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Estate Issues To Consider During Divorce
Fairfax, VA (Law Firm Newswire) November 27, 2012 – According to Fairfax divorce attorney Lisa McDevitt, there are several changes an individual may wish to make to their estate plans when they divorce their spouse.
"One of the things you should check is if you need to rewrite your power of attorney," says McDevitt. "Your divorce may not invalidate your will, but may invalidate your spouse as power of attorney."
If a divorced couple on good terms wishes to keep each other as "attorney in fact," it is advisable to check with the divorce attorney during the proceedings and work with an estate planning lawyer to ensure power of attorney is valid. If there is an Advanced Health Care Directive in place, the ex will be able to make medical decisions and, unless modified, it will remain in effect regardless of the patient's marital status.
A newly divorced individual should also rewrite their last will and testament to reflect any changes, including removing the ex-spouse from inheriting the bulk of the estate. If there are retirement plans in place, the beneficiary of any retirement accounts, including IRAs and 401(k), should be updated. Check with the financial institutions where the retirement accounts are set up to update the beneficiary designation. Also, update any life insurance policies, including changing the beneficiary designation, and work with a financial advisor to see if policy amounts should be changed, depending on any minor children or other dependents.
Are there other bank or brokerage accounts, annuities, or health savings accounts? Typically, those also have beneficiaries and should be updated. If there is a joint account with a shared safety deposit box, the items therein need to collectively be sorted and allocated, and the lease on the box should be canceled.
Child custody is another issue to revisit – though the other spouse typically would get full custody in the event that something happens, there may also be trusts, or other estate planning documents that need to name the guardian of minor or disabled children, in the event of the spouse's death.
There are numerous estate and legal issues to be decided when divorcing. Work with an experienced divorce attorney to find out what estate issues are affected by a divorce.
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Ecuador's Correa: The revolutionary process in our America must continue
After asserting that Hugo Chávez's absence from the Venezuelan Government would be a "severe blow to Latin America," Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said, "no one should be indispensable"
- Former Paraguayan president to attend rally in support of Chávez
- Top court decides that President Chávez does not need to take oath again
- Congress authorizes Chávez to stay in Cuba for as long as necessary
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- Brazil endorses "sensible" extension for Chávez's swearing-in ceremony
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Correa said that if Chávez "cannot act," it would be a "severe blow to Latin America," according to a statement released by the Ecuadorian Government's electronic newspaper, reported AFP.
However, he said, "We are all necessary, but nobody should be indispensable, and the revolutionary process in our America should continue."
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Pablo Jiménez Guaricuco was summarily dismissed from his Clerk III job at the Autonomous Service of Public Registries and Notaries' Offices (Saren). He read a notice published in a newspaper on November 5 informing the public that he was no longer employed to the Saren. He was sacked despite the fact that he was taking a leave of absence from work due to a work-related accident, and that he enjoyed security of employment under the parental job-immunity privilege. Most probably, the decision was influenced by his role as a union organizer. But what did he do, besides leading protests, to deserve the sack? Well, he allegedly sent off a series of tweets that definitely hurt the sensitivity of the Saren Directorate.
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The same day, the new issue of Time Out New York hit newsstands (and mailboxes). I always read my issue backwards, so the first thing I saw was the Q&A with Ashton Kutcher. In it, he's babbling on about using Twitter to save the world (seriously), when suddenly the interview stops.
"Holy shit," Kutcher says, "I'm going down the wrong way on a one-way street." Because he's participating in an interview on a cellphone while driving in his car!
And as we all know, only creeps talk on their phones while driving their car, because doing so is just as dangerous as driving over the legal blood-alcohol limit.
So, Ashton Kutcher, the Twitter humanitarian, is really no better than that woman that killed half of her family. And yet he thinks it's unfair that a driver at the scene is pissed off at him for driving the wrong way. "I love it when people are driving their cars," he tells Drew Toal, "and they look at you like they've never done anything bad in their lives." Fuck you and hang up your phone.


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PSU Student Veterans picked a winning design in their logo design contest.
