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Posted on 09/01/2012 1:21:23 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich
I need help...I am a Vincy Flynn and Brad Thor addict...my wife has brought home from the library, and like Dale Brown books, I see right through their liberal crap...it is hard to find anything to fill the void while Vince and Brad ginn up the next ones...help me if you will with some authors who can hold my interest.
Silva is ok, but I don't care about stealing a Rembrant painting...I like conspiracy, spy, etc.
Well, have you read any of Joel Rosenberg’s books?
“The Last Jihad” was un-put-downable. And I don’t even really like books like that. You have to put up with some overt Christian advocacy, but it’s only overt and not dreadful.
And every dog kind of gets his day, the characters are fully developed, even the bad ones.
I think he’s very good and you should try him.
I love Michael Connelly’s books. Good plots with good writing. It’s important, and fun, to read them in order.
I’m currently reading Craig Johnson’s Longmire mysteries and enjoying them, again, in order.
Ted Bell.....I read his first one after Clive Cussler raved about it.....he writes really good ones...
Sorry .. at first glance I thought you said boobs.
Take a look at Ben Coes. Definitely our own FReeper Matt Bracken if you haven’t read his trilogy yet. Stephen Coonts.
I like Thor and Flynn as well. Between their books I have been reading James Rollins, Steve Berry, & cussler.
I was asking this same question on the Texas board yesterday!
Try Ben Coes. He has 3 books out with the character Dewey Andreas. I have read the first two and am looking (at the library) for the third. Great reading.
I also love Lee Child’s books, featuring Jack Reacher. A movie has been made of one of the Jack Reacher stories, coming out soon. Jack Reacher is a super tough guy, 6ft.4in. It’s a crying shame they got 5’7” Tom Cruise to play the part.
I also thoroughly enjoyed Barry Eisler’s series of books on the character John Rain.
You can download it for free.
I just read an interesting book called “77 days in September” by Ray Gorham. Its about an EMP type attack on the USA. Not bad for a first novel by an Independent author.
I love the spy/mystery/political thrillers also and maybe my favorite is Nelson DeMille. When one of his new books comes out I’m gone until I’m done with it. Loved Upcountry way more than I thought I would.
Also an extraordinary book - absolutely impossible to put down - was Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. A true story of an impossible to imagine life - if someone had put Louie Zamperini’s life into fiction no one would believe it. Many interesting real stories on WWII and so beautifully written....mesmerizing. Believe I heard Imus talking about the amazing Zamperini not long ago - he is still alive.
don’t forget Jeff Head, he also wrote a book. He and Bracken are great.
Another vote for Michael Connelly. And add Robert Crais. Just picked up a Lee Child novel - so far so good.
If you have not read any of the Robert B. Parker “Spencer” novels, add that to your list.
Sounds similar to “One Second After” by William R Forstchen
which I am looking at
There's a new Clancy coming out soon. Those continue to be rewarding.
Bookmarking this thread for further suggestions.
Matthew Bracken books (trilogy).
A FReeper, too.
That one was excellent. Loved it!
Dean Koontz. An obvious Conservative. Start with “The Husband.” You won’t put it down. You’ll read ‘til 3:00 a.m. to finish it.
I should probably offer to mail it to someone but I am lazy
I didn’t think David Baldacci was a conservative after I read “The Collectors”, his main character struck me as somewhat liberal for a retired assassin.
Tom Cruise is playing Reacher? Who on earth thought that was a good idea? Dang.....
I love the Reacher books....but will not go to any Cruise movie.
If you ever were interested in mord highminded fare there’s always Joseph Conrad, who’s one of if not the originators. Try “The Secret Agent” or “Under Western Eyes.” One of them has a plot to disrupt British culture by blowing up the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to kill Greenwich Mean Time.
Get that one....and that one.
Thanks for the thread. I too, am looking for non-liberal, leftwing crap books. The more conservative and patriotic, the better.
As a female, I have no time at all for the so-called "women's novels."
Had a friend suggest one to me in the eighties and threw it out after less than the first chapter. Friend inquired what I thought of it and I told her Tom Clancy and Len Deighton, and their kindred were more my type.
I feel awkward pushing myself on Freerepublic, but I have a military sci-fi book out. My pen name is Wilson Harp and the name of the book is “Bright Horizons”. It’s available on amazon and you can download a sample.
I had difficulty putting down “Foreign Enemies and Traitors” by Matthew Bracken. What an exciting read!
Helen MacInnes’s mysteries & spy thrillers. Alistair MacLean (you’ve seen a few of the movies—Guns of Navarrone, Ice Station Zebra, but so many of the books are better. John D. MacDonald. Dashiel Hammet. For a similar Vince Flynn-level, Harlan Corben (a liberal friend of Chris Christie). Martin Cruz Smith (Gorky’s a better book than a movie). Colin Dexter, Elizabeth George. And with very few exceptions, Allen Drury wrote a string of political thrillers—starting with Advise & Consent and improving book by book until Throne of Saturn. Missing many, but these should be a good start..
The Color Of Lightning, excellent, about Indian raids in Texas civil-war era, also Stormy Weather, same area, Depression times, oil booms.
The Veteran (collection so short stories plus the title novella)
Kinda surprised you like Baldacci...I found him to be a conservative-hating liberal in his writings.
Yep,thanks...I forgot to mention I was done w/ Ben Coes and waiting on his next one, too.
I saw a couple of mentions of Nelson DeMille, but I think you should be forewarned that DeMille has become a vitriolic leftist bigot in his old age, so his newer novels are filled full of hate spewing towards anything to the right of Fidel Castro.
But I enjoyed The Gold Coast, Plum Island and The Lion’s Game. Just stay away from the newer stuff.
Try one of our Freeper’s books. Freeper Travis McGee has written a couple of spy/thriller books full of patriotism and conservative viewpoints.
Loved both of Rosenberg’s!
Loved both of Rosenberg’s!
One I forgot was Oliver North. He wrote 3 novels, they are a little old, but very good.
I read all of his books, he’s one of my favorites!
Forsyth researches carefully and plots intricately and imaginatively. They're nonrepetitive and enthralling. Afraid he's writing less recently....
Try some of the classics: Dashiell Hammett especially”The Glass Key”. Ross McDonald, Raymond Chandler, Rex Stout to name a few.
Any of those authors will give you a good read.
“I love Michael Connellys books. ...Its important, and fun, to read them in order.”
He is REALLY GOOD. But I did screw up, and I have NOT read them in order.
That hasn’t really bothered me too much, one thing I like about “murder books” as I call them, is that I don’t remember them so I can read them over and over.
I guess I need to hunt down a list of his Harry Bosch books at least, and fill in the gaps.
I also long for the day where I can take all the many, many Nero Wolfe books and read them in order. It will be amazing to watch life changing before my eyes.
Wow, I should try those. I love Conrad, but never read either of those.
It’s been a while.
That was a good novel. It was one that was passed around the whole fam-damly a few years ago when my mom-in-law was sick. And we all like it particularly well because it took place out on the far reaches of Long Island, where we were.
But I think I saw the seeds of the virulent, stupid, leftism even while reading that book. Also, it was a tad fresh for me, racy you know. But it was a good story and a good read.
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The layoffs from the company’s Knoxville office, which is on North Broadway, will take place between March 22 and April 5, according to the notice filed with the state.
Neither individuals in the Knoxville office or at the company’s parent headquarters responded to requests for comment about the layoffs, according to a published report. It was not clear whether the 89 individuals being laid off represented all the employees working in the call center, which could mean the office was being closed, or if the call center would remain open with a smaller workforce. The company employs more than 8,500 workers across the United States, according to its website.
Last June, the company expanded a call center in Huntington, W.V., by hiring an additional 100 employees.
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Shakespeare in Love to get West End play
The play adaptation will open in the West End next summer
Nick Clark is the arts correspondent of The Independent. He joined the newspaper in June 2007, initially reporting on the stock markets. He has covered beats including the City, and technology, media and telecoms and made the switch to arts in December 2011. He has also contributed articles to the sports section.
