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Funny Stories and Life Experiences
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New topic featuring funny stories.
This is something to think about when negative people are doing their best to rain on your parade…
So remember this story the next time …
A woman was at her hairdresser's getting her hair styled for a trip to Rome with her husband..
She mentioned the trip to the hairdresser, who responded:
" Rome? Why would anyone want to go there? It's crowded and dirty.
You're crazy to go to Rome. So, how are you getting there?"
"We're taking Continental," was the reply. "We got a great rate!"
Continental?" exclaimed the hairdresser. "That's a terrible airline. Their planes are old, their flight attendants are ugly, and they're always late. So, where are you staying in Rome?"
"We'll be at this exclusive little place over on Rome's Tiber River called Teste."
"Don't go any further. I know that place. Everybody thinks it's going to be something special and exclusive, but it's really a dump."
"We're going to go to see the Vatican and maybe get to see the Pope."
"That's rich," laughed the hairdresser. "You and a million other people trying to see him. He'll look the size of an ant. Boy, good luck on this lousy trip of yours. You're going to need it."
A month later, the woman again came in for a hairdo. The hairdresser asked her about her trip to Rome.
"It was wonderful," explained the woman, "not only were we on time in one of Continental's brand new planes, but it was overbooked,
and they bumped us up to first class. The food and wine were wonderful, and I had a handsome 28-year-old steward who waited on me hand and foot..
And the hotel was great! They'd just finished a $5 million remodeling job,
and now it's a jewel, the finest hotel in the city.
They, too, were overbooked, so they apologized and gave us their owner's suite at no extra charge!"
"Well," muttered the hairdresser, "that's all well and good, but I know you didn't get to see the Pope."
"Actually, we were quite lucky, because as we toured the Vatican, a Swiss Guard tapped me on the shoulder, and explained that the Pope likes to meet some of the visitors, and if I'd be so kind as to step into his private room and wait, the Pope would personally greet me. Sure enough, five minutes later, the Pope walked through the door
and shook my hand! I knelt down and he spoke a few words to me.."
"Oh, really! What'd he say?"
He said: "Who screwed up your hair?"
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I remember every last thing on that list. So I guess I am officially older than dirt!
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Signs that you have grown up, not just old!
1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.
2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 a.m. is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
5. You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
6. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of "hook up" and "break up."
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as "dressed up."
10. You're the one calling the police because those kids next door won't turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
12. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
14. You feed your dog/cat Science Diet instead of McDonald's leftovers.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
16. You take naps from noon to 6 PM.
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 a.m. would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
19. If you're a gal, you go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good stuff."
21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
22. "I just can't drink the way I used to" replaces "I'm never going to drink that much again."
23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. When you find out your friend is pregnant you congratulate her instead of asking "How did that Happen!!?!
25. You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that doesn't apply to you and can't find one to save your sorry old self.
Old-Timer Woes
At a nursing home in Florida, a group of senior citizens were sitting around talking about their aches and pains. "My arms are so weak I can hardly lift this cup of coffee," said one.
"I know what you mean. My cataracts are so bad I can't even see my coffee," replied another.
"I can't turn my head because of the arthritis in my neck," said a third, to which several nodded weakly in agreement.
"My blood pressure pills make me dizzy," another contributed.
"I guess that's the price we pay for getting old," winced an old man as he slowly shook his head.
Then there was a short moment of silence.
"Well, it's not that bad," said one woman cheerfully.
"Thank God we can all still drive."
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HOW TO START A FIGHT!
My wife sat down next to me as I was flipping channels.
She asked, "What's on TV?"
I said, "Dust."
.....And that's how the fight started…
My wife and I were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed.
I turned to her and said, 'Do you want to have sex?'
'No,' she answered.
I then said,'Is that your final answer?'
She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, 'Yes..'
So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend."
And that's how the fight started…
I took my wife to a restaurant.
The waiter, for some reason, took my order first.
"I'll have the rump steak, rare, please."
He said, "Aren't you worried about mad cow?"
"Nah, she can order for herself."
TOGETHER-NESS....
AND FOREVER-NESS....
I know that this is out of season for most us but I find it interesting!
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Short Funny Stories That Will Crack You Up In 60 Seconds
I curated these funny stories from funny Tumblr stories. Get ready for a hurricane of LOL as you read all these funny short stories.
By January NelsonUpdated September 29, 2018
1. Now that's what I call stupid: In my junior year of high school, this guy asked me on a date. He rented a Redbox movie and made a pizza. We were watching the movie and the oven beeped so the pizza was done. He looked me dead in the eye and said, "This is the worst part." I then watched this boy open the oven and pull the pizza out with his bare hands, rack and all, screaming at the top of his lungs. We never had a second date.
2. The fake report card: I failed the first quarter of a class in middle school, so I made a fake report card. I did this every quarter that year. I forgot that they mail home the end-of-year cards, and my mom got it before I could intercept with my fake. She was PISSED—at the school for their error. The teacher also retired that year and had already thrown out his records, so they had to take my mother's "proof" (the fake ones I made throughout the year) and "correct" the "mistake." I've never told her the truth.
3. All the fish: I went to this girl's party the week after she beat the **bleep** out of my friend. While everyone was getting trashed, I went around putting tuna inside all the curtain rods and so like weeks went by and they couldn't figure out why the house smelled like festering death. They caught me through this video where these guys at the party were singing Beyoncé while I was in the background with a can of tuna.
4. How to win at video games: When I was little, I would go on Nickelodeon.com all the time and they had this game similar to Club Penguin, except it was called Nicktropolis. And if you forgot your password, a security question you could choose was "What is your eye color?" and if you got it right it'd tell you your password. So I would go to popular locations in Nicktropolis and write down random usernames who were also in those areas, and then I would log out and type in the username as if it were my own and see which of these usernames had a security question set to "What is your eye color?" (Which was most of them, since it was easy and we were all kids). I would then try either brown, blue, or green, and always get in, then I would go to their house and send all of their furniture and decorations to my own accounts. And if I didn't want it, I could sell it for money.
5. Drama at my drama class: One time my drama class's teacher had gone home sick so we were just put in a classroom with a movie to entertain us for the period when an alarm went off. None of us were sure if it was the fire alarm or the lockdown alarm, so we all head out into the hall to check and no one's out there, so we head back in and climb under our desks as is lockdown procedure. Cut to an hour or so later when a teacher bursts in and nearly dies of relief because the school was on fire and we were the only students not accounted for and half the faculty and fire department had beenA Z searching for us for ages. Literally, the whole school had filled with smoke while we'd kept super safe under our wooden desks.
It's Time You Know the Difference Between Veterans Day and Memorial Day
A few years ago, there was a viral Facebook post about a woman getting a haircut before Memorial Day weekend. She had lost her husband in a Navy helicopter crash months prior. He died on deployment, never having met their youngest son. So, when the smiling receptionist wished her a "Happy Memorial Day" after she had buried her spouse, the words cut extra deep.
Before you tag every veteran and service member on Facebook and wish them a Happy Memorial Day, remember that, in this community, Memorial Day means something much, much bigger than the start of summer. The day feels fraught with memories of those we've lost, mixed with gratitude for the times we've had.
Some of you may have seen this before!
HEADSTONES SHARE COVER
OF GORDON LIGHTFOOT'S CLASSIC TRACK
"THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD"
WATCH THE VIDEO NOW BELOW!
Following on the heels of their successful album Little Army, Headstones have once again been busy recording new music in Kingston, with plans to release a new record later this year. After working at The Bathouse Studio, the band was inspired to release their version of the Gordon Lightfoot classic "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald." Always a song on their radar, circumstances finally clicked into place to give them the right opportunity to share their take with their fans.
This impactful interpretation of the iconic track chronicling the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 was a #1 hit for Lightfoot and remains one of his best-loved songs. While showing respect for the past, Headstones have put their unique spin on the song to introduce it to a whole new rock audience. The accompanying video was shot on location in Kingston, Ontario.
About the track the band says, "We've always loved this song. It's profoundly meaningful. We started to play it during our tour VIP soundchecks, and our fans really responded to it…. The feedback was exceptional."
After wrapping a successful 2018 celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut album Picture Of Health with a Canadian tour and a remastered edition of the album, Headstones have begun to rollout dates for the summer. Recently announcing a performance at the 2019 Kick Off Concert for The Sound Of Music Festival in Burlington, Ontario on June 8thalongside Monster Truck, Bush and LIVE, as well as dates at the RockinWheel for Spinal Cord Research in Mount Brydges, Ontario on June 22nd and the Roxodus Music Festival in Clearview, Ontario happening July 11 – 13th
For more information or tickets please visit: www.headstonestheband.com and watch our socials for more.
Link to hear the song: https://headstonesband.com/news-2/the-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/
Largest Marine Catastrophe on the Great Lakes
Much attention has been paid to the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975. The loss of the largest ship in the Laker fleet and 29 lives was a horrific event. However, the most savage storm in the history of the Great Lakes swept the inland waters on November 7-12, 1913. The storm resulted in the sinking and damage of muiany ships and hundreds of crewmen and women killed in the icy Great Lakes.
Link: https://thumbwind.com/2016/11/07/1913-great-lakes-storm/
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I would say that people have the same problem with expectations they likely do with goals (see the auto-generated link at the bottom of your own post: http://jerrytice.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/expectations-vs-goals/).
The problem of evaluating, quantifying (or at the very least _qualifying_) events in the future is confusing, imaginitive, and requires constant re-evaluation.
That's kind of scary and difficult, is it not?
What you are saying is totally right, but this is not the point I was trying to make.
The fact that it is hard should not stop us from trying to set them. The question of whether we succeed or not is a different question all together.
You are right that it is hard, but if people would not do hard things, where would be?
Thanks, as usuall, for your insights!
While it might have been a rhetorical question, in its place it seemed to beg an answer.
What on earth am I saying. Of _course_ I mean to nitpick.
And just one more comment spam.
The thing is that I find the idea of quantifying and qualifying goals (and, by association, expectations) is not only an unknown concept to most people, but in fact anathema to many people's way of thinking.
The suggestion that life should be planned, that milestones should be examined, the thought of doing anything other than accepting events and opportunities, seems to offend people.
Like exercise, it suggests that you're not taking care of your own life the way you likely should.
It's why "The Secret" and that damned monk and his bloody Ferrari have such an effect on people. Control of your universe is an appealing concept once people are exposed to it. It just doesn't have to come in such a heavily saccharinated package.
Ultimately, the old addage that "No battle plan ever survives an encounter with the enemy", doesn't mean you should rush blindly into everything WITHOUT one.
You are making the assumption that expectations and goals are the same thing. The fact that they are sometimes used interchangeably does make them the same things. From all of you mad ravings I am not sure if you are pro-goals or not, but I personally think they are a good thing. But setting expectations is something altogether different. Say for example that you start to work for me. Wouldn't you like to know on what issues am I expecting you to report and in which you don't? say you start working in a team. Wouldn't you like to know how decisions will be made in the team and what is your ability to decide without consulting the team? These are important things that have nothing to do with goals.
haha… Not angry, and not anti-goals.
I'm not confusing goals and expectations. I'm implying that they come from a similar need.
Expectations, just as goals do, allow people in our life to evaluate their progress and achievement. It's a gauge, as well as a taret mark. The difference is that goals are what I expect of myself.
Expectations are no different. Getting someone to meet your expectations? In a work environment, you risk hearing "don't tell me how to do my work".
Expectations require open communication, and trust.
Again, I'm not against the idea. I'm trying to get to the underlying difficulties of doing it.
I am not sure that setting expectations in a workplace is equivalent to telling people how to do their work, even though I can see why it might be perceived that way. You are right o say that expectations is all about communication.