For just $495 they received 227 designs from 16 designers.
Crest, Shield, or Coat-of-Arms Logo for Student Veterans Association
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VikingVets (Student Veterans Association)
The Student Veterans Association of Portland State University exists to bring past and current members of the Armed Forces together to promote, unify and advocate for the veteran voice on and off campus. The group aims to educate the community about how the military has affected the lives of service members and to support those returning home from duty through the process of re-integration. The SVA stands ready to help student veterans achieve their education goals, providing information about veteran benefits and resources, and raising awareness when policies contradict the interests of our Nation's heroes. The SVA provides the means for veterans' concerns to be voiced in a safe and constructive manner and to bring awareness of these concerns to Portland State University and elected officials at various levels of Government. The SVA is about PEOPLE not politics (except when those politics deal directly with helping veterans and their families.)
Here's a link to our website: http://www.vikingvets.org
Please check it out! It will give you a better idea about who we are and what we do.
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We have already selected two finalists in this contest. We reopened the contest in order to get a few minor revisions from the two finalists prior to selecting a winner. WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING ANY NEW DESIGNS AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU.
This logo will become the trademark of our organization. We are a student group that is part of Portland State University, so the university logo (see uploaded file) will typically appear in proximity to our new logo. Therefore, the two logos need to compliment each other.
The most important criteria for a winning design: readily identifies our group, establishes a connection with our school, looks cool (in a regal, stately, dignified manner AND/OR hip & modern), conveys our military heritage & patriotism.
This logo will be incorporated into our letterhead and business cards. It will appear on our banner that hangs over our table at conventions and seminars. It will appear on t-shirts and hoodies that members wear on campus. We plan to make a lapel pin (approx 3/4" dia.) that members can wear on their suits at conventions. It will appear in print ads and posters, both B&W and color. It will appear on mugs, pens, buttons, stickers, etc. for marketing purposes. We'd like to have embroidered patches made for jackets. The colors and designs will also form the basis for a total redesign of our website this summer (and there is a good chance we will work with the winner to design that website if web design is something you also do).
We are looking for a modern version of a traditional crest or shield. We seek a crest or shield because they hearken back to the crests and flags that the lords carried at the heads of their armies centuries ago and therefore provide a link to our military heritage as veterans. We encourage using a shape other than a circle to differentiate our group from other student veteran organizations, most of which all have round emblems. Lapel pins can be made in any shape, so departing from a circle to a unique shape is no problem.
Our university's logo uses the following type fonts: Frutiger 45 Light, Frutiger 55 Roman, Frutiger 65 Bold, Adobe Garamond Pro Regular, Adobe Garamond Pro Semibold, or Adobe Garamond Pro Bold. Since our logo will be displayed in proximity to our school logo, our logo font style should compliment the fonts used in the school logo. Our university's logo uses the color Pantone 7496 (C:40 M:0 Y:100 K:38 / R:106, G:127, B:16). We want to use a rich, dark green for our logo, but it needs to look good when displayed in proximity to the school logo.
Because our new logo will be applied to a variety of products ranging from items as small as a 3/4" (2.5cm) lapel pin to something as large as a 3x6 foot (1x2 meter) banner, the production companies all require that we provide them with high-res .eps files because they are vector-based and can be scaled up or down without loss of resolution or pixelation. I assume that all designers are familiar with this file type and that you typically provide your final designs in this format.
To help you understand our group and what we do, check out our website: http://www.vikingvets.org.
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SDSU SVA Logo (Very sharp, eye catching & professional)
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California construction and demolition recycler recognized by the California Resource Recovery Association.
The California Resource Recovery Association (CRRA) has chosen Peña's Disposal Service, a Cutler, Calif.-based construction and demolition recycling firm as the 2012 winner in the statewide "Outstanding Construction & Demolition Debris Diversion" category.
Peña's was awarded the contract to handle C&D recycling for Tulare County and seven of its incorporated cities in 2011. Under the previous hauler, the recycling rate was 56 percent. In the first three months of the new contract under Peña's, the rate increased to 82 percent.
