Between 2002 and 2006, SCI reduced its net debt ( total debt minus cash ) by more than $ 1. 0 billion, increased operating cash flow, and simplified its field management organization to enhance efficiency, performance, and accountability.

For its shareholders, SCI returned value through more than $ 335 million in share repurchases, and it resumed payment of a regular quarterly dividend in early 2005, the first since 1999.

In 2009 SCI put in a bid to purchase Keystone North America for $ 208 million.

On January 23, 2004, the TFSC fined SCI an additional $ 21, 000 for administrative penalties.

SCI also settled a separate class-action lawsuit on behalf of 350 families for $ 100 million.

As a result, in December 2011, the State Board announced a Consent Agreement and levied the biggest fine in its history, $ 18, 000, against Stanetsky and SCI, and suspended the license of the Stanetsky general manager for a year.

On September 14, 2009, a class-action lawsuit was filed against SCI and Eden Memorial Park, a Jewish cemetery managed by SCI in Mission Hills, charging that they were destroying graves to make room for new interments.

Once it is determined a person should have access to an SCI compartment, they sign a nondisclosure agreement, are " read in " or indoctrinated, and the fact of this access is recorded in a local access register or in a computer database.

Although SCI very often leads to loss of certain sensations and altered self-perception, a person with this disturbance is not deprived of sexual feelings such as sexual arousal and erotic desires.

In 2006, SCI merged with Alderwoods Group, its nearest competitor in terms of size.

A typical funeral home that is owned by SCI will not contain advertisements or logos for the corporation, with the exception, perhaps, of pins on staff lapels.

Referred to as " Funeralgate " or " Formaldegate " in the media, the controversy was widely publicized when Eliza May, a director with the Texas Funeral Service Commission ( TFSC ), was fired while investigating SCI.

and a few days later, the Post reported that Robert Ranghelli, one of the SCI employees who had corroborated the initial reports of improper handing of corpses, was fired for " speaking with the media " after having been on administrative leave for several months following the initial reports in the newspaper.

The family's lawyer, Gordon T. Walker, said SCI could be hit with additional costs, as there is a pending claim that the company violated the state's consumer protection law.

In other words, the SIPRNET is the DoD ’ s classified version of the civilian Internet together with its counterpart, the Top Secret and SCI Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, JWICS.

SCI FI Wire posted an email interview with Brust after Dzur came out.

A 2004 study compared the effects of hydrotherapy on spasticity, oral baclofen dosage and Functional Independence Measure ( FIM ) scores of patients with a spinal cord injury ( SCI ).

SCI was essentially a subset of Futurebus features that could be easily implemented at high speed, along with a few minor additions to make it easier to connect to other systems, such as VMEbus.

) In SCI each node contains a directory with a pointer to the next node in a linked list that shares a particular cache line.

SCI can be used to build systems with different types of switching topologies from centralized to fully distributed switching.

Instead SCI uses a distributed directory-based cache coherence protocol with a linked list of nodes containing processors that share a particular cache line.

Sympathetic to the early ideals of the French Revolution, Holcroft assisted in the publication of the first part of Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man in 1791 He joined the Society for Constitutional Information ( SCI ) in 1792 and was appointed a member of a liaison committee to work with the LCS in early 1794.

By 1971 the Maharishi had completed thirteen world tours and visited 50 countries and held a press conference with American inventor Buckminster Fuller at his first International Symposium on SCI at the university in Amherst, Massachusetts.

The first emblem of Sport Club Internacional was designed with the initials SCI in red over a white background, without the red contour that appeared shortly afterwards.

Not stopping with the spring tour, SCI has released nearly every song from every concert from every tour through the present, barring those where technical difficulties or contractual guest artist complications are involved.

Kyle Hollingsworth plays with various side projects around Colorado including his own band, Kyle Hollingsworth, that plays SCI songs Kyle has written over the years as well as some of his other original pieces.

As with TS clearances, Sensitive Compartmented Information ( SCI ) clearances are assigned only after one has been through the rigors of a Single Scope Background Investigation and a special adjudication process for evaluating the investigation.

The Mellotron phased out altogether with the addition of the Roland RS-202 string and brass synthesizer, then the SCI Prophet 10 and the ARP Quadra synthesizer.

Before 2009 MUM freshmen and transfer students began their first semester with the 33 lesson SCI course.

The university president, Morris, has credited the knowledge and principles of SCI with contributing to the success of its graduates and SCI degrees have been awarded to Morris, Doug Henning, Mike Tompkins, Benjamin Feldman the Finance Minister for Global Country of World Peace, best-selling author John Gray, and " Invincible Defense Technology " expert David R. Leffler.

Activities of daily living ( ADL ’ s ) can be quite challenging at first for those with a spinal cord injury ( SCI ).

Note that La Belle, Luzerne, Dutch Hill, Maxwell and East Fredericktown are serviced by the post office in La Belle and thus have the same zip code ( 15450 ), as does SCI Fayette, a Pennsylvania state prison.

In October 2003, SCI released their fourth studio album, Untying the Not, produced by Martin " Youth " Glover, formerly of the band the Killing Joke.

SCI and the state of Texas were required to jointly pay the decision.

An SSBI is required for Top Secret, Q, and SCI access, and involves agents contacting employers, coworkers and other individuals.

Since the SCI engine required a more powerful home computer, Sierra released an AGI version of the game at the same time.

SCI is classified information concerning or derived from intelligence sources, methods, or analytical processes, which is required to be handled within formal access control systems established by the Director of Central Intelligence ( DCI ).

Local Authorities are also now required to produce Local Development Schemes ( LDS )-which outline the work the LDDs / SPDs they intend to produce over a three year period, and Statements of Community Involvement ( SCI ), which outline how the Council will involve the local community.

Critics and fans of the series felt betrayed by the use of Disney-style cartoon graphics and the elimination of the SCI interface in favor of an overly-simplistic interface which required players to do little more than click on hotspots on the screen throughout the game.

With its headquarters in Neartown, Houston, Texas, United States, SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in 43 states, eight Canadian provinces, and Puerto Rico.

SCI began as a small network of funeral homes and cemeteries in the Houston area.

On December 31, 1999, SCI owned and operated 3, 823 funeral service locations, 525 cemeteries, 198 crematoria and two insurance operations located in 20 countries on five continents.

By unifying its network of funeral homes and cemeteries under one brand name, SCI believed it could establish recognizable and communicable brand values.