Former SMU standout Ira Terrell is shown here at the SMU / Fresno State Men's Basketball game at Moody Coliseum Thursday night, January 6, 2005.
Mike Pinkham coached Gerald Turner in hoops back at New Boston, and that apparently affords him liberties with SMU's president that others might not enjoy. Like when the discussion got around to Ira Terrell, maybe the greatest basketball player in SMU history and, as it happens, a guy Pinkham signed. And after only 88 in-home visits.
Anyway, Pinkham occasionally reminded Turner it'd be nice if, you know, they retired IT's number while he could still speak for himself.
"I'd be lying if I didn't say there were times I was bitter," Terrell conceded Thursday.
"I felt like it was going to happen, but why were we waiting so long?"
Well, 43 years after his final game at Moody Coliseum, Terrell's number has finally come up.
And up it goes, clear into the rafters, where, at halftime of Saturday's game against Tulsa, Terrell's 32 will join the jersey numbers of Jim Krebs, Jon Koncak and Gene Phillips.
Any of the above deserves consideration as SMU's best ever. Old-timers will favor Krebs, who led the Mustangs to the '56 Final Four, then was named All-American as a senior. The Lakers made him the third pick of the '57 draft.
Even so, Terrell, Southwest Conference Player of the Year in 1976, remains the only SMU player to average a double-double for three seasons. Might have been four if the NCAA hadn't ruled him ineligible his junior year for accepting $100 to pay an overdue phone bill. The NCAA initially took his junior and senior seasons, apparently a violation of the Geneva Convention.
IT was a star almost from the minute he stepped on the floor at SMU in '72, which surprised no one. At Roosevelt, the 6-8, 195-pounder averaged 30 points and 28 rebounds as a senior. In a 111-109 win over Wheatley in the state semifinals, the most exciting game in tournament history, Terrell scored 45 points, a record in the big classifications.
SMU legend Ira Terrell will have his No. 32 jersey retired on Jan. 12.
Terrell got so many letters from schools, he stopped opening them. On IT's trip to UCLA, John Wooden pointed to the two dozen Sports Illustrated covers on a wall of his office and said, "We win a lot."
"Met Wilt Chamberlain, who told me that if he had it to do over again, he'd go to UCLA," Terrell said.
"Yes, Wilt had a couple of pretty blondes at his house."
Terrell partied with Jerry Tarkanian in Los Angeles. Froze solid on a trip to Nebraska.
First, he wanted to play immediately, which was possible in '72 because the NCAA had just made freshmen eligible. He figured it might be tough to get on the floor at UCLA, then a year into its 88-game winning streak.
Terrell also wanted to earn his degree, win a championship and prepare himself for pro basketball.
Pinkham, an assistant at SMU who still considers Terrell the best high school player he ever saw, worked a fifth angle.
"I ate supper at his house a lot," he said.
Pinkham told the Terrells that if Ira went to Westwood, they might get to see him in person once or twice over the next four years.
"I told Ira that if he went to SMU," Pinkham said, "I was gonna have seats for his parents at Moody."
So Terrell joined another former Dallas superstar, Sammy Hervey, to give SMU a pair of five-star recruits. Terrell made first-team All-SWC three years. Even so, SMU didn't live up to its promise, not that anyone blamed IT.
His last coach at SMU, Sonny Allen, cited his innate feel for the game and "unbelievable" quickness around the basket. Bob Prewitt, his first coach, said, "He had it all."
A knee injury the first game of his second year in the NBA all but wrecked his pro career. Played a total of three seasons for Phoenix, the Jazz and Portland and three more in Manila. Even attempted a comeback with the new NBA team in his hometown, but his knee didn't pass the physical.
Since his playing days, he's worked with Texas Can Academy and a company that sells identity theft protection. Works as a substitute teacher at middle schools.
On just about any game night you'll find him at Moody, where he sometimes works broadcasts. Wherever he goes, he's reminded of what he did at SMU.
And if retiring his number at 64 comes a little late, it's not like his old school has ignored him, either. He was inducted into SMU's athletic Hall of Fame in 2012, and in 2017 a private donor endowed an athletic scholarship in his name.
Now all he has to do make it through Saturday's speech.
"I just hope I can get it all out," he said. "You know, a lot of people helped me who are no longer here."
The good news is, no one has to speak for him.


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Nigerian Lawyer Drags Buhari To Court Over Planned Swearing In Of New Ministers
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Obi Cubana Offers Scholarship, Employment To Hawker Seen Giving Money To Inmates
42-Year-Old Chukwuka Monye Declares For 2023 Presidency, Vows To Rescue Nigeria
Singer, Reekado Banks Calls Out Bolt On His Producer's Missing Bag
Celebs Knock Buhari's Regime After Lift Of Twitter Ban
A Nigerian lawyer, Musa Baba-panya has filled a suit seeking stop President Muhammadu Buhari from continuing with the swearing in of his recently screened ministerial nominees.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja will on Monday, 19th August 2019, deliver its ruling in the suit, which came as a result of the exclusion of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) indigene from his cabinet list.
Musa Baba-panya argues that the omission of the FCT from the list makes it incomplete. He wants the court to declare the nominations and planned oath taking null and void.
In the suit with number FHC/ABJ/CS/878/19, Baba-panya, who is also an indigene of Karu in the FCT, said the president's action was contrary to an appeal court judgment delivered on March 15, 2018.
In the suit, President Buhari is the first defendant while the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) is the second defendant.
The lawyer wants the court to declare that the ministerial list is not complete and as a result, it is illegal and unconstitutional to inaugurate the nominees.
"The first defendant stands in contempt of law and court for his brazen refusal to comply with the tenor of the Abuja division of Court of Appeal judgment of 15/1/2018 compelling him to the immediate and forthwith appointment off an indigene of FCT, Abuja as minister of the federation," he said.
With another lawyer, Sylvanus Tanko, Baba-panya, prayed the court to grant an interim injunction restraining the president from inaugurating the confirmed ministers-designate pending the determination of the motion on notice.
He argued that allowing the president to go on with his decision would mean that "he is going to constitute an illegal cabinet."
He also said despite the fact that President Buhari presently has 43 ministerial-designate, he was yet to meet "the minimum requirement of the constitution which is at least one minister each from the 36 states including FCT, making a total of 37.
"If the court would not be inclined to grant the interim injunction order, we have prayed in the alternative for the court to issue an order on the Mr President and the AGF to come and show course why it should not issue an interim injunction."
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Mali's Ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita Dead
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Ousted Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is dead, his former justice minister and an ex-advisor told Reuters on Sunday.…
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RE: Dr. John Alfred Brashear
Historic Pittsburgh factory being levelled after wall collapse
Demolition of a historic North Side factory began Tuesday morning after a wall partially collapsed onto an occupied apartment building the night before, a city director said.
The John A. Brashear Factory located at 2016 Perrysville Ave., Perry Hilltop, was built in the 1880s for the self-made Pittsburgh astronomer who was the worlds leading manufacturer of precision optical and scientific instruments.
Dr. John Alfred Brashear (November 24, 1840 - April 8, 1920) was an American astronomer and instrument builder.
Date: Sep 29 10:36 2008
Reacquainting Pittsburgh's youngsters with "Uncle John" Brashear will begin in the same North Side factory where the renowned optics expert toiled over precision mirrors and lenses for Gilded Age telescopes.
Historian and musician Lisa A. Miles wants to transform Brashear's vacant Perrysville Avenue factory into a temporary classroom to teach about the scientific achievements of Brashear, who died in 1920, and contemporaries such as astrophysicist Samuel Pierpont Langley.


