Before we get into the behaviours, actions and practices necessary to stay ahead of the game, let's examine the context, issues and challenges a chief executive officer (CEO) faces today. Just a couple of weeks ago, a client of mine saw a two-minute video of Alibaba's latest venture into offline retailing. This was the opening of Tao Café in Hangzhou, China – an unstaffed convenience store!
To gain entry into the store, shoppers just need to download Alibaba's Taobao App and scan their personal QR codes at the entrance gate – similar to those found at our LRT/MRT stations. Customers can enter (50 people at a time) and browse the shelves.
After selecting their food, beverages and snacks, they simply exit the store via passages that are equipped with facial recognition scanners. Shoppers are automatically charged for their purchases via their mobile Alipay App. Even items that are kept in sling bags or trousers' pockets cannot escape detection. Welcome to shopping in the near future!
Imagine if you are the CEO of a "traditional" retail/convenience store chain. Disruption is coming!
As seen in the example above, the best leaders today need to drive innovation or risk being left behind. In addition to mental agility and acuity (i.e. intelligence quotient or IQ) and social/interpersonal or people skills (i.e. emotional quotient or EQ), leaders' grasp of how to tap into digitalisation and modern platforms (i.e. digital quotient or DQ) are equally essential.
While CEOs are still expected to have credibility, competence and care, they now need to be abreast of digital developments as well e.g. e-commerce, FinTech solutions or the autonomous car and how Big Data has created new careers e.g. data scientists, database managers, data architects, data analysts, etc.
CEOs also need to be conversant and familiar (preferably fluent) in social media to engage younger stakeholders and collaborators. Being a CEO today is harder than ever.
With the advent of the digital era, the digital CEO's job involves engaging with more stakeholders and to do so at a rapid pace.
Leaders who are able to skilfully transform old processes with automation of digital models to create a vision for the future, will be in high demand.
As for data management, the focus today is unique utilisation of data rather than just simply sourcing data. Our role as a digital CEO is to boldly expand in this area, where millennials are leading the march.
The digital CEO also has to help and drive the workplace to continuously improve themselves.
So, what are the implications for CEOs today?
Every CEO is trying to gain competitive advantage in the face of these disruptive market conditions.
There is often a lot of hype about being agile and unable to move quickly when a situation arises. Yes, by all means, be proactive but, more importantly, take the time to work out the big strategic choices.
How can I build an identity for my company (or stay true to it) and use it to drive growth? Every business needs to grow.
When all cost-saving and down-sizing initiatives have been implemented, CEOs still need to deliver growth in both the long term and short term.
How can I get in front of market trends to craft or structure the wants and needs of my customers and clients? Think different. Apple Inc does not have to be the only one. How are we interpreting our data? What new insights have we derived?
How can I translate the company's strategy into everyday operations? Are our current systems impeding execution? Are there business processes that need to be updated, modified, enhanced or buried?
What new skills or training are needed? Can these solutions be developed internally or sourced externally?
How can I build a culture that allows the organisation's talents to embrace new risks and opportunities; a culture that works together, to see possibilities arising from change and not as a threat?
Are we building capabilities that will differentiate us in the market? How are we leveraging our people to be unique and distinctive?
How can we allocate or re-allocate our resources? In the early 1980s, when Jack Welch became the chairman and CEO of General Electric (GE), he started making massive changes.
Nonetheless, amid all the hard-hitting cost-saving initiatives, Welch invested US$30mil (a lot of money back then) into a state-of- the-art management training campus in Crotonville, New York.
This decision met with a lot of internal misgivings and complaints but Welch drove it through, driven by his vision to build an army of leaders in GE.
The three Ds – digital, data, disruption – can indeed make anyone's head spin. Yet, there is no overdraft facility for time. We all have only 24 hours in a day. So, how we spend and prioritise our time becomes even more critical.
Energy management today is far more important than time management. Today, executives are like corporate athletes.
You need all the energy you can muster to not only last the pace but thrive. Time is finite, energy is a different story – it is renewable.
We are human beings, not meant to run at high speeds continuously, for long periods of time, unlike computers.
The book The Power of Full Engagement, by James E. Loehr and Tony Schwartz, describes the Ultradian Rhythm cycle which repeats itself many times a day.
Basically, for about 90 minutes, you are in high performance mode.
Your alertness, concentration, creativity, emotional resilience and mental stamina are all in top gear.
Then, for about 20 minutes, your body needs time to rest and renew its energy storage.
So, to get the most out of your day, go full-out for 90-120 minutes (i.e. fully engage) and then take a 15-20 minutes' break (i.e. strategically disengage). Make a couple of phone calls, walk around the office, take a few sips of water, get an update from your PA, etc. Replenish your energy and fully engage again.
Full engagement requires drawing from four separate but related sources of energy – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
"To be fully engaged, we must be physically energised, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned with a purpose beyond an immediate interest", say the authors.
Physical: How's your body doing? How's your muscle-to-fat ratio? What does your nutrition look like? Are you drinking enough water? Are you getting enough quality sleep? Are you exercising regularly?
frustration, etc) running the show?
Mental: How's your brain doing? Are you able to focus and concentrate for sustained periods of times? Or are you quickly losing focus and easily distracted?
Spiritual: How's your motivation doing? Do you have a life purpose? And a clear set of values that drive your actions?
Don't get me wrong. You still need to plan your time and organise your priorities, but tackling them with full engagement makes a whole lot of difference.
The term "20/20 vision" is used to express normal visual acuity (the clarity or sharpness of vision) measured at a distance of 20 feet. If you have 20/20 vision, you can see clearly at 20 feet what should normally be seen at that distance.
Your team needs to continually feel clear and excited about where the company is headed. It is your responsibility to regularly refine your company's vision.
A CEO should determine and relentlessly communicate the organisation's strategic direction. Until that's settled, making decisions about anything else at the business is difficult. And without this, the company is merely a collection of people pursuing individual goals, guided by their own values.
While other people may help shape the strategic vision, the CEO must be able to describe it in a clear, engaging and exciting way for all stakeholders. All the players in the organisation should understand how this direction affects their job and daily responsibilities.
Everything the CEO does should support this vision. Too many CEOs have allowed the strategic vision to be nothing more than slogans on a company T-shirt or a banner outside the factory.
Employees tend to need at least a few months of clarity – and at least a year or two of general "direction" – to remain psyched about their job.
Remember, a huge amount of people's job satisfaction is derived from the perception that their work will provide a strong contribution to the company's or team's objectives.
3. Culture is everything – Keep building it!
Culture is the set of shared attitudes, goals, behaviours and values that characterise a group. It adds up to how things get done at a company and influences the entirety of the employee experience and thus the customer experience.
Every organised group of individuals develops a culture – whether it's explicitly recognised or not – and, contrary to popular belief, the CEO, not just human resources, must constantly observe and be involved to achieve the desired culture.
The most critical part of culture is values – the CEO ensures that they are applied consistently from top to bottom, across all departments. A good culture makes people feel safe and respected, enabling them to perform at their best.
Today's businesses understand the value diverse leadership brings in driving innovation and business results. Senior executive teams and boards need to be reflective of society and the customers their companies serve.
Take Unilever for example. When I left the company 20 years ago, the board of directors were all Europeans and had only two women. Over the years, an American and an Asian or two joined the board.
Today, the board includes Americans, Africans and Asians. And half of them are women. Same goes for their global executive management team. Hurray for them.
Let's face it, the CEO is ultimately responsible for a company's performance. To be successful, he or she must take an active role in driving that performance. You have to hit the numbers. Quarterly!
The cost-cutting emphasis of recent years is no longer enough. Shareholders and boards want to see growth. Today's CEO needs to be a growth hacker.
Where do the earnings and cash come from? What are the growth drivers? Are you allocating proper resources (capital and people) to drive short-term and long-term growth and profitability?
The CEO also serves as the interface between internal operations and external stakeholders.
He or she needs to ascertain how different stakeholders expect the company to perform, interpret this for internal teams and then be sure the proper metrics accurately gauge performance.
As the saying goes, "you get what you measure". The CEO sets the bar for the level of performance to be reached, regardless of the company's size, type, circumstances or stakeholders.
Putting the right people in the right positions with the right training is probably the single most important thing a CEO can do. With the right team, all things are possible.
With the wrong team, nothing else matters. Develop the habit of always looking out for and spotting great talent, internally and externally.
Digital technology, artificial intelligence, and robotics are all changing how we do business.
Developing digital natives to enter the leadership ranks must be a priority today. Determine what your unique employment brand is in order to attract the best and brightest.
Getting great talent on board is half the game. Getting them (especially your C-suite) to act as a cohesive team is the other half.
Whether it's a regular golf outing, bowling night, a Sunday barbeque or durian party, you have to build an open, transparent and inclusive culture. You and your team are the purveyors, the models and examples of organisational culture for the rest of the company.
This is a natural corollary from all the digital transformation, social media and growing number of millennials in the workforce.
This could include reorganising the company regularly as a way to induce efficiencies, jettison unnecessary activities and revitalise managers. I recall a previous client, Graeme Murray who was managing director of Colgate-Palmolive in Malaysia, he re-organised the entire marketing department introducing category management and focusing on new product development, putting his best marketing manager to head that unit.
The result was the introduction of two successful new brands: Axion, the first dishwashing paste in the market and Ajax floor and hard-surface cleaners within a year.
The Japanese word kaizen simply means "change for better" with no inherent meaning of either continuous or philosophy. CEOs by nature are curious, competitive and continuous learners.
I've known some who devour two books a week – in addition to numerous reports and journals. You have to stay updated and knowledgeable.
A CEO is a generalist specialist – you specialise in the general, are well rounded and know enough about most things to ask the smart questions and make good decisions.
But we're all human, imperfect.
So, in addition to learning agility, I always encourage clients to do a daily review or examination at the end of each day.
Was I at peak energy today? Physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually?
What did I achieve today? Did I have at least one or two coaching conversations with my key people today?
What one thing will I do better tomorrow?
A 1% improvement a week is 50% in a year. This is the secret to success.
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Field Guide 2030
For more than 100 years, Springfield has generated jobs and growth for the region. The city has also become rich with interesting and entertaining attractions and lifestyle amenities. Yet, we face many challenges in sustaining the quality of life we've built and making improvements that will benefit the next generation.
Our community, with help from a wide cross section of community and business representatives, drafted a set of strategic goals for the next 20 years. This collective vision is detailed in Field Guide 2030, a 20-year plan designed to establish a route for Springfield's future.
The guide contains 13 chapters with four unifying themes – sustainability, civic engagement, regionalism and minimizing poverty – that address the most pressing issues in our community at this time.
Strategic planning is about setting priorities. There were many options to consider while developing this roadmap. The chapters address issues to improve quality of life in Springfield, set attainable goals for the area and in some cases, stretch goals. A community plan should do just that – make a community stretch.
Want to learn more about Field Guide 2030? View the full site.
Vision 20/20-The Future is Now

