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Note to coaches. Don't tell a young kid that he cannot do something or will never be something. Especially when the kid is only 12 years old.
My son had been the primary catcher for his previous team. He played off and on in right field too, but wanted to play infield (2nd base) on occasion. He wanted to become more versatile for high school.
I told my son to approach the coach and ask him if he could get a chance to play 2nd base in practices with a chance to earn some playing time in games. His ex-coach, chuckled at him and said, "Nic your not an infielder" and turned away. My son walked away without comment, but was absolutely furious. He was close to tears telling me the story in the car ride home from the practice. I wanted to approach the coach and plead my son's case, not for playing time but for respect and a chance. My son forbade me. I told my son to hang in there that this was our last year with this coach.
This season, my son is on a new team with a new coach. He has been playing second or catcher all year long. Tonight he was at second base and had a terrific game, a once in a lifetime type of game.
My son made 12 of the 27 outs at second base. He fielded 8 grounders to get 8 force outs at first base. He also caught 2 pop ups and 2 line drives, one of which was spectacular and turned out to be a game saving grab.
He did not make a single error. In fact, he has only made one error at second base all year long.
Coaches, I am going to state the obvious. Kids change continuously. Their bodies, their confidence level, their attitude and their courage can and will all change year after year, maybe even month after month. As such, don't pigeon hole a kid into a position or prevent a kid from practicing a position he wants to learn. Who knows maybe he will be spectacular at a position.


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Solid strike at Small Heath school
United on the picket line
Teachers at Small Heath School in Birmingham struck on Tuesday of this week against plans to turn the school into an academy.
NUT, NASUWT and ATL union members all joined the walkout. One union rep at the school told Socialist Worker that the action was "totally solid".
"Hardly anyone has gone into the school," he said. "We've had three picket lines and parents have been on the picket lines too."
Small Heath was one of the schools targeted in the Trojan Horse scandal. It was put into special measures and is now run by an Interim Executive Board (IEB).
He said it was a "hard" situation for teachers to be in. But he added, "That makes people's willingness to fight more inspiring."
Tuesday's walkout was workers' third in the dispute. They plan to strike on 18 November and 10 December.
The union rep said the IEB has refused to meet unions and refused Acas talks.
"Staff understand we will need to escalate," he said.
Send messages of support to [email protected]
Education campaigners are urging supporters to sign a petition opposing Tory plans to bring in tests for four year olds.
The plan would subject children to "baseline" assessments when they enter reception classes. The Tories want to use them to increase monitoring of schools and teachers' "performance"—and justify "intervention" in the future.
To sign the petition go to chn.ge/1KugkgO and for more details on the campaign go to betterwithoutbaseline.org.uk
Topics academies, ATL, Education, NASUWT, NUT, Schools, Small Heath School
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Spuc anti-abortion group's nasty agenda exposed in Birmingham
Lambeth College strikers vote overwhelmingly to accept new offer and return to work

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Q: Probability of an unbalanced coin This was an optional practice problem in statistics: An unbalanced coin has a 0.3 probability of being heads. The coin is tossed 20 times, let Y be the number of heads recorded.
a) Find the distribution of Y.
b) Find E(Y) and V(Y).
c) Find probability that Y falls within 2 standard deviations of the mean.
What I've got is as follows:
a) I'm guessing it's binomial distribution, since we're looking for the number of successes.
b) (since it's binomial): $E(Y)=np=0.3*20 = 6$ and $V(Y)=np(1-p)=4.2$
c) What do I compare to 2 standard deviations, or [0,14.4]? I'm guessing I take $p*14.4$, which is 4.32, and take $4.32/6$, so the answer is that 2 standard deviations is within 72% of the mean.
I appreciate any pointers.

A: The standard deviation is the square root of the variance $\sigma \approx 2.04$
you are looking for the probability that $6- 2\sigma < Y < 6+2\sigma$
since Y has to be an integer you are interested in values between 2 and 10.
So your answer will be ...
$$ P = \sum_{k=2}^{10}\binom {20} k (0.3)^k(0.7)^{20-k} $$

