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Foster Campell
Louisiana Public Service Commissioner
B.E.E.F.
← Bossier Education Excellence Fund grows to $50 Million
Foster Campbell, Edwin Edwards celebrate Bossier education fund
Posted on June 28, 2018 by Ed Walsh
More than 30 years ago, then state-Sen. Foster Campbell lobbied then-Gov. Edwin Edwards for a savings account that would enhance educational programs in Bossier Parish.
Campbell, a former teacher, said he didn't think it made sense that other local governmental entities received some of the tax revenue from Louisiana Downs racetrack but that the school system did not.
"(Edwards) got to thinking about it, and you know, he's quick witted," recalled Campbell, now a Louisiana public service commissioner. "There was an ad at the time that Wendy's had — 'Where's the beef?' So Edwin Edwards said, 'Let's call it BEEF.'"
The Bossier Educational Excellence Fund (BEEF) was created in 1985. On Tuesday, Campbell, Edwards and area leaders celebrated BEEF as it marked a notable milestone.
"What started as $500,000 in tax revenue from Louisiana Downs has grown with the addition of casino revenues into a $50 million investment in the youth of Bossier Parish," Campbell said.
When the fund was created, it was stipulated that interest from the fund could only be spent in classrooms — not for athletics, salaries or constructing buildings.
"They've bought over 1,500 computers, smart boards, they've had music labs, communication labs," Campbell said. "That's what I envisioned."
Nichole Bourgeois, assistant superintendent of curriculum and academic affairs, said money from BEEF has been used to improve literacy, enhance the school system's technology footprint in the district and fund many different programs.
One such program is a response-to-intervention program that BEEF has helped fund, she said.
"That's been a big effort of the district to address the all-important question, 'what do you do for students who don't learn the material?'" she said. "You have to intervene in a very specific way."
At the reception Tuesday, former Gov. Edwards said he had no idea when BEEF was founded that he would be in north Louisiana all these years later celebrating such a milestone.
"As a politician most of my adult life, I always felt that government should serve people," Edwards said. "Taking care of the healthcare and education of children was a top priority for me all my life."
In 1985, Campbell's initiative faced some opposition. Looking back over the past three decades, Campbell, who served as state senator until 2002, said he often feared that BEEF would be "carved up and spent."
"There were times I had to fight to prevent raids on the fund to balance the state budget," he said. "Instead, school board members and superintendents through the years have helped me to protect BEEF and ensure that interest earnings only are spent, and only in the classroom."
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Risk taking – Cartel fines on Nu-farm, and Hoggard
The Commerce Commission has rightly trumpeted the success of its case against a timber treatment cartel with a total of $7.5m in fines and cost orders. Nufarm was one of the guilty, though it eventually cooperated. Nufarm executives were fined personally.
Nufarm is one of NZ's major success stories. Kerry Hoggard should get much of the credit. He took it from being a small NZ fertiliser company to an Australian listed company that attracted a $3bn Chinese takeover late last year. By that time NZ sales were 3% of its total.
Yet Mr Hoggard lost his NZ reputation 8 years ago, for insider trading in the shares of Fletcher Challenge, which he chaired. The Commerce Commission success shows that around that time some Nufarm executives were also busy colluding to break the Commerce Act.
A cop friend is not surprised. "People at the top set the tone. Don't believe in 'out of character'. If we could arrest for bad company we wouldn't need much more".
When it became clear there had been insider trading, but Fletcher Challenge was not going to do more than sack Mr Hoggard, we (Catharine (my wife) and Roger Kerr (as Fletcher Challenge shareholders) with me running the case) sued him. The eventual settlement endowed the Business Integrity Trust.
I'll never forget the sadness at the settlement negotiations, where a talented man was shamed, though I was not sure whether it was shame for the conduct, or shame for being caught.
I've tried to understand why a man with his wealth and reputation would do what he did for $57k profit.
It seemed that he regarded insider trading law as just another area for calculated risk. He was right that obeying the law has been made optional. But if he still drew lines between those he broke and those he did not, he drew them in the wrong place.
Over my time as a lawyer I've seen that amorality mushroom, matched only by the un-ending boom in jobs for compliance officers. The algal bloom of regulation means that being consistently law-abiding is no longer an option, but choosing which rules not to break is a vital judgement. I felt sorry for minister David Parker a couple of years ago. The company law rules he broke (the opinion which "cleared" him was rubbish) are broken by most companies.
Breaking some laws will break you, whereas breaking others carries no moral obloquoy. For example drunken driving is now widely accepted to be bad. But speeding (in good conditions) or failing to wear your seat belt are seen as misdemeanours, not evils.
The first category should leave you ashamed. For the second you need only accept the penalty with a good grace.
Not long ago a decent person would have had a reasonable chance of living up to a vow to be law-abiding. That is now fanciful. So people evolve their own morality, deciding what laws they'll respect when the police aren't watching.
There are now hundreds of thousands of pages of law that people need feel no shame about breaking. Some of it is just political deception, deliberately written not to be enforceable (like the Victims Rights Act), or with the hope that it will not be enforced much (the anti-smacking law). Much more is written in vague aspirational terms with no clear boundaries. There is so much, or it is so complex only a lawyer could know it, and you can't afford the lawyers. Or it conflicts – like where directors are liable to creditors and shareholders if they leave in charge a dud manager they don't trust, but employment law says you can't sack until you've warned and counselled and offered retraining etc. Even a stand-down is constructive dismissal.
A flood of new law with no real connection to morality is breeding thousands of young Hoggards.
Mr Hoggard spent a lifetime taking calculated risks. More paid off than not. Fortunately most of his were about products and marketing and financing. We need thousands more with his willingness and cool judgment. But sadly, more and more of those risk decisions must be about the law, instead of about competitors and products and projects.
When sensible honest people have to accept they'll break the law or go broke on compliance expense, they have to punt on not being caught. Just as with fishing though, enough are caught to make lawyers indispensable for any who can afford them, who've got too much to lose if they're caught. That makes lawyers rich. And so they breed.
Our future would be much brighter if we were valuing and breeding salespeople, engineers, scientists, and risk-welcoming investors and entrepreneurs.
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Messrs Fay and Richwrong, from NZ business asocaites and co tactics changed this country forever Stephen.
That is why Auckland Airport will become NZ citzens Airport.
Then the Raiul road,
I'm interested that you say you don't understand why Kerry Hoggard would do something for a $57k profit…… the answer I believe is simple, he didn't. His motivation wasn't profit, but simply to show support for the company by buying shares at a time when there was uncertainty due to the change in direction. It wasn't for him about any personal profit.
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Q: DroidGap: TIMEOUT ERROR! - calling webViewClient in android phonegap I am developing a android mobile application using PhoneGap.When I am trying to invoke a webservice from the javascript,I am getting DroidGap: TIMEOUT ERROR! - calling webViewClient in android phonegap

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super.setIntegerProperty("loadUrlTimeoutValue", 60000);

