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Our single camera video shoot is perfect for capturing a wedding ceremony, engagement shoots, marriage proposals, maternity shoots, or any other event. Our videographer uses Bluetooth technology for crisp clean audio even on a windy beach. Average edited product is approximately 7-12 minutes. We will title the video and sync in your favorite songs for a personal touch. Still photos can be added as well at the customers request. Email, call or text for more information. Below are a few sample videos to see what you get with this service.
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Our Wedding Gold Package includes everything in our Wedding Silver plus an additional 1/2 hour extension for additional reception dance party shots. Sparklers, moonlight etc.
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Birthday boy becomes brewer - Double Barley Brewery celebrates grand opening
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By Paula Seligson, Staff Writer, The Smithfield Herald — pseligson@newsobserver.com
WILSON'S MILLS — Johnston County's newest brewery began as a birthday present.
When Cheryl Lane gave her husband Larry a brew kit for his 40th birthday, neither thought the gift would lead to Double Barley Brewing, which opened this month on U.S. 70.
By training, the Lanes are mechanical engineers who graduated from N.C. State University. They live in Clayton.
"It's a crazy story," Cheryl Lane said. "I gave my husband Larry, who's the brewer, a kit for his 40th birthday. He's just now 46, and this is what we have."
What the Lanes have is a 20-barrel brew house, a tap room fashioned from the wood and tin of an old barn and 25 beer recipes.
The community's support has helped the dream come alive, Cheryl Lane said. Forty percent of the company is in stock sold to friends and family. That money helped the Lanes lease a building and buy larger-capacity brewing equipment.
The couple also held a Kickstarter campaign to create a "beer garden." In just two months, they exceeded their $25,000 goal, raising $26,465. The garden is an outdoor patio-like space where people can enjoy beer while listening to live music.
After Larry received the birthday present, the brew kit sat idle for a couple of months. Until, "on a cold winter day, I decided I was going to brew something," he said. "And we brewed, and that batch turned out really good. I got the bug, started brewing. I'm a mechanical engineer. From the technical aspect, combined with being able to create a beer and flavor it the way you want, it is pretty neat."
The Lanes had always wanted to own their own business, and after family and friends showed interest, they decided to move forward with a business plan.
Letters from their homeowners' association also helped move things along; the brewing equipment had started in the garage but ended up out on the driveway for lack of space. The Lanes leased the building in July 2012 and have spent the last year putting the space together. They installed the brewery equipment just a month ago.
"We just always wanted to do our own thing," Cheryl Lane said. "His beer was so amazing, I couldn't deny that. I wanted him to have his dream, so he continued to brew and came up with 25 recipes, and the feedback was incredible, so we just decided to do it."
For Cheryl Lane, this was also a chance to get back into the workforce after staying home to raise their three sons, who are now in high school.
Larry still works as a consultant, while Cheryl runs the business.
"We're crazy," she said. "I don't even know how we did it. Everything happened in the right order to make this happen. Thank God we could raise the money in order to do it and do it the way we wanted."
The brewery and the tap room had a soft opening on the third weekend of September. With just a Facebook post and a few texts to friends, more than 100 people showed up.
"People liked the beer," Larry said. "It's awesome to be able to make something that people really enjoy and to give them an environment that they like to come and hang out in."
The brewery's grand opening is Saturday, Oct. 12. The Lanes will have five beers available: Revelation Pale Ale, Abby's Amber Ale, Thrilla' in Vanilla Porter, Wilma's Wandering EyePA and Steakcake Stout – good with both stake and cake, Cheryl Lane said.
The Lanes plan to eventually launch the beers commercially and put them on taps and in grocery stores across North Carolina.
Richard Hinnant, who lives in Micro and owns Hinnant Plumbing, met the Lanes at a beer-tasting event. He is doing the plumbing work for their building and comes by the tap room to get a drink — after hours, of course.
Hinnant, who does some of his own home brews, said tasting variations of the Lanes' beers has been a learning experience. " It's very cool to listen to them talk, 'We're going to change this,' and then see the end product," he said.
Photo: Jason Hardy (center) of First Citizens Bank enjoys the ribbon cutting on October 9 with Owners Larry and Cheryl Lane.
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Date of Birth: December 5, 1901
Place of Birth: Hermosa, Chicago
Claim to Fame: founder, Laugh-O-gram Films, Inc.; founder, Walt Disney Co.
Spouse: Lillian Disney
Date of Death: December 15, 1966
Place of Death: Burbank, California
Cause of Death: lung cancer
Final Resting Place: Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles
Walt Disney. Courtesy of the LaBudde Special Collections at UMKC.
When strolling through Disneyland or Walt Disney World, few visitors would remember that Walt Disney first started his animation career in Kansas City, Missouri. On May 23, 1922, Disney pursued that dream as he opened his first studio at 1127 East 31st Street. The business, named Laugh-O-gram Films, Inc., failed dismally. Nonetheless, many enthusiasts fondly recall the story of Disney's inglorious first corporate venture in Kansas City.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1901, Walter Elias Disney moved with his family to Marceline, Missouri, at the age of five. In 1910 or 1911 (sources differ), the Disney family moved to Kansas City, where Walt helped his father and brother deliver Kansas City Star newspapers at 3:30 a.m. During these years, Walt attended the Benton School and occasionally took classes at the Kansas City Art Institute.
After a return to Chicago and a stint serving in the Red Cross in Europe immediately following World War I, Disney came back to Kansas City, where he was hired by an advertising agency named the Kansas City Film Ad Company. Using a movie camera borrowed from the ad agency, Disney and a few friends experimented with animations in the family garage.
