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• From the U.S. Copyright Office’s web site:
  
  How do I protect my sighting of Elvis?
  Copyright law does not protect sightings. However, copyright law will protect your photo (or other depiction) of your sighting of Elvis. Just send it to us with a Form VA application and the filing fee. No one can lawfully use your photo of your sighting, although someone else may file his own photo of his sighting. Copyright law protects the original photograph, not the subject of the photograph.

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okay. I have a long document that I might rather not share with my secretary. I originally put page numbers bottom/center, then I added them top/right. Except the bottom/center didn't disappear. anyone know how to get rid of unwanted page numbers?

your tax dollars, working for you
 

my old firm had a Kalamazoo office so there is a decent chance this was from a prior client. I will decline to weight in to respect the potential conflict.

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Click in the vicinty. You'll get what looks like a text box around it (6 little squares defining the box). Hit delete. Or click it once more and then hit delete.

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on a Mac?

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Yeah, same on either.

There are two ways to add page numbers, one of which is "add page numbers" which creates a text box in the header or footer. The other way is to use the "insert page number" function while in the footer/header. You probably did the former, but either way you need to highlight the page number and delete it.

BTW, what kind of fraud am I helping you advance? Or am I going to get a cut of your new partnership draw for helping you with your resignation letter?

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guys like me don't merit a mulit-page resignation letter:(

i uesd insert. your direction let me delete it from the header, but not from the footer. odd. but thank you.

"Hmm. This form complaint looks eerily familiar."
 

Milberg partners do what Milberg partners do best.

Would you tack the German word for irony on at the beginning of Schadenfreude or the end?

"Hmm. This form complaint looks eerily familiar."
 

So what's the damages calculation rule on this? Do they have to offset all their unlawful profits against the financial loss from the future "business" that has dried up?

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Can anyone explain to me why companies often will acquire 19.9% of another business's shares? What happens when the 20% threshhold is crossed?

Please type very slowly when you answer as I recieved only a C+ in Business Law.

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Someone who actually knows something can elaborate, but I believe that 20% ownership can trigger certain legal obligations in some countries as it is regarded as a "controlling" interest. In the U.S. 10% ownership leads to various SEC filing requirements.

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Accounting. While I think facts and circumstances are supposed to come in to play (so 19.9% plus appointment of a bunch of board members can be a problem), there are three ways to account for a deal: (i) mark to market; (ii) flow through of a pct. (e.g., 50% of the portfolio company's bottom line flows through to the investor); and (iii) flow through of all, with a portion then backed out (this is accounting for subsidiaries). Some stuff is above and below the line, but if you're going to get that sophisticated, hire an accountant.

Some of this may be obsolete - these rules have been changing, and I'm not an accountant. Also, I live with private companies. For public companies, someone else can weigh in.

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I remember in High School, no one in my motorcycle club wanted to sleep with Atticus' sister 20% of the evenings, because if you crossed that line you'd be presumed the father of all lil grinches.

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20% ownership is a typical trigger for poison pill provisions (aka shareholder rights plans). If triggered, the other shareholders (ie, not the 20% acquirer) would have the right to purchase additional shares, thus diluting the acquirer's interest.

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I think it's more than you have to have >80% for certain tax purposes -- like, for my purposes, if our parent owns at least 80% of some entity, they are part of our controlled group for benefit plan reporting and participation and nondiscrimination standards. I think as far as filing consolidated tax returns, the threshhold is 80% as well. So, it's not that the minority entity doesn't want to have 20%, I think, it's that the majority entity doesn't want to have less than 80%.

ETA or, Cletus is probably right. Whoops.