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Stereotactic Body Radiation and Monoclonal Antibody to OX40 (MEDI6469) in Breast Cancer Patients With Metastatic Lesions (OX40 Breast)
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified June 2016 by Providence Health & Services
Providence Health & Services
Robert W. Franz Cancer Center
Providence Cancer Center
Providence Cancer Center, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
MedImmune LLC
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Providence Health & Services
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: May 22, 2013
Last updated: June 23, 2016
Last verified: June 2016
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Detailed Description:
This study will test the investigational antibody, MEDI6469 (anti-OX40), in combination with stereotactic body radiation in breast cancer patients that have liver or lung metastases and have received systemic therapy and have progressive disease. The investigators hypothesize that SBRT directed at metastatic breast cancer lesions will result in a systemic anti-tumor immune system response. This amplified and directed immune response could result in anti-tumor responses.
|Metastatic Breast Cancer Lung Metastases Liver Metastases
|Biological: MEDI6469
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Phase I/II Study of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy to Metastatic Lesions in the Liver or Lung in Combination With Monoclonal Antibody to OX40 (MEDI6469) in Patients With Progressive Metastatic Breast Cancer After Systemic Therapy.
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: breast cancer
MedlinePlus related topics: Breast CancerU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Providence Health & Services:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Determine the maximum tolerated dose and safety profile of radiation administered in combination with anti-OX40 in patients with metastatic breast cancer. [ Time Frame: From Day 1 to Day 36 ]A dose limiting toxicity (DLT) is defined as any greater than or equal to grade 3 non-hematologic toxicity (except hypothyroidism or vitiligo) that in the opinion of the investigator is considered at least possibly related to treatment. Grade 3 or 4 hematologic toxicities that take longer than 10 days to resolve will be considered DLTs. Patients will have 8 clinic visits over 36 days to identify toxicities.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Estimate the response rate of combined modality treatment in both irradiated and non-irradiated tumors. [ Time Frame: Day 36 ]Patients will have CT scans for tumor measurements at Day 36. Patients achieving a radiographic response, or are stable, will be followed monthly with physical exam and laboratory studies with CT (or other imaging as deemed appropriate) scans obtained every 3 months (± 2 weeks) for up to 24 months and then ever 6 months (± 2 weeks) for up to 4 years.
Other Outcome Measures:
- Determine the influence of anti-OX40 and radiation on circulating CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. [ Time Frame: Screening to Day 36 ]Patients will provide 9 blood samples over 36 days to measure the number of CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|February 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|February 2023
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|February 2018 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 15 Gy
Patients receive a radiation dose of 15 Gy to their liver or lung metastases. Patients receive a dose of MEDI6469 following radiation and on Days 3, and 5.
Biological: MEDI6469
Patients receive 3 doses of MEDI6469; one on Days 1, 3, and 5
Experimental: 20 Gy
Patients receive a radiation dose of 20 Gy to their liver or lung metastases. Patients receive a dose of MEDI6469 following radiation and on Days 3, and 5.
Biological: MEDI6469
Patients receive 3 doses of MEDI6469; one on Days 1, 3, and 5
Experimental: 25 Gy
Patients receive a radiation dose of 25 Gy to their liver or lung metastases. Patients receive a dose of MEDI6469 following radiation and on Days 3, and 5.
Biological: MEDI6469
Patients receive 3 doses of MEDI6469; one on Days 1, 3, and 5
Detailed Description:
Patients will receive one of three different doses of SBRT depending on which cohort they are in. The doses are:
Cohort 1: 15 Gy (central tumors 10 Gy); Cohort 2: 20 Gy (central tumors 15 Gy); Cohort 3: 20 Gy x 2 (central tumors 15 Gy x 2).
In addition, all patients will receive three doses of MEDI6469. MEDI6469 is administered at 0.4 mg/kg IV over 60 minutes using in-line filter on Days 1, 3, and 5.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically confirmed breast cancer with clinical evidence of stage 4 disease
- Measurable disease and at least one lesion in either liver or lung that is amenable to stereotactic body radiation
- One site of disease that will not receive radiation
- Patients with hormone receptor positive breast cancer must have received prior anti-hormonal therapy for metastatic disease and have progressed and patients with hormone receptor negative breast cancer must have received at least one prior chemotherapy regimen and progressed.
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0, 1, or 2.
- Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test on the day treatment starts and must avoid becoming pregnant while on treatment. Men must avoid fathering a child while on treatment.
- Patients must have blood test results within pre-specified range
- No active bleeding
- No clinical coagulopathy (INR <1.5, PT <16 seconds, PTT < 38 seconds) within 28 days
- Anticipated lifespan greater than 12 weeks
Exclusion Criteria:
- Active infection requiring systemic antibiotics.
- Active autoimmune disease as defined by the autoimmune disease assessment tool.
- Previous treatment with mouse monoclonal antibodies
- At least 28 days since prior chemotherapy or monoclonal antibody therapy (trastuzumab or bevacizumab). Patients who have been on hormonal therapy can continue on therapy at the discretion of the investigator. Bisphosphonate therapy is acceptable during study participation.
- Diagnosis of a solid tumor malignancy (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) within 3 years of enrollment.
- Need for chronic maintenance oral steroids.
- Active brain metastatic disease. Treated brain metastases with surgery, gamma-knife radiosurgery or radiation and stable for at least 4 weeks and off steroids are eligible.
- No metastatic site amenable to SBRT
- Pregnant or lactating women, as treatment involves risks to the embryo or fetus.
- Other medical or psychiatric conditions that in the opinion of the Principal Investigator would preclude safe participation in protocol.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01862900
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01862900
|Contact: Nikki Moxon, RN
|(503) 215-2619
|Contact: Brenda Fisher, RN
|(503) 215-2613
|United States, Oregon
|Portland Providence Medical Center
|Portland, Oregon, United States, 97213
|Principal Investigator: Marka R Crittenden, MD, PhD
|Principal Investigator: Brendan Curti, MD
|Principal Investigator: Steven Seung, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Steven Bader, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Christine Cha, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Todd Crocenzi, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Rachel Sanborn, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Matthew Solhjem, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Walter J. Urba, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Alice Wang-Chesebro, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Katie Strauss, RN
|Sub-Investigator: John Smith, MD
|Principal Investigator: Alison Conlin, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Rui Li, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Rom Leidner, MD
|Sub-Investigator: David Page, MD
Sponsors and Collaborators
Providence Health & Services
Robert W. Franz Cancer Center
Providence Cancer Center
Providence Cancer Center, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
MedImmune LLC
|Principal Investigator:
|Marka R Crittenden, MD, PhD
|Providence Cancer Center, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
|Principal Investigator:
|Brendan Curti, MD
|Providence Cancer Center, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
|Principal Investigator:
|Steven Seung, MD
|Providence Cancer Center, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
|Principal Investigator:
|Alison Conlin, MD
|Providence Cancer Center, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
More Information
Additional Information:
Keywords provided by Providence Health & Services:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 27, 2017
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Providence Health & Services
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01862900 History of Changes
|Obsolete Identifiers:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 22, 2013
|Last Updated:
|June 23, 2016
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
Keywords provided by Providence Health & Services:
Breast Cancer
Lung metastases
Liver metastases
Stereotactic body radiation
anti-OX40 antibody
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasms, Second Primary
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Neoplastic Processes
Pathologic Processes
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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WINTER HARBOR, Maine — Acadia National Park and the Schoodic Education and Research Center Institute invite the public to Junior Ranger Family Field Day 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, August 18, from 10 am til 3 pm on the campus of the center. Organizers said it will be a day filled with fun, adventure and learning.