Disney and his friends created "Laugh-O-grams," which were very short silent animation clips that complemented feature films at the Newman Theater in Kansas City. The target audience for the first Laugh-O-gram was local, as it parodied a recent scandal in the Kansas City police department.
The modest success of Laugh-O-grams made Disney a locally-recognized entertainer. He used his new-found influence to bring together a small group of "employees" (really they were hobbyists), to make an animated version of "Little Red Riding Hood." When they completed this longer cartoon, Disney boldly decided to open his own studio at the age of 20. Several locals who were encouraged by his early success invested $15,000 in Laugh-O-gram Films, Inc., which gained legal status on May 23, 1922.
The studio opened on the second floor of the small McConahy Building on 31st Street. It employed Walt Disney and four other regularly-paid employees. Laugh-O-gram Films quickly attained an $11,100 contract from a company named Pictorial Clubs to produce a cartoon series. Unfortunately, Pictorial Clubs failed to pay more than a $100 down payment, and Disney's company quickly became insolvent. In July 1923, after just more than a year of existence, Laugh-O-gram Films went bankrupt. Walt Disney departed for Los Angeles in hopes of greener pastures.
Walt Disney working at Laugh-o-Gram studios. Courtesy of the LaBudde Special Collections at UMKC.
Despite the failure of Disney's first venture, Laugh-O-gram Films was the starting point for his future success. Just before the company went bankrupt, Disney began a cartoon called "Alice's Wonderland," based on Lewis Carroll's children's story, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Disney completed and used this cartoon to establish a reputation in Los Angeles.
In 1928, Disney finally found national success with the debut of Mickey Mouse, which emerged as the main cartoon character for Disney's film and theme park empire. Disney later recalled that the inspiration for Mickey Mouse came from a mouse he found and kept as a pet at the McConahy Building in Kansas City. Accordingly, Disney's first studio in Kansas City is an important part of American popular culture history. Today, Thank You Walt Disney, Inc., is planning to restore the crumbling McConahy building and open a Walt Disney museum at the site.
Walt Disney's Missouri: The Roots of a Creative Genius
Biography of Walt Disney (1901-1966), Film Producer
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
This article has been adapted from an article published at KChistory.org.


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Pokemon Go - Its Effect On Us
Pokemon Go was released only a few days ago, and you might have actually become obsessed with the game, or are simply irritated with all the discussions that have been going around regarding this game. Nintendo's all new Android and Apple game is a real world Pokemon collecting game. You can also battle with other players, and even team up with local players to take over a certain area to collect Pokemons.
The game not only encourages players to leave their couch and go outside their house, it also acts as an inspiration of feel good news stories and a lot of good deeds pertaining to the players. The game received a lot of negative criticism from the media, as well as suffered some server problems. But even so, it has received some wonderful reviews on the App stores as well as various online forums. So if you are in the mood for finding out how Pokemon GO can be beneficial for you, we will now look at certain effects Pokemon GO has had on people. Read on to find out more.
Many researchers and health experts have conducted several studies and have come to the conclusion that when an individual is exposed to nature and the surrounding environment, there are certain positive changes in that person's mental health. These studies also came up with the conclusion that the connection people share with shared gaming or with multiplayer video games has a positive effect on our entire physiology, including our brain and mental capacity.
The exact scientific language of these findings may seem to be a bit complex, but what we can tell you is that both these two concepts together make up the Pokemon GO mobile game. The main aspect of this game is that players will have to wander around outside their homes. But for those special few, who believe in the decades old Pokemon tagline of GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL, then they need to find different locations every day to find and catch different Pokemons in the game. Many players are of the opinion that waterways, green spaces and parks are perfect for anyone who wants to catch rare Pokemons, and it has been seen that almost all parks can be considered as PokeStops, that is, places where catching Pokemons becomes easy.
Once the game was launched, several individuals, who were patients of chronic anxiety and depression, claimed that playing the game has brought about a flurry of change in their mental health condition. The game has gotten people who are forced to stay at home due to depression to leave their homes and go out on a Pokemon finding quest. Getting out of the house for hours and feeling the presence of the natural environment always has a positive effect on the mind and body.
It is extremely vital that we do not overestimate the benefits of the Pokemon GO game, but a noteworthy point here is that researchers have proven beyond any doubt that the use of such technology can decrease the levels of stress and depression. The main benefit of the game here is the improvement it causes to the mental health of a person.There is just one side effect associated with playing Pokemon GO. Any person can pick you out as a Pokemon GO player quite easily. Players can be seen hanging around in gyms, in parks, and various other places, with their heads buried in their smartphones, trying to find rare Pokemons. These people stick out like a literal sore thumb.
But even after this side effect, people are actually planning meetups and group Pokemon hunting campaigns to make the game even more interesting, and keep it that way. Pokemon GO has actually become a nice way for players to meet other players, almost every day.


Situated right at the foothills of Red Rock Canyon is an upscale community called Red Rock Country Club.
This community, stretching across 738 acres of land, is part of the Summerlin master plan.
Living at Red Rock Country Club, right at the foothills of Red Rock Canyon, is just amazing. At night, residents of this community can view the stunning backlighting of the canyon walls.
At the center of this upscale community are two Arnold Palmer-designed championship, 18 hole courses. One of these golf courses is public, the other one is one semi-private.
This posh community has a 44,000 sq. ft. Main Clubhouse. The Main Clubhouse features a stately board room, media center, casual and elegant dining, steam rooms, ladies and gentlemen's locker rooms with private lounge and well stocked golf pro shop.
