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- It's generally recommended that you review your will and other end-of-life documents at least every few years, although there can be reasons to do a checkup more often.
- While the pandemic appears to have spurred more interest in estate planning, more than half of U.S. adults don't have a will.
- Here are some important parts of your estate plan that should be reviewed.
When it comes to creating a will and other estate-planning documents, be aware that you probably should revisit them many times before they actually are needed.
It's generally recommended that you give these end-of-life legal papers a checkup at least every few years unless there are reasons to do it more often. Things like marriage, divorce, birth or adoption of a child should spur a review, as should coming into a lot of money (i.e., inheritance, lottery win, etc.) or moving to another state where estate laws differ from the one where your will was drawn up.
"One of the main considerations for a review is ... when there's a major change in your life," said Nick Foulks, who oversees client engagement at Great Waters Financial in Minneapolis.
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The pandemic has spurred increased interest in estate planning, which includes a will and other legal documents that address end-of-life considerations. For instance, 18- to 34-year-olds are now more likely (by 16%) to have a will than people in the 35-to-54 age group, according to Caring.com research. Among those in the 25-to-40 age contingent, just 32% do, according to a survey from TrustandWill.com and 1Password.com.
Nevertheless, fewer than 46% of U.S. adults overall have a will, according to a 2021 Gallup poll.
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If you're among those who have a will or full-blown estate plan, here are some things to review and why.
People and situations change
Even though your will is generally all about you, there are other people you need to rely on to carry out your wishes. This makes it important to review who you've named to be executor.
It's typically a big job. Things such as liquidating accounts, ensuring your assets go to the proper beneficiaries, paying any debts not discharged (i.e., taxes owed), and even selling your home could be among the duties undertaken by the executor.
Also be sure the guardian you've named to care for your children is still the person you'd want in that position.
Additionally, as part of estate planning, it's common to create other documents related to end-of-life issues. For example, you can assign powers of attorney to trusted individuals to make decisions on your behalf if you become incapacitated at some point.
Often, the person who is given this responsibility for decisions related to your health care is different from whom you would name to handle your financial affairs. Be sure to review both of those choices.
Even if you've had no major life event, individuals you previously chose to handle certain duties may no longer be your best option.
Account beneficiaries need a review
Some assets pass outside of the will, including retirement accounts such as 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts, as well as life insurance policies.
This means the person named as a beneficiary on those accounts will generally receive the money no matter what your will states.
"You definitely see that happen," Foulks said. "We've seen accounts left to an ex-spouse and then the family has to go through a court process to try getting it back."
Be aware that 401(k) plans require your current spouse to be the beneficiary unless they legally agree otherwise.
Regular bank accounts, too, can have beneficiaries listed on a payable-on-death form, which your bank can supply.
If no beneficiary is listed on those non-will items or the named person has already passed away (and there is no contingent beneficiary listed), the assets automatically go into probate. That's the process by which all of your debt is paid off and the remaining assets are distributed to heirs. This can last several months to a year or more, depending on state laws and the complexity of your estate.
If you own a home, be sure to find out how it should be titled to ensure it ends up with the person (or people) you intend, because applicable laws can vary from state to state. Moreover, there can be other considerations when it comes to how a house is titled, including protection from potential creditors or for tax reasons when the home is sold.
You may need to consider a trust
If you want your kids to receive money but don't want to give a young adult — or one prone to poor money management or other concerning behaviors — unfettered access to a sudden windfall, you can consider creating a trust to be the beneficiary of a particular asset.
A trust holds assets on behalf of your beneficiary or beneficiaries, and is a legal entity dictated by the documents creating it. If you go that route, the assets go into the trust instead of directly to your heirs. They can only receive money according to how (or when) you've stipulated in the trust documents.
The average cost to set up a trust using an attorney ranges from $1,000 to $1,500 for an individual and $1,200 to $1,500 for a couple, according to LegalZoom.com. Doing it yourself with online software could run at least several hundred dollars.


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AgroKultura Korfowe: some words of history
Welcome to
this web site which presents the many agritourist attractions
of Agrokultura Korfowe.
KORFOWE is wonderfully located in the heart of Poland, on the
premises of a 20 hectares family farm bordering to 38 thousand
hectares of the Kampinos National Park.
The farm was built in 1926 by our grand grandparents and has
ever since been our family property. Until we took it over in
1989 it was a typical small self-supporting Polish farm but
already known at that time for its hospitality and nice atmosphere.
AgroKultura Korfowe today
In 1989, the farm land that had produced potatoes,
grain and strawberries for so many years, was transformed into
spacious paddocks and pastures for horses. In 1991, we started
"Korfowe Arabians", which after hard work soon became
the largest, most popular and successful private Arabian horse
stud in Poland. Dekor, the first privately bred and owned Polish
Derby winner (1996) grew up and was trained here at our "Racing
Stable Korfowe", and had his spectacular wins for us at
the Warsaw Race Track. Here also his first foals were born.
Korfowe was the home of many famous horses, many of which have
in the meantime found other homes all over the world. In 2001
our horses became "TV stars". Korfowe features in
the trailer of the Polish TV series "Adam and Eva",
which was shot at our farm in autumn 2001.
But Korfowe was not only about breeding and training of Arabian
The place has also become the favorite meeting and working place
of some of the best Polish artists, especially those who had
a good eye for horses and landscapes. Since 1998 we have organized
a series of artistic plein-airs with the participation of many
famous painters, sculptors and photographers from Poland. After
a short brake we came back to the traditions in 2006 and re-opened
Korfowe for plein-airs participants.
we were not able to continue the breeding of Arabian horses. Since 2003 Korfowe
Arabians does not exist any more. But the farm still is a true meeting place for
horse breeders and horse lovers from Poland and abroad. Since then we have welcomed
many other guests. We transformed our stables into comfortable and spacious guest
and meeting rooms. The paddocks are now playgrounds.
2005 dates the beginning of "AgroKultura Korfowe". Since then we have
hosted increasing numbers of satisfied guests, individuals, families, small and
very large groups. We are sure that this number will further grow from day-to-day
since we are continuously expanding our services and attractions and we know that
what we offer is something special.
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the central court garden you will find a large "verandah" equipped with
bar, kitchen facilities, grill and a wood oven for pizza baking. The veranda is
available for those guests who prefer to cook for themselves, socialize with others
or just to sit and relax. It can also be used to build a party. The veranda offers
space for up to 60 people.
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Korfowe is a big place with plenty of room for many people. Individual guests
and families will have at their disposal spacious guestrooms with separate bathrooms
and terraces. All rooms are easily accessible for old aged and handicapped people. The rooms are equipped in TV and water boiler and you will find the hair dryer in every bathroom.
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our individual and family guests we have a large and cozy dining room with open
fire place. Here you can enjoy our home cooked breakfast, lunch and dinners. There
is a room to watch TV, a room to sit and talk, a room to play billiards, darts
and table tennis.
above all you will find a friendly atmosphere where your hosts will still have
time to give you some personal attention. You can be sure that you can relax and
that we will do our best to fulfil all your wishes.
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Large reception room with open fireplace
(for large parties, weddings, receptions, exhibitions, etc. for up to 200 people.)
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Large "Farmer style room" (for large parties, weddings, receptions, etc. for up to 150 people).
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Cozy recreation area...
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For your work and indoor leisure...
the garden you will find a great "recreation area" with plenty of space
to play beach volleyball, badminton, and many other games. There is a campfire
place and a special playground for small children. Around
our complex of buildings and gardens there is of course the vast area of the National
Kampinos Park, with forests, fields and a lot of green to walk and bike. Altogether
this creates a perfect and healthy environment for all kinds of leisure activities,
events and celebrations.
have been very successful in organizing unforgettable wedding parties, banquets,
group dinners, business meetings, company outings and integration events, conferences,
training courses, workshops and seminars, social and cultural events, artistic
plein-airs, picnics, grill parties and team building activities.