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St. James's Park – A London Park with Royal Views
Last Updated: | Published: March 31st, 2021
Of London's eight Royal Parks, St. James's Park is the oldest as well as one of the most beautiful. While not as large as Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park or Regent's Park, its setting near Buckingham Palace and St. James's Palace as well as fine views of Big Ben and the London Eye certainly make it one of London's most scenic spots. This 58-acre park is situated right in the heart of London yet offers a natural escape with its meandering pathways, a lake that's home to many species of birds, and splendid flowers that are especially striking in the spring. If your visit happens to coincide with the daffodils blooming, it's a London experience you'll treasure for years to come.
St. James's Park is also where you'll find The Mall, a tree-lined road that connects Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace. Since it's surrounded by so many of London's top landmarks, St. James's Park is the perfect place for a rest or picnic while sightseeing or after seeing the Changing the Guard ceremony. Join us for a stroll through history at St. James's Park that will enhance your next visit!
Spring in St. James's Park full of golden daffodils (Credit)
The origins of St. James's Park go back to the beginning of the 16th century when King Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn, his second wife, in 1533. The king desired a pleasing park near the relatively new Palace of Whitehall, which was the massive royal residence of English monarchs from 1530 until 1698 when it was largely destroyed by fire. Henry VIII eyed up some nearby fields as the perfect setting for a private park and country home. There was only one problem, which proved to be of little concern for Henry VIII. A leper hospital dedicated to St. James was located on the land, but he had it removed to build St. James's Palace in its place. The marshy land and entire estate were surrounded by a brick wall so the king could create his own personal deer park and private royal gardens complete with a tennis court, a swimming pond and bowling green.
View of the Mall in Saint James's Park from 1709-1710 (Credit)
At the beginning of the 17th century, King James I added an exotic element to St. James's Park with the addition of crocodiles, hawks, antelopes, a leopard and even an elephant. Just imagine the sounds that came out of the park in those days! Today the only reminder of this wilder time are the pelicans that still reside in St. James's Park. There have been pelicans here since the Russian Ambassador gifted two pelicans to King Charles II in 1664. Find out more about them in our guide Where To Find Wildlife In London. It was King Charles II who left a lasting mark on St. James's Park and began to push the gardens toward the layout we see today. After returning from exile in France, the king wanted grandiose gardens like he had seen at Versailles. Working with French landscapers, the park began the first of many transformations that would take place over centuries.
Pelicans at home in St. James's Park with a view to Buckingham Palace in the distance
Many of the park's earliest features, like the elegant straight canal lined by trees, have been altered over time. Yet one of the lasting elements from King Charles II has to do with his fondness for birds. Along the southside of the park, Birdcage Walk is named for the king's aviaries that once stood in this area. At the eastern end of the pond, Duck Island is a small nature reserve and breeding ground for an estimated 17 different species of wildfowl and birds. Along with the pelicans, there are many types of ducks, swans and birds that can be spotted in St. James's Park. One of the best viewpoints is from the Blue Bridge. Built in 1957, it's the third bridge to cross the lake and replaced an iron suspension bridge that had been built in 1857. It's also a great spot to see the Tiffany Fountain, a 20 foot jet of water that shoots straight into the air from the centre of the lake not far from Duck Island.
Feathery residents of St. James's Park (Credit: David C. Phillips)
In 1761, King George III set his eye on the large private estate and elegant townhouse near St. James's Park that was built for the Duke of Buckingham in in 1703. After becoming a royal residence, it was enlarged throughout the 19th century to become Buckingham Palace as we know it today. It took its place as the London home of the British monarchs when Queen Victoria was crowned in 1837. Also during the 19th century, the government pushed to allow more public access to the private royal preserve at St. James's Park and by 1856 this was successful. Although still one of London's Royal Parks, St. James's Park is open to the public and is the most visited of the royal parks welcoming millions of visitors every year.
A peaceful oasis in central London
From St. James's Park you'll find a perfectly framed view of the East Front of Buckingham Palace with its famous balcony where the royal family traditionally gathers to greet crowds. Just in front is the grand Victoria Memorial topped with a gilded bronze Winged Victory and surrounded by a crescent shaped garden. When built in 1911, the memorial significantly reduced the size of St. James's Park. Yet it did complete the triumphal processional setting of The Mall and is an excellent spot to watch the popular Changing the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
The Queen Victoria Memorial and Buckingham Palace (Credit: David C. Phillips)
While The Mall just seems like a busy street today, the long and straight stretch of road is full of history just like the rest of St. James's Park. In the 17th-century, King Charles II was an avid player of paille-maille, called pall-mall in English, which at that time was exceedingly fashionable in France. The lawn game has origins from Italy in the Middle Ages and was a somewhat more athletic form of croquet. A long pall-mall alley was built for Charles II along the northern wall of the park. However, a road running alongside the wall stirred up enough dust to annoy the king who in 1661 created a grand tree-lined promenade in its place. The original name of Catherine Street didn't stick and it was generally referred to as Pall Mall and today simply The Mall. It forms part of many parades, national events and ceremonies like Changing the Guard.
Unlike other roads in London, you'll notice The Mall has a distinctive red color. This is said to give the appearance of a long red carpet when approaching Buckingham Palace. With hundreds of years of royal history that has shaped the park plus the royal palaces nearby, it's hard to not feel a bit of the royal atmosphere while strolling along The Mall.
Classic London black cabs on The Mall (Credit)
Whether you're enjoying a leisurely walk through the park on the way to see the Changing the Guard ceremony or relaxing in the shade on a summer day, looking back over the centuries on all that has taken place in St. James's Park fills the air with that historic atmosphere that is so particularly London. Be sure to visit and find out for yourself! St. James's Park is open daily from 5am to midnight. The St. James's Park website has all the latest updates on events, visiting information and detailed maps.
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Followed by a 2k treadmill run by way of a cool down (yes, the most ineffective cool down possible as mentioned before). The row was a moderate to hard intensity. The first 4k was fast enough to know you're working pretty hard, but slow enough to know you can speed up sufficiently at the end without pushing too hard.
I'm glad it's the weekend again. I am a member of two gyms – a fairly basic one at work that has the necessary equipment and a small changing room with a shower, and a posh commercial gym with a pool and all the nice things that come with an expensive commercial gym. I rarely get the time for a more relaxed session during the week, and generally am rushed to fit in a short session in the work gym just down the corridor from my office. Trying to change, workout, cooldown, shower, change and get back to the office within about an hour is not always easy, and certainly doesn't leave time for any non essential activities (like warming up properly, actually cooling down at all, stretching…. So the weekend training sessions are always ones to look forward to.
I had a busy day at work ahead of me with a meeting through the middle of the day when I would otherwise go to the gym. What would a normal person do, take a rest day? What did I do? I put my road bike in the back of the car, then rather than drop my wife at work and drive the further 9 miles to my work I parked there, took the bike out of the car, and cycled the 9miles in to work. I put my garmin Edge 305 bike computer on, and it wasn't a fast ride for only the second time my road bike has been on the road in 2010. To be fair though there was 250ft of ascent in the first 1.5miles of the ride, which both hits the average speed, and your legs when they're not used to cycling! The ride back was a slightly different routine for variety and although that route didn't have such a big sustained climb, it had nearly double the total ascent throughout the route.
I mentioned the news a couple of weeks ago about an erg athlete testing positive for EPO. Today it has been officially announced in the cycling press by British Cycling. Team Oarsome rower Dan Staite has been banned for 2 years following a positive test for both EPO and an aromatase inhibitor.
What are your thoughts on what the erging world's reaction should be to this? Dan has been a prominent member of one of the top indoor rowing clubs for a number of years, and holds a number of middle to long distance erging world records. Is the use of performance enhancing drugs assumed to be illegal in indoor rowing competition, even though there is no governing body or official rules governing this (that I know of)? Should it be assumed that this was a one off use of PEDs and they didn't influence any of his erging performances? Whatever the case it is a shame that someone many of us thought was a uniquely talented athlete was perhaps not the endurance monster we thought. At least the one time I raced him head to head in a 5k race I won (by about 2 seconds setting a new pb).
Perfectly to plan. Next time the aim will have to be to keep the pace a bit faster through the middle with a goal of breaking 6:24. Ideally I'd like to get this progression down to under 6:20 before regular speed interval work starts again in the run up to BIRC.
Even after a pretty hard 2k trial I still put in the treadmill run afterwards with a 1750m today (so pushing over the mile now).
Followed by the now regular short treadmill run, this time 1250m. I'm not sure how much benefit these short treadmill runs are having, but if nothing else it is currently between 5 and 8mins of extra exercise on each session, which can't hurt. The longer run I did on Sunday had no after effects at all, not a single muscle feeling tired the next day, so I think the short runs are helping. Eventually I'd like to get the end of session short runs up to a couple of miles, and the weekend long run up to 10k+. Once I'm at that point I'll then look at increasing the pace a little from the fairly slow paces I am currently running at.
Isn't it strange how one good or bad session can make or break for confidence of what sort of shape you're in? Today's was one of those sessions. These 'inbetweeen' sessions are always a hard one to judge – faster than 5k pace, but not as fast as 2k pace, therefore not a pace that we'd often train at. I really do find that mixing up the training gets me the best results with slower distance work, fast hard sprints, and everything inbetween. This was a session done by a couple of close rivals last week, so a good one to judge my current form on. I decided on a strong pacing plan with 4 solid reps, and a 5th flat out rep. The pacing plan was spot on, with all but the 4th rep exactly 0.1 under the target split.
And the session felt good from start to finish. The problem with training at lunchtime at work is cooling down afterwards though. I don't mean the cool down in the gym (for which I did another short treadmill run, continuing the plan of running between 1km and 1mile after every gym erg session, and some stretching) – I mean physically lowering my body temperature so I stop sweating. I'm not sure this happened throughout the afternoon at work despite having the window open next to my desk, and the fan on my desk blowing all the time I was sitting there.
Erging must be one of the only sports where you look forward to cooler days (generally I prefer the long sunny days), and also where people don't mind getting older to move up to the next age category for racing!
As the traffic was so heavy in Farnborough yesterday getting to the gym (due to the Farnborough airshow public days this weekend) I decided to go on my bike this morning. Sunday is normally a rest day, so I just kept it fairly short and went for the longer run that I had planned yesterday.
I kept the run just to the level where I started to feel fatigue in my legs, being my first longer run in this current training cycle. I will continue this routine of doing a short run at the end of each gym erg session (around a mile or so), and one longer run at the weekend (building up to 10k).
Then another 1mile treadmill run as the cool down, followed by 20mins on the ski / step machine (a stepper with lateral movement too, I don't know the proper name for the machine).
This wasn't actually the planned workout for today, but I had to change plans when I arrived at the gym to find I had forgotten to put any socks in my kit bag, so the planned longer run will have to be put off to tomorrow!
My schedule today only allowed for a fairly short lunchtime training session again, so I combined a steady erg piece with a short treadmill run again. Up to 1mile today (1.61km) on the running still building very slowly to have no effect on the erg training which takes priority. With August approaching for both myself, and many of the people I coach, it is time to transition the training looking towards the British championships in November, and the World championships in February. Watch out for some high performances by Pete Plan Coaching athletes at these competitions – I will try to give some insight into their training and prospects in blog entries leading up to those competitions. I can't give too much detail of course as that might aid their competitors!
I considered having a day off….
But I decided against it, and did two fairly short training sessions instead.
I have commented that I seem to have been struggling a bit with the training lately. Motivation is fine, and the training paces aren't bad in general, I just seem to be missing a gear. So I'm training how I fancy training on the day at the moment and just waiting for that extra gear to reappear. This morning I did a bit of circuit training using a kettle bell, a couple of dumbbells, a step, a bosu ball, a swiss ball, and threw in some press ups and sit ups. I didn't take note of what I did, but I had fun for about 25mins and was sweating a lot at the end. I then went to the pool for a few lengths to cool off before heading off to "work" for the day.
I say "work" as I then walked the mile or so around the airfield to the entrance for Farnborough airshow and spent the day there. A research day, and a day or lots of walking and a fair bit of time in the sun.
I then moved on to the treadmill. I am slowly incorporating some running into my training schedule by doing a short treadmill run after each erg session I do at the gym. For the past 2 weeks in every rowing session I've done in the gym I have done a short treadmill run afterwards, or between 1 and 1.5km. My aim is to build this very gradually so that it has no effect on the erg training at all. Previously when I've tried incorporating running into my training I'll do either a few hard 5k's, or one hard 10k, find it affects a few erg sessions after, and stop completely again. We will see how long this lasts….
I didn't train on Friday as I woke up with a headache in the early hours of the morning, didn't sleep too well after that, and still felt tired in the morning. On days like that I don't take my gym kit when I go to work so that the temptation isn't there to train later when I know it's better to rest.
This morning I just put my erg out on the patio and went for a fairly low effort 10k. It felt good to I decided early in the row that rather than do a 1sec reduction in pace for each 2k I would try to push the final 2k to a sub7. From 2k to go it was flat paced at 1:44/1:45 right through to the end, which felt good and powerful at r24. All in all an enjoyable Saturday morning row.