Red Rock Country Club's 9,500 sq. ft. Sports Clubhouse features a wide array of fitness facilities for its residents.
The Tennis Complex of Red Rock Country Club features nine hard surface, well lighted tennis courts. This Tennis Complex also features a stadium court.
This community has an Aquatic Center which features different types of swimming pools, from a lap pool, to resort-style family pool, therapeutic spa pool and adults-only pool.


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New service will offer nanometre-level positioning systems
The precision positioning specialist, Physik Instrumente (PI), has launched an application and product customisation service in the UK to meet a growing demand for bespoke mechanical positioning systems delivering nanometric levels of precision.
Safety consultancy will address CE marking problems
Derek Coulson, one of the founders of Laidler Associates, has set up a new machinery safety consultancy, called Safe Machine, to address the difficulties that UK manufacturers are experiencing in the field of machinery safety and, in particular, CE marking.
Offshore event will make its debut alongside the Drives show in 2014
DFA Media, the publisher of Drives & Controls and organiser of the Drives & Controls Show, is launching a new exhibition targeting the oil and gas, power generation and renewable energy markets. Called European Offshore & Energy, the new show will run alongside the next Drives exhibition and other events including Mach, Fluid Power & Systems, Plant & Asset Maintenance and Air-Tech at the NEC, Birmingham, from 8–10 April, 2014.
New-generation controls mark 'a huge step in performance'
Siemens believes that its new generation of industrial controllers and automation software could boost its share of the UK industrial controls market by about 10%. The S7-1500 PLCs, and version 12 of Siemens' TIA (Totally Integrated Automation) Portal software, which made their debuts at the recent SPS/IPC/Drives show in Germany, are now available in the UK.
Machine matches chain lengths to within 10µm
The chain manufacturer Donghua has installed a chain-length measuring machine in its UK workshop which can measure to up to 5m of chain to within 10µm per metre (about one tenth the width of a human hair).
New HQ doubles distributor's floor space
Acorn Industrial Services, the Rotherham-based distributor of power transmission products and linear systems, has relocated its three warehouses into a single 3,700m2 distribution centre at Hellaby.
Motor-maker launches product-sourcing service
Parvalux, the Bournemouth-based manufacturer of AC and DC geared motors, has launched a service to source and supply related products for its customers. It has set up a network of suppliers to provide all of the items on a bill of material.
UK Government earmarks £35m to boost robotics
The UK Government has announced plans to invest £35m to fund research into robotics and autonomous systems as part of a £600m programme to promote eight areas of science and technology that it believes will help to propel the UK's future growth.
UK robot sales hit an all-time high
The number of industrial robots sold in the UK hit an all-time high of 2,476 in 2012, almost doubling the previous record of 1,336 set in 2011.
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Snowtown Wind Farm
The 270MW Snowtown 2 Wind Farm was commissioned in October 2014, producing an average of 875GWh of electricity per year.
Annual Output
875 GWh
Snowtown, South Australia
AU$400 million
90 turbines (10 x SWT101 & 80 x SWT108, 3.0MW direct drive turbines)
The Snowtown 2 Wind Farm is located adjacent to the Snowtown 1 Wind Farm on the Barunga Ranges in the north and along the Hummocks Ranges to the south.
The Snowtown 2 Wind Farm is separated into two north and south portions connected via an electrical and communications network which feeds back to an onsite substation located at Barunga Gap.
The electricity is connected into the national electricity network via a 28km of dedicated 275kV overhead transmission line running from the wind farm substation to new switching station 7km west of Blyth.
The Snowtown 2 Wind Farm is comprised of 90 wind turbines, including 10 Siemens SWT-101-3.0MW and 80 Siemens SWT-108-3.0MW turbines.
"Snowtown Stage 2 was the first project in Australia to deploy the Siemens direct drive machines, a major leap forward in turbine technology."
Both turbines utilise permanent magnet generators and direct drive technology. The 10 SWT-101 turbines have a hub height of 80m and a blade length of 49m. The 80 SWT-108 turbines have a hub height of 80m and a blade length of 53m.
The total output of the combined Snowtown wind farms is 370MW, making it the biggest in South Australia.
The annual output of the combined Snowtown Wind Farm is 1,232GWh of renewable energy.
This is enough electricity to power over 200,000 South Australian homes. The wind farm offsets approximately 600,000 tonnes of CO2 produced by thermal electricity generation every year, the equivalent of removing around 200,000 cars from South Australia's roads.
The combined Snowtown Wind Farm is the second largest, and one of the best performing wind farms in Australia.
Final planning approvals for Snowtown 2 Wind Farm were secured in August 2012 to install 90 Siemens 3.0 MW turbines with an output of up to 270MW.
The wind farm was approved following a number of environmental and social impact assessments, including:
Application for Planning Variation 28 April 2010
The Snowtown Wind Farm was used as a case study for the South Australian government's 'South Australian Multiple Land Use Framework'.
The case study outlines how Tilt Renewables worked closely with the potentially affected landowners (both on and adjacent to the proposed site) and local community to ensure that the impacts of the construction of the turbines were kept to a minimum, the community and relevant stakeholders were kept well informed and the community were supported and there were social, economical and environmental benefits from the development. The relationships that Tilt Renewables fostered with landowners and local community groups was fundamental to the project's success.
A copy of the case study can be downloaded here.
Tilt Renewables is committed to open and honest dialogue with all stakeholders, with an aim to build and enhance community acceptance and trust in all projects and in the renewable energy industry as a whole.
