status to Moshe Feiglin's relentless efforts to make the party more traditionally Jewish.
Posted on: November 26th, 2012News & Views → Israel
Israel's Chief Rabbinate is yet to give its formal approval to the initiative.
Posted on: November 25th, 2012News & Views
When tested, the Likud prime ministers have led their party into regions that the founders of the Likud could not have imagined.
Posted on: November 8th, 2012News & Views → Eye on "Palestine"
In an interview published on November 7 by Israel's Globes online business magazine, Ha'aretz editorial board member Gideon Levy spoke frankly and openly about his "hatred" of Jews making their lives in Judea and Samaria.
Posted on: October 28th, 2012News & Views → Israel
Memorials for two memorable Jews took place this weekend, though they stood, perhaps, on opposite sides of the political spectrum.
Posted on: September 10th, 2012News & Views → Israel
The first Jewish Israeli male couple to marry has filed for divorce in a Tel Aviv rabbinical court that never recognized the marriage. It is unknown if the rabbinical court will provide a divorce for Uzi Even, the first openly gay Knesset member, and Dr. Amit Kama, Ynet reported.
Posted on: August 22nd, 2012News & Views → Israel → IDF & Security
On Tuesday, soldiers in the IDF Kfir brigade sent a letter to the office of Chief of Staff Benny Gantz complaining about discrimination between soldiers serving in the Haredi Netzach Yehuda battalion and other soldiers in the brigade, Walla reports. According to the soldiers' claims it appears that recently soldiers serving in the Haredi battalion each received a grant of $5,000 from an American philanthropist.
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Three area basketball teams are ranked in the Georgia Sports Writers Association poll released Monday.
Branden Jovaag's performance on the basketball court last week may rival that of his grades.
Tuesday night's Gainesville and West Hall girls' game will have a different air.
Soccer season officially kicks off today and with two teams, the North Hall girls and the Flowery Branch boys, that went to the state semifinals last year; the bar has been raised.
With every point made by Lumpkin County World Literature teacher Janet Tripp-Smith, comments followed.
GAINESVILLE - For the first time in nearly a year, the Towns County girls were seconds away from finding out how the rest of Region 8-A feels.The Lady Indians haven't dropped a game to a region opponent since last season's 8-A tournament finals, and Saturday night in Gainesville, they kept the streak alive.
The Lumpkin County High boys basketball team picked up its fifth straight subregion win with a 51-36 triumph over White County on Friday in Dahlonega.
CANTON- Some people may have counted out Gilmer High's wrestling program this season when it failed to capture the area duals title, but Bobcats coach Sam Snider didn't.
With his team up 10 points at halftime, Gainesville coach Manson Hill knew the East Hall girls were too good not to go on a run.
OAKWOOD - After starting the season 11-0, the West Hall boys went through a little rut. It's safe to say they're back.
CANTON - Area 7-AAA wrestling coaches talked all week about how razor-thin the margin for error would be for wrestlers in this year's traditionals tournament at Creekview High. Weight classes loaded with talent left people wandering who will head to next weekend's state sectionals at Eagles Landing High and who would be left home.
The Johnson High boys basketball team snapped a five-game losing streak with a 69-61 win against West Forsyth on Friday in Cumming.
The ink is on the paper and the faxes have been sent. Those tenuous verbal commitments, from players to coaches and from coaches to players, have become official ones.
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Gainesville junior Brody Simmons shot a combined 9-over par, 153 to edge Brent Hamm of Warner Robbins by one stroke and win the Georgia Southern ...
The Gainesville High volleyball program edged North Hall 29-27, 25-23 to claim the Hall County volleyball championship on Saturday in Gainesville.
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I met Ebony during my first year in school. She seemed interested in me and was always finding reasons to hang out with me. I asked her out after being a Challenge, and she told me she'd like to be with me but she had problems with her current boyfriend that she needed to resolve. I simply put her out of my mind and moved on.
sophomore seductionWell, in my second year of school she came on strong, telling me she always liked me and even though she blew her chance with me the first time around she still wanted us to be together. She was all over me, maybe even blindsided by love. I'd even rate her Interest Level at that point to be in the 90s. I asked her out, and we've been dating for nine months now. Ebony even said she wanted to have my babies and started talking about marriage.
About a month ago she started calling me less and being a little distant. I followed your teachings and backed off. This pattern continued for a while and after confronting her, she said she was doing it on purpose to see if I'd call her, which I didn't. I talked to her about her behavior and she said she wasn't herself and that I should give her time. I even went to the extent of accusing her of not being interested in me anymore and she denied it. The last time I confronted her about the situation she cried and started talking about marriage again — as if she was blindsided by love once again.
digital detectiveA few days ago I was using her computer when I discovered photographs of her and another guy that she'd cleverly hidden. I confronted her about it and she got angry that I went snooping. Doc, I'm fed up with this situation and urgently need your advice on this one.
Usman - who feels blindsided by love or something
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Actually, it doesn't surprise me in the least that my principles work in Africa as well as in America. "The System" cuts across all geographical, cultural, religious, and sociological boundaries". Every woman from Manchester to Madagascar wants a guy who is a humourous Challenge. That's what my program will make you.
usman has a pairIt's not that Ebony had problems with her current boyfriend that was a big red flag, pal, it was the mere fact that she had a boyfriend in the first place. Whether or not they were getting along was not the issue and beside the point. Their problems had nothing to do with you. I'm glad, however, that you put her out of your mind and moved on. Like my cousin Fast Eddie Love from East L.A. says: "That shows some cojones, as we say here in America."
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Some of you may have seen this on Facebook or on my Patreon Blog.
It is a reimagining of that old poster that I was commissioned to do back in 1991. Jason Cardy and myself have given it a new treatment and changed a few bits here and there to give it a whole new lease of life. A limited edition Print of this will be available at this years Auto Assembly on the 22nd and 23rd August. The prints are signed and numbered. If you are going to Auto Assembly and would like to pre-order a print so that you can make sure you get one and get a chance of one of the low numbers then you can do so HERE.
Some of you may have seen this on Facebook or on my Patreon Blog.
Following my previous post…
Its been a busy few weeks with pre-order sketches for upcoming ComicCons. LFCC last weekend. Preston a week on Saturday, Auto Assembly in August etc. Featured here are just a selection of the many sketches that I have done. You might even see yours in there😉
I have been posting some of these on Facebook and also on Patreon. This is the last post I will do of these sketches. From now on I am going to put them in the TARDIS. Whats that? well its the Patron Only part of the Patreon blog. Many of you reading this will already have access. If you don't, come join the fun. Become a Patron. Not only will there be exclusive views of sketches but I will be posting all sorts of other stuff in there. I will have info on the 'Transformers Canvasses' that I am doing, the 'Trees' project and other stuff. I will also put in some video clips of the studio and if I can sort out a camera (and get it in the right position), a clip of me doing one of the sketches. So if you haven't seen the Patreon blog yet take a trip to www.patreon.com/wildman If you become a patron not only will you have access to content that will not be seen anywhere else but – depending on your level of patronage – you will have; access to a free digital copy of Horizon, Your name in a Bimonthly Raffle to win free stuff, and a sketch posted out to you every month. Yes, EVERY MONTH. See you in there, VWOOP VWOOP! (that's a TARDIS noise, no really)
Hi. Am trying an experiment. I have been blogging here on WordPress for a long time now as andrewwildman.net
Due to the launch of my current Patreon campaign I am redirecting the andrewwildman.net name to my Patreon blog. Confused? Not surprised, I am. Basically, if you type andrewwildman.net into a search engine it will now not bring you here but instead, take you to my patreon blog where there will be far more things going on. The front page of the blog is free to use and comment on but if you want more you can now become a patron and have access to all sorts of other wonderful stuff. Try it, you might like what you find. I would love to see you over there🙂 BTW, if you do want to come back here for any reason (maybe you left your jacket behind?) it will still be available on wildwords.wordpress.com although there won't be any new stuff.
