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Tesla Without Musk at the Wheel? It's What the SEC Now Wants
Tesla without Elon Musk at the wheel? To many of the electric car maker's customers and investors that would be unthinkable.
Tom Krisher and Alexandra Olson, Associated Press
Tesla without Elon Musk at the wheel? To many of the electric car maker's customers and investors that would be unthinkable. But that's what government securities regulators now want to see.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a federal court to oust Musk as Tesla's chairman and CEO, alleging he committed securities fraud with false statements about plans to take the company private.
The agency says in a complaint filed Thursday that Musk falsely claimed in an Aug. 7 statement on Twitter that funding had been secured for Tesla Inc. to go private at $420 per share, a substantial premium over the stock price at the time.
An SEC press release says the agency asked the U.S. District Court in Manhattan for a "bar prohibiting Musk from serving as an officer or director of a public company." It also is asking for an order enjoining Musk from making false and misleading statements along with repayment of any gains as well as civil penalties.
Ousting Musk, who has a huge celebrity status with more than 22 million Twitter followers, would be difficult and could damage the company. He's viewed by many shareholders as the leader and brains behind Tesla's electric car and solar panel operations.
The stock market shuddered at the prospect. Before the opening bell Friday, shares of Tesla plunged nearly 14 percent.
"Corporate officers hold positions of trust in our markets and have important responsibilities to shareholders," Steven Peikin, co-director of the SEC's Enforcement Division, said in a statement. "An officer's celebrity status or reputation as a technological innovator does not give license to take those responsibilities lightly."
Musk, in a statement issued by Tesla, called the SEC action unjustified.
"I have always taken action in the best interests of truth, transparency and investors. Integrity is the most important value in my life and the facts will show I never compromised this in any way," the statement said.
The complaint alleges that Musk's tweet harmed investors who bought Tesla stock after the tweet but before accurate information about the funding was made public.
Peter Henning, a law professor at Wayne State University and a former SEC lawyer, said it's the first fraud case involving use of social media by the CEO of a public company. Musk and Tesla didn't fully disclose details of the plan in the Aug. 7 tweet or in later communications that day as required, he noted.
"You can't make full disclosure in 280 characters," he said, referring to the length limit of a tweet.
Joseph Grundfest, a professor at Stanford Law School and former SEC commissioner, said Musk will likely want to settle before trial so that he could conceivably stay on as CEO, with some constraints such as prohibiting him from making public statements without supervision. But Musk also could agree to step down as CEO and instead take another title, such as chief production officer.
The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that Musk had been close to settling with the SEC but that he and his lawyers decided at the last minute to fight the case. Tesla did not respond to a request for comment on the report.
Grundfest also said that the challenge for the SEC is to "appropriately discipline Musk while not harming Telsa's shareholders."
According to the complaint, Musk met with representatives of a sovereign investment fund for 30 to 45 minutes on July 31 at Tesla's Fremont, California, factory. Tesla has identified the fund as Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which owns almost 5 percent of the company.
Fund representatives expressed interest in taking Tesla private and asked about building a factory in the Middle East, Musk told the SEC. But at the meeting, there was no discussion of a dollar amount or ownership stake for the fund, nor was there discussion of a premium to be paid to Tesla shareholders, the complaint said. Musk told the SEC that the lead representative of the fund told him he would be fine with reasonable terms for a go-private deal.
"Musk acknowledged that no specific deal terms had been established at the meeting and there was no discussion of what would or would not be considered reasonable. Nothing was exchanged in writing," the complaint stated.
The SEC alleged in the 23-page complaint that Musk made the statements using his mobile phone in the middle of a trading day. That day, Tesla shares closed up 11 percent from the previous day. Musk has said that he posted the go-private tweet while driving to the airport and that no one reviewed it.
The statements, the complaint said "were premised on a long series of baseless assumptions and were contrary to facts that Musk knew." Later in the month, Tesla announced that the go-private plan had been scrapped.
In its complaint, the SEC said that Musk's statements hurt short sellers, investors who borrow a company's stock betting that it will fall. Then they buy the shares back at a lower price and return them to the lenders, pocketing the profit.
In August, more than $13 billion worth of Tesla shares were being "shorted" by investors, the complaint said, as the stock was under pressure due to questions about Tesla's finances and Musk's erratic behavior.
Mark Spiegel, a short-seller and constant Musk critic, applauded the SEC for pursuing what he predicted would be easy for the government to prove.
Spiegel also echoed the concerns of corporate governance experts who have lambasted Tesla's board for being too beholden to a CEO that they are supposed to oversee.
"They should have fired him a long time ago. Will they now? I don't know," Spiegel said.
There was no indication of that in a joint statement issued late Thursday by the company and its board.
"Tesla and the board of directors are fully confident in Elon, his integrity, and his leadership of the company," the statement said.
Olson reported from New York. Michael Liedtke contributed from San Francisco.
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ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — A university in Ohio has ordered a fraternity chapter to stop all activities after a student who recently pledged the group died.
Ohio University said in a statement Tuesday that it ordered the Epsilon Chapter of Sigma Pi Fraternity to immediately stop "all organizational activities." The order was issued a day after the 18-year-old student died. He was found unresponsive Monday in an off-campus apartment that the university says might be an unofficial annex of the fraternity.
Authorities haven't released a cause of death. Athens police are investigating.
The university's order said its standards office received information accusing the chapter of conduct that puts its members' health and safety "at risk" and is investigating.
A message seeking comment was left Wednesday at the fraternity's headquarters in Lebanon, Tennessee.