We welcome your feedback if you have any concerns and are happy to assist with any questions you may have about the project.
We are also committed to providing financial support to the local community through community benefit programs. This includes the Snowtown Wind Farm Lend a Hand Fund.
The program provides funds for community projects and initiatives in the area and is administered by an independent community group.
Further details about the found can be found here:
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For further information on the Snowtown 2 Wind Farm please contact the project team at [email protected] or on 1800 WE TILT (1800 938 458).
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Replace those old, plain, boring, light switch covers with this 1970 Dodge Challenger light switch cover. Give this as a gift to that special man or woman in your life, or keep it for yourself. This light switch cover will look great in any office or in any home.
These can't only be made for single but also for double, triple, and quadruple (quad) light switch covers as well. The Automobile can be positioned in the middle, or to the right or to the left of the double light switch cover. Please indicate this in the comments section when checking out.
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At least 21 cyclists have died on SA streets since 2014. A photo project wants drivers to pay attention
by Iris Dimmick May 12, 2021 May 12, 2021
Photographer Dan Rosales has taken more than 200 portraits of local cyclists for the Human Cyclists Project, an initiative of SATX Social Ride. Credit: Courtesy / Chris Stokes
Mother, friend, daughter, papi, amor. People are naturally at the center of the Human Cyclists Project, which aims to get motorists to view cyclists not as obstacles but as human beings.
"When you put a face to them, it takes a different meaning," said local photographer Dan Rosales. "It's not just some kid who's out on a bike ride. It's, you know, it's families."
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The Human Cyclists Project is an initiative of SATX Social Ride, a group that promotes safe bike rides around the city, and features portraits of smiling cyclists holding up signs that identify them as members of families. Rosales has taken more than 200 of these portraits over the past two years, and the bike group plans to add hundreds more post-pandemic.
Ultimately, the goal is to feature them in a gallery and as part of public service announcements across San Antonio, said Jeffrey Moore, co-founder of SATX Social Ride.
The "share the road" project first took shape in 2016 after a member of the group was severely injured by a motorist. Additional cyclist deaths, including that of local cycling advocate Tito Bradshaw in 2019, provided further impetus, Moore said.
"It's still the same concept," he said. "Put a face to that bike rider. … You just see the the huge spectrum of people that ride bikes."
Between 2015 and 2020, 20 cyclists have been killed in incidents involving motor vehicles in San Antonio and another nearly 2,000 were injured, according to Vision Zero San Antonio, the City's initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities. In 2020, San Antonio saw fewer deaths and injuries, likely due to reduced vehicular traffic during the pandemic.
This graph shows how many cyclists have died in incidents involving motor vehicles in San Antonio. Credit: Courtesy / Vision Zero San Antonio
This graph shows how many cyclists have been injured by motor vehicles in San Antonio. Credit: Courtesy / Vision Zero San Antonio
The most recent high-profile cycling fatality occurred April 7 when 44-year-old Beatrice "Bea" Gonzalez died after being struck by a car near downtown on April 7.
Samantha Leigh Castillo was charged with intoxication manslaughter and is out on bond awaiting indictment. Gonzalez's two children, Danielle and David, have filed a lawsuit seeking at least $20 million in damages from Castillo and Cerveza Chapultepec, the bar that allegedly served her alcohol, according to KSAT.
Gonzalez was killed just days after family and friends of Bradshaw gathered to honor his life two years after an alleged drunken driver struck and killed him on April 1, 2019.
The driver indicted in that incident, Linda Collier Mason, is awaiting trial this month. Harry Bradshaw, Tito's father, said the Bexar County District Attorney's Office informed him that prosecutors offered Mason a plea deal: 10 years probation.
"We're just hurt by the fact that so many cyclists have now been killed in San Antonio," Bradshaw said. "And it seems like all the people … that kill [cyclists] get away with a slap on the wrist. … Ten years probation is a long time, but that's not bringing our loved ones back or any justice served to the loved ones that was hurt."
Valentino Bradshaw holds a sign calling for justice for his father, Tito Bradshaw, a cyclist who was killed by an alleged drunken driver in 2019. Credit: Courtesy / The Bradshaw Family
The presiding judge will likely rule on the plea deal on May 17.
The attitudes of the justice system and the general public need to change before San Antonio can reach its goal of eliminating road deaths, Moore said.
"The sympathy or the doubt … goes to the benefit of the car drivers because we all are driving cars," he said. "Not many people are aware of how dangerous it is or the immense responsibility that it is to drive a car, especially with pedestrians and bike riders out on the road."
Moore is also a committee member for the Live to Ride fund, which was established through the San Antonio Area Foundation to raise money for bike safety awareness and to improve bike infrastructure throughout the city.
San Antonio lacks a network of safe bike lanes found in bike-friendly cities, he said. The city received a bronze report card from the League of American Bicyclists. The only city in Texas to receive a gold rating is Austin. San Antonio's Bike Score at Walkscore.com, which grades neighborhoods based on bike infrastructure and road connectivity, is 45 out of 100, qualifying as a "car-dependent city."
Tomika Monterville, who was recently hired to lead the City's new Transportation Department, aims to drastically improve the built environment for bikes and attitude towards multimodal transportation.
The City has a head start in the Howard W. Peak Greenway Trail, Monterville said. "Historically, we've looked at it as Parks and Recreation, but … that's a major infrastructure component for bicycle mobility and it's a part of our transportation network. It's not just being utilized by people who want to take a leisurely stroll."