Because of the C&D contract with Tulare County, Peña's added 25 jobs, according to company vice-president Art Peña.
"This kind of improvement in recycling was noticed in Sacramento and Peña's is honored to be recognized," Peña says. "We are a small, family-owned, company competing with national companies. But the accomplishment of our staff is really remarkable. We are pleased to do our part to get Tulare County closer to the state's overall rate for diverting waste from the waste stream and into recycling."
In recognizing Peña's, the CRRA writes that it "was impressed by the sustained increase in diversion provided for C&D materials in Tulare County."
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This has been attributed to the ad hoc measures adopted by civic agencies in repairing and resurfacing roads. Even roads repaired recently are full of potholes because of the inferior quality of work, insufficient slant towards the drains and the inadequate number of outlets leading to the drains through which the water can seep away.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the PWD and the Corporation of Cochin did not utilise the six months from October to March when it did not rain even once, to execute repair and preventive-maintenance works on vulnerable portions of roads and bridges where potholes develop every monsoon.
This has resulted in the Edapally-Vytilla NH bypass being dotted with gaping potholes. They are very frequent near the Vytilla bridge, at the Palarivattom bypass junction and a few other weak portions which give away during the rains each year.
The NHAI did not carry out a fool-proof road-reinforcement work prior to the monsoons, despite motorists meeting with fatal accidents each year after falling into the potholes. This apart, the agency began resurfacing the road just a week before the monsoons, because of delay in getting sanction from its head office.
Sources said that the delay has also held up repair work on the service roads and the proposed widening of narrow free-left turns at Palarivattom and Edapally. The uneven road surface along the Vytilla-Aroor stretch of the NH where the agency's four-laning work is encountering delays, has made matters worse for road users.
The much-delayed resurfacing of the Corporation of Cochin-owned SA Road too had to be stopped mid-way because the work began just before the monsoon. The condition of the Chitoor Road, the South overbridge and the access roads to the Pullepady overbridge, all maintained by the agency, too are getting worse by the day.
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APIs are transforming businesses to extend the reach of their information systems and data. In technical terms, APIs are rather finite, allowing two software applications to exchange data and execute procedures. Yet their business impact is so great that API management requires a far from finite thought process. A "soup to nuts" approach is needed to help companies determine how to achieve the most business success with APIs.
An API enables applications to access back-end systems using lightweight, standards-based protocols such as REST and JSON. For example, if you were in food distribution, the actual business of soup and nuts, you could develop an API that lets mobile app developers tap directly into your ERP system. They could build consumer apps for recipes that showed ingredients that you had in stock. Grocery stores could build apps that gave their shoppers bulk discounts on large orders and so forth. The API extends your food distribution business into customer realms where you've never played before. This is fantastic. But it also presents a number of challenges to the management of the business.
An API Is a Product
Whether you like it or not, your API is basically a software product. It should be managed like one. As external parties connect with your API, they will reasonably expect the kind of professional communication and seamless updates that they would find with any web-based software business. If you are a mobile app developer who is accustomed to tapping into Amazon.com's API or any number of comparable interfaces, you will expect the same kind of experience when you connect with a corporate API.
Perhaps more significantly, the API represents an investment of resources. As such, it should serve a well-thought-out and thorough business strategy just like any software product. This means managing its lifecycle. The software lifecycle starts with planning, continues through development and operation, and ends with retirement and replacement. Ideally each phase of the lifecycle should be managed and monitored for optimal results. Certainly better API lifecycle management will foster more satisfied developers and partner communities.
Planning and Building Your APIs
Sometimes an API just is. Someone in the IT department created it for some reason that has since been forgotten, and there it is. It may or may not be great, but you have it. Should you use it "as is" or wait? This is more common than you might imagine. If you are approaching your APIs as if they were products, you would wait and work through a plan first. You have to get together with business and technology stakeholders and determine the business purpose of the APIs that you will be building. Now, this begs the question: Who exactly is this "you" we are referring to? That is one of your first planning challenges. Who is going to own the API business products that will extend the business into new spheres? So first you have to figure out who owns the API, and often it will be a collection of people that represent different parts of a business. Then the next planning task is to understand the cost/benefit outcomes for the business and intended users.