Children of all ages are invited to participate in a variety of activities, including animal games, art projects, science explorations, scavenger hunts, old-fashioned games and more. Learn about ecology cycles, weather and wind, and birds and insects. Try the leave no trace challenge course. Meet some of Schoodic's animal inhabitants and visit the indoor tide pool. A healthy lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 pm at the picnic pavilion.
The Junior Ranger Family Field Day will be held rain or shine free of charge. Activities are appropriate for all ages; children must be accompanied by an adult. Start at the ball field on the SERC campus to register and receive a list of activities.
The Junior Ranger Family Field Day is sponsored by Bar Harbor Bank and Trust, and coordinated by SERC Institute and Acadia National Park. SERC Institute is the nonprofit partner of Acadia National Park and the Schoodic Education and Research Center.
For information about any events, to learn more about SERC Institute or to make a contribution to SERC Institute, contact Gail La Rosa Thompson, director of advancement at firstname.lastname@example.com or 207-288-1360.

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An oil spill at Shell's Clyde refinery in western Sydney has been contained.
An unknown amount of the petrol-based substance ran into Duck Creek about 4pm yesterday, after heavy rain caused the refinery's stormwater system to overflow.
Containment booms were put in place and the area was diluted with fresh water and detergent.
A Fire and Rescue NSW spokesman said a Hazmat (Hazardous Material) team and workers from Sydney Ports helped Shell contain the spill overnight.
The oil did not cause any damage and posed no risk to residents, he said.
A Shell spokesman confirmed today that the oil had been cleaned up.
"It's under control ... there's no situation," he said.
No residents were in danger from the spillage, a spokesman said yesterday.
Recent heavy rainfall meant the stormwater overflow system was unable to contain all of the rain water, causing an overflow, a Shell spokesman said yesterday.
"Unfortunately, the overflow material contained oil," the spokesman said in a statement.
"The refinery responded as soon as we were made aware of the situation and quickly deployed oil spill clean-up equipment."
The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has been informed.


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If there's a restaurant in town that you like, but doesn't serve wine (or serves wine that you don't like), do you BYOB (Bring Your Own Bottle)? There are a few reasons why you'd bring your own bottle, but you should know what to expect before bringing your own.
Why Would You BYOB?
There are a few reasons why you should consider bringing your own bottle of wine to dinner, and a few reasons why you should leave the bottle at home.
Restaurant Doesn't Serve Wine
A liquor license can be expensive and complicated, so some smaller restaurants don't have them, and therefore cannot serve wine. Instead, they'll encourage patrons to bring their own bottle. In New York, restaurants with over 20 seats require a liquor license to even allow diners to bring their own bottle of wine.
Restaurant Doesn't Serve Good Wine
Maybe you have a favorite wine, or are celebrating a special occasion. Or you're celebrating your 1-year anniversary, and opening that bottle that you picked up while on your honeymoon. In this case, you want to bring your own wine, not one from their wine list. But beware: if you're going into a restaurant who is proud of the wines they offer, and you stroll in with a bottle of Two-Buck Chuck, expect to get a cold shoulder.
Call Ahead
But before you grab a bottle of wine from your collection (or the nearby liquor store), call ahead to make sure this is OK. Remember that it's not just what's said, but how it's said which tells you their real answer to this question.
Corking Fee: Pay To BYOB
If you are allowed (and encouraged) to bring your own bottle, expect a corking fee. The corking fee also tells you how welcome your own bottle is in their establishment. This can be as little as $5, or over $20. If you're paying $20 to open an $11 bottle of blended white wine, you're better off sticking to the restaurant's wine list.
What To Bring
When I'm dining out and plan on having wine, I get flustered when the waiter takes our drink order right away (and thus typically start with water). That's because I choose my wine based on my meal, and I don't know what I'll be having for dinner yet! Well, you'll have a similar problem if you BYOB.
Exceptions may be if you're going to a steakhouse (and know you're getting steak) or going to a seafood restaurant, and know you'll be getting fish or other seafood.
How To Transport the Bottle
Don't: use a brown paper bag.
Do: get a nice wine bottle tote
If you expect the wine to be chilled, do that before leaving for the restaurant.
What To Expect
Your glasses probably won't be kept evenly topped-off if you BYOB, so it's OK to grab the bottle and pour yourself. It's common courtesy to offer the manager or your server a taste of your special bottle of wine (which also sometimes gets the corking fee to disappear!).
When you're paying the bill, you'll be expected to tip as if you bought the bottle from the restaurant, so add that to your total before calculating the tip percentage.
When researching this post, some people I spoke with had never heard of bringing your own bottle of wine into a restaurant. What about you? Have you brought your own bottle with you to dinner? How was the experience?
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Posters recently being displayed on some 800 buses in Britain openly declare a fact that the Darwinist lobby and its supporters have tried to cover up for so many years: DARWINISM LEADS TO ATHEISM. The bus posters, supported by Richard Dawkins, an atheist and Darwinist, represent one of the most important proofs of that fact.
Darwin's unscientific and irrational view is that all life on Earth in all its great diversity came into being not through Allah's (God) creation (Allah beyond that), but as the result of random and haphazard processes. According to that view, THERE IS NO PURPOSE, REASON OR AIM IN DARWINISM. In Darwinism, it is "chance" that somehow brings all entities into being, diversifies them, and makes them perfect and flawless. Darwinism's objective is to eliminate the idea of Creation by making a god out of chance. Darwinism is based on the materialist belief that matter is all that has absolute existence. It is a heretical faith invented in order to oppose the idea that living things were created out of nothing, the metaphysical existence of the soul that makes human beings human, and their existence depends on the Will and Control of Almighty Allah.