San Antonio's Bike Master Plan is more than 10 years out of date, and the Transportation Department will take a "deep dive" to overhaul it, she said.
"As my mother was saying, when you know better, you do better," she said. "We've learned a lot. We've had significant fatalities in 2019 [and] we don't want that to be the case."
The department is determining the scope of work and will be requesting money in the City's 2021 budget to hire a consultant to update the Bike Master Plan. Ultimately, Monterville said she expects that the current annual $1 million that the city allocates to bike infrastructure and activities will need to be drastically increased.
San Antonio needs to catch up on its bike infrastructure, she said. "That's why this plan is going to cost a lot of money because we have not done a lot. … [The plan] design is going to be informed through a collaborative regional process so that we can connect people with primary bike corridors and secondary bike corridors, much like we do with transit."
In the meantime, SATX Social Ride plans to restart its massive downtown group rides as soon as this month, which is National Bike Month, Moore said, noting that recent San Antonio Mural Rides have attracted hundreds of riders.
On May 21, the City is partnering with the Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization to host a Bike to Work Day. Refreshments and bike checks will be available from 7-11.a.m and 3-5:30 p.m.
Rosales will continue to take photos of cyclists for the Human Cyclist Project and at local races. Although he works as a nurse, cycling photography has become a passion of his.
"I've been a cyclist all my life and I've got a son who rides. … My daughter just now decided to ride," he said. "And so anything I can do to, you know, just bring some of our issues to light, I'm always for that."
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Lok Sabha Passes Companies Law Bill To Decriminalise Small Offences, Promote Ease Of Doing Business
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Saturday unanimously passed a Bill which has the provisions to promote ease of doing business and ease of living for corporates in India and decriminalisation provision for firms indulging in small offences. The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2020 seeks to amend the Companies Act, 2013. The Bill was moved in […]
Published: Sunday, 20 September 2020
Last updated: 20 September 2020, 07:38 AM IST
Nirmala-Sitharaman
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Saturday unanimously passed a Bill which has the provisions to promote ease of doing business and ease of living for corporates in India and decriminalisation provision for firms indulging in small offences.
The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2020 seeks to amend the Companies Act, 2013. The Bill was moved in the Lok Sabha on March 17, 2020 to introduce certain modifications to the Companies Act, 2013.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman moved the Bill in the House for its passage after a marathon discussion while passing the Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation and Amendment of Certain Provisions) Bill, 2020.
The Bill was passed following a lengthy debate on Saturday evening, almost three hours after the scheduled time set for the House to run in the ongoing Monsoon Session that ends at 7 p.m.
The Finance Minister said that decriminalisation will benefit small MSMES (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises).
"If we put these small businessmen into jail for small offences, it will affect their family," Sitharaman said.
The Minister said there were 134 penal provisions when the law was made in 2013 and now these have come down to 124 after the passing of the Bill.
However, the minister clarified that the number of serious offences or non-compoundable offences will remain the same as 2013 -- 35.
She explained that non-compoundable offences included frauds and those hurting public interest, and said "there is no provision to give the offenders relief under this law."
Sitharaman said, "When we talk about the amendments, there will be decriminalisation on 48 sections, providing ease of living by reducing the burden of paper work."
The minister said that the government is adding a new chapter to the Bill which will benefit producer organisations so that they can do direct business.
Under the 2013 Act, certain provisions from the Companies Act, 1956 continue to apply to producer companies. These include provisions on their membership, conduct of meetings, and maintenance of accounts.
Producer companies include companies which are engaged in the production, marketing and sale of agricultural produce, and sale of produce from cottage industries.
The Bill removes these provisions and adds a new chapter to the Act with similar provisions for producer companies.
The Bill makes three changes. First, it removes the penalty for certain offences. For example, it removes the penalties which apply for any change in the rights of a class of shareholders made in violation of the Act. Where a specific penalty is not mentioned, the Act prescribes a penalty of up to Rs 10,000 which may extend to Rs 1,000 per day for a continuing default.
Second, it removes imprisonment in certain offences. For example, it removes the imprisonment of three years applicable to a company for buying back its shares without complying with the Act.
Third, it reduces the amount of fine payable in certain offences. For example, it reduces the maximum fine for failure to file an annual return with the Registrar of Companies from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 2 lakh.
Under the Act, small companies are only liable to pay up to 50 per cent of the penalty for certain offences. The Bill extends this provision to all producer companies and startups.
The Bill empowers the Central government to allow certain classes of public companies to list classes of securities (as may be prescribed) in foreign jurisdictions. The Bill empowers the Central government, in consultation with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), to exclude companies issuing specified classes of securities from the definition of a "listed company".
Under the Act, companies with net worth, turnover or profits above a specified amount are required to constitute CSR committees and spend 2 per cent of their average net profit in the last three financial years towards its CSR policy.
The Bill exempts companies with a CSR liability of up to Rs 50 lakh a year from setting up CSR committees.
Further, companies which spend any amount in excess of their CSR obligation in a financial year can set off the excess amount towards their CSR obligations in subsequent financial years.
The Bill also empowers the Central government to require classes of unlisted companies (as may be prescribed) to prepare and file periodical financial results, and to complete the audit or review of such results.
It also seeks to establish benches of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT).
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I recently came to the realization that for the first time in 10 years, this summer will be different. For the first time in 10 years, we will not have the upcoming hockey season hanging over our heads during the summer. While it makes me sad to think that those days are moving further and further into the past, it excites me because it also means that we can do whatever the hell we want, whenever the hell we want, without having to worry about compromising the upcoming season. In other words, we can go on spontaneous and mysterious adventures.