The color of her blood was the least of my worries. It's inky black hue was currently the CDC's concern. What I really needed to know, was how it got splattered over every wall and the ceiling of her bedroom without a single cut visible on her body.
Thank you Go Dog Go Cafe for yesterday's prompt, which provided the first line of this story.
Good one. I'm guessing Ebola. I'm astounded by the amount of quality stuff you blog every single day. Do you actually work when you're at work?
Ha! I do I swear, but it's not exactly a difficult job, and I've been doing it for almost 9 years. My brain is always turning and coming up with ideas in the background.


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Learn More About Greenway Plaza
Greenway Plaza is a business district that is located within the Interstate 610 loop in southwestern Houston, Texas. Greenway Plaza is considered the first example of a mixed-use development in the United States. It is known for its consistent modernist architectural style and expansive green spaces. In this article, we will learn more about the history of Greenway Plaza.
The chairperson of the Century Development Corporation, Kenneth L. Schnitzer, is the one who envisioned Greenway Plaza as the first mixed-use development in Houston. That is why Century Development Corporation decided to take realtors from outlying towns in Houston and convinced them to purchase individual parcels for a low price while trying to be discreet. However, a homeowner found out about the plan and asked the developers to buy his land for $350,000, which is a hefty amount of money for a small house during that time. The company had no choice but to pay so that they can secure the land that the house sat on.
Kenneth L. Schnitzer decided to ask the architectural firm of Lloyd, Morgan, and Jones to help him design most of the buildings in Greenway Plaza. Eventually, the greater area of the location adopted the name; "Greenway Plaza" is why today, it is a recognized submarket that has millions of square feet of office space, countless retail establishments, and thousands of apartments.
The grand opening of Greenway Plaza took place, and it is where Schnitzer said that the place would become Houston's "second downtown." A Houston Press reporter even noted that the concept for Greenway Plaza made it an original "Edge city." During the late 1960s, Greenway Plaza was home to leading businesses, such as Union Carbide, Eastern Airlines, Travelers Insurance, Delta Airlines, Conoco, and Dresser Industries.
That same decade, the M.W. Kellogg company moved its headquarters to New York to Greenway Plaza. Kellogg occupied about half of 3 Greenway Plaza, and it hired about 600 employees. As the energy industry started to expand, so is the Kellogg company, which is why the company occupied the whole 3 Greenway Plaza and space in an adjacent building.
In 2003, the Houston Rockets decided to move out of the Compaq Center, that is why the place was later renovated as the Lakewood Church Central Campus. Some people thought that this change made Greenway Plaza a "sleepy" place. This was supported by the lack of activities that you can do here, especially during nighttime. A reporter of the Houston Chronicle even said that Greenway Plaza felt like downtown Houston did 20 years ago.
However, over the years, Greenway Plaza started to develop more and more as companies such as Internet America, Occidental Petroleum, Cousins Properties, Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, FlightAware, Amerigroup, and Direct Energy decided to open and vacate Greenway Plaza. It now covers 4.4 million square feet of land with 10 office buildings, several retail stores, condominiums, hotels, and a fitness and tennis club.


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Portal de Alhama de Murcia
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Music and competitions in the Seniors Week 2008 (27/05/2008)
Framing the Senior Week 2008, held various contests whose prizes were awarded at the end of the Festival of Music and Folklore of larger activity for the week also took place on Saturday 24 and that brought an end to the activities this year.
Participated in the festival said the "Guitar Workshop Senior Center Alhama" which was divided into three groups (lute and mandolin, guitar and two), the rondalla "Friends of the Night" and the group of "The Age Gold. "
The performances took place at the Municipal Auditorium and at the end, the first deputy mayor, Jose Lopez, accompanied by the Kings of the Third Age 2008 and members of the Senior Advisory Board was handed a recall to the musical groups in recognition of their participation.
Finally, we presented the awards to winners of various competitions.
Dominated in the competition, first prize was given to Francisco García Boatmen and Barnabas.
The second award went to Francisco Peñalver and Evaristo Jiménez.
As for the Brisca contest, first prize went to Boatmen and Barnabas Francisco Garcia, the second to Juan Carlos Serrano and Evaristo Jiménez and José Cánovas third and Alfonso Ortega.
As for the subastao contest prizes were: First prize to José Cánovas and Alfonso Ortega, second prize to Juan Carlos Serrano and Evaristo Jiménez and third prize and Mateo Gómez Ángel Chico.
Finally, awards were handed out bowls, the first prize went to the hands of Juan Garcia and Bernabe Garcia.
The second was for Miguel Valero, and Miguel Sánchez and third went to Juan Carlos García Serrano and Cristobal.
As a curious note that more than one participant in these competitions took more than one prize.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia


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Q: Struct inheritance causing non-aggregate type error on static initialization I currently have the following:
struct MsgHeader_t
{
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};

which initializes a default const as
const MsgHeader_t default = { 0, 0.0f };

which was working fine.  Now I have to extend it and it MUST inherit from another struct.  So now I have.
struct MsgId_t
{
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};

struct MsgHeader_t : public MsgId_t
{
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};

But now when I try to initialize that default const (const MsgHeader_t aMessage = { 0, 0, 0.0f };)
I get
error: braces around initializer for non-aggregate type 'const MsgHeader_t'

A: Once you have inheritance, then your class can no longer be an aggregate type. From this Draft C++ Standard (bold italics mine):

8.5.1 Aggregates
1 An aggregate is an array or a class (Clause 9) with no user-provided
  constructors (12.1), no private or protected non-static data members
  (Clause 11), no base classes (Clause 10), and no virtual functions
  (10.3).

A: Note that since C++17, you might do, as you expect:

*

*const MsgHeader_t aMessage = { 0, 0, 0.0f };. Demo

*or more properly const MsgHeader_t aMessage = { {0}, 0, 0.0f };. Demo

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Lukas Engelberger (* 2. Mai 1975 in Basel) ist ein Schweizer Jurist und Politiker (Die Mitte, vormals CVP). Er ist seit 2020 Präsident der Gesundheitsdirektorenkonferenz.

Leben
Engelberger besuchte das Humanistische Gymnasium in Basel, studierte ab 1994 Rechtswissenschaften an der Universitäten Basel und Freiburg im Üechtland und schloss 1999 mit dem Lizenziat ab. 2001 erlangte er das Anwaltspatent des Kantons Basel-Stadt und 2003 den Master of Laws des University College London. 2003 promovierte er bei Thomas Cottier an der Universität Bern. Engelberger arbeitete bis zu seiner Wahl in den Regierungsrat zwischen 2005 und 2014 als Rechtskonsulent bei Hoffmann-La Roche.

Lukas Engelberger ist verheiratet und Vater von drei Kindern. Er ist der Neffe von Alt-Nationalrat Eduard Engelberger.

Politik
Schon zur Schulzeit engagierte sich Engelberger politisch im Schülerparlament sowie später im Jugendparlament. Im Alter von 18 Jahren trat er der CVP bei. Seit April 2001 gehört Engelberger der Parteileitung der CVP Basel-Stadt an, seit 2002 ist er Vizepräsident. Seit 1996 ist Engelberger Mitglied der Neuen Europäischen Bewegung Schweiz (NEBS), bis Juni 2006 war er Präsident der Sektion beider Basel der NEBS.

Im Februar 2004 rückte Engelberger für  Marie-Thérèse Jeker-Indermühle in den Grossen Rat des Kantons Basel-Stadt nach und wurde im Oktober 2004 und im September 2008 bestätigt. Ab 2007 präsidierte er die Wirtschafts- und Abgabenkommission (WAK).