Some evolutionists try to cover up that fact. Their aim is this: they are aware that Darwinism is doomed to total collapse in this century. For that reason they are trying to portray the perversion of Darwinism as a moderate ideology, in order to re-establish its influence over the world and draw various circles into their orbit. So much so, that they have even managed to suggest that "religion and evolution are not incompatible" and to give people the impression that belief in the theory of evolution need not mean the denial of Allah.
The fact is, however, that THIS IS A MONSTROUS LIE.
DARWINISM ABDOLUTELY REJECTS BELIEF IN ALLAH. Darwinism is a false and exceedingly dangerous ideology intended to deny the belief of Allah and to engage in propaganda to that end. To attempt to reconcile this heretical ideology with belief in Allah means falling into Darwinists' vile trap, and that in turn means espousing Darwinism against belief in Allah.
Some Darwinists, however, are not at all reluctant to come out and state that Darwinist ideology eventually denies Allah and leads to atheism. The best known of these people is Richard Dawkins, who is on the agenda concerning the matter of bus posters nowadays. Dawkins' admissions that Darwinist belief leads to atheism read as follows:
"They call me as a witness and a lawyer and said 'Dr. Dawkins has your belief in evolution, has your study of evolution turned you towards atheism?' I would have to say 'YES'… People like me are a bad news for the science lobby, the evolution lobby. By the way I'm being a lot more frank and honest in this interview than many people in this field would be." 1
"Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist." 2
1) No gods worth having exist (Allah is beyond that)
2) No life after death exists;
3) No ultimate foundation for ethics exists;
4) No ultimate meaning in life exists; and
5) Human free will is nonexistent." 3
"Evolution is atheism." 4
1 Expelled "No Intelligence Allowed" Movie, Ben Stein,Premise Media Corporation
2 Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, 1986, p. 6
3 http://184.108.40.206/search?q=cache:0iSLyX2znO4J:members.iinet.net.au/ ~sejones/religi05.html+William+Provine+five+after+death&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=
4 H. Epoch, Evolution or Creation, (1988), p. 148-149


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Acceptable Enterprises (Larne) Ltd — 'iFactory Helping Them Help You'
Commercial Feature
One of the core objectives of the iFactory programme is to provide local small businesses with access to an extensive portfolio of support and assistance from highly trained and qualified professionals at the cost of only a nominal fee to the company.
One small business that availed of the iFactory portfolio of support, and which is now nearing the completion of its iFactory journey, is Larne-based Acceptable Enterprises Ltd
AEL provides a wide variety of quality services to a large number of customers across many industries at highly competitive prices:
AEL is the sole mop manufacturer in Northern Ireland, producing cotton and mixed yarn mops for both the domestic and commercial cleaning industries. The company also provides sub-contract work for local Industry including, recycling, sample making and general component assembly.
Perhaps what is most remarkable of all is that all these services are provided through the gainful employment of people with learning disabilities. The company is very much driven by its social economy ethos of 'Helping You, Helping Us, Helping Others'!
As Agnes Lamont, the AEL's General Manager, said: "Our Local Enterprise Agency, LEDCOM, put us in touch with an iFactory Innovation who helped us develop our Innovation Action plan."
"The programme provided us with access to a very experienced mentor who has now provided drawings and prototypes and suggestions on how we might improve our product.
"We were also able to undertake a technical review and appraisal of our ICT equipment and have now a list of recommendations on upgrades to our hardware, software and indeed our website — all vital tools for our business.
"iFactory also provided us with an opportunity to begin a more focused and targeted look across our service/product range and make more effective usage of the key brands and customers we service.
Of course, one of the unique benefits of iFactory is access to an Innovation Agent for up to 18 months, who gets to know and understand the company and its needs.
"It's a distinct advantage to any small business to have access to a professional mentor in order to sound him/her out on advice and ideas for growing and developing the business,' said Dr Bernard Toal, CEO of NORIBIC.
( www.acceptableenterprises.co.uk)
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Some designers have taken the rise of broadband to mean that graphic intensive pages are now acceptable, that 600k Flash intros are suddenly desirable, and that otherwise bombarding the user with bandwidth-hungry sites is commendable. Sadly, plenty of users are still on dial-up, using 28k, 33.6k or 56k modems, and it's all too easy to forget that when you're surfing on a high speed office connection or even your home broadband.
With that in mind, I've put together a
modem emulator (or is it a modem simulator?) . In theory it should allow you to view your site through the eyes of a user with a slower connection. In practice, it isn't perfect, but might give you an idea of how some of your users actually experience your site.
A word of warning as well - the tool is tested (though not extensively) with sites that I use or have built. There will be unusual sites that don't work with this tool (flash is so far untested for example). Please email me if you have any problems.
The emulator suffered a great deal of abuse in the past, mainly by people wanting to bypass work internet filters. Unfortunately, that has meant that I have had to add a few features to the tool. The primary change, for my own sanity, is a blacklist of URLs. I hope to not have to change this to a whitelist, but that option is available should the need arise.
To use it, simply enter your URL and the speed you'd like to see the site go, and the script will show you the page desired loading as it would on a slower connection.
The tool has been taken offline, and the code has been released under an open source license. There's some background on the change here.
Finally, someone is bound to ask, so to save myself the time answering later - no, this cannot show you how your site will load on a faster connection than you have yourself :).
The emulator has been tentatively reinstated with some features to enable me to manage it.


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High-profile pub
Cnr Jalan Padma & Padma Utara
With its comfortable streetside seating in the heart of Legian, Posers makes for a good people watching spot to watch everything slide right by and it gets a huge amount of passing trade because of this.
Extremely popular for a drink or pub-style meal even though the prices are a little higher than similar bars nearby.
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green turtle can now be purchased preserved in air-tight cans.
The produce of the island consists of cocoa-nut oil and green turtle.
green turtle soup—the green turtle here used to be very good fifteen years ago.
The sea turtle at the Galapagos are of the larger kind of those called the green turtle.
Many other turtles were, however, afterwards caught, of a species called the green turtle.
There was not a sign of a breeze, so Mr Henley determined to wait till the night in the hopes of catching some green turtle.
The produce consisted of copra, green turtle, hawk's-bill turtle, and pearl-shell.
Dampier thought their flesh not so good as the green turtle of the West Indies.
Here are plenty of green turtle, whose flesh is as sweet as any in the West Indies: but they are very shy.
At an uninhabited island of this group we also made a good haul of green turtle, which afforded us high living for the time being.


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Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health Services is in the process of expanding its defined contribution products to large group employers. The expansion follows a successful year-long pilot with small group employers (fewer than 100 employees) that attracted 60 companies and about 6,000 covered lives, says Bill Brown, manager of digital distribution for the giant Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate.
In January, Highmark made the product line available to employers with more than 100 employees. Now it is marketing to large employer groups (more than 1,000 employees).