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require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'mongo'
require 'time'
require './libgetdata.rb'
#path of csv
csvpath = './data/csv/'

db = Mongo::Connection.from_uri('mongodb://localhost:27017/ratedb').db('ratedb')
c_taskqueue	= db.collection('c_taskqueue')
c_reportlist= db.collection('c_reportlst')
sets = c_taskqueue.find('status'=>0).sort([:registryTime,:asc])

sets.each do |queue|
		c_taskqueue.update({'_id'=>queue['_id']},{'$set' => {'status' => -1}})
end

sets = c_taskqueue.find('status'=>-1).sort([:registryTime,:asc])
sets.each do |queue|
	meigara		= queue["meigara"]
	starttime = queue["startTime"].localtime
	endtime		= queue["endTime"].localtime
	date			= Time.local(starttime.year,starttime.month,starttime.day,0,0,0)

	data="time,meigara,bid,offer,company\n"

	obj=DataGet.new
	result=obj.dataGet(starttime,endtime,meigara)
	data<<result

	if result ==""
		c_taskqueue.update({'_id'=>queue['_id']},{'$set' => {'status' => 1}})
		exit
	end
	csvfile = starttime.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M")+meigara+".csv"
	File.open(csvpath+csvfile,"w").write(data)
	`R --vanilla --slave --args  #{csvfile.sub(".csv","").sub("#{meigara}","")} #{meigara}  < makeplot.r `

	eachimgfile	= csvfile.sub(".csv","_each.png")
	fullimgfile	= csvfile.sub(".csv","_full.png")
	meanimgfile	= csvfile.sub(".csv","_mean.png")

	c_reportlist.insert(:date=>date,
											:meigara=>meigara,
											:starttime=>starttime,
											:endtime=>endtime,
											:csvfile=>csvfile,
											:eachimgfile=>eachimgfile,
											:fullimgfile=>fullimgfile,
											:meanimgfile=>meanimgfile
										 )

	c_taskqueue.update({'_id'=>queue['_id']},{'$set' => {'status' => 1}})
end
exit

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date: 2015-06-17 09:35:48
layout: work
slug: hyperlocal-chat
title: Trinity Mirror Regionals
categories:
- Work
tags:
- UX
- Web development
services:
- Concept and strategy
- Experience design
- Digital development
- Writing and editing
excerpt: Exploring conversational UIs for news and information
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For the Manchester Evening News, I developed a project to explore how the city's inanimate infrastructure could become the conduit to layers of information, stories and other people without those objects actually being connected to the network.

The exploration looked at how this idea could be used to help a news organisation to become part of the fabric of the city.

By the end of the project we had created social objects from a neighbourhood's existing infrastructure which citizens can converse via SMS and Twitter to "get in the know" about a specific place.

Our approach went beyond conventional approaches to open data such as data visualisation, maps, etc and towards humanised suggestions that prompt and guide individual action. The social object speaks in the first person, answering questions as part of a dialogue in a different context for journalism, ie next to friends and other services in SMS and chat apps.

[Find out more about the project](http://wearethoughtfox.com/blog/update-hyperlocal-chat-project/)

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A central aim of online abuse is to silence victims. That effort is as regrettable as it is successful. In the face of cyber harassment and sexual privacy invasions, women and marginalized groups retreat from online engagement. These documented chilling effects, however, are not inevitable. Beyond its deterrent function, law has an equally important expressive role. In this article, we highlight law's capacity to shape social norms and behavior through education. We focus on a neglected dimension of law's expressive role—its capacity to empower victims to express their truths and engage with others. Our argument is theoretical and empirical. We present new empirical research showing cyber harassment law's salutary effects on women's online expression. We consider the implication of those findings for victims of sexual privacy invasions.


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As a Human Behavioural Specialist, I thrive on Innovating & Creating programs that will expand thinking, develop skills & create results that are beyond the expectations of what was even first thought possible. It gives me great pleasure to delight & surprise my clients with the Rapid Transformation that is achieved through tapping into the resources that are already within them together with implementing strategies of personal excellence.
Janelle has worked with clients such as Mars, Wrigley, Melbourne Airport, Freedom Furniture, Territory Discoveries Travel, Australia Post, The Good Guys, McDonalds, just to name a few and coaches individual clients & facilitates training programs all around the world.
"Before doing the speaker course with Janelle I was nervous and afraid of not only public speaking, but approaching people at networking events. Since finishing the course, I have been attending networking events which resulted in 3 guest speaking invites. One of those was a gala event with 200 people. It has completely transformed my business."


"Being part of the open source ecosystem is of great value for me"
After Pedro Alves we have another speaker confirmed for Pentaho Community Meeting: Francesco Corti is from Italy and will present the new edition of the famous Pentaho Reporting book.
My name is Francesco Corti and I'm an enthusiast consultant in software and solutions. I love working in a team with developers, sales and customers.
Proud of the role as software engineer, I've been often involved in presale presentations, public speaking and IT courses. Developing software, designing architectures and definition of solutions in ECM/BPM and BI are my favourites areas of interest. Dozens of projects done, from the very small ones to the more complexes, in almost 20 years of experience.
Product evangelist at Alfresco since October 2016, I'm the public figure representing the open source ECM/BPM solutions into the developer community. In addition to helping developers to adopt Alfresco technologies, I usually help Alfresco to improve the developer experience through talks, articles, blogging, user demonstrations, recorded demonstrations, or the creation of sample projects.
What is your connection to Pentaho?
My connection to the Pentaho ecosystem is mainly based on a project started in 2012, named Alflytics (previously called Alfresco Audit Analysis and Reporting, A.A.A.R.). Today it is still a widely used BI solution on top of the Alfresco platform. I'm very proud of this project for several reasons: it's truly open source and it is a community-driven project (both the communities of Alfresco called Order Of The Bee and Pentaho).
Another connection with Pentaho are my experiences with my previous employers. During my different roles I had the chance to develop, design or maintain several BI projects developed with it.
Since February 2017 I'm working with Packt Publishing on the second edition of the well-known book "Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers" by Will Gorman. This second edition has been completely (re)written by me, with an extended and updated content and dozens of working examples available in a public GitHub repository.
In this talk I would like to introduce the updated way of creating reports using Pentaho Reporting. I´m planning to present some working examples with the goal to show how Pentaho Reporting changed since 2009 and how today you can develop using Maven, Java and Report Designer.
Why was it necessary to update the book?
The first edition of the book dates from 2009. Since then, Will Gorman left Pentaho, Pentaho released five new major versions of its reporting solution and best practices for developing changed. Just to quote some of them: the first edition of the book used the Swing GUI widget toolkit and Apache Ant to explain the various examples (the source code was all written in the book).
In the new edition, all the dozens of examples are available in a public GitHub repository, all the examples are PRPT files or complete web applications and the web applications use Apache Maven as software project management and comprehension tool.
Concerning the content, the number of enhancements included in the five major releases is not impressive but relevant. The book includes them all with a detailed description and a "learning by example" approach I always prefer.
What do you expect from PCM?
The past Pentaho Community Meetings I attended have always been a nice place to feel good vibrations. I learnt a lot from the other developers and saw the latest enhancements of the platform. This time I can give back something to the others talking about my latest studies on Pentaho Reporting.
Being part of a Community means to take and to give. I took a lot from the Pentaho Community in the past and I hope I gave (and will give) something back. This my goal for this time at the PCM17.
Ah…I was forgetting: I will attend Pentaho Community Meeting as a member of the Pentaho community and not as product evangelist of my current employer. Being part of the open source ecosystem is a value for me and I would love to continue to do this in all the communities I will have the opportunity to work with in my future life as software engineer.
Pentaho Community Meeting 2017 takes place from November 10-12 in Mainz.