Wednesday 13 November 2013
Shakespeare in Love is set to become the latest hit film to travel to the West End, with the adaptation of the multiple Oscar winning movie opening next summer.
The film, which starred Joseph Fiennes as William Shakespeare, Gwyneth Paltrow and Judi Dench, will have its world premiere at London’s Noel Coward Theatre.
Producer Sonia Friedman said the story “cries out to be staged”. She continued: “Shakespeare in Love bursts with life and is a moving and hilarious celebration of everything we love about the inspirational and transformative power of theatre.”
The project has been in development for “several years”. The story is the fictional tale of Shakespeare overcoming writers block when he meets Viola De Lesseps, and their forbidden love inspires Romeo & Juliet.
Lee Hall, who adapted Billy Elliot for the stage, will tackle the screenplay written by Sir Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman.
Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, who set up the Cheek by Jowl theatre company in 1981, will direct and design the productions.
The stars of the production were not announced today, but the producers revealed there would be 26 actors and musicians.
Thomas Schumacher, president and producer at Disney Theatrical Productions said the screenwriters had created a “miracle” before adding: “It is a valentine to the theatre and what better way to celebrate that than to turn to consummate theatre artists.”
The romantic comedy, released in 1998, won seven Oscars including best picture and best director for John Madden; best actress for Paltrow and best supporting actress for Dench.
Glastonbury Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend will perform with Paul Weller as their warm-up act
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Tonight’s sunset took me by complete surprise. I was getting out of the shower and getting ready for what ever was left of the day – I had been recovering from my time away in Suffolk, not just being lazy (sort of). Out of a window, I could see the most amazing cloud formations in the sky. However, as far as I knew, my options were somewhat limited in Wadebridge. The clock was ticking so I decided to rush down to the bank of The River Camel that flows through the centre of town. I arrived, hopped over the flooded areas of a field and got set up just in time for the last of the spectacular show. The sunset had everyone around me in complete awe. For me, it couldn’t have been more rushed, but I did manage to take some time to appreciate it to.
The first photo I took was to make sure I came away with at least something. I took a second photo with a graduated filter to balance the sky. Then, I used an additional filter to blur the texture of the water and add a bit of interest. There was also a few ducks swimming and flying around beside me so I needed a long exposure to blur them out to.
In the end, I was disappointed to have missed most of cloud formations but, fortunately, some of the colour stuck around for a few minutes making for a beautiful photo. It didn't last long, but I had to get out of there anyway before the over-protective swans reached me anyway!

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State-owned train manufacturer Industri Kereta Api will procure the trains with SMI and Bank ICBC Indonesia, the domestic subsidiary of China's ICBC, providing the funds. ICBC Indonesia's president Mr Shen Xiaoqi says the agreement is an important milestone for the lender as it looks to fund a series of Indonesian infrastructure projects.
A Rs 2 trillion ($US 150m) loan was secured last year to help fund the Rs 2.5 trillion project. This involves constructing a 12km double-track branch line, which will diverge from the Jakarta - Tangerang commuter line near Batu Ceper station before turning north towards the airport.
The new line is expected to carry 57,600 passengers per day when it opens in 2017. Services will link the airport with Tanah Abang in central Jakarta and Manggarai in the south of the city utilising the existing 20km alignment, with a one-way fare of Rs 100,000. A new express service linking Soekarno-Hatta and Halim Perdanakusuma Airport is expected to start in 2019.

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Agoraphobia is a painful secret I have lived with for too many years, and I want to say/type the word out loud and take any and all power away from it. I am no longer in a place where I can’t get out or I feel like the walls are closing in every time I am in a public space. However, I still live with the repercussions of those years of being physically and mentally shut away from the world.
It may seem like I share a lot of personal information on the blog, but there are some aspects of my life that I actually keep quiet about. I swear! I think that’s pretty standard in the blogging world: bloggers are selective about what they share in order to present a certain picture of themselves and their lives. But, for me, this part of my “story” felt like an elephant in the room. It is something I have never written about but a condition that has affected and continues to affect my life. I have danced around it discussing my challenges with anxiety and panic disorders. I have shared a ton about infertility (including IVF) and the effects of physical health issues (endometriosis and chronic pain). I have talked about the stay-at-home-mom challenge of getting myself and K out of the house each day. But, at the heart of it, I never actually said the word “agoraphobia”.
There was a time when agoraphobia truly shattered my spirit. I felt helpless, confused, and like a total loser. I equated my mental problems with something that only happened to weak, ill-prepared, or spoiled people who couldn’t manage to get their shit together. I lost friends. Really good friends. My best friend and I parted ways during one of the most difficult times in my life. We had an argument and never spoke again. For years I put myself through hell feeling solely responsible for our fractured relationship. I have since forgiven myself for the part I played in the demise of our friendship. I feel that my poor mental health was a big factor in how I handled myself, but like any relationship in life, it is a two way street.
I continue to work on issues with social anxiety. It’s hard for me to branch out and feel comfortable around others since I started having panic attacks. My introverted personality makes it even trickier (see this post about being an introverted mom). So trying to make plans with me is sort of like trying to get a squirming child to take their medicine. Have you ever seen Along Came Polly? I am totally Jennifer Aniston’s character (who happens to be flakey in the film, but not socially anxious or agoraphobic). Other person: “Didn’t you say you were free?” Me: “Yeah, well, I’m actually not sure.” *runs away*
I consider myself in recovery. How long does recovery last? I have no idea. Forever? But each day is a new opportunity for me to either shrink my world a little more or grow it a little more. There are mothers out there who are schizophrenic, who are depressed, who have OCD, who are agoraphobes, who are bipolar, and the list goes on. The silence that surrounds these conditions only breeds shame and feeds ignorance and misinformation. I don’t plan on directly talking about agoraphobia much more on the blog. However, I do plan to continue to share the challenges I face on a daily basis. I plan to share how these challenges affect my roles as a mother and a wife.
My life is far from perfect, which I think I have outlined in great detail on this blog (hahaha!). However, I’m not looking for pity or for people to feel sorry for me. I think I share because I seek understanding and dialogue with others who aren’t afraid to admit their own imperfections. I want to connect with others who are kinder, more empathetic, and less judgmental because of challenges they’ve faced or situations where life didn’t go exactly as planned. Those are basically my people. And, if that’s you, welcome. You are loved.

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The stock has made a double bottom formation pattern in the daily chart taking support at 73 levels and has given a positive bullish candle signifying strength and has potential to rise still further in the coming days. The chart looks attractive and with the RSI indicating a steep rise with a trend reversal has signaled a buy. With good volume participation witnessed, we recommend a buy in this stock for an upside target of 86 keeping a stop loss of 72.80.
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Agriculture is of interest to us for two reasons: first settled agriculture contrasts with hunter-gatherer economies of the Pleistocene. Secondly, agriculture is the source of most of our food today.
1. Agricultural cf. hunter-gatherer economies
We mark the end of the Paleolithic and the beginning of the Neolithic about 10,000 years ago and the defining point is the transition from a hunter-gatherer economy to settled agriculture.
In fact, the transition occurred in seven independent places (including Syria and Papua New Guinea) 10,000 years ago and most of the rest of humankind continued as predominantly hunters and gatherers for thousands of years.
Another rarely acknowledged aspect of the transition is the way the settled, agricultural communities used their surplus to support a coercive transition to settlement, land ownership and agriculture on their neighbouring hunter gatherers.
We continued this coercive transition through the 20th century, most noticeably in Australia and the Australian Aborigines, like the indigenous peoples of North America are struggling now, in 2002, to come to terms with the notion of "civilization" which rests on the dominance of agriculture (and the cultural artefacts that accompany it) over hunter-gatherers.
There are still some isolated hunter-gatherer communities in the world today in 2002. The largest extant agglomeration is in the Indonesian province/colony of western New Guinea.