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Trisha Yearwood Is a Character in 'FarmVille 2′ Smartphone Game
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The collaboration between Yearwood and Zynga, the company behind FarmVille, comes from a desire to work toward gender equality in both music and the gaming and technology world. Zynga is currently celebrating FarmVille's 10-year anniversary.
"As someone who plays FarmVille, and having grown up on a farm in Georgia, the game ties back to my roots," Yearwood says in a statement (quote via Sounds Like Nashville). "With women also being the central characters in all the FarmVille games, it shows that farming — like music, tech, politics, science and entrepreneurship — should be accessible to anyone."
Yearwood released "Every Girl in This Town," her first new country single since 2015, in early June. The song comes from from Every Girl, Yearwood's first new album since 2007, due out in August. This fall, she'll be on the road on her Every Girl on Tour in support of the project.
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Robert Pires Offered Player-Coach Role At Aston Villa
8th, November 2010
By Chris Wright
Weeks after turning down a dubious opportunity to end his career with Blue Square Premier side Crawley Town, it seems that Robert Pires is now set for a return to the Premier League – just as his former boss Arsene Wenger prophesised.
The Daily Mail (via La Parisien) are claiming that Pires will be joining the 'French Revolution' at Aston Villa, with manager Gerard Houllier willing to offer the 37-year-old winger a player-coach role at the club.
Speaking last month, Pires apparently said:
"If I have an opportunity from Aston Villa, I will jump at it. But I will analyse any proposition. I don't want to go anywhere and fight every weekend against relegation.
"England is probably the place where I have the best chance to find a club. In England, people don't look at your age. In Spain it was not the case, which is why I had to move on."
Pires is also said to be considering a similar offer from those nouvelle riche Championship oiks Leicester City, but surely the lure of the Premier League will prove too strong?
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The 4Runner's interior is also updated for 2019, with a revised dashboard and centre stack as well as Toyota's Optitron instrument cluster.
Way back in 2010, when the fifth-generation 4Runner was released, it was easy to fall for its rugged good looks.
For me, however, it was what lay beneath its handsome body that really solidified my love affair with Toyota's go-anywhere SUV.
At a time when most manufacturers were moving away from body-on-frame designs in favour of the more car-like unibody construction, Toyota recognized the 4Runner had a loyal following among off-road enthusiasts and adrenalin junkies worldwide and wisely soldiered on with a full frame.
So why does any of this frame business matter?
Even in mild off-road situations, most unibody vehicles don't hold up very well against the forces distributed throughout its united design and, as a result, are susceptible to twisting and even cracking.
A body-on-frame vehicle, however, allows the frame to take the punishment without putting added stress on the body.
A full frame also allows for easier modifications, including suspension lifts to support larger tires and increased ground clearance.
Body-on-frame vehicles are also typically more suitable for towing.
Basically, all the things my SUV needs to do.
Nowadays, the 4Runner stands nearly alone in this segment — the only notable competitor to offer a body-on-frame design in a similarly sized vehicle is Jeep with its legendary Wrangler.
The upcoming Ford Bronco is also rumoured to feature a ladder frame, but that's not hitting showroom floors until next year.
The new Chevrolet Blazer is unibody, so is the Ford Explorer and so is the Nissan Pathfinder — nice rides, to be sure, but if your destination is deep in the bush, there's a good chance you won't make it there in any of these vehicles.
Sure, you can opt for a full-size SUV such as Chevrolet's Tahoe and Suburban or GMC's Yukon, or maybe Ford's massive Expedition, but those are basically limo-sized pickup trucks with stretched cabs that guzzle fuel and are way too big and heavy to get you to the backcountry — and back.
Many of you likely prefer the more car-like ride found in the majority of mid-size SUVs and typically only rely on AWD to help gain traction on snow and ice or maybe the occasional gravel road.
For an off-road enthusiast like me, though, the ability to dig a little deeper into the forest is a major selling point and the key reason why the Toyota 4Runner, even after remaining largely unchanged for nearly a decade, remains one of my favourite vehicles.
Since that release in 2010, the current generation 4Runner has only received one facelift, in 2014, which consisted of a revised front end with projector headlamps, a fresh rear fascia with LED tail lights and a few other minor exterior cosmetic changes.
The interior was also updated and changes included a revised dashboard and centre stack as well as Toyota's Optitron instrument cluster. No driveline changes were made.
Here in Canada, the 4Runner continues to be available with only one engine, a 4.0L V-6 featuring dual variable valve timing with sequential multiport electronic fuel injection linked to a stainless-steel exhaust system.
This engine makes 270 horsepower and 278 pound-feet of torque.
This engine is mated to a five-speed sequential shift mode automatic transmission with overdrive, lockup torque converter and a transmission cooler.
It also features an engine oil cooler, a heavy-duty battery, starter, alternator and heater.
Toyota's on-demand, one-touch manually operated 4WD system also offers performance features including Hill-start Assist Control and Downhill Assist Control.
The 4Runner also offers a tow hitch with a 5,000-pound rating, a trailer-sway control system and a 4+7 pin trailer wiring harness as standard gear on all models.
Our tester was a sinister-looking Nightshade edition. This seven-passenger bad boy looked like a SWAT vehicle and definitely had a commanding presence on the road.
New for 2019, the Nightshade package adds a series of black accents, including black front and rear bumpers, a black chrome grille, roof rack and blacked-out 20-inch alloy wheels.
It also adds a host of nice features, including push-button start and automatic running boards that deploy and retract with the opening and closing of the front driver's side door.
This package is available in three colour choices: Midnight Black Metallic, Blizzard Pearl and Magnetic Gray Metallic.
The 4Runner is available in a variety of trim levels and option packages, starting with the base five-passenger model from $46,155, the Limited five- and seven-passenger versions from $51,530, the Nightshade seven-passenger we tested at $55,115 and the top-dog TRD Pro model loaded with rugged options including Bilstein High-Performance shocks and 31.5-inch Nitto Terra Grappler all-terrain tires from $56,580.
Inside, even in the Nightshade trim, the 4Runner does start to show its age a bit, but it all still works together beautifully.
The combined navigation and information screen is clear and easy to operate, while the optional JBL audio system with 15 speakers and a subwoofer absolutely rocks.
Seating up front is comfortable and the large HVAC controls can easily be worked with gloved hands. The second-row seat is also fairly spacious and although there's three seatbelts, it's probably best left for two adults. The third-row seat was clearly designed for kids.
On the road, the 4Runner is definitely a more truck-like ride than a unibody SUV, but for me, that's its charm — it feels firmly planted and predictable, but certainly not sporty.
Off-road, however, is where it really shines. Thanks to the mountains of snow we received here in Manitoba this winter, there was ample chance to test out its chops in a variety of low-traction situations, including up and down a few snow-covered hills near my rural property, where it crawled along like a mule in areas my 4x4 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 would have likely remained until spring.
While a sixth-generation 4Runner is certainly on the way in the next couple years, it's still easy for me to recommend the current model.
Toyota has designed and continually upgraded an extremely reliable SUV that offers a terrific blend of style, utility and capability.
With the 4Runner, Toyota has designed and continually upgraded an extremely reliable SUV that offers a terrific blend of style, utility and capability.
The ability to dig a little deeper into the forest than the competition is the key reason why the Toyota 4Runner remains one of Free Press Autos editor Willy Williamson's favourite vehicles.
The 4Runner hasn't seen significant change in nearly a decade — it hasn't needed it.


