Imagine building a new home without a set of blueprintssounds absurd, doesnt it? Its no different than creating an estate plan without establishing planning goals, but far too often people engage in estate planning without thinking about what they want to accomplish. In Secure Your Legacy, attorney Richard J. Shapiro tackles the daunting aspects of estate planning and elder law. He answers questions such as: How do you determine if you need a will or a trust (or both)? Whats the difference between a revocable and irrevocable trust? How do you protect assets if you need long-term care? How do you reduce your exposure to estate taxes? He also shares tips on planning for a child with special needs, transferring a business, and ensuring a beloved pet is taken care of if you die or become incapacitated. He also explains why you should never create an estate plan online. Filled with real-world examples, this guide gives you the critical information you need to work with an attorney to create an estate plan that protects you and your loved ones.
How to manage your retirement corpus is a must-read financial guide for retirees and for individuals approaching retirement soon. Retirement challenges us like nothing else. Retirement empowers us to reinvent our Lives and our Finances. The future after retirement is a blank slate akin to an 18-year-old. You can start afresh and write whatever you want, but you need money for everything and that is limited. You need a financial plan to make the most of the income and savings that you have available, make sure it lasts your lifetime and there is some inheritance left for your kids too. This book is all about achieving these goals through astute investment strategies. You will find answers to these FAQs here - How to manage your limited Retirement corpus? How much monthly expense fits my current Retirement corpus? How much investment risk should I take on my Retirement corpus? Do I need Health Insurance? What are the options for regular income after retirement? How different is investment planning before & after Retirement?
Anthony Panizzi (1797-1879), was a naturalised British librarian of Italian birth and an Italian patriot. He was the Principal Librarian of the British Museum from 1856 to 1866. Apart from being a personal friend of British Prime ministers Lord Palmerston and William Ewart Gladstone, Panizzi conducted an active correspondence with Sardinian, and later Italian Prime Minister Count Camillo Benso di Cavour. In 1844, he assisted Giuseppe Mazzini, then in exile in London, by publishing an influential article denouncing the practice ordered by the Home Secretary of ordering Mazzini's private letters opened by the Post Office and giving copies of their contents to the Austrian Embassy. He also orchestrated a visit of Giuseppe Garibaldi to England, and convinced Gladstone to travel to Naples to view personally the inhumane conditions in which political prisoners were kept. Panizzi was a strong advocate of free and equal access to learning. He was influential in enforcing the Copyright Act of 1842, which required British publishers to deposit with the library a copy of every book printed in Britain. For his extraordinary services as a librarian, in 1869 he was knighted by Queen Victoria. In addition to his English knighthood, Panizzi was given an honorary degree by Oxford University, the Légion d'Honneur from France, various chivalric honours from the Italian Government and Crown, and in 1868 was appointed as a senator in the Italian Parliament.
Learn how to: - Increase the value of real estate - immediately - Minimize tax obligations year after year - Beat the banks at their own game - Structure deals and cash flow exit strategies Throughout the playbook, he highlights strategies to minimize the taxes you pay, explaining how the government incentivizes investors and business owners to pump money back into the economy. When your money is working for you by making more money, you can put that money into productive businesses, investment ventures, and missions you believe in. Find out how to do it, step by step, with the lessons in Freedom through Cash Flow.
Both pragmatic and motivational, this book addresses what it means to have a successful long-term career in the arts, taking stock of the current landscape of the art world, introducing new venues in the field, reflecting on issues of social media and exhibition, and ultimately encouraging artists to take control of their professional lives. Weaving conversations from a range of internationally based artists who have negotiated alternative paths to success, lauded artist and teacher Stacy Miller provides a practical, lively reflection on what it takes to be an artist in our new global landscape. This book covers practical needs, different approaches, and philosophical ways of creating a life and career in the arts. It lays out conventional and nonconventional means to representation, describes being an entrepreneur versus funding independent creative projects, and examines social media for the potential powerhouse it is. Most importantly, it gives artists a way to think about being a professional and the different paths to a successful career in the arts. Perfect for emerging, mid-career, and experienced artists, this book encourages readers to redefine personal success and to act locally, nationally, and internationally in an expanding art world.