Our large area for outdoor activities can host even up to 1000 people.
Everything you should know about the wedding parties...
see more >>
can offer everything to secure for your successful event: starting with the beautiful
surroundings of Kampinos National Park, large stylish party halls which are ideal
for any kind of events and that can be flexibly arranged and decorated according
to your needs, to our superb catering services.
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Our services and attractions for large groups
Since we have a lot of space in Korfowe we are able to provide
a wide range of offers for large groups of people .For indoor
events we can host up to 300 guests while outside manifestations
can be organized for up to 1000 people.
see more
plein-airs, photography workshops, exhibitions ...
see more >>
to see in our neighborhood: Warsaw, Zelazowa Wola - the birth
place of Chopin and other places of interest ...
see more >>
our guests wrote in our Guest Book...
see more >>
Arabians... 1991-2003
of our Arabian horse stud...
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Joanna & Peter Grootings
Korfowe 7
05-085 Kampinos
Tel. +48608782033
rights reserved Agrokultura Korfowe
My name is Joanna Grootings and I am the owner of Agrokultura
Korfowe. I live and work here. I am a happy person: I
do what I like to do and I like what I am doing. I work
not only for my own satisfaction, but to fulfill the expectations
of my Guests. I put all my energy to make your stay at
Agrokultura Korfowe pleasant and memorable.
Welcome to Agrokultura Korfowe - the heart of Poland!
Joanna Grootings
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to reach us ?
HERE you can find the map and the directions
how to reach us
If you want to escape the stress of the
big city but not to be too far away from the town: visit
Agritourism AgroKultura Korfowe.
If you want to spend some time in nature or to take a
walk in the forest: visit Agritourism AgroKultura Korfowe.
If you want to take a good rest from work or study or
just simply relax: visit Agritourism AgroKultura Korfowe.
If you want to be alone for a few days with the ones that
are dear to you: stay at Agritourism AgroKultura Korfowe.
Agrokultura Korfowe is famous for its atmosphere of hospitality.
In Agrokultura Korfowe everybody will find something special
and we will always do our best to suit even the most demanding
requests from our clients.
Agritourism AgroKultura Korfowe can
offer you this and much more
We invite you to stay on our agritourist farm in Korfowe!
Vacation in Poland in Agritourism AgroKultura Kofowe:
enjoy active holidays with tennis,
hiking tours, walking tours, eco tourism and agritourism
for your family vacations.
Our tourist facilities and services for your holidays:
comfortable guestrooms near Warsaw, visit Zelazowa Wola,
B&B bed and breakfast near Warsaw, agritourist attractions,
we organize parties for large groups, workshops, seminars,
weddings, social events, team building activities for
up to 1000 people, indoor- and outdoor events, wedding
parties, banquets, group dinners, business meetings, company
outings and integrations, conferences, training courses,
workshops and seminars, social and cultural events, artistic
plein-airs, picnics, grill parties, team building activities,
beach volleyball, badminton, bonfire, children playground
and much much more...
guestrooms, b&b bed and breakfast near Warsaw, small
hotel near Warsaw, agritourist attractions, indoor- and
outdoor events, wedding parties, banquets, group dinners,
business meetings, company outings and integrations, conferences,
training courses, workshops and seminars, social and cultural
events, artistic plein-airs, picnics, grill parties, teambuilding


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The Georgia Association of Convenience Stores (GACS), based in Dallas, Ga., has introduced a new membership program for single-store operators: GACS E-Membership.
The new program sends information to a member's e-mail address, as it works to include Georgia's growing segment of single-store owners. E-Membership is very affordable at only $100/year for single-store owners, a significant reduction from prior rates.
"We have built this outreach around the idea that 'If You Have E-mail, We Have the Answers', in order to help get the word out," Neal Anderson, GACS membership chairman told NACS. "As we examined our membership mix, it was obvious that the fastest growing segment in our state were new single store owners. It was also obvious that we weren't very successful in reaching them initially. "
"We needed to make a more concentrated effort to get important information to smaller operators," said Rob Patterson, GACS chairman. "Many violations, such a price gouging, impact not just the individual operator, but the entire industry. We've got to get everyone in the information loop. The expansion of the store email database now makes this much closer to reality."
"We have always stressed that 'GACS Membership Matters,'" said Jim Tudor, GACS president. "There's a large number of potential members in our state who we want to reach with this message. It's good for both the operator and our industry."
Single-store operators can learn more by going to www.gacs.com/.


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Saturday, July 12, 2014
Off To The Beach!
There will be lighter than normal blogging the next week. We are leaving for Myrtle Beach in a few minutes.
I should have some great pictures and an interesting story when I get back. Thanks to the help of Bob Owens at BearingArms.com, I will have a tour of PTR Industries of Aynor, SC. They are one of the companies that fled the oppression in the state of Connecticut for a warmer clime and a very warm reception.
So, as SayUncle might say, talk amongst yourselves.
Posted by John Richardson at 8:32 AM
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Enjoy! :-) Looking forward to the AAR...ReplyDelete
Enjoy the beach, say hi to Myrtle for me.ReplyDelete
I will be there on the 26th as I am flying in from California.North Myrtle Beach. Meeting my family there.ReplyDelete
I miss the Dixie Stampede. No one tells you the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles is cold as hell.Replies
Exactly! The water here is warm. We are in Long Bay Estates which adjoins MB State Park. Much less crowded here.Delete
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Birmingham Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Attorney
Guiding You Towards a Brighter Financial Future
No one ever wants to file for bankruptcy. That said, when one is overwhelmed by a vast sum of debt and cannot keep up with the payments, bankruptcy is often the key to resolving this issue. Unlike a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, a Chapter 13 bankruptcy allows debtors to hold onto valuable nonexempt property that might otherwise be lost. At Ingram Law, LLC, our attorney will provide the advice you need to make the right decision for your future.
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Although you will pay off much of your debts in a restructured payment plan, which will last for three to five years, some will take more priority than others.
Your debts will likely be separated into three categories:
- Priority debts: Debts like back taxes and spousal support must be paid off throughout the course of your repayment plan and will take priority above all other debts you owe.
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The Rugby World Cup wraps up this weekend with the All Blacks & Wales battling it out for third place on Friday night & England & South Africa going head to head on Saturday in the final to see who will be crowned the winners of this amazing event.
Japan has hosted the best World Cup ever & it has been great to see the boost in tourism & to see foreigners enjoying their first time in Japan. 24 Limousine would like to commend the Japanese National Rugby team for their amazing effort in winning four games in a row. Maybe next time they can go all the way & bring the cup back to Japan.
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French and Muslim? Squaring religion with national identity
Set up under then-Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy in 2003, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (or CFCM, Conseil français du culte musulman) was an attempt to build an institution that would serve as an official interlocutor with the French state.
It follows then, that its elected leaders might be expected to represent the views of France's Muslim population. But the CFCM has come in for much criticism from many in the Muslim community for failing to do just that.
Academic and the president of Religions for Peace in France, Ghaleb Bencheikh, criticised it for having "failed to take into account the aspirations of a whole generation of young people". This view was echoed by Ahmed Jaballah, a former president of the Union of Islamic Organisations in France (UOIF), who pointed out that "young Muslims do not feel represented by the body".
In an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro published on April 29, CFCM leader Anouar Kbibech said that French Muslims had a responsibility to demonstrate, "through their words and acts, their attachment to the Republic and its values".