To date it has enrolled around 100 companies with about 9,200 covered lives.
In January 2014, Highmark will add its defined contribution product line to its Delaware and West Virginia markets. The products are offered though Highmark's proprietary health insurance exchange, MyBenefits.
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People likely don't think much about it when they drop one or two toys into a Toys for Tots box or barrel around town, but there is an army of volunteers to collect and then distribute those gifts to needy children.
The Tacoma Elks Lodge is one of the nerve centers in that effort with this year's tally set to break records.
The Elks Lodge has teamed up with the Tacoma office of the Salvation Army and Toys for Tots to provide toys, coats and gifts to some 3,000 children who would otherwise go without, said Salvation Army Executive Director Frank Walton.
"This is about getting together to help the community," he said. "It is about helping these kids."
Donations are coming in from various sources and being gathered at the Elks Lodge's unused swimming pool. Walmart donated more than 100 of the some 500 new bikes being donated, for example, while donation collection sites dotted around the city have garnered a steady stream of toys for children of all ages. The goal is to give each child a bike, but the stock of donations might not stretch that far, so the fall-back option is to get a bike to at least each family.
The "big guns" in terms of toy donation efforts, as always, is the U.S. Marine Corps' Toys for Tots, which will fill the shelves at the Elks Lodge with some of its estimated 50,000 toys collected for this year's giveaways in Pierce County.
As the plan goes, families in need who have registered with the Salvation Army will get a "shopping" appointment time during a three-day sprint before Christmas. They will then be able to simply stop by and pick up their bag of age-specific gifts.
Donations are still being collected with a desperate need for toys for babies and toddlers as well as for "tween" girls between the ages of nine and 12 and for both teenage boys and girls. Those shelves are largely bare, while about a quarter of the children fall into those ages.
This toy giveaway effort is a swan song of sorts. The Elks Lodge will be leaving the Union Avenue site this summer, so this holiday season will be the last in this historic location. Walton will be ending his 10-year stint at the Salvation Army in January, after finding himself a victim of the lagging economy. But those are issues to ponder another day.
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By Amanda Kim Stairrett
Fort Hood Herald
The Article 32 hearing for accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was delayed again Tuesday morning on a late motion by the defense.
Hasan, his defense team and the Army's prosecutors have appeared for several hearings since June 1 to discuss a variety of issues, including a request by the defense that media and the public be banned from the courtroom. That request was denied in mid-September by the officer presiding over this portion of the case, Col. James Pohl.
Tuesday's hearing was intended to be the first time testimony was offered. The delay was granted until 9 a.m. today on the defense request, citing "Due process because of the broader issue."
The defense initially requested a delay until Nov. 8 to allow time to "process paperwork."
The Article 32 is scheduled to run from today through Oct. 29. Pohl said on Sept. 16 that no testimony would be taken from Nov. 3 to 8 so the hearing wouldn't coincide with one-year anniversary observances.
The Article 32 will re-start on Nov. 8 and go through Nov. 18. If needed, the hearing will again reconvene Dec. 1, according to information from Fort Hood.
Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was charged in November 2009 with 13 counts of premeditated murder. In December of that year he was also charged with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in connection with the Nov. 5 shooting at Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Processing Center.
Hasan was shot by Fort Hood civilian police officers during the incident and is paralyzed from the chest down. He has been housed in an infirmary cell in the Bell County Jail since mid-April. He received care at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio from November through April.
The Article 32 start date was changed twice in the last year at the defense's request. It was originally scheduled to begin March 1, but it was moved to June 1. That date was pushed forward four months during a June 1 hearing - Hasan's first appearance in court. That was later changed to Tuesday to ensure witness travel and other funding was not affected by the beginning of the federal government's new fiscal year on Oct. 1, Fort Hood officials said..
Three medical professionals visited the jail Thursday morning to assess Hasan's mental state to determine whether he was competent to stand trial, but they walked away empty-handed.
Hasan's attorney, retired Col. John Galligan, stopped the proceedings and turned the board away, saying the officer who leads the case at its current level - the Special Court-Martial Convening Authority - delayed the mental evaluation until after the Article 32 hearing.
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This is my first time submitting any tabs but I figured I'd try it out. *note - start on G refers to the note you start singing on. Start on G A Long Time Ago Jim Croce Intro: G D Em e|3-----3-----2-----------|0--------------3--2--3--| b|0-----------3-----3-----|0-----0--------0--0--0--| g|---0-----0-----2-----2--|---0-----0--------------| d|------------0-----------|------------------------| a|------------------------|------------------------| E|3-----------------------|0-----------0-----------| C G/B e|0-----0-----------0-----|5--3-----1--------------| b|1-----------3-----------|5--1-----0--------------| g|---0-----0-----0-----0--|---------------------0--| d|------------------------|---------------0--0h2---| a|3-----------2-----------|0--3--------------------| E|------------------------|---------3--------------| G D Em Seems like such a long time ago C G/B Am C G I was walking on lonely road G D Em Getting tired of dreamin' alone C G/B Am C G Like all the lonely people I had known G D Em Seems like such a long time ago C G/B Am C G There was no-one who would share my song G D Em I was just a boy far from home C G/B Am C G And I became a man when you came along C C/B Am Am/G Em We spent the whole night talking D C G D G You said you'd like to see the sun rise C C/B Am Am/G Em But in the gold of morning D C G D G There was nothing that I had not seen in your eyes Em D Hmmm C G/B I was so afraid to touch you A G Thought you were too young to know C C/B Am Em D So I just watched you sleeping C G/B Then you woke and said to me Am G The night is cold it frightens me C C/B Am Em D I could sleep so easy next to you G D Em Wasn't very long ago C G/B Am C G You said that you would like to share my road G D Em Then you started singing my song C G/B You said so many nights are waiting A G Let's not spent a moment waisting time C C/B Am Em D 'Cause we have very far to go C G/B I will go if you will take me Am G I have never had a lover C C/B Am Em D I am young but I am so alone C C/B Am Am/G Em We spent the whole night talking D C G D G You said you'd like to see the sun rise C C/B Am Am/G Em But in the gold of morning D C G D G There was nothing that I had not seen in your eyes Em D Hmmm Em D D7 G Hmmm, mmm mmm
Sounds nice. Thanks for posting it. It would be great if you could have added the tabs for the chorus as well. There's a lot going on there.


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Uncyclopedia:Pee Review/Edward the blue engine (resubmit)
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This is the new improved version of Edward the blue engine. I got a pretty rubbish review last time, so I have completely refurbished it (now with seating!). I haven't done any thing about images though, as my computer thinks it's funny to come up with an error message every time I try to upload an image.
