Timonium Family Settles Back Into Home After Fire - Lutherville ...

Slowly but surely, the Franz family is getting back to the old swing of things.

Their home was destroyed last April by an accidental electrical fire?--?a fire that claimed the lives of two of the family?s cats. Two weeks ago, they were finally able to move home after nine months.

Kathy Franz says she, her husband and two children have been slowly moving boxes back from her childhood home in Towson, where the family stayed for nine months while their home was rebuilt.

?It?s going to take a little bit of time,? Franz said. We were so blessed that we had my mom and dad?s house.?

The home was two weeks away from going on the market, following Kathy?s mother?s passing in February.

?It was two weeks away from not being about to be used,? Franz said. ?It was a Godsend that we had it.

?I see so many people have it so much worse than we did because they don?t have a place to go,? she continued.? ?The kids took to it like ducks to water. They settled in very quickly. We got a routine together. We continued to come back to the house to piece things together.?

But a roof over their heads wasn?t the only thing Franz was grateful for. It was the graciousness of her neighbors in the Pine Valley - Valleywood community who donated money, clothing, gift cards and time to a family in need.

Franz says a stronger community?was born?out of the tragedy.

?You have no idea,? she said. ?I tell people I?d never wish them to lose their home and all its contents ... however, I wish that everyone could experience the kind of community and overall support. Overwhelming is not the word for it?and it was constant.?

In the days immediately following the fire, neighbors helped collect donations for the family. The months the followed, different homes watched Franz?s kids so they could play with their friends.

In December, Franz posted the following message on the community? Facebook page:

To Our Pine Valley Family,?We hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday. We are almost back and hope to be in the house around mid January.

SO MANY people to thank for their generosity, kindness and love. Special thanks to The Pohlhaus family for watching over us (in so many ways!). Our neighbors Darlene and Justin for use of their house and their friendship. Andrea Bonaventura for collecting clothing, gift cards and just being a great friend.

Mary Zorbach for the meals she made us and keeping us in the loop! Karen Varelli for collecting donations from our church. Mary Neil Gathagan for rallying our NDP classmates with cards and donations.

The Parlar Family for the sleepovers for Maggie.If I have forgotten you please know that we appreciate everything that our neighbors have done for us this year. We live in a truly special community and I hope someday and someway to repay all of you for what you have given our family!! Have a safe and blessed Christmas. The Franz Family has so much to be thankful for and we can't wait to come home!!

AND of course thank you to Pinewood Elementary! Teachers, parents and especially the children lead by Alex Johnson who donated their money to help our family!!

Franz also thanked Chris Owen, a solicitor who first noticed the house was on fire and the man credited for getting her two children out of the house.

?I had thanked him several times afterwards," Franz said. "For some reason, he was put at our front door and I will be forever grateful to him for his involvement in calling the fire department and making sure the kids were out of the house.?

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Should Arab Islamists Go the ?Turkish Way?? | Morocco World News

By Loubna Flah

Morocco World News

Casablanca, January 31, 2013

The ascendency of political Islam as a result of the upsurge of religiosity in the Arab World is no longer a farfetched assumption, nor a visionary speculation, but a concrete reality. The anarchy ensued in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak and the arm wrestling between Marzouki and Ghanouchi?s disciples, in addition to the new interest nurtured by the Salafist to the realm of politics show that the road to democracy is long and strenuous.

The major challenge for the Arab revolution resides in the eradication of corruption and nepotism. Notwithstanding, the promise of democracy and prosperity is faced with crippling factors such as precarious infrastructure and the persistence of rentier economy. In addition, the enforcement of accountability remains new to these Arab countries and the procedures put forward still fall short from holding corrupt officials to account.

In this ambiguous context, Islamist politicians turn their attention to more successful models to anchor their new approach to governance. For the Islamist-led governments, the ?Turkish Way? appears to be the most tempting model by virtue of its resounding successes in public governance, economy as well as diplomacy.

The AKP Achievements and Challenges

The Turkish party AKP (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi) aggregated consecutive victories in the general election in 2002 and 2007. In the latest general elections held on June 12, 2011, the AKP secured 327 seats, which allowed for the formation of an AKP-led majority government. But what makes the AKP?s journey into power seem so exemplary?