As mentioned before, we have a big mystery family trip planned this summer. Destination? Unknown. I can't tell you because I don't want to, but because I actually have no idea where we're going. We're almost t minus 2 months from departure and the suspense is killing me!
Since the destination is unknown, internet connectivity is also unknown. And that is fine with me - 10ish disconnected days filled with family. To fill my absence, I am looking for guest bloggers to take over T.O. & fro! Interested? There will be 4 spaces available on a first come, first serve basis.
Update: All 4 spaces have been filled. Thank you for your interest!
What month would you be looking for Hun? July or August?
Also just out of curiosity, and since I'm a new reader, your hubby isn't playing in the Euro league anymore?


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Cultural Checkup: Entourage – Season Eight
Cultural Checkup: Season Eight
[This week, I'm going to be checking in on a number of shows that I've been watching but not writing about this summer. Tomorrow, I'll be looking back at an uneven season of USA's White Collar.]
I didn't hate the seventh season of Entourage.
After six years of wishing the show would stop trying to be a bawdy comedy and start embracing its dramatic potential, the show finally listened to me at the point where it had run out of goodwill. The show had driven itself into the ground, to the point where there was no hope of it truly evolving into a more interesting series, and yet it was finally telling the kind of stories it should have been telling from the beginning. It took Vince down a self-destructive path, it explored his relationship with Eric (to the point of almost ending it), and it seemed to find a more comfortable balance between Vince's career and his entourage's own lives.
Now, the show stopped being funny along the way, but I never found it all that funny to begin with, so to see the show trying something new excited me. And so I'm equally excited to see that the show isn't screwing around in its eighth season, taking some "risks" based on its own precedent and exploring the challenges of new beginnings instead of exploring the thrills of excess.
It's still not funny, but I'm surprisingly invested in where they intend to take the show in its final season.
Tagged as Analysis, Andrew Dice Clay, Ari, Dana Gordon, Eric, Final Season, HBO, Jeremy Piven, Kevin Dillon, Review, Season 8, Suicide, Turtle, Vince
Friday Night Lights – "Don't Go"
If Friday Night Lights had ended after three seasons, I would have been incredibly disappointed. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show have featured some tremendous moments, introducing new characters and offering more opportunities for Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton to demonstrate their command of the Taylor family dynamic. The idea of losing the tragedy of "The Son," and never meeting Vince Howard and Luke Cafferty, is the sort of televisual counterfactual that I don't even want to consider.
And yet, "Don't Go" made me consider it. While the episode demonstrates the degree to which these two short seasons have made a considerable impact, it also demonstrates how far one character in particular has fallen. While the series may be reaching its conclusion, there has been no attempt to sugar coat the fact that not everything is going to turn out in the end. In fact, "Don't Go" is very much about the interrogation of what exactly would constitute a happy ending for this series, questioning if there is any combination of conclusions which won't simultaneously touch our hearts and break them in half.
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Tagged as Analysis, Buddy Garrity, DirecTV, Don't Go, Episode 10, Eric Taylor, Final Season, Kyle Chandler, Luke Cafferty, Parole, Review, Season 5, Shane State, Taylor Kitsch, Tim Riggins, Vince Howard
Friday Night Lights – "Gut Check"
Thanks to a particularly busy schedule and some difficulties getting access to the episodes in question, Friday Night Lights' fifth season has been mostly absent from Cultural Learnings. And yet, this is about to change, both because of greater access and because there is a growing sense of urgency.
Not really within the show itself: while there is certainly plenty of tension on the series right now, it continues to follow the slow burn mentality it always has. And yet my relationship with the series has taken on a certain tension, as it is becoming more and more clear that this is a show which is about to come to its end. I could have waited until the NBC airings to cover the show, but this is going to be the real ending: this is when critics will write their posts on the series' legacy, this will be when the fans will respond to the fond (or, who knows, potentially tragic) farewells, and this is when I want to say goodbye.
And so I'll likely be checking in with the series weekly from now until the finale – for now, a few brief thoughts on the season as a whole and a more detailed review of "Gut Check" after the jump.
Tagged as Becky, Chicago, Connie Britton, Cress Williams, Episode 9, Final Season, Julie Taylor, Kyle Chandler, Luke Cafferty, Matt Saracen, Review, Season 5, Television, TV, Vince Howard, Zach Gilford
Season Premiere: Lost – "LA X"
"LA X"
"Nothing is Irreversible."
To say that I am excited about the final season of Lost is an understatement, but it doesn't tell the entire story.
I was excited, for instance, for the final season of Battlestar Galactica, but that season had clear expectations in terms of dealing with the identities of the final five Cylons, and was divided into two halves so as to stretch it out further. With Lost, there is no such clarity, as the show could be headed in any bloody direction we could imagine, and it will be completely over in only a few short months. And this is a show that I started watching on day one, that I remained devoted to throughout its run, and that was an important part of my transition into TV criticism.
So "LA X" is the culmination of a six-year journey, and my only hope going into the premiere was that it would feel like the beginning of the end without feeling like the end of the beginning, that it would seem like it was the same show that came before while clearly marching towards a conclusion.
And what we got was an episode of television that turns the show's world upside down while simultaneously fitting pieces together to work towards that conclusion, and by balancing the two almost to perfection Lindelof and Cuse have made this just as exciting and eventful as I hoped it would be, all while making me even more confused than I was before. It starts a season that promises to probe the above question in terms of an abstract impression of these characters and the journey they have taken on our television screens, a ballsy move that promises another year of complex but precise television.