2014 wurde er als Nachfolger von Carlo Conti in den Regierungsrat des Kantons Basel-Stadt gewählt und ist seitdem Vorsteher des Gesundheitsdepartementes. 2020 wurde er wiedergewählt.

Seit 2020 ist er Präsident der Gesundheitsdirektorenkonferenz und Mitglied der Stiftung Europainstitut Basel.

Weblinks
 Website von Lukas Engelberger
 Porträt von Lukas Engelberger auf der Website des Regierungsrates des Kantons Basel-Stadt

Einzelnachweise

Regierungsrat (Basel-Stadt)
CVP-Mitglied (Schweiz)
Die-Mitte-Mitglied
Rechtsanwalt (Schweiz)
Politiker (21. Jahrhundert)
Schweizer
Geboren 1975
Mann
Korporierter im Falkensteinerbund

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RTL-SDR, LNA on Dreamcatcher 3?
Does anybody know what receiver and LNA are included on the Dreamcatcher 3 board?
Dreamcatcher 2 had 1ppm TXCO, RTL-SDR, L-band LNA and SAW filter.
The DC3 has no SDR so you can not use it for many different things other then Othernet.
you can not use it for many different things other then Othernet.
True, but in theory, its like the original RTL dongle.
Othernet cannot tell us how to use the chip due to patents and licensing, but we were to reverse engineer it on a site not owned by Othernet, then its not Othernet's legal responsibility anymore.
There are docs as to which chips are used though. It would take someone with skill far beyond mine, but in theory, Kinda like how RTLSDR is a bunch of hacks to access the SDR of dongle, there may be hacks here we have not discovered.


Bc. Cordelia. - Odom's Orchids, Inc.
(C. intermedia v. coerulea 'Desert Storm' x B. digbyana 'Laura'). We have been blooming approx. 5" pale lavender flowers with a fringed lip. We are hoping for one or two greens and coeruleas. Pictured are some of the first blooms from this cross.


Teenage medal winners have been the talk of India's most successful Asian Games campaign ever and while the likes of shooters Saurabh Chaudhary and Shardul Vihan have been in the limelight, there is one teen star who has silently sailed to a podium finish.
Sixteen-year-old Harshita Tomar, who won a bronze in the Open Laser 4.7 sailing category in the Asian Games, is the second youngest medallist after Chaudhary to win a medal at the Asian Games.
It has been a crazy four days in the capital for the Bhopal-based sailor and her parents. A product of the Madhya Pradesh government's Water Sports Academy under the Department of Sports and Youth Wing, the class 10 student has a very serene air about her. Harshita listens carefully and responds in a measured manner.
After meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as attending a felicitation organised by the Union ministry of youth affairs and sports and also one back home in Bhopal organised by the state government, Harshita was felicitated on Thursday by Alok Kumar Verma, Director, Central Bureau of Investigation at the bureau's headquarters in New Delhi. Harshita's mother, Rani, is a CBI constable posted in Bhopal and gets the support of her department when it comes to ensuring her daughter's sailing ambitions are fulfilled.
Understated, but supremely confident about her ability, the soft spoken teen was very matter-of-fact about her achievement. Harshita competed in the Open category against the boys, and finished on the podium―the only girl to do so. In fact, she was the only girl to finish in the top 10 in her category.
"Actually if I was competing at home, my bronze in the Open category would have been a gold," Harshita said, flanked by her parents at the CBI headquarter's ahead of her meeting with Verma. "We practice with boys in our training. Our nationals are also combined events," she said.
Harshita started as a swimmer―her father Devendra Singh Tomar, an executive in a leading Hindi newspaper group in Bhopal taught her how to swim at the age of two. It was while she was participating in a swimming competition in Hoshangabad that she got selected by the coaches at the water sports department for sailing, finding her body weight and height apt for the Laser class. Harshita's family originally hails from Hoshangabad, the city on the banks of river Narmada. It is not surprising that the connection between Harshita and the water is a strong one.
Harshita was 12 years old at the time. The family took a big call and decided to move base to Bhopal for their daughter to pursue her sailing dreams. She was to give her class 10 board exams this year but had to give them a miss after qualifying for the Asian Games.
"She informed us that she has been selected for Asian Games and will have to go abroad for training and cannot give the exams. We were very perturbed as this was the class 10 boards, but my wife and I then concurred that while she can give her exams next year, Asian Games wont happen till next four years and we decided to let her miss the boards. Even the CBSE officials in Bhopal supported us and guided us that she can give the exams through the Open school," said her father Devendra Singh Tomar.
Sailing, without doubt, is an expensive sport―credit to the state government for ensuring the necessary equipment was provided. The Open Laser 4.7 category is not an Olympic event though. Harshita has no direct funding from the Union government's National Sports Development Fund or the Target Olympic Podium Scheme. She credits the training stint organised by the foreign coach Alexander Denisiuc for being extremely helpful ahead of the crucial qualifying event.
"Alex sir was extremely supportive during the Asian Games. He would continuously encourage me, explain to me even if a few races didn't go too well. He has the experience and he would share his with us," said Harshita.
Harshita also credits three of her national coaches who have trained her so far. These coaches are funded by the Sports Authority of India.
The hiring of the three foreign coaches including Alexander was more by chance than design―they came in only six months before the Asian Games. The state of affairs in the Yachting Association of India is quite messy with issues of selection, court cases by sailors past and present as well as the hiring of controversial foreign coach Pete Conway.


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4. At the nearby railway station: When the guests from home and abroad arrive at Ningbo Railway Station by rail, a shuttle bus arranged will pick you up there and take you to the conference hotel, which will be a 2-hour drive.
Please choose a way best suitable for you to get to the conference hotel by the afternoon of 17 October.
The Conference will provide catering, airport (train station) pick-up and drop-off and hotel booking services in the duration of the Conference.


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US government to go ahead with fatal experiments on dogs to treat wounded soldiers
The US government has decided to press ahead with controversial experiments on dogs, despite critics in congress and elsewhere attacking them as cruel and unnecessary.
The department for veterans affairs (VA) has approved the continuation of the testing, which it says will help doctors find new ways to treat wounded soldiers, according to USA Today.
Researchers running the experiments will remove sections of the dogs' brains that control breathing, sever spinal cords to test cough reflexes and implant pacemakers before triggering abnormal heart rhythms. All the dogs involved will ultimately be euthanised.
But a row is brewing over how exactly the vivisections were approved. When the testing was first exposed by an anti-animal testing group last year – White Coat Waste Project – congress passed a law prohibiting the VA department from conducting them without its secretary's direct approval.
A spokesman for the department told USA Today that the former VA secretary David Shulkin signed off on continuing the experiments on the day he was fired by Donald Trump in March.
But Mr Shulkin, who lost his job amid allegations he had misspent taxpayer funds on a trip to Europe his wife took in 2017, told the newspaper he had never been asked to restart the dog tests.
Documents seen by the paper show the VA is currently carrying out nine experiments on dogs, at four different facilities.
One of the lawmakers who is trying to pass a bill which would ban the testing, Democrat Dina Titus, said: "It's not economically sound, they could be looking at new technologies, and morally people just don't support testing on puppies."
But a review launched by Mr Shulkin before he was fired - on the medical necessity for using canines - has found that dogs are "the only viable model" for the specific experiments, the VA spokesman said.
Nevertheless, the department has also commissioned the National Academy of Sciences to spend $1.3m to run another study investigating if dogs are really needed for this research.
Justin Goodman, the vice president of advocacy and public policy for the White Coat Waste Project, said: "I think it calls into question the integrity of the VA's intentions if it is going to continue funding and conducting dog experiments that it has just paid an organisation over a million dollars to scrutinise."
Veterans' groups are divided on whether the experiments should continue. The founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America organisation said that as long as the research was done "ethically" it could lead to medical breakthroughs.
But Paralysed Veterans of America, which was initially in favour of the VA dog testing, has now changed its mind and told USA Today it did not oppose efforts to stop the dogs being experimented on and killed.
The VA, which said that more than 99 per cent of its animal testing involved rats or mice, insisted that dogs remained a necessary part of its research.
But when asked what medical progress had come about because of dog testing, the agency's spokesman could only point to breakthroughs which date back to the 1960s.
The U.S. Government has decided to go ahead with controversial experiments on #dogs, despite critics in #congress and elsewhere attacking them as cruel and unnecessary. Demand that the Department of Veteran Affairs Stop Dog Experimentation! https://t.co/QPSULS4NAH via @Change
— Bobbi Fotsch (@BobbiFotsch) November 11, 2018
Responses to "US government to go ahead with fatal experiments on dogs to treat wounded soldiers"
We are 2 different species you. Do you not have common since. What may work on a dog may not work on a human. In this case, you would be killing the wounded. Humans are the most evil creatures God created.