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4 Things to know about Tonya Harding's husband, Joseph Jens Price
Meagan Morris
The new season of "Dancing With the Stars" is set to debut on April 30 with one infamous Olympian competing for the mirrorball trophy. And in the stands? Tonya Harding's husband, Joseph Jens Price, will be there cheering her on.
The Washington man isn't as well known as Harding's first husband, Jeff Gillooly, though it seems like Harding prefers it that way.
Who is Tonya Harding's husband?
It seems like the third time's the charm for Harding. She met Price in 2010, according to a New York Times profile. The heating and air-conditioning installation technician was singing the Jerry Lee Lewis classic "Great Balls of Fire" during karaoke night.
And Harding was sold.
"I'm going, 'Damn, he's got beautiful eyes'," she said of Price. "I mean the eyes are the center to your soul, okay? You might have a nice butt, but I want to see the eyes."
Tonya Harding's husband didn't propose, she did
It only a few weeks for Harding and Price to get engaged, but it was the former figure skater who proposed, not him. A few weeks later she got pregnant with her first child, Gordon.
Harding — who now goes by Tonya Price — was 40 when Gordon was born. She told Inside Edition that the six-year-old is "the most wonderful thing in the world," adding that she "couldn't imagine my world without him."
Harding added to the program that she'll eventually tell Gordon about her past. "My son will know who his mom is and who his dad is when the time is right," and added that she won't try to avoid talking about the controversy. "Why would I?"
Price loves her 'redneck' side
Tonya Harding's husband doesn't care about her past — in fact, he likes that she's not perfect.
"She's kind, she loving, she's a little rough around the edges," he told Inside Edition. "She's a redneck, but she's my redneck."
Tonya Harding's husband is her third
Harding was first married to Gillooly, the mastermind behind the attack against her ice skating rival, Nancy Kerrigan, before the 1994 Winter Olympics. A second marriage to IT worker Michael Smith only last a year.
But her marriage to Price is going strong and they live a quiet life together as a family in Puyallup, Washington.
So, where is Jeff Gillooly now? He doesn't exist anymore. Gillooly changed his name after his 1995 release from prison and, according to one report, goes by Jeff Stone and lives near Portland, Oregon. Sebastian Stan, who played Gillooly in the recent movie "I, Tonya," said he could tell that the first Mr. Tonya Harding did care for her.
"I really walked away believing that he really loved her," Stan said.
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Q: media query for galaxy s2 I have developed a responsive theme for my website,
By using media queries on my css file.
it works fine on ipad/iphone and small android phones.
When i get to galaxy S2 it seems to ignore my media queries.
This is the media query im using to target galaxy s2 and alike - is it correct ?
if so , why isnt it working ?
@media only screen and (min-device-width : 480px) and (max-device-width : 800px)

thanks

A: Your code should work.
Have you tried to add the 'orientation' like:
@media only screen
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@media only screen
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A: The answers shown are flat out wrong! Samsung devices do NOT have the same resolution in both portrait and landscape modes as Apple devices do. Also, why are you using "min-device-width" and "max-device-width"? Stick to the resolution at hand! You dont want your design displaying inappropriately at the wrong resolution! Do this, I guarantee it works, because I use it all the time:
@media screen and (device-width: 480px) and (device-height: 800px) and (orientation: portrait) {
styles
}
@media screen and (device-width: 800px) and (device-height: 480px) and (orientation: landscape) {
styles
}
Ditch the "only" rule! Its not necessary! Use the "handheld" or "screen" values only!