These words echo the organisation's Citizen Manifesto for Muslims in France, published following the deadly attacks on the capital in November of last year, which reiterates the community's commitment to the values of secularism and the Republic.
But what might these values of secularism and the Republic mean for France's young Muslims?
The interview was published in reaction to a study commissioned by the paper and conducted by the French Institute for Public Opinion (Ifop). Using a diverse sample of 1,097 French and German participants, it examines how attitudes to Islam and Muslims in France and Germany have changed between December 2010 and April 2016.
The results of the study appear to reveal some worrying statistics: 63 percent (an increase of eight percent since 2010) agreed with the statement "The influence and visibility of Islam on your country today is too great."
And almost half (an increase of five percent) said they saw the presence of a Muslim community as more of a threat than a source of cultural enrichment.
Asked why Muslims and people of Muslim backgrounds are "badly integrated", 67 percent of those surveyed said that Muslims were "insufficiently willing to integrate", with only 19 percent attributing this to economic difficulties and a lack of employment opportunities.
|The impossibility of simply extricating the issue of religion from that of identity is neatly demonstrated by Rossignol's unenlightened comments
But against the background of an apparently increasingly negative image of Islam in France, expecting France's Muslims to subscribe to the values of secularism and French republicanism seems like a rather tall order.
In response to proposals by mainstream fashion outlets such as Dolce & Gabbana and Uniqlo to offer clothing catering to "Muslim fashion", France's Minister for Women's Rights Laurence Rossignol accused the brands of being socially irresponsible, and compared, during a recent TV interview, choosing to wear the veil with black people being in favour of slavery.
With such unashamedly and overt anti-Muslim sentiment expressed by members of the French political establishment, it is hardly surprising that the values of the French Republic are decidedly unappealing for many French Muslims.
And yet, Kbibech goes on to state that French Muslims should bear the spirit of renewal and openness in order to contribute to the "life of the [French] Nation". Their priority, he claims, should "be to preserve the 'vivre ensemble' - that well-established French ideal of 'living together' - and 'national cohesion'". But what, one might ask, might be their motivation to do this, when France's secular values also provide the vehicle for such vicious attacks on Muslim identity?
Kbibech - perhaps naively - foresees a society based on citizenship, which goes over and above religion. But the impossibility of simply extricating the issue of religion from that of identity is neatly demonstrated by Rossignol's unenlightened comments, and failure to do so herself.
As Jaballah points out, "when France's Muslims do attempt to use their freedom to demonstrate their efforts to integrate (in initiatives such as "Muslim fashion" or halal meat in restaurants serving French cuisine) it is rejected, misunderstood and interpreted as a threat.
|If Kbibech's vision requires blindly subscribing to the generic and empty values of the French 'vivre ensemble' and Republican secularism, it is unsurprising it holds such little appeal
And if Kbibech's vision requires blindly subscribing to the generic and empty values of the French "vivre ensemble" and Republican secularism, it is unsurprising it holds such little appeal. Worse still, with figures such as Rossignol supposedly defending women's rights in the Republic, it is little wonder many of France's Muslims are left feeling disenfranchised and under-represented.
It is also worth calling into question the value of a study asking questions such as "Are you in favour of the building of mosques in your country, if religious communities ask for it?", "Are you in favour of Muslim women being able to wear the veil in public should they wish to do so?" or "Would you describe the presence of the Muslim community more as a threat, a source of cultural enrichment or neither of the above?"
The wording of such questions sets up a clear opposition between "us" and "them", pitting Muslims and "the influence of Islam" against France and the values of her Republic. What percentage of those questioned were both French and Muslim, you might wonder? Unsurprisingly and rather tellingly, history doesn't relate.
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HashtagVOA: ISIS - CHILD SOLDIERS
They are called the "Cubs of Caliphate", but they are really just children, some as young as five, recruited or forced into joining the army of the Islamic State. UNICEF says insurgents in Nigeria, Sudan and South Sudan are also kidnapping children and putting them in uniform. Why is this tactic so prevalent, what is the long-term damage, and what can be done to stop the practice? This week's HashtagVOA takes a closer look.


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The court room was packed on the morning
on which the verdict of the jury was expected, as
it had been every day of the trial, and by the same
spectators, who had followed its progress with such
intense interest.
There is a delicious moment of excitement
which the frequenter of trials well knows, and which
he would not miss for the world. It is that
instant when the foreman of the jury stands up to give
the verdict, and before he has opened his fateful
The court assembled and waited. It was an obstinate
It even had another question this
intelligent jury to ask the judge this
The question was this: "Were
the doctors clear that the deceased had no disease
which might soon have carried him off, if he had not
been shot?" There was evidently one jury man
who didn't want to waste life, and was willing
to stake a general average, as the jury always does
in a civil case, deciding not according to the evidence
but reaching the verdict by some occult mental process.
During the delay the spectators exhibited
unexampled patience, finding amusement and relief
in the slightest movements of the court, the prisoner
and the lawyers. Mr. Braham divided with Laura
the attention of the house. Bets were made by
the Sheriff's deputies on the verdict, with
large odds in favor of a disagreement.
It was afternoon when it was announced
that the jury was coming in. The reporters took
their places and were all attention; the judge and
lawyers were in their seats; the crowd swayed and pushed
in eager expectancy, as the jury walked in and stood
up in silence.
Judge. "Gentlemen, have you agreed upon
your verdict?"
Foreman. "We have."
Judge. "What is it?"
Foreman. "Not guilty."
A shout went up from the entire room
and a tumult of cheering which the court in vain attempted
to quell. For a few moments all order was lost.
The spectators crowded within the bar and surrounded
Laura who, calmer than anyone else, was supporting
her aged mother, who had almost fainted from excess
of joy.
And now occurred one of those beautiful
incidents which no fiction-writer would dare to imagine,
a scene of touching pathos, creditable to our fallen
humanity. In the eyes of the women of the audience
Mr. Braham was the hero of the occasion; he had saved
the life of the prisoner; and besides he was such
a handsome man. The women could not restrain
their long pent-up emotions. They threw themselves
upon Mr. Braham in a transport of gratitude; they
kissed him again and again, the young as well as the
advanced in years, the married as well as the ardent
single women; they improved the opportunity with a
touching self-sacrifice; in the words of a newspaper
of the day they "lavished him with kisses."
It was something sweet to do; and
it would be sweet for a woman to remember in after
years, that she had kissed Braham! Mr. Braham
himself received these fond assaults with the gallantry
of his nation, enduring the ugly, and heartily paying
back beauty in its own coin.
This beautiful scene is still known
in New York as "the kissing of Braham."
When the tumult of congratulation
had a little spent itself, and order was restored,
Judge O'Shaunnessy said that it now became his
duty to provide for the proper custody and treatment
of the acquitted. The verdict of the jury having
left no doubt that the woman was of an unsound mind,
with a kind of insanity dangerous to the safety of
the community, she could not be permitted to go at
large. "In accordance with the directions
of the law in such cases," said the Judge, "and
in obedience to the dictates of a wise humanity, I
hereby commit Laura Hawkins to the care of the Superintendent
of the State Hospital for Insane Criminals, to be
held in confinement until the State Commissioners on
Insanity shall order her discharge. Mr. Sheriff,
you will attend at once to the execution of this decree."
Laura was overwhelmed and terror-stricken.
She had expected to walk forth in freedom in a few
moments. The revulsion was terrible. Her
mother appeared like one shaken with an ague fit.
Laura insane! And about to be locked up with
madmen! She had never contemplated this.
Mr. Graham said he should move at once for a writ of
'habeas corpus'.