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You are here:Home > Vocalists > Mezzo Soprano > Agnieszka Rehlis > CV
Regarded as one of the most prominent mezzo-sopranos of her generation.
She graduated from the Music Academy in Wroclaw, Poland, at Barbara Ewa Werner's class.
In 1996-2007 period she was a soloist with the Wrocław Opera, where she performed many significant roles on opera stage.
She, inter alia, took part in the premiere of "Gioconda" by A. Ponchielli, staged on the river Odra in Wroclaw, and recorded by Polish Television in 2003, performing a part of Laura. She also participated in the recording made for DUX recording company, where she sang the part of Aza in opera "Manru" by I. J. Paderewski. This recording received an award from Polish Phonographic Academy: FRYDERYK 2004 in category: "The most outstanding recording of Polish music".
Since 2007 until now she has been solely a free-lance artist. For many years she specialised in performing activities (oratorio and cantata works). Her repertoire includes over 80 works of this genre, ranging from works by J.S. Bach to compositions by K. Penderecki.
She gave concerts in philharmonic halls in Poland and all over Europe (Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Ukraine, Lithuania, Austria, Latvia, Russia, Slovenia, Spain)). She took part in international music festivals, such as: Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival; "Wratislavia Cantans"; Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdroj, Poland; International Encounters East – West in Zielona Góra, Poland; Baltic Countries Festival in Toruń, Poland; Usedomer Music Festival in Peenemunde, Germany; Festival Pablo Casals in Prades; Festival Casals de Puerto Rico; sacred music festivals in Marseille and Nuremberg; George Enescu International Festival;Rheingau Music Festival; Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival; International Music Festival "Contrasts" in Lvov, Ukraine; Prazske Jaro; Bregenz Festival; Beijing Music Festival; Cafe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival.
She gave concerts with following conductors: Jiří Bělohlávek, Gabriel Chmura, Lawrence Foster, Gustavo Dudamel, Leopold Hager, Patrick Summers, Sir Andrew Davis, Jacek Kaspszyk, Kazimierz Kord, Bramwell Tovey, Antoni Wit, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Long Yu, Andriy Yurkevych, Gaetano d'Espinosa, Gianandrea Noseda, Valery Gergiev, Noam Sheriff, Vladimir Jurowski; accompanied by, in. al., Polish National Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, , NDR Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolivar, Luxemburg Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Lezion, London Symphony Orchestra.
In the years 1999 – 2017 she co-operated with Maestro Krzysztof Penderecki, participating in numerous concerts conducted by Maestro and by other conductors, performing such works as: "Polish Requiem", "Te Deum", "Credo", "Seven Gates of Jerusalem", "Utrenja". She took part in a world premiere of Maestro Penderecki's 8th Symphony "Lieder der Vergänglichkeit" ("Songs of Evanescence"). In September, 2005, she also recorded "Te Deum", "Lieder der Vergänglichkeit" in 2006, and in 2008: "Utrenja".
Recordings, in which she participated, received awards: from Academie du Disque Lyrique "Golden Orpheus Arturo Toscanini " and from Polish Phonographic Academy "Fryderyk". In 2014 she participated in a world premiere of "Dies Illa" by K.Penderecki, a work being a part of a project named "Thousand voices for peace". She recorded that work in the following year for an album "Penderecki conducts Penderecki", which was awarded GRAMMY Award 2017 in the category of choir music.
Recent years, beside important interpretations of oratorio music, were also very successful for her in opera. She took part in the first ever stage production of opera "Passenger" by M. Weinberg in Bregenz, under direction of David Poutney. She also sang in Mariyskiy Theatre in Sankt Petersburg, Russia, in a guest ballet spectacle "Chopin", performed by Great Theatre - National Opera in Warsaw.
Her outstanding roles in premiere shows in Great Theatre - National Opera (TWON), such as: Mafio Orsini in "Lucrezia Borgia" by G. Donizetti, Lisa in "Passenger" by M. Weinberg; "Wesendonck Lieder" by R. Wagner, with lyrics by Mathilde Wesendonck, during premiere of a ballet show Tristan"; roles of Hagar in "Moby Dick" by E. Knapik, Marta in "Iolanta" by P. Tschaikovsky and Fenena in "Nabucco" by G. Verdi, were highly appreciated by the audience and the critics.
In 2012 she made her debut In Cracow Opera in a part of Composer in "Ariadne auf Naxos" by R. Strauss and in 2013 in two roles: as Orpheus in "Orpheus and Eurydice" by Ch. W. Gluck and as Azucena in "The Troubadour" by G. Verdi. In 2014 she made her debut in Houston Grand Opera and in New York, during Lincoln Center Festival in opera "Passenger" by M. Weinberg. Year 2015 brought her debut in Lyric Opera of Chicago and a recital in Teatro Municipal de Las Condes in Santiago de Chile. In 2015 she also made her debut in part of Carmen in "Carmen" by G. Bizet in OIFP (Opera and Philharmonics of Podlasie in Bialystok, Poland), where she successfully sang in numerous shows. In January, 2016 she made a new stage debut as Amneris in "Aida" by G. Verdi in Estonian National Opera in Tallin, receiving very good reviews in the "Opernwelt" magazine.
In current year of 2017, she made another debut with Maestra Edita Gruberova in opera "Norma" by V. Bellini, staged in TWON in Warsaw , singing the part of Adalgisa. This year she also made her stage debut in Zurich Opera House in opera "The Fiery Angel" by S. Prokofiev and she took part in Festspiele 2017 in Erfurt as Azucena in "Troubadour" by G. Verdi, receiving outstanding reviews. Also in 2017 she made her debut in the role of Anna in "Les Troyens" by H. Berlioz, in Semperoper in Dresden and with the Stuttgart Philharmonic under the baton of Noam Zur.
Since 2003 Ms. Rehlis has been under constant vocal coaching by Maestro Dariusz Grabowski.


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Rally for pride
June 26th 2021, 3pm
We the Sunshine Coast Pride Dance Committee are deeply saddened and horrified by the June 24 announcement of preliminary findings of more than 750 unmarked graves near a former residential school at Cowessess First Nation Saskatchewan, on top of the 215 unmarked graves discovered near a former residential school at Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in B.C.
We stand in solidarity with our Indigenous friends, neighbours, family and home communities who are grappling with these crushing discoveries, even as we acknowledge these truths have always already been known and voiced by elders and others.
June is both National Indigenous History Month and Pride Month. In the words of Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet Audre Lorde, "There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."
In the spirit of solidarity, the Pride Dance Committee will be using the June 26 Pride Rally to show our support for the broader Indigenous community and those in the LGBTQ2S+ community who identify as Indigenous, and to stand in struggle and defiance against the deep-seated colonial attitudes and institutions that continue wreaking havoc on Indigenous lives.
We encourage all those participating in the rally and spectators to wear orange in solidarity with shíshálh, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Tla'amin Nations, and all Inuit, Métis and First Nations impacted by the residential 'school' system.
We will continue to seek ways of pushing back against these colonial powers in our daily lives and to stand proudly for inclusion, acceptance and love. We will gather and hold strength for those most in need.
Residential School Survivors and their families can seek emotional and cultural support by calling the 24-hour National Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419.
Launching from Halfmoon Bay Elementary School Parking Lot
Decorate your car and yourself and join us for a car rally from Halfmoon Bay to Gibsons in celebration of queer visibility. We hope to see your support cheering safely from the sides of the route. Dress Up! Cheer! Wave your flags!
EVENT TO FOLLOW PUBLIC HEALTH ORDERS AND GUIDELINES AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
The Sunshine Coast Pride Dance Committee is grateful to organize and celebrate on the unceded, ancestral and traditional lands of shíshálh, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Tla'amin Nations.
We acknowledge we have to work together to heal.
Be Safe & Follow the Rules of the Road!
A special Thanks to Mariann at the London Drugs PhotoLab in Gibsons for all her efforts working with the Sunshine Coast Pride Dance Committee to make decorative magnets to be used on our vehicles during the Rally
© Sunshine Coast Pride Dance Committee 2022


Summary: The downwiders oral history project is an ongoing oral history project designed to document the voices of Utah's downwinder population.
Summary: This collection consists of the writings and research of Joseph L. Lyon, an epidemiologist at the University of Utah. His primary area of research was the development of cancer in populations affected by nuclear weapon fallout in areas surrounding the Nevada Test Site.