Chances are there will be more than one API developed and within each API there will be a host of different features to be developed. You will have to devise a priority for the rollout of new features. For instance, with the recipe app, the first release of the API might include simple searching and browsing. The second release might enable users to order products for delivery. The third release could let users pay for orders with credits cards and so forth. Not all of these features can be perfected at once.
Once the API is up, the organization has to be in place to support it. It is necessary to think through the empty seats that might need to be filled so that users of your API will feel as if they are connected to a responsive, living business. For example, if you are planning to invite developers from Europe to connect with your API, you need to have a technical point of contact for them as well as documentation that will be meaningful to them, perhaps translated into different languages. You will have to structure your business to support and manage the API.
Running the API: Protect, Secure, Manage
Your APIs are doorways into your business systems. That's great, but it is also a bit scary. APIs need strong, coherent security and management. If you have a handful of APIs, you will be able to stay on top of their availability, security and provisioning by hand. As your API program grows and it will if you are doing it right, you will likely find that using an API platform becomes a best practice - simply because it can take care of the serious work of API management. Effectively running an API through a platform involves the following:
- Support non-functional requirements - These include message protocol handling, security policy, authentication and authorization, etc.
- Manage provisioning and access control for apps - This means the selective provisioning of API access. Corporate APIs are not like their consumer counterparts where you want millions of users. With a corporate API, controlled access is where the users are the most valuable, not the most numerous. The API platform should enable selective provisioning that is still highly automated and light in terms of administrative load. Unfettered usage can bring a host of problems. Traffic and load management can get strained. Worse is the possible need to add extra server instances of costly business software just to satisfy API-driven demand. If the increased load is not generating revenue, satisfying it with more instances will be a waste of money.
- Monetization and control - An API might be a profit center itself. For example, a food distribution company API could be monetized from selling access to data about sales trends in the food industry. This scenario requires the ability to license access to the API.
- Provide API monitoring - APIs are just like any other piece of enterprise IT that is monitored for its system health, response times, and availability. In some cases, uptime may not be a big issue. However when your customers and partners are connecting to an API, you will want to know whether it is up, down, or running slowly. The API platform should provide monitoring functionality as well as failover for APIs that go down.
Sharing Your APIs: Publish, Support, Syndicate
APIs succeed when they are shared. The API platform can help create a marketplace where developers can discover your APIs and request permission to use them. The marketplace can be internal to your company or set up for external relationships. Whether it is a developer portal or something comparable, the platform should provide the below sharing functionality:
- Enable you to interact with and recognize your API developers. In some cases, this process can be set up on a self-service basis to allow it to scale without a major resource investment on your part.
- Facilitate the creation of great documentation about your API and how to use it.
- Make testing against your API as easy as possible.
- Monetize your API to assist in future cost benefit analysis.
Analyze Your API Program: Measure, Report, Iterate
Measurement of program results is in the DNA of most good IT managers. The API platform can help make this process as simple as possible. You will likely want to measure and report on the success of your program across the whole API lifecycle. Lifecycle and results are usually linked. For instance, if you see adoption of the recipe API rise as new features are added and new versions are introduced, that is an important finding to determine the payoff of earlier investments in the program and guide future direction. The right API measuring tools can help you drive improvement back into the planning stage. It is a never-ending cycle.
The Platform Approach to API Lifecycle Management
The execution of an API program that manages APIs like products across their full lifecycles requires a combination of organization and technology. The technology alone cannot make it happen. The organization cannot do it alone without the proper tools. In our experience working with many large enterprises, the best practice is to match the API owners with a platform approach to lifecycle management. The platform can be a complete offering, such as our own SOA Software API Management Solution, or it can be built in a variety of other ways. What's important is to recognize that the people, process and platform need to work together to effect comprehensive API lifecycle management. This will ensure the success of the API program.