But the judge could not do less than
his duty, the law must have its way. As in the
stupor of a sudden calamity, and not fully comprehending
it, Mrs. Hawkins saw Laura led away by the officer.
With little space for thought she
was, rapidly driven to the railway station, and conveyed
to the Hospital for Lunatic Criminals. It was
only when she was within this vast and grim abode
of madness that she realized the horror of her situation.
It was only when she was received by the kind physician
and read pity in his eyes, and saw his look of hopeless
incredulity when she attempted to tell him that she
was not insane; it was only when she passed through
the ward to which she was consigned and saw the horrible
creatures, the victims of a double calamity, whose
dreadful faces she was hereafter to see daily, and
was locked into the small, bare room that was to be
her home, that all her fortitude forsook her.
She sank upon the bed, as soon as she was left alone she
had been searched by the matron and tried
to think. But her brain was in a whirl.
She recalled Braham's speech, she recalled the
testimony regarding her lunacy. She wondered
if she were not mad; she felt that she soon should
be among these loathsome creatures. Better almost
to have died, than to slowly go mad in this confinement.
We beg the reader's
pardon. This is not history, which has just been
written. It is really what would have occurred
if this were a novel. If this were a work of
fiction, we should not dare to dispose of Laura otherwise.
True art and any attention to dramatic proprieties
required it. The novelist who would turn loose
upon society an insane murderess could not escape
condemnation. Besides, the safety of society,
the decencies of criminal procedure, what we call
our modern civilization, all would demand that Laura
should be disposed of in the manner we have described.
Foreigners, who read this sad story, will be unable
to understand any other termination of it.
But this is history and not fiction.
There is no such law or custom as that to which his
Honor is supposed to have referred; Judge O'Shaunnessy
would not probably pay any attention to it if there
were. There is no Hospital for Insane Criminals;
there is no State commission of lunacy. What
actually occurred when the tumult in the court room
had subsided the sagacious reader will now learn.
Laura left the court room, accompanied
by her mother and other friends, amid the congratulations
of those assembled, and was cheered as she entered
a carriage, and drove away. How sweet was the
sunlight, how exhilarating the sense of freedom!
Were not these following cheers the expression of
popular approval and affection? Was she not the
heroine of the hour?
It was with a feeling of triumph that
Laura reached her hotel, a scornful feeling of victory
over society with its own weapons.
Mrs. Hawkins shared not at all in
this feeling; she was broken with the disgrace and
the long anxiety.
"Thank God, Laura," she
said, "it is over. Now we will go away
from this hateful city. Let us go home at once."
"Mother," replied Laura,
speaking with some tenderness, "I cannot go with
you. There, don't cry, I cannot go back
to that life."
Mrs. Hawkins was sobbing. This
was more cruel than anything else, for she had a dim
notion of what it would be to leave Laura to herself.
"No, mother, you have been everything
to me. You know how dearly I love you.
But I cannot go back."
A boy brought in a telegraphic despatch.
Laura took it and read:
"The bill is lost. Dilworthy
ruined. (Signed) Washington."
For a moment the words swam before
her eyes. The next her eyes flashed fire as
she handed the dispatch to her m other and bitterly
"The world is against me.
Well, let it be, let it. I am against it."
"This is a cruel disappointment,"
said Mrs. Hawkins, to whom one grief more or less
did not much matter now, "to you and, Washington;
but we must humbly bear it."
"Bear it;" replied Laura
scornfully, "I've all my life borne it,
and fate has thwarted me at every step."
A servant came to the door to say
that there was a gentleman below who wished to speak
with Miss Hawkins. "J. Adolphe Griller"
was the name Laura read on the card. "I
do not know such a person. He probably comes
from Washington. Send him up."
Mr. Griller entered. He was
a small man, slovenly in dress, his tone confidential,
his manner wholly void of animation, all his features
below the forehead protruding particularly
the apple of his throat hair without a
kink in it, a hand with no grip, a meek, hang-dog countenance.
a falsehood done in flesh and blood; for while every
visible sign about him proclaimed him a poor, witless,
useless weakling, the truth was that he had the brains
to plan great enterprises and the pluck to carry them
through. That was his reputation, and it was
a deserved one. He softly said:
"I called to see you on business,
Miss Hawkins. You have my card?"
Laura bowed.
Mr. Griller continued to purr, as softly as before.
"I will proceed to business.
I am a business man. I am a lecture-agent,
Miss Hawkins, and as soon as I saw that you were acquitted,
it occurred to me that an early interview would be
mutually beneficial."
"I don't understand you, sir," said
Laura coldly.
"No? You see, Miss Hawkins,
this is your opportunity. If you will enter
the lecture field under good auspices, you will carry
everything before you."
"But, sir, I never lectured,
I haven't any lecture, I don't know anything
about it."
"Ah, madam, that makes no difference no
real difference. It is not necessary to be able
to lecture in order to go into the lecture tour.
If ones name is celebrated all over the land, especially,
and, if she is also beautiful, she is certain to draw
large audiences."
"But what should I lecture about?"
asked Laura, beginning in spite of herself to be a
little interested as well as amused.
"Oh, why; woman something
about woman, I should say; the marriage relation,
woman's fate, anything of that sort. Call
it The Revelations of a Woman's Life; now, there's
a good title. I wouldn't want any better
title than that. I'm prepared to make you
an offer, Miss Hawkins, a liberal offer, twelve
thousand dollars for thirty nights."
Laura thought. She hesitated.
Why not? It would give her employment, money.
She must do something.
"I will think of it, and let
you know soon. But still, there is very little
likelihood that I however, we will not discuss
it further now."
"Remember, that the sooner we
get to work the better, Miss Hawkins, public curiosity
is so fickle. Good day, madam."
The close of the trial released Mr.
Harry Brierly and left him free to depart upon his
long talked of Pacific-coast mission. He was
very mysterious about it, even to Philip.
"It's confidential, old
boy," he said, "a little scheme we have
hatched up. I don't mind telling you that
it's a good deal bigger thing than that in Missouri,
and a sure thing. I wouldn't take a half
a million just for my share. And it will open
something for you, Phil. You will hear from
Philip did hear, from Harry a few
months afterward. Everything promised splendidly,
but there was a little delay. Could Phil let
him have a hundred, say, for ninety days?
Philip himself hastened to Philadelphia,
and, as soon as the spring opened, to the mine at
Ilium, and began transforming the loan he had received
from Squire Montague into laborers' wages.
He was haunted with many anxieties; in the first
place, Ruth was overtaxing her strength in her hospital
labors, and Philip felt as if he must move heaven and
earth to save her from such toil and suffering.
His increased pecuniary obligation oppressed him.
It seemed to him also that he had been one cause
of the misfortune to the Bolton family, and that he
was dragging into loss and ruin everybody who associated
with him. He worked on day after day and week
after week, with a feverish anxiety.
It would be wicked, thought Philip,
and impious, to pray for luck; he felt that perhaps
he ought not to ask a blessing upon the sort of labor
that was only a venture; but yet in that daily petition,
which this very faulty and not very consistent young
Christian gentleman put up, he prayed earnestly enough
for Ruth and for the Boltons and for those whom he
loved and who trusted in him, and that his life might
not be a misfortune to them and a failure to himself.
Since this young fellow went out into
the world from his New England home, he had done some
things that he would rather his mother should not
know, things maybe that he would shrink from telling
Ruth. At a certain green age young gentlemen
are sometimes afraid of being called milksops, and
Philip's associates had not always been the most
select, such as these historians would have chosen
for him, or whom at a later, period he would have
chosen for himself. It seemed inexplicable, for
instance, that his life should have been thrown so
much with his college acquaintance, Henry Brierly.