To come to an understanding of the cultural and historical significance of the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, I recommend the books of Daniel Quinn, especially "Ishmael", "My Ishmael", "The Story of B" and "Beyond Civilization".
2. Agriculture as the source of our food
I'm still working on this section. It will be based on the truth that we need Pleistocene food to achieve Pleistocene fitness.

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Lucia Cattaneo is a girl from Rome. She studied chemistry but is a photographer. And she travels to capture images.
Her story seems to be that of an explorer from the early Twentieth Century. She has the same exoticism, but all you need to do is look at her pictures to completely delete that category.
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And lastly, in relation to the spiritual dimension that is expressed in flesh and in nature, as can be seen in her latest work, “Voodoo”.
Lucia leaves for Benin in January for the voodoo festival.
She is fascinated by this religion that westerners all too often imagine to be witchcraft. She wants to understand it better, see it for herself, and be a witness.
Voodoo reveals itself as a positive religion where people give thanks or ask for gifts.
Never neglecting the magic, to the point that the spiritual guides are considered to be true magicians, voodoo will not contemplate dark aspects.
The rituals and the direct relationship with the spirit are the part that most fascinated Lucia. Her eye, not at all anthropological, is complicit, reserved, but can’t help being affected by what she sees.
In this sense, Lucia Cattaneo is a photographer without a lens, who risks with her naked eye and is contaminated by what she sees, leaving spectators with the images of her contamination between one world and the other.
The story has been written by Nicola Ingenito, writer.
Born in 1983, she is a wedding photographer, with a passion for social reportage all aroun the world.


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There is also a utility room with a washing machine( no dryer machine but drying rails) ironing board and iron.
My home is situated 10 minutes walk between Queens Park tube or Westbourne Park- easy quick access to the West End ( Piccadilly circus, 20 mins) and the City.The bus stop,( 4 min walk) has buses and night buses that will take you anywhere you want to go - Oxford St,Soho, Regent St, Piccadilly Circus, Notting Hill, Kensington high St, Knightsbridge,Chelsea,Earls court etc.Also the famous Portobello rd is only a 15 minute walk,lovely market,pubs restaurants,Queens park is also a short walk away-lovely park, shops, pubs,restaurants you will not be disappointed.
I would love you to come and stay at my place - I am born and bred in London and can tell you ANYTHING you need to know about the real London, all my favourite,museums,galleries,shops,pubs,restaurants,nightlife and general hidden gems.
The Guest has access to my whole home - I will not be staying there.
Interaction with guests
I will meet you at my home and run through the basics of how everything works as well as tell you information regarding my local neighborhood and getting around using public transport.I am always available for guests to contact me with any questions or queries.
Other things to note
There is a canal at the top of the road which you can walk along and takes you to Paddington and Little Venice.There are 2 nice parks for children ( and adults )within short walking distance enjoying, tennis courts, running track , football , playground cafe etc.
I ask my guests to take their shoes off to keep my home much cleaner I prefer non smoking but if you smoke please just smoke by the front door or use the extractor fan in the kitchen area if it is bitterly cold outside ! Recylcling rubbish basket is emptied every tuesday morning outside by the front gate,
Cancel up to 7 days before your trip and get a 50% refund. Cancel within 7 days of your trip and the reservation is non-refundable.
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My name is Rupert and I am a born and bred Londoner, I am a songwriter and guitarist and I love to travel. I know what it takes to be a good host and what's important when visiting a foreign city.I really enjoy showing off London and all it has to offer.

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How safe is your kitchen? Research, carried out by Richard Greenwood, owner of oven valeting firm Ovenu Leeds has found that there is a year-on-year decrease in the number of domestic kitchen fires over the last three years, with 594 and 643 reported in 2015 and 2014. It has also been the case for cooking appliance-related fires, with 489 reported in 2015, a slight decrease from the 499 caused in 2014.
However, the Leeds business owner has issued a warning to homeowners after research has revealed that there were 552 domestic kitchen fires within the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service over the last year. The research found that of these fires 424 were caused as a direct result of a cooking appliance.
Commenting on the findings Richard Greenwood said, “While the figures show a year-on-year decrease over the last three years, there have still been in excess of 1,700 kitchen fires with more than 1,400 of these caused by cooking appliances throughout the region since 2014. This is simply not good enough and more needs to be done to raise awareness of the risks associated with cooking appliances and equipment. Human error is just one of the potential causes of a fire in the kitchen or within the home, but in some cases, it may be that ageing appliances need to be serviced or given a thorough clean.”
This research concludes how important it is to keep kitchens and cooking appliances clean and properly maintained to prevent disasters.
Richard added: “Hopefully there will be a significant decrease in the years to come, and we can eliminate these potentially life-threatening kitchen fires.”Ovenu | ovenuleedsnorthwest.net


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Freight load factor is up
The COVID-19 crisis has pushed freight load factors too much higher levels than usual.
This is a market segment where capacity is typically less than half full. According to IATA, the freight load factor was only 46.7% in 2019 and was in the range of 43% to 49% from 2011 to 2018.
In 2020, the monthly freight load factor was 54.8% in Aug-2020, after growing from 45.0% in Jan-2020 and reaching as high as 58.0% in Apr-2020. It has been 10-11ppts higher than last year every month since Apr-2020.
This reflects the lack of passenger belly capacity, which is usually more important than freighter capacity, and a much more robust level of demand for air freight compared with the demand for passenger air travel.

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Okay! I dealt with the font a little better this time, making it a little less blah and more form-fitting. It definitely looks nicer but I really need more practice with fonts and kerning and such.
Just so everyone knows why I chose not to include the other band members in my composition I have included that version here for all to see. It looks very awkward but I suppose as far as the assignment goes, this one is actually more appropriate.
Looking at it now though, I'm sure a horizontal composition and again, better font, would have helped immensely. But anyway! Colorful poser is colorful.

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When St. Andrews School expanded and added a multi-million dollar performance arts center they came to a trusted company to get the Sound Lighting and Video elements right. Of course that company was ART.
This beautiful performance arts center incorporates audio, stage lighting, cameras for recording shows and large screen projection video along with flat screen monitors. The systems are crestron controlled and the lighting is computer run via DMX. The audio for the seating area is accomplished with four cluster positions using large concert quality JBL cabinets. They are hidden in the two ceiling prosceniums/acoustic diffusers.


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Here is what you need:
4 cups of Stove Top dressing/stuffing
1 cup melted butter
2 cans of cream of chicken soup
1 large can of evaporated milk
2 tbsp grated onion (we put in a whole chopped onion (we loooove onion))
4 cups turkey
1 can of sliced green beans (I recommend using at least two)
1 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese (I just toss in the whole bag... about 2 cups)
Grease a 9x13 pan and preheat the oven to 350*
Mix stuffing/dressing and butter and put half in the bottom of the greased pan. Be sure to pat it down.
Mix the rest of the ingredients together (like to keep this simple).....
...and pour it over the bottom layer of stuffing/dressing.
Cover with the remaining stuffing/dressing and bake for 45 minutes or until bubbly and stuffing/dressing starts to brown.
This is what it should look like:
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By Sweeny Murti
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David Ortiz is beloved in Boston. Alex Rodriguez is hated … well, just about everywhere it would seem. Is there a double standard? To some degree, yes. But if you look closer, it’s easy to see the differences.
A-Rod and Ortiz, it was reported long ago, both turned up with positives in the 2003 survey that marked the first PED testing of any kind in baseball. But the two superstars went separate ways after that.
Ortiz has denied taking any PEDs. And there has been no evidence in the years since that points to guilt, other than non-Boston fans who just don’t want to believe anyone can put up numbers like that and be innocent. That’s what the Steroid Era has done. It’s made us question everything we see.
A-Rod, after his presence on the 2003 list became public, admitted to three years of steroid use. The admission does have some redeeming value in our society. And it did have a positive effect on A-Rod for a little while. But then came a little thing called Biogenesis and A-Rod was thrust back into the PED spotlight. Fool me once, fool me twice — however that saying goes, this is how the baseball public seems to feel about A-Rod now.