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Habitat: Schinus thicket, dry sandy soil.
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Habitat: Margin of riverine forest.
Locality: USA. Florida. Collier Co.: Restaurant area off US 41.
Notes: CULTIVATED. Source: Collier-Seminole State Park; Royal Palm Hammock; primary vegetation along mangrove shores and glade margin; this plant is also epiphytic on palms.


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Bernie West (30 de mayo de 1918 – 29 de julio de 2010) fue un guionista televisivo de nacionalidad estadounidense, conocido por su trabajo en sitcoms como All in the Family, The Jeffersons y Three's Company.

Biografía
Nacido en el Bronx, en la ciudad de Nueva York, su verdadero nombre era Bernard Wessler. Consiguió el pregrado en el Baruch College y obtuvo el título de Bachelor of Business Science en publicidad. West trabajó como humorista de nightclub y actuó en gira por el Teatro del Pacífico durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial para la United Service Organizations tras ser rechazado su alistamiento por motivos de índole médica. Como parte del dúo humorístico Ross & West, actuó en el circuito hotelero de las Montañas Catskills y Pocono en compañía de Ross Martin. Tras dejar Martin el número, fue sustituido por Mickey Ross, cuyo nombre original, Isadore Rovinsky, lo cambió para conservar el nombre artístico de la pareja, Ross & West.

Broadway
West trabajó como actor teatral en el circuito de Broadway en la producción de 1956 de Bells Are Ringing, haciendo el papel de Dr. Kitchell, interviniendo asimismo en la versión cinematográfica de 1960 interpretada por Judy Holliday y Dean Martin. También actuó en el musical de 1962 All American, de Mel Brooks y con la actuación de Ray Bolger, en Poor Bitos (con Donald Pleasence), The Beauty Part (con Bert Lahr), y en 1969 en The Front Page, con Helen Hayes.

Trabajo televisivo
En televisión West trabajó en The Ed Sullivan Show y The Phil Silvers Show.

Además de ello, en 1971, West y Michael Ross se hicieron guionistas de la serie de Norman Lear All in the Family, colaborando con Don Nicholl como productores. West ganó en 1973 un Premio Emmy por su guion del episodio "The Bunkers and the Swingers", compartido con Ross y Lee Kalcheim. El equipo de guionistas creó el personaje interpretado por Beatrice Arthur en la serie spin-off de All in the Family Maude, además de escribir y producir The Jeffersons, otro spin-off de All in the Family que se mantuvo en antena una década a partir de 1975. En 1977 crearon Three's Company, emitida hasta 1984, así como sus spin-offs The Ropers y Three's a Crowd.

Junto a su esposa Mimi, fallecida en abril de 2004, West fcontribuyó generosamente al mantenimiento de la Los Angeles Free Clinic, y el matrimonio donó en 1997 500.000 dólares para el cuidado dental de niños sin acceso a terapia dental.

Bernard West falleció el 28 de julio de 2010 en su domicilio en Beverly Hills, California, a causa de complicaciones de la enfermedad de Alzheimer de la que estaba aquejado. Tenía 92 años de edad. Le sobrevivieron dos hijas y dos nietos. Fue enterrado en el Cementerio Hillside Memorial Park de Culver City (California).

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Guionistas de televisión de Estados Unidos
Productores de televisión de Estados Unidos
Ganadores del Premio Emmy
Personas de Nueva York (estado)
Enfermos de alzhéimer


The quest for an affordable subwoofer that is compact, lightweight AND powerful is finally over. Introducing the Electro-Voice SB122, quite possibly the smallest, most powerful subwoofer on the planet. Don't let your eyes fool you into thinking this little sub can't pound. Packing 400 watts continuous (1600W peak) in a diminutive 15kg (33lbs) package, the SB122 employs the new EVS12SB 12-inch long-excursion woofer for outstanding low frequency response. Aesthetically, the SB122 sports a half-face grille with grille cloth, and a newly stylized EV logo. The rich feature set includes a top mounted pole cup, ergonomic carrying handle, large port, and a built-in low-pass filter that eliminates the need for external processing. Of course, external processing is still an option for professionals seeking greater overall system performance gains. And, with a price that makes it all seem too good to be true, SB122 is sure to make you rethink what a compact sub can be.


On Tuesday night, Simone and I attended the Variety Showbiz Awards, which have now been transformed into their inaugural Variety Hall of Fame, at the London Hilton Hotel.
It was quite the who's who of the British entertainment scene, albeit with two Kiwis along for the ride, and a spectacular evening.
The Variety Hall of Fame awarded their first fellowship to BBC Radio 2 to celebrate six decades of outstanding broadcasting from the UK's most popular radio network. They also awarded the Variety Hall of Fame Platinum Music Award 2016 to Gary Barlow OBE, the Variety Hall of Fame Comedy Award 2016 to Jimmy Tarbuck OBE and the Variety Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award 2016 to Elaine Paige OBE.
The ballroom was packed with famous faces and supporters of Variety who were all treated to performances by artists representing every Radio 2 decade: Gary Barlow, James Blunt, Petula Clark, Jamie Cullum, Tony Hatch, Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood), Gilbert O'Sullivan, country duo The Shires, Elaine Paige and the 60-piece BBC Concert Orchestra.
Among so many interesting people, there was one person in the room who totally captivated Simone and I: Herbert Kretzmer.
I'm moved just thinking about him and what his life's work means to us: the entire English lyrics of Les Miserables!
Herbert is a class act. Now 91, he was 60 when he wrote this world famous libretto; a newspaper man working for the Daily Mail who dabbled in writing songs from his kitchen table. A chance meeting with Sir Cameron Macintosh changed his life. Sir Cameron remembered Herbert's lyrics for 'She' and 'Yesterday when I was young' (written in the '70s) when he woke in the middle of the night, worrying about bringing his new show to life for the English speaking world. He tasked Herbert with the enormous job of not only creating new material for the London version, which would be a third longer, but to re-write nearly all the existing material. The result is the longest running musical in the West End, the second longest running musical in the world, which has played to over 60 million people in 42 countries.
Herbert told Simone, "You've gotta bring something to the table. You have to be confident. I believed I could, that it was in me, even though I was just a newspaper man".
Clearly, Herbert is our kind of guy! The way his words inspired Sim and I since we were teenagers is humbling enough, the inspirational value of meeting the guy and getting his take on life was stratospheric!
Sim asked him about Jean Valjean's, 'Bring Him Home'. Our Timmy Rogers does a cracking version in our concerts, step aside Alfie Boe, although we all bow to the great Colm Wilkinson, who incidentally just rang Herbert last week to say hello. Herbert said that if he was a religious guy, Bring Him Home, would have him on his knees. He said he's proud of all his songs but this one has a special place in his heart, written in a rush between 2am-4am one night.
Graciously, Herbert delighted us with stories about his writing process: 'On My Own' was the last one he wrote; one of his favourites is 'Master of the House' because of the comedy and how much fun it was to write; 'Empty Chairs at Empty Tables' started with an image in his mind of Marius alone in a once-crowded space; 'One Day More' was built like a lego set by Boublil and Schonberg, composed of layers and layers which Herbert's poetry fed into.
Sim and I were so moved, I am still as I write this, to hear how such masterpieces come to life by a stroke of genius. So many examples of this in the world; how lucky are we to enjoy them all but to also be allowed to sometimes get a sense of the gloriousness of the master at work.
Herbert has a son, a daughter and two grandsons, and said he's been blessed with the love of two great wives during his lifetime. His beautifully elegant wife Sybil was at his side throughout the evening. He told us he doesn't wish to sound smug, just grateful. "I have no regrets. I've done what I wanted to do in my life. I'm lucky".
What a guy. We're singing from the same hymn sheet! Herbert is living proof that it's never too late to dream a dream. My defining achievement could still be decades away! What about yours?
What an awesome example of a legend who has lived, loved, learned and left a legacy. And he ain't done yet! Herbert, you rock.