Yet, this was true of Philip, that
in whatever company he had been he had never been
ashamed to stand up for the principles he learned from
his mother, and neither raillery nor looks of wonder
turned him from that daily habit had learned at his
mother's knees. Even flippant Harry
respected this, and perhaps it was one of the reasons
why Harry and all who knew Philip trusted him implicitly.
And yet it must be confessed that Philip did not
convey the impression to the world of a very serious
young man, or of a man who might not rather easily
fall into temptation. One looking for a real
hero would have to go elsewhere.
The parting between Laura and her
mother was exceedingly painful to both. It was
as if two friends parted on a wide plain, the one to
journey towards the setting and the other towards
the rising sun, each comprehending that every, step
henceforth must separate their lives, wider and wider.


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So I have decided to do a monthly photography post to share with you. It may be new work, it may be old work but each month I want to either try and photograph something new or maybe re visit some of my past loved work.
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Is The Franchise Affair the perfect crime novel? [review]
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
Sometimes a classic mystery or crime novel is the only type of book that will satisfy my mood. I don't want the kind that oozes with blood or is ultra complex but equally the novel shouldn't be 'cosy', or pedestrian.
Josephine Tey's 1948 novel The Franchise Affair fitted my recent requirements perfectly.
It's what I would class as an 'intelligent' mystery/crime novel. There are no bodies to be counted, no trail of blood, no criminals to be tracked down and unmasked in a grand dénouement (á la Poirot) and no unexpected plot reversals (á la Christie). Instead Tey presents her readers with a puzzle and invites them to follow along with the 'detective' as he seeks to find the truth among a knot of lies and inconsistencies.
The job of sleuth in this novel falls on the shoulders of Robert Blair, a respected solicitor in a respected family law firm in the country town of Milton. He's called upon to defend Marion Sharpe and her mother who live in "The Franchise", an imposing house on the outskirts of town.
They're accused of kidnapping fifteen-year-old Betty Kane, holding her prisoner for a month and beating her when she refuses to do their cleaning. This is far from Robert's usual kind of case but he's been feeling lately that his life is rather unexciting and predictable. He's rather taken with the Sharpe women and their sensible, forthright manner but he distrusts Betty's story even though she can describe accurately items and rooms inside The Franchise.
Robert begins a painstaking search for clues that will prove his clients' innocence and reveal that Betty is more of a cunning minx than the butter-wouldn't-melt figure she presents to police and jurors.
Media ethics in the spotlight
The Franchise Affair is a cleverly paced novel. The first half is very much about Robert's inability to find the holes in Betty's story. Though he learns some surprising facts about her, he's frustrated there is no real breakthrough. The second half has more tension; a race against time as the Sharpe's find themselves arrested and the evidence appears to be firmly stacked against them.
Beyond the mechanics of the investigation lies a well crafted portrayal of how the media and a community react to a scandal in their midst.
Marion Sharpe and her mother were already viewed with suspicion in the town. They're 'outsiders', for one thing and have acquired a reputation for being rude. The conservative townies think Marion looks like a gypsy with her dark hair, browned skin and colourful scarves. Perhaps, it's whispered, they are witches…
The people of Milton find it easy to believe that these women who live in a ramshackle ugly house behind large gates, could be kidnappers and abusers. They find it equally easy to believe in Betty's story, particularly when the girl's youthful appearance and clothes makes even sober men think of "forget-me-nots and wood-smoke and bluebells and summer distances."
This is a novel about the way people jump to conclusions. The townsfolk assume Betty is innocent because she looks that way and because she was orphaned during the war . They assume Marion Sharpe and her mother are wrong-doers because they live in a large house (hence must be wealthy) and are a little odd.
Tey clearly doesn't have much time for people like this. But she is even more disapproving of the way the media feed their prejudices. One newspaper, the Ack-Emma is described as:
… the latest representative of the tabloid newspaper to enter British journalism from the West. It was run on the principle that two thousand pounds for damages is a cheap price to pay for sales worth half a million.
The Ack-Emma's sensational headlines are instrumental in whipping up public animosity against the Sharpes. They take Betty's story at face value, publish a picture of the Sharpe's house (which then becomes a target for vigilantes) and allow abusive missives about the Sharpes to appear in their letters' page. Tey's narrator bemoans this new style of reporting. Time was, says the narrator, when newspapers could be relied upon to exercise sound judgement about the contents of their editions. But newspapers like Ack-Emma' don't confirm to those old principles.
However the narrator also acknowledges the Ack-Emma's new style of reporting has clearly found favour with readers since sales had boomed and "in any suburban railway station seven out of ten people bound for work in the morning" were reading its pages.
Faultless characterisation
The Franchise Affair is a darn good story pepped up with sparky social commentary. It also has some first class characters. Robert Blair is a joy as the lifelong bachelor with a peaceful life. He has tea and biscuits brought each day to his desk on a on lacquered tray covered with a clock. He can clock off work after the post has gone at 3.45pm, just in time for a round of golf before dinner. He's also waited on hand and foot by a devoted aunt). I
His client 'old' Mrs Sharp is a fun character. Her acerbic tongue matches her name but she has has an equally sharp eye for spotting a winning race horse.
Pride of place however goes to one of the members of the supporting cast; Robert's Aunt Linn: "a solid little figure with the short neck and round pink face and iron-grey hair that frizzed out from large hairpins." She's a woman perfectly content with her life which revolves around recipes, church bazars and film star gossip gleaned from magazines. Though she's not too keen on her nephew taking on the Sharpe's case because the people at The Franchise "aren't the kind of people I naturally take to" she is one of the few people in Milton who doesn't let appearances get in the way of a desire for justice.
Though there are aspects of The Franchise Affair that situate it in a particular period (a post-war England which still has the death penalty) it deals with issues that are still relevant today. Questions about media responsibility and accountability and the way communities take 'justice' into their own hands, are just as pertinent in 2019 as they were in 1948.
About the author
Josephine Tey was the pseudonym of Elizabeth MacKintosh who was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1896. She also wrote plays under the name Gordon Daviot, a surname that might have been chosen because it was the name of the place near Inverness where she spent family holidays.
Her first published work appeared under the name of Gordon Daviot in The Westminster Gazette in 1925. Her first mystery novel, The Man in the Queue, was published in 1929, marking the first appearance of Inspector Alan Grant from Scotland Yard. Grant makes a few brief appearances in The Franchise Affair.
Why I read this novel
I read and enjoyed another of Tey's novels, The Daughter of Time in 2017. It's an unusual novel, an investigation into the mystery of a historical event (the deaths of the Princes in the Tower). I was taken by her writing style, enough to want to read more of her work and luckily found a copy of The Franchise Affair in a charity bookshop. Incidentally this novel was included in a list of recommended crime novels published by The Sunday Times.


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Men Of War, seriously, look past the name. This is a game that is at least as interesting for real-time strategy lovers as Dawn Of War 2. If you ignored the demo, please go play it, and understand that even that undersells the immense battlefield missions with hundreds of units, not to mention to vast scale of a game that has three full sized campaigns. Campaigns whose maps are also playable in co-op. I'm posting the videos after the jump with a sense of futility, because I know they don't and won't sell it to many people. Nevertheless Men Of War is second only to Empire in awesomeness for games I've played so far in 2009. It really is a fine thing. I recommend you take a look. The game is out now in Europe and will be out on the 17th in North America.
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CPI PROPERTY GROUP announces the acquisition of Atrium Centrum & Atrium Plaza office buildings in Warsaw, Poland. Atrium Centrum & Atrium Plaza are seven-storey office buildings located in the centre of Warsaw, near the most important transportation and business hub of Warsaw – Rondo.