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text:
Rika Lesser, född 21 juli 1953 i Brooklyn i New York, är en amerikansk poet och översättare.

Liv och verk
Lesser utexaminerades från Yale University 1974, studerade därefter i ett år vid Göteborgs universitet och blev Master of Fine Arts vid Columbia University 1977. Hon har varit verksam som föreläsare i kreativt skrivande (sedan 1985) och som styrelseledamot i Columbia Universitys översättarcentrum.

Lesser har översatt femton dikt- och novellsamlingar från svenska och tyska till engelska, däribland verk av Claes Andersson, Elisabeth Rynell, Gunnar Ekelöf, Göran Sonnevi, Hermann Hesse, Rafik Schami och Rainer Maria Rilke. Tillsammans med Cecile Inglessis Margellos översatte hon från grekiskan ett urval dikter av Kiki Dimoula, som 2014 belönades med grekiska nationella översättarpriset.

Hon har även utgivit fyra egna diktsamlingar.

Priser och utmärkelser
1974-1975 – Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
1982 – Harold Morton Landon Translation Award för översättningen av Gunnar Ekelöfs Vägvisare till underjorden
1992 – The American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize för översättningen av Göran Sonnevis dikter
1996 – Svenska Akademiens tolkningspris
2002 – The American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize för översättningen av Göran Sonnevis Mozarts tredje hjärna
2010 – Stiftelsen Natur & Kulturs översättarpris

Bibliografi

Egna verk
Etruscan Things, Braziller Series of Poetry, 1983; andra utgåva Sheep Meadow Press, 2010.
All We Need of Hell, University of North Texas Press, 1995.
Growing Back: Poems 1972-1992, University of South Carolina Press, 1997.
Questions of Love: New and Selected Poems, Sheep Meadow Press, 2008.

Referenser

Noter

Källor

Externa länkar

Rika Lessers hemsida

Amerikanska poeter
Amerikanska översättare
Levande personer
Födda 1953
Kvinnor
Personer från Brooklyn
Engelskspråkiga översättare
Översättare från tyska
Översättare från svenska
Översättare från grekiska
Mottagare av Stiftelsen Natur & Kulturs översättarpris

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E-Books are here! North Chicago Public Library patrons can now check out E-books with your library card. Check out your eBook here!
The Cloud Library is a new way North Chicago Public Library cardholders can checkout eBooks and audio books. Now you can check out a book on an iPad, take notes while reading on a PC, and finish the book on an Android phone, Nook HD, or iOS device..
Download the cloudLibrary App from the Apple App Store, Google Play, NOOK Storefront or install the PC or Mac 3M Cloud Library Apps.
Once you open the app you'll be prompted to select your country. Your screen should look like the image to the left.
Scroll down until you see Illinois and select it.
You should see a list of all the libraries in Illinois who currently use the cloudLibrary app. Scroll down until you see North Chicago Public Library and select it.
You'll be promped to enter your entire library card number and password. Your card number can be found on the back of your library card underneath the barcode. Your password is a 4 digit pin number. By default it is set to the final 4 numbers of your library card number.
Now you can browse our e-book and audio book collection. Please note that if a book is currently checked out by another patron, you won't be able to read it right away and will be able to place a hold on it instead. If you need additional help, please visit the library for assistance or call 847-689-0125 ext 113.
The Cloud Library currently works with iPad®, iPhone®, iPod Touch®, Nook devices®, Sony®, Kobo®, and Android® tablets and phones.