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Who needs a tuxedo?
After free Beethoven downloads, Doctor Who Proms and targeting babies the new snake oil that will make classical music run smoothly is the tuxedo-less orchestra. No particularly strong views here either way other than that, yet again, we are confusing the parcel and the wrapping. If "the overarching problem of classical music" really is the tuxedo why aren't zenra orchestras selling out the Hollywood Bowl?
If any reason is needed to defend dressing-up for concerts, it was seeing a tuxedo-less Andrew Davis conduct the Vaughan Williams anniversary Prom on August 26. Sir Andrew's take on concert-casual is not a pretty sight. I was going to put a screen-grab here but decided against it as I didn't want an adult advisory rating slapped on my blog.
Taking the alternative point of view, a good reason for leaving the tuxes in the green room is that it gives visual parity to female musicians. My header image features Odaline de la Martinez, who not only does a wonderful job championing neglected contemporary music and as a composer in her own right but was also the first woman to conduct at the BBC Proms. Memory tells me it was in 1994 and the programme was a concert performance of Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers; but I can't corroborate that so confirmation or correction would be appreciated. Whatever the year I bet she wasn't wearing a tuxedo. Read more here.
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Philip Amos said…
The webpage at the top of your post says that she conducted The Wreckers at the Proms in 1994, although the wording suggests that that was not her first Prom appearance.
Pliable said…
Philip, I suspected this was the case - hence my qualification.
I cannot find confirmation of the date of Ms. de la Martinez's first Proms appearance. The answer may lie in the recently published Proms history overseen by Nicholas Kenyon but I don't have a copy. I know Norwich central library does and I am off to there in a few minutes to check.
I will update if I find the answer.
But I find this ...
'As one of the most interesting personalities of the contemporary musical scene, Odaline de la Martinez was the first woman conductor of the entire programme at the Proms in 1994'.
http://public.carnet.hr/MBZ/mbz97/lontano.htm
Off to the library!
No luck at the library I'm afraid - http://www.overgrownpath.com/2008/09/born-for-opposition.html
Ian Paton said…
A Lontano CD in my collection asserts that Odaline de la Martinez was the first woman to conduct at the Proms in 1984. Indeed according to my Proms guide she made her debut that year on August 20th with a programme of Gerhard, Hugh Wood and Schoenberg. However earlier that season Iona Brown directed the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, having made her debut in 1979 on August 9th with Bach, Bartók and Mozart. None of these performances was trumpeted as the first for a female director or conductor - perhaps another came earlier?
Ian many thanks for that very useful information.
I remember reading somewhere that Odaline de la Martinez was the first woman to conduct a complete Promenade concert. It seems unlikely, but could it be that the Iona Brown concert was shared with another conductor?


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A Figma designs are a common way of quickly prototype a website, app, or other software. They're typically basic layouts, usually without the full content or features that will be in the final design. They aim to quickly show how a system will work so that teams, stakeholders, and end users can give feedback on the design without worrying about every detail.
In this example test, the prototype was created in Figma to allow the team to understand how the flow will work for users before they complete the concept. Poll the People is great for testing Figam prototypes because tests are done in about an hour and don't cost a lot to run. You'll get the same type of feedback and metrics when testing these prototypes as you would with high-fidelity designs.
The design has been created with a simple flow from the homepage through login and to the account page. Poll the People allows you to add a sharable link to your prototype and ask users to navigate to the desired page, then give feedback on the experience.
When you're analyzing test results of a Figma prototype we produce you with an easy-to-understand dashboard with the quantitative data, telling you what design was the statistical winner of the test. You will also get qualitative data that tells you about the flow of navigation and the user experience.
In this test you can see that it was effective to test these designs before moving forward with more work. It's clear that participants had a much easier time understanding the design with one version over the other, allowing you to move forward with the better design.
Don't be afraid to put your designs to the test as early as possible, just like this example. Finding problems when you're in the early design stages will mean that there will be less redesign and issues further down the line, and the end users will have a much better product.
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Owen Fay
Owen is a digital marketer at Poll the People an emerging user research and usability testing platform. Owen focuses on content creation and moving Poll the People forward through all digital marketing mediums. He is a graduate from Bryant University with a concentration in marketing, living in Boston.
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Fenergo's software solutions enable financial institutions to solve the challenges of the "perfect storm" by streamlining the end-to-end client lifecycle management processes (from regulatory onboarding, data integration, client and counterparty data management, client lifecycle reviews and remediation all the way to client offboarding etc.).
Our solutions are proven to improve compliance, operational efficiencies, time to revenue and client experience.
Fenergo is fast becoming the industry standard for Client Lifecycle Management solutions. In 2015, Fenergo secured US$85 million in funding from Insight Venture Partners and Aquiline Capital Partners to accelerate its global footprint to help financial institutions in every corner of the world to address the regulatory, entity data and onboarding challenges.
Fenergo Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) is an end-to-end platform that transforms how sell-side banks and buy-side firms manage clients – from initial onboarding to KYC/AML compliance, to client data management and ongoing lifecycle KYC reviews and refreshes. We have been solving client onboarding, data and operational management challenges for some of the world's largest financial institutions since 2009.
With 100% focus on financial services, Fenergo's Regulatory Analysts and R&D teams are solely committed to solving and addressing the challenges faced by institutional banks.
Fenergo works closely with our clients to ensure that all of their regulatory compliance and entity data management requirements are met fully and satisfy regulatory scrutiny. Fenergo runs a number of client engagement forums such as Client Advisory Boards and Regulatory Forums, which provide our clients with a direct impact on the Fenergo solution suite and ensure that our solutions are closely aligned to solve the challenges our clients are facing.
Client Lifecycle Management doesn't happen in a vacuum. Instead it involves data take-on from a number of industry data providers (AML, industry, entity data providers and KYC utilities) and internal bank systems. Fenergo lies at the heart of the Client Lifecycle Management ecosystem, connecting seamlessly with all the major data providers to consume this data and enrich, process and route it to the right internal systems, ensuring a single client view is available throughout the institution.
Fenergo's content-rich solutions are created in line with our Client Advisory Board to address the key challenges facing financial institutions in the areas of regulatory compliance, legal entity data management, client onboarding and Client Lifecycle Management. Fenergo has a unique breadth of global regulatory coverage (from global and local Anti-Money Laundering, Know Your Customer regulations to tax compliance obligations like FATCA, Common Reporting Standards, to global OTC derivative reforms like Dodd-Frank (US), MiFID II, EMIR (EU) and Canadian and APAC derivative rules). Our focus is to ensure that our clients are future-proofed against regulatory change.
Fenergo hires and cultivates financial technology specialists with global experience from the worlds of regulation and banking to develop and deliver best-in-class Client Lifecycle Management, Regulatory Onboarding and Client Lifecycle Management solutions for our clients. Our dedicated team of Regulatory Analysts keep a constant eye on the ever-changing regulatory environment, translating these changes into software solutions that keep our clients ahead of the regulatory curve.
Fenergo is dedicated to helping the world's leading financial organizations simplify and solve global regulatory and digital transformation challenges. Its rules-driven solution ensures compliance with multiple regulatory frameworks and supports the collection, centralization and sharing of client and counterparty data and documentation across the institution. By expediting compliance and improving operational efficiencies, Fenergo's CLM solutions can help financial institutions to onboard clients faster (by up to 82%) and deliver a radically richer and better client experience.
Fenergo integrates and connects with leading organizations within the financial services Client Lifecycle Management ecosystem to develop and deliver best-in-class solutions for our banking clients globally.
We will inform Fenergo of your interest and request that they connect with you.


A 'Trailblazer' group of major employers, supported by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), plans to launch an apprenticeship programme to attract younger people into the health and safety sector and help reverse its ageing workforce.
Jonathan Hughes, IOSH vice president, said the health and safety professional body expected that around half of its current membership would leave the profession in 15-20 years. Around 50% of its 47,000 members are aged 50 and over, while only 4% are under 30.
"We need to attract people into the profession from a range of different backgrounds; from engineering, environmental health, etc," Hughes told the Health and Wellbeing at Work show in Birmingham this week.
How will employers that do not pay the apprenticeship levy be able to fund apprenticeships?
The level three safety, health and environment technician trailblazer apprenticeship is expected to be offered in the second or third quarter of 2018, in order to make the career more accessible to younger people.
The 24-month programme, equivalent to A-level grades A-E, has been led by Costain and developed with input from employers in industries including construction, manufacturing, healthcare and the arts to "bring together key skills from a wide range of sectors".
Hughes said there was a "complete lack of awareness" of the health and safety profession among university students and graduates, and noted that many people only got into the sector as a second career. He claimed that only 8% of IOSH's members actively chose health and safety as a profession.
"IOSH is developing a series of initiatives to promote health and safety as a career of choice.
"We are working on creating a cycle between the skills demand of employers and the talent created by higher education," he told delegates.
IOSH has plans to launch a future leaders programme to help support younger people in advancing their careers in health and safety by providing networking opportunities, workshops and site visits. It also hopes to offer student memberships later this year.
Hughes said: "We can learn from our younger and newer colleagues, so there's many reasons to support our future health and safety leaders.
Most apprentices are required to work under the supervision of a competent person for a given period after obtaining their certification. What arrangements are there in place to manage this issue for H&S apprentices? Most posts available to H&S practitioners are for experienced and competent practitioners and even assistant H&S persons are expected to be competent with relevant experience.
How will the apprentices prove that they have the life and work experience and people management skills that are required for a competent H&S practitioner? This is something that can only come with time and relevant experience.
I wanted a career in teaching children so I chose a route to study early years. Once I finished this 2 year course, I had a change of heart. I enjoyed the practical risk assessing, observations, and study of health, safety and wellbeing of children in practice. Since then I've been working but searching and contacting many people about apprenticeships. I think it's really hard to find somewhere which can offer such an opportunity. I'm 20, and I'm aware of how to get into it on a very low stage, such as taking a NEBOSH Gen. Yet I enjoy practical work to aid my studying as it throws matters you can read in a book into reality. Once you've experienced first hand operations involved in certain H&S as simple or as hard as they may be, I would assume this would help fill the gaps in the theory of it.
I've spoken to many bodies and companies, individual and tried to get work experience anything to develop my own experince. My current work place doesn't offer the opportunity to be involved in anything that covers a vast area of H&S. I haven't yet give up trying to get involved but again, it's about the individual and how much they want to learn and put effort into becoming someone like that of their supervisor, trainer, etc.
It would amazing to see opportunities rise for places in H&S as apprentices as I think it's easy to be put off wanting to delve into this career due to the lack of knowledge and opportunity out there unless you've had over 2 years of experience and paid thousands on your exams. There's not many sponsors out there unless your already in a company, for example, who offer you this opportunity to become part of their H&S team, regardless of what their current position is or whether it has anything to do with H&S to begin with.
If you join a union you could look at the possibility of becoming a H&S representative in your workplace. This gives you the opportunity to gain qualifications and experience which can then be transferred to other roles.
I started with USDAW and now after five years deal with H&S for my companies UK and European hubs.


