Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

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N,

Haven't you done anything which others would think unexpected of you?

I know I am not the man I was 5 years ago and that was only shortly after I was really young.

8-)

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Consequences "dear boy", "bloody consequences" you should have thought about them!

It echoes down the past!
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Hmmm!! It would appear that we have gone from" Investigators looking into the possibility" To " Frivolous acts committed by the captain" Whats next? Guilty as hell Hang him????Speaking as one who works on the water,this ships every move has been recorded, and it would have a black box installed. So the truth will out but not in a kangaroo court thankfully.

Help.

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Can an Executor and Trustee of a will transfer their "position" or "responsibility" for the actions defined in the will, onto another individual, if permission for doing so is not specified in that will?

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I.e. nominate another person to be a trustee instead of them.

My thoughts are no, unless agreed by the other trustees.



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BB,

I agree. Lets see as many of the real facts as possible and then hang him.

Apologies, I am being frivolous and agree with your sentiments.

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One interesting possibility mentioned for hitting the rocks, was that there have been earthquakes etc. in that area or nearby, and that might have disrupted the sea bed.

But, as it seems to be an entrance to a small port and therefore probably utilised by a constant flow of shipping, one would have expected port officials to be aware of problems and notified all shipping.

Sad.

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Try to evacuate 4000+ persons from a listing blacked out ship within 35 minutes which is the time scale for that type of ship with multiple flooding compartments. I am surprised that the casualty figure is not a lot higher.The fact that the ship was effectivly beached probably saved hundreds.And who's decision would that have been? The captains. People talk of panic! You cram 4000 very frightened people in to a large steel box and start sinking it, what would you expect?? After you Daphne!! No No I wouldnt dream of it after you Timothy" Believe me its devil take the hindmost or Blow you jack I am alright.

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Can an Executor and Trustee of a will transfer their "position" or "responsibility" for the actions defined in the will, onto another individual, if permission for doing so is not specified in that will?

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I.e. nominate another person to be a trustee instead of them.

My thoughts are no, unless agreed by the other trustees.

Hmmm? There might be a clause about this in the Trust.

If not the Trustees could have a meeting (Minuted) and prepare a Written Resolution (Minuted) and then also Minute as to whether the Resolution was agreed upon.

This minute should be then be attached to the Trust Document and this action Minuted.

You might well need the services of a solicitor I feel.

Peacocks have just filed a notice of appointing an administrator.

Exec.

Thank you.

I "feel" you are correct!

Happy Birthday to Mohammed Ali.. He's 70 today

Stan,

The second from the right, is that Chris?

OK for tomorrow, but may be a little late.

Fred,

No rush, I should be there on time, train times permitting as usual.

Interesting how the world goes round.



http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/internet/3330467/wikipedia-shut-down-for-24-hours/?cmpid=HTML-DN170112&olo=daily%20news


Wikipedia is to shut down for 24 hours this week as part of a protest against proposed anti-piracy legislation in the US.


The English language version of the site will be unavailable from 5am (GMT) on Wednesday January 18 until 5am Thursday January 19.

The protest is in regards to anti-piracy laws currently going through congress in the US; the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect-IP Act (PIPA). If these become law, copyright holders and US Judges will have to right to shut-down websites if they believe they offer illegal access to copyrighted material such as music and movies. At present, under existing US law, a website owner must simply remove illegal content when they notified by the copyright holder. However, the new acts put the onus on the website itself to check material does not infringe copyright.

"If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States," the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, said on its website.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales used micro-blogging service Twitter to encourage web users to join the protest.

"This is going to be wow. I hope Wikipedia will melt phone systems in Washington on Wednesday. Tell everyone you know!" he said in a tweet .

"We have no indication that SOPA is fully off the table. We need to send Washington a BIG message," he added in a further tweet

Wales said around 100 million English-speaking web users would be affected by the closure of Wikipedia.

This is a first for the English version of the website, although the Italian version staged a similar protest in October over libel laws. Other websites including Reddit will join the protest. However, micro-blogging site Twitter has refused to join the protest

"Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish," Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo said on the micro-blogging site, later clarifying that he was explaining why Twitter was not joining the protest rather than attacking Wikipedia's plans.

The White House has pledged to only approve parts of the bill that do not affect free speech or come across as censorship.

"Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small," the White House said.

Captain Coward.

Get back on the ship... That is an order! Coastguard's furious call to 'Captain Coward' as cruise passengers drowned.

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