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Obituary for Charles Raymond Gschwend
Charles Raymond Gschwend, 92, of Pekin passed away on Saturday, January 11, 2020 at Pekin Manor where he had been a resident for 3 ½ years.
He was born on May 16, 1927 in Pocahontas, AR to William & Lela Roberts Gschwend.
He married Emma Jeanne Nuce on June 2, 1949 at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Pocahontas, AR. Chuck and Jeanne celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary in June 2019.
He is survived by his wife and children, Ron (Anne) Gschwend, Mary Anne Eisenhower and Charlotte (Alan) Rush. He is also survived by his grandchildren, Charlie, Christopher & Curtis Gschwend, Kibby Flores, Kendra Varnold, Matthew Eisenhower; nine great-grandchildren and sister, Hubertine Dean. He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Robert E. Gschwend and son-in-law, Joe Eisenhower.
Chuck retired from Caterpillar in 1982 after 34 years of service.
Many in the area met and befriended Chuck through his active involvement in the community and as a member of St. Joseph's Parish. He coached the St. Joe basketball teams in the 60's & 70's and volunteered for decades for the St. Vincent DePaul Society. Chuck also served in the Knights of Columbus for 54 years where he served as Faithful Navigator.
He was a friend to all, always willing to help with a smile, if he forgot your name you were either "Gertrude" or "George". If he made a wry comment it was always preceded with "really and truly". He enjoyed hunting upland game and deer, playing cards and having a beer with friends and family.
He was always a kind man with a big heart. So, the man at the pearly gates better let him in when Chuck calls him "St. George". Really & Truly.
A special thanks to the wonderful caring people at Pekin Manor where he was affectionately known as "Chuckles".
Memorials can be made to the St. Vincent DePaul Society or St. Joseph Catholic School in his name.
A visitation will be held on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. with a Rosary at 3 p.m. at Abts Mortuary in Pekin. A funeral mass will be held on Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 2 p.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Pekin. Burial will follow the mass at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Pekin. Father Michael Andrejek will officiate.
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Q: Adding support to handle ttf font file I am trying to write a application so that it can handle .ttf font file. The behaviour is when user click the ttf from explorer. my application should popup.
I tried the to add the below entry but it is not working.
<intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT">
            </category>
            <data android:mimeType="application/x-font-ttf"/>
     </intent-filter>