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FX has locked the premiere date for its newest original drama series The Bridge, which will debut on Wednesday, July 10 at 10 PM ET/PT. The Bridge's 13-episode first season airs Wednesdays at 10 PM ET/PT.
The Bridge is a present-day crime thriller exploring the tensions on the US-Mexico border. When an American judge known for her anti-immigration views is found dead on the bridge connecting El Paso and Juarez, Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger) from El Paso PD must work with her Mexican counterpart from Chihuahua State Police, Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir), to catch a serial killer operating on both sides of the border. Marco understands the slippery politics of Mexican law enforcement, and while his police force slowly succumbs to the pressures and demands of the cartel, he's one of the last good men in the department. He's charming, but also cunning as he will do whatever it takes to get what he needs. This does not sit well with Sonya, who has Asperger's and strictly follows rules as well as protocol. Her candid and off-putting personality fuels an unforgiving drive for truth. The case quickly pulls them into a string of murders on the border, a scene already consumed by illegal immigration, drug trafficking, violence and prostitution.
Executive Producers Meredith Stiehm and novelist and television writer/producer Elwood Reid adapted The Bridge for American television from the international hit series Bron, which was set on the border of Denmark and Sweden. Bron was produced by Shine Group's Filmlance and Denmark's Nimbus Film Production.
The Bridge co-stars are Ted Levine, Annabeth Gish, and Thomas M. Wright, and Matthew Lillard guest stars. Gerardo Naranjo directed the pilot episode. Executive Producers of The Bridge are Shine America's Carolyn G. Bernstein and Filmlance's Lars Blomgren. It will be distributed by Shine International.


Life in Massena is as harsh and barren as the frigid landscape. In this bleak terrain, two hardened single mothers are trying to make lives for their children. Lila is a widowed Mohawk whose mother-in-law "stole" her newborn son a year ago. Ray is a mother of two whose gambling-addicted husband just left town with the down payment for their new trailer home. Faced with little opportunity to make ends meet, Ray and Lila embark on an illegal venture transporting immigrants into the U.S. across Mohawk territory. With the money for the down payment within Ray's grasp, the women are determined to make one last run. When circumstances spiral out of control, the two women must make life or death decisions based on their friendship and love for their children.


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Hiker Lost Near Vail Failed to tell Searchers he was with a Friend when Rescued | Friend Later Found Dead in same Area
Steven Agar | February 7, 2018
Woods near Vail. Credit: antlersvail.com
A man who got lost in the woods east of the Vail ski area Monday was rescued by searchers, but the body of his friend who had gone hiking with him was later found in the same area, reports The Denver Post.
The dead man was identified as Samuel Failla, 24, of New Jersey.
The first man called 911 about 7 pm on Monday to report that he had fallen off of a trail and had spent several hours trying to hike out to safety. The Vail Mountain Rescue Group and the Vail Ski Patrol found the man and brought him to safety.
The man, whom police are not yet naming, failed to tell rescuers that he had been accompanied by a friend. Authorities said he later told them that he assumed his friend had gotten out of the woods on his own.
At 9:30 am Tuesday, the man who had been rescued called the Eagle County Sheriff's Office to report that Failla hadn't shown up. When search and rescue crews returned to the same area they combed Monday, they found Failla's body.
The Eagle County coroners' office is working to determine the cause of death. Officials are asking that anyone with information about this incident to call the Eagle County Sheriff's Office at 970-328-8500 or Eagle County Crime Stoppers at 970-328-7007.
3 thoughts on "Hiker Lost Near Vail Failed to tell Searchers he was with a Friend when Rescued | Friend Later Found Dead in same Area"
What a tragic thing to happen. I know hypothermia and panic can shut down the brain. Rescued person may not have been thinking clearly . It sounds like since rescued person did mention ski buddy the authorities ,a follow up should have been done ? My heartfelt prayers to everyone involved in the awful tragedy.
Ryan B says:
Sam was a close friend of my family. A GoFundMe page has been launched on his behalf to help assist the Failla family with the final resting costs and the creation of a foundation for under privileged kids to play the sports they love.
https://www.gofundme.com/db6kw-bringsamhome
"Our Chatham community has tragically lost 24-year-old Sam Failla to a skiing accident in Vail, Colorado on Tuesday, February 6, 2018. Sam graduated from Chatham High School in 2012 where he was a captain of the Chatham Cougar football team and an active member of the community.
After high school Sam continued his education at the University of South Carolina where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2016 and was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.
Sam's passions were snowboarding, travel and children. He spent many years babysitting neighborhood children throughout his high school and college years. This past summer, he traveled to several destinations such as Singapore, Thailand and Greece, where he had the time if his life. In November, Sam returned to Vail for his second season as a snowboard instructor at Vail Resort in Colorado. He was a favorite with the kids in the ski school and was adored by his coworkers and liked by all who knew him.
Sam is survived by his parents John and Whitney Failla, sisters, Alexandria and Ellie Failla all of Chatham NJ.
In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to the GoFundMe link to assist the Failla family with the final resting costs and the creation of a foundation for under privileged kids to play the sports they love.
Thank you and God speed…."
What a dick move
Steven Agar
Summers running and hiking in the Lake District, UK. Winters skiing in North America.


Question: How do YOU start a productive day?
Here's what I've found with starting the day off right. It starts with the night before. It really starts with getting a good night's sleep. At the end of my night immediately before I go to sleep, I listen to some soothing classical music (I created a specific playlist on Spotify for this reason) and journal about my day. Then and only then, am I comfortable enough to go to bed. I shut off all the lights, make sure there's no lights coming from the hallway, and doze off. I try to go to bed anytime between 10:30 and 11PM.
Then the alarm wakes me up. Oh man, do I hate the noise of the "Apex" ringtone on my phone. But it gets the job done. I have several alarms set throughout a 15-minute period to ensure I get out bed (each spread out between 2-3 minutes apart). While it seems like overkill, there's been times where I've been able to hit snooze multiple times and be late for work by half an hour. Therefore, it's absolutely necessary. So, what makes getting up so difficult? I've found that when it's cold outside and warm inside, it makes it nearly impossible for me to get up; it's easy to become too comfortable. Enter the Unstoppable Routine.
What am I excited for? What's my day going to look like? Any upcoming meetings? What's due at the end of the day? What's for lunch?
What am I 100% dedicated to completing this week?
This is paramount to a great day. Mom wasn't kidding—breakfast really is the most important meal of the day.
60-70% of my meal consists of veggies. As an Asian, vegetables are super common in my meals, so it's almost second nature to eat veggies with any meal.
Coffee tends to hurt my stomach but makes caffeine consumption much more manageable than a powdered drink like GFUEL.
GFUEL contains 150mg of caffeine and can be overwhelming if you're trying it for the first time.
I want to know—what do you do in the morning? I'm always interested in seeing another person's methods. I hope to read your responses in the comments below.