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package org.fcrepo.server.security.xacml.pep.rest.filters;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import java.net.URI;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;

import com.sun.xacml.attr.AnyURIAttribute;
import com.sun.xacml.attr.AttributeValue;
import com.sun.xacml.attr.StringAttribute;
import com.sun.xacml.ctx.Attribute;
import com.sun.xacml.ctx.RequestCtx;
import com.sun.xacml.ctx.ResponseCtx;
import com.sun.xacml.ctx.Result;
import com.sun.xacml.ctx.Status;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

import org.w3c.tidy.Tidy;

import org.fcrepo.common.Constants;
import org.fcrepo.server.security.xacml.MelcoeXacmlException;
import org.fcrepo.server.security.xacml.pep.PEPException;
import org.fcrepo.server.security.xacml.util.ContextUtil;
import org.fcrepo.server.security.xacml.util.LogUtil;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * Handles the risearch operation.
 *
 * @author nishen@melcoe.mq.edu.au
 */
public class RISearchFilter
        extends AbstractFilter {

    private static final Logger logger =
            LoggerFactory.getLogger(RISearchFilter.class);

    private static final String XACML_RESOURCE_ID =
            "urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:resource:resource-id";

    private Map<String, Transformer> transformers = null;

    private Map<String, String> mimeType = null;

    private ContextUtil contextUtil = null;

    private Tidy tidy = null;

    /**
     * Default constructor.
     *
     * @throws PEPException
     */
    public RISearchFilter()
            throws PEPException {
        super();
        contextUtil = new ContextUtil();

        tidy = new Tidy();
        tidy.setShowWarnings(false);
        tidy.setQuiet(true);

        transformers = new HashMap<String, Transformer>();
        mimeType = new HashMap<String, String>();
        TransformerFactory xFormerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();

        try {
            Transformer transformer = xFormerFactory.newTransformer();
            transformers.put("RDF/XML", transformer);
            mimeType.put("RDF/XML", "text/xml");
        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException tce) {
            logger.warn("Error loading the rdfxml2nTriples.xsl stylesheet", tce);
            throw new PEPException("Error loading the rdfxml2nTriples.xsl stylesheet",
                                   tce);
        }

        try {
            String stylesheetLocation =
                    "org/fcrepo/server/security/xacml/pep/rest/filters/rdfxml2nTriples.xsl";
            InputStream stylesheet =
                    this.getClass().getClassLoader()
                            .getResourceAsStream(stylesheetLocation);
            if (stylesheet == null) {
                throw new FileNotFoundException("Could not find file: rdfxml2nTriples.xsl");
            }

            Transformer transformer =
                    xFormerFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(stylesheet));
            transformers.put("N-Triples", transformer);
            mimeType.put("N-Triples", "text/plain");
        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException tce) {
            logger.warn("Error loading the rdfxml2n3.xsl stylesheet", tce);
            throw new PEPException("Error loading the rdfxml2n3.xsl stylesheet",
                                   tce);
        } catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
            logger.warn(fnfe.getMessage());
            throw new PEPException(fnfe.getMessage());
        }
    }

    /*
     * (non-Javadoc)
     * @see
     * org.fcrepo.server.security.xacml.pep.rest.filters.RESTFilter#handleRequest(javax.servlet
     * .http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse)
     */
    public RequestCtx handleRequest(HttpServletRequest request,
                                    HttpServletResponse response)
            throws IOException, ServletException {
        LogUtil.statLog(request.getRemoteUser(),
                        Constants.ACTION.RI_FIND_OBJECTS.getURI()
                                .toASCIIString(),
                        "FedoraResposoty:ResourceIndex",
                        null);

        return null;
    }

    /*
     * (non-Javadoc)
     * @see
     * org.fcrepo.server.security.xacml.pep.rest.filters.RESTFilter#handleResponse(javax.servlet
     * .http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse)
     */
    public RequestCtx handleResponse(HttpServletRequest request,
                                     HttpServletResponse response)
            throws IOException, ServletException {
        ParameterRequestWrapper req = (ParameterRequestWrapper) request;
        DataResponseWrapper res = (DataResponseWrapper) response;

        String body = new String(res.getData());

        if (body.startsWith("<html>")) {
            return null;
        }

        DocumentBuilder docBuilder = null;
        Document doc = null;

        try {
            docBuilder =
                    DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
            doc = docBuilder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(res.getData()));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new ServletException(e);
        }

        Map<String, List<Node>> nodeMap = new HashMap<String, List<Node>>();

        NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("rdf:Description");
        for (int x = 0; x < nodes.getLength(); x++) {
            String pid =
                    nodes.item(x).getAttributes().getNamedItem("rdf:about")
                            .getNodeValue();
            if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                logger.debug("RISearchIndexFilter PID: " + pid);
            }

            List<Node> nodeList = nodeMap.get(pid);
            if (nodeList == null) {
                nodeList = new ArrayList<Node>();
                nodeMap.put(pid, nodeList);
            }

            nodeList.add(nodes.item(x));
        }

        if (nodeMap.keySet().size() > 0) {
            Map<String, List<String>> resultMap =
                    new HashMap<String, List<String>>();
            Set<Result> results =
                    evaluatePids(nodeMap.keySet(), resultMap, request, res);

            for (Result r : results) {
                String rid = r.getResource();
                if (rid == null || "".equals(rid)) {
                    logger.warn("This resource has no resource identifier in the xacml response results!");
                } else {
                    logger.debug("Checking: {}", rid);
                }

                if (r.getStatus().getCode().contains(Status.STATUS_OK)
                        && r.getDecision() != Result.DECISION_PERMIT) {
                    List<String> pids = resultMap.get(rid);
                    for (String pid : pids) {
                        List<Node> nodeList = nodeMap.get(pid);

                        for (Node node : nodeList) {
                            if (node != null && node.getParentNode() != null) {
                                node.getParentNode().removeChild(node);
                                if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                                    logger.debug("Removing: " + pid + " [" + rid
                                            + "]");
                                }
                            } else {
                                logger.warn("Could not locate and/or remove: "
                                        + pid + " [" + rid + "]");
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        String[] formats = req.getFormat();
        String format = null;
        if (formats != null
                && formats.length > 0
                && ("RDF/XML".equals(formats[0]) || "N-Triples"
                        .equals(formats[0]))) {
            format = formats[0];
        } else {
            format = "RDF/XML";
        }

        Source src = new DOMSource(doc);
        ByteArrayOutputStream os = null;
        new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        javax.xml.transform.Result dst = null;
        new StreamResult(os);
        if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
            os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            dst = new StreamResult(os);