But it’s not just this second affiliation with a PED story that’s put A-Rod at the opposite end of the spectrum from Ortiz.
Ortiz has been a postseason hero for a decade, hitting .400 in Boston’s miraculous run in 2004 and batting .688 in this year’s World Series. A-Rod finally had a great postseason in 2009 to help lead the Yankees to a title, but owns just a .160 average with 0 HR in playoff action since then.
Ortiz is a beloved presence inside the Red Sox clubhouse, seen as a true leader complete with inspirational speeches. A-Rod is a better fit than he was a few years ago, but still lacks the unifying everyman quality that teammates praise with Ortiz.
Perhaps the biggest thing that hurts A-Rod is that he doesn’t have the hometown fan base like Ortiz, a hero in Boston like Havlicek, Bird, or Brady. A-Rod has played for three teams in his career, and he doesn’t have a strong loyal fan base in any of those places, vilified in Seattle and Texas, tolerated in New York only when he performs well.
Over the years, here’s about the only thing that Ortiz has done to to ruffle feathers: he stares at home runs too long. A-Rod has a book filled with gaffes from “The Slap Play” to “The Ha Play” to “Get Off My Mound,” right up to flirting with women in the stands during a playoff game.
What seems to get under the skin of most Yankee fans I speak to is that Ortiz is not painted with the same PED brush as A-Rod. The simple answer is this: Ortiz wasn’t implicated in Biogenesis, the biggest steroid scandal since BALCO. He wasn’t named in the Mitchell Report (neither was Rodriguez). And while a lengthy legal process will eventually (hopefully) tell us if the treatment of A-Rod has been fair or not, we know at the very least there have been associations with unsavory people, from shady docs to underground poker mavens. Guilty of bad judgement? Absolutely. Of anything more? That’s not as clear, but lacks benefit of the doubt.
Maybe neither one will ever get into the Hall of Fame because of the 2003 testing issue. But they will build a statue to Ortiz in Boston one day and cheer him at every Fenway appearance for decades.
A-Rod won’t ever get that treatment in New York. Fair or not.
But if Ortiz’s name ever comes up on a list again — it will all come crumbling down, just like it has for A-Rod.
— While the Yankees sat home to watch the new model organizations of baseball — the Red Sox and the Cardinals — in the World Series, just remember a couple things:
In the format that MLB has created, the baseball playoffs have been turned into the NCAA tournament. In the last 14 seasons, the Red Sox have missed that tournament seven times. And the Cardinals once came away with a World Series title after a season in which they won only 83 games (2006), and then didn’t win a single playoff game again until 2011.
The Yankees are not the same powerhouse they used to be, but they have gotten into this new Big Dance more often than anyone else. It doesn’t mean they don’t have to think about changing the way a few things are done internally. But they are still more successful on the field than we sometimes realize, especially when compared to other teams perceived as better-run organizations.
— The Robinson Cano Saga will get interesting soon. He seems to be enjoying himself in Europe with Jay-Z, a lengthy birthday celebration for the Yankees star who turned 31 last week. Cano’s free agency will begin to gain steam when the five-day window expires next week and the bidding process begins in earnest.
Don’t expect a quick resolution though. Free agency is a game that has moved at glacial paces over the years. The Winter Meetings — where some big deals are made, like Albert Pujols’ two years ago — don’t begin until December 9 in Orlando.
— Expect the Yankees’ coaching staff to return in whole, although with contracts that expire today, they are still officially unsigned. Third base coach Rob Thomson could be an interesting managerial candidate for some of the current openings (he began his professional career in the Tigers organization). Hitting coach Kevin Long’s name has surfaced in rumors for some other teams, but it’s worth noting that Long’s son Jaron is a pitcher in the Yankees minor league system, and being close to his development is certainly a factor for Long.
— Whether you like the Red Sox or hate them, I hope you stayed up to watch the final out. Watching a team — any team — celebrate winning the World Series reminds me why they play and why we watch. The long journey has a payoff, it’s just not always for the ones you root for.
And now … don’t forget to turn your clocks back this weekend, and turn your calendars ahead. Because it will be another five months before we see a baseball game that counts.
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September 17, 2012
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE BUSINESSES
By: John Rappa, Chief Analyst
You asked us to compare the 2012 bills allowing the incorporation of social enterprise businesses as for profit corporations under the business corporation statutes. The bills are sHB 5466, AAC Social Enterprise Businesses (File 449; the Commerce Committee bill) and HB 5490, AAC the Establishment of Benefit Corporations (the Judiciary Committee bill).
The Commerce and Judiciary bills allow for the incorporation of businesses that address social goals while generating profits, but refer to them by different names. The Commerce bill calls them social enterprise businesses (SEBs) while the Judiciary bill calls them benefit corporations (BCs). (Unless the context suggests otherwise, we refer to one of these businesses as “the entity.”)
Both bills allow an entity's board of directors to make decisions based on the public benefit goals specified in the entity's certificate of incorporation and protects them from liability if it fails to achieve the goals.
The bills also share these elements:
1. a legal procedure for forming an entity,
2. specification of the types of social benefits they may provide,
3. shareholder voting requirements for approving the formation,
4. the factors boards of directors must consider when performing their duties,
5. specified protections for directors when performing their duties,
6. the preparation and dissemination of an annual report on the benefits provided, and
7. a mechanism for enforcing the entity's obligation to provide the specified benefits (i.e., benefit enforcement proceeding (BEP)).
Although the bills share these elements, the provisions vary. The differences are highlighted in the tables below.
Each bill also contains elements not found in the other bill. The Commerce bill requires entities to distribute a portion of their profits to charitable organizations providing the same social benefits, adopt a code of conduct and a conflict of interest policy, and complete specific tasks if they choose to dissolve. It also allows entities to designate a social enterprise officer and repurchase shares from shareholders who opposed converting a business into an entity or mergering or consolidating with an existing SBE.
The Judiciary bill allows an entity to dispose of its assets only if the shareholders approve and specifies the process it must follow to end its status as a benefit corporation.
Attachment 1 compares the bills' major provisions.
Both bills allow parties to form an entity as a business corporation under their respective provisions and the corporation business statutes (CGS Chapter 601). The Judiciary bill also describes how its provisions relate to those statutes. It specifies that it:
1. generally applies to all entities;
2. has “control over the general provisions of chapter 601;”
3. neither creates a contrary or different rule of law applicable for traditional corporations; and
4. governs the entities in conjunction with the laws governing religious corporations and societies, charitable corporations and trusts, worker cooperatives, business corporations, and stock and nonstock corporations.
Regarding the latter, it is not clear how an entity could be governed by the laws governing specific types of nonprofit corporations when it could be formed under only the business corporation statutes. Under the Commerce bill, corporate law presumably applies along side the bill's provisions.
Taken together, the bills provide four ways to form an entity: establishing a corporation as an entity; converting an existing corporation into one; merging or consolidating an existing corporation with an entity; or acquiring shares, through a share exchange, from an entity.
As Table 1 shows, the Judiciary bill provides each option while the Commerce bill appears to allow only existing corporations to become an entity by conversion, merger or consolidation, or share exchange. (Arguably, a party could create a corporation under the Commerce bill and then convert it into an entity.)
Both bills specify the document that must be used to form an entity. Under the Commerce bill, an existing corporation can convert itself into an entity by amending its “articles of incorporation,” a term that was supplanted in 1994 by “certificate of incorporation” when the legislature overhauled the corporation business statutes. (We subsequently use this term when discussing the Commerce bill.)
Under the Judiciary bill, a party creating an entity must do so according to the business corporation statutes and the process specified in its certificate of incorporation, which must also identify the corporation as an entity. By law, the certificate must be filed with the secretary of the state.