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This New Andover Bridal Shop is Giving Free Gowns to Military Brides
Helmed by the nonprofit Brides Across America, the charity shop carries gowns by Carolina Herrera, Maggie Sottero, and more.
By Rachel Kashdan·	 9/5/2018, 2:12 p.m.
Delivering the latest in style, inspiration, helpful tips and tricks, and everything else you need to know to plan the perfect New England wedding.
Photo by Cate Bligh courtesy of Brides Across America
Attention, military and first-responder brides: The gown-giveaway nonprofit Brides Across America recently opened its first-ever charity shop in Andover. Wedding dresses are completely free of charge for service members, and non-military brides can also score designer dresses for as little as $99. All proceeds from the shop, which opened in July, go back to the organization. "Anybody who's a first responder or a military bride can come in and get a gown, and even if you don't qualify, the discounts are amazing," says founder and CEO Heidi Janson. "We have all kinds of designers."
The shop marks a new kind of venture for the Andover-based nonprofit, which has donated more than 22,000 wedding gowns at nationwide giveaway events since it was founded in 2008. Its goal is to help more brides find the dress of their dreams while raising funds to cover the organization's operational costs, from shipping to storage for the 3,000 gowns currently in stock.
As for the shopping experience, Janson says she wants it to mirror what patrons would find at a typical bridal salon, sans price tags. The store's dresses range from gently worn to brand new, and each is hand-screened before employees put it out on the floor. The organization also only accepts gowns that are five years old or younger. "We want things to be fresh and current, and a 25-year-old dress is very challenging to give away," Janson explains. That means the shop's personal stylists won't be pulling puffy-sleeved '80s-era gowns, but on-trend dresses by Carolina Herrera, Maggie Sottero, BHLDN, Lazaro, Hayley Paige and more, all averaging around $400 to $500, Janson says. The store also sells veils, jewelry, and other accessories to complete each customer's look.
For those seeking another way to shop, the organization will also be launching an online store later this year. "That's been in the works for over a year now, and it's really for those out in the nation who can't go to an event but need help," Janson says. Plus, for East Coast brides living farther outside the Boston area, Janson hints that the nonprofit has plans for a second brick-and-mortar store. "We have another location in mind, but we'll probably sit tight here until at least January or February," she says. Until then, the organization's next gown-giveaway event, both nationwide and at the Andover shop by appointment only, will take place on November 8.
342 N Main St., Andover, 877-650-3309, bridesacrossamerica.com.
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Oreste & Emma Electric
Designer vertical radiators
Fun and colourful: Oreste and Emma, the two designer vertical radiators designed by Andrea Crosetta for Antrax IT, are iconographic, fun and simply can't be taken seriously. In short, these two designer vertical radiators were devised for pop bathrooms in both public and private settings, where they can also be used as bathrobe warmers.
The Oreste and Emma designer vertical radiators, which in the electric version achieve a heat output of 400 Watts, are also available in the frosted chrome and frosted gold version. Supplied with a simple cable or with a radio frequency kit, with digital timer thermostat and receiver.
Andrea Crosetta
Born in 1968 he grew up in a world of art touched by music (he studied at the conservatory), sculpture, painting and architecture through his studies, first at the high school of the arts, and later at the University of Venice Department of Architecture. During his studies, he constantly maintained direct contact with the labour market thus learning a wide range of construction techniques in such fields as wood-working, metal-working, ceramics, etc. In the early 1990s his first designer radiator went into production and quickly won market acclaim. Among the various projects, of particular note is the collection of fireplaces and radiators he has designed for Antrax. Indeed, not only did these items gain significant market success, they have also been selected for various awards such as the Compasso d'oro for the Tubone designer radiator.
DWG/3DS


Line counter is designed for C# and Visual Basic.NET developers. It analyzes a Visual Studio.NET project and gives the developer a report on the total number of lines of code in all the projects included in the solution file. You can view the line count for code lines, comment lines, and empty lines for each file.


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from __future__ import unicode_literals

import webnotes, os
from webnotes.modules import scrub, get_module_path, scrub_dt_dn

in_import = False

def import_files(module, dt=None, dn=None, force=False):
	if type(module) is list:
		for m in module:
			return import_file(m[0], m[1], m[2], force)
	else:
		return import_file(module, dt, dn, force)

def import_file(module, dt, dn, force=False):
	"""Sync a file from txt if modifed, return false if not updated"""
	global in_import
	in_import = True
	dt, dn = scrub_dt_dn(dt, dn)
	path = os.path.join(get_module_path(module),
		os.path.join(dt, dn, dn + '.txt'))

	ret = import_file_by_path(path, force)
	in_import = False
	return ret

def import_file_by_path(path, force=False):
	if os.path.exists(path):
		from webnotes.modules.utils import peval_doclist

		with open(path, 'r') as f:
			doclist = peval_doclist(f.read())

		if doclist:
			doc = doclist[0]
			if not force:
				# check if timestamps match
				if doc['modified']== str(webnotes.conn.get_value(doc['doctype'], doc['name'], 'modified')):
					return False

			import_doclist(doclist)

			# since there is a new timestamp on the file, update timestamp in
			webnotes.conn.sql("update `tab%s` set modified=%s where name=%s" % \
				(doc['doctype'], '%s', '%s'),
				(doc['modified'],doc['name']))
			return True
	else:
		raise Exception, '%s missing' % path

ignore_values = {
	"Report": ["disabled"],
}

ignore_doctypes = ["Page Role", "DocPerm"]

def import_doclist(doclist):
	doctype = doclist[0]["doctype"]
	name = doclist[0]["name"]
	old_doc = None

	doctypes = set([d["doctype"] for d in doclist])
	ignore = list(doctypes.intersection(set(ignore_doctypes)))

	if doctype in ignore_values:
		if webnotes.conn.exists(doctype, name):
			old_doc = webnotes.doc(doctype, name)

	# delete old
	webnotes.delete_doc(doctype, name, force=1, ignore_doctypes =ignore, for_reload=True)

	# don't overwrite ignored docs
	doclist1 = remove_ignored_docs_if_they_already_exist(doclist, ignore, name)

	# update old values (if not to be overwritten)
	if doctype in ignore_values and old_doc:
		update_original_values(doclist1, doctype, old_doc)

	# reload_new
	new_bean = webnotes.bean(doclist1)
	new_bean.ignore_children_type = ignore
	new_bean.ignore_check_links = True
	new_bean.ignore_validate = True

	if doctype=="DocType" and name in ["DocField", "DocType"]:
		new_bean.ignore_fields = True

	new_bean.insert()

def remove_ignored_docs_if_they_already_exist(doclist, ignore, name):
	doclist1 = doclist
	if ignore:
		has_records = []
		for d in ignore:
			if webnotes.conn.get_value(d, {"parent":name}):
				has_records.append(d)

		if has_records:
			doclist1 = filter(lambda d: d["doctype"] not in has_records, doclist)

	return doclist1

def update_original_values(doclist, doctype, old_doc):
	for key in ignore_values[doctype]:
		doclist[0][key] = old_doc.fields[key]


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Accountants say ABS enables them to monitor quality of clients' legal work
Accountants: admire continuity for clients brought by ABS
A central London firm of accountants has set up an alternative business structure (ABS) as a means of keeping control of legal work that it previously referred to third party law firms.
Born Legal LLP, formed by accountants Born & Co, a father and son partnership, will employ a single in-house solicitor at its City of London premises.
Simon Born, an insolvency specialist who runs the firm with his father, Graham, and is the ABS's head of finance and administration, predicted widespread take up of ABS among mid-sized and larger accountancy firms.
"I think they'll all do it because you if you've got a decent sized firm you've got enough business to keep lawyers busy all the time…
"I think bigger firms of accountants will say 'look, why are we flogging this stuff all over to [lawyers]; why not get a lawyer in to do all this repetitive stuff for all our clients?'"
He explained a key motivation for the application was to maintain quality control. "Obviously we do a lot with solicitors and we end up referring our clients to a third-party solicitor and then you sort of lose contact with what's going on. [The ABS] was the way to bring it all in-house, in a structure that is acceptable to the regulators and the Revenue and everybody else
"Despite what everybody says, when you refer somebody to somebody else you can't say 'it's nothing to do with me, I don't know if they are any good but here you are'. Of course that's not true, you are always responsible for the referral that you make, whether you are involved in that referral directly or not.
"With the ABS you've got more control, you can monitor it on behalf of your client and make sure that the work is being done when you said it was going to be, and the way you said it was going to be done."
Mr Born said he would consider expanding the number of solicitors "if it works out well" and was open to the idea of involving further professions within the ABS. But in practice, he said: "I couldn't really see with whom I'd want to get into bed."
He said obtaining professional indemnity insurance had been a problem, because solicitors' insurers "hate new businesses", adding: "The information they required was almost Draconian."
He also resented the way the Solicitors Regulation Authority's (SRA) had demanded that he undergo credit and criminal record checks. "That part of the process I thought was unnecessary because it's almost insulting to chartered accountants, when I pay my… dues to the Institute [of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales] who regulate all that stuff and have that information."
Born Legal LLP was granted its ABS licence by the SRA at the end of last month, effective from 6 February. The head of legal practice is solicitor Sadhana Soni.
Born & Co offers a wide range of accountancy and auditing services, including insolvency, arbitration, and tax advice.
Rosemary Cantwell says:
Dear Mr Bindman
Thank you very much for giving us your news article on Born Legal LLP.
I find myself sympathising with Mr Born who expresses his concerns about
a] Criminal checks are surely not needed as if you are already a bona fide accountant, it is insulting to have to prove something that you already are above board, decent and honest
b] Regarding the insurances for solicitors, this seems to be a stumbling block to the creation of ABS's and if the SRA is actively promoting them, then how about the SRA itself providing insurance cover for the members of the Law Society, as all solicitors have to be registered with the SRA, it would seem to be a "one stop" solution and could be part of the registration process.
I would be very interested to know people's thoughts on this.
Thank you again. And Goodl Luck for the future.
Rosemary Cantwell


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