Thanks for being here. Now off you go. Jump in to THE NEW BLOG
My new Blog home. Take a look around
For as long as I can remember there is something that I have wanted to do. Be a proper artist. Comics and TV are great and a wonderful opportunity to use my childhood love of drawing in a way that makes a living. But its all other peoples stuff. The first break away for me was when I (with the support of some patrons) put together HORIZON. if you don't know about Horizon then check out the website. NOT YET THOUGH, I'm still talking😉
Horizon has been an incredibly rewarding experience as I have used my drawing ability alongside my 'personal development coach' training to create a 'Transformational Graphic Novel'. I fully intend to do more of these. In the meantime… something else.
So to get up to speed with what I have planned I would LOVE you to take a look at my Patreon page and maybe consider – like those who jumped in to help with Horizon – becoming a patron of this new project. Check it out and see what you think.


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Find the energy stored in the capacitor.
The capacitor is now disconnected from thebattery, and the plates of the capacitor are then slowly pulledapart until the separation reaches . Find the new energy of the capacitor after thisprocess.
The capacitor is now reconnected to thebattery, and the plate separation is restored to . A dielectric plate is slowly moved into thecapacitor until the entire space between the plates is filled. Findthe energy of the dielectric-filled capacitor. Thecapacitor remains connected to the battery. The dielectric constantis .
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A Stroke Attribute is what the actual path looks like. It's an appearance that you apply to the path. We've seen already some of the basic settings you can apply to a Stroke, and even how to color stroke. But let's take a closer look at all of its settings. I am going to zoom in on just this middle flower right here. I want to focus on this path right here and applying some kind of Stroke Attribute to it. Currently, this path has a Black 1-point stroke applied to it. And if we look at the Stroke panel we will see where it says Weight, it's currently set to 1 point.
Again, that refers to this thickness of the Stroke itself. I'll click on this pop-up here and choose something like 10 points. Remember that Illustrator itself, by default, will always align the Stroke on the center line of the path. Again, because I have a 10-point Stroke, I am seeing 5 points of that weight being distributed on the inside of the path and 5 points along the outside of the path. When dealing specifically with closed shapes, like I have right here, there is an option in the Stroke panel called Align Stroke.
Right now, the Stroke is aligned to the center line of the path. However, I could also choose to align it to the inside or the outside of the path. But for now, I'm going to leave it set to the default setting, along the center line of the path. We have two other settings that are here, one called Cap and one called Corner. We'll take a look at the Corner one first, and then we will create a different shape to see exactly what the Cap Setting does. By default, Illustrator uses something called a Miter Join.
Basically, the Corner Setting refers to the appearance of the stroke anytime your path comes to some kind of a corner. For example, right here my path enters this Anchor Point, and then comes out in a completely different direction, creating a corner. Well right now the Stroke itself comes to a point here. However, I could choose to create something called a Round Join, where I have a little bit of a rounded appearance, a nice softer appearance to the Stroke. I also have the ability to create something called a Bevel Join, which kind of just chops off the corner and gives me somewhat of a different appearance.
As I am using Illustrator, I'll always have a choice of what type of corner I would like to see on the strokes that I apply. I will go back to default setting here of the Miter Join, and I'm going to take my Line tool here and draw a straight line across the top of the screen. Notice that right now the Stroke comes and ends exactly where the Anchor Point is. Here is my path in the middle. I'm still working with a 10-point Stroke here. So I have 5 points of stroke at the top of my path and 5 points at the bottom.
Notice that here because it's an open path, I do not have the ability to change the alignment of that Stroke. It's always going to be on the center line of that path. However, I can change the appearance of the end of the stroke right here. For example, instead of choosing the Butt Cap option, I could choose the Round Cap option. This will actually have the Stroke itself, kind of have a rounded edge that goes beyond the anchor point itself. In fact, if you can imagine drawing a circle that has the exact same diameter, as the Weight of my Stroke, meaning right now my Stroke has 10 points of Weight, so imagine if I've created a circle that was exactly 10 points in diameter and I positioned the center of that circle right on the anchor point itself, I would have this kind of a rounded edge, and that's exactly what this setting does when applied to a Stroke.
I also have the ability to completely square it off using something called the Projecting Cap. This, again, takes my Stroke Weight, calculates half of it, which in this case would be 5 points, and extends the Stroke Appearance 5 points beyond where my path actually ends. So as I am working inside of Illustrator, I have the ability to choose between these different Cap Settings. There is it is also a setting here called Limit. This refers to something called the Miter Limit, and very rarely will come in to play. That's because in Illustrator CS5 now, Adobe set the Default setting for this Limit to 10.
It used to be 4. Sometimes if you create very, very sharp angles and you use a heavy Stroke, part of the Stroke would get clipped off. By increasing this Miter Limit, that clipping would go away. If for some reason if you create very sharp angles, and you do see that parts of your Stroke is clipped, simply come here to the Limit setting and increase it until that clipping goes away. Finally, while all these settings that we've been applying to Strokes are all here inside of the Stroke panel, we could see some of those settings here inside of the Control panel.
And at anytime, I can also click on the word Stroke to bring up the entire Stroke panel temporarily. So if you find that you don't have enough room on your screen, you can always collapse this entire dock and still make Stroke adjustment changes through that Stroke panel. One other place to find it is, of course, in the Appearance panel. Remember that the Appearance panel also lets you access the Stroke panel, just by clicking on the word Stroke, where you can see all of it settings. Of course, you'll also notice that there are some other settings here inside of the Stroke panel, things like Dashed Lines and Arrowheads.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves. We are going to cover those features in the next movie.
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- Using rules, guides, and grids
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- Drawing and editing paths with the Pen and Pencil tools
- Creating compound vector shapes
- Understanding the difference between point and area text
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The darkest substance on earth could be used to render you completely invisible.
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No, I'm fairly certain that it'd just be a black spot. The colors we see are just light that wasn't absorbed by the materials it was shined on. If it absorbs everything, then it wouldn't have any color, meaning it'd be perfectly black.
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Yes, but even if we got to 100%, it'd be a spot where nothing's visible. That doesn't mean you can see through it. You still won't be able to see what's behind the object. It'll basically be a walking shadow.


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John Krasinski Talks Vows on 'The Office' Season Finale
John Krasinski has made his mark in primetime as one of the nicest and least screwed-up guys on The Office. Now, in Away We Go, he's grown a beard and joins Saturday Night Live alum Maya Rudolph on the big screen in a touching comedy about a couple expecting their first baby.