Certificate of Incorporation
The Commerce and Judiciary bills require an entity to specify the public benefits it will provide in its certificate of incorporation. Under the Commerce bill, the entity must identify specific public benefits in its certificate in addition to its corporate purpose. Under the Judiciary bill, the entity qualifies as a BC if its corporate purposes include creating a general public benefit, but the bill does not say if that benefit must also be included in the certificate. On the other hand, the Judiciary bill allows the entity to include one or more specific public benefits in the certificate.
Both bills allows an entity to add, amend, or delete a specific public benefit from its certificate, but the Commerce bill explicitly requires the certificate to identify at least one such benefit if the entity wishes to maintain its SEB status. The Commerce bill explicitly requires the entity to make these changes according to the statutory procedures for amending a certificate. Presumably, the same would be true for an entity operating under the Judiciary bill because it generally requires the entity to comply with the corporation business statutes.
In specifying the benefits for which entities may be formed, both bills distinguish between broad and narrow benefits. As Table 2 shows, both define the broad benefit as the impact the entity has on society and the environment, but the Commerce bill links the broad benefit to the narrow ones by specifying that the broad benefit is generated by one or more of the narrow ones.
The Judiciary bill does not link the broad benefit to the narrow ones, but to the entity's business and operations. Further, it requires the impact to be assessed according to a “third party standard,” which can be any recognized standard developed by an organization independent of the entity for defining, reporting, or assessing its corporate and environmental performance.
Besides being developed by an independent organization, the standard must be easily understood. Under the bill, the standard meets this criterion if the public can obtain the factors needed to measure the entity's performance, their relative weights, and the identity of the people who develop and control changes to the standards and the process for changing them.
As Table 3 shows, both bills allow parties to form entities to provide mostly the same narrow “specific public benefits”, such as serving a charitable purpose and providing beneficial products and services to low-income people.
Table 3: Comparison of Specific Public Benefits under Commerce and Judiciary Bills
● Significantly further one or more charitable, cultural, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, as defined in the federal Internal Revenue Code
● Provide beneficial products and services to low-income people and underserved individuals
● Promote economic opportunities for people and communities beyond creating jobs in everyday businesses
● Preserve or improve the environment
● Improve human health
● Promote arts and sciences or advances in knowledge
● Increase capital flows to entities serving a social purpose
● Benefit society or the environment in other identifiable ways
● Serve one or more public welfare, religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, or other purpose or benefit beyond the strict interest of the shareholders of the benefit corporation, including:
○ Provide beneficial products and services to low-income people and underserved individuals
○ Promote economic opportunities for people and communities beyond creating jobs in everyday businesses
○ Preserve or improve the environment
○ Improve human health
○ Promote arts and sciences or advances in knowledge
○ Increase capital flows to entities serving a social purpose
○ Benefit society or the environment in other identifiable ways
The bills differ in whether they use Internal Revenue Code (IRC) definitions for certain benefits. The Commerce bill allows the formation of entities to further one or more IRC-defined charitable, cultural, scientific, literary, or educational purposes. An entity fulfills these purposes if it operates exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes; fosters national or international amateur sports competition; or prevents cruelty to children or animals. (IRC § 170(c)(2)(B)). The Judiciary bill allows an entity to serve a “purpose or benefit beyond the strict interest of the shareholders of the benefit corporation” without basing them on the IRC definition.
The Commerce bill explicitly prohibits forming an entity to serve a political or legislative purpose, as defined in the IRC.
The Commerce bill requires entities to distribute at least 20% of their distributed profits to charitable organizations that serve the same specific public purpose. The Judiciary bill imposes no such requirement.
Code of Conduct
Besides requiring an entity to specify public benefits in its certificate of incorporation, the Commerce bill also requires entities to maintain and enforce an ethical code of conduct and a conflict of interest policy consistent with the highest and best practices for its industry.
As Table 4 shows, the bills appear to specify different steps an existing corporation must follow to become an entity. The Commerce bill requires the corporation to follow the statutory procedure for amending a certificate of incorporation (CGS §§ 33-795 to 803), which includes notifying shareholders about meetings for approving proposed amendments. Under that bill, the notice must state why the corporation's board of directors proposes to amend the certificate and how that change could affect the shareholders.
It is not clear if the Judiciary bill requires a corporation to follow the statutory procedures for amending a certificate of incorporation. On one hand, Section 2 (b) specifies that the business corporation statutes apply to BCs, and those statutes include CGS § 33-797's amendment procedure. On the other hand, Section 5 specifically requires the entity to follow the procedure in CGS § 33-796, but that section specifies only the types of amendments boards can make without the shareholders' approval.
Unlike the Commerce bill, the Judiciary bill makes no change to the notice requirement.
As Table 5 below shows, the bills' voting requirements vary. Under the Commerce bill, an amendment to a certificate of incorporation or a merger or consolidation plan must be approved based on the higher of two standards—the one set in the certificate or two-thirds of the votes that the corporation's outstanding shares are entitled to cast. The two-thirds standard also applies to shares that must be voted as a class.
Under the Judiciary bill, an amendment to a certificate of incorporation takes effect if it is approved by a minimum status vote of the shareholders and, as noted above, according to CGS § 33-796's procedure.
The bill imposes different voting requirements for mergers and consolidations involving only corporations and those involving a corporation and a different business form, such as a limited liability partnership or limited partnership (i.e., domestic entity). But it also specifies that these requirements are in addition to any other votes required by the statutes, the certificate of incorporation, or the bylaws.
Regarding mergers and consolidations involving only corporations, the bill entitles all the shareholders of each class or series to vote regardless of any certificate or bylaw limitation on their voting rights and requires a minimum two-thirds vote of each class' or series' share.
Regarding mergers or consolidations between a corporation and a domestic entity, the bill extends voting or consent rights to the holder of each class or series of equity interest entitled to receive a distribution from the entity. These rights supersede any limitations imposed on the class or series. Further, the bill requires at least a two-thirds vote or consent.
Table 5: Comparison of Shareholder Voting Requirements under Commerce and Judiciary Bills
● Vote required by certificate or
● Two-thirds of voted entitled to be cast by:
○ outstanding shares or
○ voting group if each class of share is entitled to vote as a group
Minimum Status Vote:
● All shareholders of every class or series are entitled to vote
● Votes representing at least two-thirds of the shares in each class or series
Merger or Consolidation of Corporation
Same as above
Same as above
Merger or Consolidation of Domestic Entity
Bill does not address domestic entities, but corporation business statutes presumably apply
Minimum status vote:
● Holders of every class or series of equity interest entitled to receive a distribution are entitled to vote
● Votes or consents representing at least two-thirds of the holders of interest
Exchange of Stock of Corporation
Bill makes no provision regarding voting when there is a share exchange
Exchange of Stock of Domestic Entity
Same as above
Minimum status vote for domestic entities in addition to any other vote required by the business combination statutes, the certificate, and the bylaws
The Commerce bill includes a provision permitting an entity to repurchase shares. Under that bill, if the shareholders approve an amendment or merger or consolidation plan, a shareholder who voted against either action may require the corporation to purchase his or her shares for cash at their fair market value.
Under the Judiciary bill, corporate law applies. Under certain circumstances, shareholders have “appraisal rights,” due to a merger or share exchange, and can require the corporation to pay their value of the shares (CGS § 33-855 et seq.).
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
A corporation's board of directors oversees the corporation's activities and safeguards its shareholders' interests, a task that entails a fiduciary duty to the corporation and the shareholders. The Commerce and Judiciary bills affect that duty by allowing corporations to pursue goals and objectives that may not immediately maximize profits or returns for the shareholders and investors. Consequently, both bills include provisions aligning the boards' actions with the corporation's stated social or public benefit goals and objectives.
The bills differ with respect to the parties to whom the directors have a fiduciary duty. The Commerce bill limits that duty to the parties it allows to bring a benefit enforcement proceeding (see below) against the entity. These include the shareholders, directors, people or groups who own at least 10% of the equity of a parent corporation, or other people or entities specified in the certificate of incorporation.
The Judiciary bill does not limit the directors' fiduciary duty to parties that can bring a proceeding. Presumably, their duty would be to the same parties as under existing law. But the Judiciary bill limits liability and who can enforce a director's duty in a BEP.
