The Consequences Of Joint Tenancy Ownership Of Property

With the enactment of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, Congress has for the third time since 1976 altered the estate tax treatment of joint tenancy property. The Federal estate tax is levied on the economic value of all property transferred from the taxable estate to the surviving spouse and heirs. Regardless of the actual value transferred by the right of survivorship, prior law often caused the full value of joint tenancy property to be taxed in the estate of the first joint tenant to die.^ Congress has, with each recent revision of the tax law, attempted to make a more equitable determination of the value transferred by the joint tenancy right of survivorship

The \u27Affected\u27 Post-Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis Embryo

The meaning of health is constructed from a variety of perspectives, including biomedical, social and political, and in a variety of sites, including human bodies and natural environments. In this chapter we suggest that the human embryo is one such site. At first glance the in vitro embryo is not an obvious location from which to examine such constructions; however, we contend that an increasing focus on biomedical determinations of the health of the human embryo (Mykitiuk and· Nisker, 2008b; Van Wagner, Mykitiuk and Nisker, 2008) is significant not only in the application to human embryos themselves, but also in terms of our broader understanding of health in relation to existing adults and children

Constructing \u27Health\u27, Defining \u27Choice\u27: Legal and Policy Perspetives on the Post-PGD Embryo in Four Jurisdictions

Through Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, embryos created by IVF are selected for transfer to a woman based on particular characterisations, including the presence of genetic markers or a tissue match for a sibling. In this paper we examine the precise language used in the recent policy and regulatory documents of four jurisdictions (the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand) that in any way characterises the post-PGD embryo. We then explore the mutually constructed relationship between how that embryo is characterised and the purposes for which PGD is applied, as well as the types of uses to which the post-PGD embryo is ultimately relegated. As our analysis indicates, based on the information provided through PGD, a number of possible categorisations of the post-PGD embryo emerge depending both on the outcome of PGD, and the initial intention behind the procedure

The \u27Affected\u27 Post-Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis Embryo

The meaning of health is constructed from a variety of perspectives, including biomedical, social and political, and in a variety of sites, including human bodies and natural environments. In this chapter we suggest that the human embryo is one such site. At first glance the in vitro embryo is not an obvious location from which to examine such constructions; however, we contend that an increasing focus on biomedical determinations of the health of the human embryo (Mykitiuk and· Nisker, 2008b; Van Wagner, Mykitiuk and Nisker, 2008) is significant not only in the application to human embryos themselves, but also in terms of our broader understanding of health in relation to existing adults and children

Constructing \u27Health\u27, Defining \u27Choice\u27: Legal and Policy Perspetives on the Post-PGD Embryo in Four Jurisdictions

Through Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, embryos created by IVF are selected for transfer to a woman based on particular characterisations, including the presence of genetic markers or a tissue match for a sibling. In this paper we examine the precise language used in the recent policy and regulatory documents of four jurisdictions (the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand) that in any way characterises the post-PGD embryo. We then explore the mutually constructed relationship between how that embryo is characterised and the purposes for which PGD is applied, as well as the types of uses to which the post-PGD embryo is ultimately relegated. As our analysis indicates, based on the information provided through PGD, a number of possible categorisations of the post-PGD embryo emerge depending both on the outcome of PGD, and the initial intention behind the procedure

Deployable Cover for CubeSat FUV Imager

The goal is to develop a deployable cover for a far ultraviolet imager cube satellite that will be used to map the earth’s auroras in the ionosphere. The deployable cover is used to protect the Far Ultra-Violet (FUV) sensor and lenses, house two mirrors which are used to filter unwanted light and expose optics when deployed. The deployable cover consists of a door, an actuator, a lockout mechanism, and an “open position” indicator. This project also includes designing a fixture for testing the optical alignment of the deployable cover after launch and during orbital conditions. The subassembly is required to be contained within a 1U volume (10x10x10cm) with the existing front optics assembly, have minimal mass, and provide reliable optical alignment. The final design showed that two mirrors can be packaged into the given footprint if the second mirror is deployed outwards into position via a spring-driven door and the front panel is deployed to allow for full field of view. Although this project proved that a reliable design solution is possible and made long strides towards a finalized design, another design revision is suggested for the springs, front panel hinge, flexures, and mirror bonding fixtures to bring the system up to flight ready status