The two office buildings have an aggregate GLA of 31,869 sqm and include a medical centre, a restaurant, a bank, a pharmacy, a premium fashion store and 410 parking lots. CPIPG worked directly with the seller, which was a fund under the management of Peakside Capital Advisors.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun preliminary technical discussions with Elon Musk's SpaceX that could lead to the temporary use of its launchers after the Ukraine conflict blocked Western access to Russia's Soyuz rockets.The private American competitor to Europe's Arianespace has emerged as a key contender to plug a temporary gap alongside Japan and India, but final decisions depend on the still unresolved timetable for Europe's delayed Ariane 6 rocket."I would say there are two and a half options that we're discussing. One is SpaceX that is clear. Another one is possibly Japan," ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher told Reuters."Japan is waiting for the inaugural flight of its next-generation rocket. Another option could be India," he added in an interview."SpaceX I would say is the more operational of those and certainly one of the backup launches we are looking at."Aschbacher said talks remained at an exploratory phase and any backup solution would be temporary."We of course need to make sure that they are suitable. It's not like jumping on a bus," he said. For example, the interface between satellite and launcher must be suitable and the payload must not be compromised by unfamiliar types of launch vibration."We are looking into this technical compatibility but we have not asked for a commercial offer yet. We just want to make sure that it would be an option in order to make a decision on asking for a firm commercial offer," Aschbacher said.SpaceX did not reply to a request for comment.The political fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine has already been a boon for SpaceX's Falcon 9, which has swept up other customers severing ties with Moscow's increasingly isolated space sector.Satellite internet firm OneWeb, a competitor to SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet venture, booked at least one Falcon 9 launch in March. It has also booked an Indian launch.On Monday, Northrop Grumman booked three Falcon 9 missions to ferry NASA cargo to the International Space Station while it designs a new version of its Antares rocket, whose Russian-made engines were withdrawn by Moscow in response to sanctions.Wake-up callEurope has until now depended on the Italian Vega for small payloads, Russia's Soyuz for medium ones and the Ariane 5 for heavy missions. Its next-generation Vega C staged a debut last month and the new Ariane 6 has been delayed until next year.Aschbacher said a more precise Ariane 6 schedule would be clearer in October. Only then would ESA finalise a backup plan to be presented to ministers of the agency's 22 nations in November."But yes, the likelihood of the need for backup launches is high," he said. "The order of magnitude is certainly a good handful of launches that we would need interim solutions for."Aschbacher said the Ukraine conflict had demonstrated Europe's decade-long cooperation strategy with Russia in gas supplies and other areas including space was no longer working."This was a wake-up call, that we have been too dependent on Russia. And this wake-up call, we have to hope that decision-makers realise it as much as I do, that we have to really strengthen our European capability and independence."However, he played down the prospect of Russia carrying out a pledge to withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS).Russia's newly appointed space chief Yuri Borisov said in a televised meeting with President Vladimir Putin last month that Russia would withdraw from the ISS "after 2024″.But Borisov later clarified that Russia's plans had not changed and Western officials said Russia's space agency had not communicated any new pullout plans."The reality is that operationally, the work on the space station is proceeding, I would say almost nominally," Aschbacher told Reuters. "We do depend on each other, like it or not, but we have little choice."© Thomson Reuters 2022
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Increase your bone strength with Calcium and Vitamin D
Osteoporosis is a condition that causes your bones to become thin and porous, which decreases their strength and increases your risk of a fracture. It is most prevalent among Canadians ages 50 and older. In fact, it is more common that heart attack, stroke, and cancer combined, affecting 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men during their lifetime!
Known as the "silent thief", this bone degeneration usually occurs without symptoms or warning signs until they become fractured, most commonly in the wrist, spine, shoulder and hip.
What should you do to prevent osteoporosis? Healthy bones need nutrients – specifically calcium and vitamin D – to help improve your bone mineral density.
99% of the calcium you consume is stored in your bones and teeth. However, your body does not produce enough calcium required to maintain healthy bones and teeth, so it is important to ensure you consume the daily required amount. So how much calcium should you eat?
|Age Group
|Average Daily Intake (milligrams/day)
|1 to 9 years old
|10 to 18 years old
|19 to 30 years old
|31 to 50 years old
|51 and above
Now you know how much calcium you need, but what are the best sources for calcium? Dairy products, such as milk, yogurt, and cheese are well-known for their high source of calcium. But if you're lactose intolerant, don't worry – Green vegetables also provide a significant source of calcium, and they're lower in fat and calories! Here is a list of calcium-rich foods recommended for your diet:
- Spinach
- Kale
- Okra
- Collards
- Soybeans
- White beans
- Salmon, perch, rainbow trout and sardines
Think of calcium and vitamin D as a dynamic duo – like Superman and Batman working together to help increase and maintain your bone strength!
Like calcium, vitamin D supports your muscles and protects your bones from injury. But it also compliments calcium by aiding its absorption. In fact, calcium is only useful to your body with the support of vitamin D.
Unlike calcium, your body produces vitamin D naturally via exposure to sunlight. However, during winter months when you're exposed to less sunlight, your body can become deficient of vitamin D, which most commonly affects women and children, and results in the following complications:
- Bone Loss
- Decreased bone density and bone strength
- Greater likelihood of fracture
Additionally, children who are deficient of vitamin D are at risk of stunted growth. For all age groups, the daily recommended amount varies between 25 to 1000 micrograms per day.
As noted above, one of the best sources of vitamin D is sunlight. Exposure to sunlight for 5-30 minutes, preferably during earlier hours of the day when UV rays are less harmful, can replenish your body with the required amount.
Foods that are a high-source of vitamin D include:
- Fatty fish, such as tuna, mackerel and salmon
- Foods fortified with vitamin D, such as dairy products, orange juice, soy milk and cereals
- Beef liver
- Cheese
- Egg yolks
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In Bed with Santa
In Bed with Santa (Swedish: Tomten är far till alla barnen) is a 1999 Swedish comedy film directed by Kjell Sundvall. A German remake was made under the tiltle Meine schöne Bescherung.
Added: 2023-10-05 11:13:57
Release: 1999
Language: Swedish
Duration: 1 hr 34 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9
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Around the world, governance standards are being reassessed and debated. Investors are being asked by their clients to outline how stewardship factors into their decisions, which in turn places greater scrutiny on how companies are run and governed and who is running them. As is customary at this time of year, IR Magazine has investigated the trends that resonated during this year's proxy/AGM season, and looks ahead to next year to see what's on the horizon.
Global governance standardization
In the last couple of years, several countries have introduced new governance frameworks that more directly address the notion of investor stewardship, including Japan, Holland, the Philippines and the UK. In Europe, the Shareholder Rights Directive will come into effect next year and bring with it many changes, such as say-on-pay votes for shareholders, more transparency on when an investor takes a position in a company, and greater scrutiny of proxy advisers' voting guidelines.
David Chase Lopes, managing director for EMEA at DF King, writes in a recent AGM review: 'The implementation of the Shareholders Rights Directive (SRD II) is a sea-change for companies, shareholders, custodians and proxy advisers alike. And while national governments still maintain substantial flexibility in how they transpose SRD II into national legislation, we are starting to see the impact of some of the changes.' He cites France's Sapin II law as an example, given that it instituted binding remuneration reports and policies.
While there is no binding corporate governance code in the US, this year did see the launch of the Investor Stewardship Group (ISG), which is backed by 34 signatories and 22 supporters. ISG published two separate principles: the first concerns investor stewardship and the second focuses on corporate governance at public companies.