JeNkIn (lol cheese) 08:20, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
|Orian57 is currently reviewing your article.
Conversely he is also whoreing: Why?:Am I a Power Ranger?
|There really wasn't much that made me smile here. The problems are mostly in relation to the scatter gun approach to humour. Ideas spring up and then leave randomly and it serves only to confuse the reader. Try being more consistent and maybe bringing up the same idea several times.
When you're introducing a joke (which rarely happened here) it's usually best to make it sound official (using interesting, official language (like on Wikipedia, sometimes it can be hilarious just because of how seriously it's taking the dire subject of Marmalade)) and taking it more seriously so it sounds sincere.
But mostly look at concept and prose.
|The problem here is there doesn't seem to be one. To start with the article has Edward as a real train and then towards the end switches to him being a fictional character being analysed. You should settle on one (I'd suggest him being a real train as that can open up other ideas) and keep that all the way through.
The ideas seem far too random and completely incoherent. It doesn't work. You need a central idea behind it as him being created, and then swiftly abandoned, by Martians has no substance as it came from nowhere and went no where.
Try building up a character for Edward. Talk about his acting career, childhood and then about how he went on to do freelance mercenary work (there was an idea like that there that I found quite amusing it just needs expansion). Admittedly that is a bit random seeming and if there is anything from the show you can use that'll be closer to the truth do so. But I think, by the fact he's a children's TV character, he's probably quite 1 dimensional so giving him extra dimensions will probably be quite amusing.
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|It was way too scattered and inconstant; like the previous review mentioned it jumped around and didn't gel together very well.
Admittedly this is probably something people will be looking for, so they'll already know where this train comes from, but you really need to say "Children;s TV series Thomas The Tank Engine" and introduce it better for people who may stumble across this and if nothing else just so it feels a bit more like a Wikipedia article.
However the opening few words were good "Edward is an anthropomorphic steam locomotive " (spellchecked by the way) but you need to carry on in this sort of language, taking it a bit more seriously and that means when you say some of the sillier things it sounds funnier.
The format wasn't great. I personally don't like quotes but if you have to have them make them have some relation to the article. And only have the quote templates at the top of an article, never in the middle, it looks messy. In fact with this sort of article it's best not to quote the character (unless you're doing it first person) anyway, generally quotes are used only in UnNews.
Also don't use that block of black nothingness. It's ugly if you're going to have something censored, make it actually censored using the template:
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and make it worth the bother moving the cursor all the way over to the bit that's censored.
Try and avoid doing trivia sections as it's very hard to get interested in false trivia and lists are boring.
|There is only one, of poor quality, it's too small and the caption wasn't very funny.
Try fixing the error if you can and get some better pictures that tie in with whatever idea you run with.
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|If you haven't already read HTBFANJS. If you have already, read it again. Alternatively this style tends to fit in better over at Illogicopedia so you may want to take it over there. If you'd like to thank/ask/insult me about anything please visit my talkpage.
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THIS monster fish had youngsters who encountered it on the sands of Poole Harbour in a spin over its appearance.
The creature was washed up at Whitley Lake over the weekend and emerged 50m off the beach as the tide went out.
Watersports instructors picked up the dead fish from the sands.
Identified as a smoothhound, it is a member of the shark family, but is harmless to humans.
It was just under the maximum size they grow to in the UK of 3ft and they are bottom feeders, eating small fish and crustaceans.
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I got this shirt for Pearl before I even knew she existed. I won a giveaway on A CUP OF JO back in 2010. It was for a children's clothing website that appears to not exist anymore. I was so excited to win though, and the kids clothes were just so cute! I didn't have any children at the time. I decided to just buy a bunch of cute girl stuff and hope that I would someday have someone to wear it. I gave it all to my niece to wear with the disclaimer that I get it all back someday if I had a daughter. Most of the items are still too big for Pearl, but I was so excited to find that this top fits her now!
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Police say a 44-year-old man is facing charges after a woman was violently assaulted inside a car on Tuesday night.
Halifax Regional Police say officers were called to an assault in progress inside a vehicle in the area of Dublin and Almon streets around 7:30 p.m.
Police say the man and woman knew each other and several bystanders came to the woman's aid.
The victim got out of the vehicle. The man drove off, but was later located and arrested in the area of St. Paul's Street.
Halifax Regional Police Const. Pierre Bourdages described the attack as a "serious and violent assault."
The woman escaped with only minor injuries, he added.
When an officer tried to arrest the man, Bourdages said he was punched, as the accused "actively resisted."
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After getting swept over the weekend by Arizona the New York Mets may not give their fans a .500 season, much less a division title. But they are hoping to provide a memorable group hug.
The first 100 fans at Friday's game at Citi Field against the Brewers will get free admission, if they take part in Nick Cannon's attempt to set a world record for most hugs in an hour.
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The Force is with Disney
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Walt Disney Co. just pulled off a major business coup, landing Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4 billion.
It's quite the deal for Disney, which is getting a full stable of iconic characters from the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" franchises, not to mention all of Lucasfilm's renowned animation and visual effects productions. It's also quite the deal for George Lucas, who gets $2 billion in cash and 40 million Disney shares.
But it may not be quite as good of a deal for fans who are getting ... another "Star Wars" film in 2015, and a promise from Disney to release a new "Star Wars" film every two to three years with no end in sight.
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If you're a fan of the original three films whose memory has yet to repress Jar Jar Binks, this is not good news. Lucas had promised to retire the series after the three "Star Wars" prequels, which were financially lucrative but artistically disappointing.
So much for that plan. Now that Disney is in the driver's seat, it needs to recoup its investment and pad its bottom line. That means more merchandise, more synergistic branding strategies and lots more franchise sequels and prequels.
Our advice to fans? Load the original trilogy onto your Netflix queue. And may the Force be with you.


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Neymar da Silva, father and agent of the Santos player, has confirmed that he has spoken to both Barcelona and Real Madrid who are both competing for the signature of the young forward, according to the Brazilian sports paper 'Lance' on Friday.
"I spoke to them (referring to the two big Spanish clubs) but there is nothing confirmed and Neymar is concentrating on the final of the Paulista league", said the player's father. This Sunday, Santos will face Corinthians in a crucial game.
The player's father, 'Lance', confirmed that Neymar da Silva met on Thursday with the Director of Football of the Catalan club, Raúl Sanllehí, who is in Brazil with the express aim of quickening up the process of the player's signing according to various local media outlets.
According to 'Lance', the businessmen Andres Cury, identified as Barcelona's representative in Brazil, and Marcos Malaquías, a man very close to the club, were also in the meeting.
Rumours about the player's next destination have exploded over the last week due to the trip by Raúl Sanllehí to Brazil and stories that the young star is ready to move to Europe - something he had previously denied he would do until after the World Cup in 2014.