            Transformer xFormer = transformers.get("RDF/XML");
            try {
                xFormer.transform(src, dst);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                logger.error(e.getMessage());
            }

            logger.debug("RDF/XML:\n" + new String(os.toByteArray()));
        }

        os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        dst = new StreamResult(os);
        try {
            if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                logger.debug("Transforming format: " + format);
            }
            Transformer xFormer = transformers.get(format);
            xFormer.transform(src, dst);
        } catch (TransformerException te) {
            throw new ServletException("error generating output", te);
        }

        if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
            logger.debug("RDF/XML:\n" + new String(os.toByteArray()));
        }

        res.setData(os.toByteArray());
        res.setContentType(mimeType.get(format));

        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Takes a given list of PID's and evaluates them.
     *
     * @param pids
     *        the list of pids to check
     * @param resultMap
     *        the map of pid's to rest based pids from contextUtil
     * @param request
     *        the http servlet request
     * @param response
     *        the http servlet resposne
     * @return a set of XACML results
     * @throws ServletException
     */
    private Set<Result> evaluatePids(Set<String> pids,
                                     Map<String, List<String>> resultMap,
                                     HttpServletRequest request,
                                     DataResponseWrapper response)
            throws ServletException {
        Set<String> requests = new HashSet<String>();
        for (String pidDN : pids) {
            if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                logger.debug("Checking: " + pidDN);
            }

            Map<URI, AttributeValue> actions =
                    new HashMap<URI, AttributeValue>();
            Map<URI, AttributeValue> resAttr =
                    new HashMap<URI, AttributeValue>();

            String[] components = pidDN.split("\\/");
            String pid = components[1];
            String dsID = null;

            if (components.length == 3) {
                dsID = components[2];
            }

            try {
                actions
                        .put(Constants.ACTION.ID.getURI(),
                             new StringAttribute(Constants.ACTION.LIST_OBJECT_IN_RESOURCE_INDEX_RESULTS
                                     .getURI().toASCIIString()));

                // Modification to uniquely identify datastreams

                if (pid != null && !"".equals(pid)) {
                    resAttr.put(Constants.OBJECT.PID.getURI(),
                                new StringAttribute(pid));
                }
                if (pid != null && !"".equals(pid)) {
                    resAttr.put(new URI(XACML_RESOURCE_ID),
                                new AnyURIAttribute(new URI(pid)));
                }
                if (dsID != null && !"".equals(dsID)) {
                    resAttr.put(Constants.DATASTREAM.ID.getURI(),
                                new StringAttribute(dsID));
                }

                RequestCtx req =
                        contextUtil.buildRequest(getSubjects(request),
                                                 actions,
                                                 resAttr,
                                                 getEnvironment(request));

                String xacmlResourceId = getXacmlResourceId(req);
                if (xacmlResourceId != null) {
                    if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                        logger.debug("Extracted XacmlResourceId: "
                                + xacmlResourceId);
                    }

                    List<String> resultPid = resultMap.get(xacmlResourceId);
                    if (resultPid == null) {
                        resultPid = new ArrayList<String>();
                        resultMap.put(xacmlResourceId, resultPid);
                    }
                    resultPid.add(pidDN);
                }

                String r = contextUtil.makeRequestCtx(req);
                if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                    logger.debug(r);
                }

                requests.add(r);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                logger.error(e.getMessage(), e);
                throw new ServletException(e.getMessage(), e);
            }
        }

        String res = null;
        ResponseCtx resCtx = null;
        try {
            if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                logger.debug("Number of requests: " + requests.size());
            }

            res =
                    getContextHandler().evaluateBatch(requests
                            .toArray(new String[requests.size()]));

            if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                logger.debug("Response: " + res);
            }

            resCtx = contextUtil.makeResponseCtx(res);
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WTS is taking a slight turn from its traditional programs at our August 19 luncheon. Special Events Coordinator Lana Kisiel from Stein Mart will show us ways to update our wardrobe and define our own special style. She will offer ideas to "dress up or dress down" for varied occasions. This is not for women only.
As we begin closing out the lazy, hazy days of summer and resume our more frantic schedules, WTS is taking a slight turn from its traditional programs at our August 19 luncheon. Special Events Coordinator Lana Kisiel from Stein Mart will show us ways to update our wardrobe and define our own special style. She will offer ideas to "dress up or dress down" for varied occasions. This is not for women only. Headlining our line-up of models is Florida State Rep. Lake Ray, a veteran of several WTS Fashion Shows.
Also featured is Jennifer Yoder, the 2012 Northeast Florida WTS Woman of the Year. Please join us for lunch, a unique hour in wardrobe tips and laughter, and the opportunity to purchase raffle tickets for an array of gifts for both men and women.
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A man rescued from a fire was armed with deadly homemade 'bombs', a court heard.
Ian Whyatt, 46, loaded fireworks with nails before deliberately starting a fire at his home on London Road, Macclesfield, in 2013, prosecutors said.
The unexploded devices were discovered after he had been rescued and was being treated for burns in hospital.
Whyatt, who was suffering from paranoid delusions, told police his actions were a plea for help.
At Chester Crown Court on Monday Whyatt admitted arson and making an explosive substance under suspicious circumstances.
But on advice from doctors Judge Nicholas Woodward decided that instead of going to prison Whyatt should be kept in hospital for treatment indefinitely.
The court heard that it was Whyatt that called the fire service at 7pm on November 2, saying he was trapped on a first floor bedroom and couldn't get out of the house.
Jane Morris, prosecuting, told the court heard that firefighters were hampered by a barricade of wooden planks across the inside of the front door.
The court heard that Whyatt was rambling about being followed and threatened by members of a major drugs ring.
Mrs Morris said: "He told police he didn't feel safe and started the fire deliberately to get help. Police searched Whyatt at the hospital, where he was being treated for burns, and found a Stanley knife and seven fireworks with nails inside.


