Every adult person should have an estate plan. One way of creating an estate plan is the living trust. The purpose of this brochure is to give you answers to questions frequently asked about living trusts so you can determine whether a living trust is right for you.
A living trust, also known as a revocable trust, is an alternative way to own property. You create a living trust during your lifetime by signing a trust agreement which is a legal document that directs how property transferred to the trust will be managed, when and to whom the income and principal from the trust will be paid, and to whom the trust property will be distributed when you die. You are called the settlor, grantor, or trustor of the trust, while the person to whom you transfer your property is called the trustee. The persons who will receive the income during your lifetime or who will receive the trust property after your death, are called the beneficiaries. You may be the settlor, a trustee and a beneficiary, all at the same time. The property in the trust is called the trust principal, corpus, or res. As the settlor, you may change the terms of the trust agreement or may revoke the trust and regain ownership of the trust property.
You may decide you need a living trust, but first you should review your own situation with your lawyer to decide whether or not a trust is correct for you. It could be that a will, some other type of trust, or other arrangements would better fit your situation.
You may be the only trustee or you may be a co-trustee. You may name another individual(s), or financial institution with trust powers, as your trustee. You should also provide for a successor trustee to act in the future in the event of your disability or after your death. Anyone you select as a co-trustee or successor trustee should be capable and trustworthy. Family members may or may not be selected by you depending upon your circumstances and their abilities. You should also consider whether a bank can provide services that an individual cannot, but keep in mind that only banks with trust authority can act as trustee.
Dakota probate can be relatively simple and economical. You should consult with your lawyer about the comparative costs of various estate plans.
You can have another person or bank which has expertise act as a trustee and make investment or other management decisions for you.
You can avoid the necessity of having a conservator manage your property if you become incompetent, but only if all of your property is in the trust.
After your death, the trustee can distribute the trust assets directly to the beneficiaries without probate. This is particularly beneficial if you own real estate in more than one state as it may avoid having to conduct a probate proceeding in each state.
It may be more difficult to contest than a will.
After your death, the costs and expenses for personal representatives, lawyers, accountants and others may be less.
You will undoubtedly spend more time and money in properly creating and transferring your assets to a living trust than you would to have a will prepared.
To effectively avoid probate, you must keep track of your assets and keep all of your property in the trust, including property acquired after you create the trust.
You may experience problems in transferring or selling assets or making purchases with trust checks and encounter banks, transfer agents or others who want to see the trust agreement in order to know that the trustee has certain powers and authority.
Because a living trust does not require that notice be given to your creditors, a creditor can make a claim against the trust beneficiaries years after your death.
No court determines the validity of the trust as the case with a will.
The grantor of a revocable living trust retains control of the trust property. Therefore, for federal income tax purposes, as long as you act as the trustee or the co-trustee and the trust uses your social security number for its taxpayer identification number, your living trust will be treated no differently than if you had not created the trust. Likewise, you will not save any death taxes (state or federal) simply because you have created a living trust since you have not irrevocably disposed of the trust assets. Although, a properly prepared living trust can save death taxes, exactly the same savings can be achieved by a will.
Any property which you do not transfer to the trust will be subject to probate and distribution as set out in your will or the South Dakota laws providing for distribution of your estate if you do not have a will. You should have a will to cover any assets that are not transferred to the trust. This may be a "pourover will" which transfers any property which you own at the time of your death to your living trust or a will which has other provisions.
Generally, no. Your trustee must first pay your debts and expenses resolve any trust problems, file tax returns (income, state estate tax and federal estate tax) and pay any taxes that are due and owing.
Yes. While you are alive and competent, you are in complete control of your trust. You may change or terminate the trust at any time provided the trust document specifically gives you that right.
You can use a form or kit or even prepare the trust agreement yourself, but your situation may not fit the form, or the form may have been poorly prepared and may lead to adverse tax consequences and conflicts over property distributions. Problems with the fonus or kits may not surface until years later, sometimes not until after your death when you cannot change the trust and clear up the problem.
Certain publicity and persons selling living trust kits have been misleading people into thinking that the property in a living trust is protected from taxes and creditors. This is not true! A living trust will not protect your property from nursing home expenses, hospital bills, or other creditors, nor will the creation of a living trust qualify you for Medicaid.
You have taken a lifetime to accumulate your wealth. You should takc great care to make certain that your estate plan carries out your wishes without problems. A living trust may or may not be right for you. Competent professional help is essential to make certain that your estate plan meets your specific needs.
This brochure is based on South Dakota law and is designed to inform, not to advise. No person should ever apply or interpret any law without the aid of an attorney who know the facts and may be aware of any changes in the law.


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Workshop paper notification: June 18, 2019.
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This workshop focuses on the state-of-the-art and practice of using variability management techniques to enable the exploration of design, architecture, implementation alternatives regarding the relevant quality attributes of a system or families of systems. Safety, Security and Performance are examples of quality attributes from which quality-of-service must be measured and analysed in configurable or adaptive software architectures and systems. Quality attributes need to be consolidated (i.e., single quality attributes can be independently analysed or tested with different techniques), and, given that quality attributes use to be interlinked, they need to be aggregated (i.e., a combined analysis of different quality attributes should be performed to identify tradeoffs or to conduct multi-criteria optimization). The latter point complexity is usually aggravated because of the different domains of expertise and life-cycles of the different quality attributes. In this context, interaction points and interference analysis mechanisms should be in place to avoid the late detection of conflicting quality attributes (at design time or at runtime in self-adaptive systems). While the intended focus is on co-engineering safety-, security-, performance- critical systems, any other quality attribute (usability, energy consumption etc.) is welcome.
There exist many papers describing certain aspects of real-world product lines. We also have the well-known SPLC Hall of Fame with quite a number of what we call real-world product lines. The purpose of this workshop is to work on defining a concise format for documenting different cases of product lines implementations so that others (especially new actors from industry) can understand how the product line operation can be run. This workshop is the second workshop in this series. This workshop is intended for product line experts from industry who wish to learn and share experiences on real-word implementations of product lines. For this workshop we are mainly seeking industry practitioners with strong product line experience.
Feature models were invented in 1990 and have been recognised as one of the main contributions to the Software Product Line community. Although there have been several attempts to establish and study a sort of standard variability modelling language (OVM, CVL, TVL,..) there is still no consensus on a simple feature modelling language. There can be many motivations to have one but among others, there is one that is very important: information sharing among researchers, tools or developers. This first international workshop plans to be an interactive event where all participants shall share knowledge about how to build up a simple feature model language that all the community can agree on.
Software Product Line (SPL) migration remains a challenging endeavour. From organizational issues to purely technical challenges, there is a wide range of barriers that complicates SPL adoption. This workshop aims to foster research about making the most of the two main inputs for SPL migration: 1) domain knowledge and 2) legacy assets. Domain knowledge, usually implicit and spread across an organization, is key to define the SPL scope and to validate the variability model and its semantics. At the technical level, domain expertise is also needed to create or extract the reusable software components. Legacy assets can be, for instance, similar product variants (e.g., requirements, models, source code etc.) that were implemented using ad-hoc reuse techniques such as clone-and-own. More generally, the workshop REverse Variability Engineering (REVE) attracts researchers and practitioners contributing to processes, techniques, tools, or empirical studies related to the automatic, semi-automatic or manual extraction or refinement of SPL assets.
Education has a key role to play for disseminating the constantly growing body of Software Product Line (SPL) knowledge. In a sense, every researcher in SPL should think about how to teach SPL. This workshop aims to explore and explain the current status and ongoing work on teaching SPLs at universities, colleges, and in industry (e.g., by consultants). This fourth edition will continue the effort made at SPLTea'14, SPLTea'15 and SPLTea'18. In particular we seek to better understand how to build a curriculum for teaching SPLs – a central issue as reported in surveys and as informally discussed at SPLTea'18. We expect several lightning talks that report on traditional questions like: what is the targeted audience? What is the place in the curriculum? What is the material (slides, tools, books, etc) used? As there is hardly a one-size-fits-all curriculum, the workshop aims to collectively identify commonality and variability when building SPL curriculums. As a concrete outcome, we expect to elaborate a variability model of SPL teaching that could be actuated to derive custom curriculum in various contexts.
Modern software systems are subject to continuous change and often need to exist in many variants addressing different requirements. Yet, software versions resulting from evolution in time (revisions) and variants resulting from evolution in space are managed radically differently, but none of the traditional technologies have been successful in effectively supporting unified revision and variant management in practice. Recently, several research activities have focused on the integrated management of evolution and variability. Existing approaches stem from multiple origins, most notably from the fields of software configuration management and software product line engineering, but also from, for example, software modularity and software architecture. For instance, variation control systems adopt a holistic view on software evolution in time and space with the ultimate goal of systematically managing software revisions and variants. VariVolution (the 2nd International Workshop on Variability and Evolution of Software-intensive Systems) aims at bringing together active researchers studying software evolution and variability from different angles as well as practitioners who encounter these phenomena in real-world applications and systems. The workshop offers a platform for exchanging new ideas and fostering future research collaborations and synergies.
At the Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies on Software Reuse (WEESR) researchers and practitioners can discuss in-progress research regarding experiences and empirical studies on applying reuse techniques in non-academic environments. This workshop aims for providing feedback on how these studies are planned, designed, conducted and reported. In contrast to the SPLC track for industrial papers, we expect this workshop helps participants to improve their research on reusing practices by looking other works and discussing existing techniques from empirical software engineering. Here, we are interested on topics such as reuse techniques and product line adoptions that, although there are some successful experiences, they may be hard to replicate in other companies. We expect that the working sessions in the workshop contribute to explore what research methods and approaches can help us to understand better what factors must be considered by researchers and what new tools and techniques can be applied in our work.


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Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny
August 24, 2021 August 10, 2021 - Lynn Leave a comment
Katherine Heiny's novel doesn't fit into a neat box. It starts out as a rom com; it's a fairly predictable pairing of two attractive, charming people, surrounded by their eccentric friends.
Jane and Duncan meet, have a relationship of sorts, and break up, which isn't fatal to HEA (Happily Ever After). However, the book begins to take a darker, messier turn. This is when it really starts to get unpredictable and much more interesting. Jane, a grade school teacher in a small Michigan town, gets some of what she wanted but not necessarily in the way she wanted.
A highlight is Heiny's skill in capturing kids and adults with delightfully brief character sketches or with telling anecdotes. I looked forward to the work life passages, and the insight into the second- grade mind. Boyne City is populated with quirky residents and Heiny has fun with the dynamics of rural life.
It turns out that, perhaps, the most pivotal relationship of Jane's life is with Jimmy Jellico. He's a sweet and naive man who nominally works for Duncan in his workshop. Jimmy has always had difficulty understanding how to navigate in the world, and hasn't mastered even the most basic of adulting skills. Jane becomes more and more involved in Jimmy's daily life, and despairs that he'll ever find a love of his own. Jane's friends, family and co-workers are very imperfect, as is Jane, but they evolve and create a fascinating community.
Posted in Books, Staff Picks - Tagged relationships, small town, teachers
One, Two Three by Laurie Frankel
August 18, 2021 August 3, 2021 - Ann Leave a comment
Laurie Frankel's new book, One Two Three examines love and loyalty, how to let go of the past and how to move toward a new future, all through the eyes and actions of three sisters (triplets) in this lovely, bittersweet story of one family and how they cope with disaster.
17 years ago, the tiny town of Bourne became briefly famous when its water turned green and was declared unfit for use. Belsum Chemical Plant was forced to close but was never held responsible. High concentrations of cancer, birth defects and neurological disorders wasn't considered enough to convict the company in court. Belsum disappeared, leaving the town and it's citizens broken, to cope with the lingering damage on their own.
Three sisters are born here as the disaster is unfolding. Mab, Monday and Mirabel are very different from each other but understand each other on an almost telepathic level. When Belsum Chemical makes plans to return to Bourne, promising jobs but no further regulations, the sisters and their mother fight back. But what can a girl in love with the son of the family who owns the chemical plant, a neuro-diverse girl with autism and a girl confined to a wheelchair who cannot speak do? Each are brilliant in their own way and together they create a fearsome opponent.
I really enjoyed this book. There is a lot of humor and heart in the story, from the way the townspeople support and accept each other to the way the girls' mother loves and tends to each one. The sisters are amazing – it's fun to watch them blossom and become their own person, yet stay connected to each other. Each girl has a voice in the book, with the multiple chapters rotating between them, One, Two and Three (their names for each other) which gives you different viewpoints of what is happening as they campaign for the chemical plant to do right by them and the town. Highly recommended.
Posted in Books, Staff Picks - Tagged chemical spill, corporate greed, family, small town
This is My America by Kim Johnson
June 17, 2021 April 23, 2021 - Stephanie Leave a comment
My latest read is a dive into racial injustices in the American justice system, albeit a fictionalized account. Kim Johnson has written a young adult novel examining mass incarceration and the affect it has on families. This is My America is a necessary read from the perspective of the families of those incarcerated.
Tracy Beaumont is seventeen. Her father is on death row. He only has 267 days left. He has been on death row for seven years and Tracy is angry. Every week, and sometimes every day, Tracy writes letters to Innocence X. She is hopeful that the organization will be able to help get her father off death row and discover who really committed the crime for which he was sent to prison. Tracy is growing increasingly desperate, willing to do whatever it takes to get Innocence X's attention, so when her older brother Jamal and their whole family is invited for a television interview showcasing his athletic talents, Tracy has to decide if she will potentially ruin his opportunity by talking about her father's plight.
Tracy doesn't know what to do. Just when she thinks things can't get worse, the unthinkable happens. Police swarm their house in the middle of the night and fighting off flashbacks to the night when her dad was arrested, Tracy and her mom discover that they are there to arrest her brother. In an instant, Jamal switches from a promising young track star with college plans to a thug accused of killing a white girl. Jamal is on the run. Tracy and her family find themselves living in a nightmare. Working hard to free her father and figuring out what actually happened the night of Jamal's alleged crime, Tracy soon discovers who she can actually trust. As she starts investigating what happened between Jamal and the murdered woman, Angela, down at the Pike, Tracy uncovers a dark racist history in the town that may relate to what happened that night. By proving her brother's innocence, Tracy may inadvertently destroy her relationships with the people in her life.
Posted in Audio Books, Books, Reference, Staff Picks - Tagged death row, family, Innocence X, jail, Kim Johnson, police, prison, small town, social injustice, teenagers, This is My America
In the Middle of Somewhere by Roan Parrish
May 20, 2021 April 23, 2021 - Callen Leave a comment
If you're a big romance reader, you're probably familiar with this storyline: two people meet and dislike each other on sight. They're thrown together regularly over a period of time, and that dislike turns to mutual appreciation and attraction. Just as they think they've found love, life gets in the way and the two are parted. After a period of heartbreak and soul-searching, they're reunited for their happily-ever-after (or at least happy-for-now) ending. You may love this storyline. I do not. The romance books I love are decidedly different from this pattern, and my latest discovery is no exception: In The Middle of Somewhere by Roan Parrish.
First, here's the gist: Daniel is a lifelong city boy, native to Philadelphia where he grew up as a black sheep in his family of mechanics. Now, he's finally getting his graduate degree and can look for a job as an English professor. But the only college that will interview him for a position is in a small town in Michigan where he feels like even MORE of a black sheep. He's wondering if he'll ever fit in anywhere, when a nighttime mishap lands him on the doorstep of Rex, a local furniture-builder made reclusive by his crippling shyness. Their physical and emotional attraction is immediate, but they've both been damaged by trauma and are reluctant to trust each other. Over time, following their instincts and talking honestly about their feelings leads them into a relationship that is healing to them both, though tested by unwelcome surprises on all sides.
Now, it's not perfect. For one thing, it's written entirely from Daniel's perspective, which can leave Rex's feelings and needs neglected (though you can see the author tries to make up for this). But despite its weaker places, this is a book which distances itself from all the tropes I dislike, in heartwarming and refreshing ways. The attraction that draws Rex and Daniel together is both physical and emotional; they make each other feel safe and valued, and there's no friction of dislike to get past. The steamy scenes (and there are many) are full of healthy communication, safe practices, consent, tenderness and mutual care. There is also frank, honest discussion of past traumas and the baggage they each bring to the relationship, which means the narrative focuses on their emotional healing and making peace with their past – in communication and partnership with each other. They support and stand up for each other, and (spoilers) there's no gratuitous separation or a breakup used as a plot device. The narrative climax that does happen ties into all the issues that were explored earlier in the story, bringing them to a head AND leaving room for sequels.
What's also effective is the immersion into the various subcultures in the story: small town life, Michigan culture, the Philadelphia scene, and the world of higher education. Each feels authentic and researched, giving the novel a strong sense of place and being grounded in the world.
If you're looking for a steamy, escapist read grounded on wholesome, caring principles, I recommend you find yourself In the Middle of Somewhere.
Posted in Books, Reference, Staff Picks - Tagged college, craftsmen, gay romance, Michigan, Philadelphia, professors, small town, trauma
Sadie by Courtney Summers
July 23, 2019 July 3, 2019 - Stephanie Leave a comment
I spend a lot of time in the car either driving to work or driving to explore. This means that I have so many hours to fill that the music on the radio starts to repeat itself. I have learned to spend this time listening to podcasts and audiobooks instead. Looking at award-winning book lists, I found Sadie by Courtney Summers: a book that is presented like a true crime podcast. This sounded perfect to me.
Sadie by Courtney Summers highlights the story of Sadie and her sister Mattie. When thirteen-year-old Mattie goes missing from her small Colorado town and is eventually found murdered, her nineteen-year-old sister Sadie is devastated. Sadie has been raising Mattie by herself for years ever since their mother left. While she had some help from her surrogate grandma, Sadie took on the bulk of the responsibilities associated with her and Mattie's welfare. When Sadie all of a sudden disappears about a year after Mattie is found, her surrogate grandma reaches out for help.
West McCray is a radio personality who has been slowly making his way across the country to work on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America. While stopped in one such town, he overhears a local talking about Sadie's disappearance. Shortly after, West is contacted by Sadie's surrogate grandma and finds himself drawn into the case. West decides to turn his examination into the disappearance of Sadie and the murder of Mattie into a true crime podcast called 'The Girls'.
When Sadie runs away, rumors abound about why she left and where she's going. Told in the alternating perspectives of both Sadie as she runs away and West's podcast about her disappearance, readers are able to follow this story from both points of view. While Sadie has run away in order to track down her younger sister Mattie's killer, West and the rest of her family don't have access to that information and struggle to find out why she's gone, where she is, and what has happened to her.
I enjoyed this book as it combines three of my favorite things: true crime, podcasts, and audiobooks. After looking at different reviews, flipping through the print book, and listening to the audiobook, I agree with others when they say that, if given the option, you should listen to the audiobook. By doing so, you are privy to the little audio clues present in the podcast sections that you would miss out on if you only read the book. Give it a try and let me know what you think!
Posted in Audio Books, Books, Reference, Staff Picks - Tagged crime, disappearance, family, justice, missing persons, mother, murder, mystery, podcast, revenge, romance, sisters, small town, suspense, True Crime, young adult
Night of Miracles by Elizabeth Berg
January 16, 2019 January 3, 2019 - Lynn Leave a comment
Elizabeth Berg's Night of Miracles is the sequel to The Story of Arthur Trulov. What a happy surprise to discover that some of the characters from Trulov continue in Berg's newest novel. Lucille and Maddy are back, as well as a lot of new folks from Mason, MO.
Berg does a great job of altering the prism through which we see the small Missouri town; it serves as the nexus for the various characters in this book. For example, Iris' story starts in Boston but, after her divorce, she makes a detour to Mason and her story comes to fruition there.
The town diner, Polly's Henhouse, serves as a new setting with new characters. Polly and Monica work there, and interact with regular customers like Tiny and Iris. Iris, then, connects us back to Lucille. Iris eventually gets a job working for Lucille, facilitating her cooking classes. This web reflects how life in a small town works.
Berg changes point of view for each character, too, so we are privileged to peek into their interior life, and yet we also view how they are seen in the community. It's a good reminder that we exist in other people's minds in an entirely different way than how we exist in our own. We give ourselves much more latitude, and are much more forgiving of our own faults and idiosyncrasies. It's interesting to see Lucille through Lucille's eyes, rather than through Arthur's, who thought, at least initially, that Lucille was pretty annoying. We see instead Lucille's frailty and admire the lifetime's worth of knowledge and skill that she puts into her baking.
Once again, Berg creates a world in which we gradually get to know and love the very human people who inhabit it. I wouldn't mind spending time in Mason, myself but I'm pretty sure that it exists only on paper.
Posted in Books, Reference, Staff Picks - Tagged diner, sequel, small town
The Arsonist by Sue Miller
The Arsonist by Sue Miller is my latest foray into audiobooks. Miller has weaved a suspenseful story full of family drama and community intrigue within a small New England town.
Frankie Rowley has returned to Pomeroy, New Hampshire, the small village and farmhouse where her family has always spent the summers. Frankie has worked in East Africa for the last 15 years, but came home after she realized that she has never really quite fit in over there. The adjustment back to the states is hard on Frankie, leaving her walking along a country road on her first night back. Waking up the next morning, Frankie discovers that a house up the road has been burnt to the ground. Fires keep popping up around the community, putting people on edge and dividing the town even further.
In addition to the community drama around the fires, Frankie's mother Sylvia is becoming more concerned over her husband's erratic behavior. He is forgetting more and more some days, while on others, he seems just fine. Frankie and her sister, Liz, are trying to help, but Liz has a family of her own to deal with now and is hoping Frankie will help relieve her stress. Frankie, herself, has fallen for Bud Jacobs, a Washington DC transplant to Pomeroy, who has taken over the town's small newspaper. All of these relationships become even more entangled in a very small town under great stress due to all of the arson activity and the divide between the summer people and year-rounders.
The Arsonist is the second book that I've listened to where the author has been the narrator and the stories really benefit from the author's telling. The author is able to truly tell how she wants the characters to talk and how she sees them interacting with each other. You also notice a distinct connection between the narrator and each character because the author cares more about and has a more vested interest in how the characters are being portrayed. Check this book out and let me know what you think!
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Posted in Books, Reference, Staff Picks - Tagged affair, arson, community, family, fear, fire, hometown, journalism, romance, small town, summer, suspense
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Sharp Objects was Gillian Flynn's literary debut in 2006, followed after with Dark Places in 2009, Gone Girl in 2012, and The Grownup in 2014. Flynn's first three works are all suspenseful, dark books full of thrilling chases, tragedies, secrets, and lies. I was introduced to Gillian Flynn through Gone Girl and immediately dived into her other books.
In Sharp Objects, Camille Preaker is working as a journalist for a second-rate newspaper, the Daily Post, in Chicago when her boss, Frank Curry, gives her a new assignment. Camille is to head to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri to cover the murder of one young girl and the kidnapping of another. Camille soon finds herself back in Wind Gap for the first time in eight years, working on her career-boosting serial-killer-in-the-making article.
In this psychological thriller, Camille struggles to break through small-town barriers to find the truth about what happened to those two girls. Once the body of the second girl is found, Camille finds herself swept into the story amidst all the rumors flying through town about who committed these vile acts. These murders are especially hard for Camille and her mother, as her younger sister died when she was 10 of a mysterious illness. Local police call on the help of a profiler from Kansas City, MO and Camille works closely with him to discover Wind Gap's secrets.
Camille has secrets of her own. She comes from a dysfunctional family and one of the things she turned to to cope was self-mutilation. She was once institutionalized for this; her body covered in scars, words littering every surface of skin. Her trip back to Wind Gap forces her to relive her disturbed childhood, digging into old family secrets and things simmering under the surface. This book is truly suspenseful, leaving readers guessing about the murderer and the truth those simmering secrets until the very end.
Posted in Books, Reference, Staff Picks - Tagged children, crime, dysfunctional, family, friendship, grief, journalist, loss, mental illness, murder, psychological, small town, suspense, tragedy, truth, young

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Power of a Football
"The people who need sport the most have the least access to it. A football club can do more than win a premiership in a season. Is that possible? Yes, it is. It can save a life." - Peter Cullen AM A few decades ago, on the streets of St Kilda, a young man popped up with an alternative to what was being offered to those seeking solace from the 'dark side'. That young man was Peter Cullen, and the alternative he offered - to addiction of any kind - was playing community sport. Specifically kicking an Aussie Rules football around. "IF YOU CAN KICK A FOOTY YOU CAN KICK A HABIT" - Father Bob Maguire (AM RFD) Thirty years later, Reclink Australia offers evidence-based programs to people experiencing disadvantage, and its reach has spread from urban Melbourne to all parts of the continent, in both major cities and outback communities, as well as regional areas. fostering socially inclusive, life-changing opportunities to people who would otherwise have little or no access to either. The Power of a Football is a collection of the stories about these people, these communities, and the army of volunteers and generous supporters who have made Reclink's work possible. AUTHORS: Authors of some of the stories in The Power of a Football include Martin Flanagan, Tim Rogers and Adam Yee, along with moving vignettes by, or about participants in the program, stories from the front line, and stories from behind the scenes. The stories are interspersed with photo-essay of players, by Bruce Davis, and with testimonials - long and short - from supporters including Jeff Kennett AC, Anthony Albanese, Andrew Gaze AM, Rev Tim Costello AO, Graham "Smokey" Dawson AM, David Rhys-Jones, Tim Watson, Andy Maher, Sam Kekovitch, Paul Roos, Kevin Sheedy ... and many more.
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Publisher: Dirt Lane Press
Publication Date: 01 November 2022
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Men's Olympic Swimming
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
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4x100-meter Medley Relay
At least 4 gold medals (including relays): Michael Phelps (14); Mark Spitz (9); Matt Biondi (8); Gary Hall Jr. (6); Charles Daniels, Tom Jager, Don Schollander, Ian Thorpe and Johnny Weissmuller (5); Tamás Darnyi, Roland Matthes, John Naber, Aleksandr Popov, Murray Rose, Vladimir Salnikov and Henry Taylor (4).
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Текстологія — історично-філологічна дисципліна, що вивчає пам'ятки писемності, твори літератури і фольклору для критичної перевірки і встановлення на підставі наявних варіантів автентичності текстів.

Об'єктом дослідження текстології є різноманітні списки давніх текстів, стиль і час їх написання аналізуються з метою встановлення авторства та ідентичності тексту. Текстологія досліджує текст як документ на предмет його автентичності, простежуючи текстові зміни (стилістичні, ідейні), з'ясовує дату, підстави та умови створення тексту, особливості його редакції.

Проаналізувати текст з точки зору текстології — означає дати йому певну характеристику, розглянути його в різних аспектах.

Увагу текстологів привертають передусім пам'ятки старого українського письменства, над яким працюють українські і російські вчені. Давньоукраїнські літописи досліджували О. Шахматов, Д. Лихачов («Повість временних літ» й ін.), А. Генсьорський («Галицько-Волинський літопис») та ін. Над «Словом о полку Ігореві» працювали О. Огоновський, О. Потебня, О. Соболевський, В. Перетц, А. Мазон, М. Шарлемань, Р. Якобсон, М. Гудзій, Леонід Булаховський, І. Дмитрієв-Кельда, А. Зімін, В. Німчук, В. Адріянова-Перетц, Б. Рибаков та ін. «Києво-Печерський патерик» досліджував Д. Абрамович. Серед багатьох дослідників, що працювали над текстами творів Г. Сковороди після Д. Багалія і В. Бонч-Бруєвича, з останніх десятиліть слід назвати П. Попова. І. Табачникова, І. Іваньо, М. Редька. Перше ґрунтовне дослідження творів Т. Шевченка з текстологічного погляду належить В. Доманицькому. Цю працю в 20—30-их pp. продовжували І. Айзеншток, М. Плевако, М. Новицький, О. Дорошкевич, на еміграції П. Зайцев. За останні десятиліття текстологічна праця була зосереджена в Інституті літератури ім. Т. Шевченка НАН України, в якому над творами Т. Шевченка далі працювали Є. Кирилюк, М. Бернштейн, Ю. Івакін, В. Бородін, Л. Кодацька. Іншим письменникам XIX ст. присвячені праці І. Лучник, М. Сиваченка, К. Сєкарєвої, М. Гончарука, С. Зубкова та ін., що друкувалися в журналі «Радянське літературознавство» і в неперіодичних текстологічних збірниках того ж Інституту «Питання текстології» (вийшло 6 випусків., 1968—1990). З 2004 р. Інститутом літератури імені Тараса Шевченка НАН України видається щорічник «Спадщина: Літературне джерелознавство. Текстологія», який продовжує — розширивши, відповідно до назви, проблематику — традиції збірника «Питання текстології».

Див. також
 Текстологи

Джерела
 Бездрабко В. В. Текстологія історична //

Посилання

Літературознавство

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Die Football League Third Division 1927/28 war die achte Saison der dritthöchsten englischen Fußballliga. Die in Nord- und Südstaffel aufgeteilte Spielklasse hatte mit Bradford Park Avenue und dem FC Millwall ihre beiden Meister und gleichzeitig Aufsteiger in die Football League Second Division. Für die beiden Aufsteiger nahmen in der folgenden Drittligasaison 1928/29 die zwei in der Tabelle unten rangierenden Zweitligisten FC Fulham und FC South Shields die Plätze ein. Aus beiden Third-Division-Staffeln musste nur Durham City sportlich absteigen. Für Durham wurde Carlisle United in die dritte Liga aufgenommen. Die restlichen zuunterst platzierten Südklubs Merthyr Town und Torquay United sowie im Norden der FC Nelson erhielten im Wiederwahlverfahren des Ligaverbands ausreichend viele Stimmen, um in der folgenden Saison 1928/29 erneut an der Third Division teilnehmen zu dürfen.

Football League Third Division North

Abschlusstabelle

Ergebnistabelle
In der linken Spalte sind die Heimmannschaften aufgelistet.

Torschützenliste

Football League Third Division South

Abschlusstabelle

Ergebnistabelle
In der linken Spalte sind die Heimmannschaften aufgelistet.

Torschützenliste

Literatur
 Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records, 1888 to 1939. SoccerData, Beeston 2002, ISBN 1-899468-63-3.

Weblinks
 England 1927-28 (RSSSF)
 English Football League Tables

Einzelnachweise und Fußnoten

1927/28
Fußballsaison 1927/28


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Walters MS W720: Chapters to Be Observed by the Singers of the Cappella Giulia (1574)
Ilona Klein, Brigham Young University - ProvoFollow
Cappella Giulia, Italian studies, manuscript, Julian Chapel, singer, Renaissance, translation
The manuscript W720 that bears the title Capitoli che hanno da osseruare gli Cantori della Cappella di San Pietro is an unstudied and unpublished document held in the archives of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland. As one of the earliest surviving written texts of its kind, W720 documents in detail the rules that the singers of the Julian Chapel had to obey during the year 1574. The following critical edition of the manuscript and the accompanying English translation are intended to provide materials that will assist Renaissance specialists in a number of areas (art history, philology, history, musicology, Italian studies, and so on).
Original Publication Citation
"Walters Ms. W 720: Chapters to Be Observed by the Singers of the Cappella Giulia ( 1574)," in "Accessus ad Auctores": Studies in Honor of Christopher Kleinhenz, Fabian Alfie and Andrea Dini (eds), MRTS 397 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies), (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2011): 401-436.
Klein, Ilona, "Walters MS W720: Chapters to Be Observed by the Singers of the Cappella Giulia (1574)" (2011). Faculty Publications. 3833.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/3833
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
University Standing at Time of Publication
European Languages and Societies Commons, Italian Language and Literature Commons, Renaissance Studies Commons, Translation Studies Commons


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Forever Mary (), is an Italian dramatic film directed by Marco Risi and released in 1989. It stars Michele Placido, Claudio Amendola, Alessandra Di Sanzo, Francesco Benigno, Roberto Mariano, Maurizio Prollo, Filippo Genzardi, Alfredo Li Bassi,  Salvatore Termini, Luigi Maria Burruano, Gianluca Favilla, Giovanni Alamia and Tony Sperandeo.

Synopsis
Mery per sempre is set in Rosaspina, a fictional juvenile detention centre (based on a real facility named Malaspina) in Palermo, Sicily, during the 1980s. The protagonist, Marco Terzi (Michele Placido), is a teacher who has been transferred to Palermo from Milan. He obtains a temporary position as teacher inside the institution, waiting to start teaching in a high school, and has great difficulty in establishing a rapport with the young, hostile students; in particular, Natale Sperandeo (Francesco Benigno), the leader of the group, who is inside for murder, and Pietro Giancona (Claudio Amendola). Terzi's situation is further complicated when Marilyn Libassi (Alessandra Di Sanzo), a trans prostitute, nicknamed Mery, falls in love with him and when Claudio severely hits Carmelo who wanted rape her. With the passing of time, however, Terzi slowly gains the respect and admiration of his students, even from the most hardened of the young men, but he comes in contrast with the director and the warders. After the death of Pietro, killed during a robbery after a jailbreak, he decides to refuse a well paid position in the high school to stay with the boys.

Forever Mary was followed in 1990 with the sequel Ragazzi fuori, featuring most of the same cast and characters, with the exception of Placido and Amendola. The film Mery per sempre was the inspiration behind a song with the same name by the popular Israeli singer Ivri Lider.

References

1989 films
Films set in Palermo
Sicilian-language films
Italian LGBT-related films
Films directed by Marco Risi
Italian drama films
Films about educators
1980s Italian films


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/ Home / Research and expertise / Marine Conservation Research Group / Oceanographic drivers of ecosystem variability in the Chagos Archipelago
Marine Conservation Research Group
Title: Oceanographic drivers of ecosystem variability in the Chagos Archipelago
Funder and duration: Garfield Weston Foundation and Bertarelli Foundation
Lead partner: University of Plymouth
Location: Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean
University of Plymouth staff: Dr Philip Hosegood, Professor Kerry Howell, Dr Nicola Foster, Dr Clare Embling, Professor Martin Attrill, Dr Antony Knights, Dr Emma Sheehan, Dr Vasyl Vlasenko, Dr Nataliya Stashchuk, Dr Alex Nimmo Smith, Peter Ganderton, Adam Bolton .
PhD students: Clara Diaz, Dannielle Eager, Joanna Harris
This is a four-year project, funded by £1,500,000 from the Garfield Weston Foundation and >£1,000,000 from the Bertarelli Foundation, to understand the physical processes that influence the ecosystems found throughout the Chagos Archipelago, a very large (640,000 km2) Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Indian Ocean. For more than a decade, the area has been covered by a 640,000 km² MPA, which incorporates a no-take zone, meaning it has endured little negative impact in terms of day-to-day human activity. The remote location of the Chagos Archipelago means that there are minimal human impacts, and thus it is one of the most pristine marine environments on earth. However, as with the rest of the planet, it is being affected by climate change and has a legacy of fishing.
Our research will use this near-pristine environment as a planetary-scale laboratory to learn how a thriving marine ecosystem develops in its natural state. We will work to understand how mostly intact marine ecosystems function and explore how conservation practices put in place as part of the MPA might benefit other areas of the marine environment.
The research brings together oceanographers, marine biologists, hydrographic surveyors and biogeochemists from the University of Plymouth and the Manta Trust, an international charity established by Plymouth graduate Guy Stevens.
Our work, will target the pivotal roles played in the thriving Chagos Archipelago ecosystem by seamounts, deep "mesophotic" reefs, and regional-scale changes in oceanographic conditions. Our overall aim is to develop strategies for conserving the marine environment that accounts for the complex relationship between the biological and physical regimes. The specific environments we focus on in this project are those in greatest and most urgent need of conservation measures.
Firstly, many seamounts have been overexploited to the point of ecosystem collapse because of the enormously diverse range, and disproportionate abundance, of marine life that aggregates over and around them. Our research is focused around a seamount called Sandes, which hosts a huge aggregation of silvertip sharks around the summit. Scientists will look to establish what physical and oceanographic features cause this phenomenon.
Secondly, mesophotic coral reefs exist in the twilight zone between depths of 30-150 m. While these ecosystems have traditionally been studied to investigate their role as refugia for shallow-water reefs, they are biologically and ecologically significant ecosystems in their own right with high levels of biodiversity, including unique, rare and endemic species, that require protection.
Using a Remotely Operated Vehicle, scientists will document the diversity and distribution of mesophotic communities and how this varies with depth around Egmont Atoll and Sandes Seamount. They will also collect samples of corals to investigate the genetic connectivity of populations between shallow and mesophotic reefs.
Thirdly, scientists are undertaking the most comprehensive research to date of the reef manta ray subpopulation that is resident at Egmont Atoll in the Archipelago. Reef manta rays are listed as vulnerable to extinction on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species. Measures to protect them are hindered by an incomplete knowledge of how manta use environmental cues to determine where and when they forage, often in dense aggregations that render them especially vulnerable to exploitation.
The conservation strategies we are developing will provide a cornerstone of measures designed to protect these charismatic animals but, equally, will contribute to equivalent efforts for other large marine animals.
Infographic summarising the achievements of the November 2019 research cruise
Credit: Simon Hilbourne, Manta Trust
Credit: Peter Ganderton, University of Plymouth
Areas of research track record and highlighting publications/reports
" Investigating the impacts of ocean acidification on marine benthic algae
Dr Philip Hosegood
Associate Professor in Physical Oceanography
Professor Kerry Howell
Professor of Deep-Sea Ecology
Dr Nicola Foster
Lecturer in Marine Biology
Dr Clare Embling
Associate Professor of Marine Ecology
Professor Martin Attrill
Professor of Marine Ecology
Dr Antony Knights
Associate Professor in Marine Ecology
Dr Emma Sheehan
Associate Professor of Marine Ecology (Research)
Dr Vasyl Vlasenko
Associate Professor in Shelf Seas Numerical Modelling
Dr Nataliya Stashchuk
Dr Alex Nimmo Smith
Associate Professor in Marine Physics
Mr Peter Ganderton
Technical Specialist (Marine Science)
Mr Adam Bolton
Technical Specialist in Hydrography
Miss Clara Diaz
Miss Dannielle Eager
Miss Joanna Harris


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9 Hours Alone in Thai First Class, Norwegian Adds New US Cities, Cramped A380s and More
Nick Ellis
Nick Ellis joined The Points Guy in 2016 as an intern and is now Reviews Editor, primarily responsible for arranging, writing (some of), editing and publishing reviews of hotels and airport lounges along with helping manage, write and edit travel content.
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Each Saturday, we round up news stories that you may have missed from the week before, including several that already appeared on The Points Guy, and some more that we haven't covered yet. If you're an avid TPG reader, scroll down for the new stuff. Here's the top miles, points and travel news you may have missed this week:
Thai first class was a totally luxurious experience, and one of the best redemptions around.
Flight Review: Thai (747-400) First Class From Sydney to Bangkok
At just 40,000 United miles for the one-way trip from Sydney (SYD) to Bangkok (BKK), Thai's first-class experience can't be beat. Join Editor-in-Chief Zach Honig for the full review of the 9-hour experience.
People in the Western US will soon have more low-cost options for flights to Europe.
Norwegian to Begin Service From New West Coast Cities — Fares Starting at $199 One-Way
This week, Norwegian Air shared that it'll be starting two new flights between the US and Europe: Denver (DEN) and Seattle (SEA) to London (LGW). You can now purchase tickets on both routes.
Airbus wants to squeeze even more people into the coach cabin of its largest jet.
Airbus Details Plans to Add 80 More Seats to the A380
This week at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany, Airbus showed off a concept that would add up to 80 seats to its superjumbo jet, the A380. How does 3-5-3 in economy sound to you?
Check out this month's top travel rewards credit card offers.
Top 10 Travel Rewards Credit Card Offers for April 2017
There are tons of travel rewards credit card offers to choose from — familiarize yourself with the best offers for this month.
American's decision to end nonstop SJU service from New York is surprising.
American Airlines to End Nonstop New York to San Juan Service
At the end of this summer, American Airlines will end nonstop service between New York (JFK) and San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU). AA will continue to offer nonstop service to SJU from Miami (MIA), Philadelphia (PHL), Chicago (ORD), Dallas (DFW) and Charlotte (CLT).
You'll soon be able to travel in a lie-flat seat between New York and Las Vegas.
You Can Now Book JetBlue's New Transcon Mint Flights
You're now able to book some of JetBlue's new transcontinental Mint flights that were announced last year. While you still can't purchase a Mint seat on the carrier's flights between New York (JFK) and Seattle (SEA), you can book lie-flat seats on certain flights between New York (JFK) and Las Vegas (LAS) and San Diego (SAN), as well as select flights between Boston (BOS) and San Diego (SAN).
Score a discounted AA redemption with these reduced mileage awards.
American Airlines Reduced Mileage Awards for April-July 2017
If you have a Citi-issued American Airlines co-branded credit card, you're eligible to save between 1,000 and 7,500 AAdvantage miles on select award bookings. To book one of these reduced mileage awards, you'll need to first find MileSAAver award availability on American Airlines' website, then call AA at 1-800-882-8880 — or your elite reservations number, if applicable — to book the ticket.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Biman Bangladesh Wants to Resume Flights to New York
It's been over 20 years since Biman Bangladesh has flown to New York, but apparently the airline wants to give it another go. But, with a limited long-haul fleet, it's unclear how the carrier would pull this off.
It's your last chance to get a 10% statement credit when you re-load your Starbucks Card online.
10% Rebate When You Re-Load Your Starbucks Card With the Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card
If you re-load a Starbucks Card online or in-app with your Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card between now and April 15, 2017, you'll receive 10% back in the form of a statement credit.
WestJet Rewards members can now redeem WestJet dollars on select Delta flights.
Delta and WestJet Expand Reciprocal Mileage Agreement to More Flights
Delta and WestJet shared that they're expanding the reciprocal mileage agreement they've had in place since 2014. SkyMiles members are now able to redeem SkyMiles for all flights in WestJet's network, and WestJet Rewards members can redeem WestJet dollars on select routes including flights to Paris, Tokyo, Rome, Madrid, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Sydney.


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This story is TOO BIG for the small screen! Featuring an all-star cast of participants, The Bowden Dynasty film came to over 400 theaters across the country for a one night only LIVE WORLD PREMIERE EVENT on Sunday night January 8th 2017 – on the eve of the College Football Playoff National Championship Game in Tampa Bay, FL.
From veteran TV and film Producer John Corry, along with Rob Harvell and Brian Goodwin, the Producers of ESPN Films' "The Book of Manning" and "I Hate Christian Laettner," comes "THE BOWDEN DYNASTY: A Story of Faith, Family & Football". This feature-length documentary film explores the life and times of Bobby Bowden, the coach with a team of loyal assistants and players who fought against all odds and countless obstacles to forge one of the greatest achievements in the history of sports.
From 1987 to 2000 the Florida State Seminoles won the hearts of America and thrilled their fans with 14 consecutive ten-win, top-five seasons. Beginning with a come-from-behind victory in the 1988 Fiesta Bowl, Bobby Bowden's teams began a flirtation with perfection. In seven of those seasons they lost only one game. More often than not, the players' quest for a perfect season came down to one play where mere inches or seconds determined the outcome. So just what was the secret to Bobby Bowden's continued success?
THE BOWDEN DYNASTY extends beyond football, to explore universal themes of family and redemption to which all audiences can relate. Coach Bowden is legendary for his unyielding faith and "The Bowden Dynasty" examines how he inspired acts of courage and grace while changing the lives of those around him.
For all the accolades bestowed upon Coach Bobby Bowden and his teams for their on-field achievements, the insider stories of the coach and his enormous impact on those around him have never been shared on the big screen. Now, on the 30th anniversary of "The Dynasty" run, those stories will be told!


UK biotech attracted a record-breaking £2.2bn in investment last year, with UK firm's claiming 40% of the venture capital funding that went to the sector across Europe, according to a BioIndustry Association (BIA) report.
The £2.2bn tally is around £1bn more than the amount raised in 2017 and included £1.1bn in venture funding with deals tending to be larger than in previous years, according to BIA chief executive Steve Bates, who said the data "shows global investors see this value and want to be part of the UK's exciting and fast-growing biotech opportunity".
One clear trend in the 2018 report is that biotechs are staying private for longer, as witneded by the larger number of later-stage rounds. There were just five initial public offering (IPOs) in the year, raising £432m, with another £658m coming from follow-on public financings, including a £273m round from GW Pharma. 2018's UK IPOs came from Orchard Therapeutics, Autolus, Sensyne Health, Acacia Pharma and Renalytix AI.
Bates said that other trends included a diversification in the UK life science industry, for example with the emergence of new business models in areas such as artificial intelligence, as well as more money becoming available from overseas including from US and Chinese investment groups.
Another notable trend was that UK companies were as much the acquirer as the acquired when it came to M&A, despite the low pound making UK companies cheaper for overseas purchasers. There were eight acquisitions by UK-domiciled companies in the year, compared to seven involving overseas (US, Chinese and Japanese) firms.
"The UK biotech ecosystem is a key engine of innovation that is delivering jobs, economic growth and most importantly, life-changing new treatments for patients," said Bates.


LAGOS— IT was a case of mixed fortunes for the nation, yesterday, in the management of the Ebola Virus Disease as three fresh cases were discovered, while four of those earlier admitted at the isolation centre in Lagos were discharged.
Lagos State Health Commissioner, Dr. Jide Idris, who confirmed the emergence of three new cases, remarked: "As at yesterday, (Sunday), we had three new suspected cases. One of them is a blood sample from Kaduna State, while the two others are from Lagos and they are primary contacts. A reason for this was that they do not have the laboratory to test for the virus.
"What we have now is that, there are four people dead, including the index (Mr. Patrick Sawyer). We have eight in the isolation ward before Saturday when we released the doctor, and this doctor was released after testing negative and going through the World Health Organisation, WHO and Centre for Disease Control, CDC, procedures for discharge.
Four additional confirmed patients of Ebola Virus Disease have been discharged from the isolation centre of the Mainland Hospital in Lagos.
The discharged patients, including two male medical doctors, one female nurse and another patient, have been managed successfully and are now disease-free and ready to resume their normal life activities.
The development brings to five the total number of patients diagnosed with Ebola who have now been discharged from hospital, following the discharge of the first EVD patient over the weekend.
Announcing the development yesterday in Abuja, Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, said the three participated in the treatment of the first case of Ebola in Nigeria, the late American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer while the fourth person was a female patient at the time the index case was on admission.
In Lagos, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who briefed newsmen along with the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Health, Dr. Yewande Adeshina, said the patients would be released yesterday (Monday).
"We have 12 confirmed cases and that includes the index (first) case and all the other cases that we have confirmed positive and those who have died. And today, we have four more patients ready for discharge, and they have gone through the same protocol — the protocol is that before we release anyone or certify him or her negative, he or she has to be symptoms-free for over three days. Also, we had to test their blood and the result proved negative of the virus.
Assuring that everything was under control, the commissioner said the new cases were being closely monitored.
"The other three patients are still being monitored at the isolation centre. Once they get better, they will be released too.
On the nature of treatment being accorded Ebola virus disease patients, Idris explained that there was no specific treatment per se.
"We treat the patients based on the presentation. For instance, if the patient shows symptoms of diarrhoea, he or she has to be treated with electrolyte and others. If the person shows signs of pain, he or she will be given pain-relieving drugs. We have enough drugs to take care of them.
Reacting to the development, the Director of Communication and Community Mobilisation for Ebola in Nigeria, Professor Adebayo Onajole said that the country has been able to contain the spread through increased surveillance at the country's borders (air, land and sea), increased awareness and less disinformation about the disease in the country.
Onajole, a consultant public health expert noted that universal health precautions and personal hygiene are currently being encouraged, a situation which has helped halt the spread of the disease.
He said: "Efforts are currently ongoing to scale up and strengthen all aspects of response, including contact tracking, public information and community mobilization, case management and infection prevention and control, and coordination. There is now increased disease surveillance system in a bid to monitor, control, and prevent any occurrence of the disease," he concluded.
Five committees have been set up in the country to halt the spread of the disease, investigations reveal. These committees include contact tracing – responsible for tracing contacts of infected persons; case management unit – responsible for managing established cases; and point of entry unit which is charged with the responsibility of examining persons entering Nigeria from various borders.
Meanwhile, two missionary workers and their driver have been quarantined at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, BSUTH, Makurdi, the Benue state capital, on suspicion of infection with Ebola virus.
Chief Medical Director of BSUTH, Professor Orkurga Malu, who disclosed this to newsmen in Makurdi, dispelled rumours that the quarantined persons were infected with the virus.
Malu explained that Benue indigenes who hitherto resided in Monrovia for a year where they engaged in missionary work, relocated from the Liberian capital in the wake of the Ebola outbreak.
While refusing to disclose the identity of the persons concerned, Malu said, on arrival in the state, they were quickly admitted in the hospital and have been kept under close observation.
"They have not shown any symptoms of the disease because at every stage their temperature is checked and tested right from Monrovia before they boarded the plane to Ghana and then Nigeria.
"Since they came in here on Thursday, we have been testing them on a daily basis and there is no evidence of temperature rise or any of the symptoms of the virus.
"So we are 99.9 per cent sure that they do not have Ebola virus. But just in the remotest case of 0.1 percent, we have kept them to ensure they do not have the disease," he stated.
The CMD who urged the people of the state not to panic assured that the hospital has adequate facilities to cater for any victim of the virus.


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Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology
Volume 14, Issue 2 (Spring 2013)
Applying the Fragmented Literal Similarity Test to Musical-Work and Sound-Recording Infringement: Correcting the Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films Legacy
Carter, Mark (Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, 2013)
Appying_Fragmented_Literal_Similarity_Test_by_Mark_Carter_MN_Journal_Law_Science_Tech_Issue_14-2.pdf (181.2Kb application/pdf)
Carter, Mark
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology
Copyright law simultaneously protects recorded music in two distinct ways: as a musical work (i.e. composition) and as a sound recording. Copyright law protects all copyrightable works against unapproved reproduction (i.e., copying). Normally, the substantial similarity standard tests reproduction infringement. A sound-recording sample may be so short as to lack substantial similarity to the musical-work and thus not infringe it. But Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films chucked substantial similarity to hold that the same sample, however short, necessarily infringes the sound-recording reproduction right. This disparate copyright protection between musical works and sound recordings of the same sample has led to the "mashup problem." Substantial similarity can be broken into two basic types: comprehensive nonliteral similarity and fragmented literal similarity. This paper proposes a framework for applying the fragmented literal similarity test to both musical-work and sound-recording reproduction infringement. First, it describes the framework for musical works based on the innate discretization of musical works as notes. Second, it describes breaking sound recordings into sound snippets and weighs the copied snippets' quantitative and qualitative values to the copyrighted recording. Third, it outlines applying the framework to Swirsky v. Carey, Bridgeport, and Girl Talk's sampling recordings.
literal similarity test
bridgeport music v. dimension films
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Volume 14, Issue 2 (Spring 2013) [10]
Previously Published Citation
14 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. 669
Carter, Mark. (2013). Applying the Fragmented Literal Similarity Test to Musical-Work and Sound-Recording Infringement: Correcting the Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films Legacy. Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology. Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/155461.


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Plant breeder who fought starvation in Africa writes about origins of plants
Dr. Hahn Sang-ki
By Kim Se-jeong
Dr. Hahn Sang-ki, 87, is a world-famous plant breeder regarded for his contributing efforts to the development of agriculture in Africa.
For 23 years, he worked for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) located in Abadan, Nigeria. There, he developed high-yielding disease-resistant cassava varieties, which saved many across Africa from starvation. He was a professor of the Seoul National University before he joined the IITA in 1971.
Cassava is a major spale of poor farmers in Africa, but it had very serious diseases problems with both African cassava mosaic virus and cassava bacterian blight disease that plagued the poor farmers.
Hahn identified from a wild related species of cassava the sources of resistance to the two major disases of cassava. He successfully incorporated them into cultivated local cassava varieties. The improved, high yielding and disease resistant cassava varieties have been widely grown by many farmers on over 5 million hectars in West Africa particularly in Nigeria and saved many lives of poor African peasants inflicted by food shortage in surrounding countries of the sub-Sahara.
For his achievement, he received the Guinness Award for Scientific Achievement given by Guinness World Records in 1982. His contribution also won him a fellowship by the Institute of Biology, London, in 1984 and later by the Society of Biology of the United Kingdom. In 1994, he was awarded the fellowship from the Ameican Society of Agronomy.
In 1983, he was given a traditional chieftaincy title, Sereki Agbe (The King of Farmers), by the traditional king of Ikire, a town of more than 100,000 population in Nigeria.
He was recommended three times for the World Food Price and once for the Japan Price.
Retiring from the IITA in 1994, he, together with his wife, moved to the U.S. where he served as the honorary professor of the Cornell University and the University of Georgia.
His latest book, "The Birthplaces of Cultivated Plants" published in August, explains the origins of common and important plants found in Korea.
"I had wanted to write this book for a long time, but didn't have enough resources. After I moved back to Korea in 2015, I met two people who helped me get the information I needed to write the book," Hahn said in an email.
He said that ancian West Africans settled along the upper River Niger and domesticated plants as crops such as sorghums, millets, cowpeas, yams, African rice, melon and water melon several thousands years B.C.
As ancient Africans migrated eastwards, they brought the crops to Ehtiopia where they together with other Ethiopian native crops such as wheats, barley, sesame, peas etc., moved to the Middle East. The evolution progress of gradual migration of these crops reached Korea via Southeast Asia.
Dr. Hahn Sang-ki with new varieties of cassava he produced in this undated photo Courtesy of Hahn Sang-ki
When it comes to apples, they are known to have originated in Central Asia. But apples commonly found in Korea came not directly from the Central Asia but through Japan via the U.S. in the beginning of the 20th century.
When apple trees first arrived from the U.S., Korea had its own native native apple, called "neunggeum," that wasn't as sweet as the new apple varrieties from the U.S. With the migration of new species from the U.S., the native apple trees have gone through extinction.
"Traditional cotton and rye farming have completely disappeared from us in Korea. As a consequence, the valuable genetic resources have recently been lost and being continuously lost from us. The eroson of the genetic resources of crop plants is a serious problem the world faces."
He added, "The general resources of crop plants are important cultural heritages. They shape and influence history, culture and civilization of human beings. It should be noted that the term 'culture' came originally from agriculture since human civilization took place with agriculture."
skim@koreatimes.co.kr More articles by this reporter


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Bid bye bye to the fortuity of cricket's toss - The toss should be replaced by the bid
19 May 1999, The Financial Times, London link
17 May 1999 link Live features Warren Edwardes' idea for Cricket - "A brilliant Idea. I wonder why it hasn't been thought of before." Peter Allen
Cricket commentators often say "he will want to win the toss this morning" and Richie Benaud is alleged to have said: "What an unlucky tosser that man is". The most effective way to win a one-day game is to win the toss, especially in England with its poor weather. Market forces should be applied to Cricket. The Toss should be replaced by the Bid.
I suggest that the two captains should bid in runs for the right to elect to bat or field first. The higher bid wins the right to elect and the runs bid are awarded to the opposing side as Bid-Byes. Bids should be for a minimum of Zero. Should both captains bid the same number of runs then there will be a coin toss with the winner forfeiting the runs bid.
Letter to:
Mr Malcolm Speed
ICC Chief Executive Officer
International Cricket Council
Dear Mr. Speed:
The Toss
I read with interest about your relocation experiences in the Financial Times of 28th December 2005. The same newspaper published a letter from me on 19th May 1999 which I attach. I quite often get asked about my suggestion. Perhaps you can pass this on to the Cricketing Committee for consideration.
Winning or losing the Toss can make a dramatic difference to the result and reduces the importance of skill not just in One Day games but also in Test matches. Even more important than the actual effect that a lucky Toss has on a result is the perception of effect on the players. I have often heard a losing captain complain "It was an important toss to win".
Cricket is now too important to still be a game of chance. The game has moved on from home umpires. Cricket now has a third umpire with video evidence. May I recommend that The Toss to choose to bat or field should be replaced by The Bid by the time of the ICC Champions Trophy in India.
I suggest that the two captains should bid in runs for the right to elect to bat or field first. The team with the higher bid wins the right to elect.
T he runs bid are awarded to the opposing side as Bid-Byes.
Bids should be for a minimum of Zero.
Should both captains bid the same number of runs then there will be a coin toss as currently but with the winner forfeiting the runs bid.
Method 1 – closed bids
In a sealed envelope, the captain of Team A Bids 30 runs.
In a sealed envelope, the captain of Team B Bids 10 runs.
The captain of Team A has the right to elect to bat or field.
30 runs are awarded to Team B as bid byes.
If the sealed bids are tied then the coin is tossed. But the winner has the right to elect and the loser receives bid bye runs of the amount of the tied bids.
Method 2 - open auction
To create more theatre bids could be as in an open auction with the umpire asking for bids in jumps of 5 runs.
"Who bids 5 runs?
The captain of Team A raises his hand first.
Then to the captain of Team B the umpire asks: "Do you bid 10 runs?
If the captain of Team B answers "yes" onto the captain of Team A the umpire asks: "Do you bid 15 runs?
And so on until a captain declines to bid more.
The winning captain has the right to elect to bat or field and the losing captain's team receives bid bye runs of the amount of the bid.
I would recommend the Method 2 - open auction – as providing more theatre and tension before the match and it would make for great television.
Yours sincerely with kind regards,
Warren Edwardes
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Dirty Diamonds is the seventeenth solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on July 4, 2005 internationally, and August 2 in the US.

The album peaked on Billboard's "Top Independent Albums" chart at #17, and the Billboard 200 album chart at #169 - Cooper's highest charting album since The Last Temptation, 11 years prior.

Track listing

Personnel
 Alice Cooper - Vocals, Harmonica
 Ryan Roxie - Guitar
 Damon Johnson - Guitar
 Chuck Garric - Bass
 Tommy Clufetos - Drums
 Xzibit - Rap on "Stand"
 Eric Singer - Frequent drummer for Alice Cooper is pictured on the album booklet/tray, but does not play on Dirty Diamonds.

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I've had a few opportunities over the years.
Not much to tell Just a man born with a talent for music. I've been in high school and college marching bands, fraternity step teams, dance crews, r&b groups, hip hop conglomerates and etc. Listen if i never make one brown penny doing music I would still be doing music because its apart of me. It's who I am.


Originally published Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 06:34p.m.
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey will use his fifth State of the State speech Monday to try to corral the votes to approve a drought contingency plan in the next 17 days or risk federal intervention.
"We're in a position now where we have a sense of urgency and focus on Arizona's water situation,'' the governor told the business community Friday in previewing the speech that kicks off the legislative session.
Put simply, he said, Arizona and other states along the Colorado River are withdrawing more water than is naturally recharged. He said that threatens to draw down Lake Mead to a point where there will be mandatory reductions.
Visit dCourier.com to view it.
More to the point, Ducey said having the state adopting a "drought contingency plan'' to leave more water in the lake is far preferable to the alternative.
Incoming Senate President Karen Fann said she recognizes the need for quick action. But the Prescott Republican said there are issues that need to be resolved and competing interests for the limited water that the plan will leave the state.
"The tension is very high,'' she said.
Fann specifically cited concerns from the agriculture community in Pinal County, which is likely to bear a big brunt of the cuts in the current Colorado River water delivery. And she said homebuilders statewide want to be assured there is water set aside for their new developments.
Yuma Democrat Charlene Fernandez, the new House minority leader, acknowledged the sensitivity of the issue and the potential to get all sides to agree.
"People get angry when you start talking about their water and allocating it,'' she said.
Incoming Senate Minority Leader David Bradley of Tucson suggested it may take a shock to the system to bring all the interests into line.
Bradley said when he was in the Navy, stationed in Spain, he brought his family along.
A sponsor found a house for them. What he didn't know at the time was that the water ran only four hours a day, meaning the need to fill the tub during operating hours to have enough to last the whole day.
"Hopefully we don't have to get to those extremes,'' Bradley said. But he said it may have to get to the point when "people pay a price'' and "can see that if you do not cooperate, we all suffer,'' to bring around those who are balking.
Ducey, speaking to reporters after Friday's event, acknowledged that one of the sticking points could be those Pinal County interests. Drafts of the plan have farmers, who already were scheduled to start losing Colorado River water in 2030, in line for some immediate and deep cuts.
Some of the answer, he said, could be in cash to find ways to deliver more water to the Pinal farmers who have cited their $2.3 billion impact of agriculture and agribusiness as well as being a major source of milk for much of the state.
Ducey already has pledged $30 million for "water mitigation'' efforts, meaning finding way to compensate those entitled to Colorado River water to either take less or get them replacement water another way, such as buying supplies from tribes.
He also has agreed to provide another $5 million specifically to help Pinal County farmers tap into existing groundwater resources, with an identical amount coming from the board of the Central Arizona Project.
But it may take more cash than that to drill enough wells to provide enough water to satisfy Pinal County farmers and get them to agree to a deal.


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Hi all, at my Squadron we have a Weapons Safe, and an RCO but no shooting facilities. We're looking towards building a range possibly because we've got a lot of space free to use. What would the procedure be to implement one of the ranges?
I would suggest your RCO asks your Wg Shooting Officer for assistance / guidance.
Obviously there are other safety considerations (you may be able to have different height pellet catchers for standing shooting as well), but with on-going (separate) armoury storage issues, air rifles = simple & very, very effective for marksmanship trg.
It would , of course, need to be a currently approved arms chest with the appropriate alarm system fitted. As MJ says, you need to seek the advice of your wing shooting officer who presumably would escalate it to a specialist.
We've been to a squadron that has a portable AR range that is approved for indoor use.
IIRC it has heavy plastic slats with the target / pellet catchers incorporated.
Well, if it require a separate "build," it will be much cheaper to look at an air rifle range (total length 8.5m?) rather than a .22 range (total length 28.5m at least?). You could buy a good second-hand 10m office "container" or similar for £3K-£4K (or less) & fit it out quite easily for air rifle.
Lots of out-building companies / designs too. Any separate building will be limited by your budget, security considerations & availability of space / land.
TS25. Still need the space to put it in though and they aren't that easily portable.
Really? That's a surprise as you really don't need much space. Has your TSA or Wg Shooting Officer inspected?
But easier and cheaper than the agg of building one, or acquiring a container as that would require land and permission.
The squadron we go to has had their portable one for sometime and it sits in the main room with "blackout" curtain over it.
When we go the other squadron the entire "length" of 5½ metre range is about 7/8m and the cadets wait in another room.
Minimum distance (& 7m seems too short) = firing distance of 5.5m + 2m if using raised firing platforms = 7.5m = not so easy access for RCO / safety supervisor(s).
Add on 0.5m behind firing platforms for access. Total = 8m.
Useful to have cadets being able to watch, as it makes the various CLF exercises easier to understand.
The whole room is a little over 10m and it all fits with room to spare.
Too true, an indoor range with fixed (coverable when not in use?) pellet catchers / backing board (or portable one) is much better than the faff involved with a new outdoor facility.
However, beware of safety requirements for having to block off classrooms / offices / facilities whilst the range is in use. When ours is "live," our computer room / flight sim is not useable, & one other linked room can only be used as there are 2 separate fire exits. It's not resource friendly to have a range in use for 2 - 3 firers, but 2 - 3 other rooms blocked off at the same time - in this case, an external facility might be better.
It depends how it's managed. The squadron we go to do their shoots Saturday AM (when we go) or non weekday parade nights as doing it on parade nights as mentioned creates all manner of problems.
I did ask and the RCO said he does the ranges for no more than 8 and has never had less than 6, so going another night or Saturday doesn't seem to put them off.
Before you do anything contact your Wing Shooting Officer to contact HQAC!
Surely if you wanted to build a proper new build indoor range. You would need to let RFCA know…who then will probably proceed to slam the breaks on things because they would be responsible for the maintenenance of it post completion, which they say they wont have funding for?
I've already outlined the minimum length needed (& there might be safety angle issues for minimum width / height.
So, if that is the case, it has to be an outdoor facility of some kind. Is space available? Yes or no.
If yes, all the relevant agencies will have to be involved.


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VIDEO: Michael McIntyre show helps singing firefighter's West End dream come true
A firefighter from Derbyshire has seen his dream of performing on a West End stage come true - with a little help from comedian Michael McIntyre.
Updated Tuesday, 22nd November 2016, 12:07 pm
Firefighter Andy Quinn, from Heanor, who is appearing on the new series of Michael McIntyres Big Show.
Television viewers tuning in to see the new series of Michael McIntyre's Big Show on Saturday night will see Heanor's Andy Quinn singing live on stage at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Andy, who works for Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, appears in the BBC One entertainment show's 'Unexpected Star' segment - which gives aspiring performers the chance to shine in front of a live audience - and the millions watching on TV.
After being nominated by his wife, an unsuspecting Andy was tricked by his work colleagues into heading to London to give, what he thought, was a fire safety talk to a small group.
In fact, the people in the room, which was next door to the theatre, were all actors in on the ruse and being controlled via earpieces by McIntyre.
You'll have to tune in on Saturday night at 8.10pm to find out exactly what happens - and what song Andy sings - but the performance certainly made an impression on the show's host.
Speaking during an interview to promote the returning series, McIntyre says: "The fireman in the first show is completely mind-blowing. I've never heard that song sung so well, it's incredibly emotional.
"When I had the idea originally for it (Unexpected Stars), I never thought it was going to be a platform for talent.
"It is what it is, they are a member of the public who is going to be the unexpected star of the show."