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The new Companies Act has created an entirely new business structure - One Person Company (OPC). An OPC has only one member and can be fully functional with a minimum of one director. An OPC will essentially have the characteristics of a private limited company, but with lesser compliance requirement. Although, the OPC model is a new concept in India, it has been working successfully in developed nations since a long time.
Traditionally, any for-profit business form other than a sole proprietorship requires more than one member. Similarly, a private company also requires at least two members. In such situations, how did single founders or promoters start a company? There is a simple workaround which was used by founders / promoters – the company would typically issue one share to a relative of the promoter (for example, their father, mother spouse, etc.) so that the minimum requirement of two persons was satisfied. Having additional shareholders with nominal shares did not impact the business commercially.
If it is possible to effectively structure a business as a company, despite one person holding almost all the shares (barring a nominal amount of shares), what is the practical utility of a one person company? In the absence of any other choice, some promoters included another person holding a handful of shares (or even one share) to satisfy the minimum number of shareholders. However, they still had to comply with all the procedural and governance requirements under the Companies Act, which are relatively very relaxed for an OPC (see below).
There were still other businesses which continued to run as sole proprietorships. The provision of OPC in the Companies Act is expected to cater to the much-awaited needs of solo entrepreneurs who generally face the problem of unlimited liability in the event of incurring losses while doing business as a sole proprietor (an OPC still has limited liability). OPC encourages individual establishments to grow more as an organized business with the benefit of limited liability. In case a sole proprietor fails to satisfy the obligations of the business towards outsiders, his personal assets can be used. However, in case of an OPC there is separation of personal assets from those of the business – the shareholder will only at risk of losing his capital that he invested in the business.
How does a one person company conduct business or take corporate action?
Since a company is a legal entity, its decisions need relevant internal authorizations. Typically companies may act through a director (if the director is authorized by the board), board decisions or shareholder decisions. Decisions of the board or the shareholders are taken at respective shareholder or board meetings.
Certain work or actions of the company may also be taken by specific committees of the board of directors – for example, the Compensation Committee may be closely involved in the creation of stock option policies.
How are these processes managed in the case of a one person company?
Since it has only one shareholder, a one person company is exempted from holding shareholder meetings.
Similarly, if it has only one director, it will be exempted from the requirement of holding board meetings as well. How should it pass resolutions? It must directly enter resolutions in the minutes-book, which must be signed and dated by the sole director (who may be the member himself), which will be considered to be the date of the board resolution or the decision of the OPC.
In case it has more than one director, it must hold one board meeting every 6 months (calculated from the calendar year), and the gap between the two meetings must be at least 90 days.
For example, the first meeting for the year 2015 must be held between 1st January 2013 to 30th June 2015 and the second meeting must be held between 1st July 2015 to 31st December 2015. There must be a gap of at least 90 days between two meetings – therefore, a meeting cannot be held on 1st July 2015 if the previous meeting was held on 1st May 2015, because the gap between the two is less than 90 days.
Financial Statements
Normally, financial statements must be approved by the board of directors, and signed by any of the following:
- the chairperson of the board alone (if he is authorized by the board) or
- two directors, of which one should be the managing director and CEO (if the CEO is also a director), the CFO and the CS (where they are appointed).
Further, the financial statements have to be duly filed with the Registrar by the member of the OPC with all the necessary documents within 3 months of closure of financial year. However, cash-flow statements are not a mandatory part of financial statements for an OPC.
The annual return of an OPC has to be signed by a Company Secretary. In his absence, it may be signed by the Director as per Section 92 of the Act.
Related party transactions in respect of an OPC
If an OPC enters into a contract with its shareholder (which is an unusual contract and not in the ordinary course of business), it must record the details of the contract into a memorandum (if the shareholder is also the sole director), or in the minutes of the next board meeting (in case there are multiple directors). Further, it shall also inform the Registrar of Companies (ROC) about the contract within 15 days from the date of approval by the board.
A one person company is not required to hold shareholder meetings.
Since it has only one shareholder, the provisions related to shareholder meetings and methods of voting, appointment of proxies, appointment of chairman are not applicable to the OPC.
The provisions from which OPCs are exempted are listed down below:
(a) Section 98: Power of Tribunal to call meetings of members, etc.
(b) Section 100: Calling of extraordinary general meeting
(c) Section 101: Notice of meeting
(d) Section 102: Statement to be annexed to notice
(e) Section 103: Quorum for meetings
(f) Section 104: Chairman of meetings
(g) Section 105: Proxies
(h) Section 106: Restriction on voting rights
(i) Section 107: Voting by show of hands
(j) Section 108: Voting through electronic means
(k) Section 109: Demand for poll
(l) Section 110: Postal ballot
(m) Section 111: Circulation of members' resolution
Disadvantages of an OPC structure
An OPC can have the following disadvantages:
- An investor may be uncomfortable to invest in the company because he does not have the opportunity to become a member of the company, unless it converts. Theoretically, it is possible for an investor to obtain a seat at the board of directors (since an OPC can have anywhere between 1 – 15 directors), and safeguard his investment by suitably amending the articles of association. However, since the structure is new and untested, investors may hesitate to invest in OPCs and instead require promoters to convert into a private company. This may be achieved by including the conversion into a private limited company as a 'condition precedent' to the investment transaction.
- Limitations with respect to administration of employee incentives – Companies look to compensate advisors and employees by offering equity in a number of ways. For example, advisors are typically issued sweat equity for their services. Similarly, employee stock option plans (ESOPs) are a powerful way of incentivising employees. Since an OPC cannot have more than one shareholder (who is typically going to be the promoter), it will not be possible to issue sweat equity (since these are shares) or administer ESOP plans (because shares cannot be issued if an option is exercised). Stock option plans may be implementable if the OPC has a plan to convert into a private limited company.
- An OPC is taxed in the same way as any other company – hence, it is taxed on income as well as distribution of profits. It does not have the tax advantages of an LLP, which is only taxed on income and not on distribution of profits (see the chapter comparing an LLP with a company for more details on this).
1) An OPC can be established as a private limited company:
a) Company capital of one lakh rupees, or,
b) a company limited by guarantee
2) An OPC may be formed only by a natural person who is an Indian citizen and resident of India and above the age of 18. That essentially means that any public company or a private company or a foreigner cannot incorporate an OPC.
3) To incorporate an OPC, the person must be a resident of India, i.e., he must be residing in India for not less than one hundred and eighty two days in the preceding financial year. An Indian citizen who is abroad for various reasons and does not satisfy the criterion of being a 'resident' cannot start an OPC.