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Tell someone you're visiting Miami Beach and they'll say you'll have to eat a Cuban sandwich. Ask them where at and they'll usually recommend one of two places: David's Café or Puerto Sagua.
To settle the debate once and for all, we asked Spike Mendelsohn, chef of Good Stuff Eatery in Washington D.C. to join us in a sandwich versus sandwich taste test. What does a Capitol resident know about Cuban sandwiches?
"I grew up in a Spanish restaurant in Saint Petersburg, Florida where there happened to be a lot of Cuban people. We had a Cuban sandwich on the menu that was raved about," Mendelsohn said. When the craving strikes, he still whips them up, constructing the crisp, savory sandwich with slow-roasted marinated pork, provolone cheese, and baked ham (the recipe below).
Could the highly touted David's or Puerto Sagua compare? We provided the mission. Mendelsohn provided the miniature Cadillac.
Can't make it to South Beach? Build your own Cuban sandwich at home.
1. Spread each side of the bread with mustard. Divide the ingredients among the sandwiches, layering the ham, pork, cheese, and then finishing with the pickle slices. Close each sandwich.
2. Heat your panini maker, sandwich press, cast iron skillet, or large heavy-bottomed pan. Butter each side of the closed sandwiches and place the sandwiches inside the cooking device, working in batches if necessary, and press. If you're using a skillet or pan, place another heavy skillet or pan on top of the sandwich to achieve a similar pressing effect. Cook until the cheese melts and the bread is browned and flattened, about 10 minutes. Serve warm. Makes 4 sandwiches.
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Facebook's motherhood challenge makes me want to punch my computer screen
Of course it's meant to be a bit of fun, but this smug club fetishises motherhood, and creates a new way to measure women and find them wanting
Tue 2 Feb 2016 11.30 EST Last modified on Thu 11 Aug 2016 05.49 EDT
'This insidious idea of motherhood as a beatific vocational calling began with the Virgin Mary.' The Virgin and Child with an Angel, after Francesco Francia. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
There are certain phrases that make my heart sink. After "Can I be really honest?" and "Mind if I join you, ladies?" the latest to engender a sense of creeping misery must surely be "Facebook motherhood challenge".
Of uncertain origin, this viral "challenge" demands that mothers post a series of pictures that make them "proud to be a mum" and then tag other women who they think are "great mothers".
The Guardian view on motherhood: not a basis for judgment | Editorial
Many of my friends have done this, bouncily posting shots of themselves with interchangeable babies, all of whom look like glow-worms in padded snowsuits, and tagging whole lists of other "awesome mums" inviting them to do the same. And while I fully understand that they have no intention of hurting anyone, that they are simply happy to have their wonderful children, #blessed, #lovinglife and so on, I still want to punch the screen of my computer in whenever a new one pops up.
The most offensive aspect of this is the idea that it's a "challenge" at all. A challenge is coping with grief when you wish you were dead, or pushing your mind and body to the limit in a feat of superhuman endurance. It's not posting a few snaps of your toddler and waiting for your friends to type "aw gorgeous hun xxx" underneath. And it's unclear whether the challenge in question is to prove what a great mother you are, or merely to challenge your friends to prove that they are too.
This insidious idea of motherhood as a beatific vocational calling began with the Virgin Mary, and reached its peak with the Victorian notion of "the angel of the hearth", when mothers who didn't have to work, and had nannies and housekeepers and nursery maids rushing about looking after their children, were depicted as celestial beings radiating goodness, their sole purpose on Earth to gather little children to their rustling taffeta bosoms and gently instruct them. These women often died in childbirth, completing their ascent to sainthood in record time. They were not flesh and blood beings, but an idea, created by the prevailing culture, suggesting that mothering was woman's high and only purpose.
The idea of tagging people you think are 'great mothers' is as offensive as tagging people you think are great in bed
This explains the derogatory references to spinster aunts – the unfortunate "freaks" who remained childless, whiskered of chin and bitter of manner. Literature is full of these woman, from Lady Macbeth to Mrs Danvers in Rebecca; women robbed of their natural purpose who descend into madness and fury.
But two world wars which required women to go out to work, the pill, and the fight for equality in the latter part of the 20th century meant motherhood became less fetished. That is, until the rise of the internet and the "mummy blogger". Suddenly, every other Twitter biography had to state its owner was "proud to be a mummy" or a "mumpreneur" who just couldn't find the right softness of cot blanket, so made them herself from possum fur and appeared on Dragons' Den. Instagram is full of gently faded bunting and giggling babies feeding strawberries to their shiny-haired mummies, blogs are packed with tips for having a wonderful time with your "angels", and it no longer seems easy to admit to finding motherhood painful or depressing, or wanting to crack your wailing child over the head with its capriciously flung egg spoon, because the consensus is that you're #blessed.
'If you've tried for years to conceive and now have a darling laughing baby, it must feel wonderful. But there's a world of difference between happiness and smugness.' Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA
Of course, if you've tried for years to conceive, and now you have a darling, laughing baby in your arms, it must feel wonderful. But there's a world of difference between happiness and smugness (defined as "having an excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements"). Many mothers simply feel inadequate most of the time, and that sense of failure is exacerbated dramatically by others boasting about how easy and rewarding they find it all, from first "latching on" to graduation ("So proud!!").
There was no Facebook in my son's babyhood, but if there had been, I'd have steered clear of plastering him all over it and tagging other women who were, in my view, "great mothers". Firstly, because it doesn't take a gargantuan leap of empathy to understand that there are many women who wanted children but for various reasons didn't have them. There are many who have lost children. Equally there are many women with children who are depressed, worried sick about their teenager, or desperately missing their adult child. I'm pretty sure they don't feel a great deal better when their timeline is full of people boasting about their happy families.
How to talk to children (even if you don't have any)
It's not the casual posting of photos aimed at friends that I mind. It's the revived fetishisation of motherhood, the idea that it's a "challenge" that only "mummies" can understand, an exclusive, excluding club of laughing, shiny, breast-feeding super-beings who know exactly how to raise "great kids" and will only invite others of their kind to join the party. In truth, the idea of tagging people you think are "great mothers" is as offensive as tagging people you think are great in bed. How do you know if they are? And how do the ones who don't get tagged, and see that smug little list of anointed "great mums" feel? If anyone's judging you as a mother, it should be your children – and nobody else.
Nobody is always a great mum, few people are truly terrible mums, and motherhood shouldn't be a "challenge" that can be won or lost on the posting of a picture of some kid with banana round his mouth. Yes, it's just meant to be "a bit of fun". But in reality, the "motherhood challenge" is simply another way to measure women and find them wanting.


