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Romney criticized for hotel pornography By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jul 5, 5:01 PM ET

BOSTON – Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, who rails against the "cesspool" of pornography, is being criticized by social conservatives who argue that he should have tried to halt hardcore hotel movie offerings during his near-decade on the Marriott board.

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Two anti-pornography crusaders, as well as two conservative activists of the type Romney is courting, say the distribution of such graphic adult movies runs counter to the family image cultivated by Romney, the Marriotts and their shared Mormon faith.
"Marriott is a major pornographer. And even though he may have fought it, everyone on that board is a hypocrite for presenting themselves as family values when their hotels offer 70 different types of hardcore pornography," said Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values, an anti-pornography group based on Ohio.
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a leading conservative group in Washington, said: "They have to assume some responsibility. It’s their hotels, it’s their television sets."

During a recent Associated Press interview, Romney said he did not recall pornography coming up for discussion while he was on the Marriott board from 1992 to 2001. Despite being chairman of the board’s audit committee, he also said he was unaware of how much revenue pornography may have generated for the hotel chain.

Romney said his current concern is not about pornography per se, but children unwittingly stumbling upon it on the Internet or television.

"I am not pursuing an effort to try and stop adults from being able to acquire or see things that I find objectionable; that’s their right. But I do vehemently oppose practices or business procedures that will allow kids to be exposed to obscenity," the former Massachusetts governor said.

Pornography is a lucrative business for various hotel chains. Estimates vary widely, up to $500 million annually industrywide by one opponent, John Harmer, who served as California’s lieutenant governor under Ronald Reagan.

Marriott and other major hoteliers say they offer pay-per-view pornography because their customers demand it and entertainment service contracts require it to underwrite first-run movies and free television.

"It certainly would have been wrong to impose his own personal beliefs if they were contrary to the financial interests of the company," Marriott spokesman Roger Conner said of Romney.

Marriott had a contract with On Command Corp. for its television and movie services during Romney’s board tenure. Conner said the contract was signed in 1991 — the year before Romney joined the board. He served until 2001 and was paid $25,000 annually, plus stock.

When Romney left to take over the 2002 Winter Olympics, a Marriott statement described him as an "active, hands-on director."

Marriott refused to say if its contract with On Command was ever discussed or voted upon by the board, saying the directors’ votes and meeting minutes are proprietary.

Marriott now contracts with LodgeNet Entertainment Corp., which bought On Command last year.

Gary Glenn, president of American Family Association of Michigan, a conservative group, said: "The Marriott Corporation may be tap dancing around this subject, but a candidate for president should not be able to."

Marriott International has more than 500,000 hotel rooms and annual revenues exceeding $10 billion. While the Marriott name is on more than 2,800 buildings, the corporation owns only about a dozen hotels. The rest are owned by franchises, lessening corporate control over their activities.

Romney, 60, has close links to the corporation, which opened its first hotel in 1957. Not only did he serve on its board of directors, but his given first name — "Willard" — is in honor of the hotel chain’s founder, J. Willard Marriott. Marriott and Romney’s father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney, were friends and rose through industry together.

In June 2000, J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr., the son of Marriott’s founder, defended the distribution of pornographic movies, saying they were inseparable from the rest of the chain’s TV offerings.

"The in-room entertainment operators who provide our systems rely upon a certain volume of movie types in order to be economically viable," Bill Marriott wrote to Bill Johnson, executive director of the Michigan-based American Decency Association. "If we were to eliminate the ‘R’ and non-rated offerings, the systems would not be economic."

No all hotel chains have the same policy. Omni Hotels announced in late 1999 it would no longer offer pay-per-view movies in its rooms. Ritz-Carlton, the hotel name synonymous with luxury, also does not offer in-room pornography — even though it is owned by Marriott International.

Daniel Weiss, media analyst for James Dobson’s "Focus on the Family," said this week in a radio broadcast to Focus members: "If (Romney) made money off pornography in the past, is he going to turn a blind eye to it if he’s president? Because as chief executive of the nation, it’s his responsibility to make sure our nation’s obscenity laws are efficiently and vigorously enforced."

Romney linked the prevalence of pornography to the Virginia Tech shooting spree that left 33 dead.

"Pornography and violence poison our music and movies and TV and video games," Romney said May 5 during a commencement address at Regent University, the evangelical Christian school run by Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson.

"The Virginia Tech shooter, like the Columbine shooters before him, had drunk from this cesspool."

Romney likes to get his freak on.

These are the minutes to the first annual DOMMD Board of Directors Meeting held today, July 5, 2010.

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Question 10.

Solve the problem.

There are 8 members on a board of directors. If they must elect a chairperson, a secretary, and a treasurer, how many different slates of candidates are possible?

Question 11.