Welcome back, Lost – we missed you.
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Tagged as ABC, Alternate Reality, Ben, Bernard, Boone, Carlton Cuse, Charlie, Cindy, Claire, Damon Lindelof, Elizabeth Mitchell, Emilie de Ravin, Episode 1, Final Season, Flash-Sideways, Flight 815, Hurley, Jack, Jacob, Juliet, Kate, LA X, Locke, Man in Black, Matthew Fox, Michael Giacchino, Part 1, Part 2, Premiere, Review, Richard Alpert, Rose, Sawyer, Season 6, Season Premiere, Smoke Monster, Smokey, Television, Terry O'Quinn, TV


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What surprised us the most was the perfectly fitted soundtrack, it helped to build up tension and made the slot more entertaining overall. Sparks Slot machine has 5 reels and 20 fixed pay-lines and the minimum bet is $0.20 but maximums can reach $400 per a single spin.
Sparks is yet another neon themed slot machine from NetEnt. But it's made with beautiful bright colours and energetic atmosphere that will make your gameplay so much more entertaining. Some players will say it's yet another neon themed slot, but it has completely different vibe, when playing.
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Q: How to avoid time lag in BRAT while editing annotations? I'm using the Brat software (http://brat.nlplab.org) to annotate my data. I have my annotated files and want to manually change them, for eg. delete some entity, edit the entity type etc.
Everytime a change is made, the page reloads which takes about 5-10 seconds. This is because brat works on a web server(http://brat.nlplab.org/installation.html), so when a change is made it uploads the changed file on server then reloads.
I need to do a number of changes and this lag is irritating. Is there a way to avoid the lag? Maybe make a local cache, make all changes in it and then upload it on the server.
This is needed to create a training data which will be done by other people, so I want it to be fast and easy for them.

A: The server is not really the big issue - the amount of the data that is transmitted is not very big. The larger problem if you have big document and lots of annotations is the render time. Each time you edit, there is a possibility things should move, and brat recalculates the position of all the elements; this can take quite a bit of time.
Making partial redraws possible would be a major rework. It was started once, then lagged, then got incompatible with other changes, finally abandoned. None of the original developers have time for such an effort.
Probably, the best thing you can do for your annotators is split large documents into smaller chunks (such as paragraphs), if possible.

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Board of Supervisors Designates Stretches of Geary Blvd. and Balboa St. as New Neighborhood Commercial Districts
By San Francisco Richmond ReView on February 4, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )
By Thomas K. Pendergast
In an effort to discourage property owners from leaving storefronts empty along commercial corridors, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently passed legislation officially recognizing three areas of the Richmond District as Neighborhood Commercial Districts (NCD).
Geary Boulevard between Masonic and 28th avenues will be designated as the Geary Boulevard NCD; Balboa Street between Second and Eighth avenues will become the Inner Balboa Street NCD; and Balboa between 32nd and 39th avenues will be the Outer Balboa Street NCD. They will be joining the Inner Clement Street NCD, along Clement between Arguello Boulevard and Funston Avenue, and the Outer Clement Street NCD, which lies between 19th and 27th avenues, both of which were previously designated NCDs in 2011.
The photo above shows Geary Boulevard looking east from 28th Avenue. The corridor was recently named a Neighborhood Commercial District, which stretches from 28th Avenue to Masonic Avenue. Photo by Thomas K. Pendergast.
While all these areas have been commercial corridors for decades, the Board wants to make it official before the March 3 election, when voters will decide on Proposition D, the so-called "vacancy tax" ballot measure.
If passed, it would only apply to officially recognized NCDs that existed before the upcoming election and would tax landlords of commercial space $250 per linear foot of a given shop's "frontage" – that is the area adjacent or tangent to a public right-of-way – in the 2021 tax year, if they are left empty for more than 182 days within that year. The fee will increase to $500 per linear foot of frontage if the store remains empty through the 2021 tax year and six months into the 2022 tax year.
For the 2023 tax year and subsequent tax years, the tax would be $250 per linear foot of frontage if it has not been vacant in the immediately preceding tax year; $500 per linear foot of frontage if it stays vacant six months into a second tax year; and $1,000 per linear foot of frontage if the property remains vacant six months into a third year.
Exempted from the tax would be any person upon whom the City is prohibited under the constitution or laws of the State of California or the Constitution or laws of the United States from imposing the vacancy tax, like any organization that is exempt from income taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; or if a lessee or sub lessee has operated a business in the NCD for more than 182 consecutive days during a lease or sublease of at least two years, then the lessee or sub lessee shall not be liable for the vacancy tax for the remainder of that lease or sublease, regardless of whether that lessee or sub lessee keeps the space vacant.
Even if Proposition D does not pass, District 1 Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer said that there are benefits to NCD status.
"Naming these commercial corridors allows the neighbors and merchants to better shape what the corridor looks like by developing more targeted residential and commercial controls to fit the unique needs of their neighborhood," Fewer wrote in an email statement. "It also ensures that if the vacancy tax proposal on the March 2020 ballot is passed by the voters, it will apply to these commercial areas and provide more leverage for small businesses to negotiate fair lease agreements with commercial landlords."
Ian Fregosi, legislative aide to Fewer, explained the advantages of being named an NCD to merchants and neighbors in those areas.