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Category: Trust & Probate Litigation
Anne Rudolph,
INTRODUCTION—THE ANTE-MORTEM PROBATE
Nine states have enacted legislation expressly authorizing ante-mortem proceedings to validate a will, a trust, or both.1 The goal of an ante-mortem probate—the Holy Grail—is to obtain an order precluding post-death contests of the validated document, granting it "total invincibility."2 Although validation proceedings do not result in any disposition of a decedent's property at the time of the validation, they have become known as "ante-mortem probate" proceedings."3
An ante-mortem probate to validate a will, a trust, or both, differs from a traditional post-mortem proceeding principally because the person creating the instrument is alive and available to testify about their wishes and demonstrate their capacity. The presence of this key witness should, the
argument goes, eliminate the all-too-familiar situation in which heirs and beneficiaries take advantage of death to make unfounded claims as to the validity of an instrument, usually based on incapacity and undue influence.
An example of the unreliable evidence presented postmortem appeared recently in Levin v. Winston-Levin,4 in which the trial court, "was, to say the least, not impressed with either side."5 Each claimant lacked credibility and each painted herself as the one loved by the deceased settlor of the trust at issue, "while depicting [the settlor] as distanced from, and distrusting of the other…."6 If the settlor had been willing to attempt to validate his documents in advance, and if the trial could have been held while the settlor was alive, the settlor's testimony could have improved the evidence and enhanced the reliability of the court's determinations, even if it may have also caused or exacerbated family discord.
The viability of ante-mortem probate is not free from debate. On one hand, a proponent of ante-mortem probate argues that the procedure is "[a] progressive technique with tremendous potential for improving the estate planner's ability to assure that a testator's desires will be carried out upon
death…."7 On the other hand, an opponent of ante-mortem probate argues that the proceeding does not just exacerbate family conflict but, moreover, "[a]ll proposed versions of ante-mortem probate have practical, constitutional, and policy issues that cannot be overcome."8 One of the constitutional issues that is difficult, if not impossible, to overcome is the need to notify potential heirs and beneficiaries of the proceedings as required by due process.9
A. Ante-Mortem Probate as a Lawyer's Tool
1. Is Ante-Mortem Probate in California
California has not expressly authorized ante-mortem validation of a will, and the authors are not aware of any statute or case that could be the basis for seeking ante-mortem validation of a will in California.
California does not have a statute expressly authorizing ante-mortem validation of a revocable trust. However, California's statutes and cases suggest that a revocable trust can be validated before the settlor's death. An ante-mortem trust validation is similar to a declaratory relief action, and California's probate courts have jurisdiction to grant declaratory relief.10 While the settlor is competent, Probate Code sections 15800 and 17200, together, authorize the settlor or the trustee to petition the court regarding the validity of a revocable trust and its provisions.11 If a trust is irrevocable, a trustee or beneficiary could file such a petition.12
In Conservatorship of Irvine, the Court of Appeal granted a trustee's petition to determine the validity of a trust amendment during the settlor's lifetime.13 In Irvine, the court held that a trial court's general jurisdiction under Probate Code section 17200 to determine the existence of a trust or a trust amendment was not limited to irrevocable trusts.14 In Drake v. Pinkham, the California Court of Appeal held that a beneficiary with knowledge that a settlor's trust amendment impacting the beneficiary's interests was executed when the settlor was allegedly incapacitated has standing to challenge the amendment while the settlor is alive and, indeed, a failure to challenge the amendment during the settlor's lifetime may
bar a post-mortem contest.15
Given these cases and statutes, a California practitioner may be able to cobble together a proceeding that would provide the practitioner's client with a probate court order confirming a revocable trust that could not be challenged by disgruntled heirs or beneficiaries post-mortem. However, the California path is anything but straight and narrow, and since other states have statutes that expressly authorize the practitioner and the client to grasp the Holy Grail of incontestability for a trust and/or a will, it is worthwhile to pay some attention to those statutes.
2. Ante-Mortem Probate in Other States
As noted above, nine different states have expressly authorized ante-mortem proceedings to validate trusts, wills, or both. This article focuses on the Alaska statute, because, as explained below, it is more expansive than some others, and because Alaska is not that far from California.
3. The Purpose of This Tip of the Trade Article
This article is not designed to argue the merits of antemortem probate. It is designed, rather, to alert California practitioners to the idea that they might be able to validate their clients' estate plans (and preclude post-mortem contests) under California law or the laws of another state. While California lawyers may not rush to pursue ante-mortem probates, the possibility of doing so in an appropriate case is a valuable tool in the California practitioner's kit.
B. The Ravet Case—The Sort of Case That Calls for Ante-Mortem Probate
Wealthy San Diego residents Shirley and Emanuel Ravet had three daughters and a son, Gary.16 Gary was a lawyer who "was a party to over 100 lawsuits—some of them filed by him and some filed against him."17 One infamous case involved a dispute with his health club, Personalized Workout of La Jolla ("Workout"), over membership fees. Gary lost his suit and, in 2003, Workout was awarded $867.
Workout then sued Gary for malicious prosecution, and Gary lost big. The jury awarded Workout $383,654.18 While the malicious prosecution case was pending, Gary engaged in a series of asset transfers that involved his parents and his girlfriend. After Gary lost the resulting fraudulent transfer case, Forbes summarized the result: "Gary Ravet was able to turn the $867 dispute with Workout over the membership fees into an $883,654 judgment against himself, a $383,654 judgment against his mother Shirley and his father Emanuel's estate, and a $633,654 judgment against his ex-girlfriend….Well done, Gary, well done."19
After the Workout case concluded, and Gary's father had died, Gary's mother restated her trust. As might be expected, the Restatement favored Gary's sisters. Gary was to receive $250,000 and his sisters were to share the residue.20
Mrs. Ravet's Restatement named a Delaware institution as Co-Trustee with her. The Co-Trustees promptly filed a petition in the Delaware Chancery Court to validate the Restatement. On February 23, 2012, just two weeks after the Restatement was created, the Co-Trustees provided Gary notice by mail that he had 120 days to contest the trust in Delaware—Gary apparently ignored that first notice and many others.21 Gary filed a contest of the Restatement on July 26, 2012 "while his mother was still alive, and well beyond the 120-day period to contest the trust…."22 Gary did not serve his petition until, December 5, 2012, a few days after his mother had died.23 The Chancery Court determined that Gary's contest was timebarred.24 The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed February 12, 2015.25
Twelve days after the order, on February 24, 2015, Gary was found guilty of forgery of a deed of trust he recorded in his attempt to avoid the Workout judgment, and the judge let him know that he faced up to four years in prison.26 The next day, Gary committed suicide.27
Cases like Gary Ravet's do not come along every day, but it is wise for California lawyers to be aware that Delaware and other states offer the possibility of an ante-mortem validation proceeding when it is needed. Unfortunately, Gary's suicide did not clear up all the questions in the case, including the million-dollar question: "would the Delaware decision have
withstood all possible challenges?"
C. Potential Use of Foreign-State Ante-Mortem Probate Laws by California Attorneys
At the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) 2020 Annual Meeting, a panel discussed the various state ante-mortem probate statutes, suggesting that the statutes could be available for use by attorneys whose states had not adopted such statutes, as had been done in the Ravet case.28 The underlying theory is that, if the court exercises valid jurisdiction, under the Full Faith and Credit Clause, a judgment valid in one state is valid in another,29 so a judgment barring a post-death contest of a will or trust issued by one state should be valid and enforceable in all other states. Several states have, in essence, declared themselves open for the business of conducting ante-mortem probates. The Delaware statute provides that an ante-mortem proceeding can be initiated by a trustee or co-trustee doing business in Delaware. The Alaska statute is even more expansive. Under the Alaska statute, only an in-state trustee or co-trustee or the settlor (if a trustee or co-trustee is in Alaska) can petition to validate a living trust,30 but any "interested party" can commence an ante-mortem validation proceeding of a will, with no requirement that any person involved in the case must, be domiciled in, or a resident of, Alaska.31
D. Ante-Mortem Will Validation in Alaska32
In Alaska, "[a] testator, a person who is nominated in a will to serve as a personal representative, or, with the testator's consent, an interested party, may petition the court to determine that a living person's will is valid, subject only to subsequent revocation or modification."33 Standing to bring the petition is not limited to residents of Alaska. Thus, it appears that a California testator can bring an ante-mortem petition in Alaska seeking to validate a will executed in California. The statute contemplates such a petition and specifically provides that, if the testator is not a resident of Alaska, venue is "any judicial district of this state."34
The required contents of an ante-mortem petition to validate a will in Alaska are not surprising.
The petitioner must allege that a copy of the will is on file with the court together with the facts establishing that the will was executed properly.35 The petition must also state the names and addresses of "the testator's spouse, the testator's children, the testator's heirs, the personal representatives nominated in the will, and the devisees under the will."36 Minor heirs and devisees must be identified.37 (Since the identities of a person's heirs are determined at death, this notice provision is problematic.) Notice of the hearing on the petition is generally 14-days' notice by mail.38 The petitioner bears the burden of "establishing prim facie proof of the execution of the will…."39 "A person who opposes the petition has the burden of establishing the lack of testamentary intent, lack of capacity, undue influence, fraud, duress, mistake, or revocation."40