The Commerce and Judiciary bills specify that a director has no such duty with respect to people who are the designated beneficiaries of the public benefits simply because of their beneficiary status.
Both bills specify the factors a board member must consider when performing his or her duties. The Judiciary bill, though, is more detailed, specifying the situations in which members act and providing an additional set of factors they may consider to determine a corporate action's potential effects.
As Table 7 shows, the Commerce and Judiciary bills' factors are the
effects an action or inaction could have on specified groups and interests. A director must consider them whenever determining what he or she believes is in the entity's best interests.
The Judiciary bill specifies that directors must consider these factors when acting individually or as members of the board or a board committee.
The Judiciary bill also allows directors to consider certain factors pertaining to the potential effects an action could have on people seeking control over the entity or any other people they deem appropriate.
Priority Status for Beneficiaries
As noted above, both bills require the directors to consider how a corporate action could affect specific groups, such as the entity's shareholders and employees. But neither requires them to give priority to these interests unless the certificate of incorporation requires it.
Exemptions from other Standards of Conduct
The bills appear to differ in the degree to which they exempt directors from certain standards when making decisions based on the required interests and factors.
● Both bills exempt directors from the statutory standards of good conduct for corporation directors (CGS § 33-756), and the Judiciary bill additionally exempts them from the rules for determining whether a court can grant equitable relief or award damages or other sanctions for a conflicting interest transaction (CGS § 33-783).
● The Commerce bill, but not the Judiciary bill, prohibits directors from being subject to a different or higher standard of care for actions or inactions affecting the entity's control.
The bills protect directors from liability to different parties and actions. Both bills protect them from liability if the entity fails to create a social benefit. The Commerce bill also protects them from liability to parties entitled to bring a benefit enforcement proceeding if the directors complied with the bill and the statutory good conduct code. The Judiciary bill's protection is limited to monetary damages, but seems to apply to a broader range of actors. It protects the directors from liability in any proceeding brought by the entity or on behalf of its shareholders.
The bills differ in the degree to which they define an entity's officer's role. The Commerce bill specifies an officer's fiduciary duties, decision making criteria, and protections from liability, while the Judiciary bill specifies only their protections from liability. The Commerce bill also allows entities to designate a social enterprise officer.
Under the Commerce bill, the officers have a fiduciary duty only to the people entitled to bring a benefit enforcement proceeding against the entity, but not to the entity's intended beneficiaries. The Judiciary bill does not specify the officers' fiduciary duty.
Under the Commerce bill, an officer must consider the same interests and factors that a director must consider when determining if an action or inaction serves the entity's best interest, but only with respect to issues over which he or she has discretion.
Officers must also consider the interests and factors when it reasonably appears to them that a matter could materially affect them or the creation of a social benefit. When acting in these instances, they do not violate their fiduciary duties to the entity.
The Judiciary bill has no similar provisions.
Protections from Liability
The Commerce and Judiciary bills contain provisions protecting officers from liability, but the Commerce bill's protections seem broader. That bill provides protections from liability for specific actions and benefit enforcement proceedings.
Actions Taken in Good Faith Business Judgment. The Commerce and Judiciary bills protect the officers from liability for any action taken in good faith business judgment if they believe it is consistent with:
1. any of the entity's specific public benefits, as specified in the bylaws or certificate of incorporation and
2. any recognized standard for defining, reporting, or assessing an entity's corporate and environmental performance (i.e., third party standards).
Regarding the third party standards, they must have been developed by an organization independent of the entity. Further, the standards must be easily understood because, under the bills, the public must be able to obtain the factors needed to measure the entity's performance, their relative weights, and the identity of the people who develop and control changes to the standards and process for changing them.
It is not clear under either bill how independence is determined. Although the bills refer to standards developed by an independent organization, the criteria seem to test whether an individual is independent of an organization. As Table 9 shows, both define independence based on a “material relationship” between the entity and a person. They further define “material relationship” in terms of interpersonal relationships.
It appears that an organization's independence of an entity depends on whether an individual is a shareholder, officer, director, or employee.
Social Enterprise Officer
Only the Commerce bill explicitly allows entities to designate social enterprise officers to perform duties related to the entity's public benefit, as specified in the bylaws or prescribed by the board of directors or a supervising officer. But any prescribed duties must be consistent with the bylaws.
ANNUAL BENEFIT REPORT
The Commerce and Judiciary bills require entities to prepare and distribute annual benefit reports, but, as Table 10 shows, impose different reporting requirements.
Table 10: Comparison of Annual Benefit Report and Distribution Requirements
Entity's Goals and Outcomes
● Specify goals or outcomes
● Describe actions taken to achieve them and the extent to which they were achieved
● Describe obstacles that prevented attainment of goals or outcomes or creation of social benefit or any specific public benefit
● Specify the shareholder-approved goals or outcomes for the next report period
● Describe how general and specific public benefits were pursued and extent they were created
● Circumstances hindering benefits' creation
● Assess social and environmental performance based on the same third-party standards used for this purpose in other reports or otherwise explain why they were not used
● Specify how performance will be improved and goals and objectives attained for creating social benefits
● Assess social and environmental performance based on third party standard specified in certificate, bylaws, or adopted by board used for this purpose in other reports or explain why the standards were not consistently applied
● Provide any other information the third party standard requires
Administration and Finance
● Provide information on entity's finances, including copy of compensation plan, budget, and balance sheet
● Identify accounting method used to prepare the above
○ Top 1% of entity's most highly compensated employees
○ Entity's financial investors
○ Each person who owns beneficially or of record at least 5% of the entity's shares
● Name and address of each director
● Compensation paid to each director in his or her capacity as director
● Name of each person who owns beneficially or of record at least 5% of outstanding shares
● Provide code of conduct and conflict of interest policies
● List each director and officer, his or her mailing address, and, with respect of officers, how much each was compensated during the year
● Deliver to each shareholder within 120 days after entity's fiscal year ends or at the same time any other annual report is delivered to them
● Publish report on website
● Deliver copy to secretary of the state when it delivers and publishes report
● Same except copy delivered to secretary of the state may omit compensation data and proprietary information
● Website posting required; entities without website must make written or electronic copy of report available upon request
Under the Commerce bill, the entity must retain an independent third party to review its annual benefit report and assess its broad and narrow social benefits for compliance and consistency with the entity's certificate of incorporation. The entity must have this analysis done every five years.
The Commerce and Judiciary bills provide a mechanism for ensuring that an entity creates its specified general or specific public benefit (i.e.,
BEP), but, as Table 11 shows, differ regarding the parties that can use the mechanism and the grounds under which they may do so.
Only the Commerce bill specifies how a SEB may dissolve. The SEB must:
1. pay, satisfy, and discharge all of its liabilities and other obligations or adequately provide for this to happen and
2. transfer or convey the assets it received or held to one or more entities or charitable organizations with a similar public benefit.
A BC dissolving under the Judiciary must comply with existing corporate law.
TERMINATION OF STATUS
Only the Judiciary bill specifies the process a BC must follow to terminate its benefit corporation status. The process varies depending on whether the action is part of a merger or consolidation. If it is not, the BC can terminate its status by amending its certificate of incorporation to that effect. In doing so, the entity must follow the statutory procedure for amending certificates and have the amendment approved by a minimum status vote. (As noted above, the bill cites the statute specifying the types of certificate amendments directors can make without shareholders' approval, not the statute for amending the certificate.)
A minimum status vote is also required if a BC terminates its benefit corporation status as part of a merger or consolidation. The requirements vary depending on whether the BC's shares will be converted into share rights of a business corporation. If no shares will be converted, the merger or consolidation must be approved by a minimum status vote in addition to the votes required by the merger and share exchanges statutes (CGS §§ 33-814 to 33-821a), the certificate, and the BC's bylaws.
If the action requires a share conversion with a business corporation, the termination must be approved by a minimum status vote in addition to the votes required by the business combination statutes (CGS §§ 33-840 to 33-845), the certificate, and the BC's bylaws.
