On April 19, 2008, NHL director of hockey operations Colin Campbell sent a memo to the Detroit Red Wings organization that forbids Zamboni drivers from cleaning up any octopuses thrown onto the ice and that violating the mandate would result in a $ 10, 000 fine.

A memo from the Pentagon stated that Afghanistan could become the " Saudi Arabia of lithium ".

A leaked memo from Fox News vice president Bill Sammon to News staff at the height of the health care reform in the United States debate has been cited as an example of the pro-Republican party bias of Fox News.

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

Part of 5 March 1940 memo from Lavrentiy Beria to Stalin proposing execution of Polish officers

In another case, March 28, 2007, the broadcaster paid almost $ 400, 000 in legal fees in a London court to keep an internal memo dealing with alleged anti-Israeli bias from becoming public.

A memo from the Chief of Staff ordered a realignment of the battalion.

Two critical letters from external reviewers Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and Jeffery D. Fisher accompanied the rejection memo.

The creation of NSA resulted from a December 10, 1951, memo sent by Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) Director Walter Bedell Smith to James S. Lay, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council.

SMS as used on modern handsets originated from radio telegraphy in radio memo pagers using standardized phone protocols and later defined as part of the Global System for Mobile Communications ( GSM ) series of standards in 1985 as a means of sending messages of up to 160 characters, to and from GSM mobile handsets.

Three days before this event, which Microsoft advertised as " a standard in reliability ," a leaked memo from Microsoft reported on by Mary Jo Foley revealed that Windows 2000 had " over 63, 000 potential known defects.

According to an internal memo from Philip Morris referring to the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), " the credibility of the EPA is defeatable, but not on the basis of ETS ( environmental tobacco smoke ) alone.

On February 4, 1972, Thurmond sent a secret memo to William Timmons ( in his capacity as an aide to Richard Nixon ) and United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, with an attached file from the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee urging that British musician John Lennon ( living in New York City at the time ) be deported from the United States as an undesirable alien, due to Lennon's political views and activism.

Thurmond's memo and attachment, received by the White House on February 7, 1972, initiated the Nixon administration's persecution of John Lennon that threatened the former Beatle with deportation for nearly five years from 1972 to 1976.

The earliest reference to Vulcan names following a set pattern dates back to a May 3, 1966 memo from TOS producer Robert H. Justman to Gene Roddenberry ( later reprinted in the book The Making of Star Trek ) in which Justman recommended that all Vulcan names begin with " SP " and end with " K ", and have exactly five letters.

( It is clear from the context of the book, however, that the memo was intended as a joke, as the series of memos ends up discussing the pronunciation of such names as " Spook ", " Spilk " and " Spork ".

The professional history of radioactive weaponry may be traced to a 1943 memo from James Bryant Conant, Arthur Holly Compton, and Harold Urey, to Brigadier General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project and to a 1940 science fiction story, " Solution Unsatisfactory " by Lt. J. G. Robert A. Heinlein, USN ( R ).

October 30, 1943 memo from Drs.

" The industry campaign to oust Watson had begun days after George W. Bush's inauguration in January 2001, with a memo to the White House from Randy Randol of oil giant ExxonMobil asking " Can Watson be replaced now at the request of the US?

In 1998, Walter Murch, working from all available material, re-edited the film based on the Welles memo, with Bob O ' Neil, Universal's director of film restoration, and Bill Varney, Universal's Vice President of Sound Operations, participating in the restoration.

McNamara later stated he " never heard back " from Johnson regarding the memo.

This document was, technically, not a memo regarding the Pinto specifically, but a general memo Ford submitted to the NHTSA in an effort to gain an exemption from safety standards ; it was also primarily focused on the cost of reducing deaths from fires resulting from rollovers, rather than the rear-end collision fires that plagued the Pinto.

On April 12, 2007 the London Financial Times reported that, in a 2005 memorandum, Wolfowitz had personally directed the Bank's human resources chief to offer Riza a large pay rise and promotion, according to two anonymous sources who told the Financial Times that they had seen the memo.

The court also heard that a London Metropolitan Police memo described the movement as " a political cult with sinister and dangerous connections.

“ London, The Hague and Canberra are deeply concerned about the absence of solid legal protections for detainees, which – in the age of Gitmo and Abu Ghraib – imperils domestic support for the Afghanistan mission ,” said the memo of December 4, 2006, written by diplomat Richard Colvin.

Lord Lloyd sends a memo to the Prime Minister, in which he points out, inter-alia “ only London contains more Moslems than any other European capital but in our empire which actually contains more Moslems than Christians it was anomalous and inappropriate that there should be no central place of worship for Mussulmans ”.

* Thomas B. London and John F. Reiser, A UNIX Operating System for the DEC VAX-11 / 780 Computer, internal Bell Labs memo dated July 7, 1978, online copy available at Dennis Ritchie's home page, or.

Macnaghten's memo was discovered in the private papers of his daughter, Lady Aberconway, by television journalist Dan Farson in 1959, and an abridged version from the archives of the Metropolitan Police Service was released to the public in the 1970s.

At that time, the Omaha Police had claimed that it had been destroyed ; an FBI memo released after a Freedom of Information Act request demonstrates that the FBI's COINTELPRO program advised the Omaha authorities to suppress the tape.

At the same time, Raeder submitted a memo to Hitler complaining that Plan Z fleet was not large enough, and instead called for an expanded Plan Z fleet of 80 battleships, 15-20 carriers, 100 heavy cruisers, 115 light cruisers, 500 U-boats, and 250 destroyers.

" A memo submitted by the prosecution in February 2011 cited Guandique's harassment of female staff in prison, including soliciting a nurse and masturbating in front of guards.

The Zionist delegation submitted a map that proposed a border west of the Hedjaz Railway, exactly where Balfour had suggested it be drawn in an infamous memo to the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon.

In 1823 he submitted a memo to the House of Commons, again suggesting the repeal of the Act, and a few months later Robert Peel, the Home Secretary, introduced a bill that repealed the entirety of the Black Act except for the provisions that criminalised setting fire to houses and shooting a person.

In late 1941, under the impact of the news of the deportations of German Jews to the death camps in Eastern Europe, Goerdeler submitted a memo to the German government calling for all Jews who had been German citizens or were descended from Jews who been German citizens before 1871 to be classified as Germans, and those Jews who were descended from Jews who had not lived within the borders of Germany prior to 1871 to be considered citizens of Jewish state whose creation would occur later.

In January 1942, Goerdeler submitted another memo to the German government protesting at the deportation of Leipzig Jews.

In May 1943, Goerdeler submitted a memo to the Wallenbergs, which he asked them to pass on to the Anglo-Americans outlining his thoughts on the German – Polish border.

The memo was eventually obtained by LaRouche's attorneys and submitted as an exhibit in the 1987 trial of LaRouche and co-defendants in Boston.

These records show that the " Paltucci case " in relation to the rescue of the Jews was initiated by Bishop Giuseppe Maria Palatucci who, in 1952, submitted a memo to the Ministry of the Interior asking to consider honoring the police commissary as a savior the Jews.

Most of what is known about the actual proceedings of the meetings comes from notes kept by Durant which were later submitted as a memo to the NSC and commonly referred to as the Durant Report.

In June 2002 he wrote a memo to Philip Cooney, which Greenpeace later obtained, outlining their strategy for dealing with what Ebell saw as problems caused by the Climate Action Report 2002, which the US government had submitted to the UN.

In June 2007, a brief to the new Minister for Communications, Eamon Ryan, stated that a memo was submitted by the Department of Communications to the Irish Government in May 2007 seeking approval for the implementation of the postcode system.