At the conclusion of the proceeding, the court can determine the will to be valid and "make other findings of fact and conclusions of law that are appropriate under the circumstances."41 If the court determines the will to be valid, "the will has full legal effect as the instrument of the disposition of the testator's intent and shall be admitted to probate upon request."42 The determination is binding on "[a] person, whether the person is known, unknown, born, or not born at the time of [the] proceeding."43 If a guardian ad litem was appointed to represent minors or unborn persons, the minors or unknown persons are bound "even if, by the time of the testator's death, the representing person has died or would no longer be able to represent the person represented in the proceeding…."44
If a testator desires to modify his or her will after the court validates it, the testator can do so.45 However, the modification is not protected by the original determination.46 The possibility that a validated document could later be changed, resulting in further litigation (either ante-mortem or post-mortem) suggests that an ante-mortem probate is best employed when the possibility of a later change appears minimal.
E. Ante-Mortem Trust Validation in Alaska
The procedures for the ante-mortem validation of a living trust in Alaska are similar to those for the ante-mortem validation of a will. The key difference is that a trust validation procedure can be filed in Alaska only if one of the trustees is a resident of Alaska or is a trust company or bank that does business in Alaska.47
F. Observations Regarding Ante-Mortem Proceedings
Any attempt to obtain an ante-mortem validation of a will or a trust in California, Alaska, or another state deserves detailed consideration and analysis. Some preliminary questions and observations follow.
What notice is required? Beneficiaries with interests as remote as future contingent interests are entitled to notice.48 Heirs may be entitled to notice.49 How can those beneficiaries be identified and noticed while the settlor is alive? If at the settlor's death there is a person who ends up being an heir or a beneficiary but was not noticed, is the court's validation effective at all? Or, is it effective only as to those who did receive notice? Must a guardian ad litem always be appointed?
Would it be possible to validate a pour-over will in Alaska without revealing the contents of the trust or trusts into which it will distribute its assets? What would be the effect of such a proceeding?
Since a trust defines a trustee's legal relationship to property,50 must the property in the trust be disclosed in an ante-mortem proceeding to validate the trust? Or, are the assets of the trust irrelevant to a proceeding to determine its validity? How can a determination of validity be made without consideration of who is getting what? If a trust is validated and
property is later added to it, must the later transfer to the trust be re-validated?
What discovery of the settlor's capacity will the trial court permit?
What discovery of the trust property will the trial court permit?
What steps must be taken to ensure that any judgment obtained in a foreign state will be recognized in California? Will the notice provided under the statute of a foreign state comply with the due process requirements of Roth v. Jelley?51
It would be prudent to take as many steps as possible to validate jurisdiction in the foreign state. For example, it would be a good idea for the petitioner in an ante-mortem will validation proceeding in Alaska to move to Alaska during the pendency of the proceeding (or to at least rent an apartment or open a bank account there) to ensure minimum contacts with Alaska, justifying jurisdiction under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.52 Similarly, any co-trustee named in a foreign state should be more than a figurehead.
G. Conclusion
Lawyers need as many tools as possible to help their clients. California lawyers do not have their own express ante-morte probate statute but, in proper cases, they might consider making use of California's cases and statutes which, together, may authorize ante-mortem trust validation. California lawyers might also consider making use of antemortem probate statutes that have been enacted in Alaska and in other states. Obviously, as with any strategic decision on behalf of a client, expected costs and benefits should be weighed prior to proceeding.
*Hughes & Pizzuto, APC, San Diego, California
These states are North Dakota, Ohio, Arkansas, Alaska, New Hampshire, Delaware, North Carolina, Nevada, and South Dakota.
See Beyer, Just Because You Are Still Alive Doesn't Mean You Cannot Probate Your Will: Ante-Mortem Probate as the Ultimate Will Contest Prevention Technique (a paper presented at ACTEC 2020 Annual Meeting, March 7, 2020, Boca Raton, Florida, Seminar F).
See also Akers, ACTEC 2020 Meeting Musings, pp. 37-38 (summarizing materials presented at ACTEC 2020 Annual Meeting) [hereinafter Beyer].
Much of this article is based on material presented by Professor Beyer, Michael M. Gordon, and Sally H. Mulhern at the ACTEC 2020 annual meeting.
Id. at p. 17.
Id. at p. 1.
Levin v. Winston-Levin (2019) 39 Cal.App.5th 1025.
Id. at p. 1033.
Beyer, supra, at p. 1.
Bradley, Antemortem Probate Is a Bad Idea: Why Antemortem Probate Will Not Work and Should Not Work (Jan. 27, 2016) p. 3 https://ssrn.com/abstract=2723433.
Mullane v. Central Hanover Tr. Co. (1950) 339 U.S. 306; Roth v. Jelley (2020) 45 Cal.App.5th 655.
Stewart v. Towse (1988) 203 Cal.App.3d 425, 429-430.
Probate Code section 17200(a) provides that "[e]xcept as provided in Section 15800, a trustee or beneficiary of a trust may petition the court … concerning the internal affairs of the trust." Probate Code sections 17200(b)(1)-(3) includes the following as proceedings concerning the internal affairs of a trust: "Determining questions of construction of a trust instrument," "[d]etermining the existence or nonexistence of any power, privilege, duty or right," and "[d]etermining the validity of a trust provision." Probate Code section 15800 provides that while a trust is revocable, only the settlor has the rights afforded to beneficiaries under trust law, meaning that only the settlor or trustee could file a petition concerning the internal affairs of a trust pursuant to Probate Code section 17200.
If the trust instrument in question is irrevocable, a trustee or a beneficiary could bring a petition under Probate Code section 17200, but presumably not the settlor (unless the settlor were a beneficiary under the irrevocable trust). See Prob. Code, section 17200(a).
Conservatorship of Irvine (1995) 40 Cal.App.4th 1334, 1341-1343.
Drake v. Pinkham (2013) 217 Cal.App.4th 400. Among the difficulties that arise from the Drake v. Pinkham approach is that the settlor can sign a new trust while the contest of the first trust is pending. If this occurs, the first contest becomes moot. The process can be repeated over and over again, frustrating any attempt at finality.
Adkisson, The $867 Dispute Becomes an $883,654 Judgment in Ravet (Jan. 22, 2014) Forbes Magazine https://www.forbes.com/sites/jayadkisson/2014/01/22/the-867-dispute-becomes-an-883654-judgment-in-ravet/#e9e70b0542d5 [hereinafter Adkission].
Adkisson, supra.
Matter of Restatement of Declaration of Trust Creating the Survivor's Trust Created Under the Ravet Family Trust Dated Feb. 9, 2012, C.A. No. 7743-VCG, 2014 WL 2538887 (Del. Ch. June 4, 2014).
Beyer, supra, at p. 62.
Letter Opinion, supra, at p. 1.
Ravet v. The Northern Trust Company of Delaware and Barry C. Fitzpatrick, in Their Capacity as Co-Trustees, (Del. 2015).
Beyer, supra, at p. 63. See also Davis, Ex-lawyer Convicted of Forgery, Bad Checks (Aug. 24, 2016) San Diego Union-Tribune
Beyer, supra, at p. 63
Beyer, supra.
Alaska Statutes, section 13.12.535.
The authors thank Jo A. Kuchle and Danielle Gardner, attorneys in Alaska, for providing insights into the Alaska procedures.
Alaska Statutes, section 13.12.540, subd. (a)(2).
Alaska Statutes, section 13.12.545, subd. (10).
Alaska Statutes, sections 13.12.565, 13.06.110.
Alaska Statutes, sections 13.12.535, 13.12.590(1), 13.36.390(3).
Roth v. Jelley, supra, 45 Cal.App.5th 655.
Alaska Statutes, section 13.12.545(11).
Moeller v. Super. Ct. (1997) 16 Cal.4th 1124, fn. 3.
See Roth v. Jelley, supra, 45 Cal.App.5th 655 (holding that a beneficiary with a contingent future remainder interest in a trust was entitled to notice of a proceeding to modify that trust when his identity was known and his address could be determined).
See Internat. Shoe Co. v. Washington (1945) 326 U.S. 310.
What Role Should A Court-Appointed Attorney Play When Representing An Incapacitated Client?
Is The Attorney To Be An Advocate For The Client's Interests?
When an incapacitated adult, or an allegedly incapacitated adult, must appear in probate court, probate courts often appoint an attorney to represent the incapacitated or allegedly incapacitated adult. Although the appointment of an attorney for an incapacitated adult or an allegedly incapacitated adult has been required by law in certain cases for years, the precise role that the appointed attorney is to play in the case is not well-defined.
Is the attorney to be an advocate for the client's interests as determined by the client or is the attorney to tell the judge what the attorney thinks is in the client's interests regardless of the client? Historically, many probate judges have expected and even required an attorney appointed to represent an incapacitated or allegedly incapacitated adult to function as a reporter to the court. That is, the judges expect the appointed attorney to file a report indicating the appointed attorney's impressions, opinions, and conclusions regarding the propriety of the proceeding even if the attorney's opinions and conclusions differ from those of his or her client. For example, an attorney appointed to represent an allegedly incapacitated adult might report to the court that a conservatorship for his or her client is appropriate when the client actually wants to resist the imposition of a conservatorship.
The Courts Have It Wrong
In this article, Anne and I argue that the judges who encourage or require appointed attorneys to provide their own conclusions to the court have it wrong, and that practice in probate courts around the state should change. According to the research done by Anne and Ralph, California law as it exists today already requires an appointed attorney to be a zealous and confidential advocate for the client's interests as determined by the client and prohibits an appointed attorney from acting as a reporter to the court. Their conclusion is that the practice of encouraging and requiring reports from appointed attorneys may be traditional, but it is wrong. Instead, California probate judges should expect an attorney appointed to represent an incapacitated adult or an allegedly adult to advocate the client's own interests, not the client's interests as determined by the attorney.
Not All Judges Agree
Several probate judges around the state have responded to the article. Not all judges agree, but at least one probate judge has changed the local rules governing appointed attorneys practicing in her courtroom as a result of the article.
It is likely that legislation will be proposed to clarify that California law requires the appointed attorney to advocate the interests of his or her client, as determined by the client.
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As a result of the publication of this article, Anne and Ralph have been invited to present their thoughts on the issue to three gatherings of California attorneys in October.
Both Anne and Ralph will speak at the Aviva K. Bobb Advance Court Appointed Counsel Training Program on October 5, 2019, in Los Angeles.
Anne will give a presentation to the California Young Lawyers Association in Monterey on October 11.
Both Anne and Ralph will present their thoughts to the estate planning attorneys assembled at the annual convention of the California Lawyers Association in Monterey on October 12.