First and foremost, the AKP had always to operate within the narrow framework of Kemmalist secularism. Thus, it opted for a less confrontational tactic in order to avoid any political paralysis that may ensue from an overt collision with the potent secular currents. ?The AKP remains fully aware that any insidious attempt to make Islamist claims on the public space in Turkey constitutes an attack on secularism, a sacrosanct principle that cannot be challenged legally.

Therefore, the AKP tries to obliterate its Islamist agenda by embarking on the path of economic and institutional reforms. ?The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an shifted his attention to more concrete policies that would spur economy and embolden Turkey?s geopolitical leverage within the international community.? According to the Turkish statistical institute, Turkey?s GDP reached a high record 6, 7% in June of 2009. The Turkish dynamic economy is an amalgam between modern industry and traditional agriculture.

Rabasa and Larrabee argue that the ascendency of the AKP to the Turkish political scene was essentially supported by a class of conservative Anatolian entrepreneurs who seek to instill Islamic values into business ethics and social policy and to end discrimination against religious Muslims (52).

?Erdogan is also accredited for neutralizing the power of the military, the staunch guardian of Ataturk?s legacy. Indeed, the Turkish military has been trying to curb the ascendency of the new political counterforce: the ?Muslim Democrats?. The arm wrestling between the executive and the military was heightened in several occasions. In this regard, the resignation of the chief of the Turkish armed forces along with the army, navy and air force heads after facing ?military coup? charges was the final blow administered by Endogen to the military.

Notwithstanding, the coexistence between secularists and the AKP has been often ?fraught with controversies and relentless clashes whenever the latter attempted ?to gain more ground in public space. The issue of headscarves among others set both trends in a collision course. The AKP claims that the right to display religious commitment pertains to individual liberties, whereas the secularist fringes suspect the ?Muslim democrats? of trying to enforce their Islamist agenda through an ?insidious? reformist process.

Thus, the balance of political power in Turkey is constantly shifting between the secular establishment and the Islamists. Even in foreign policy, the secular forces are not comfortable with the growing rapprochement with the Arab world at a time when the handling of the Turkish diplomacy by the AKP seems to stir admiration among Arabs.

Since its election, the AKP tried to maintain close ties with the European Union through its EU Membership application and a strategic relation with the United States as a member of NATO. The Turkish diplomacy has also succeeded in extending its tentacles to the Middle East, as well as a mediator in the Iranian nuclear crisis. Can this comprehensive model be replicated in countries led by Islamist parties like Egypt or in countries with an ideologically mixed coalition like Tunisia?

The AKP model and Arab Islamists

The above mentioned question has been often raised, especially after the ouster of dictators in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. Nonetheless, this question might be ill-formed as far as focus and intent are concerned. First, it is worth pondering whether the Turkish experience constitutes an exemplary pattern of governance in an ideologically mixed environment. In fact, the AKP has been unable to unfold its real agenda, since it has been constantly hassled by the secularist establishment and inhibited by a secular constitution.

On the other hand, the secularists are constantly trying to keep the ?Muslim democrats? at bay so as to constrain their attempts to ?Islamize? the country. Contrary to the system of ?checks and balances?, the tension between these warring factions poses a real threat to the country?s stability.

?As a result, the Turkish society finds itself entrenched in a permanent state of strain. The AKP for instance had to defend itself in the constitutional court for plotting an Islamic state. The dissolution of the Ruling party could have had disastrous effects on Turkish politics. Thus, we may ask whether democracy can be ensured in a state of permanent mistrust and strain between political parties.

Is the true exercise of democracy a game of elimination rather than alternation? These questions become more pressing in a context wherein the political parties bear ideological grudges against each other and where their political existence is conjured up as ?mutually exclusive?.

Last but not least, one needs to pinpoint that AKP?s mode of governance may not have seemed so appealing without its association with the booming of Turkish economy, which is owed not only to the AKP?s liberalization policy, but partially to the potential of the Turkish industry and infrastructure.