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package org.netroc.luabindj;

import java.lang.reflect.Array;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

import org.luaj.vm2.Globals;
import org.luaj.vm2.LoadState;
import org.luaj.vm2.LuaError;
import org.luaj.vm2.LuaInteger;
import org.luaj.vm2.LuaTable;
import org.luaj.vm2.LuaUserdata;
import org.luaj.vm2.LuaValue;
import org.luaj.vm2.Varargs;
import org.luaj.vm2.compiler.LuaC;
import org.luaj.vm2.lib.Bit32Lib;
import org.luaj.vm2.lib.CoroutineLib;
import org.luaj.vm2.lib.DebugLib;
import org.luaj.vm2.lib.OneArgFunction;
import org.luaj.vm2.lib.PackageLib;
import org.luaj.vm2.lib.StringLib;
import org.luaj.vm2.lib.TableLib;
import org.luaj.vm2.lib.jse.JseBaseLib;
import org.luaj.vm2.lib.jse.JseMathLib;

public class LuaBindJ {

	/**
	 * 保存已注册的类
	 */
	private static Map<String, BindClassConfig> S_CLASS_REG = new HashMap<String, BindClassConfig>();

	/**
	 * lua的state
	 */
	private Globals mLuaState;

	public LuaBindJ() {
	}

	/**
	 * 注册一个导出到lua的类
	 * @param cls
	 */
	public static void registerClass(Class<?> cls, String strLibName) {
		registerClass( cls, strLibName, false);
	}

	/**
	 * 注册一个导出到lua的类,如果blExportAll为true,则不管标注,导出所有的字段和方法
	 * @param cls
	 * @param strLibName
	 * @param blExportAll
	 */
	public static void registerClass(Class<?> cls, String strLibName, boolean blExportAll) {
		synchronized (S_CLASS_REG) {
			if( S_CLASS_REG.containsKey(cls.getName())) {
				return;
			} else {
				BindClassConfig cfg = new BindClassConfig(strLibName, cls, blExportAll);
				S_CLASS_REG.put(cls.getName(), cfg);
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 取消一个导出类的注册
	 * @param cls
	 */
	public static void unregisterClass(Class<?> cls) {
		synchronized (S_CLASS_REG) {
			S_CLASS_REG.remove(cls.getName());
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 获得类的绑定配置
	 * @param cls
	 * @return
	 */
	public static BindClassConfig getBindClass(Class<?> cls) {
		synchronized (S_CLASS_REG) {
			return S_CLASS_REG.get(cls.getName());
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 关闭LuaState
	 */
	public void close() {
		mLuaState = null;
	}

	/**
	 * 初始化Lua state
	 */
	public void open() {
		close();
		mLuaState = new Globals();
		LoadState.install(mLuaState);
		LuaC.install(mLuaState);

		initStaticMethods();

		//补一下_G.loadstring
		mLuaState.set("loadstring", new OneArgFunction() {

			@Override
			public LuaValue call(LuaValue arg0) {
				return LuaBindJ.this.mLuaState.load(arg0.toString());
			}
		});
	}

	/**
	 * 将已注册的class中的静态方法注册到luaState中
	 */
	private void initStaticMethods() {
		for( Entry<String, BindClassConfig> ent : S_CLASS_REG.entrySet()) {
			LuaValue lib = LuaValue.tableOf();
			for( Entry<String, Method> entM : ent.getValue().getMethodMap().entrySet()) {
				if( Modifier.isStatic(entM.getValue().getModifiers())) {
					//静态方法,注册掉
					lib.set(entM.getValue().getName(), ent.getValue().getFunctonBridge(entM.getValue().getName()));
				}
			}
			mLuaState.set(ent.getValue().getLibName(), lib);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * 获得lua state
	 * @return
	 */
	public Globals getLuaState() {
		return mLuaState;
	}

	/**
	 * 打开Luanda标准库.包含:
	 * basic
	 * coroutine
	 * package
	 * string
	 * table
	 * math
	 *
	 */
	public void openLibs() {
		mLuaState.load(new JseBaseLib());
		mLuaState.load(new PackageLib());
		mLuaState.load(new Bit32Lib());
		mLuaState.load(new TableLib());
		mLuaState.load(new StringLib());
		mLuaState.load(new JseMathLib());
		mLuaState.load(new CoroutineLib());
		mLuaState.load(new MyOsLib());
		mLuaState.load(new DebugLib());

		//补一下table.getn
		LuaValue val = mLuaState.get("table");
		val.set("getn", new OneArgFunction() {

			@Override
			public LuaValue call(LuaValue arg0) {
				if ( !(arg0 instanceof LuaTable)) {
					throw new LuaError("table expected for table.getn");
				}
				LuaTable table = (LuaTable)arg0;
				return table.len();
			}
		});
	}

	/**
	 * 执行一段脚本
	 * @param strScript
	 * @return
	 */
	public LuaValue runScript( String strScript) {
		LuaValue val = mLuaState.load(strScript);
		return val.call();
	}

	/**
	 * 执行一个脚本文件
	 * @param strPath
	 * @return
	 */
	public LuaValue runFile( String strPath) {
		LuaValue val = mLuaState.loadfile(strPath);
		return val.call();
	}

	/**
	 * 将一个对象转换为LuaValue
	 * @param obj
	 * @return
	 */
	public static LuaValue toLuaValue(Object obj) {
		if( obj == null) {
			return LuaValue.NIL;
		}

		if( obj instanceof LuaValue) {
			return (LuaValue)obj;
		}

		//如果是数组
		if( obj.getClass().isArray()) {
			int nCount = Array.getLength(obj);
			LuaTable valArray = LuaValue.tableOf();
			for( int i = 0; i < nCount; i++) {
				Object objData = Array.get(obj, i);
				valArray.set(i+1, toLuaValue(objData));
			}
			return valArray;
		}

		BindClassConfig cfg = LuaBindJ.getBindClass(obj.getClass());
		if( cfg == null) {
			//非注册类,直接转换成userdata
			LuaValue val = LuaValue.userdataOf(obj);
			return val;
		}

		//注册类,通过bridge转换
		MetaIndexBridge index = cfg.getMetaIndexBridge();
		MetaNewIndexBridge newIndex = cfg.getMetaNewIndexBridge();

		//设置元表
		LuaUserdata val = LuaValue.userdataOf(obj);
		LuaTable meta = LuaTable.tableOf();
		meta.set("__index", index);
		meta.set("__newindex", newIndex);
		val.setmetatable(meta);

		return val;
	}

	public static LuaValue toLuaValue( int n) {
		return LuaValue.valueOf(n);
	}

	public static LuaValue toLuaValue( long l) {
		return LuaInteger.valueOf(l);
	}

	public static LuaValue toLuaValue(String s) {
		return LuaValue.valueOf(s);
	}

	public static LuaValue toLuaValue( double d) {
		return LuaValue.valueOf(d);
	}

	public static LuaValue toLuaValue(short s) {
		return LuaValue.valueOf(s);
	}

	public static LuaValue toLuaValue(byte by) {
		return LuaValue.valueOf(by);
	}

	/**
	 * 增加一个Lua全局变量
	 * @param strName
	 * @param obj
	 */
	public void addGlobal( String strName, Object obj) {
		mLuaState.set(strName, LuaValueHelper.toLuaObj(obj));
	}

	/**
	 * 增加一个全局变量
	 * @param strName
	 * @param val
	 */
	public void addGlobal( String strName, LuaValue val) {
		mLuaState.set(strName, val);
	}

	/**
	 * 调用lua方法
	 * @param strName
	 * @param args
	 * @return
	 */
	public Object call(String strName, Object ...args) {
		try {
			if( args == null || args.length == 0) {
				LuaValue pfn = mLuaState.get(strName);
				return LuaValueHelper.toObject(pfn.call());
			} else {
				LuaValue arrArgs[] = new LuaValue[args.length];
				for( int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
					LuaValue val = LuaValueHelper.toLuaObj(args[i]);
					arrArgs[i] = val;
				}
				LuaValue pfn = mLuaState.get(strName);
				Varargs rtn = pfn.invoke(arrArgs);
				return LuaValueHelper.toObject(rtn.arg1());
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			return null;
		}
	}
}


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Dunleavy replaces resigning state human rights commission members
JUNEAU — Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants to immediately replace two members of the state human rights commission who announced plans to resign.
Alaska Human Rights Commission members Marcus Sanders, left, David Barton, middle, and chairman Brandon Nakasato are shown at the conclusion of a commission meeting Monday, April 1, 2019, in Anchorage, Alaska. The commission went into executive session for nearly three hours but recessed when it could not come to a conclusion on the fate of Marti Buscaglia, its executive director after Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy requested an investigation following her social media complaint about a pickup parked in the commission's lot that had a 'Black Rifles Matter ' sticker. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
Commission chairman Brandon Nakasato and vice-chair Freddie Olin IV announced plans to resign May 1.
Nakasato said his decision was related to the uproar involving the commission's executive director, Marti Buscaglia, who last month complained on social media about a "Black Rifles Matter" sticker she saw on a truck in the building's parking lot and believed to be racist. Buscaglia was suspended for 15 days, starting Monday, and said she'd resign when the suspension is over.
Olin said he was resigning for unrelated personal reasons.
Dunleavy appointed Cynthia Erickson and A. Debbie Fullenwider to the seats. His office said the appointments were effective Wednesday. Both are subject to legislative approval.