The Judiciary bill specifies how an entity must dispose of assets outside its normal course of business. Any time an entity proposes to sell, lease, convey, exchange, transfer, or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its assets, it must first have the disposition approved by a minimum status vote plus any other votes required under the certificate, bylaws, or the statutes governing asset sales (CGS §§ 33-830 or 33-831).
Attachment 1: 2012 Social Enterprise Business and Benefit Corporation Bills
sHB 5466 Social Enterprise Business (Commerce)
HB 5490 Benefit Corporation (Judiciary)
Social Enterprise Business (SEB)
Benefit Corporation (BC)
Relationship to Existing Law
Presumably corporate law applies to the extent it does not conflict with the bill's provisions
Bill explicitly states corporate law governs to the extent it does not conflict with the bill's provisions
Existing corporation organized under corporation business laws becomes a SBE by:
● amending articles of incorporation to include social benefit statement or
● being a party to:
○ merger or consolidation plan or
○ share exchange, in which surviving organization is a SBE
● New corporation organized under corporation business laws adopts certificate of incorporation identifying itself as a BC
● Existing non-BC corporation organized under corporation business laws:
○ amends certificate to identify itself as a BC or
○ becomes a party to a merger or consolidation plan in which the surviving corporation is a BC
Additional Voting Requirements
Additional voting requirements apply to certificate changes and proposals to merge or consolidate with another entity
Approval based on the higher of:
1. the number of votes required by the bylaws or
2. two-thirds of the votes cast by outstanding shares
If bylaws allow voting by share class, then two-thirds vote of each class required
● Additional voting requirements apply to decisions to form or become a BC, terminate BC status, or specified transactions
● Voting rules vary depending on whether the business is a corporation or other type of entity that becomes a BC via merger or consolidation or share exchange
● For business corporation:
○ shareholders of every class or series can vote regardless of certificate or by law limitations and
○ approval by those shareholders in each class or series entitled to cast at least two-thirds of the class' or series' votes
● For domestic entities other than business corporations:
○ equity holders of every class or series entitled to a distribution can vote or consent to the action regardless of voting or consent limitations
○ approval by equity holders entitled to cast two-thirds of votes or consents of the class' or series' votes or consents
Shareholder Meeting Notice to Approve Proposed Changes
Must include directors'
● reasons for the proposed action and
● anticipated effects on shareholders
● SEB must produce social benefits by providing one or more of the bill's specified public benefits
● Specifies permitted public benefits, at least one of which must be included in articles of incorporation
Distinguishes between general public benefit and specific public benefits (but does not link them)
● Purpose must be to create one or more general public benefits
● Specific public benefits may also be specified in the certificate of incorporation or bylaws
● BC may amend certificate to add, amend, or delete specific public benefit
● Limits directors fiduciary duty to those allowed to bring benefit enforcement proceeding
● Requires directors to identify how an action or inaction could affect specified interests and factors
● Limits scope of directors' accountability and liability for creating the benefit
● Specifies the interests and factors the board, committees of the board, and individual directors must consider when discharging their duties
● Requires directors to identify how an action or inaction could affect specified interests and factors
● Allows directors to consider how corporate actions affect specific people
● Limits scope of directors' accountability and liability for creating the benefit
● Specifies conditions under which officers must consider the same interests and factors directors must consider
● Defines officers' scope of accountability and liability
Not liable for good faith actions consistent with general or specific public benefits and requirements of any third-party standard
Social Enterprise Officer (SEO)
Allows SEB to designate SEO and defines scope of duties
Benefit Enforcement Proceedings
Allows benefit enforcement proceedings to be brought by:
● shareholders otherwise entitled to start or maintain a proceeding on any basis regarding the right of SEB (i.e., derivative action)
● SEB directors
● people who own beneficially or of record at least 10% equity interest in an entity of which SEB is a subsidiary or
● other people or entities the SEB's articles of incorporation specify
Proceedings can be brought by the above parties against:
● directors and officers to fulfill their respective duties and
● SEB to fulfill its social benefit and specified public benefits
Allows benefit proceedings to be brought by:
● derivatively by BC's shareholders or directors
● other persons specified in certificate or incorporation or bylaws
Proceeding can be brought by the above parties to enforce:
● directors' duties
● BC's obligation to prepare and make available annual benefit report
● BC's general and specific public benefit purposes
Annual Benefit Report
Independent Third Party Reviews and Assessments
Distribution of Assets
Specifies how assets must be distributed upon dissolution
Specifies how BCs must dispose of assets outside course of normal business


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Gov’t and Opposition leaders pay last respects to Vanuatu’s first female MP
16th May, 2020
The Government of the Republic of Vanuatu paid its last respects to the late Mrs. Maria Crowby Tourakot on Friday, 15 May 2020. The late Mrs. Crowby was flown in from New Caledonia to Port Vila, and was received by Gracia Shedrack, Speaker of Parliament. Attending on behalf of the government was Ishmael Kalsakau, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Internal Affairs and MP Marcellino Telukluk from the Office of the Opposition, in the presence of her husband, children and grandchildren.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the state funeral was strictly limited with only the presence of these leaders, immediate family members and senior government officials. Present also were the Vanuatu Mobile Force members to perform the laying of the national flag to recognize the late Mrs Crowby.
The late Crowby’s worked in government and most importantly as a former and first Vanuatu woman voted into parliament in 1988 to 1991 under the Union of Moderates Party (UMP). Late Mrs. Crowby was born on the island of Ifira 23 August 1940. She attended school at the Ifira Primary School before continuing onto Ecole Communal, in 1955 she then continued on to attend a nursing school in New Caledonia and completed and returned home to Vanuatu. She started working as a nurse, and while working as a nurse she was able to teach and train student nurses at the same time.
On 1 May 1959, the late Mrs. Crowby married her husband John Crowby at the Tebakor Anglican Church in Port Vila. In 1960, the company GPO approached her to look after the dispensary in Forari, to which she accepted and worked for two years. In 1976, late Mrs. Crowby participated in an international study program on mothers and children in Bulgaria and Paris for a year and was able to achieve a certificate from these trainings before returning to Vanuatu to continue working as a nurse in 1978.
In 1980, when Vanuatu gained its independence, late Mrs. Crowby became the Chief Nursing Officer, but back then this position was known as the matron. During her term as matron she was able to attend a few nursing courses and one was in Melbourne in 1984 for three months. She worked as a nurse until 1987 when she retired after 29 years of service in the health sector. Late Mrs. Crowby contested the general elections in 1988 and was voted into parliament successfully into the third legislature. She served as a member of parliament for a term. After serving as a Member of Parliament, in 1992 the late Mrs. Crowby was appointed as the Chairman of the Public Services Commission for two years. In June 1995, she took a judicial oath and became Justice of Peace for the Republic of Vanuatu. Over the years, the late Mrs. Crowby and her husband have been managing their private business.
The late Mrs. Maria Crowby passed away on Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 12:45pm in New Caledonia and is survived by her husband, 6 children, 34 grandchildren and 78 great grandchildren. The Government and the People of the Republic of Vanuatu wish to convey their sincere condolences to the husband and family members of the late Mrs. Crowby.
Source: Vanuatu Daily Post

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Happy Bornday @ItsMystikal Mystikal. Born Michael Lawrence Tyler September 22, 1970. Tyler (who grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana) signed to Jive Records & in 1995 released his Gold selling debut studio album Mind of Mystikal. It features the single Y'all Ain't Ready Yet. His next 2 albums (Unpredictable & Ghetto Fabulous) both went Platinum. They featured the singles Ain't No Limit & That's That Nigga. In 2000 he released his 4th album Let's Get Ready, his most successful album to date. It sold over 2 million copies & topped both the Billboard;s Hot 200 Albums Chart & The R&B Albums Chart. It includes his 2 biggest hits Shake Ya Ass (which earned him a Soul Train Music Award in 2001 for Best Music Video) & Danger (Been So Long), both of which were produced by The Neptunes. In 2001 he released his Gold Selling 5th studio album Tarantula which includes the hir single Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall).