A: Media query for Samsung Galaxy S2 is something like the following code and you should use the 1.5 for -webkit-device-pixel-ratio, that is all.
/* Samsung Galaxy S2 ----------- */
/* Portrait and Landscape */
@media screen and (device-width: 320px) and (device-height: 533px) and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5){
    /* Styles */
}

/* Landscape */
@media only screen and (min-device-width: 320px) and (max-device-height: 533px) and (orientation : landscape) and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5){
    /* Styles */
}

/* Portrait */
@media only screen and (min-device-width: 320px) and (max-device-height: 533px) and (orientation : portrait) and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5){
    /* Styles */
}

A: This might also be worth a shot: @media all and (device-aspect-ratio: 3/5).
Info taken from: http://cssmediaqueries.com/

A: The Galaxy S2 has device-pixel-ratio of 1.5 so the media queries must be:
@media only screen and (min-device-width: 360px) and (max-device-width: 533px)

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The pivotal point of rebellion, protests and celebrations, Plaza de Mayo is an iconic landmark of Buenos Aires and a significant part of its political history. The city square is located in the financial district of Buenos Aires and is surrounded by numerous monuments and buildings of national interest like the Cabildo, the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Casa Rosada which is the seat of Argentina's President, headquarters of the Bank of the Argentine Nation and the Buenos Aires City Hall. At the centre of the square is Pirámide de Mayo, the national monument built to commemorate the first anniversary of independent Argentina.
Teatro Colon is an opera house in Buenos Aires widely renowned for its acoustic quality. It counts among the top ten Opera Houses around the world and has seen some great performances by international stars. Built in 1908 on the site of another Opera House, Teatro Colon has seen over a hundred years of name and fame.
Designed by Peró and Torres Armengol and originally a theatre, El Ateneo Grand Splendid is a grand bookstore. Retaining the lavishness of the theatre that it used to be, El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore has a stunning architecture and an equally classy collection of books that arouse your curiosity. Described as the second most beautiful book-store around the world by Guardian, the place is one of the premiere attractions of Buenos Aires and receives millions of visitors annually.
A beautiful green oasis quite strange from the rest of Argentina boasting peace and tranquillity is the Japanese garden in Buenos Aires. The place perfectly picturizes the graceful and sombre Japanese culture with its lush greenery along with Japanese Tea House and a temple. It also has a greenhouse showcasing a beautiful collection of Bonsai Trees. But the main attraction of the garden is the tranquil lake surrounded by the flora of Japan. The lake can be crossed by quaint bridges that add a plush colour to the sober place.
The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes is the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires comprising some significant works of European and Argentine artists. The ground floor of the museum showcases its international collection of paintings from the Middle ages to the twentieth century. The first floor has exhibits containing works of some renowned 20th century Argentine painters while the second floor showcases great specimens of photography and has two sculpture terraces.
Declared as a national monument, Buenos Aires Botanical Garden is a picturesque garden spread on area of around 7 hectares, harbouring over 5500 species of plants, shrubs and trees. It also comprises of five greenhouses and several monuments and sculptures. The Botanical garden has three distinct gardens: Roman, French and Oriental portraying different gardening styles. Besides it, there is an abundant collection of flora from Argentina and America.
The city of Tango and juicy steaks, Buenos Aires is a magnificent place to explore. The capital of Argentina and its most populous city with an eclectic mix of European heritage and Latin American architecture offers a quaint and majestic sight. Add on to it, is the dynamic food culture that would leave with you an unforgettable experience.
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How Jane Austen became the prototoken woman
Sarah Churchwell
She is, Mervyn King tells us, 'quietly waiting in the wings' to appear on the £10 note. How fitting for an author who was always the token female
Fri 28 Jun 2013 12.29 EDT First published on Fri 28 Jun 2013 12.29 EDT
'Jane Austen's novels have always been much admired, even by people who don't much admire books by women.' Photograph: Courtesy Everett Collection/Rex
After a furore erupted over the decision to replace Elizabeth Fry with Winston Churchill on £5 banknotes, the outgoing Bank of England governor, Sir Mervyn King, explained it was all a terrible misunderstanding. Those fearing that the achievement of women in British history would no longer be represented by anyone other than a hereditary monarch need not worry; the white, male faces on our banknotes – Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, Winston Churchill, John Houblon, Matthew Boulton and James Watt – will one day be joined by everyone's favourite spinster aunt. Jane Austen is "quietly waiting in the wings" to appear on the £10 banknote, King promised.