That said, drawing on the Turkish experience must be done with caution and lucidity. The Turkish model should not be replicated faithfully in the emerging Arab democracies, since the contextual variables in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya are of a different nature. Each of these countries has different levels of Islamist involvement in politics, as well as disparate economic assets, not to mention the discrepancy in their geopolitical value.

Nevertheless, as Rabasa and Larrabee argue, ?contemporary Turkey is a key test case for the role of Islam in politics and its influence on external policy?(3). The AKP experience may not present a roadmap for the Arab countries where the Islamists are currently at the helm of power. Yet, it can serve as a valuable reservoir of possibilities and anticipatory strategies to decide about the best consensual agreement between Islamists and secularists.

References

Rabasa, A. Larrabee Stephen. F (2008). The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey. Santa Monica : RAND, cop.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/turkey/gdp-growth

Loubna FLAH is a Moroccan national. She earned a ?Maitrise? degree in Biochemistry from the Mohammedia Faculty of Science and Technologies (FSTM). She obtained also a bachelor degree in English Studies from Ain Chok Faculty of Letters and Humanities. She graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Rabat as a high school teacher of English. She is currently reading for a Master in Literary and Linguistic Studies in Ain Chok Faculty of Letters and Humanities in Casablanca. She writes poetry and short stories that she intends to publish very soon (Email: flahloubna@gmail.com).

The views expressed in this article are the author?s own and do not necessarily reflect Morocco World News? editorial policy

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February 2013 Triangle Theater Calendar | Triangle Arts and ...

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NOTE: This is Triangle Review?s Master Theater Calendar for shows announced for the entire month of February. If your productions are not listed in this calendar, please e-mail the SHOW TITLE(S), DATE(S), LOCATION(S), and PRESENTER?S NAME to RobertM748@aol.com, and be sure to e-mail all your news releases and publicity PHOTOS to that address. (Our ?snail mail? address is Triangle Theater Review, 1828 Honeysuckle Road #13, Raleigh, NC 27609-6220.)

Feb. 1: ?February One? (The Carolina Theatre?s GlaxoSmithKline Arts Discovery Series).

Feb. 1: ?Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Live!,? starring Matt Iseman (Broadway Series South at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium). Preview.

Feb. 1: ?The Men in Me: Our Brothers, Our Fathers, Our Brothers, Our Sons ? Weaving More Compassion and Power into Their Stories,? written and performed by Anita Woodley (Princess Dragon Productions at CAARE Inc. in Durham).

Feb. 1-2; Feb. 7-10, 14-17: ?My Princess Bride,? a one-man show conceived and performed by Joe Brack (City Artistic Partnerships at Common Ground Theatre).

Feb. 1-3: Mike Daisey in ?American Utopias? (Duke Performances in the PSI Theater at the Durham Arts Council).

Feb. 1-3: ?Nerds? (North Carolina Theatre in A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater). Preview. Gephart Review. Potter Review.

Feb. 1-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24; Feb. 26-March 3: ?A Raisin in the Sun? and ?Clybourne Park,? performed in rotating repertory (PlayMakers Repertory Company in the Paul Green Theatre). Preview.

Feb.1-3; Feb. 7-10: ?The Swingin? Cowboys,? starring Jason Petty (Temple Theatre).

Feb. 1-3, 7-10, 14-17: ?Good? (Burning Coal Theatre Company in Murphey School Auditorium).

Feb. 1-3, 7-10, 14-17, 21-24: ?Bus Stop? (Raleigh Little Theatre in its Gaddy-Goodwin Teaching Theatre).

Feb. 1-3, 8-10: ?The Miracle Worker? (Cary Players at the Cary Arts Center).

Feb. 1-5: ?Broadway Melodies 2013? (Pauper Players at the Hanes Art Center at UNC-Chapel Hill).

Feb. 1-17: N.C. Comedy Arts Festival: Standup (Jan. 30-Feb. 3), Sketch (Feb. 7-10), and Improv (Feb. 12-17) (Dirty South Improv Comedy Theater at various locations).

Feb. 2: ?Jack Tales: Appalachian Adventures!? ( Raleigh Little Theatre?s ?Storytellers to Go!? Teen Performance Ensemble at the Halle Cultural Arts Center in Apex).