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Perrigo Reports Record Sales, Earnings and Cash Flow From Operations for Fiscal 2009
- Full-year revenue from continuing operations increased $277 million, or 16 percent, to a record $2 billion - Adjusted income from continuing operations for the full year increased 13 percent to $175 million, or $1.87 per share - GAAP income from continu
Perrigo Company (NASDAQ: PRGO)(TASE: PRGO) today announced results for its fourth quarter and full year ended June 27, 2009.
Perrigo's Chairman and CEO Joseph C. Papa commented, "Our sales topped $2 billion for the first time in our history. For the third straight year, we delivered year-over-year record sales and for the second straight year, we translated our top line growth to record earnings and cash flow from operations. In the fourth quarter alone we generated $157 million in operating cash flow. Our team is executing well -- growing market share, managing our supply chain, improving customer service levels, investing in quality and delivering strong returns. By bringing innovative new products to market today and continuing to invest in research and development for future launches, we continue to make quality healthcare more affordable at a time when consumers need to save money more than ever."
Papa continued, "We are also very pleased to announce the next phase in the evolution of our API business. In an effort to strengthen our position in an important and strategic segment of our business, on August 6, 2009, we acquired an 85% stake in a state-of-the-art API manufacturing facility outside of Mumbai, India for $12 million. By the middle of fiscal 2011, we expect this new facility to be on-line and to begin production of certain API products manufactured today in Germany and Israel. We also expect this facility to manufacture certain specialty APIs, as well as allow for the vertical integration of Rx and future candidate Rx-to-OTC switch products. This transition to India will enable us to leverage the capacity created in Israel for other specialty API products. We are also exiting our German manufacturing facility by the first quarter of 2011. This transformation will position Perrigo to be more competitive in the medium and long-term and allow for further growth opportunities."
In connection with the closure of the German facility (which was part of the 2005 Agis acquisition), the Company incurred restructuring charges of approximately $15 million. Refer to Table II at the end of this press release for adjustments in the current year and prior year periods and additional non-GAAP disclosure information.
The Company's reported results are summarized in the attached Consolidated Statements of Income, Balance Sheets and Statements of Cash Flows. As part of management's strategic review of its portfolio of businesses, in March 2009, the Company committed to a plan to sell its Israel Consumer Products business. The results of this business are reflected in the consolidated financial statements as discontinued operations for all periods presented.
Perrigo Company
(from continuing operations, in thousands, except per share amounts)
(see the attached table II for reconciliation to GAAP numbers)
Fourth Quarter             Fiscal Year
--------------             -----------
2009        2008        2009         2008
Net Sales                $508,209    $474,282  $2,006,862   $1,729,921
Reported Income           $32,280     $32,160    $141,098     $140,197
Adjusted Income           $46,927     $42,151    $174,637     $154,485
Reported Diluted EPS        $0.35       $0.34       $1.51        $1.47
Adjusted Diluted EPS        $0.50       $0.44       $1.87        $1.62
Diluted Shares             93,290      95,076      93,629       95,210
Fourth Quarter Results
Net sales from continuing operations for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 were $508 million, an increase of 7%. Reported income from continuing operations was $32 million, or $0.35 per share, relatively flat compared with $32 million, or $0.34 per share, a year ago. Excluding charges as outlined in Table II at the end of this release, fourth quarter fiscal 2009 adjusted income from continuing operations was $47 million, or $0.50 per share.
Fiscal Year Results
Net sales from continuing operations for fiscal 2009 were $2,007 million, an increase of 16% over fiscal 2008. The year-over-year increase was driven by $214 million of incremental consolidated new product sales. Adjusted operating income of $267 million was an increase of 24% over fiscal 2008, and adjusted consolidated operating margin improved 80 basis points to 13.3%. Reported income from continuing operations was $141 million, relatively unchanged from fiscal 2008, while adjusted income from continuing operations of $175 million was a 13% increase from fiscal 2008.
Consumer Healthcare
Consumer Healthcare segment net sales in the fourth quarter were $407 million compared with $375 million in the fourth quarter last year, an increase of $32 million or 9%. The increase resulted from approximately $33 million of sales from the acquisitions of JB Labs, Unico, Diba and Brunel, and $28 million from incremental sales of new and existing products. These increases were partially offset by the impact of unfavorable changes in foreign currency exchange rates of $15 million and $14 million from divestitures and discontinued products, respectively. Reported operating income was $56 million, compared with $52 million a year ago, largely driven by increased sales and the absence of a $3 million charge to cost of sales related to the step-up in value of inventory acquired in the Galpharm acquisition and $2 million related to restructuring in the U.K. On an adjusted basis, operating income was relatively consistent with last year at $56 million compared to $57 million in fiscal 2008. Adjusted operating margin decreased 140 basis points year-over-year for the quarter due to lower gross margins and increased R&D spending.
For the full year of fiscal 2009, Consumer Healthcare net sales increased 23% or $303 million compared to fiscal 2008. The increase resulted from a combination of sales of new and existing products of approximately $233 million. The increase was also driven by $140 million of sales from the acquisitions of JB Labs, Unico, Galpharm, Brunel and Diba. These combined increases were partially offset by the impact of unfavorable changes in foreign currency exchange rates of $37 million and the absence of the U.K.'s vitamins, minerals and supplements business's sales of $35 million. Reported operating income was $234 million, compared with $173 million a year ago, largely driven by increased sales. On an adjusted basis, operating income was $239 million compared to $181 million in fiscal 2008. Adjusted operating margin increased 110 basis points year-over-year due to improved product mix and cost management.
On July 13, 2009, the Company announced that it had received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market over-the-counter (OTC) coated nicotine polacrilex lozenge USP, 2 mg and 4 mg in cherry and cinnamon flavors.
Rx Pharmaceuticals
The Rx Pharmaceutical segment fourth quarter net sales were $49 million compared with $38 million a year ago, an increase of 27%. The increase in sales was driven by increased volume on existing products, strong base business performance and strategic pricing initiatives. Adjusted operating income was $12 million an increase of $8 million from last year due to strong gross margins and strong cost management.
For the full year of fiscal 2009, net sales for the Rx Pharmaceutical segment increased 2% from fiscal 2008 to $164 million. The increase was due primarily to new product sales of approximately $17 million, along with an increase in sales volumes on the Company's existing portfolio of products of approximately $9 million. The increases were partially offset by the absence of the fiscal 2008 receipt of a one-time cash payment of $9 million from a customer in lieu of expected future minimum royalty payments, as well as a reduction in non-product revenue of $6 million and pricing pressures due to continued competition in the marketplace for generic drugs.
The API segment reported fourth quarter net sales of $39 million compared with $38 million a year ago. The increase was due primarily to improved product mix and was partially offset by $3 million in unfavorable changes in foreign currency exchange rates. Adjusted operating income increased $5 million or 146% due to improved sales mix, operational efficiencies and cost management.
For the full year of fiscal 2009, net sales decreased 9% compared to fiscal 2008. This decrease was due primarily to a decline of approximately $9 million in sales of existing products, the absence of a one-time $5 million accrual reversal and approximately $4 million resulting from unfavorable changes in foreign currency exchange rates. This decrease was partially offset by new product sales of approximately $5 million. Adjusted operating income was $15 million down from $20 million.
Continuing operations for the Other category, consisting of the Israel Pharmaceutical and Diagnostic Products operating segment, reported fourth quarter net sales of $13 million, compared with $23 million a year ago. The decrease was due to the change whereby the Company is now a distributor to a customer rather than a supplier to that customer and also by unfavorable changes in foreign currency exchange rates. Operating income was $2 million, up from $800 thousand last year. The increase in operating income was due primarily to effective cost management and favorable currency exchange rates.