Panel. Breeding, Feuding, and Forging Families

Breeding Dogs, Breeding Men: Faulkner’s Search for a Hybrid Masculinity in Times of War / Isadora J. Wagner, U. S. Military Academy at West PointThis paper contributes to genealogical studies of Faulkner’s families by tracing a lineage between Virginius MacCallum’s disastrous, hybrid “litter” of hound-fox puppies and “passel” of five sons in Faulkner’s first novel about Yoknapatawpha County, Flags in the Dust, to the McCaslin family’s more successful canine and human crossbreeds in the later novel Go Down, Moses (1942). Working with the intermediary texts “The Tall Men” (1941) and the 1946 printing of the Yoknapatawpha County map, in which Faulkner replaced the MacCallums with the McCaslins, the paper demonstrates how Flags in the Dust, written in 1926-27 in the wake of World War I, but published in 1973, inaugurates a line of hereditary questioning that Faulkner continues through breeding experiments with dogs and men into World War II to identify a hybrid masculinity that can survive the ravages of modern warfare.The Lynching of Homer Barron: Feuding \u27Families\u27 in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” / Wallis Tinnie, Miami-Dade CollegeIn response to a critic’s comment that the likelihood of mutual love between a black man and white woman during the 1880s would be “unthinkable,“ John T. Matthews points out that the situation was less unthinkable than unthought and posits that“governing illusions” of Faulkner\u27s Jefferson in “A Rose for Emily” have origins related to institutional slavery, illusions, Matthews submits, that have been left “unthought.” This paper examines the unthought in this Faulkner classic as it relates to the governing illusions of race and violence to secure a white democracy. The central thesis is that the “innocent” Jefferson “family” unites to murder both Emily’s father, whose name Grierson is anathema in post-Civil War Mississippi, and Homer Barron during the volatile 1870’s and 1880’s. The story\u27s choric narrator offers partial truths, deceptive rhetoric, alternative facts and nostalgic appeals with splashes of notarial rhetoric to achieve legitimacy.Family and/as Forgery: Writing Race and Gender in The Unvanquished / Jeff Allred, Hunter College/City University of New YorkWe all know that Faulkner’s families are bound by talk. This paper explores the less-examined relationship between family and writing in Yoknapatawpha one finds in The Unvanquished. Woven into that text\u27s discourse is a series of depictions of writing undertaken chiefly by subjects on the periphery of antebellum Southern society using stolen and/or repurposed materials. My paper focuses on the darkly funny gambit devised by the unlikely writing team of Rosa Millard and Ringo, an elderly white woman and an enslaved youth. Their use of stolen letterhead to forge Union Army “orders” aligns them with the emergence of modern “business communications” in the mid-nineteenth century, and I will explore the implications of this alignment, comparing their corporate mode of writing with other writerly modes present in the text. I argue that the circuitry they inhabit, so to speak, troubles the note of reactionary “redemption” that ostensibly resolves the text. Moreover, this circuitry mounts an implicit critique of populist and fascist modes of politics that links The Unvanquished with other, better-studied Faulkner texts from the 1930s

Faculty Transitions In Online Delivery: Make Or Buy? Tips For Developing A New To You Online Course

In the last few decades, teaching courses online has become a standard practice at many colleges and universities. Although technologies and pedagogies have changed rapidly during this time, developing an online course is still a labor and time-intensive undertaking. With changes in staffing and course offerings, faculty are often faced with determining the most effective and efficient ways to assume responsibilities for online courses. The authors suggest that under particular ownership expectations there are three main approaches for faculty tasked with offering a course online: 1) develop a new course, 2) modify an already existing course, or 3) adopt an existing online course as-is. Some decision guidelines and sample scenarios are offered to aid faculty in determining the best approach for launching or taking ownership of an online course offering

How To Get In The First Pile

Pressures facing junior faculty during a tenure track job search are high and can come from a multitude of areas. It follows that professionals in this position would try to reduce uncertainty associated with securing a new employment contract. The authors offer their observations below on how to increase an applicants chance to succeed in an initial screening processwhat is we refer to as making the first pileand the interviews that follow

Defining Basic Health Care As a Right: An Analysis of Health Care Access and Rights Philosophy in Germany and the United States

At the conclusion of the novel The Healing of America, T.R. Reid challenges the American people to decide whether health care is a human right prior to any appropriate service reform occurring. From Reid’s perspective, the design of any nation’s health service system is primarily dictated by the morals of society. In a response to Reid’s challenge, this analysis looks at the historical development of the human rights construct and how rights language is associated with health and health care access. Specifically, this investigation looks at the nature of negative versus positive rights, and the distinction between human rights and political-­legal rights. In an effort to look beyond the health service system of the US, this analysis also investigates how the German Health Service is shaped. In comparing the two nations, the goal of this study was to see whether rights language, particularly the language of human rights, factors into how both nations systems are structured. Using secondary research of academic and philosophical literature, this study brought together a wide array of data to investigate the abstract concepts of rights language and health. Based on the research conducted, there are great difficulties in establishing grounds for health care access as a human right. As it pertains to rights language, it is more efficient to stipulate health care access as a political-­legal right based on the societal value of compassionate beneficence. This creates a decent minimum of services individuals have a right to access due to the charity of society. Looking at Germany and US, the German Health Service is a national health service based on health care access being a political-­legal right, were the system seeks to provide a decent minimum of service to promote health to a larger degree the “patchwork” system of the US