Below are the logs which i got through I try top choose ttf file.

11-28 10:19:08.510: W/System.err(22775):
  android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle
  Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW
  dat=file:///storage/emulated/0/yogiHindi.ttf typ= (has extras) }

A: It seems that you haven't associated any activity to that intent in your manifest. That is causing the block. Declare the activity associated to it before this intent..
See like this..
<activity android:name="xxxxx"
              android:label="xxxx">

<intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT">
        </category>
        <data android:mimeType="application/x-font-ttf"/>
 </intent-filter>
 </activity>


During the passage of the Crossrail Bill, the Secretary of State gave a number of undertakings and assurances to Parliament and to petitioners concerning the Crossrail project. These were recorded in an official register, held by the Department for Transport (DfT) known as the Register of Undertakings & Assurances. The process followed the successful template provided by the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project (now known as High Speed 1) during the passage of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill.
The register is a list of the commitments given, and to whom. It does not give the detail of each undertaking or assurance, and may instead in some cases simply refer to other documents (such as signed undertakings between the Secretary of State and the third party concerned). The register should be read in conjunction with other documents that together with the Register are part of the Crossrail Environmental Minimum Requirements (EMRs), namely the Construction Code, the Environmental Memorandum and the Planning and Heritage Memorandum.
Any organisations that are appointed to construct and maintain Crossrail are contractually obliged to comply with all relevant undertakings and assurances concerning Crossrail through a contract with the DfT, or any body to which the Secretary of State devolves the implementation of the project i.e. organisations that are made the nominated undertaker (or nominated undertakers) under the Crossrail Act.
The Crossrail Register of Undertakings & Assurances contains 680 individual entries. When broken down these in turn represent in the region of 3,500 individual commitments. In order to manage and track compliance with all the undertakings & assurances Crossrail developed bespoke software known as the Commitments Delivery Tracker (CDT) and established a procedure under the Crossrail Management System (CMS) governing the processes by which compliance should be achieved.


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		Email <input type="text" name="email" placeholder="example@example.com">

		GitHub <input type="text" name="githubId" placeholder="example">

		Password <input type="password" name="password">

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Holidays are a high risk time for pedestrian accident in Atlanta. Just recently, AJC.com reported on a pedestrian death which occurred over the Labor Day weekend. The man had been driving a 2002 Acura MDX on Interstate 75 when the car drifted off the road and hit a guardrail. The driver got out of the vehicle, which was disabled by the accident.
The man was on the road after the accident, when he was struck by another vehicle. The Fulton County Medical Examiner's office indicated the victim was 40-years-old at the time of the pedestrian accident. He was believed to have been from the Atlanta area. The pedestrian accident happened at around 3:45 AM and several lanes of I-75 were shut down for hours near Mount Paran Road. Police are not sure if alcohol or speeding was involved in the accident, as a crash investigation is still being conducted.
Unfortunately, the pedestrian accident was one of many which occur each year over holiday periods. The holidays are an especially high risk time on the road and pedestrians have to be aware of dangers. Drivers also must do their part to try to avoid holiday accidents by driving safely and watching carefully for pedestrians.
Labor Day is one of many holidays which result in an increased accident risk because of more people traveling on the roads and because of more people drinking. Other high risk holidays for pedestrian accidents include the Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. With many of these holidays coming up soon, it is important for drivers and pedestrians to understand added accident dangers.
Halloween is a time when there are many pedestrians on the roads, including children who go trick-or-treating. Older adults also attend parties, where there is sometimes drinking. Drivers on Halloween need to know of increased pedestrian traffic so they can be watchful of children and avoid doing anything dangerous, like getting behind the wheel drunk, speeding, or driving while distracted. It is especially important for motorists to be extra cautious in residential neighborhoods during the hours when kids are likely to be out trick or treating on Halloween.
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years are all dangerous for the same two reasons: more travelers on the roads and more drinking. As people travel to see friends and family, the volume of traffic goes up. More people on the roads means more of a chance of pedestrians getting hit by cars while walking. During these festive occasions, a lot of people also will get together and drink at parties, which can lead to people getting behind the wheel when they are over-the-limit. Intoxicated drivers may not be able to see or react to pedestrians, causing a significantly increased crash risk. Pedestrians need to be watchful for vehicles during holiday weekends, and should know their rights if they are hurt in a collision.


This morning the full list of nominees for the Academy of Country Music Awards has been released. Do you agree with the lists? Are there some people that didn't quite make the cut, or could this list not be more perfect if you picked it out yourself?
Make sure to watch the ACM Awards on April 19th to see the winners, performances, and your hosts Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan!
Cassadee Pope Debuts New Song!