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This year is an important anniversary for Jaguar and they, appropriately, started it out with a bang. Supported by the Heritage Trust and Jaguar Cars, Jaguar showcased their iconic 'works team' in the 2010 Mille Miglia revival event in Italy to celebrate their most prestigious models.
However, Jaguar hasn't only been looking to the past this year – they are also preparing for a ground-breaking future.
In a recent press release, Jaguar Land Rover proudly announced that they have received governmental funding to help them speed up the development of technologies that will significantly reduce CO2 emissions. Since this funding was awarded to them, they have started 16 new development projects, including a Turbine Hybrid Jaguar that is causing a considerable stir among consumers as they await a glimpse of the expected prototype.
A turbine propulsion system was tried by Chrysler a few years ago, with their Turbine Coup line, but their cars had problems. The throttle lagged, there were high exhaust temperatures, low-end torque, and there were only mediocre results in fuel economy to show for it. In general, the electric turbine system was not suited to the rapid acceleration cycles required for quick stop-and-go driving. Still, for steady acceleration and maneuverability, the electric power generated by the turbine systems was more than sufficient.
We will see is Jaguar is able to work out those bugs from their version.
Jaguar will be working with the British gas turbine company Bladon Jets and electric motor company SR Drives to develop the proposed project, using the $24 million that was given to them as in the government funding package to support developmental efforts.
The Chrysler Coup version used turbine technology to turn the driveshaft. The Jag, in contrast, would use a miniature gas turbine that generates energy for the electric motor. In a press release, Bladon said that these axial flow turbines are lightweight, small, and could run on anything from natural gas to biofuel, which would mean that they may have figured out how to bypass the problems that the Chrysler Coup had. The biofuel aspect is welcome news to environmentally friendly consumers who are interested in alternative energy options.
The Jaguar turbine system is purported to be more refined and, thankfully, to have an interior environmental noise level of somewhere in the more acceptable range of 85 decibels.
The rumor mill says that the newly launched 2011 Jaguar XJ luxury sedan is expected to be the model chosen to include an extended range electric version in a few years. That version is supposed to be the one that may provide the platform for this jet-powered (without the noise) system. Time will tell.
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The sequel to Withering Tights - winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010 - The second book in the hilarious series from the original Queen of Teen. You'll laugh your tights off . . . Yaroooo! Tallulah's triumphant Heathcliff in 'Wuthering Heights' the comedy musical was enough to secure her place at Dother Hall Performing Arts College for another term. She can't wait to see her pals again, Charlie and the boys from Woolfe Academy and maybe even bad-boy Cain... Could the bright lights of Broadway be calling? And for who? Find out in the next Misadventures of Tallulah Casey... Praise for WITHERING TIGHTS: I don't know how, but Louise Rennison has done it again. Tallulah is even funnier, warmer, and sweeter than her cousin Georgia Nicolson. I fell in love with Withering Tights, and you will too! - Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries and Abandon series
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