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Celebrity, Death, And Taxes: Michael Jackson's Estate, Bridget J. Crawford, Joshua C. Tate, Mitchell M. Gans, Jonathan G. Blattmachr

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The untimely death of Michael Jackson this past June presents an opportunity to reassess some thorny estate tax issues that may arise when a celebrity dies owning valuable intellectual property. Elsewhere we have debated hypothetical, tax-motivated changes to state laws relating to postmortem publicity rights. This article will focus on existing legislation, like California’s, that makes publicity rights both devisable and descendible. Federal transfer taxes are levied on intangible property as well as tangible assets, and therefore apply to intellectual property, including a celebrity’s right of publicity and copyrights retained by an artist in his creations. Using Jackson’s estate as …

This Week At Stony Brook Southampton/In The News | This Week At Sbs, V.4, N.08, Darren Johnson

Southampton Announcements and News

No abstract provided.

October 19, 2009 Aasu Faculty Senate Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Minutes (Archived)

October 19, 2009 AASU Faculty Senate Minutes

Interfaith Center Presents India's Festival Of Lights, Oct. 22, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Creepy 1950s Sci-Fi Classic To Screen Oct. 23, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, October 18, 2009, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2009

No abstract provided.

Work In Progress - Role Of Faculty In Promoting Lifelong Learning, Jonathon Stolk, Susan M. Lord, Candice Stefanou, John Chen, Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Michael J. Prince

Mechanical Engineering

Students’ development of self-directed and lifelong learning capacities is vital for their success in today’s engineering environment. Instructors play a critical role in influencing outcomes related to self-directed learning (SDL) through their design of courses that support students’ transitions from controlled to autonomous learning behaviors. Yet there is a critical lack of research examining how instructor choices promote self-directed (and eventually lifelong) learning development in undergraduate engineering students. In this work in progress, we introduce a project that explores how instructor choices affect a range of student outcomes related to their development as self-directed and lifelong learners. Drawing on existing …

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, October 18, 2009, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2009

No abstract provided.

Program, 20th Annual Tampa International Gay And Lesbian Film Festival, October 8-18, 2009, Friends Of The Festival, Inc.

Tampa Bay International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (TIGLFF) Collection

Program for the 20th Annual Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, held between October 8-18, 2009. Includes the following sections: festival sponsors, welcome, ticket information, venue information, parking information, host hotel information, gala party information, Surge men’s party information, Sugar women’s party information, friends with benefits, film index, schedule at a glance, and film descriptions.

Fall Meeting Of Council Of The American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants, October 18-20, 2009, Volume 1, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Council

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Footprints Of A Pilgrim

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2009 performance of Footsteps of a Pilgrim based on the book by Ruth Bell Graham and adapted by Kerry Meads and Robert Smyth.

Footprints of a Pilgrim is the story of Ruth Bell Graham recounting the story of her childhood as the daughter of missionaries in China, her marriage to Reverend Billy Graham, and beyond.

The Murray Ledger And Times, October 17, 2009, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Incorporating Civility Into Public Education: An Empirical Survey Of School Professionals, Keely Wilkins, Paul Caldarella, K. Richard Young

Faculty Publications

Those working in schools are encouraged to model and directly teach civil behaviors. There are no definitive answers for what specific behaviors should be addressed, but this research provided ideas for what might be done to increase students’ civil behaviors.

The Daily Egyptian, October 16, 2009, Daily Egyptian Staff

October 2009

No abstract provided.

'I Just Wanted You To Know': War Testifies Through The Camera, Seyda Aylin Gurses

Open Access Dissertations

This work is a textual analysis of selected documentary films whose common theme is the inevitable discrepancy between the realities of the Vietnam and the 2003 Iraq War from the perspectives of the veterans and soldiers, and the assumed reality that is constructed in the media. It is at this point that the inextricable link between documentary cinema and reality proved fundamental to the developing discourse of the entire study ahead. Since the manner in which the world is both transformed and depicted strongly depends upon the tools available to the director, the technological innovations and the emergence of portable …

Homecoming 2009 Booklet, Taylor University

Homecoming & Family Weekend

No abstract provided.

