Array of 50 contemporary poems comprising many themes that resonate with the reader at different levels.Beyond Opaque where real and surreal merges and flows together elevating common perceptions to uncommon pinnacles. Glimpses of "beyond" in life and nature, glamour of creative-fanciful, opening doors unexpected, transporting the reader to contemplative beauty and truth in us around us.
Prader-Willi Syndrome: Growing Older challenges readers to think about quality of life and the aging process. Importantly, it documents the stories of Canadians with Prader-Willi syndrome who are over the age of 40.People with developmental disabilities are human beings just like you. We have feelings, dreams and personal thoughts. We have a heart, soul, mind and spirit and we need you to understand us. Understanding and caring are two of the most important things that you can do for us. I want to have the CHOICE to decide what I want in my life. I want to have an apartment with my own support workers to help me keep myself and my apartment clean, to monitor my food intake and keep me safe. I know that I need someone to keep the cupboards locked and I need someone to keep me active to control my weight. I want to have some fun in my life. I have the right to have the same CHOICES in life that you do. Without choices my right to freedom is being denied. (John, age 40) I live independently. I am a 40-year-old adult. I am living on a farm. I finally feel that I have freedom and less controls and more choices - I love my life. (Angela, age 40)Living independently with staff support is my greatest accomplishment. This was worth fighting for. (LeeAnne, age 40)
This is an extensive review of the changing nature of American charitable estate planning from 1992-2012 including over 50 charts and graphs. It is presented in simple, visual fashion with each page containing a graph or chart, comments on the importance of the information, and details about the methodology behind the data. Much of the information presented comes from a long-running, nationally-representative, longitudinal survey including information about the final estate distributions from over 10,000 survey respondents who have died during the study. Major sections include (1) National demographic trends, (2) Trends in charitable plans among those aged 55+, (3) Examining matured plans of deceased respondents, and (4) Timing of charitable plan changes.Charts include: Population trends: Births; Total resident population by 5-year age groups; Total deaths in the United States; Percent childless women at age 40-44 in the U.S.; U.S. population share with bachelor's degree and above; U.S. aged 55+ giving and volunteering; Charitable planning among those with a will or trust; Charitable planning among those with a will or trust by age segment; Use of a will or trust; Use of a will or trust by age segment; Comparative use of funded trust or will alone; Use of funded trust by age segment; Use of will alone by age segment; Charitable planning by household type; Charitable planning among those with a will or trust by household type; Use of will or trust by household type; Use of funded trust by household type; Charitable planning among those with will or trust by race/ethnicity; Use of will or trust by race/ethnicity; Use of funded trust by race/ethnicity; Charitable planning by race/ethnicity; Charitable planning by family status; Use of will or trust by family status; Charitable planning among those with a will or trust by family status; Charitable planning by education level; U.S. population aged 55+ education level; Use of will or trust by education level; Use of funded trust by education level; Charitable planning among those with a will or trust by giving/volunteering; Use of will or trust by giving/volunteering; Charitable planning by wealth; Use of will or trust by wealth; Charitable planning among those with a will or trust by wealth; Use of funded trust by wealth; Estates where decedent had reported having a written and witnessed will; Estates where decedent had reported having a funded trust; Estates where decedent had reported having a charitable plan; Estates where decedent with no surviving spouse had reported a charitable plan; Mortality by gender, wealth and charitable planningCumulative percentage of charitable bequest; dollars by donor age at death; Timing of plan creation among decedents who generated charitable estate gifts; Timing of document creation among decedents dying with planning documents; Charitable bequests by gender and marital status; Giving and volunteering by estate donors; 10-year retention of charitable estate plans; Predicting likelihood of leaving a charitable estate gift (single variables); Predicting likelihood of leaving a charitable estate gift (1-10 variable models); Predicting amount of charitable estate gift (single variables); Predicting amount of charitable estate gift (1-10 variable models); Timing of Charitable Plan Changes; Triggers for adding charitable plans; Triggers for dropping charitable plans; Combined effects for adding/dropping charitable plans;
Published months before the Battle of Jutland, W. M. James' book was originally published as New Battleship Organisations. It was considered the ultimate guide to command and organization of every aspect of a modern First World War capital ship. Now republished as The Royal Navy Officer's Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916, this reprint marks the centenary of the First World War's most famous and deadly naval encounter. This small, but infinitely interesting manual provides a unique and highly revealing insight into life aboard ship: the mechanics of command and seamanship, the issuing of orders, and the broad expectations placed upon British naval officers. Specific sections are dedicated to the organization of watches; the division of work; naval routine; parades; anchor and cable work; coaling; the organization of chapel; on-board shops; cleaning; and even the ship's barbers. A series of detailed tables, diagrams, and humorous cartons accompany the lucid, period language of the First World War Senior Service and provide a further glimpse below-deck that will appeal to social and family historians as well as anyone with an interest in naval history.
According to detractors, Captain Cook's centricity to the founding of Australia is a harmful colonialist "myth". The man many of them blame for starting that myth is Sir Joseph Carruthers, one of the Fathers of Federation. Just in time for the 250th anniversary of Cook's landing at Kurnell, the reader can now judge for themselves. Carruthers believed that Cook's life was a meritocratic success story that should be held up as an example for his young nation to emulate. His passion was so infectious that it not only won over the Australian public, but managed to unite the whole of the English-speaking Pacific to come together to celebrate their greatest pioneer.