And, as the The Office season finale approaches this Thursday night, fans are wondering if Pam and Jim will finally take a walk down the aisle.
Is Jim tying the knot with Pam or not?
"I think that we've always known that a wedding is coming between Pam and Jim, or we've been hoping that a wedding is coming. It's sort of insane that we've gotten through a hundred episodes still waiting. The best part about each season finale is that they always write great stuff for Jim and Pam. And it's no different this week. It's going to be some fun stuff. But I actually have a guy that will shoot me if I give you any answers right now."
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Remembering the beginning.
"I didn't have a day job. I was what you'd call an unemployed actor when I started The Office. I remember I asked the executive producer for a DVD of the six episodes we'd completed because I was pretty certain we'd never make it to the end of the season and I really wanted to show my mom what I'd done. Actually, we were told that we were going to get canceled almost every day. But we knew we were doing something special — whether or not people would watch was a whole different question."
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Facing impending fatherhood on the big screen.
"That was a new experience. I would love to give you a headline like, 'Actually, I am going to be too.' But I am not a father as of now, although I really want to be some day. I have the greatest parents in the world and they've set such a fantastic example of what's it like to bring up kids. They've probably made it look too easy, really. My brothers both have kids. So I'm lucky to be an uncle and get a little practice. When I do get around to starting a family, I probably will be that guy who will need to pull back a little bit when I find out that I'm going to have a child because I'll probably go overboard."
As for the sex scene with his co-star.
"I've never done that on The Office and probably never will. I think it's always really awkward to do scenes like that because you sort of revert back to your teen years where you're all of a sudden like, 'Oh, my god. I'm in bed with a girl.' It was really, really uncomfortable for me and I think I'm also speaking for Maya. It's also awkward to talk about it, even after the movie has been shot."
See exclusive photos of Office star Jenna Fischer
Speaking of uncomfortable, how about that beard.
"Sam Mendes, who has a very healthy beard said, 'By the way, I want you to have a big beard for this movie.' And that's kind of like questioning your manhood. You can't just ask a guy to grow a beard. Some guys can't. So I was like, 'Oh, man.' I had all this insecurity. But luckily I made it through puberty and the beard is there. So it was really fun because I've kind of always wanted to grow one. Next, maybe just a moustache, like the handlebar kind that hangs straight down."
Bonding with Maya.
"If you've only seen her on SNL, get ready to have your head spin because she's fantastic and totally different. During the time we spent together before we shot the movie, she quickly became one of my best friends. And that doesn't happen very often, where you sort of give yourself over fully to someone. She's that special of a person."
Finally, a film couple who don't need Dr. Phil.
"There's something so incredible about their relationship. She's logical and grounded and he's a little bit of a space cadet. But at the same time, it's a romance like I haven't seen on the screen in a while — a pure love story about two people who love each other and have always loved each other. There's no great conflict like they're cheating on each other and then getting back together. It was nice to see two people who sort of take on the world together."
Identifying with the search to find a place where you belong.
"I think we're all sort of searching for that. I love being out here in LA, but there's definitely a majority of me that still belongs in Boston. I lived in New York for a couple of years and am hoping to get back there at some point. But I think that belonging is such an incredible idea because it's not about necessarily where you belong geographically, but it's a combination of who you belong with, who you're in this fight with, the big fight, and whether or not you're as good a person and achieving all the things that you wanted to achieve."


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The English Premier League sometimes comes under criticism for its lack of competitiveness.
The title race is usually contested between two—at best three—giant, cash-infused clubs; the remaining European spots by the usual chasing pack of perennial also-rans; and it quickly becomes apparent who is in relegation danger, while the rest of the teams can settle in soporifically for another year of mid-table mediocrity.
But that characterisation is glib and not entirely accurate—perhaps more a reflection of the fatalism of disappointed fans than the reality of a dynamic and changeable competition.
In the second half of the 2012/13 season, there are several EPL clubs whose destinies come May are very far from assured.
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Corruption Risks -- China Travel Edition (Part I)
In any country, paying for travel for government officials, customers at state-owned enterprises, or customers at purely private enterprises can present corruption risks. . . .
In any country, paying for travel for government officials, customers at state-owned enterprises, or customers at purely private enterprises can present corruption risks. . . .
As readers of the FCPA Blog know, the past few years have seen a dramatic rise in FCPA prosecutions. In 2010 alone, companies settling FCPA-related charges paid $1.8 billion in monetary penalties, nearly tripling the $641 million paid in 2009.
By Thomas Fox
I want to thank Kyle Sheahen for his recent post and paper arguing that the promotional expenses defense under the FCPA is illusory. His work has stimulated a useful debate.
From a perspective different than previous commenters (here), I'd like to state the case for the value of the defense.
Generally, enforcement actions that discuss promotional expenses -- including those Kyle cited in his paper -- involve expenses that were neither bona fide nor reasonable as required by the FCPA. The cases include:
Lucent Technologies - $10 million in trips, primarily to vacation destinations in the U.S., including $34,000 for five days of sightseeing, wrapped onto a three day trip of business activity.
Ingersoll Rand - holiday excursion to Florence after visiting the company's facilities in Vigante, Italy. The excursion to Florence included payment of $1000 in "pocket money".
Metcalf & Eddy - first-class travel to the U.S. for foreign officials and per diem cash payments equivalent to 150% of estimated daily expenses.
Syncor -the SEC said payments for promotional expenses came "mostly came in the form of sponsorships for the doctors' attendance at educational seminars, including payments for registration fees, travel, lodging, and meals" but also included "gifts of computer equipment, software, office furniture, and medical supplies to doctors and their hospitals; sponsorships of social functions and fundraisers at the hospitals; funds provided to cover the cost of temporary employees at the hospitals; and payments made for outside testing when a particular hospital's laboratory equipment was not functioning properly."
Titan Corporation - there's a reference to an authorization for a $20,000 payment for promotional travel expenses, with the notation that it was unclear if the payment was made. However this was in the context of at least $2 million paid in bribes to government officials. Even if the $20,000 was not paid, there were other facts on which to base the enforcement action.
I would argue that none of the above enforcement actions involved promotional expenses which were either bona fide or reasonable. Based on the foregoing, I think companies subject to the FCPA have sufficient guidance on what constitutes a bona fide or reasonable promotional expense. I also believe the cases cited in the article can be used as solid teaching points on what is not bona fide or reasonable without having to try and ascertain the intent to corrupt.
Thomas Fox is an attorney in Houston, Texas, specializing in FCPA compliance, risk management and international transactions. His blog can be found here and he can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
By Michael S. Diamant
Few FCPA compliance challenges are as vexing as the provision of everyday business courtesies, like gifts, meals, drinks, travel, and entertainment. Because the FCPA has no de minimis threshold, even minor expenditures could implicate the statute's anti-bribery and accounting provisions. Although they are a necessary and common facet of international business, such benefits have led to enforcement actions against companies like Lucent Technologies, Avery Dennison, and UTStarcom.
Multinational companies that do business in China confront this challenge daily. The Chinese business environment particularly amplifies this risk for two reasons. First, the Chinese government owns a huge percentage of its domestic economy. It is thought to own more than 70% of the country's productive wealth, and it is the majority shareholder of 31% of publicly listed Chinese companies.