For the full year of fiscal 2009, net sales decreased $15 million or 18%, compared to fiscal 2008. The decrease was driven primarily by a $12 million impact related to the change in a customer contract relationship mentioned above. In addition, sales decreased by approximately $3 million due to changes in the sales mix of products.
Chairman and CEO Joseph C. Papa concluded, "In challenging economic times, Perrigo is uniquely positioned to continue to save consumers nearly a billion dollars annually on their healthcare spend while adding value for our customers and shareholders. We expect fiscal 2010 earnings from continuing operations to be between $2.00 and $2.12 per share, which implies a year-over-year growth rate of earnings from continuing operations of 7% to 13% over adjusted fiscal 2009 EPS. Perrigo is the right company in the right place at the right time."
Perrigo will host a conference call to discuss fiscal 2009 fourth quarter and full year results at 10:00 a.m. (ET) on Tuesday, August 18. The conference call will be available live via webcast to interested parties on the Perrigo website http://www.perrigo.com/ or by phone 877-248-9413, International 973-582-2737 and reference ID# 20224149. A taped replay of the call will be available beginning at approximately 2:00 p.m. (ET) Tuesday, August 18, until midnight Tuesday, August 25, 2009. To listen to the replay, call 800-642-1687, International 706-645-9291, access code 20224149.
Perrigo Company is a leading global healthcare supplier that develops, manufactures and distributes OTC and generic prescription pharmaceuticals, nutritional products, active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and pharmaceutical and medical diagnostic products. The Company is the world's largest manufacturer of OTC pharmaceutical products for the store brand market. The Company's primary markets and locations of manufacturing and logistics operations are the United States, Israel, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Visit Perrigo on the Internet (http://www.perrigo.com/).
Note: Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are subject to the safe harbor created thereby. These statements relate to future events or the Company's future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements of the Company or its industry to be materially different from those expressed or implied by any forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "could," "would," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "intend," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential" or other comparable terminology. The Company has based these forward-looking statements on its current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. While the Company believes these expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections are reasonable, such forward-looking statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's control. These and other important factors, including those discussed under "Risk Factors" in the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended June 27, 2009, as well as the Company's subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release are made only as of the date hereof, and unless otherwise required by applicable securities laws, the Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
2009        2008        2007
----        ----        ----
Net sales                    $2,006,862  $1,729,921  $1,368,351
Cost of sales                 1,410,865   1,212,193   1,001,167
---------   ---------   ---------
Gross profit                    595,997     517,728     367,184
-------     -------     -------
Distribution                  24,203      25,152      23,478
Research and development      77,922      72,191      66,480
Selling and
administration              231,639     220,429     170,124
Subtotal                  333,764     317,772     260,082
Write-off of in-process
development                    279       2,786       8,252
Restructuring                 14,647       2,312         879
------       -----         ---
Total                     348,690     322,870     269,213
Operating income                247,307     194,858      97,971
Interest, net                    27,154      17,415      16,110
Other expense (income), net       1,269        (503)     (5,271)
Investment impairment            15,104           -           -
Income from continuing
operations before
income taxes                   203,780     177,946      87,132
Income tax expense               62,682      37,749      14,298
------      ------      ------
operations                     141,098     140,197      72,834
Income (loss) from
discontinued operations,
net of tax                       2,951      (4,424)        963
-----      ------         ---
Net income                     $144,049    $135,773     $73,797
========    ========     =======
Earnings (loss) per share (1)
Continuing operations       $1.53       $1.51       $0.79
operations                  0.03       (0.05)       0.01
----       -----        ----
Basic earnings per
share                      $1.56       $1.46       $0.80
Diluted earnings per
Weighted average shares
Basic                         92,183      93,124      92,230
Diluted                       93,629      95,210      93,807
Dividends declared per share     $0.215      $0.195      $0.178
(1) The sum of individual per share amounts may not equal due
to rounding.
June 27,    June 28,
Assets                                   2009        2008
----        ----
Cash and cash equivalents          $316,133    $318,599
Investment securities                     3         560
Accounts receivable, net            325,810     317,875
Inventories                         384,794     374,782
Current deferred income taxes        41,941      42,241
Income taxes refundable               8,926      10,215
Prepaid expenses and
other current assets                23,658      36,951
Current assets of
discontinued operations             51,699      58,968
------      ------
Total current assets       1,152,964   1,160,191
Property and equipment
Land                                 22,876      22,275
Buildings                           262,990     254,030
Machinery and equipment             478,085     443,288
-------     -------
763,951     719,593
Less accumulated depreciation      (409,634)   (381,053)
--------    --------
Restricted cash                        400,000     400,000
Goodwill and other indefinite-
lived intangible assets               268,819     287,112
Other intangible assets, net           214,207     220,724
Non-current deferred income taxes       74,438      73,726
Other non-current assets                49,756      63,914
Non-current assets of
discontinued operations                21,854      34,202
$2,536,355  $2,578,409
==========  ==========
Liabilities and
Accounts payable                   $271,537    $235,922
Payroll and related taxes            54,196      70,977
Accrued customer programs            54,461      53,419
Accrued liabilities                  61,704      55,055
Accrued income taxes                  3,334       3,317
Current portion of
long-term debt                      17,181      20,095
Current liabilities of
Total current
liabilities                 500,561     488,994
Non-current liabilities
Long-term debt, less
current portion                    875,000     895,095
Non-current
deferred income
taxes                              139,916     138,158
Other non-current liabilities        87,024     106,453
Non-current liabilities of
Total non-current
liabilities               1,113,873   1,155,700
Preferred stock, without par
value, 10,000 shares authorized          -           -
Common stock, without par value,
200,000 shares authorized          452,243     488,537
Accumulated other
comprehensive income                50,592     155,184
Retained earnings                   419,086     289,994
Total shareholders'
equity                      921,921     933,715
Supplemental Disclosures of
Balance Sheet Information
Related to Continuing
Allowance for
doubtful accounts           $11,394      $7,511
Working capital             $620,324    $637,945
Preferred stock, shares
issued and outstanding            -           -
Common stock, shares
issued and outstanding       92,209      93,311
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
Common Stock      Accumulated  Comprehen-
Issued            Other       sive
------        Comprehensive  Income   Retained
Shares    Amount   Income (loss)  (loss)   Earnings
------    ------   -------------  -------  --------
Balance at July
1, 2006             92,922  $516,098         $3,593   $77,170  $121,053
Net income                -         -              -    73,797    73,797
income (loss):
Change in fair
instruments, net
of $606 tax           -         -         (1,126)   (1,126)
adjustments           -         -         53,074    53,074         -
securities                                (1,415)   (1,415)        -
from adoption
of SFAS 158,
net of $1,373
tax                   -         -          2,550         -         -
Issuance of
under:
Stock options      1,496    15,362              -         -         -
stock plan          338         -              -         -         -
Compensation for
stock options            -     3,793              -         -         -
restricted stock         -     5,160              -         -         -
Cash dividends,
$0.178 per share         -         -              -         -   (16,476)
Tax effect from
transactions             -     1,470              -         -         -
of common
stock               (1,361)  (22,464)             -         -         -