Donald Cassidy, executive vice president of corporate development and strategy at Georgeson, says even the use of the word 'stewardship' is a marked change for US investors. 'The word is not one you see used in the US anywhere near as much as in the UK,' he points out. Cassidy also notes that ISG's six principles for corporate governance are similar to the UK's revised corporate governance code. The principles broadly encourage enhanced board performance, director independence, board accountability to shareholders, and alignment of management's incentives with the company's long-term strategy.
As Bob McCormick and Rob Zivnuska, both partners at CamberView Partners, wrote in a recent article, however, there are still differences between the UK and the US approach, especially when it comes to shareholder engagement. 'One of the most significant differentiating factors between engagement styles in the UK and the US has been the role of directors,' they write. 'Consistent with the Corporate Governance Code, in the UK board chairs generally lead engagement efforts, often without a representative from the executive team. In the US, however, engagements are traditionally led by the executive team, nearly always including the corporate secretary, head of investor relations or equivalent business leader.'
So while this new wave of guidelines, standards and codes creates a higher watermark for corporate governance than ever before, and brings governance standards closer to standardization around the world, there are still plenty of differences from market to market, often driven by different regulatory frameworks and exchange rules. For example, Germany's approach of having two boards – a management board and a shareholder board – makes it an outlier to quite a few corporate governance trends in Europe.
Proxy materials and statements
There are many reasons for the enhancements around proxy statements and materials in advance of a meeting. As board directors become more concerned about the threat of losing shareholder votes and activists are increasingly able to influence the voting decisions of large institutional investors, the focus on these materials is amplified. Proxy statements and meeting materials continue to evolve from legalese documents to glossy, well-designed brochures with well-thought-out graphics and plain English disclosures.
'What's changed is that companies now see it as a communications document,' says Cathy Conlon, head of corporate issuer strategy and product management at Broadridge. 'Companies are enhancing their proxies with summaries at the front and thinking about ways to
make the information more readable.'
Quite often, these materials also provide a summary of shareholder engagement throughout the year and details of how the issuer has responded to the feedback received. In many cases, that requires greater input from the investor relations team, working in tandem with the corporate secretary, as well as human resources and finance.
A more recent development is the production of digital proxy statements, which are much easier to navigate and often feature interactive components such as director video interviews. According to the Guide to Effective Proxies produced by Donnelley Financial Solutions, large institutional investors favor digital proxies and, for many issuers, the group accessing digital proxies can be responsible for voting up to 80 percent of outstanding shares.
Further to the improvements being made in the materials, companies are also exploring how to get better open rates when they send out their materials – either via email or by post. This is particularly crucial in a contested scenario, when large retail investor turnout can be a decisive factor.
Patricia Rosch, president of international investor communication solutions at Broadridge, outlines a couple of changes issuers are making. 'With the increase in e-distribution last year, retail investor participation went up from 40 percent to 51 percent year on year,' she says. 'Voting is embedded in the email and it leads to a higher participation rate. We've also seen increased voting participation when a package goes out with company branding on it. It helps cut through the clutter and shows the importance of sending material to voters in the way they want to receive it.'
Off-season governance engagement
One consistent theme that emerged during interviews for this article was the increase in off-season governance engagement, often involving board directors. Given investors' focus on stewardship and the effectiveness of the board, there is a greater interest in
meeting investors to get a better insight into how each board thinks and functions.
Jean-Florent Rérolle, managing director of Morrow Sodali France, says that in France investor questions for board directors have typically focused on specific remuneration details or, maybe, board diversity and composition. 'But what is really striking is that most smart investors are increasing the scope of their questions and are now more interested in how the board works and what kind of oversight it has,' he says.
This is, naturally, an opportunity for issuers to address investor concerns on the ever-growing list of ESG topics that are emerging. 'Companies are using the fall season to get better insight into investor policies,' says Brigid Cremin Rosati, director of business development at Georgeson. As investors both active and passive look to integrate ESG into their decision-making and stewardship policies, this will likely become even more important.
In Spain, it's common for issuers to add proxy advisers to their off-season targeting list, says Borja Miranda Johansson, managing director of Morrow Sodali in Spain and Portugal. 'These roadshows cover non-financial information and companies are understanding that proxy advisers have a lot of influence on investors' decisions,' he says.
Proxy trends around the world
The scrutiny in the US continues to focus on ESG issues. The 2017 proxy season was notable for three companies losing shareholder votes on 2ºC climate scenario proposals. While that didn't happen on the same scale in 2018, there was sustained interest from investors in both climate change scenarios and improved sustainability disclosures. Political lobbying, which has been a popular shareholder proposal for several years, remained popular, while several gun control shareholder proposals were also introduced.
This year saw the launch of ISS' E&S Quality-Score and the release of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board's new reporting standards for environmental risk. 'Some of the large institutional investors have changed their voting guidelines to become more open-minded when it comes to making voting decisions on environmental issues,' says Donald Cassidy, executive vice president of corporate development and strategy at Georgeson. 'Those institutions may have previously thought this was a subject best left to management but that is no longer the case.
In Canada, the biggest potential change will be delivered when Bill C-25 is enacted. The bill will change the way directors are elected, emphasize diversity in the boardroom and require greater proxy access and disclosures around meetings. But Bill C-25 is still under review and it is unclear when it will actually come into effect. 'There's going to be a change where investors can vote against a director, which means plurality voting will no longer be in use in Canada,' says Patricia Rosch, president of international investor communication solutions at Broadridge. 'It will move us to majority voting where a vote against would remove them.'
In Germany there will likely be enhanced focus on governance once the implementation of the Shareholder Rights Directive is established and the Corporate Governance Kodex is published, which is due to happen next year.
In addition, members of the supervisory board in Germany are elected every five years. A number of DAX 30 companies – including adidas, BASF, Continental, MunichRe and SAP – will have their entire board up for re-election. In the past this has been relatively routine, but the increased focus on governance and board oversight may pose some challenges, says Andrea Bischoff, managing director of Morrow Sodali Germany. 'There will be challenges around these issues and some larger companies may face difficulties,' she notes. Indeed, the chair of Norma Group's supervisory board, Dr Stefan Wolf, was not re-elected this year.
In France, the investment community is rapidly embracing ESG and integrating its theses, but the same is not true for issuers, says
Jean-Florent Rérolle, managing director of Morrow Sodali France. 'What strikes me is that the progress of investors over the past two or three years has been unbelievable: they have worked a lot on how to integrate ESG into their decision-making,' he observes. 'But on the company side it is very slow, which is natural. Governance doesn't change overnight, but companies do need to accelerate the integration.'
In addition, Rérolle says executive compensation remains a big topic and the scrutiny that Sapin II will bring places a greater burden on public companies to improve their disclosures.
Linking pay to performance is what's on the minds of investors in Spain and Portugal, according to Borja Miranda Johansson, managing director of Morrow Sodali in Spain and Portugal. 'Over the past few years investors have been pushing for more transparency around remuneration practices,' he says. 'Once the market is happy with that, investors are going to look for more alignment of pay to performance and pay relative to peers.'
This article was published in the winter 2018 issue of IR Magazine – the 30th anniversary issue of IR Magazine


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On November 9, 2018 former WWE wrestlers arguing that WWE subjected them to brutal, unregulated working conditions that resulted in long-term latent occupational injuries, diseases and damages Appealed their cases to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that sits in New York that were formally dismissed by the District Court of Connecticut on 9/27/18.
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The Initiation of the Appeal Papers Can be found below: (the Pre-Argument Statement near the beginning of each document and the Issues to Be Appealed at near end of each document are probably of most interest (the Form C requires copies of some earlier filed rulings, papers, & docket entries etc) The Forms C's as filed with the Court are linked below.