Waiting Time (minutes) / Number of customers
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0-3 9
4-7 10
8-11 12
12-15 4
16-19 4
20-23 2
24-27 2

If we randomly select one of the times represented in the table, what is the probability that it is at least 12 minutes or between 8 and 15 minutes? Round to 3 places.

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Hugh Orde delivered a public lecture on Monday night (13 Nov) in Queens University entitled ‘policing the past to police the future’. The event was organised by the institute of criminology and criminal justice at the university.

Hugh Orde was joined on the panel by professor Kieran McEvoy (Institute Director) and Judge David Smyth QC (Chair of the Board of Directors), however a few minutes into his speech the Orde was confronted at the front of the lecture theatre by members of Ógra who had managed to smuggle a banner into the hall after being refused entry for protesting outside.

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The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face maintained since 1947 by the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

It is currently set to 7 minutes to midnight. It was last changed (moved forward) in 2002. It has been as close as 2 minutes to midnight (1953, 1961) and as far away as 17 minutes to (1992).

It will be reset again Tuesday. So what time will it be set to?

With Bush in power, I’d say it should always be kept an no less than 2 minutes till doomsday.

The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clockface maintained since 1947 by the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. It uses the analogy of the human race being at a time that is “minutes to midnight” where midnight represents destruction by nuclear war. Since its introduction, the clock has appeared on the cover of each issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The first representation of the clock was produced in 1947, when artist Martyl Langsdorf, the wife of physicist, Alexander Langsdorf, Jr., who worked on the Manhattan Project, was asked by magazine cofounder Hyman Goldsmith to design a cover for the June issue.

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I am doing this project for school. we are supposed to :

As a concerned young citizen you are highly passionate regarding the status quo facing a particular social issue. You feel very strongly that conditions can be improved and have a plan of action to effect positive change. You would like to see these changes effected in a feasible and sustainable way. However, as a minor of limited means, you not influential enough to effect such change in an impactful and sustainable way.You can however enlist the help of private or government organizations to help your cause. You have identified ONE particular organization to help you further your cause. You have to provide them with an Executive Summary for their perusal and consideration. You have also been awarded not more than 5 minutes to address their Board of Directors / Governors (hereafter called “the Board”) to convince them of your cause.

that was out task.
i have decided to help the autistic people.
raising awareness, since the society sort of discriminates against them. its hard for them to find jobs, so i was thinking maybe i could ask for help from an autism society to sponsor me so i can raise awareness on these autistic people and tell the society that they are just as capable and clever.
what do you think i should do?
and if anyone could find me statistics on the percentage of autistic people who are employed/have jobs, i will be eternally grateful. (:

wingman is a bit cruel, but he has a point.

the teacher gave you an assignment based on the premise that you would pick something you are truly passionate about. you clearly are not passionate about it and trying to take the easy way out.

the honest way to do the assignment is to write a paper up explaining how you care about autism but not enough to actually make an effort or put in any sacrifice at all.

We are a very small corporation with only two members, my husband and myself. We are the board of directors, the officers, and the only two employees. Thankfully, our attorney prepared the first year’s minutes, and we thought he was going to keep them up for later years, but just found out that he didn’t. Can you suggest some simple verbage for minutes for such a small corporation? There is nothing to discuss at annual meetings, it’s just business as usual. We’ve been incorporated since 1995, and I have to catch up the minutes. What all should be included in such a report? Thanks for any help you can give me.

The annual shareholders’s meeting must be held first, to elect the directors for that year.

Then hold the annual meeting of the board of directors.

Contact me. I might be able to help.

http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/fairvalue.htm from the accounts and testing those items further to determine that the criteria for sales treatment have been met. %G???%@ Reading other information, such as minutes of meetings of the board of directors or finance, asset/liability, investment, or other committees. .23 One of the characteristics of derivatives is that they may involve only a commitment to perform under a contract and not an initial exchange of tangible consideration. Therefore, auditors designing tests related to the completeness assertion should not focus exclusively on evidence relating to cash receipts and disbursements. When testing for completeness, auditors should consider making inquiries, inspecting agreements, and reading other information, such as minutes of meetings of the board

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Can anyone tell me if I´m making sense?
"In regard to your request of a minute of a board of directors´ meeting containing the authorization for issuing Power of Attorney to Mr. M with powers to sign any documents concerning the acquisition of 49% in W LLC, we inform you that, according to article 17 and 18 of the company´s Articles of Association, such authorization of the board is unnecessary, unless such acquisition should involve amounts over U$ 2,500,000.00."

Yes, it makes sense. My slight changes in CAPS, but your version was clear:

"In regard to your request for the Minutes of a board of directors´ meeting PERTAINing TO the authorization TO issuE (A) Power of Attorney to Mr. M with powers to sign any documents concerning the acquisition of 49% in W LLC, we inform you that, according to ArticleS 17 and 18 of the company´s Articles of Association, such authorization of the board is unnecessary, unless such acquisition should involve amounts over U$ 2,500,000.00."