As an American resident on these shores, I must confess that I had to look up just who Houblon and Boulton were (unaccountably, they did not feature in the Life in the UK test). I also had to check my maths. As Fry is eased out, Austen will be eased in, guaranteeing that there will always be one woman out of six symbolic figures – 16%. And that's about right.
As everyone knows, women are supposed to make up 20% of representative bodies. We account for roughly 20% of people on boards and 20% of people in parliament (in the US Senate we hold 20% of the seats, a proportion right in line with the Bank of England's base rate). Women also comprise 20% of the professoriate in Britain and Europe, there were 20 women among the Fortune 500 bosses, and on average women earn 20% less than men. So it's easy to see why King was confident he could smooth our ruffled feathers. We'll have our statutory token female.
As a literature professor, I am naturally delighted to hear Austen is quietly waiting in the wings, for that's always been her style. Nothing too pushy or presumptuous; with her nice manners, gentle wit and quintessential British irony, Austen was a token female before we even had token females. A prototoken, if you will.
The Oxford English Dictionary tells me that "token" has meant "pro forma; (purely) symbolic; constituting a gesture (only); minimal, nominal, perfunctory" since about 1915, which is when the syllabus of modern English literature began to be consolidated in British and American universities.
Jane Austen was never included in the literary canon in a purely symbolic or perfunctory way, of course. Her novels have always been much admired, even by people who don't much admire books by women. She was not a token female because it never even occurred to the men teaching literature that such a thing might be necessary or desirable. Indeed, it often never occurred to them that she was female. A Walton Litz – a fine literary scholar who, in 1965, wrote an influential book about Austen subtitled A Study of Her Artistic Development – once told a friend of mine that he never thought for a moment while composing his book about the fact that Austen was a woman. It never crossed his mind.
For literary scholars, Austen has always been the exception who proved the rule. This is such a familiar idea that it has its own phrase: Austen's exceptionalism has been debated for decades by scholars who argue that she was admitted into the all-boys' club because her books were essentially conservative, placatory, invested in maintaining the status quo. Such an interpretation entirely overlooks her subversive energy, the challenging effects of her irony, but that's no matter.
Austen has long been used as a token payment, a small proportion of the sum of respect due to the achievement of women in our culture. To have her making another nominal payment on behalf of us all is just as it should be. In that sense, Jane Austen has always been on the money.
It's Boudicca v Bank of England in the battle of the banknotes
Activists dressed as distinguished women take the campaign to keep female faces on currency to the steps of the Bank
Published: 5 Jul 2013
Campaigner will donate first Jane Austen £10 note to women's shelter
Caroline Criado-Perez, who forced Bank of England to put a woman on new banknote, says it will feel amazing to hold one
Women on bank notes: is the Bank of England finally listening?
The new Bank of England governor appears more willing than his predecessor to consider keeping a woman on banknotes. Here, campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez explains what is at stake at next week's meeting
'It looks nice, but they shouldn't use animal fat': reactions to the plastic £10 note
A vegan restaurant worker, a banknote-collecting shopkeeper and a cashpoint user give thoughts on the new polymer tenner
New Bank of England governor backs call to keep women on banknotes
Plastic £10 note to enter circulation on Thursday
Jane Austen banknote unveiled – with strange choice of quotation
Representation of women in crisis, says Ed Miliband


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Michel Bégon (25 December 1638 in Blois – 14 March 1710 in Rochefort), known as Michel V Bégon or le Grand Bégon ("the Big [i.e. Older] Bégon"), was a French ancien regime official. He was intendant de la marine at the port of Rochefort and intendant of the généralité of La Rochelle, as well as a passionate plant collector (he met the naturalist Charles Plumier in the Antilles, and Plumier later named the begonia after him).

Life
He was the son of Michel IV Bégon (1604 – 17 August 1683, Blois) and his wife Claude Viart. The Bégon family was an established court family, producing as many justices as finance ministers (two great-uncles were avocat and conseiller to the of Blois, and Michel V's father and grandfather were receveurs des tailles). Michel V devient became garde des Sceaux of the présidial of Blois (1662) then president of the tribunal (1667). He only entered the naval administration late in life, aged around 40, when Colbert made him treasurer of the marine du Levant at Toulon (1677) : this was the start of a happy career. Bégon later left the shores of the Mediterranean for north-western France, becoming commissaire général de la marine at Brest (24 November 1680) then at Le Havre (1681). He crossed the Atlantic to take up office as intendant of the Windward Islands (1 May 1682 – 24 November 1684). On his return from the Antilles, he won a new post with the Levant fleet which he had awaited since 4 November 1684, the date of his nomination to the post of intendant des galères at Marseille.