Feb. 2: ?Mama Juggs: The Breast Health Show,? written and performed by Anita Woodley (Princess Dragon Productions at CAARE Inc. in Durham).

Feb. 2: ?Sing-A-Long-A ?Sound of Music?? (Clayton Center Auditorium & Conference Center).

Feb. 2: Jerry Seinfeld (Durham Performing Arts Center).

Feb. 5: ?92nd Street Y: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor with Thane Rosenbaum? (The Carolina Theatre, in collaboration with Duke University).

Feb. 6: ?Freedom Train? (Classic Productions in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium).

Feb. 6: Arlo Guthrie in ?Here Comes the Kid: The Music of Woody Guthrie? (The Carolina Theatre).

Feb. 7: ?The Beast: Sanfoka: African American Music from Spirituals to Hip-Hop? (The Carolina Theatre?s GlaxoSmithKline Arts Discovery Series).

Feb. 7-11: ?Baby Blue? and ?July House,? performed in rotating repertory (UNC-Chapel Hill LAB! Theatre in the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre).

Feb. 8: ?Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till,? written and performed by Mike Wiley (Mike Wiley Productions at the Halle Cultural Arts Center in Apex).

Feb. 8: ?The Second City: Laughing Matters? (N.C. Comedy Arts Festival and The Carolina Theatre).

Feb. 8-9, 15-16: ?Space Pirates: A Musical Adventure Through Cyberspace? (Durham Family Theatre at Trinity United Methodist Church in Durham).

Feb. 8-10: ?I Love You, You?re Perfect, Now Change? (Pauper Players at the Hanes Art Center at UNC-Chapel Hill).

Feb. 8-10, 14-17, 22-24: ?The Pillowman? (Theatre In The Park).

Feb. 9: ?Jack Tales: Appalachian Adventures!? ( Raleigh Little Theatre?s ?Storytellers to Go!? Teen Performance Ensemble at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh).

Feb. 10: Steven Wright (The Carolina Theatre and the N.C. Comedy Arts Festival).

Feb. 12-14: Meow Meow in ?Beyond Glamour? (Duke Performances in the Sheafer Lab Theater).

Feb. 12-17: ?Mary Poppins? (Durham Performing Arts Center).

Feb. 12-17: ?Monty Python?s Spamalot? (Broadway Series South and North Carolina Theatre in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium).

Feb. 14-16: ?The Miles,? written and performed by Steven Li ?(Duke Theater Studies in the Brody Theater).

Feb. 15: ?The Marvelous Wonderettes? (Kirby Theater in Roxboro).

Feb. 15-17, 22-24; March 1-3: ?Julius Caesar? (The Justice Theater Project in Clare Hall at the Catholic Community of Saint Francis of Assisi in Raleigh).

Feb. 16: ?Jack Tales: Appalachian Adventures!? ( Raleigh Little Theatre?s ?Storytellers to Go!? Teen Performance Ensemble at the Southeast Regional Library in Garner).

Feb. 16-17, 22-23: ?Republic,? a Theater Previews New Works Lab, with guest playwright Alec Duffy and Hoi Polloi (Duke Theater Studies in Sheafer Theater).

Feb. 18: ?Yo Gabba Gabba Live!? (AC Entertainment and Broadway Series South in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium).

Feb. 21-23; Feb. 28-March 2; March 6-9: ?The New Electric Ballroom? (Manbites Dog Theater).

Feb. 21-24: ?Winter Acts? (Bare Theatre at Common Ground Theatre).

Feb. 22: ?Royal Comedy Tour,? Earthquake, Sommore, Arnez J, Bruce Bruce, and Mark Curry (Center Stage Comedy at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium).

Feb. 22-24: ?The Cocktail Hour? (Halle Cultural Arts Center in Apex).

Feb. 22-24: ?Glengarry Glen Ross? (Company Carolina in Historic PlayMakers Theatre at UNC-Chapel Hill).

Feb. 22-24, March 1-2: ?Sister Amnesia?s Country Western Nunsense Jamboree? (Neuse Little Theatre in ?The Hut? in Smithfield).