This has profound implications for FCPA compliance due to how the law is currently enforced: In their prosecution of companies like Schnitzer Steel, the U.S. regulators have taken an expansive view of the meaning of "foreign official." The statute defines "foreign official" as an "any officer or employee of a foreign government or any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof." According to the U.S. authorities, this includes for-profit businesses, like steel mills, that are only partially owned or controlled by a foreign government.
Therefore, China's broad ownership of its publicly listed companies qualifies a huge percent of Chinese businesspeople as "foreign officials" according to U.S. regulators. When you discuss a prospective deal over dinner or a drink with a Chinese business executive, you might be giving a thing of value to a foreign official!
Second, Chinese business culture typically values the provision of things of value to build relationships. This development of business connections, termed guanxi, is especially important for multinational companies trying to develop business in China and make inroads into that country's booming economy. Further, the failure to reciprocate courtesies that have been provided by your business counterparties in the past may be seen as rude and could hamper business. The risk of offending on one hand may be balanced against the risk of violating the FCPA on the other.
Over the years, we have advised numerous multinational companies on how to handle this conundrum. This month we published an article in the Virginia Law & Business Review that gathers some of our accumulated wisdom on the issue, both by performing a legal analysis of the FCPA's anti-bribery provisions to determine why certain business courtesies are permissible while others are not and by providing some internal compliance suggestions to manage this risk with regard to a company's Chinese operations. We hope readers of the FCPA Blog find it helpful. It can be downloaded here.
Michael Diamant is a member of the white collar defense and investigations practice group in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. His practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, internal investigations, and corporate compliance. He has conducted internal investigations in eleven countries on four continents regarding possible FCPA violations and assisted clients in complying with government subpoenas and negotiating settlements with enforcement agencies.
According to its latest consolidated financial statements, Alcatel-Lucent has reached agreement in principle with the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle Foreign Corrupt Practices Act offenses related to Costa Rica, Taiwan and Kenya. If the settlement goes ahead, the company will pay a $92 million criminal fine (payable over three years) and a $45.4 million in disgorgement to the SEC.
The settlement with the DOJ would be structured similar to Siemens', with the company entering into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement for accounting and internal controls offenses, while three subsidiaries — Alcatel-Lucent France, Alcatel-Lucent Trade and Alcatel Centroamerica — would each plead guilty to violating the FCPA's antibribery, books and records and internal controls provisions. The DOJ agreement would require appointment of a French compliance monitor (in Siemens' case, the monitor was German).
The Paris-based telecommunications company was formed with the 2006 merger of French-firm Alcatel and the American company Lucent Technologies Inc. Before the merger, Alcatel had American depositary receipts traded on the New York Stock Exchange and Lucent was also listed on the NYSE. The merged company's shares trade on the NYSE under the symbol ALU.
We've written about both companies before.
In September 2008, former Alcatel executive Christian Sapsizian, 62, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and forfeiture of $261,500 for bribing employees of the state-owned telecommunications authority in Costa Rica. He had pleaded guilty in June 2007 to two counts of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Sapsizian, a French citizen, was a 20-year Alcatel employee and served as the company's deputy vice president for Latin America. In August 2001, Alcatel received a $149 million cellular network contract from Costa Rica's El Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). Sapsizian had promised to pay an ICE board member and other officials up to 2 percent of the value of the contract. Before being fired in 2004, he caused Alcatel to wire $14 million in "commission" payments to a consultant, who then transferred $2.5 million to the ICE official.
Sapsizian admitted to conspiring with Edgar Valverde Acosta, a citizen of Costa Rica who was Alcatel's senior country officer there, to arrange the bribes. Acosta was indicted with Sapsizian on June 14, 2007. He's an FCPA fugitive, last known address: Costa Rica.
The U.S. indictments of Sapsizian and Acosta resulted from bribery investigations by Costa Rican authorities. In October 2004, Alcatel learned of the investigations. It fired Sapsizian and Acosta and disclosed to U.S. authorities that it had uncovered payments from employees and consultants to government officials, ICE employees, and political parties.
Lucent, meanwhile, settled Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges in December 2007 with the DOJ and SEC. Its violations occurred before the merger with Alcatel. The settlement included a $1 million criminal fine and $1.5 million in civil penalties. Lucent's offenses involved payment of travel expenses for Chinese government officials from 2000 to 2003. The FCPA includes an affirmative defense that allows payment or reimbursement of expenses of foreign officials that are directly related to "the promotion, demonstration, or explanation of products or services." 15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1(c)(2)(A) and 78dd-2(c)(2)(A). Many of Lucent's payments, however, were not directly related to legitimate business purposes and were not recorded accurately in its books and records.
In April 2009, Alcatel-Lucent signed agreements in Washington, D.C. worth $1.7 billion with China Mobile and China Telecom to help the Chinese companies roll out 3G technology.
Here's part of the company's disclosure from its latest Form 10-K:
As previously disclosed in its public filings, Alcatel-Lucent has engaged in settlement discussions with the DOJ and the SEC with regard to the ongoing FCPA investigations. These discussions have resulted in December 2009 in agreements in principle with the staffs of each of the agencies. There can be no assurances, however, that final agreements will be reached with the agencies or accepted in court. If finalized, the agreements would relate to alleged violations of the FCPA involving several countries, including Costa Rica, Taiwan, and Kenya.
Under the agreement in principle with the SEC, Alcatel-Lucent would enter into a consent decree under which Alcatel-Lucent would neither admit nor deny violations of the antibribery, internal controls and books and records provisions of the FCPA and would be enjoined from future violations of U.S. securities laws, pay U.S. $45.4 million in disgorgement of profits and prejudgment interest and agree to a three-year French anticorruption compliance monitor to evaluate in accordance with the provisions of the consent decree (unless any specific provision therein is expressly determined by the French Ministry of Justice to violate French law) the effectiveness of Alcatel-Lucent's internal controls, record-keeping and financial reporting policies and procedures. Under the agreement in principle with the DOJ, Alcatel-Lucent would enter into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), charging Alcatel-Lucent with violations of the internal controls and books and records provisions of the FCPA, and Alcatel-Lucent would pay a total criminal fine of U.S. $ 92 million—payable in four installments over the course of three years.
In addition, three Alcatel-Lucent subsidiaries—Alcatel-Lucent France, Alcatel-Lucent Trade and Alcatel Centroamerica—would each plead guilty to violations of the FCPA's antibribery, books and records and internal accounting controls provisions. The agreement with the DOJ would also contain provisions relating to a three-year French anticorruption compliance monitor. If Alcatel-Lucent fully complies with the terms of the DPA, the DOJ would dismiss the charges upon conclusion of the three-year term.
What a difference a year or so makes. In December 2007, Lucent Technologies Inc. -- which became part of Alcatel SA in November 2006 -- settled Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges. It had illegally paid millions of dollars for Chinese officials to take more than 300 trips to the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. They were supposed to be business missions but ended up being junkets -- "sightseeing, entertainment and leisure." Lucent paid $2.5 million to resolve the offenses.
But last month, Alcatel-Lucent signed agreements in Washington, D.C. worth $1.7 billion with China Mobile and China Telecom. The company said the agreements are the first of many that will help Chinese companies roll out 3G technology.