Michel V was seigneur of Picardière and Mirbelin (or Murbelaix), and also possessed an estate at Saint-Pierre on Martinique, which he sold in 1684 on leaving the Antilles. He was made Intendant of Saint-Domingue and set up his headquarters in the east of the island, Haiti, where he and Bertrand D'Ogeron got involved in the spice trade. In 1686, he became conseiller honoraire of the Parlement d'Aix (he was then intendant des galères at Marseille,  a role he occupied from 1 May 1685 to 1688). On 1 September, Michel V Bégon became intendant of Rochefort (1688 – 13 March 1710). In 1694, he also obtained the intendance of the généralité of La Rochelle (1694–1710). His time at Rochefort considerably transformed the port and with Colbert du Terron (1669–1674) he was the prime mover in the development of its town and arsenal. His epitaph at the church of Saint-Louis de Rochefort reads Hanc nascentem urbem ligeam invenit / Lapideam reliquit (He found the city born in wood - he left it marble, referring to Augustus's words on the city of Rome). He is thus best known as a builder and it can be said that he was to Rochefort what Girardin de Vauvré was to Toulon.

Family
Michel V was first cousin to Marie Charron, wife of Colbert, daughter of Jacques Charron (surintendant of Maria Theresa of Spain's household) and Marie Bégon. He married Marie-Madeleine Druilhon on 16 February 1665 at Blois - she was the daughter of Pierre, maître in the Chambre des comptes of Blois. Madeleine had been born in Blois, baptised in the parish of Sainte-Solenne on 29 March 1645 and died in the same town on 25 December 1697.

The marriage alliances by Michel and Madeleine's children were advantageous for the family's descendants:
Michel, married Jeanne-Élisabeth de Beauharnois de La Boische (a family protected by the Phélypeaux which took over leadership of the navy in 1690).
Catherine, married Jacques Barin, marquis de la Galissonnière (Nantes, 1646 – Poitiers, 1737) in 1691. Their son Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, like Catherine's brother Claude-Michel, went into the colonial administration of New France.
Scipion-Jérôme was made bishop of Toul (11 January 1721), consecrated in the église des Minimes in Paris (25 April 1723) and received at Toul the following 31 August
Claude-Michel Bégon de la Cour (15 March 1683 – 3 April 1748), known as le chevalier Bégon, married advantageously and entered the colonial administration of New France

Bibliography
 Michel Vergé-Franceschi, Dictionnaire d'histoire maritime, Robert Laffont, coll. "Bouquins", Paris, tome I, p. 193 et tome II, p. 825
 Y. Gaubert, "Le Népotisme heureux de Colbert", dossier hors-série de L'Essentiel de La Rochelle, 2005
 Martine Acerra, Rochefort, la construction navale française (1661–1815), Librairie de l'Inde, Paris, 1993, 4 vol.
 Yvonne Bézard, Fonctionnaires maritimes et coloniaux sous Louis XIV, les Bégon, Albin Michel, Paris, 1932
 Michel Vergé-Franceschi, Les Officiers généraux de la marine royale (1715–1774). Origines, conditions, services, Librairie de l'Inde, Paris, 1990, 7 vol.,

1638 births
1710 deaths
People from Blois
Colonial history of the Ancien Régime
Ancien Régime office-holders
French colonial governors and administrators
French slave owners
People of Saint-Domingue

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Dover Sells East Wadi Araba Concessions
Sunday, 4th May 2008
Dover Petroleum Corp. announced that the company has signed an agreement of purchase and sale and a related share exchange agreement with Sea Dragon Energy Inc. and Egypt Oil Holdings Ltd. This will complete the exchange of its 11% interest in the East Wadi Araba (EWA) Egyptian Oil Concession in Gulf of Suez to Sea Dragon Energy Inc. in exchange for 3,666,667 common shares of Sea Dragon. Dover will continue to effectively have an interest in the EWA Concession and the future drilling campaigns planned through its approximate current 4% share ownership of Sea Dragon shares. Sea Dragon and Dover have formally executed the Agreement of Purchase and Sale and related share exchange agreements on April 24th, 2008.
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