In the midst of a turbulent storm, world-renowned heart specialist and inventor Dr. Rick Stevens questions his existence. Estranged from his wife and children, and with his life and career falling apart, he wonders where his life is going and where its been. With a storm pounding both outside and within him, Rick finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to when hes twelve years old and attending Camp Silverheart. This special campopen by invitation only teaches campers to live in balance with nature and works to awaken each childs natural gifts and brilliance. In one eventful week, Rick and his fellow campm8s face life and death and discover the power to choose their ultimate path in life. By exploring the struggle between faith and fear and the choices that shape our lives, Rick is better prepared to re-enter his life in the present. Will his mysterious journey back to his innocence impact the world now and in the future?
This book will provide you the direction and knowledge you will need to confidently take the appropriate steps toward an estate plan that fits your current and future needs. Inside you will find information regarding wills and trusts, powers of attorney, living wills and medical directives, Medicaid, nursing home planning, probate, taxes, and international planning considerations.
People want to change things, improve the world. Our mind cannot live without meaning. Just like the body asks for food. We all know that we have the leverage to make things happen. It’s important to know what to do, but it’s even more important to remember why you do what you do. Leaving a legacy is about impact surviving the erosion of time. About scaling and accelerating positive impact. Be ready to get inspired about leaving your own legacy. How do you leave a legacy? What drives a legacy? How about your legacy statement? And how about increasing your impact? Will you choose for scaling up, scaling deep, scaling out, or maybe even scaling down? Get carried away by the impact point of view and discover how you can increase the impact of your organization too. This book reveals strategies of a diversity of organizations, from NPO’s over associations, governmental and knowledge institutes to commercial organizations, who succeeded in increasing their social impact. Because no matter in what kind of organization you are spending your days, you too may leave a legacy that has improved our world socially or ecologically. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Kaat Peeters is an impact maker with a track record in associations as well as governmental institutes. Kaat established a European network and was responsible, as manager, to develop two newly founded associations in the cultural field into solid organizations. Meanwhile, Kaat ran a shop in Persian and Arabic interior objects and a Bed&Breakfast. In 2013, Kaat established the ‘Sociale Innovatiefabriek’, a Belgian based accelerator that stimulates and facilitates social innovation and social entrepreneurship counting an amazing community of more than 500 innovators. Nowadays, Kaat is lecturer social innovation at the University College ‘Erasmushogeschool’ and with her consulting organisation ‘Impact Projects’, Kaat supports impact organisations with their growth strategies. As hands-on Board of Directors member of cultural associations and social enterprises, making impact is always of paramount importance in her work. Impact has become the baseline of both her personal and professional life. Omar Mohout, currently Entrepreneurship Fellow at Sirris, is a former technology entrepreneur, a widely published technology author, C-level advisor to high growth startups as well as Fortune 500 companies and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Antwerp, the Antwerp Management School, ULB and Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. He is Co-chair of the Circle Of Growth; Community host for Corporate Venturing Europe; Organizer of the Growth Hacking Meetup, Co-founder of the #BeTech Community and keeps track of European funding and scaleups on scaleups.sirris.be.
A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events explores the traces of London’s most significant modern ‘mega events’. Though only open for a few weeks or months, mega events permanently and disruptively reshape their host cities and societies: they demolish and rebuild whole districts, they draw in materials and participants from around the globe and their organisers self-consciously seek to leave a ‘legacy’ that will endure for decades or more. With London as his case study, Jonathan Gardner argues that these spectacles must be seen as long-lived and persistent, rather than simply a transient or short-term phenomena. Using a novel methodology drawn from the subfield of contemporary archaeology – the archaeology of the recent past and present-day – a broad range of comparative studies are used to explore the long-term history of each event. These include the contents and building materials of the Great Exhibition’s Crystal Palace and their extraordinary ‘afterlife’ at Sydenham, South London; how the Festival of Britain’s South Bank Exhibition employed displays of ancient history to construct a new post-war British identity; and how London 2012, as the latest of London’s mega events, dealt with competing visions of the past as archaeology, waste and ‘heritage’ in creating a vision of the future.
Are you confident your clothes suit you and reflect who you really are? Drawing on early twentieth century purchasing patterns and advice, through two World Wars and the Great Depression, Alexandria Blaelock describes a four-step system for developing your wardrobe plan. You’ll learn what you need to know, to have the courage to make a plan and stick with it. • Your budget • What’s appropriate • Your style • What you need And the background knowledge that will make your wardrobe plan last; how to: • create wardrobe capsules • perform wardrobe reviews • prepare to shop • identify good fit and quality • care for your clothing • maintain your body shape All so you can confidently build your signature wardrobe.