Supporting The Curriculum With Digital Collections, Thomas Farrell

Staff publications, research, and presentations

This presentation is based on our university's experiences creating two collections of digital items for classroom use. Each of these collections has entailed collaborating with a partner outside the university community, as well as faculty within the university, and each has presented a different set of opportunities and challenges. The first example is a collection of videos digitized from VHS tapes, composed of interviews with survivors of the 1939-1945 Holocaust. These are being used as source materials for students, who create themed A/V essays from edited portions of the). The second example is a set of sacramental mission records spanning …

River Channel Stability And Sediment Characteristics In The Upper White River Basin, Robert T. Pavlowsky, Derek J. Martin

OEWRI Technical Reports

In summer 2009, geomorphic channel assessments were completed for 10 sites in the Upper White River Basin in support of a long-term water quality monitoring program implemented by the Upper White River Basin Foundation. This report describes the results of these assessments. At each site, information was collected on slope and pool conditions, channel capacity and sediment transport, degree of bank erosion, occurrence of bar and floodplain features, and sediment size and distribution. The channels examined were generally typical of Ozarks rivers and tend to have narrow valleys and strong bedrock control near the surface. This valley condition tends to …

Response To “Islamic Fundamentalism: An Ignored Specter In The Xinjiang Riot”, Mark Elliott

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

China Beat has run several pieces recently on the Xinjiang riots. On October 2, we featured Rian Thum’s “The Ethnicization of Discontent in Xinjiang,” which argued that the riots had raised ethnic tensions in the region. A few days later, we published “Islamic Fundamentalism: An Ignored Specter in the Xinjiang Riot,” written by Liang Zheng. Zheng argued that the foreign media had ignored indications that the riots were instigated by fundamentalists from southern Xinjiang, an argument that preserves the notion of ethnic harmony in Urumqi itself.

Today we run a response to Zheng’s argument from Mark Elliott, Professor of Chinese …

Carletonian Security Blotter: October 16, 2009, Randy Atchison

Covid-19 Archive: Documents

The college paper's Security Blotter during fall 2009 includes two students seeking further care for flu-like symptoms, possibly H1N1. Page 2.

New Engagements With Documentary Editions: Audiences, Formats, Contexts, Andrew Jewell

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

This paper is an effort to think about something different than the creation of documentary editions. It is an effort to think about the reading of them. Specifically, I want to think about the ways the reading of documentary editions is changing, or how it might change. First, however, a caveat: much of what I say is speculative and anecdotal. Though others’ research has been consulted, I’m heavily influenced by what I observe is happening with readers of my own editing project, The Willa Cather Archive, a digital thematic research collection dedicated to the life, work, and environs of the …

V. 76, Issue 4, October 16, 2009

Archway (1946-2020)

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles:

• Ulber, Emily. Group Predicts Shortfall – Consensus Forecasting Group, Budget
• Acres, Kaylee. Wild Thang – Patrick Holt, Where the Wild Things Are
• Harris, Shakia. Policy Creates New Student Financial Aid – Scholarships
• Acres, Kaylee. Student Uses Dance to Help Abuse Victims – Nadia De Leon
• Wilson, Laurel. Western Gets Gassy – Facilities Management, Central Heating Plant
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon re: Winter Term – Big Red
• Keep It Classy in Winter Term: Hour Limits
• Ransdell, Gary. Tailgating Policy Keeps Campus Beautiful
• Bryan, Kendrick. Define the Moment with Student …

Reporter - October 16th 2009, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 99 [100], No. 12 (Oct. 20, 2009), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 99, but it is the 100th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

The Bison, October 16, 2009

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Dispersion Interactions Between Optically Anisotropic Cylinders At All Separations: Retardation Effects For Insulating And Semiconducting Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Roger H. French

Faculty Scholarship

We derive the complete form of the van der Waals dispersion interaction between two infinitely long anisotropic semiconducting/insulating thin cylinders at all separations. The derivation is based on the general theory of dispersion interactions between anisotropic media as formulated in Munday et al. [Phys. Rev. A 71, 042102 (2005)]. This formulation is then used to calculate the dispersion interactions between a pair of single-walled carbon nanotubes at all separations and all angles. Nonretarded and retarded forms of the interactions are developed separately. The possibility of repulsive dispersion interactions and nonmonotonic dispersion interactions is discussed within the framework of the formulation.

Um Research Station To Host Open House, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 2009-10-16, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 2001-2011

The College Sustainability Report Card, Green Report Card asserts that the College of Wooster must make major changes in order to become environmentally friendly. The board of trustees visit campus and discuss the possibility of a new campus center. One author discusses the relationship between the college and the city of Wooster. One students experience abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland is featured on page four. Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, the International Olympic Committee decides that Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will host the 2016 Olympics. Athletic updates for the past week are highlighted on pages seven and eight of this edition of …

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, October 16, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

October

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