Feb. 23: ?Jack Tales: Appalachian Adventures!? (Raleigh Little Theatre?s ?Storytellers to Go!? Teen Performance Ensemble at the West Regional Library in Cary).

Feb. 27: ?92nd Street Y: Brian Williams with Jonathan Tisch? (The Carolina Theatre, in collaboration with Duke University).

Feb. 28-March 3; March 7-10, 14-17: ?Forever Plaid? (Temple Theatre).

EDITOR?S NOTE:

Robert W. McDowell is editor and publisher of Triangle Review, a FREE weekly e-mail arts newsletter. This calendar is reprinted with permission from Triangle Review.

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Washington - U.S. Backs Off Goal Of One Million Electric Cars By ...

Washington - The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday eased off President Barack Obama?s stated goal of putting 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015, and laid out what experts called a more realistic strategy of promoting advanced-drive vehicles and lowering their cost over the next nine years.

Since Obama announced the goal in his 2011 State of the Union speech, auto analysts and executives have doubted American consumers would buy a million electric vehicles by 2015.

?Whether we meet that goal in 2015 or 2016, that?s less important than that we?re on the right path to get many millions of these vehicles on the road,? an Energy Department official said, in advance of remarks by Energy Secretary Steven Chu in a speech at the Washington D.C. auto show.

The proposal to lower electric vehicle costs represents the first look at how U.S. auto policy may take shape during Obama?s next four years. His first term saw a flurry of initiatives related to the auto industry, beginning with government rescues of General Motors Co and Chrysler Group LLC.

Chu told reporters after his speech that he was excited by the advances in vehicle technology.

Asked about the 1 million electric vehicles goal, Chu said: ?It?s ambitious, but we?ll see what happens.?

Promoting plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles has been another long-running focus for the White House, which has also pushed for more stringent standards on fuel economy. Overall, U.S. federal policies to promote electric vehicles will cost $7.5 billion through 2019, the Congressional Budget Office said in September.

That includes $2.4 billion in grants to lithium-ion battery makers and projects to promote electric vehicles as well as $3.1 billion in loans to auto companies, intended to spur production of fuel-efficient vehicles.

But demand for hybrids and electric vehicles has been weaker than expected. Last year, nearly 488,000 hybrids, plug-in hybrids and electric cars were sold in the United States, accounting for 3.3 percent of the overall auto market, according to green-car website Hybridcars.com.

For the administration to meet its 2015 goal, electrified vehicles would have double their market share to roughly 6 percent of the U.S. auto market, which automotive consulting firm Polk estimates will reach 16.2 million vehicles that year.

Poor demand has hurt lithium-ion battery makers, pushing two DOE grant recipients, A123 Systems Inc and EnerDel, to file for bankruptcy protection.

Dow Chemical Co took a $1.1 billion charge last year, related in part to a writedown of its lithium-ion battery business, Dow-Kokam LLC.

Under the new strategy outlined on Thursday, the DOE is supporting research into new battery technologies and manufacturing methods that would lower the cost of lightweight materials and improve vehicles? fuel-efficiency.

Chu stressed that it was important to set high goals for electric car technology, because advanced vehicles will eventually be competing with internal combustion vehicles that get 45 miles per gallon fuel economy.

The DOE also confirmed its goal to lower the cost of lithium-ion batteries to $300 per kilowatt hour by 2015 from the present $650. The department eventually hopes to get the cost down $125 per kilowatt hour.

Ultimately, the department?s goal is to have about 500 companies offer workplace charging over the next five years. Several companies are already on board, including Google Inc, Verizon and General Electric Co.

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Want to disinherit a relative? It's complicated

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When Shirlee Smith left one of her four daughters out of her will, she was not trying to be mean.?

The Pasadena, Calif., resident says the 44-year-old daughter she disinherited is a college graduate and has a good job and a husband whose family is wealthy.?

"I never thought of it as disinheriting her," says Smith, 76. "I simply thought of it as providing for my kids who aren't doing so well in life."?

If Smith had more assets to fight over, she might be taking a chance by leaving one child out of her will. If the disenfranchised one gets angry enough, or the assets are large enough to make it worth it, he or she can sue in court to have the will overturned, experts say.?