4) An individual cannot start more than one OPC. If one individual wants to commence multiple businesses, he will have to park them in the same OPC or park one of the businesses into another business entity,
5) The Memorandum of Association of the OPC must mandatorily name a person as a nominee who holds the authority to run the business in the event of subscriber's death.
6) An OPC cannot carry on business of non-banking financial investment activities.
Is it possible for the shareholder to exit from the OPC?
There is no express provision prohibiting transfer of shares of an OPC. An OPC is akin to a private limited company. Shares of a private limited company can be transferred if permitted by the memorandum, so long as there are restrictions imposed on the transfer (if no restrictions are imposed on transferability then the company becomes akin to a public company).
Theoretically, it is possible for the member to sell his share to another member (assuming the memorandum has a process that allows transfers). Typically, private companies require incoming shareholders to sign a deed of accession which states that they agree to the terms of the new memorandum.
At a practical level, exits may be difficult because the buyer typically requires the promoter to be involved with the business. As a promoter, the shareholder will have to completely exit from the company – since by definition, one member holds all the shares (or nothing) in an OPC.
One way to get around this problem could be to engage the outgoing member as an employee during a transition period.
Appointment of a nominee is mandatory
1) A person who is already a member of another OPC can be a nominee for another OPC, but if he becomes a member of the other OPC as well due to death or incapacity of its original member, he will have to choose and leave the membership of one of the companies within a period of 180 days.
2) The nominee may withdraw his consent at any point in time by giving a notice in writing to the sole member and the OPC . In that case, it is the responsibility of the sole member to nominate another person within 15 days of receipt of the notice, in Form no INC 3.
3) The OPC has to intimate such alteration of withdrawal of consent of the nominee as well as the nomination of the new person within thirty days of receipt of the withdrawal notice to the Registrar of Companies in Form No INC 4.
4) If the sole member of the OPC becomes incapable to contract due to death, the nominee gets the authority to run the company. Further, the new member has to nominate another person as the nominee with his prior written consent that has to be filed with the Registrar of Companies.
Note that a nominee for an OPC is very different from the nominee of a bank account – in case of death of the holder of a bank account, the bank's responsibility will be limited to transfer control of the account to the nominee. The successors (or the beneficiary under a will, where applicable) of the owner will have to claim their share from the nominee. In case of an OPC, the nominee becomes the member of the OPC - all the rights, responsibilities and economic benefits are transferred to the nominee. While there is no court decision on this, it appears to be fairly clear that this principle excludes the applicability of succession laws.
Differences between an OPC and sole proprietorship
Here's a quick ready reckoner:
- An OPC has a separate legal status as provided by the Companies Act, 2013 although it is operated by only one person. On the other hand, a sole proprietorship is not treated as separate from the personal status of the proprietor.
- An OPC has the benefit of limited liability, unlike a sole proprietorship.
- An OPC requires a minimum of INR 1 lakh paid-up capital, whereas there is no minimum capital requirement for starting a proprietorship business.
- In case of an OPC corporate income tax (at 30 percent plus surcharge) will be payable, regardless of income-tax slabs, while in case of sole proprietorship the proprietor will have to pay income tax as per the personal income tax slab rates. This can cause significant savings for a proprietor. For example, income of INR 300,000 will be taxed at INR 90,000 if corporate income tax rate is applied. However, if the personal income tax slab is INR 2,00,000 and the tax rate between income of INR 2,00,000 to 5,00,000 is 10 percent (the tax rate escalates progressively), tax of INR 10,000 will only be payable (i.e. 10 percent of (INR 3,00,000 – INR 2,00,000), which is a significant saving.
- An OPC must meet the minimum compliances required under the Companies Act, 2013 however, there is no such requirement for a sole-proprietorship.
- There can be practical issues with respect to succession to a sole proprietorship business (e.g. in case of death of the proprietor) is possible through execution of a will by the proprietor; however in case of an OPC the member can nominate a nominee who will succeed the business in case of death of the member.
- An OPC will be required to conduct an audit in all cases under the Companies Act, whereas a sole proprietorship will only be required to conduct an audit under the Income Tax Act if turnover in a particular year exceeds INR 1 crore (or in case of a professional, if total revenues exceed INR 25 lakhs).
The policy behind allowing OPCs is to encourage the growth of small businesses – once the business attains a certain size (the Companies Act 2013 provides certain thresholds which trigger the requirement to convert), it is expected to convert into a private or public company within a time limit (see below). Voluntary conversion of OPC into a public or a private company is possible only after 2 years of its incorporation.
The thresholds are as below:
- If the paid up share capital of an OPC exceeds INR 50 lakh or
- the average annual turnover exceeds INR 2 crore during previous three consecutive financial years.
i) the date on which it's paid up shares exceeds INR 50 lakh or
ii) last day of the third financial year, when its average annual turnover exceeds INR 2 crores.
Note: Increase the number of members to 2 for conversion into a private company and 7 members for a public company. Similarly, the number of directors must be increased to 2 for conversion into a private company and 3 members for a public company.
- The decision to convert an OPC into a private limited company may be recorded in the minutes book.
- The memorandum and articles of association need to be amended in the following manner:
- The expression 'One Person Company' at the end of the name of the company need to be substituted with 'Private Limited' or 'Limited'.
- For a private limited company, capital clause needs to be altered if the authorized capital is proposed to be increased. For a public company, alteration is mandatory if the authorized capital is less than INR 5,00,000 (OPC can be started with INR 1,00,000 authorized capital). The alteration must increase authorized capital to INR 5,00,000.
- Objects clause can be modified in case the objectives of the converted business will be different or additional objectives need to be added.
- The subscribers clause needs to altered to accommodate new members as signatories to the memorandum.
- The OPC has to notify to the Registrar in Form No. INC 5 within 30 days that it has ceased to be an OPC and has to convert itself into a private or public company as its paid up share capital and average annual turnover has crossed the threshold limit.
- The Registrar will issue a fresh certificate of incorporation.
Step 1: The sole member must obtain a Director Identification Number (DIN) along with a digital signature certificate.
Step 2: An application must be made to the Registrar of Companies for reservation of name of the company in Form No INC 1.
Step 3: Application for incorporation has to be filed in Form No INC 2. (Please note that the form number is different for other companies).
Step 4: The name of the nominee should be inserted only after obtaining his written consent in Form no INC 3 along with requisite fee.
Step 5: The MoA and Articles of Association of the OPC have to be filed with the Registrar of Companies. The MoA must mention the name of the nominee of the OPC and the nomination in Form No INC 2.
Note: The word "One Person Company" must be written in brackets after the name of the company.
Step 6: The Director(s) of the OPC must file their details, interest in other firms or bodies and their consent to act as the director in Form No. DIR 12.
Step 7: The Certificate of Incorporation will be issued by the Registrar in Form No. INC11.