We've said before that we believe in corporate redemption and second chances. It looks like Alcatel-Lucent is making the most of its freshly cleaned slate. The winners will be its stakeholders, Chinese partners, and the Chinese people who'll benefit from upgraded technology. (And we like its nifty 3D logo, above.)
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Corruption in Iraq is so bad that it's blocking the country's recovery. The New York Times' Sam Dagher wrote a great story about it (here). Here's how he started:
Iraq's main anticorruption watchdog has no shortage of cases, as its new report makes clear: embezzlement of $80 million; tampering with government tea imports; the theft of 50 Italian-made Beretta pistols; procuring forged Ph.D.'s; and scores of other crimes.* * *
The real problem is the difficulty of prosecuting people for corruption, which is so widespread that it has become one of the main obstacles to stability and progress in Iraq, according to Iraqi and American officials. Among the barriers, the officials say, are laws that give ministers the right to pardon offenders, as well as partisan and sectarian interference, pressure, infighting, vendettas, blackmail and death threats.
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Mahatma Gandhi's 1948 message about graft in India is universal:
Corruption will go when the large number of persons given unworthily to it realize that the nation does not exist for them to exploit but that they exist to serve the nation. This requires morals, and extreme vigilance on the part of those who are free of the taint. Indifference will be criminal…* * *
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The FCPA has been around for more than 30 years now and, as Trace's video shows, people are getting better at talking about it. That includes those from government, private practice and corporations. So the subject seems a lot less mysterious than it used to and more accessible. That's good news. It's also a gentle plug for the books at the right -- Bribery Abroad and the newly released Bribery Everywhere (both are in stock and can be ordered now). Anyway, we're glad people are more comfortable these days talking about the FCPA in a way that's less formal and not so legalistic.
We've mentioned before Dan Newcomb's FCPA Digest, calling it the most definitive publicly-available catalog of FCPA prosecutions, enforcement actions and disclosed investigations. So it's great to see the release of the March 2009 version, available here.
This year, Philip Urofsky becomes editor-in-chief. He told us last week, "In this Digest, we entirely scrapped the previous Trends & Patterns, which had largely become a statistical update, and replaced it with a more analytical piece." The T&P section has always been a favorite of ours, and this year's new-and-improved version (available here) didn't disappoint.
About the prosecution of individuals, for example, it said:
More recently, there is a strong trend of actions against individuals being brought separately or even in advance of charges against their employers and then, in all likelihood, following classic prosecutorial strategy of working up the chain of command, using the individuals to build the government's case against their superiors and eventually the company. In Willbros, the DOJ charged four employees over a two-year period, with two pleading in previous years (Steph and Brown) and an indictment being returned against two others (Tillery and Novak) in February 2008. Finally, in May 2008, Willbros Group and Willbros International agreed to a deferred prosecution agreement. Similarly, the DOJ entered into a plea agreement with the former CEO of KBR, Stanley, in 2008, well in advance of settling the matter with Halliburton/KBR in early 2009.And concerning disgorgement, a topic we recently talked about here, it said:
A final trend and pattern worth noting is the SEC's continued demand for disgorgement of ill-gotten profits in cases in which only books & records violations are charged, such as in the [oil for food] cases. Whether or not a false entry in a company's books and records (or a failure to implement adequate internal controls) truly results in increased profits is open to question. To date, however, no FCPA defendant has publicly challenged the SEC on whether disgorgement is appropriate when the sole charge is false books and records. Prior to the ABB case in 2004, the SEC had never collected disgorgement in FCPA cases; since then it has sought it in virtually every case with only a few exceptions, such as Dow Chemical, Delta & Pine Land, Lucent, and Conway. In Tyco, the SEC collected $1 in ill-gotten gains (along with $50 million in penalties related to other violations). While this is an isolated example of the SEC seeking such nominal disgorgement, the case does underscore the overall policy of levying disgorgement sanctions in nearly all cases against issuers.We spend a lot of time in the FCPA Digest. And whenever we turn to it, we're grateful for the hard work and generosity of founding-editor Dan Newcomb, Philip Urofsky and their entire team.
Former Alcatel executive Christian Sapsizian, 62, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and forfeiture of $261,500 for bribing employees of the state-owned telecommunications authority in Costa Rica. Sapsizian had pleaded guilty in June 2007 to two counts of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Under his guilty plea, he faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and $330,000 in forfeiture.
Sapsizian, a French citizen, was a 20-year Alcatel employee and served as the company's deputy vice president for Latin America. In August 2001, Alcatel received a $149 million cellular network contract from Costa Rica's El Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). Sapsizian had promised to pay an ICE board member and other officials up to 2 percent of the value of the contract. Before being fired in 2004, he caused Alcatel to wire $14 million in "commission" payments to a consultant, who then transferred $2.5 million to the ICE official.
Sapsizian admitted to conspiring with Edgar Valverde Acosta, a citizen of Costa Rica who was Alcatel's senior country officer there, to arrange the bribes. Acosta was indicted with Sapsizian and on June 14, 2007, the federal court in Miami transferred him to fugitive status.
Alcatel learned in October 2004 that Costa Rican authorities were investigating payments from its consultants to government officials, political parties, and officials of ICE. The company's internal investigation led to the firing of employees and consultants who were involved and its self-disclosure to the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Until late 2006, when it merged with Lucent, Alcatel was a French company with American depositary receipts traded on the New York Stock Exchange. It's now called Alcatel-Lucent.
The Justice Department said an ongoing investigation is being conducted by the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It also said it received help from Costa Rican and French law enforcement authorities.
View the DOJ's September 23, 2008 release here.
Foreign companies can't be blamed for wondering if they're being singled out under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The names in the FCPA-related headlines alone are enough to cause high anxiety. ABB, Siemens, BAE, DaimlerChrysler, AstraZeneca and many more. But are U.S. prosecutors really focusing too much attention on U.K., European and other foreign companies instead of American firms? Probably not, at least according to the numbers. Here's the situation.
Foreign companies weren't subject to the FCPA at all until 1998, when the law was amended and, in the words of the U.S. attorneys' manual, "expanded . . . to assert territorial jurisdiction over foreign companies and nationals." For the next five years under the FCPA, the Justice Department hardly gave foreigners a second look. That began to change in 2004, when the number of all FCPA investigations started rising, and the number of purely foreign companies (not foreign subsidiaries of U.S. parents) being investigated rose along with the tide. Of the 20 investigations launched in 2004, says Dan Newcomb in Recent Trends and Patterns in FCPA Enforcement, four concerned purely foreign corporations. The numbers, he says, increased from 2005 to 2007, with about 13 investigations involving purely foreign companies, out of around 50 ongoing FCPA investigations in all. So while the actual number of foreign companies involved in FCPA problems has increased, the percentage of foreign firms under investigation has decreased during the past four years.