Lifecycle Management
Ideally lifecycle management will be baked into the structure of the platform tooling, allowing for automated approvals and workflow for each stage of the API lifecycle. This means having the ability to align work streams related to API lifecycle, such as costing, product management, documentation and legal. People involved in running the API program can thus work together efficiently. The API development capability itself should have API modeling, templates, versioning and change management, and impact analysis. These features serve the goal of managing the full API lifecycle without an untenable resource investment.
API management typically works using a proxy that can be managed and monitored more easily than the API itself. For multiple APIs, the best approach is a "gateway" or collective proxy with added integration and mediation capabilities including:
- Process Composition/Orchestration.
- Security, including AU/AZ, attack prevention, and protecting your systems from abuse.
- Caching and paging.
- Supporting multiple mobile app platforms.
- Managing quality of service (QoS).
Exposing APIs to your systems involves building a community. Developers whom you don't know will be writing code to access your data through APIs. For the process to work, they need to feel as if they are connecting with real people. This can be achieved in part with self-service and automation and actual human involvement. A developer portal is essential for the following functions:
- Self-service community to promote innovation and lower support costs.
- Interactive documentation to increase adoption and encourage experimentation with your APIs.
- App provisioning so you can gain visibility and control over the apps that are hitting your APIs.
- Integrated testing to speed up learning.
- Analytics to provide feedback and measure success.
Getting There
You have your soup. You want the nuts. There is a path to dessert. However all this requires a mature and profitable API program. Our recommendation is to think about what you want to accomplish with APIs from the vantage points of productization and lifecycle. Building APIs puts you into the business of creating software products. While you may not see the API as a product, it is one. And, like any software product, it needs to be managed across its entire lifecycle. From planning through running and sharing, the API has to be monitored and secured. The work of managing it needs to be handled efficiently so that the program can be financially and strategically beneficial to the business. The best practice to ensure all of these outcomes is to use an API management platform to automate the handling of all of your APIs as they progress across their lifecycles. That will get you the nuts. The alternative is to go nuts, and that's not what anyone wants.
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) is being held in Dubai for the first time, signalling the increasing of the importance of the UAE in global affairs.
Dubai: The World Economic Forum (WEF) is being held in Dubai for the first time, signalling the increasing of the importance of the UAE in global affairs.
In this time of global change, under the universal cloud of the credit crunch and on the back of the recent US elections, this forum has come at an ideal time to trigger discussions on ways to take the world economy forward.
Starting Friday, the forum will bring together world-class academics and industry experts.
The aim of the forum is to come up with integrated responses to current affairs which will then be taken to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2009.
"They will be looking at the current state of the world and, by the end of the summit, there will be a proposed integrated action agenda," Fiona Paua, head of global agenda councils, at the WEF, told Gulf News.
Councils will discuss the major topics of economics and finance, geopolitics and governance and climate change.
As the theme of the Davos summit being the post-crisis world, any outcome from this forum would be very important for global change.
"Hosting the summit in Dubai marks a milestone for us, as part of our ambitious drive towards evolving as a global knowledge economy. It is another defining statement to the world that Dubai is a committed participant on the international stage with serious intent to assist and support in our pursuit of actionable solutions for global challenges," Mohammad Ali Al Abbar, chairman of Emaar Properties and co-chair of the summit on the global agenda, said in a statement.
With the global financial system in turmoil and oil at record prices, the Middle East is currently playing a key role in the global economy, said the WEF.
"The UAE government have expressed such strong support for the forum, that not only are they hosting it, but are also partners of the event," said Paua.
His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, will deliver the opening address on Friday night.
It is the smaller countries of the Middle East that are "integrating into the world economy better" than larger countries, according to data from the WEF.
Smaller countries such as the UAE appear to be benefiting more from globalisation than those states with either large populations or high hydrocarbon revenues.
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Back during the 1980s, one of the most talked about segment in professional wrestling was when Uncle Elmer got married on national television. It was an actual wedding, as the performer was really wanting to marry his longtime girlfriend. When he approached Vince McMahon about it, the promoter loved the idea and decided to make it a draw for WWE.
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