Is Her Picker Broken? Or Is It Her?
A comment by regular "Love" a few posts back got me thinking about the idea of a gal having, "a broken picker." What I mean by that is when a gal keeps picking the same kind of guys and keeps getting poor relationship results. Or maybe it's not that she's got a broken picker, but that's she's simply broken?
It is an interesting idea and one I had not considered before — what if it's not just bad luck, a bad choice, or a con job? What if it's not because she's naive, or being manipulated, or mislead, or "doesn't get it." What if it's not the what things have changed with dating and marriage, or the culture, or due to today's bad relationship advice? What if in fact she's actually picking the types of guys who cannot and will not commit and who are unable to truly give or receive intimacy because she herself can't, won't, or doesn't want to either?
I know one such gal, I've written about my former neighbor Vixen before. As long as I have known her, her relationship choices have puzzled me. She always has a lot of guy drama and frankly the guys she chooses never seem to be "commitment" types. So they do this dance where she says all she wants is commitment, but her actions are doing everything to ensure that even if a non-commit guy starts to change his mind, no guy in his right mind would go there. But to hear her tell it, THEY are to blame. It's always some story of a guy (or guys) doing her some huge injustice and how all she wants is to settle down and be with someone.
I think "Love" may have finally solved the puzzle — I think Vixen herself is unable to commit, unable to truly stop playing the dating game, unable to be faithful or true, and deep down doesn't want the level of relationship where she would have to give up the games and actually fly straight. She doesn't want a "real" relationship because she doesn't want to have to answer to anyone, meet any expectations, or be a real life partner.
Well, I suppose that is a choice and if so maybe she should just get real about it, drop the victim act, and admit she's choosing this. She's choosing it by the types of guys she dates. She's choosing this by the way she acts while she's dating them. And she chooses this every time she sabotages relationships that start to go toward stability and commitment.
Vixen is still good looking enough and charming enough to get attention from the types of guys she wants attention from. Sure, it may not be for long, but it is still there. However what I can see that she seemingly does not is that window is closing. It won't be too long from now that she will go from the hot girl at the bar to the bar fly.
In addition, right now she makes a living cleaning houses, and that combined with child support and govt. assistance pays the bills. But as her kids grow up and move out, her chronic back injury starts bothering her more and more, and she can't do the physical labor she does now (or doesn't want to) then what? She has no other job skills, no savings, no retirement, no assets whatsoever to sell or liquidate.
Maybe she could live with her kids? Well, sadly and not surprisingly, considering the drama soaked environment they have been raised in, they are not doing too well themselves. The oldest is in middle school but acts far older and is very much following in her mother's footsteps by making boy drama and manipulating boys with her looks, figure, and charm the main focus of her life. The younger sister is sullen and withdrawn, spending hours alone by herself, locked up in her room. I wonder how and when the feelings she has locked inside will come out and what the result will be? The youngest, a two-year-old boy, seems oblivious for now but it can't be good for him to the the center of all the fighting and power struggles with his father and the other guys in and out of the picture, something Vixen doesn't try to shield him or the older two from. I wonder if her kids will even talk to her once they grow up?
Anyway, it's not really about her, but I do think her story is an example of the kind of gal "Love" described in her comment — she's a Skittles girl who goes for cads. The results are predictable, but somehow and on some level it seems to be working for her enough that she's not making any changes. And even if she did, at this point, wouldn't any sane, stable, solid guy just hear her stories and RUN?
I know I stopped being able to take the roller coaster several years ago, and while I hear from her from time to time, I don't seek her out socially or get our kids together anymore because I don't want them exposed to that. Plus, I want to and am taking a different path myself.
In any case, "Love's" comment got me thinking, perhaps many of these gals who are unlucky in love, with lots of sad stories, and many failed relationships are not victims at all — but are actually choosing their lot? Or if not choosing it, refusing to look at why their picker seems to be broken and what they could do about that?


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Q: Send a post request with an Electron webview I want to send a POST request with an Electron webview from the outer script. At the moment I just set the src attribute to trigger a page load, which sends a GET request:
<webview id="view">
<script>
document.getElementById('view').setAttribute('src', 'http://example.com/?foo=bar');
</script>

Is there any way to navigate the webview to a URL by sending a POST request? Maybe a method of the webview, instead of just hacking with the src?

A: You can execute arbitrary code from within the webview context with .executeJavaScript.
Moreover your code has access to all browser built-in apis. Easiest would be to use fetch, with method set to post.
In your case (provided the webview has been already loaded; for example its .src has been set):
document.getElementById('view')
  .executeJavaScript('fetch("http://example.com/?foo=bar", {method: "post"});');

Some remarks:

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*The origin of the request is controlled by .src of the webview.

*It seems that all default security policy are still used by webview - specifically you cannot make calls to http: from https:.

*It is bit painful to pass code as a string.

A: Now there is a new <webview>.loadURL() method with a postData option in the docs. I haven't used it yet but it looks exactly like what I was looking for in the past.
It seems they added it as a feature in the meantime.

A: Basically, Webview element does not have a property like "method" of Form so you can not specify a particular HTTP method for its request. I recommend you to use AngularJS or any other JS frameworks to archive your purpose.

A: I found two workaround since <webview> does not seem to currently have any way to send a POST request.

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*Maybe the site you're using will let you send the form as a GET by adding any form elements to the URL's query string. It turns out the site I was using did allow this and I wouldn't've guessed had I not actually tried.

*You might be able to send a POST manually through AJAX/fetch etc then replace the HTML of the page in the webview with the HTML returned by your manual POST. You can achieve this using .executeJavaScript() and/or Electron's IPC.

Neither workaround will work in every case. It might be worth filing a feature request with the Electron team too...
So I just went ahead and submitted a feature request. You can follow it here: https://discuss.atom.io/t/add-http-post-method-to-webview/29702


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NY Supreme Ct.
IN RE: Daniel Schaffer
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
IN RE: Daniel Schaffer, etc., petitioner v. Howard Zucker, etc., respondent.
2016–02441 (Index No. 2154/15)
Decided: October 31, 2018
MARK C. DILLON, J.P. JOHN M. LEVENTHAL ROBERT J. MILLER COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ. Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara & Wolf, LLP, Lake Success, N.Y. (Moriah Adamo of counsel), for petitioner.
Argued—April 13, 2018
DECISION & JUDGMENT
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of a designee of the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health dated August 20, 2015. The determination, after a fair hearing pursuant to Social Services Law § 22, upheld a determination of the Rockland County Department of Social Services dated March 1, 2013, that Beatrice Fountain was ineligible for Medicaid benefits due to her failure to submit proper documentation.
ADJUDGED that the determination is confirmed, the petition is denied, and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, with costs.
The petitioner filed a CPLR article 78 petition to review a determination of a designee of the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health (hereinafter the Commissioner), after a fair hearing, which upheld a determination of the Rockland County Department of Social Services (hereinafter Social Services) that Beatrice Fountain was ineligible for Medicaid benefits. Fountain's application for Medicaid was denied due to missing documentation. Fountain had appointed her niece, Kim Howell, as her attorney in fact in 2007, and Howell had authorized attorney Andrew Lamkin, Esq., to represent Fountain. In connection with the Medicaid application, Social Services sent a request to Lamkin to send it certain documents by a date certain. Lamkin requested an extension of time to submit the documents, and Social Services granted the extension. Thereafter, however, Lamkin failed to provide the requested documentation by the extended deadline; as a result, the application was denied by Social Services.
The petitioner's contentions that Social Services was required to send Fountain copies of its communications with her attorney, and that her dementia constituted good cause for the failure to timely provide the required documentation, are unpreserved for review, as those arguments were not raised at the fair hearing (see Matter of Almodovar v. Griffin, 159 AD3d 694, 695; Matter of Rieser v New York City Dept. of Educ., 133 AD3d 465; Matter of Leslie v. Fischer, 107 AD3d 1264).
In reviewing a Medicaid eligibility determination made after a fair hearing, the court must review the record, as a whole, to determine if the agency's decisions are supported by substantial evidence (see Matter of Pagnani v Suffolk County Dept. of Social Servs. 152 AD3d 696; Matter of Bosco v. McGuire, 111 AD3d 931, 932; Matter of Gabrynowicz v New York State Dept. of Health, 37 AD3d 464). "Substantial evidence means such relevant proof as a reasonable mind may accept as adequate to support a conclusion or ultimate fact. The petitioner bears the burden of demonstrating eligibility" (Matter of Loiacono v. Demarzo, 72 AD3d 969, 969–970 [internal quotation marks and citations omitted] ).
Here, the denial of the application for Medicaid benefits due to lack of documentation was supported by substantial evidence (see Matter of Pagnani v Suffolk County Dept. of Social Servs., 152 AD3d at 696; Matter of Bosco v. McGuire, 111 AD3d at 932). Moreover, the determination of Social Services that the petitioner did not establish good cause for failing to timely provide the requested documents is also supported by substantial evidence (see Matter of Pagnani v Suffolk County Dept. of Social Servs., 152 AD3d at 696; Matter of Bosco v. McGuire, 111 AD3d at 932).
DILLON, J.P., LEVENTHAL, MILLER and DUFFY, JJ., concur.
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court


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I recognize airline checked-baggage fees get your ire up more than high-cost 401(k) fees, but as explained in an earlier post it's 401(k) fees that should really bug you, as they can eat up tens of thousands of dollars of your retirement savings. And on the 401(k) fee front there was in fact good news out of Washington last week. Nearly two and half years after its original proposal to increase 401(k) fee disclosure rules, the Department of Labor issued a final rule last week that has the potential to reduce your 401(k) plan's fees. The new DOL rule will require a wide array of businesses that provide services to 401(k) and other retirement plans to do a much better job spelling out the direct and indirect fees they collect. Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary for the Labor Department's Employee Benefits Security Administration explained that the new rule will help the folks running your plan "make more informed decisions about important plan services, the cost of the services and the potential conflicts of interests that their service providers may have." Translation: to stay in the good graces of the federal ERISA law that regulates the retirement plan arena, the folks who make money off of your plan will have to spell out their fees a whole lot better, and that should help the folks running your plan get you a good fee deal. That it took nearly 30 years to make fee transparency standard operating procedure in the 401(k) industry is lamentable, but I guess I should celebrate the better-late-than-never angle. For the record, the new rule does not go into effect until July 16, 2011, one year from last week's announcement.
Marcia Wagner, whose Wagner Law Group specializes in employee-benefit issues says the long-delayed regs are indeed a "significant" win for plan participants. "With more fee transparency we will see a compression in fees," says Wagner. As Kathy Kristof reported, a one percentage point swing in 401(k) fees can reduce your final retirement plan value by 28 percent. Whether it is a 1 percentage point savings or 10 basis points, every smidge your plan can ultimately save by getting on top of its fee payments can impact your retirement savings.
Wagner says DOL might soon come down with yet another rule change that could benefit plan participants. Under ERISA a company that operates a 401(k) plan has a fiduciary responsibility to run the plan in the best interests of participants. DOL is currently mulling broadening the net of who falls under the definition of fiduciary to include consultants and third-party advisors. That will raise the stakes that more folks with a finger in a 401(k) plan must put participants' best interests ahead of their own business interests. Imagine.


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After seeing a preview of the Dyson Hairdryer a few months ago, I immediately started saving all my pennies so I would be able to buy it as soon as it came out, and it's finally here!!! I decided to do an unboxing, then a 1st impression, and then a review so keep your eyes peeled!!!
This is everything that comes with it, I can't wait to try it out***eek*** I'm so excited.
Here is the unboxing video, and until next time all the hugs and kisses.


Attractive itineraries, gateways which are easy to find, reliable waymarking, attractive interpretation and enjoyable places to rest - we develop comprehensive concepts for cycling and walking.
Route planning - We find the right trails and compile a register for signage and waymarking. Which routes are attractive? What about integrating existing itineraries? Where are the gaps? What are special features for discovery?
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Q: Database migration program, that can analyze source and target db, and tell diff I'm looking for a program that can help with migration of both database schema and data from a source db, to a target db.
And it has to be able to do it while target db stays live, all the time. So clearing target db, and doing a full migration, is not an option.
We usually use Navicat SQL Server for this, but I'm just wondering, if there is any alternatives out there.
It would also be nice, if the program can make a database diagram, for the SQL servers that does not support the way SSMS does this. (like azure db's)
And unfortunately SSMS isnt up to this task.
What would a working alternative be to using this program?

A: There are multiples alternatives out there. I would recommend these two:
Idera comparison Toolset and the Red Gate SQL Compare & Red Gata Data Compare. All of them offer full funcionality during the trial period so you can take a look and decide which one is better for you. They work in a similar way: you select source and target databases, compare and generate deployment script with the differences.
For database diagram you can also use the Red Gate Dependency tracker.
I use Redgate ones everyday and used Idera in the past so let me know if you have any issue.