------   -------           ----      ----      ----
Balance at June
30, 2007            93,395   519,419         56,676   124,330   178,374
Net income                -         -              -   135,773   135,773
of $1,852 tax         -         -         (3,440)   (3,440)        -
adjustments           -         -        105,826   105,826         -
Post-retirement
adjustments,
net of $229
tax                   -         -           (425)     (425)        -
Adjustment to
adopt FIN 48             -         -              -         -    (5,934)
stock plan           19         -              -         -         -
------   -------          -----     -----     -----
28, 2008            93,311   488,537        155,184   234,281   289,994
of $162 tax           -         -            300       300         -
adjustments           -         -       (103,450) (103,450)        -
securities                                 3,956     3,956         -
to adopt
FSP FAS 115-2         -         -         (5,000)   (5,000)    5,000
Stock options        720    10,062              -         -         -
27, 2009            92,209  $452,243        $50,592    39,457   419,086
======  ========        =======    ======   =======
2009      2008      2007
----      ----      ----
Cash Flows From (For)
Net income                      $144,049  $135,773   $73,797
Adjustments to derive
Write-off of in-
process research and
development                      279     2,786     8,252
Depreciation and
amortization                  70,142    69,231    58,032
Restructuring and asset
impairment                    31,351    12,658     2,913
Share-based compensation       10,353     8,469     8,953
Income tax benefit
from exercise of
stock options                 (3,490)    3,992     1,482
Excess tax benefit of stock
transactions                  (2,290)  (10,595)   (2,952)
Deferred income taxes          (1,422)   (1,542)   (4,335)
------    ------    ------
Sub-total                        248,972   220,772   146,142
-------   -------   -------
Changes in operating
assets and
liabilities, net of
asset and business
Accounts receivable            6,446   (38,742)  (36,812)
Inventories                      341   (72,480)   18,786
Income taxes refundable       (1,066)   (6,883)        -
Accounts payable              24,821    67,638   (19,186)
Payroll and related taxes    (20,621)   27,046    (4,956)
Accrued customer programs      1,124     5,450    (1,316)
Accrued liabilities          (13,483)    1,773     1,184
Accrued income taxes          13,201    31,274    18,224
Other                         (1,390)    8,467     5,375
------     -----     -----
Sub-total                          9,373    23,543   (18,701)
-----    ------   -------
Net cash from operating
activities               258,345   244,315   127,441
Cash Flows (For) From
Purchase of securities                 -  (176,298) (335,016)
Proceeds from sales of
securities                            -   208,097   312,521
Issuance of note receivable            -         -    (1,000)
Additions to property
and equipment                   (59,238)  (44,824)  (45,014)
Proceeds from sales of property
and equipment                         -         -     2,613
Cash acquired in asset
exchange                          2,115         -         -
Acquisitions of assets            (1,000)  (12,401)  (59,538)
Acquisitions of
businesses, net of cash
acquired                        (88,248)  (83,312)        -
Equity investment                      -   (12,500)        -
------    ------   -------
Net cash for investing
activities             (146,371) (121,238) (125,434)
--------  --------  --------
Repayments of short-term
debt, net                       (13,736)  (11,776)   (8,295)
Borrowings of long-term debt           -   465,000   130,000
Repayments of long-term debt     (31,380) (225,801)  (90,000)
transactions                      2,290    10,595     2,952
Issuance of common stock          10,062    32,210    15,362
Repurchase of common stock       (62,489)  (78,164)  (22,464)
Cash dividends                   (19,957)  (18,219)  (16,476)
Net cash (for) from
financing activities    (115,210)  173,845    11,079
--------   -------    ------
Effect of exchange rate
changes on cash                        769    (8,623)   (1,799)
---    ------    ------
Net increase (decrease)
in cash and cash
equivalents                 (2,467)  288,299    11,287
of continuing operations,
beginning of period                318,599    30,301    19,018
Cash balance of discontinued
operations, beginning of
period                                   5         4         -
---       ---       ---
Cash and cash equivalents,
end of period                      316,137   318,604    30,305
Less cash balance of
operations, end of
period                           (4)       (5)       (4)
--        --        --
end of period                     $316,133  $318,599   $30,301
========  ========   =======
Supplemental Disclosures of Cash
Flow Information
Cash paid/received during
the year for:
Interest paid                 $47,066   $37,111   $36,020
Interest received             $24,348   $21,664   $20,079
Income taxes paid             $73,276   $32,718   $12,896
Income taxes refunded         $11,283    $7,693   $11,316
Fourth Quarter          Fiscal Year
--------------          -----------
2009      2008        2009        2008
----      ----        ----        ----
Segment Net Sales
Consumer Healthcare        $407,009  $374,645  $1,638,770  $1,336,140
Rx Pharmaceuticals           48,840    38,425     164,163     161,271
API                          38,940    38,313     136,002     149,553
Other                        13,420    22,899      67,927      82,957
------    ------      ------      ------
Total                    $508,209  $474,282  $2,006,862  $1,729,921
========  ========  ==========  ==========
Segment Operating Income (Loss)
Consumer Healthcare         $56,059   $52,105    $233,756    $172,654
Rx Pharmaceuticals           12,090    (5,774)     29,028      21,386
API                          (5,409)    3,752         433      20,475
Other                         2,353       809       7,680       7,030
Unallocated expenses         (9,569)  (10,513)    (23,311)    (23,901)
R&D                              -         -        (279)     (2,786)
-----     -----       -----      ------
Total                     $55,524   $40,379    $247,307    $194,858
=======   =======    ========    ========
*All information based on continuing operations.
RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP MEASURES
2009        2008     % Change
----        ----     ---------
Net sales          $508,209    $474,282          7%
Reported gross
profit            $163,853    $135,093         21%
step-up -
Unico                  -           -
Diba                   -           -
step-up - JB
Labs                   -           -
Galpharm               -       2,878
Impairment of
fixed assets           -           -
asset                  -      10,346
-----      ------
Adjusted gross
========    ========
profit %              32.2%       31.3%
expenses          $108,329     $94,714         14%
Loss on asset
exchange               -           -
costs -
Germany          (14,647)          -
costs - West
Coast                  -        (143)
Kingdom                -      (1,821)
expenses           $93,682     $92,750          1%
=======     =======
expenses %            18.4%       19.6%
income             $55,524     $40,379         38%
Germany           14,647           -
Coast                  -         143
Kingdom                -       1,821
Write-off of
in-process
R&D - Diba
acquisition            -           -
R&D -
Galpharm
-----       -----
income %              13.8%       11.7%
Reported income
from continuing
operations         $32,280     $32,160          0%
Unico (5)              -           -
Diba (1)               -           -
Labs (2)               -           -
Galpharm (1)           -       2,072
fixed assets (4)       -           -
asset (3)              -       6,518
impairment (6)         -           -
exchange (6)           -           -
Germany (6)       14,647           -
Coast (3)              -          90
Kingdom (1)            -       1,311
acquisition (1)        -           -
Adjusted income
operations         $46,927     $42,151         11%
Diluted earnings
per share from
Reported            $0.35       $0.34          2%
Adjusted            $0.50       $0.44         13%
average shares
outstanding         93,290      95,076
2009        2008    % Change
----        ----    ---------
Net sales        $2,006,862  $1,729,921         16%
Unico              1,062           -
Diba               1,503           -
Labs                 358           -
fixed assets       1,600           -
expenses          $348,690    $322,870          8%
exchange            (639)          -
income            $247,307    $194,858         27%
exchange             639           -
acquisition          279           -
acquisition            -       2,786
operations        $141,098    $140,197          1%
Unico (5)            645           -
Diba (1)           1,082           -
Labs (2)             229           -
fixed assets (4)     992           -
impairment (6)    15,104           -
exchange (6)         639           -
Coast (3)              -         309
acquisition (1)      201           -
acquisition (1)        -       2,006
operations        $174,637    $154,485         13%
(1)  Net of taxes at 28%
(5)  Net of taxes at 39.3%
(6)  No tax impact
Table II (Continued)
REPORTABLE SEGMENTS
2009        2008      % Change
----        ----      ---------
Net sales              $407,009    $374,645          9%