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This Easter bunny egg runner is another beautiful and colorful Easter figurine from Paul Ullrich.
The Paul Ullrich GbR is a traditional family business, which with its motifs often commemorates the traditions of Easter.
They are lovingly handcrafted from red beech, hornbeam and plywood.
As soon as the first warm rays of sun announce the approaching spring, the Easter bunnies also start eagerly with their work, they color, paint and hide many colorful Easter eggs to prepare us a beautiful Easter.
In a good mood, the little guy rushes around with an egg on a spoon.
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Enterprise security provider Blue Coat Systems is upping the ante on its partner program with the appointment of Kurt Mills as global channel chief and Steve Tchejeyan as senior vice president for Americas, Sales and Field Operations.
In this edition of Meet the Chiefs, we sat down with Dave O'Callaghan, senior vice president of VMware's Global Partner Organization to learn more about the man behind the virtualization company's channel business.
Pure Storage is rolling out a free Storage Replication Adapter for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager as well as an updated vSphere Web Client Plug-in. The solid-state array vendor said its new solutions will allow VMware administrators to enhance their storage and virtualization management, in addition to providing disaster recovery protection and scalability for their virtual environments.
Happy Thursday everyone, and thanks for stopping by Channel Partner Program Roundup. We hope you all made it through “Snowmageddon” safe and sound, especially for all our friends on the East Coast. This week, we’ve got updates from Carousel Industries, Masergy and Sungard Availability Services.
Avaya will focus on expanding its midmarket offerings as part of its new channel strategy, according to Richard Steranka, vice president of Worldwide Channel Sales. That includes driving outcomes through new partner incentives and by working to improve the ease of doing business with the company as it delves deeper into the cloud services market, he said.
Avaya is partnering with VMware (VMW) on the release of a new enterprise hybrid cloud service that leverages the vCloud Air platform. Avaya's Hybrid Engagement as a Service platform is designed to enable users to bridge private and public clouds to deliver a flexible approach to implementing enterprise communications.
Avnet (AVT) solution providers and suppliers will be able to keep tabs on their customers’ maintenance services contracts with the launch of the Maintenance ServicesNow program from Avnet Technology Solutions.
All signs point to 2015 being a year for significant growth in the IT industry, according to a new survey from CompTIA. The latest study predicts the New Year promises to bring improved IT sales buoyed by growing faith in the global economy.
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Published by Bookouture Audio on December 13, 2021
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When I open the door and see her, my mind starts churning. Why are they here? What do they want? And why did my daughter leave in the first place? Am I finally, after all of these years, going to find out? I take a deep breath and usher them in…
Ruth has spent every day of the last fifteen years wondering why her daughter Isobel left. Walking around the school to which she has given her life, every child she sees reminds her of her family’s bright future which vanished in an instant.
So when Ruth opens the door to find Isobel and a teenage grandson she never knew existed, she feels a rush of relief. Despite the years of hurt she never stopped loving Isobel and wants to help rebuild her life. Enrolling her grandson at the school, Ruth wants to make sure they stay for good.
Isobel has spent her life running from a painful secret. A secret which could have destroyed her family. Now, as she flees a bad relationship, she knows that her childhood home is the only place where she can be safe.
But as Isobel looks at her son in his crisp new uniform, she is taken straight back to the reason she ran all those years ago. Soon it becomes clear that she is not the only one tormented by the past. Someone is prepared to destroy everything Ruth and Isobel hold dear. Can Isobel confront her darkest secret before it is too late?
From the bestselling author of Who We Were Before comes a powerful and emotional page-turner about devastating family secrets. Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, Emily Bleeker and Imogen Clark.
Wow-what a book I’ve never been more gripped by a book where has characters that I could not stand. I could not stand Ruth, she was very blinkered she forgot her daughter Cecily, who has stood by her all this time and she was just all about Isabel and Isaac.
Isabel irritated me, she was also blinkered, it was her way or not at all. She didn’t listen to anyone and always thought she knew best. I get that she gave up EVERYTHING but the way she behaved towards everyone was not forgivable.
Oh, the twists in this book were fabulous! I saw some that were coming, but there were a couple that took me by surprise and it was awesome! I was shocked.
This is the first book I have read by Leah but I am definitely going to be reading more from her. She has created a book, where I didn’t like anyone but yet I was so hooked on the story I couldn’t stop listening. I drove home which is a good couple of hours each way and normally I would listen to music and dip in and out of an audiobook but no instead, I put this on for both journeys and listened to nothing else. I was completely hooked. I would have been happy if I was stuck in traffic for a few more hours just to listen to the book. The narrator was fabulous, she got me so absorbed in her voice that I forgot everything around me.
This is one I do recommend you listen to, it is a fun way to spend some hours and to lose yourself in this book, only coming up for air once you have found out the secret of Isabel and the events that destroyed this family.
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An absolutely crackin song that, amazing it came from them.jimharri said:The Osmonds.
A classic pop song. And dig the flares, maaaan!
Can't see how anyone can take the piss out of them, great stuff. On a side notee my mum told me as a kid that they split up because Simon was in love with Garfunkel and he wanted nowt of it, believed it for years, mind she also told me Bobby Darin was killed by the KGB, she liked a drink did mum, rip you silly sod.blue underpants said:I'm going to show my age now....Simon and Garfunkel, not strictly a band but a great duo...awaits piss taking
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R.A. Pickens & Son Company - - Pickens, Arkansas
The town/plantation of Pickens, Arkansas was founded by Reuben Adolphus Pickens I around 1881 at what was known as the Walnut Lake township about three miles south of Dumas, Arkansas. Mr. Reuben Adophus Pickens [born October 14, 1852--Died October 23, 1926 at the age of 74. His son, Burton Cecil Pickens then became the new owner and Manager of the R.A. Pickens & Company operations. This grand property was cleared of the vast timber whereas fields of row crops emerged and the holdings increased as the partnerships increased in the privately owned company. Upon the death of B. C. Pickens at the age of 52 in 1932 of appendicitus, his son, Reuben Adolphus Pickens II then acquired full control and ownership of the growing company and business primarily a mule powered sharecrop structured company that grew and expanded upon buying out smaller farms from local farmers around the Walnut Lake area. The town name was changed by the petition of the people to what is still known today as Pickens, Arkansas. R.A. Pickens as majority stockholder in the private firm, lead the company with many technological innovations that eventually phased out the mule and sharecropper system into a wage based mechanized model farming operation that peaked up to eighteen thousand acres of rich alluvial farmland in addition to a hereford cattle operation, Commissary/Store, and other capital improvements.
The railroad went through the center of the plantation with a narrow one lane highway that was constructed in 1920 that supplemented the movement of goods and services generated by the row crops and cattle investment. R. A. Pickens was born January 7, 1915 and died at his large home he designed and constructed in 1948. He died on April 10, 1991 of a suspicious circumstances involving his care and custody the last thirty hours of his life; however; the Arkansas Supreme Court settled the dispute between the three surviving offspring of R.A. Pickens and the Freddie Black family. The Pickens operations have downsized numerically the number of hired workers over the last couple of decades in particular due to governmental mandates, mechanization, chemical and herbicide influence, and other factors. This vast plantation continues to be managed under the leadership of Reuben Andrew Pickens, son of the late R.A. Pickens II. Andrew, as he is called, currently has two farm managers, Greg Hillis, manager of the Berry Place farm, and Wilburn place farms. The other Manager is Mike Brown, manager of the Holmes Farm and Lake Farm divisions. The Company is a successful partnership of individuals or groups of shareholders that co-own and manage the overall operations of the firm. Andrew Pickens has two sons that are involved in the partnership and currently are employed at the R.A. Pickens & Son Company. What a great legacy that has been passed down generation to generation since the 1800's since the founding of the large farming operation of R.A. Pickens & Son Company


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