So why does it seem like the DOJ is picking on foreign companies? Partly because their headline-making names are so familiar. ABB Ltd (Switzerland) Vetco Gray UK Ltd, Akzo Nobel, NV (the Netherlands) and Statoil ASA (Norway) were all subject to still-fresh DOJ enforcement actions. And foreign companies under ongoing FCPA investigations include similarly big names: AstraZeneca (UK-Sweden, pharmaceuticals), BAE Systems (UK, defence) DaimlerChrysler (Germany, automotive), Innospec (UK, chemicals), Magyar Telekom (Hungary, telecoms), Norsk Hydro (Norway, energy), Novo Nordisk (Denmark, health, pharmaceuticals) Panalpina (Switzerland, transport), Siemens (Germany, engineering, electronics), Smith & Nephew (UK, medical devices) and Total (France, energy). All of them are well-known at home and most are famous around the globe.
Foreign attention has also been drawn to the FCPA by the so-called parallel investigations, where the DOJ and an anti-corruption agency from another country work together. Again, Dan Newcomb provides the details:
Among recent FCPA investigations by the United States government, parallel investigations in the following foreign jurisdictions were reported: Brazil (Gtech); China (Siemens); Costa Rica (Alcatel Lucent); France (Halliburton, Total SA); Germany (Bristol Meyers, DaimlerChrysler, Siemens); Greece (Siemens); Hungary (Siemens); India (Xerox); Indonesia (Freeport, Monsanto, Siemens); Israel (Siemens); Italy (Immucor, UDI, Siemens); Korea (IBM); Liechtenstein (Siemens); Nigeria (Halliburton, Siemens); Norway (Siemens); Russia (Siemens); and Switzerland (Siemens).There's no way to know what percentage of FCPA violations are actually caused by foreign companies. So there's no way to know if foreign companies are getting more or less FCPA attention than they deserve. But in some cases, the DOJ doesn't have a choice. For example, it had to launch investigations when Siemens and BAE made headlines around the world for alleged corrupt practices on U.S. soil, and when evidence emerged that Panalpina's Houston office may have led an entire industry into an FCPA quagmire with its customs clearance and permitting practices for the oil and gas services segment.
But whether foreign companies receive exactly the "right" amount of FCPA attention from the DOJ isn't so important. What's important now is that when foreign companies are subject to the FCPA's compliance requirements because of where and how they do business, they should do everything reasonably necessary to comply with the law. They should have an effective compliance program. That should be true not only for the FCPA, by the way, but for the laws of all the countries they're subject to. The only other option is to watch for their names in the headlines.
Yesterday we talked about a recent story in the Chinese press blaming foreign companies for more than half of the PRC's corruption, and singling out U.S. companies that violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in China. On reflection, we may have been unduly skeptical about China's motives for publishing the story. So today we want to set the record straight.
To be clear, the PRC's economic policies and the results they've produced are phenomenal. Last year the country attracted nearly $75 billion in foreign direct investment. Total FDI has topped $700 billion. There are now some 120,000 foreign-invested enterprises in the PRC, double the number from just 2002. The economy is still growing at over 11% a year, and in a country of more than 1.3 billion people, per capita income has reached around $5,500. Foreign businesses in China are getting bigger. McDonald's this week said it plans to open 125 more outlets there in 2008, and Dunkin' Donuts wants 100 new locations in Shanghai alone over the next 10 years. What's the growth look like at street level? Our first visit to China was in 1993. Crossing main roads in Beijing was nearly impossible because of the streaming bicycles pedaled by factory workers wearing black Mao suits. The same blocks now make up some of the world's fanciest neighborhoods -- upscale condos and cafes filled with world-class fashionistas, and streets flowing with BMWs and Audis, Lamborghinis and more.
With such a staggering level of foreign activity in the economy, it's logical that a lot of the corruption over the past ten years can be traced to foreign companies. We thought 64% -- the amount noted in the aforementioned story -- sounded too high. But it could be close to the mark after all. For sure, the number of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions and investigations related to China has ballooned over the past few years. Among the companies involved are Lucent Technologies Inc., Faro Technologies, Inc., York International Corporation, Paradigm B.V., Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc., InVision Technologies, Inc., Diagnostics Products Corporation, Alltel Corporation, BearingPoint Inc. and UTStarcom Inc. Siemens may have FCPA issues in China, and there could be others. That's a long list in the rather limited FCPA universe. So what gives?
We've wondered before if some companies go into certain countries -- China, Nigeria and Indonesia come to mind -- expecting to find a corrupt environment. And once there -- no matter what they find -- they lower their compliance standards instead of raising them. Some pundits in Nigeria have talked about this syndrome and how it victimizes the local economy and the people in it. Perhaps the Chinese press is now sensitive to the same thing.
So in the spirit of the approaching Lunar New Year -- the beautiful character above means "rat," the sign next up on the Chinese calendar -- we acknowledge that ten years ago China put out the welcome mat to the world's entrepreneurs on a scale never seen before. Since then people by the billions have enjoyed the fruits, both in China and around the globe. At the same time, the Chinese government has struggled with public corruption -- as most developing economies do. It has fought against it using all available weapons. [Sometimes we cringe to read about executions for bribe-taking there.] Now China is telling the international community that a big part of its corruption problem is imported from overseas -- even from the United States. It's a good reminder to foreign companies -- especially those required to comply with the FCPA -- that instead of being part of the problem they should be part of the solution.
A Special Warning For U.S. Companies
As China battles indigenous corruption, it's also spotlighting foreign and especially U.S. companies that are importing illegal practices into the PRC. A story in the Chinese press in December 2007 said, "According to a report by local consulting company Anbound, of the 500,000 bribery cases investigated in China over the last 10 years, 64 percent involved foreign companies." It mentioned allegations involving Lucent Technologies Inc., IBM, Cisco and NCR. Four of Lucent's employees in China, the story reported, were apparently fired in 2004 for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The story quotes a Beijinger as saying: "I cannot understand after many foreign companies complain about corruption and bribery in China, then why are they doing similar things?"
Official statistics about corruption from the PRC can be dodgy. But any discussion about foreign companies involved or suspected of being involved in corrupt payments, and the naming of some U.S.-based headliners, may mark an important new strategy. Presumably, China will use the foreign companies' names to defend itself against charges from the U.S. and OECD that its anti-corruption enforcement is lax. Most of our corruption, China will argue, actually came from you first. We're the victim here.
One result is that foreign companies -- particularly those subject to the FCPA -- will be very attractive targets during the PRC's Olympic-year anti-corruption campaign. That means it's a good time to put China-related compliance programs on high alert.
Meanwhile, Chinese President Hu Jintao told leaders of the Communist Party that the country's anti-corruption drive remains a top priority. President Hu -- who also serves as general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee -- spoke at the organization's important three-day plenary session in mid-January. "Anti-corruption measures and the upholding of integrity should run thoroughly through the nation's economic, political and cultural makeup and the Party's ideological, organizational, work style and institutional building," he said. In typical PRC practice, President Hu's speech became a "guideline document to enhance the work of anti-corruption and upholding of integrity," the communique said.