"They can make their own targeted controls, like zoning controls, that are specific to that neighborhood corridor without changing the zoning for the rest of the city," Fregosi said. "If they want to restrict formula retail or a specific thing or if they want to allow a certain use to be allowed or not allowed they can do that, specific to that named (NCD). Just naming it doesn't change any of the zoning at all, but it does allow for, in the future, that they could do that."
David Heller, president of the Greater Geary Boulevard Merchants and Property Owners Association, said that officially recognizing these commercial corridors as NCDs is long overdue.
"We've been talking about this for quite a few years," Heller said. "I think it's a dynamite idea. That's what we've been talking about, me and the early leaders of the Geary Merchants Association. That's what they really wanted because they believed that this really was a commercial corridor."
These NCDs are included in a group of 12 new NCDs throughout the City that the Board pushed through in anticipation of Proposition D coming up on the March 3, 2020 election.
District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin said this is the largest expansion of NCDs "for many decades."
"A few have been added one-by-one over the years but adding 12 in six different ` districts is a big deal … and ultimately … will give neighbors and neighborhoods and their supervisors the ability to fine tune those NCDs," Peskin said.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016: 7:30 PM
Splinter Reeds' Season Kick-Off Party
Tickets: FREE (but donations gratefully accepted)
Splinter Reeds is hosting a season kick-off party. We would love for you to join us. Our upcoming season is without a doubt our biggest yet, so we're devoting an evening of our mid-summer rehearsal intensive to share and show off what's in store. But most importantly, we want to hang out, have fun, and thank everyone who's been so instrumental in launching us onto this path. Our scrappy ensemble formed just three short years ago – and here we now are, poised for our first touring engagements, with more exhilarating residencies and commissions from four of our favorite composers currently in the pipeline.
The event will be casual and festive, with free admission, food and drink. We'll play sneak previews of the new works, and each of us will also perform other pieces solo or with invited friends. Please do come join us, and bring guests along! Every time the five of us get to play together is a special occasion – it doesn't happen nearly as often as we'd like – but for this one, we fully intend to kick it up another couple of notches. We can't wait to see you.
http://www.splinterreeds.com/
Splinter Reeds is the West Coast's first and only professional reed quintet, comprising five virtuosic and innovative musicians with a shared passion for new music. Individually, these five are active as both soloists and members of various esteemed ensembles locally and across the nation, with affiliations including the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Alarm Will Sound, Sqwonk, Ensemble Dal Niente, sfSound, Redshift and ECO Ensemble. As fierce advocates of new music throughout their careers, Splinter's members are proud to have spearheaded many notable commissions and world premiere performances. As educators, members of the ensemble hold teaching positions at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz.
With a uniquely dynamic instrumentation that includes oboe (Kyle Bruckmann), clarinet (Bill Kalinkos), saxophone (David Wegehaupt), bass clarinet (Jeff Anderle), and bassoon (Dana Jessen), the reed quintet is an evolutionary detour from the traditional woodwind quintet with the orchestrational advantages of a more closely related instrument family. It remains a relatively new and emerging chamber music genre, having come to life in the 1980s with the notable Dutch ensemble, Calefax. Distinguishing itself even within the small network of roughly 20 professional reed quintets currently active worldwide, Splinter is explicitly committed to the cutting edge of contemporary composition, freely juxtaposing elements of multiple styles and aesthetics in their programming in order to enthusiastically share adventurous new music with the widest possible audience.
The ensemble kicked off its 2013-14 Debut Season with a residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Additional concert engagements since then have included performances at the San Francisco Center for New Music, Switchboard Music Festival, Presidio Sessions, April in Santa Cruz Festival of Contemporary Music, Mondavi Center, the Trinity Chamber Concert Series, and Old First Concerts. They have quickly developed a particular penchant for university residencies, having so far worked closely with the composition students at UC Berkeley's CNMAT, UC Davis, and Stanford University's CCRMA. Their debut CD, featuring two of their own commissions and four premiere recordings, was just released in November 2015.


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"Today's figures confirm the welcome progress we have seen in recent months to reduce the UK's large deficit. Although we are still early in the new financial year, on the basis of the first quarter, and recent figures showing a rise in real earnings, there is a realistic chance that borrowing in the entire financial year will be lower than forecast by the Chancellor in his Budget earlier this month.
"However, we must not understate the big challenges that the UK faces in restoring stability to our public finances. Britain's financial sector was hit hard in the recession and, together with lower oil and gas output, our ability to generate tax revenues has been seriously constrained. Therefore, we have to continue to focus on other means to tackle the deficit - including cutting current government spending.


Swirling, through the air you are a bird of many colors. You are graceful,fast as the speed of light, your colors mesh into a hurricane of brilliance. You, and you alone are a bird of many colors. Nobody, and I mean nobody can change that, they can try with the might of a Tiger, but will appear as a slight bunny chasing after a carrot hung on a string while running on a treadmill. As you drink out of the sweet nectar provided by a florescent pink flower, you wonder what is so special about I, a small helpless species? There is many wondrous items belonging to a Humming Bird such as yourself.You are quick, clever, majestic, and most of all a beautiful bird of many colors.


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		mImage.setLayoutParams(lp);
	}

	public void updateView(String text, int image, int bg ) {
		mName.setText(text);
		mImage.setImageResource(image);
		setBackgroundResource(bg);
	}

	public void updateView(String text, Bitmap image) {
		mName.setText(text);
		mImage.setImageBitmap(image);
		//mImage.setAdjustViewBounds(true);
		//mImage.setMaxHeight(250);
		//mImage.setMaxWidth(250);
		//mImage.setImageResource(R.drawable.b);
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub