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Wasn't this an episode of Friends?
At the last moment a member of the Chinese politburo who was watching a rehearsal pronounced that the winner, a girl called Yang Peiyi, might have a perfect voice but was unsuited to the lead role because of her buck teeth.
So, on the night, while a pre-recording of Yang Peiyi singing was played, Lin Miaoke, who has already featured in television advertisements, was seen but not heard.
Maybe it's because I'm a father of two little girls, but ohmigod that is heart-breaking for the little girl who has the fantastic voice, but was deemed too ugly. I feel so bad for her.
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Know how many procrastinators it takes to screw in a lightbulb? I'll tell ya tomorrow -winks-
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I finally made something new for the guys! I call it "Charlie" cause when I was a kid we called these stripey Tshirts Charlie Browns. It's a layered Striped V-neck Tee over a long sleeved black Tee with Prim bunched cuffs and Black Denim Baggy Long Shorts. This is for the cute boys next door who have a little bad boy hiding inside. Perfect Emo-Wear!
A new Item in the Hunger Line. I wanted a Goth Fairy Babydoll Dress and came up with "Morbid" It's a petite pointe fleur de lit patterned dress with poofy prim sleeves and a flouncy layered babydoll skirt off the shoulder with a built in blood red tank underneath. It comes with Red & Black Striped Tights and fingerless gloves with nail polish. You too can be a scary fairy!I went ahead and put the Gothy Striped Tights in a Fat Pack. Six pairs for $125 L in some hot dark colors. WARNING! These are frighteningly low and may show some hoo-ha!
Okies this is my fave thing this week and something I've been wanting to make forever. But I suck at prim work so after a few days of fighting with em I finally got out my puffy coat! It's a Cropped Jacket in a Black and Silver Baroque pattern with puffy prim sleeves, chest piece and collar. It comes with fingerless gloves with black and red tipped nail polish and the jacket has long flexi strings that dangle and swing when you walk or dance. The jacket underneath is pretty and textured alone as a bolero and can be worn in several ways. Have fun with it. It's called "Harlot"
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It has been one month since we got married! Our honeymoon was great. We got to
know a lot of interesting things about each other, and the important thing is that I am
not disappointed in a single thing yet. Furthermore, since yesterday we are living
together, it's more because of the economic reasons and it's convenient. So, for the
last two and a half weeks we have done …
The place for the couches is completely ready, it has been painted and varnished
several times.
I finished working on the fore-peak, and painted and varnished it several times.
Here is Anatoliy, analyzing how to install the seal on the shaft.
When I was done inside, I went to work onto the cockpit. I organized everything in the
lockers, I had cleaned and painted them beforehand.
The deck was polished just like the hull.
Cockpit. Everything is in the helmsman's area, so it doesn't get in the way.
Freed some space for the sonar sensor by removing the old one and a monitor.
Mounting holes were filled with epoxy.
Anatoliy came over again to install the seal. Before we got to work we had something to eat, what God provided us.
And God provided us: kebab, beer, vodka, and salads…
As you know, this is an old marine tradition – to have it strong and for the seal to get hard.
Then we put everything in its place. A full belly helped, in contrast to popular belief.
On the next day we started to put in the couches that were ready.
Only the seats and the back-rests of the right side and the seats of the left
side were ready.
The right side is ready. I picked this pattern. I like it, do you?
Covered it and then varnished the furniture.
Took everything that was unnecessary out of navigator's area, all the old stuff that won't
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And yesterday, I finally moved in!
Brought in everything that we will need. A little messy, but EVERY single thing
will be used, believe me. And now…
Tsilka, my cat, inspected the whole boat and then fell asleep under the tent,
where it was warm. Surprisingly, she was really calm and seemed to like
everything. And that – is a very good sign as you know. Great!
There is much more space now, I am starting to make myself at home.
I set up the dinner table, put the "White Squall" on and celebrated. It's finished!
Bitik and Vukidish smile at me.
They are my amulet. They accompanied me across Atlantic in 2003 and in 2006. Last year – across the Indian Ocean. Now they are getting ready to a new adventure.
If they smile and Tsilka is happy, then all is well! This is good news!
A bit of a video, to give you an idea…
Thank god, that me and my love are happy together and make each other happy!


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Today, The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith was published by Mulholland Books of Little, Brown.
The book, written by J.K. Rowling under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith, is the sequel to last year's acclaimed novel, The Cuckoo's Calling. It is the author's third novel since the completion of the Harry Potter series in 2007.
The Silkworm sees the return of private detective, Cormoran Strike, and his assistant, Robin Ellacott. The two of them take on the case of novelist Owen Quine, a case that began around a missing person and then turned into a brutal murder under "bizarre circumstances." Investigating deeper into Quine's mysterious death, Strike realizes there is more to the story than what it seems.
The synopsis on Galbraith's reads, "The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives – so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him… It becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before…"
Find out all about Cormoran Strike here at our page dedicated to the Robert Galbraith novels.
Reviews for the book have been mostly positive so far, with many praising the book's well thought-out plot and the development of the eccentric characters. Plot and character have always been a signature of Rowling's writing, and continue to be a highlight of reviews. Then again, as many times as it is praised, it is critiqued, and The Silkworm is no exception. Less than favorable reviews noted the novel's over-descriptive text, another Rowling signature, as a turn off. You can read more reviews of the book here.
On July 18, J.K. Rowling will be appearing as Robert Galbraith at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. She will be in conversation with crime novelist Val McDermid. Tickets for the event, unfortunately, have already been sold out, but we will be reporting on the event.
The Silkworm is out today — visit your local bookseller to buy the book or order the book online here.
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You don't have to believe everything you read.
I'm generally convinced that Americans will believe anything, I actually mean ANYTHING, that mainstream media puts out as long as its endorsed or created by a supposed expert. Half the time these "experts" are nothing more than TV or internet "Yoda's" who say anything they want (usually to promote their new product) claiming its scientific truth without ever providing any scientific evidence. You know, the type that comes from scientific inquiry into a subject.
The latest TV and internet Yoda fest has been Soda, Diet Soda and Artificial Sweeteners.
What Soft Drinks are Doing to Your Body
About 99.9% of what the internet Yoda's like to claim as scientific fact in regards to the above has not been scientifically proven. It's their Yoda opinion. That's all it is, an OPINION, not fact. It's all guided by how they feel about something, not necessarily about disseminating truth.
These Yoda's like to talk about how bad sodas (diet and full strength) and artificial sweeteners are, sometimes they even quote studies. Here are some of the favorites:
Diet soda intake and risk of incident metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Nettleton JA, Lutsey PL, Wang Y, Lima JA, Michos ED, Jacobs DR Jr.Diabetes Care. 2009 Apr;32(4):688-94. Epub 2009 Jan 16.
Yoda Says: "Diet Soda drinking and diabetes you will get"
Science Says: "CONCLUSIONS: Although these observational data cannot establish causality, consumption of diet soda at least daily was associated with significantly greater risks of select incident metabolic syndrome components and type 2 diabetes."
Association is NOT causation. i.e. One does not necessarily cause the other. It may, but we DO NOT know.
Consumption of aspartame-containing beverages and incidence of hematopoietic and brain malignancies.Lim U, Subar AF, Mouw T, Hartge P, Morton LM, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Campbell D, Hollenbeck AR, Schatzkin A.Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006 Sep;15(9):1654-9.
Yoda Says: "Cancer brain and headache artificial sweetener will give you."
Science Says: CONCLUSIONS: "Our findings do not support the hypothesis that aspartame increases hematopoietic or brain cancer risk."
Problem is the American public believes everything they read, hear and see. We've completely lost the ability to have our BS meter turned on when it comes to media appointed Yoda's. Whatever they say we believe, without question.
Why don't they ever even acknowledge the other argument? Maybe diet sodas and artificial sweeteners are not the harbinger of death. Maybe they actually help people lose weight. Maybe, just maybe, they are perfectly safe……
Effect of drinking soda with aspartame or high-fructose corn syrup on food intake and body weight. MG Tordoff and AM Alleva,American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 51, 963-969 Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia 19104.
Science Says: "Drinking large volumes of APM-sweetened soda, in contrast to drinking HFCS-sweetened soda, reduces sugar intake and thus may facilitate the control of calorie intake and body weight."
OMG! diet soda may (may not also) help people lose weight. Say it aint so Dr. Phil….
Liquid Calories, sugar and body weight. Adam Drewnowski and France Bellisle, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 85, No. 3, 651-661, March 2007
Science Says: "The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has been linked to rising rates of obesity in the United States. The standard explanation is that energy-containing liquids are less satiating than are solid foods. However, purely physiologic mechanisms do not fully account for the proposed links between liquid sugar energy and body weight change………Numerous clinical studies have shown that sugar-containing liquids, when consumed in place of usual meals, can lead to a significant and sustained weight loss."
Nooooooooooo………this can't be true!……..But wait, it is.
The point isn't that these things are perfectly safe or preferable to things like water. I'm not saying that drinking a six pack a day of diet sodas is a healthy choice. Personally, even though I have done it many, many times, it's probably, in my opinion, not.
This is probably the most even-handed and best mainstream article I've read on this subject.
Are Artificial Sweeteners Really that bad for You? by Claire Suddath
The point is, we need to stop believing whatever the Yoda of the minute spews out, start taking the 2 minutes to find out if its truthful and start understanding the difference between something that is proven and something that is opinion.


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INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Buzzards Bay, the winner of the Santa Anita Derby in April and the fifth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, will make his next start in the $100,000 Affirmed Handicap at Hollywood Park next Saturday.
Bill Bianco III, the son of co-owner Bill Bianco and the racing manager for Fog City Stable, said Buzzards Bay will use the Grade 3 Affirmed Handicap over 1 1/16 miles as a prep for the $400,000 Swaps Stakes on July 9.
"It will be a good catalyst for bigger things," Bianco said.
Buzzards Bay is scheduled to work Monday at Santa Anita under jockey Victor Espinoza. "If he comes out of this work like he did his last, we'll be on all cylinders," Bianco said.
Trained by Jeff Mullins, Buzzards Bay pulled a 30-1 upset in the Santa Anita Derby on April 9, racing near the front throughout 1 1/8 miles.
Sent off at 46-1 in the Kentucky Derby, Buzzards Bay was wide throughout. He made a strong move on the final turn, but could not sustain the rally, finishing 6 1/4 lengths behind Giacomo.
Buzzards Bay may have to face a promising group of late-blooming 3-year-olds in the Affirmed, including El Roblar, Indian Ocean, and Surf Cat.
Ace Blue leads Californian field
The Affirmed is one of three stakes Saturday, joined by the $250,000 Californian Stakes over 1 1/8 miles on the main track and the $75,000 Quicken Tree Stakes for statebreds over 1 1/2 miles on turf.
The field for the Grade 2 Californian will include Ace Blue, the winner of the Grade 2 Mervyn LeRoy Handicap on May 14. He was subsequently purchased by Sid and Jenny Craig and turned over to trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.
Friday, Ace Blue worked six furlongs in 1:13.20 under jockey David Flores. Hollendorfer, based in northern California, attended the workout and said he considers Saturday's race a distance test.
"There may be some question about a mile and an eighth, but I think he will handle it from what I've seen in his training," he said.
Ace Blue has remained at Hollywood Park at John Sadler's stable since the Mervyn LeRoy. Hollendorfer said he did not want to disrupt the 5-year-old's schedule in advance of the Californian.
"I left him here because, in my experience, it's better to train over the Hollywood Park track," he said.
The Californian is a prep to the $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup over 1 1/4 miles on the main track July 9. Hollendorfer said the Californian will determine whether Ace Blue goes in the Gold Cup or waits for the San Diego Handicap over 1 1/16 miles at Del Mar in late July.
Allowance winners target stakes
Steal Your Thunder and Avanti Avanti, the winners of allowance races for 3-year-olds Thursday, are likely to return in the Oceanside Stakes at Del Mar on July 20.
Both were tested in Thursday's one-mile turf races, rallying from off the pace to score narrow wins.
Steal Your Thunder ($14), trained by Carla Gaines for Warren Williamson, closed from sixth to beat In Excelsis by a nose, finishing in 1:35.38.
"I was worried there wouldn't be any pace," Gaines said. "As it turned out, it went perfect. I think his best distance will be farther."
In the second division, Avanti Avanti ($20.80) closed from sixth to finish a neck in front of Cammies Future. Avanti Avanti was timed in 1:35.68.
Ron McAnally, who trains In Excelsis and Avanti Avanti, said he was impressed with In Excelsis's race even though the colt was beaten.
"He's coming around," McAnally said. "If we can get him built up and get some weight on him, I think he'll be a different horse."
Steal Your Thunder and Avanti Avanti have yet to be tried in stakes. In Excelsis was fifth in two stakes in Ireland last year, including the Group 1 National Stakes. Earlier this year, he was seventh in the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes over a wet-fast track at Santa Anita.
McAnally said he is hoping that Del Mar officials make the decision to split the Oceanside Stakes, which has been run in divisions annually since 1989. That way he will not have to run his two hopefuls together.
Board okays track request
The California Horse Racing Board has approved a request from Hollywood Park to allow horses with common ownership to run uncoupled in Grade 1 races. The change went into effect for Saturday's Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap. Pellegrino and Sarafan, both owned by Gary Tanaka, were listed in the program as separate betting interests.
There are four more Grade 1 races affected by the decision - the American Oaks, Triple Bend Handicap, and Vanity Handicap on July 3, and the Hollywood Gold Cup.
"Fans want larger fields and more betting interests and this accomplishes that," said racing secretary Martin Panza.
* Singletary, the winner of the 2004 Breeders' Cup Mile and fourth in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile here on May 30, worked a half-mile in 47.80 seconds. Singletary, 5, will make his next start in the $250,000 Firecracker Breeders' Cup Handicap over a mile on turf at Churchill Downs on July 4.


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Where do we start? Actually, where do we start after we talk about A-Rod?
The New York Yankees' postseason flameout ended on Thursday night in Detroit, beginning what figures to be long, loud offseason in the Bronx. Although Alex Rodriguez' benching by Yankees manager Joe Girardi was the big story as the Tigers swept the Yankees out of the ALCS, the team's epic postseason struggles were certainly the work of many people sporting pinstripes -- including some of those in the stands, apparently.
After barely holding on to the AL East crown, the team that lead the majors in home runs, slugging percentage and OPS during the regular season could barely put up any runs in the playoffs. Having plated enough in fits and starts to narrowly edge the Orioles in the ALDS, the Yankees' offense produced runs in just three of 39 innings in its four straight ALCS losses to the Tigers.
The culprit many have pointed to has been the Yankees' $275 million man, Rodriguez, who was benched three games in the playoffs and pinch hit for three times (one of which saved the team int he ALDS). When A-Rod was permitted to enter the batter's box, he went 3 for 25 with 12 strikeouts.
Again, he was hardly the only Bronx Bomber to misfire.
Curtis Granderson, who led the team with 43 homers and 106 RBI during the season, went 3 for 30 in the playoffs with a staggering 16 strikeouts (had 195 in the regular season). Robinson Cano, arguably the team's most dynamic offensive player, batted a clean .100 in 40 postseason at-bats.
"It wasn't just one guy struggling," Rodriguez said after Game 4, via the Associated Press. "It was a collective group, and it was a very unique situation."
"Unique." That's one way to put it. Before the A-Rod trade rumors begin to intensify and the baseball media covers the Yankees' offseason like ESPN covers Tim Tebow, it's time to decide who deserves the most blame for the Yankees' exit.
Was it A-Rod's fault? Granderson? Maybe Girardi with all of his eyebrow-raising roster moves in the ALCS? Scroll down below and vote.


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If you are constantly tired of using the trendy WhatsApp chat on your iPhone and your wish is to take a break from the continuously incoming of the media sharing and chat messages either from an individual contact or from the groups then we provide you covered from such irritating happenings. This article will helps you how you are able to create a backup for your WhatsApp account and delete the WhatsApp account in the appropriate way. If you want to delete your WhatsApp account permanently then there is a good idea to save you conversation records. Now you are getting information and become familiar with the different way of the backing-up your WhatsApp chats and deleting your account.
How to backup your WhatsApp chat?
If you are switching from one iPhone to another upgraded iPhone then you can use the built-in WhatsApp chat backup feature that keep everything to your iCloud account. WhatsApp automatically saves the backup for some period it based on your setting, but you can also force to create the fresh backup by following the below steps.
- From the WhatsApp option open tap on the "Setting" button
- Go to "Chats" and then tap on the "Chat Backup".
- Now tap on the "Back Up Now" button
Now the WhatsApp starts to backup your existing data and uploading it from the iCloud.
How to backup individual message threads and share them?
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The above method also applies to your entire WhatsApp account and you can also recovers the individual's message threads from both the group and individual chats. You are also able to share them with other or even you can save them. The given method is very useful when you permanently want to delete your WhatsApp account.
- Open your WhatsApp app and tap on the "Chats" button and now tap on the thread from the list you want to export
- The next step is to tap on the group or the person name from the top.
- The next step is to find out the Export Chat button and then tap on it.
- The WhatsApp will ask you if you want to backup your conversation to "Attach Media or without Media". Select the option according to your preference.
- When the backup files are completely prepared you will receive the share sheet like the Mail or Message or option to save to cloud service.
How to delete a WhatsApp account on iPhone?
Once you have successfully created a backup for your important conversations, now you can delete the WhatsApp account. It is also important to note that when you sign up again on the WhatsApp with the same device and phone number your backup that were initially saved on the iCloud will be no longer exist because you deleting the WhatsApp account. So, proceed it with caution.
- Open your WhatsApp from the iPhone and tap on the "Setting" button.
- Go the "Account" option the next page will be open and you find the option of "Delete My Account", tap on it.
- The WhatsApp will warn you and telling you about the effects of deletion of your account. Read the all instructions carefully and then enter your mobile number. Now you can tap on the "Delete My Account" button. Now your WhatsApp account is deleted.


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Have you ever bought a lens off ebay? Was your experience good or bad? Lets hope whoever bought this rare expensive lens has a good experience.
This Nikkor 6mm F2.8 lens just sold on ebay for about 20.000 GBP, which is about 30.000 US dollars! Incredible!
Who wouldn't wish for such a find in the attic?
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This week we've had the pleasure of having Lee Mead in our theatre, taking on the role of Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a role he's clearly loving. We caught up with him to talk flying cars and fatherhood.
Caractcus is a role that Lee has been waiting to play for a long time: "I actually auditioned for the original production at the Palladium, when I was 19, when Michael Ball was playing the role. I auditioned to be his second cover, but one of the things about being a cover for a lead role is usually they need the cover to be in the dance ensemble, and I'm not really a dancer. I wasn't the strongest dancer then – and I'm still not now – so I didn't get the job. So, for me to be able to play the part in my own right, fifteen years on, it's a huge thing for me."
"The call came in from my agent with the offer last September, and it didn't take me long to say yes. It's a great family show, a really iconic show. It's got great music and great songs and great characters to it and it's got real heart to it, a real soul. Obviously the wow factor is the flying car, that's such an important part of the show, but for me the main feature of the show is this guy with two kids and that story, and the relationship he has with them, and I can really relate to that, being a dad myself now."
Fatherhood is clearly a massive part of Lee's life. He describes five- year- old Betsy as his 'top priority' in life, and she crops up a lot in his conversation. Betsy lives in Kent with her mother, Lee's ex-wife, TV presenter Denise Van Outen. Betsy saw the film of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the first time last year, replicating a bit of a Mead family tradition, as Lee remembers watching it "every year" as a child.
The part of Caractacus, the inventor (and single dad) who builds the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car, was one Lee couldn't resist, despite having made other plans: "Sometimes roles come up at a point in your life where I believe they're meant to happen, and this was one of them. I've been filming Casualty in Cardiff for a few years now, and before the offer for Chitty came up, I'd decided to take a year off, and go home and do the school runs and although I've got my album coming out [Some Enchanted Evening, his fourth album, released in February], and concerts for that, I'd planned to have a quieter year this year. But then this offer came in, and it just felt right. And it's not too long a tour, so I'm not away from my daughter for too long."
Lee came to performing relatively late: growing up in Southend, Essex (where he's just bought a new home) he "wanted to be a footballer, but I was terrible!" He did his first show aged 17, having joined a local amateur group, "mainly to meet girls."
When he did decide on a career as a performer, Lee had to work his way up: "I got my first job on a P&O car ferry, as a singer, on about £150 a week. I had a tiny cabin, and I used to clean my own costumes after the show. I wanted to go to RADA, but if you're a working-class lad from Southend, ten grand a year just for the fees isn't possible. My dad just laughed when I told him how much it would cost. Most people come away from that with sixty grands worth of debt. So I started at the bottom and did it the hard way."
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I'm new to the AD9361, but I am doing the best I can to study how to implement this: I need to dump the AD9361 RX buffers to a file descriptor as quickly and efficiently as possible, but I keep running into different issues with the different ways I am attempting to. The file I need to dump to is a raw SSD block (ie: no filesystem), I just need to write directly to the SSD as fast as I can. I am using O_SYNC and O_DIRECT -- which means I guess I need to align the mmap iio_buffers, otherwise I seem to get a bad address error on my writes to the SSD.
Do I need to iio_buffer_refill() and then dump the buffer to the file?
Is there a way I can bypass the buffer to direct the DMA directly to the SSD?
edit: I forgot to mention that I never have to read the SSD back ever -- this is a write only dump. If this helps any. (A separate program will read this stuff back at another time, but can be completely ignored for now)


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In an unprecedented move, India became one of the first countries in the world to legally mandate CSR expenditure for companies satisfying a certain criteria in August, 2013.
Before an attempt is made to explore this concept of CSR both in a legal and a managerial context, it is important to get well versed with the policy guidelines pertaining to it so far. Here's taking a look at the background of CSR in India along with the concerned statutory provisions and rules which supplements its understanding in the Indian context at large.
The Corporate Social Responsibility Voluntary Guidelines were released by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India as early as December, 2009. The guidelines recognized that post the global financial crisis, the corporate sector had found itself standing in the midst of a sustainability crisis that posed a threat to the very existence of the business. The need for an inclusive growth was, thus, very much evident. However, this required all stakeholders to assume and discharge their responsibilities.
The guidelines identified the gap between India and Bharat and the role of corporates in bridging it through social responsible business practices, ensuring the distribution of wealth and well-being of the communities in which the business operates. It was accepted that this would complement what the Government was already doing by undertaking extensive developmental initiatives through a series of sectoral programmes.
Indian business sector practices have been traditionally known to incorporate various methods of discharging social responsibility. However, inspite of a lot of human and economic energy available for utilization in the area, a mechanism to channelize this energy was found to be largely lacking. Thus, the need of the hour was for the Government, corporate sector and the communities to partner together.
With CSR evolving from simple philanthropic activities to integrating the interest of the business with that of communities in which it operates, the state and non-state actors could effectively partner to find and implement innovative solutions to problems poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition etc which has resulted in a large section of the population remaining as "un-included" from the mainstream. Against this background, the Ministry bought out the set of voluntary guidelines in order to enable companies to add value to their operations and contribute towards the long term sustainability of the business. Moreover, the guidelines were prepared with the help of valuable suggestions received from trade and industry chambers, experts and other stakeholders along with the internationally prevalent and practiced guidelines, norms and standards in the area of CSR.
What needs to be noted here, however, is that these guidelines explicitly and unambiguously recognized CSR as something purely voluntary- something that the company would like to do beyond any statutory requirement or obligation. The intent of the Voluntary Guidelines was solely to provide companies with guidance in dealing with the expectation, while working closely within the framework of national aspirations and policies. Furthermore, the guidelines clearly mentioned that they were not intended for regulatory or contractual use though it was expected that "India Inc" would make sincere efforts to consider compliance with them.
The main points of these guidelines are summarized as follows:
- The guidelines emanated from the fundamental principle that each business entity should formulate a CSR policy to guide its strategic planning and provide a road-map for its CSR initiatives, which should be an integral part of its overall business policy and aligned with its business goals. The policy should be framed with the participation of various level executives and should be approved by Board.
- The CSR Policy should cover the core elements of – Care for Stakeholders, Ethical Functioning, Respect for Worker's right and welfare, Respect for Human Rights, Respect for Environment, and Activities for Social and Inclusive Development.
In brief, companies should be responsive towards all stakeholders and create value for them. They should develop mechanism to actively engage with all stakeholders, inform them of inherent risks and mitigate them when they occur. The corporate governance systems should, further, be underpinned by Ethics, Transparency and Accountability with the companies refraining from engaging in business practices that are abusive, unfair, corrupt or anti-corruptive.
Moreover, companies should provide a safe, hygienic and humane workplace environment for the workers, upholding the dignity of the employees. They should provide all employees with access to training and development of necessary skills for career advancement, on an equal and non-discriminatory basis. Also, freedom of association should be upheld along with the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining of labor. An effective grievance redressal system, prohibition on child or forced labor, and equal opportunities should further be ensured and the Companies should respect human rights for all and avoid complicity with human right abuses by them or by third party.
Furthermore, environment should form an integral part of a company's sustainability goals and companies should react, respond and take suitable measures accordingly. Depending upon the core competency and business interest, companies should also undertake activities for economic and social development of communities and geographical areas, particularly in the vicinity of their operations. These could include: education, skill-building for livelihood of people, health, cultural and social welfare etc., particularly targeted at disadvantaged sections of society.
The implementation guidelines were separately put out and consist of the following points:
- The CSR policy of the business entity should provide for the implementation strategy which could include identification of projects/activities, setting measurable physical targets with time-frame, organizational mechanism and responsibilities, time schedules and monitoring. Companies can partner with local authorities, business associations and civil society /NGOs. They may influence the supply chain for CSR initiative and motivate employees for voluntary effort for social development. They may evolve a system of need assessment and impact assessment while undertaking CSR activities in particular areas. Independent evaluation can also be undertaken for selected projects/activities from time to time.
- Companies should allocate specific amount in their budgets for CSR activities. This amount may be related to profits after tax, cost of unplanned CSR activities or any other suitable parameter.
- The company should engage with well established and recognized programmes/platforms which encourage responsible business practices and CSR activities to share experiences and network with other organizations. This would help the companies in improving on their own CSR strategies and effectively projecting the image of being socially responsible.
- The companies should, further, disseminate information on CSR policy, activities and progress in a structured manner to all their stakeholders and the public at large through their websites, annual reports, and other communications media.
The reason why it is good to look into these guidelines despite it being released 3 years prior to the enactment of CSR into law is that it does offer critical reference points for the implementation of the mandate by the companies now.
The possibility of a mandatory CSR expenditure for companies first became apparent in the Companies Bill 2011 wherein an explicit statutory provision in the form of Clause 135 was included. The then government had expressed their intention to take into confidence the MPs and other stakeholders, like NGOs for this evolving idea. Moreover, CSR spending was positioned as a responsibility of companies like their tax liabilities.
The clause has been adopted verbatim under Section 135 on the enactment of the Bill except for the addition of a proviso and an explanation.
Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 that governs corporate social responsibility is read as follows:
"135. (1) Every company having net worth of rupees five hundred crore or more, or turnover of rupees one thousand crore or more or a net profit of rupees five crore or more during any financial year shall constitute a Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the Board consisting of three or more directors, out of which at least one director shall be an independent director.
(2) The Board's report under sub-section (3) of section 134 shall disclose the composition of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee.
(3) The Corporate Social Responsibility Committee shall, — (a) formulate and recommend to the Board, a Corporate Social Responsibility Policy which shall indicate the activities to be undertaken by the company as specified in Schedule VII; (b) recommend the amount of expenditure to be incurred on the activities referred to in clause (a); and (c) monitor the Corporate Social Responsibility Policy of the company from time to time.
(4) The Board of every company referred to in sub-section (1) shall,— (a) after taking into account the recommendations made by the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, approve the Corporate Social Responsibility Policy for the company and disclose contents of such Policy in its report and also place it on the company's website, if any, in such manner as may be prescribed; and (b) ensure that the activities as are included in Corporate Social Responsibility Policy of the company are undertaken by the company.
(5) The Board of every company referred to in sub-section (1), shall ensure that the company spends, in every financial year, at least two per cent of the average net profits of the company made during the three immediately preceding financial years, in pursuance of its Corporate Social Responsibility Policy:
Provided that the company shall give preference to the local area and areas around it where it operates, for spending the amount earmarked for Corporate Social Responsibility activities:
Provided further that if the company fails to spend such amount, the Board shall, in its report made under clause (o) of sub-section (3) of section 134, specify the reasons for not spending the amount.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section "average net profit" shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of section 198."
Section 166 of the Act provides that the directors must "act in good faith in order to promote the objects of the company for the benefit of its members as a whole, and in the best interests of the company, its employees, the shareholders, the community and for the protection of environment."
Section 134(3)(o) provides for the company's obligation to submit details about the policy developed and implemented by the company on corporate social responsibility initiatives taken during the year as a part of the report by the Board of Directors, attached to the financial statements laid before a company in a general meeting.
As evident, the provision has been approached through a "comply or explain" framework. However, while there is no penalty for failing to spend on CSR under section 135, there are penalties for failing to report on CSR activities conducted or failing to explain why CSR spending was not carried out under section 134(8). Failure to explain is punishable by a fine on the company of not less than 50,000 rupees (approx. $900) and up to 25 lakh rupees (approx. $46,000). Furthermore, officers who default on the reporting provision could be subject to up to three years in prison and/or fines of not less than 50,000 rupees (approx. $900) and as high as 5 lakh rupees (approx. $9,200).
The original Schedule VII of the Act provided for the activities which may be included by the companies in their Corporate Social Responsibility Policies and consisted of activities relating to:-
(i) Eradicating extreme hunger and poverty;
(ii) Promotion of education;
(iii) Promoting gender equality and empowering women;
(iv) Reducing child mortility and improving mental health;
(v) Combating human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, malaria and other diseases;
(vi) Ensuring environmental sustainability;
(vii) Employment enhancing vocational skills;
(viii) Social business projects;
(ix) Contribution to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund or any other fund set up by the Central Government or the State Governments for socio-economic development and relief and funds for the welfare of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, other backward classes, minorities and women; and
(x) Such other matters as may be prescribed.
On the 1st day of April, 2014, the provision of Section 135 along with the Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013 came into force.
( http://www.mca.gov.in/Ministry/pdf/CompaniesActNotification2_2014.pdf )
The rules came into force on 1st April, 2014 along with the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013. A significant inclusion was the expansion of the coverage of the Act's CSR requirements to foreign companies with branches or project offices in India making foreign companies with Indian businesses subject to the mandatory CSR provisions. Some of the other important rules are as follows:
DEFINITION: Rule 2(c) of the Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014 defines CSR to mean and include but not limited to:
- Projects or programs relating to activities specified in Schedule VII to the Act; or
- Projects or programs relating to activities undertaken by the board of directors of a company (Board) in pursuance of recommendations of the CSR committee of the Board as per the declared CSR policy of the company subject to the condition that such policy will cover subjects enumerated in Schedule VII of the Act.
CSR COMMITTEES (Rule 5): The companies mentioned in the definition above are required to constitute CSR Committees as under:
- An unlisted public company or a private company, covered under section 135, which is not required to appoint an independent director pursuant to section 149(2) should have its CSR Committee without such director;
- A private company having only two directors on its Board should constitute its CSR Committee with two such directors;
- For a foreign company covered by section 135, the committee should comprise of atleast two persons of which person shall be as specified under section 380(1)(d) of the Act and another person shall be nominated by the foreign company.
- Moreover, the CSR committee should institute a transparent monitoring mechanism for the implementation of the CSR projects or programs or activities undertaken by the company.
CSR POLICY (Rule 6): The CSR policy of the company should include a list of CSR projects or programs which a company plans to undertake falling within the purview of Schedule VII of the Act, specifying modalities of execution of such project or programs and implementation schedules for the same; and monitoring process of such projects or programs. Such activities should, however, not include the activities undertaken in pursuance of normal course of business of a company. Also, the Board of Directors should ensure that the activities included by a company in its policy are related to the activities included in Schedule VII of the Act. The policy should, further, specify that the surplus arising out of the CSR projects or programs or activities shall not form part of the business profit of a company.
CSR ACTIVITIES (Rule 4) : The Board of a company may decide to undertake its CSR activities approved by the CSR Committee, through a registered trust or a registered society or a company established by the company or its holding or subsidiary or associate company under section 8 of the Act or otherwise provided that:
- if such trust, society or company is not established by the company or its holding or subsidiary or associate company, it should have an established track record of three years in undertaking similar programs or projects;
- the company has specified the projects or programs to be undertaken through these entities, the modalities of utilization of funds on such projects and programs and the monitoring and reporting mechanism.
The company may also collaborate with other companies for undertaking projects or programs or CSR activities in such a manner that the CSR Committees of respective companies are in a position to report separately on such projects or programs in accordance with these rules. Subject to the provisions governing the formation of CSR Committees, the CSR projects or programs or activities undertaken in India only will amount to CSR Expenditure. The CSR projects or programs or activities that benefit only the employees of the company and their families will not be considered as CSR activities under the Act. Moreover, contribution of any amount directly or indirectly to any political party will also not be considered as CSR activity.
Companies can build CSR capacities of their own personnel as well as those of their Implementing agencies through Institutions with established track records of at least three financial years but such expenditure should not exceed 5 percent of the total CSR expenditure of the company in one financial year.
DISPLAY OF CSR ACTIVITIES (Rule 9): The content of the CSR policy, recommended by the CSR committee and approved by the Board of Directors of the company, should be disclosed in the Board Report and on the company websites.
CSR EXPENDITURE (Rule 7): CSR Expenditure should include contribution to corpus for projects or programs relating to CSR activities approved by the Board on the recommendations of its CSR Committee. It, however, should not not include any expenditure on an item not in any conformity or not in line with activities which fall within the purview of Schedule VII of the Act.
CSR REPORTING (Rule 8): The Annexure to the Company (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules provides for the format of the annual report on CSR activities to be included in the Board's report. In case of a foreign company, the balance sheet filed under section 381(1) (b) should consist of an Annexure regarding the report on CSR.
Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013 has been amended several times ever since its conception and these amendments are as follows:
On 27th February, 2014, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs made amendments to Schedule VII of the Companies Act for substituting the following items and entries for items (i) to (x) in the Schedule which came into force on 1st April, 2014:
(i) Eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition, promoting preventive health care and sanitation and making available safe drinking water;
(ii) Promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocation skills specially among children, women, elderly, and differently-abled and livelihood enhancement projects;
(iii) Promoting gender equality, empowering women, setting up homes and hostels for women and orphans; setting up old age homes, day care centers and such other facilities for senior citizens and measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backward groups;
(iv) Ensuring environmental sustainability, ecological balance, protection of flora and fauna, animal welfare, agro-forestry, conservation of natural resources and maintaining quality of soil, air and water;
(v) Protection of national heritage, art and culture including restoration of buildings and sites of historical importance and works of art; setting up public libraries; promotion and development of traditional arts and handicrafts;
(vi) Measures for the benefit of armed forces veterans, wars widows and their dependants;
(vii) Training to promote rural sports, nationally recognized sports, paralympic sports and Olympic sports;
(viii) Contribution to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund or any other fund set up by the Central Government for socio-economic development and relief and welfare of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, other backward classes, minorities and women;
(ix) Contributions or funds provided to technology incubators located within academic institutions which are approved by the Central Government;
(x) Rural development projects.
As evident, what appears is a closed list of CSR activities that can be implemented under Section 135, running contrary to wider scope of activities as contemplated by the Voluntary Guidelines of 2009.
On 31st March, 2014, "promoting preventive health care" was amended to read "promoting health care including preventive health care" through a notification.
On August 6th, 2014, amendments were made to Schedule VII whereby the item 'slum area development' was inserted.
On September 12, 2014, the rule 4, sub-rule (6) of the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014 was amended to insert the words and comma "including expenditure on administrative overheads" after the words "but such expenditure."
On October 24th, 2014, in item (i), after the words "and sanitation", the words "including contribution to the Swach Bharat Kosh set-up by the Central Government for the promotion of sanitation" were inserted. Also, in item (iv), after the words "and water", the words "including contribution to the Clear Ganga Fund set-up by the Central Government for rejuvenation of river Ganga" were inserted.
On 19th January, 2015, the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Amendment Rules, 2015 made the following amendments in rule 4, in sub-rule (2) of the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules:
- For the words "established by the company or its holding or subsidiary or associate company under section 8 of the Act or otherwise", the words " established under section 8 of the Act by the company, either singly or alongwith its holding or subsidiary or associate company, or alongwith any other company or holding or subsidiary or associate company of such other company, or otherwise" were substituted;
- In the proviso, in clause (i), for the words "not established by the company or its holding or subsidiary or associate company, it", the words "not established under section 8 of the Act by the company, either singly or alongwith its holding or subsidiary or associate company, or alongwith any other company or holding or subsidiary or associate company of such other company, or otherwise" were substituted.
18th June, 2014: A general circular on the clarifications with regard to the provision of CSR under section 135 of the Companies Act, 2015 was issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on 18th June, 2014, addressing the concerns of the stakeholders at length. The intention of the statutory provision in tandem with the CSR rules, 2014 was reiterated to not only be to ensure that the activities undertaken in pursuance of the CSR policy were relatable to the Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013 but also that the entries in the said Schedule VII are interpreted liberally so as to capture the essence of the subjects enumerated in the said Schedule. The items enlisted in the amended Scheduled VII of the Act were clarified to be broad-based and intended to cover a wide-range of activities, illustratively mentioned in the Annexure to the circular which can be accessed at- http://www.mca.gov.in/Ministry/pdf/General_Circular_21_2014.pdf
The circular, further, clarified that CSR activities were required to be undertaken by companies in the project/programme mode and one-off events such as marathons/awards/ charitable contribution/ advertisement/sponsorships of TV programmes etc. would not qualify as part of CSR expenditure. Also, expenses incurred by companies for the fulfillment of any Act/Statute of regulations (such as Labour Laws, Land Acquisition Act etc.) will not count as CSR expenditure under the Companies Act. Expenditure incurred by Foreign Holding Company for CSR activities in India will qualify as CSR spend of Indian subsidiary only if the CSR expenditures are routed through Indian subsidiaries and if the Indian subsidiary is required to do as per section 135 of the Act.
'Registered Trust' (as referred in Ruler 4(2) of the Company CSR Rules, 2014) was explained to include Trusts registered under Income Tax Act 1956, for those States where the registration of Trust is not mandatory. Contributions to Corpus of a Trust/society/section 8 companies etc. were clarified as CSR expenditure as long as (a) the Trust/society/ section 8 companies etc. is created exclusively for undertaking CSR activities or (b) where the corpus is created exclusively for a purpose directly relatable to a subject covered in Schedule Vll of the Act.
3rd February, 2015: A general circular was again released on 3rd February, 2015 informing about the constitution of a High Level Committee to suggest measures for improved monitoring of the implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility policies by the companies under Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. The composition for this committee includes all stakeholders including government, academic, corporate and industrial representatives. The terms of reference for the committee are as follows,-
- Suitable methodologies for monitoring compliance of Section 135
- Measures for adoption by the companies for systematic monitoring and evaluation of their own CSR initiatives
- Strategies for monitoring and evaluation of CSR initiatives through expert agencies and institutions to facilitate adequate feedback to the Government with regard to the efficacy of CSR expenditure and quality of compliance by the companies.
- Different monitoring mechanism if warranted for Government Companies undertaking CSR and
- Any other matter incidental to the above or connected thereto.
The report is expected by July-August of this year.
Clearly, the CSR policy in India is still evolving and we can expect considerable changes before its effective implementation is ensured.


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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 683545
Uploaded plugins can not be (re)deployed?
Last modified: 2011-05-23 21:16:44 EDT
Description of problem:
If I try to upload a plugin, it seems to get uploaded, but not deployed. Quite possibly there is no method in the UI to actually deploy something after it has been uploaded?
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a backup of your agent plugins
2. Delete and purge one or more plugins (i.e., IIS, Hudson)
3. Uupload your plugin(s) again via the upload widget.
4. Try various things, including "Scan for Updates" to see if your plugins have been added
Actual results:
Nothing shows up
Expected results:
The plugins should show up...
Additional info:
...However, I am not sure all the steps for deployment are here in the UI. I can upload any number of plugins. Upon doing so, I see them in the upload UI -- and I can hit "Clear" to remove them from said UI. This looks like more of a "staging" area for uploading them to the server versus actual deployment. But in this case I cannot find a method for actually getting the uploaded plugins deployed...
This seems to be intermittent -- though it seems to happen more reliably with the Hudson plugin, for example.
Turns out that the problem is not plugin specific. The plugin scanner maintains a cache of plugins on the file system. That cache is updated every time the scanner runs. If you delete/purge/re-add the plugin before the scanner has run, the scanner's cache in effect becomes invalid, and it fails to detect that the plugin on the file system is new.
Committed changes to address a problem that occurs when deleting, purging, then
re-adding the plugin. The agent plugin scanner maintains a cache of plugins on the file system, and that cache was getting dirty. This results in the scanner failing to detect a plugin that has been re-added as a new plugin, and consequently, the plugin did not get re-installed. Now when deleting a plugin, a scan is immediately triggered.
Then if you went yo purge right away, you could wind up with a constraint violation in rhq_resource_type. Resource types are purged in a scheduled job, so it was possible to purge and re-add a plugin before its resource types have been purged. Now the plugin is marked to be purged. The purge is done in a scheduled job and is not done until all resource types from the plugin have been purged.
Once the user sees that the plugin has been purged, he knows it is safe to re-add it
commit hash: da19c1a6b8d117e0ca04702938e5c7abce6348b6
With the da19c1a6 commit, the UI no longer allows you to purge a plugin that you have not already deleted.
Tested RHQ 4.0 community release, as follows: uploaded a test plugin (Top Server, which was attached to another bz), did 'update plugins' on the agent, then 'discovery -f', imported the resource from the auto-discovery portlet, deleted and purged the plugin. Then repeated this a 2nd time. RHQ 4.0 is good with plugin upload/delete/purge ... and re-upload/delete/purge...
additionally verified the uploads, deletes in the oracle database with this SQL
select id, name from rhq_plugin where name = 'ResourceFactoryPlugin';
Bookkeeping - closing bug - fixed in recent release.