By June 2007, some 24,879 cases of official corruption had been investigated in the PRC, the communique said. The cases involved bribes totaling more than 6.156 billion yuan (US$860 million). Government employees were involved in 5,523 bribery cases, accounting for 22.2 percent of those caught, the communique said. For example, He Minxu, former vice-governor of eastern Anhui Province, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes of 8.41 million yuan (US$1.12 million) from 27 organizations and individuals, the latest senior official to be brought down in a corruption scandal. Another case cited was that of Zheng Xiaoyu, former director of China's State Food and Drug Administration. He was executed in July 2007 and was the fourth senior official to be sentenced to death since 2000. Zheng was found guilty of taking 6.49 million yuan (US$910,000) in bribes. When he was sentenced, the Supreme People's Court said his dereliction of duty undermined China's drug monitoring and supervision, endangered public life and health and had a very negative social impact. Speculation in China and elsewhere is that some of the bribes Zheng took came from foreign companies.
View articles from the December 12, 2007 edition of China Daily Here and January 17, 2008 edition Here.
It Misused Affirmative Defense For Promotional Expenses
Lucent Technologies Inc. settled U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges with the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission for $2.5 million. The settlement includes a $1 million criminal fine and $1.5 million in civil penalties. Lucent's violations involved promotional expenses for Chinese government officials. The FCPA includes an affirmative defense that allows payment or reimbursement of expenses of foreign officials that are directly related to "the promotion, demonstration, or explanation of products or services." 15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1(c)(2)(A) and 78dd-2(c)(2)(A). Many of Lucent's payments, however, were not directly related to legitimate business purposes and were not recorded accurately in its books and records.
According to the DOJ, from at least 2000 to 2003, Lucent -- a global communications company that became part of Alcatel SA in November 2006, after the violations occurred -- spent millions of dollars on approximately 315 trips for Chinese government officials that included primarily sightseeing, entertainment and leisure. These trips were requested and approved with the consent and knowledge of the most senior Lucent Chinese officials and with the logistical and administrative assistance of Lucent employees in the United States, including at corporate headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J. Lucent improperly recorded expenses for these trips in its books and records and failed to provide adequate internal controls to monitor the provision of travel and other things of value to Chinese government officials.
Lucent provided Chinese government officials with pre-sale trips to the United States to attend seminars and visit Lucent facilities, as well as to engage in sightseeing, entertainment and leisure activities. In 2002 and 2003 alone, there were 24 Lucent-sponsored pre-sale trips for Chinese government customers. Of these, at least 12 trips were mostly for the purpose of sightseeing. Lucent spent over $1.3 million on at least 65 pre-sale visits between 2000 and 2003. The individuals participating in these trips were senior level government officials, including the heads of state-owned telecommunications companies in Beijing and the leaders of provincial telecommunications subsidiaries.
Between 2000 and 2003, Lucent also provided Chinese government officials with post-sale trips that were typically characterized as "factory inspections" or "training" in contracts with its Chinese government customers. By 2001, however, Lucent had outsourced most of its manufacturing and no longer had any Lucent factories for its customers to tour. Nevertheless, Lucent provided individuals with trips for "factory inspections" to the United States, Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan and other countries that involved little or no business content. These trips consisted primarily or entirely of sightseeing to locations such as Disneyland, Universal Studios, the Grand Canyon, and in cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., and New York City, and typically lasted 14 days each and cost between $25,000 and $55,000 per trip.
The DOJ's non-prosecution agreement requires Lucent to adopt new or modify existing internal controls, policies and procedures. Those enhanced internal controls must ensure that Lucent makes and keeps fair and accurate books, records and accounts, as well as a rigorous anti-corruption compliance code, standards and procedures designed to detect and deter violations of the FCPA and other applicable anti-corruption laws. Lucent will not be prosecuted if it complies with all of the requirements contained in the agreement for two years.
View other posts about promotional expenses Here.
View the DOJ's December 21, 2007 release Here.


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EATON — Eaton senior Ryleigh Haynes couldn't have picked a track event that, metaphorically, is more indicative of all she has overcome in recent years.
Tearing the anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in her right knee just minutes before the start of her junior volleyball season — that's one hurdle.
The months and months of hard work it took to recover from the injury, which cost her entire junior volleyball and track seasons — that's another hurdle.
Having to tweak so much of how she moves, reacts and even thinks upon her return to track and volleyball — yet another hurdle.
In fact, Haynes seems to have perfected the ability to overcome hurdles, metaphorically and literally.
The literal part was abundantly obviously to the hundreds of spectators that witnessed Haynes leave her competition in the dust during the girls 300-meter hurdles event Saturday at the Eaton Invitational.
Haynes finished the race in 47.12 seconds — nowhere near her personal record of 45.10 seconds but fast enough to give her plenty of reason to smile after last racing two weeks earlier.
"It feels good, mentally," said Haynes, who will play volleyball for the University of Northern Colorado this fall. "Physically, I'm definitely out of shape a bit, but this was a nice meet to come back on. My times, obviously, I'm not too impressed with. But, I'm really hard on myself. I have to keep in mind that I haven't run in a week or two."
Haynes' performance helped the Reds (131 points) to a first-place finish at their home meet. Windsor won the boys team title with 109 points.
At the Mountain View Invitational on April 17, during the 800 relay, Haynes partially tore muscle fibers in her right quad — the latest setback in what has been a difficult yet character-revealing quest to regain prior health and form.
Through all the hardships, the perennially positive Haynes said just being back on the track this spring after sitting during her junior year has been "probably the best feeling ever. Like I said with volleyball before, it is nothing you can really put in words — the feeling you get, being around your teammates, the competitiveness that you get, I like having that again."
Haynes' season-best time of 47.11 in the 300 hurdles ranks third in the state in 3A.
Eaton coach Konnie Jelden said there was no doubt the highly-competitive Haynes would battle her way back from her severe knee injury.
"She's got guts and she is mentally prepared," Jelden said of Haynes. "She can dial it in when she needs to. ... It doesn't surprise me she's back on the track, fighting, scratching, doing everything she needs to do."
Jelden said that while it's tough to convince a competitor like Haynes to just take it easy and nurse an injury, the coaching staff's primarily focus for Haynes this spring has been assuring that Haynes didn't do anything to reinjure her knee.
"She's had a couple times when she touches her toes (on the hurdle) in practice and kind of stumbles and falls, and it just about puts me over the edge," Jelden said. "That's the last thing I want her to do is get hurt. ... (Track) is something she is passionate about, and I'm so glad she is part of the team. But, we definitely want to keep her safe for that next level (in volleyball)."
Haynes was an instrumental part of Eaton's Class 3A state volleyball championship team this past fall, as she was during the Reds' title run in 2011.
After sitting out during last week's Weld County Championships at Nottingham Field, Haynes said her quad wasn't giving her any problems.
Haynes competed in only the 300 hurdles Saturday but is also a regular contributor to Eaton's 400 and 800 relay teams.
Before her knee injury, she was one of the state's top contenders in high jump, an event that Haynes said was her "baby." Now, the hurdles are her primarily event, as continuing to high jump could have been too much of a risk to her surgically repaired knee.
With all the roadblocks she's encountered, perhaps no one would have blamed Haynes if she had decided to forgo her final track season and spend the final months of her senior year preparing, physically and mentally, to play volleyball at the Division I level.
Not a chance — Haynes said she didn't even consider skipping her final track season.
And, even though Haynes is no longer high jumping, she said she is developing a similar passion for hurdling.
"I love it, every minute of it," she said with a big smile. "Even though it is super hard, it's worth it."
Team Scores — Windsor 109; Berthoud 71; Eaton 62.5; Strasburg 49.5; Platte Valley 46; Sterling 42.5; Dayspring Christian 40; Greeley West 31; Liberty Common 30; Estes Park 29; Yuma 27.5; Resurrection Christian 27; Brush 26.5; Heritage Christian 26; Mountain View 18; Pikes Peak 15.5; Merino 12; Frederick & University 10; Pawnee 5; Briggsdale 4; Northridge 3.
100-meter dash — Ty Eichman (DCA) 11.46; Damue Princely (GW) 11.59; Lechman (Ster) 11.71; 200 — Eichman (DCA) 22.87*; Zane Wagner (Wind) 23.23; Lechman (Ster) 23.35; 400 — Chad Foos (Eaton) 50.47*; Jole (Mer) 51.97; Nkosi Roma (DCA) 52.96; 800 — Erwin (Fred) 2:05.31; Marcus (Bru) 2:05.98; Caraway (LC) 2:06.80; 1,600 — Landon Schmidt (Wind) 4:40.69; Richard (Heritage Chr) 4:54.58; Grewal (Bert) 4:57.20; 3,200 — Ben Leitz (Wind) 10:27.42; Jose Parra-Vega (GW) 10:44.22; Martinez (LC) 11.07.16; 110 high hurdles — Watson (RC) 15.62; Lyons (Stras) 16.22; Shankar (EP) 17.12; 300 hurdles — Shankar (EP) 42.79; Derek Ruff (Wind) 42.93; Van Hare (Bert) 43.07; 400 relay — Windsor (Cody Johnson, Noah Winick, Jesse Widdell, Zane Wagner) 43.72; Berthoud 44.64; Dayspring (Eichman, Christian Graham, Angelo Kirkwood, Nkosi Roma) 44.86; 800 relay — Berthoud 1:33.61; Strasburg 1:34.93; PV (Logan Sitzman, Austin Vieyra, Matthew Hoffman, Kolt McDaniel) 1:35.36; 1,600 relay — Windsor (Wagner, Schmidt, Jordan Allen, Luke Desmond) 3:31.21; Berthoud 3:37.34; LC 3:38.93; 3,200 relay — RC 8:23.31*; Strasburg 8:38.54; Sterling 8:42.88; High jump — Cavey (Bert) 6-01; Parker Gilliland (PV) 5-10.5; Hayden Wolfe (PV) 5-08.5; Pole vault — David Jones (Eaton) 13-01; Hinkle (Yuma) 12-09; Smith (Yuma) 12-03; Long jump — Christian Johnson (Wind) 22-03.50; Stewart (MV) 21-00; Brandon King (Wind) 21-08; Triple jump — Schmidt (Wind) 42-00; King (Wind) 41-11; Ladd (Stras) 40-00.25; Shot put — KellerTwigg (EP) 48-08*; Parker Joens (PV) 47-10; Dixon (MV) 44-00; Discus — Garrett Coalson (Eaton) 139-11; Rojo (Stras) 132-05; Zac Bitton (GW) 128-08.
Team Scores — Eaton 131; Berthoud 106.5; Platte Valley 67; Highland 61; Sterling 57; Windsor 55; Liberty Common 54; Estes Park 29; Yuma 22.5; Strasburg 22; University 20; Brush & Frederick 17; Resurrection Christian 15; Roosevelt 14; Greeley West & Merino & Valley 10; Mountain View & Northridge 6; Pikes Peak Christian 4; Dayspring Christian 3; Heritage Christian & Briggsdale 2.
100-meter dash — Divittorio (Bert) 12.87; Miranda Mathiason (High) 12.99; Howe (LC) 13.19; 200 — Brittany Pierce (Eaton) 26.00; Divittorio (Bert) 26.30; Lind (Bert) 27.10; 400 — Vandemoer (Ster) 59.48; Arnold (Stras) 1:01.14; Emily Naill (Eaton) 1:01.17; 800 — Bianca Granados (Val) 2:27.24; Leonard (Bert) 2:28.41; Lasota (EP) 2:29.97; 1,600 — Emma Willadsen (Eaton) 5:34.12; Tomasula-Martin (EP) 5:35.42; Ally Bronson (Wind) 5:44.60; 3,200 — McKenzie Reiher (Eaton) 12.19.97; Walser (Mer) 12:34.22; Brittni Rivera (GW) 13.20.89; 100 hurdles — Mathiason (High) 14.97*; Janae Schiel (Wind) 16.54; Alyssa Rhoton (Roos) 16.57; 300 hurdles — Ryleigh Haynes (Eaton) 47.12; Mathiason (High) 48.13; Morrison (LC) 48.90; 400 relay — Berthoud 50.89; Eaton 51.65; PV (Taylor Johnson, Allee Beach, Skylar Ritchey, Victoria Zehnder) 51.66; 800 relay — Sterling 1:48.15; Eaton 1:51.38; Frederick 1:52.01; 1,600 relay — LCHS 4:15.98; Windsor (Lauren Boyle, Samantha Polly, Bre Robertson, Britney Robertson) 4:17.69; PV (Ritchey, Ellie Cannon, Emily VandeSteeg, Shea Walters) 4:22.70; 3,200 relay — Eaton 10:12.69; Berthoud 10:40.66; Brush 10:49.85; 800 Sprint Medley — Eaton 1:51.33; Windsor (Britney Robertson, Noelle Geuke, Polly, Karissa Porterfield) 1:52.38; Sterling 1:53.75; High jump — Chavez (Ster) 5-03.50*; McKayla Bauer (UH) 5-03.50; Jamie Clawson (High) 4-10.50; Pole vault — Spitz (Bert) 9-09; Kiera Maldonado (Roos) 9-09; Jazmin Schwark (Eaton) 9-03; Long jump — Jazmin Montes (PV) 16-07; Lind (Bert) 16-04; Rutz (Ster) 16-04; Triple jump — Montes (PV) 35-09.50; Clawson (High) 35-03; Chavez (Ster) 34-10.75; Shot put — Tarynn Sieg (Eaton) 41-02*; Caiden Rexius (Eaton) 34-09.50; Jayla Jarnagin (Eaton) 34-01.50; Discus — Sieg (Eaton) 118-00; Morgan Smith (PV) 118-09; Berg (Bru) 108-08.
Combined scores — Eaton 183.5; Berthoud 175.5; Windsor 164; Platte Valley 108; Sterling 99.5; Liberty Common 84; Highland 68; Strasburg 63.5; Estes Park 58; Yuma 50; Dayspring Christian 43; Resurrection Christian 42; Brush 40.5; Greeley West 35; University 29; Heritage 28; Frederick 27; Merino 22; Mountain View 20; Pikes Peak Christian 19.5; Roosevelt 14; Valley 10; Northridge 9; Briggsdale 6; Pawnee 5.
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The Emergency Medical Services Authority released numbers on some of the possibly weather-related calls they received Tuesday.
Paramedics responded to 24 slips and falls, transporting 19 of those patients to local hospitals. Only one patient was transported in critical condition.
Eighteen motor vehicle crashes resulted in 10 patients transported to area emergency departments, according to EMSA.
One person called 911 suffering cold exposure. That person was not taken to a hospital.
Paramedics advise always carrying a charged cellphone when going outside in case of an emergency.