And it is not just the wills of the famous, like singer Michael Jackson and actor Tony Curtis, that get disputed.?

"It happens more frequently than people think," says Ron Washburn, professor of legal studies at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. Any time a will contains a statement about a rift with a family member, "that statement is going to reverberate."?

Marina Modlin, an estate-planning lawyer in Campbell, Calif., says as many as 30 percent of her clients disinherit a family member from a will. Because she only handles cases in probate court if they are uncontested, she does not know how many of the wills she prepares are challenged, but she suspects it happens fairly often across the United States.?

"It's one of the most unreasonable areas of the law," she says. "With business contracts, they're grounded in fact, but here, you have people just getting upset, and they start basically suing because they have hurt feelings."?

Disinheriting someone can be a way to haunt a family member from beyond the grave, but there may be pragmatic reasons involved, as in Smith's case. So if you plan to leave someone out of a will, here is a blueprint for doing it:?

Spouses and minor children
Just as you cannot tell a divorce judge that you refuse to split assets or pay alimony, you cannot leave your surviving spouse's house and all of the money to a child or some other family member.?

Using language to disavow and disinherit your spouse will not help. Any lawyer will tell you that the spouse can waive the will and receive whatever he or she is entitled to under state law.?

Minor children are also protected by the courts. Whatever financial support the minor is entitled to receive, he or she will get, assuming the money is available, says Linda Amato, an estate-planning and elder law attorney in New York City.?

Adult children
As cruel as it sounds to disinherit a child, people have their reasons. Sometimes there is no relationship. Other parents, like Smith, might feel the adult is well-off and does not need an inheritance.?

Still, a person's circumstances can change, so experts advise caution about withholding money.?

"People can get sick or have financial setbacks," says Steve Weisman, an estate-planning attorney in Amherst, Mass.?

Those planning on disinheriting an adult child should be gentle with the wording, says Denise Martin, a 55-year-old writer living in Gresham, Ore.?

Martin had a tumultuous relationship with both of her parents but believed she had patched things up with her mother, who died eight years after the two resolved their differences.?

The will, which may have been written when they were on the outs, stated that for the purposes of the document, the court should consider that Martin predeceased her mother. In other words, Martin was dead to her mother.?

"Her cutting me out of her will I could handle," Martin says. "The vicious verbiage was life-busting.?

"There's a difference between legalese and cutting someone off at the knees emotionally. How a will is written matters."?

With that in mind, it could be tempting to disinherit a child by simply not mentioning his or her name. That, too, would be a mistake, says Weisman.?

The court does not want to keep someone from getting assets that they deserved and that the deceased may have wanted them to have. A judge might think the omission of someone from a will was a mistake resulting from carelessness or a failure to update the document to reflect a new spouse or child, Weisman says.?

Parents
If you write your will while your parents are still alive, you do not legally have to leave them anything under the assumption that you die first.?

"They aren't entitled to anything," says Amato. But if you die without a spouse or children, your estate will go to your closest relatives, who are your parents.?

So if you want to specifically and deliberately disinherit a parent, you need to write it into the will and designate a different heir, Amato says.?

Extended relatives
Just like with your parents, there is no legal obligation to leave assets to siblings, aunts and uncles, or cousins. But if you die without a spouse, children or parents, your next-closest relatives would inherit your estate, says Amato. Also, relatives could contest a will by saying they played a large role in your life or that you promised them something.?

For this reason, Modlin suggests that if your estate is large enough to be worth fighting over, you should leave token amounts to family members -- whether estranged siblings or a distant niece.?

"A small gift to a disinherited heir may deter them from contesting the will, especially once they understand the cost of contesting it, and the likelihood of prevailing," says Modlin.?

Weisman also says a will should contain language saying that the deceased has provided for everyone he or she wishes to in the will and that if anyone is left out, it is intentional, not inadvertent.?

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/want-disinherit-relative-its-complicated-1B8189706

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Why It's Impossible to Build a Concussion-Proof Helmet

Helmets can't stop brain injuries. It's not a failure of equipment or technology or attention paid, it's a simple biological fact. Our old friend Mark Wilson has a wonderful breakdown of the technologies we have, and how they're simply not and can never be enough. More »

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