William Albert Haynes III v. WWE Appeal
Russ McCullough, Matt Wiese and Ryan Sakoda V. WWE, et el. Appeal
Cassandra Frazier for Estate Nelson Frazier V. WWE Appeal
Evan Singleton & Vito LoGrasso V. WWE Appeal
Joseph Laurinaitis (and 59 Others) V. WWE and Vince McMahon Appeal
Sanctions Appeal in Dismissal of Laurinaitis Case
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Young Golfer Helps "Girls with Clubs" - Kyla Inaba shared her skills with 12 girls from Okanagan Boys & Girls Club
25th August, 2010
Kyla Inaba, team member with the Gallagher's Canyon Golf & Country Club, facilitated a golf clinic for twelve girls, aged 8 to 14, where she taught them how to swing and putt among other best practices, through a program called "Girls With Clubs". She also gave them advice from her own experience as a young female golfer.
"Find a sport that you love and if you stick with it and practice you never know how far you will go," said Inaba.
Inaba, an aspiring professional Golf professional and captain of the UBC Women's Golf Team, approached the Okanagan Boys and Girls Club with the idea and was incredibly happy with the response and the turn out. She hopes to make this an annual event.
The girls all loved the experience which was the first time many of them had ever golfed. Gallagher's Canyon generously donated the use of the facility including clubs and balls.
The Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs is a leading provider of programs to children and youth that support the healthy physical, educational and social development for over 6,000 young people and families each year throughout the Okanagan Valley. We provide services across the Okanagan in over 30 locations from Osoyoos to Falkland. We help young people grow healthy, happy and safely from birth to adulthood, and are a resource and support for parents throughout their family's involvement with us.
For more information and to view a video about the Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs visit our website at www.boysandgirlsclubs.ca.
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Information about Gallagher's Canyon Golf & Country Club:
Chris Currie, Sales & Marketing Manager
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I am a huge fan of pasta salads. For one thing you have a multitude of shapes and sizes of pasta available to use in them. Secondly, unlike potatoes, you simply boil pasta and drain it. There is no peeling or chopping involved. Just boil, drain and add to your dressing or whatever. Cooked pasta makes a fabulous base for a multitude of flavours and textures!
When I worked at the Manor, one of their favourite pre-dinner drinks nibbles that I would prepare for their dinner parties was these fabulous little cherry tomatoes, that I hollowed out and then filled with a mix of finely chopped cooked bacon, spring onions and mayonnaise. This salad is bit of a riff on that.
Without all the faffing about of hollowing and draining cherry tomatoes. In this salad you simply cut them in half. I got some lovely cherry tomatoes at Costco the other day, a mix of yellow and red, and they are fabulously tasty. I have been really enjoying eating them out of hand and they added a lovely mix of colours to this salad.
I used pasta twists because they really know how to hug a salad dressing, with lots of nooks and crannies to hang onto every smidgen of it. And you will love the dressing, which is a delicious mix of mayonnaise and blue cheese dressing . . . some cider vinegar, seasoning and a bit of sugar. YUM!
There is also plenty of bacon as well. A full pound. Make sure you get it nice and crispy, so that it crumbles well. Limp bacon doesn't work well in this. Crisp is the way to go. Make sure you remember to save some out to garnish the top of the salad. I forgot, and so what you see here are bacon salad sprinkles, which do provide crunch and flavour, but I really prefer the real thing.
Another essential element is the spring onions. Finely chopped, the white and light green parts, on up into the dark green, but I tend to cut off and discard the really dark green and tougher bits of the spring onions. I believe you call them Scallions in North America, or green onions.
There is also some celery which adds a lovely crunch and extra texture. I love the celery this time of year. It has a nice and mild flavour, unlike the celery from later in the season which is much stronger in taste. You want to use the milder celery as you don't want the flavor to be too over-powering.
There should be an equal balance of flavours and textures in this. If you are making the salad ahead of time, then do hold back some of the dressing to stir into it just prior to serving. It will absorb the dressing as it sits, so if you want it to be creamy, save a bit aside until just before you put it out for eating! Your guests/family will love this!
*Tomato & Bacon Pasta Twist Salad*
Serves 10 to 12 as a side dish
Fresh cherry tomatoes and plenty of savoury bacon in a refreshingly tasty pasta salad, with a mild blue cheese dressing. What's not to like?
225g of Pasta Twists (2 cups)
4 to 5 spring onions, washed, trimmed and chopped
1 punnet of cherry tomatoes, washed and halved (about 2 cups)
2 stalks celery, trimmed and diced
1 pound of streaky smoked bacon, cooked, drained and crumbled
240g of good quality mayonnaise (1 cup)
60g of blue cheese dressing (1/4 cup)
2 TBS cider vinegar
1 TBS sugar
salt and black pepper to taste
chopped parsley to garnish
Cook your pasta according to the package directions. Drain well. Rise in cold water and drain again. Set aside.
Whisk the mayonnaise, blue cheese dressing, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper together in a serving bowl. Stir in the spring onions. Add the cooked pasta and cherry tomatoes. Toss to coat well. Cover and chill for at least an hour. Remove and stir in 3/4 of the bacon. Sprinkle the remainder on top along with some chopped fresh parsley. Serve.
I served this the other day to some hungry missionaries and they licked the bowl clean. They really loved it. That makes me happy when the food I prepare is so well received. That always makes all my work more than worth the effort! Bon Appetit!


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The Space Dolphins Saga Pt. 5
(This is part of the ongoing "Space Dolphin" saga. To view and read previous parts, click on the links below)
After my narrow escape from The Space Dolphins and after I discovered The Home World, I steadily began Approaching The Home World. Now, stuck in the Earth's Gravitational Pull, I realize that there is no going back!
The distant rolling laughter is like rumbling thunder, dully throbbing, echoing inside my head as I begin to feel the full force of Earth's Gravitational Pull. As my body is compounded by the physical force and the elements close in around me, my mind is strangely calm. Have I accepted my fate? Have I come to terms with the severity of the mission ahead? Has that double cappuccino worn off already?!
I begin to panic. What have I gotten myself into!? I try to retreat backwards in time but the Earth's gravity keeps reeling me in. Like a huge tractor beam, my Resistance is futile. The more I fight the harder it pulls me in. The weight of it! The force of it! What have I done!?
"Excuse me, Sir?"
I spin around. The gravity warping my perspective as my now blurry vision settles on strange shapes behind me. What are they? Are they space people? Cosmic beings? Where did they come from? Where did they…
"Sir, could we please get by you? You're blocking the escalator."
Clearly I'm dealing with advanced intelligence here. Maybe they can help. If only I could convince them… I try to speak but against the Earth's crushing weight, all I can manage is a soft whisper, "Come with me."
"Uh yea, Well, you see, we'd like to but you keep backing up. Maybe you could just slide over so we can call it a day?"
Maybe they don't understand. With all my mental strength, I shout, "Come with me!"
Just like that the space people start to melt away, ethereal shapes, slowly drifting backwards against Earth's Gravitational Pull. Why are they leaving? Why won't they help me? Was it something I said? Is it the tinfoil hat? Damn you Space Dolphins! Have you compromised these poor beings as well!?
The distant laughing, the rolling thunder, lightning strikes flashing in my head, the words, "Mental case," and "goofball," and what was the other one, "Wanker," my courage, my mission, I, must…
I race forward, hyper drive activated, warp speed, embracing the forces around me, surrendering to the gravity, the pull, allowing it to engulf me, further, just a bit more, and then…
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