Step 8: The Director must file a declaration in Form No. INC 21 along with requisite fee and shall be verified by a Company Secretary or a Chartered Accountant or a Cost Accountant in practice.
Step 9: The OPC must file Form No INC 22 (for verification of registered office) along which will state necessary proof of ownership/lease/rent of the office before commencement of business.


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Gratitude in Action … The founding of A.A. in Canada in 1944
Courtesy: Flickr Joshua Uhl
It is cold out tonight. We got a fresh blanket of snow on the ground. They called for more snow overnight last night, which didn't manifest. But they are plowing snow away as I write tonight downstairs on the streets around here.
We are sitting at ( -9c/ -14c w.c.). It was a quiet day. I did not sleep well last night, even after going to bed at 1 a.m. I was still awake looking at the clock at 7 this morning – I guess I finally fell asleep and slept until I had to get up and get ready to go. It was an easy set up and we had a business meeting. Members are aching for jobs to do. I don't know how many more jobs we can bring forth without extending the length of the meeting.
And even with that, people are bitchy when it comes to lengthening the meeting beyond our hour fifteen minute meeting. There are always a handful of people who love to bitch about anything. My sponsor says that we are too spoiled with instant gratification today and people want it "Right now or three hours earlier…"
We sat more than 40 folks and we read from the Big Book, from the 4th edition story "Gratitude in Action" the story of Dave B, one of the founders of A.A. in Canada in 1944.
In Pass it On, the book I just finished reading, Bill was so worried that there were so many requests for meeting info and to find actual meetings and back in 1944, meetings were still in their infancy, with the fellowship still growing by the week.
Letters would come in to N.Y.C. and get disseminated to city centers far and wide as new meetings were founded. The First edition of the Big Book was published and sold for $2.50 a copy. They could not print them fast enough to get them to all the people who needed them.
Bill was still trying to get the word out about the fellowship – and he made several tours of the United States and Canada over a number of years carrying the message to lone A.A's scattered across the U.S. and Canada. It took several years for AA to "Come of Age" when the books were codified – the steps and traditions set up and in place, and also that the General Service office had been created and operating at optimum performance.
Bill counted on lone A.A's around the world to set up meeting centers and to begin to carry the message to sufferers where ever they may be. And so it went for Dave B. Here in Quebec. It is written in the book that in October of 1944, Bobbie from the New York Office wrote him saying:
"You sound very sincere and from now on we will be counting on you to perpetuate the Fellowship of A.A. where you are. You will find enclosed some queries from alcoholics. We think you are now ready to take on this responsibility."She had enclosed some four hundred letters that Dave answered over the course of the following weeks. And soon he got answers back.
We can be grateful for this lone A.A. who was handed the job of carrying the message through Quebec and on into Canada from East to West. There are hundreds of meetings in Montreal alone. They span French, English, Spanish and even Farsi.
One can hit a meeting at several times a day in several locations all over the city. The more bilingual you are the more meetings you are able to hit. The General Service office serves thousands of alcoholics here in the city. And it all began with one man Dave B. some 68 years ago.
We went the entire period. We gained several new members this week, which brings us to fifteen members at our home group. Everybody wants to do something to be of service. And over the next few months we will be looking to expand our reach into the Grapevine, General Service and the Phones. We are looking into getting a Grapevine Membership at $50.00 a year, I need to research that this week some time.
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I have a midterm exam tomorrow in Geography and I need to do some serious studying, it shouldn't be too bad. I've got a basic understanding of what he is going to ask us, but I need to go over the power points and my notes and polish off the essay question on China's One Child Policy.
That has been the day in brief.
More to come, stay tuned …


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The 'Forrest Gump' actor receives a nomination for his leading role in 'Lucky Guy' while the 'Time After Time' singer's music for 'Kinky Boots' is listed as a contender for Best Original Score.
The nominations in 26 categories for the 67th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards were revealed on April 30 in New York. Broadway newcomers Tom Hanks and Cyndi Lauper, who receive one nomination each at the awards show which began in 1947, reacted with joy to the happy news.
"Yes, I'm surprised, and delighted. This is a great day for all of us; I'm just thrilled to be in this thing, in 'Lucky Guy'," said Hanks. The Oscar-winning actor receives his first Tony nod for his leading role in the Broadway play about the life of the colorful Pulitzer Prize-winning New York tabloid columnist Mike McAlary. The Nora Ephron play itself earns 6 nods in total.
Similar to Hanks, Lauper receives her first Tony nomination for composing "Kinky Boots" music. The '80s pop diva immediately took to Twitter to give her reactions. "OmG! OMG!! wow we got nominated!! @KinkyBootsBway !!! OMG!!!" she wrote, before continuing, "I'm crying and jumping up and down! I can't believe it so excited! @KinkyBootsBway !! So proud to be part of this! Thank you Harvey!xxx."
From the announcement of this year's Tony Awards read by Sutton Foster and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, it's revealed that "Kinky Boots" about a real-life struggling shoe factory leads with a total of 13 nominations. Roald Dahl's novel-adapted "Matilda The Musical", meanwhile, comes as a strong rival by receiving 12 nods. The two plays are up for best musical, best musical actor and best musical actress among other categories.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony on June 9 at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The reception, hosted by the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, will be broadcast live on CBS.
Selected nominees in the major categories are in the following list. The complete list can be found on official Tony website.
Best Play:
- "The Assembled Parties"
- "Lucky Guy"
- "The Testament of Mary"
- "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike"
- "Bring It On: The Musical"
- "A Christmas Story, The Musical"
- "Kinky Boots"
- "Matilda The Musical"
- "A Christmas Story, The Musical" Music and Lyrics: Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
- "Hands on a Hardbody" Music: Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green Lyrics: Amanda Green
- "Kinky Boots" Music and Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper
- "Matilda The Musical" Music and Lyrics: Tim Minchin
- Tom Hanks - "Lucky Guy"
- Nathan Lane - "The Nance"
- Tracy Letts - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
- David Hyde Pierce - "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike"
- Tom Sturridge - "Orphans"
- Laurie Metcalf - "The Other Place"
- Amy Morton - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
- Kristine Nielsen - "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike"
- Holland Taylor - "Ann"
- Cicely Tyson - "The Trip to Bountiful"
- Bertie Carvel - "Matilda, The Musical"
- Santino Fontana - "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella"
- Rob McClure - "Chaplin"
- Billy Porter - "Kinky Boots"
- Stark Sands - "Kinky Boots"
- Stephanie J. Block - "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
- Carolee Carmello - "Scandalous"
- Valisia LeKae - "Motown, The Musical"
- Patina Miller - "Pippin"
- Laura Osnes - "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella"


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