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Hundreds of B Corps are Sitting Ducks: Here's Why
Words by Brad Edmondson
Entrepreneurs who are growing the Certified B Corps movement need to learn from their elders' mistakes. But B Corps in 18 states are defenseless against corporate predators. And in 11 of these states, they're fooling themselves.
At the end of 2015, 31 states have passed laws establishing benefit corporations. These are different than Certified B Corps, which subscribe to a voluntary audit program maintained by a not-for-profit group called B Lab.
Benefit corporations have taken the next step by writing their double bottom line into their articles of incorporation. They exist to make a profit for their shareholders, but also to benefit their stakeholders—employees, suppliers, customers, and neighbors. In most states, benefit corporations are also required to prove their social impact in public reports.
The first law establishing benefit corporations was passed by Maryland in 2010. While the movement is spreading rapidly, 19 states have not yet passed a version of this law. But Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming have an older law on the books that some view as a substitute. It's known as a non-shareholder constituency statute, and it explicitly permits corporate directors to consider the effects of their decisions on stakeholders as well as shareholders.
Constituency statutes might sound good, but they don't protect mission-driven businesses. "They haven't been cited in many court decisions," says William Clark, an attorney who helped draft the original legislation for benefit corporations. "When push comes to shove, the shareholders always win. So there's a real question at this point about what constituency statutes mean." And thereby hangs a tale.
The current crop of community-minded business people emerged when baby boomers started opening shops in the 1970s. The founders of Ben & Jerry's, The Body Shop, Tom's of Maine, Stonyfield Yogurt, and others succeeded by positioning their products as healthy, values-led alternatives to similar products made by big, greedy corporations. But when the big, greedy corporations offered to buy them out, the hippie capitalists couldn't come up with a better alternative.
In the 1980s and 1990s, most corporate managers and lawyers gleefully took cover behind Milton Friedman and other "free market" economists. The actor Michael Douglas captured this slimy worldview in 1987, in the movie Wall Street, with his Oscar-winning portrayal of the corporate raider Gordon Gekko. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good," said Gekko. "Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit."
Gekko's speech came on the heels of Revlon v. MacAndrews, a Delaware Supreme Court decision that triggered a feeding frenzy among corporate predators. The Court held that once buyers begin bidding up the price of a publicly traded stock, corporate directors must disregard the interests of stakeholders and focus only on maximizing shareholder profits. The Revlon decision never made it to the US Supreme Court, and lawyers are still arguing about it. But for years after passed in 1986, it was accepted as the law of the land.
Lots of community minded business people were horrified by Gekko and Revlon. They devised constituency statutes to give corporate directors a way to fight back. Pennsylvania was the first state to pass one, in 1983. Others followed quickly and today, 32 states have them on the books.
But this wasn't really a legal dispute. It was a clash of worldviews, and the community capitalists never had a chance. The directors of Ben & Jerry's were forced to sell to Unilever in 2000, even thought the Vermont legislature passed a constituency statute in 1998. One big reason for the sale (described in my book) was the threat of multiple lawsuits from profit-hungry shareholders.
"With the exception of Connecticut, constituency statutes are not mandatory," says Clark. "They simply allow directors to consider other interests." In other words, constituency statutes codify a large body of corporate law that says directors have the right to serve stakeholders as well as shareholders. But this legal right doesn't mean much, once the money starts talking.
Constituency statutes were the best we could do until the late 2000s, when Clark and several others developed a better idea. Benefit corporations are legally required to pursue a double bottom line. They build enormous amounts of good will and loyalty by treating their employees, suppliers, customers, and neighbors well. They are also publicizing their good works as a way of distinguishing themselves from their competition. Many benefit corporations are highly profitable for this reason.
If a profit-only corporation buys a benefit corporation, it could always change the charter or absorb the assets. But in many cases, a move like that would also endanger the very thing that makes the acquisition attractive.
Changing a benefit corporation's policies runs a serious risk of losing a lucrative market segment. This is because so many consumers will pay more for products that reflect their commitments to fair trade, a living wage, and other causes. These activist consumers are the ultimate guardians of the socially responsible business movement. Benefit corporations are their best choice, because benefit corporations are finding ways to grow sustainably without abandoning their stakeholders.
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Brad Edmondson
Brad Edmondson is an award-winning writer and presenter who explains social change and how it happens. www.bradedmondson.com.
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There are movies whose endings make you happy, and there are movies whose ending makes you happy. And just when you thought you had got the world neatly classified thus, this one happens to you. With Subhaseessulu you don't know which one of the two reasons to be happy for, because the problem is even more fundamental - you don't know that it's time to be happy. For, you never know that the movie has ended.
Nagarjuna Reddy's woes are even worse. While you are confused primarily with the ending, he is confused all through the film. The director can't decide whether he's making a movie with a social message or a love story, and ultimately combines both for which you pay the price for 2-1/2 hours.
Subhaseessulu begins by showing Vijay (Anit Raj), an orphan, being brought up by his grandmother, and his efforts for the development of his village. He falls in love with Rani (Varsha), niece of the village head Balaramaiah, and, as the love blossoms, gets the blessings of both families.
Just as everything is about to be settled, Rani's father Krishna (who all the while was running a business in Dubai) arrives and expresses his distaste at the arrangement - for some reason he believes that the youth of the villages are no good. Vijay, as is the wont of the hero, challenges Krishna that he will earn more money and reputation in one year than Krishna can in the same time, and that too in a city.
Vijay reaches the city and stays with K K Rao (Tanikela Bharani), and starts a restaurant. He is on his way to success when he is conned by Rao. Somehow a long lost uncle (Chandramohan) in the city comes to his aid, and with his help, Vijay manages to achieve his goal.
Krishna now regrets his decision and accepts the alliance. On the day of the engagement, however, the priest informs Krishna of a defect in Vijay's horoscope that will result in Rani's being widowed in a short while after their marriage. But Vijay and Rani decide to go against their elders' views, and get married.
This is where either the producer ran out of money or the director got bored. Vijay has an accident, and is admitted to a hospital in a critical state. As soon as he regains his consciousness, he insists on going to his village to inspect a project of essence, which would result in saving the village from God knows what. And surprise, surprise, the movie ends! There is no mention of what happens to the hero, the heroine, or anybody else after their reaching the village.
The problems with Subhaseessulu are too numerous to comprehensively recount here (or anywhere), but here's an effort. Firstly, characters keep appearing from out of nowhere and disappearing without any explanation all through the film. Then, the comedy track is very thin, with a lot of overacting by Brahmanandam, M S Narayana and company. Senior actors like Chandramohan are wasted in minor roles. And as for the main cast, Anit Raj seriously requires classes in acting, and Varsha, in her second role after the runaway hit Nuvve Kaavaali, is just an ornament.
The music is as melodious as a garage. And guess what? Bhadrachala Ramadas is part of it. Only, he will regret the day he composed his melodious krithi 'Paluke Bangaramayera', seeing the way that it has been ripped apart and all its melody plain murdered.
Well, you still have a choice in your participation in this.
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