profit                $119,782    $111,037          8%
Inventory step-up
- Unico                    -           -
- Diba                     -           -
- JB Labs                  -           -
- Galpharm                 -       2,878
fixed assets               -           -
profit %                  29.4%       30.4%
Reported operating
expenses               $63,725     $58,932          8%
exchange                   -           -
Coast                      -        (143)
costs - United
Kingdom                    -      (1,821)
----      ------
Adjusted operating
expenses               $63,725     $56,968         12%
expenses %                15.7%       15.2%
income                 $56,059     $52,105          8%
Coast                      -         143
Kingdom                    -       1,821
----       -----
income                 $56,059     $56,947         -2%
income %                  13.8%       15.2%
Net sales               $48,840     $38,425         27%
profit                 $21,010      $3,969
intangible asset           -      10,346
profit                 $21,010     $14,315         47%
income (loss)          $12,090     $(5,774)      -309%
income                 $12,090      $4,572        164%
=======      ======
Net sales               $38,940     $38,313          2%
expenses               $22,529      $9,678
costs - Germany      (14,647)          -
-------        ----
expenses                $7,882      $9,678        -19%
======      ======
income (loss)          $(5,409)     $3,752       -244%
costs - Germany       14,647           -
------       -----
income                  $9,238      $3,752        146%
income %                  23.7%        9.8%
Unallocated
loss                   $(9,569)   $(10,513)        -9%
process R&D -
Diba acquisition           -           -
acquisition                -           -
=======    ========
Net sales            $1,638,770  $1,336,140         23%
profit                $460,133    $377,765         22%
- Unico                1,062           -
- Diba                 1,503           -
- JB Labs                358           -
fixed assets           1,600           -
-----        ----
expenses              $226,379    $205,111         10%
exchange                (639)          -
income                $233,756    $172,654         35%
exchange                 639           -
profit                 $63,801     $58,622          9%
profit                 $63,801     $68,968         -7%
income (loss)          $29,028     $21,386         36%
Net sales              $136,002    $149,553         -9%
expenses               $32,477     $34,717         -6%
income (loss)             $433     $20,475        -98%
------        ----
income                 $15,080     $20,475        -26%
loss                  $(23,590)   $(26,687)       -12%
Diba acquisition         279           -
acquisition                -       2,786
loss                  $(23,311)   $(23,901)        -2%
Table III
Fourth Quarter       Adjustment -
Reported Cost of      Inventory
Sales             Step-Up
----------------   -----------------
2009     2008      2009     2008
----     ----      ----     ----
Healthcare       $287,226 $263,607        $-  $(2,878)
Pharmaceuticals    27,829   34,456         -        -
API                 21,820   24,884         -        -
Other                7,481   16,242         -        -
-----   ------       ---      ---
Total           $344,356 $339,189        $-  $(2,878)
======== ========       ===  =======
Adjustment -      Fourth Quarter
Intangible      Adjusted Cost of
Asset Impairment         Sales
----------------   ----------------
2009     2008      2009     2008     % Change
----     ----      ----     ----     ---------
Healthcare             $-       $-  $287,226 $260,729         10%
Pharmaceuticals         -  (10,346)   27,829   24,110         15%
API                      -        -    21,820   24,884        -12%
Other                    -        -     7,481   16,242        -54%
---      ---     -----   ------
Total                   $- $(10,346) $344,356 $325,965          6%
=== ========  ======== ========
Communication, +1-269-686-1709, ajshannon@perrigo.com; or Daniel B. Willard,
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This spring I'll be teaching ENG 377: Topics in Romanticism at the University of Rhode Island. While romanticism is not my specialization and will be the first 19th-century literature course I'll have taught in my academic career, the gods must have preordained this assignment. I felt inspired to use The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry this past fall (when I taught ENG 201: Principles of Literary Study), so having spent seven to eight weeks illustrating various modes of literary criticism with the writings of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Smith, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, I feel primed (though still underprepared) for the semester ahead. Back in 2009, when I was still working on my Ph.D. here at URI, I was fortunate to be assigned ENG 265: Intro to Literary Genres (The Novel), which saw me teach quite a few nineteenth-century texts. Since ENG 377 is not a survey of romanticism, I thought I would try to interfuse my experience last semester with this earlier experience. The result? A course entitled, "Killing and Kindness: The Sublime Source of Morality, Justice, and Radical Sympathy."
Before my 2009 class transitioned to 20th-century novels, one student raised her hand and asked, "Why are all these novels so violent? We haven't read one book that doesn't have a murder in it!" Indeed, most of the novels had several murders: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. When I got my assignment late last year, I recalled this student's question and wondered, "Would it be possible to link these texts—at least the earlier ones—with the legacy of romantic poetry?"
This course investigates the link between several themes in romantic poetry and fiction: murder, morality, justice, fellow feeling, and the sublime. Though these themes are not unique to romanticism, we will investigate how our texts overlap, interfuse, confuse, and problematize them in ways that remain surprisingly germane to 21st-century readers. Fellow feeling—what we might also call "radical sympathy" (Aidan Day)—is a hallmark virtue of romantic poetry, especially that of William Wordsworth, whose work attempts to teach readers to feel and to see "around [us] here things we cannot see" ("The Ruined Cottage"). In many of the novels we'll be reading, the murder of another person is not only a crime punishable by the state but an offense to radical sympathy, a sign not only of inhumanity or individual shortcoming but of total societal failure. As a metonym for the failure of institutions that promote war, poverty, and injustice, the thematic, dramatic, and theoretical clash of killing and kindness, of murder and radical sympathy, is potentially at the root of what we might call romantic morality or romantic justice (it will become important, we will see, to keep these two terms separate). And yet there is also something aesthetically alluring about "murderous machinations," as Mary Shelley puts it. Though the murder of another person, especially someone for whom one ought to feel mercy or kindness, is terrifying, our novelists, essayists, and memoirists also present such acts with disturbing and captivating style and technique. We will see, I contend, that something akin to Immanuel Kant's sublime operates—both textually and phenomenally—as the source not only of fellow feeling or of moral power but also of disruption and destruction. It is—as our literature theorizes—the very source of what might make us moral creatures who learn to question moral codes and to take perverse pleasure in their transgression.
What might we make of this sublime confluence of morality, justice, and sympathy—of killing and kindness—in romantic poetry and fiction? We'll have to see . . .
Though Wordsworth's poetry is not necessarily known for its fascination with murder, there is nevertheless a rather steady refrain of death, poverty, and injustice throughout his long and short poems. I will be spreading our readings of Wordsworth out between the fiction and nonfiction in the hope of making the "sublime" link between our many themes more prominent, problematic, and pressing.


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My parents-They are spending a month in Alaska (and, yes, I'm sad that I couldn't go) but I am very fortunate to have them as my parents. They raised me in a loving, Christ-centered household. They were "mean" to me when I was younger, especially when I was a teenager; and because of it I am a better person as an adult. I try to model my parenting on the parenting I remember (and still receive) from them.
Ken's parents-Ken was also raised in a loving, Christ-centered family. Both of his parents are involved in church as readers and Eucharistic ministers. He enjoys spending time with both his father and brother with male-bonding activities (hunting, sports, golf, etc...). They are keeping Frances for a long weekend while we are at Youth Convention and I know that she will have a blast. We are very fortunate to have both sets of grandparents close by and eager to be involved with the kids.
The Diocesan Youth Council-This amazing group of young people spends a whole year planning our Youth Convention which takes place every summer. Ken and I were both part of this group as teenagers and we now serve as adult advisers. These teens give up their weekends in order to plan an event that will help them to spread the Gospel to more teens around the state.