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Probate & Estate Planning Conference for Tennessee Attorneys - Materials Only
Held at the Nashville School of Law on Thursday & Friday, December 13-14, 2018
Order your materials from this information-packed event!
The Probate & Estate Planning Conference for Tennessee Attorneys packs two days with some of the state's top estate planning and probate practitioners delivering critical guidance on the hottest topics and some of the most complex issues you'll face. Your distinguished faculty will explain the very latest developments and strategies on topics such as:
- Advanced estate planning tips
- Getting elder care paid for
- Will drafting "dos and don'ts" and "must-have" provisions
- Essentials for implementing and handling conservatorships and guardianships
- Estate planning with trusts
- Tips for practicing in probate court
- Living vs. Testamentary Trusts for tax purposes
- Tips, techniques, and things to watch for in probate and estate planning
- Dealing with estate, income, and generation-skipping transfer taxes
- Tips for drafting estate planning documents
- When and how to set up special needs trusts and/or charitable trusts
- Advance care planning tips
- Understanding issues that arise in small estates
- Bridging the gap between estate administration attorneys and estate planners
- Trusts, estate planning, and probate update
- Ethical issues facing trust and estate planning attorneys and ethical issues that arise in elder law
- Sample forms and checklists
Your Tennessee Faculty Includes:
Rebecca Blair, The Blair Law Firm, Brentwood
Alan L. Cates, Husch Blackwell LLP, Chattanooga
Michael Crowder, Kennerley, Montgomery, & Finley, P.C., Knoxville
Harlan Dodson, Dodson, Parker, Behm & Capparella P.C., Nashville
Elizabeth B. Hickman, Pendleton Square Trust Company, Nashville
Glen Kyle, Franklin & Kyle Elder Law, LLC, Knoxville
Patrick B. Mason, Mason Zoccola Law Firm, PLLC, Memphis
Steve McDaniel, Williams McDaniel, Memphis
Sara E. McManus, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Chattanooga
Hunter R. Mobley, Howard Mobley Hayes & Gontarek, PLLC, Nashville
Jeff Mobley, Howard Mobley Hayes & Gontarek, PLLC, Nashville
Julie Travis Moss, The Blair Law Firm, Brentwood
Michelle Poss, Law Office of A. Michelle Poss, Nashville
Tim Takacs, Takacs McGinnis Elder Care Law, PLLC, Hendersonville
Alexander Taylor, Kennerley, Montgomery, & Finley, P.C., Knoxville
Matthew Thornton, Bourland, Heflin, Alvarez, Minor & Matthews PLC, Memphis
10 Reasons You Should Attend This Event:
- Outstanding faculty. You'll hear from leading attorneys in estate planning and probate practice from across the state in Tennessee.
- Tips on estate planning. You'll receive valuable tips in planning with trusts and get advice on avoiding unintended consequences when drafting estate planning documents.
- Tips on will drafting. You'll get tips on drafting wills in 2019 and beyond and on how to build flexibility into the estate plan.
- Probate practice. Gain valuable information to use when probating a will or administering an estate, including information on how to determine the elective share estate and homestead allowance.
- Practical information. You'll get practical information you can put to use in your practice immediately, including what to look for in reviewing a client's existing estate plan, drafting charitable trusts, duties and liabilities of a personal representative, and the latest on conservatorships and guardianships in Tennessee.
- Estate tax issues. Learn how to handle federal and state estate tax issues, income tax issues for the estate and heirs, and generation-skipping transfer tax issues.
- Elder law. You'll get information on drafting special needs trusts, handling durable powers of attorney for financial matters and powers of attorney for healthcare, and helping clients with their long-term advance planning issues.
- Ethical considerations. You'll gain valuable insights on how to handle difficult-to-resolve dilemmas faced when choosing your clients and issues that arise in a trust and estate planning practice.
- Update. You'll get an update on probate litigation case law and legislation.
Your Distinguished Faculty
Rebecca C. Blair, founder of The Blair Law Firm in Brentwood, has developed an immensely diverse practice in 20 years. She has substantial experience in many aspects of civil litigation, including tort law, insurance coverage litigation, business litigation, and probate litigation. She is listed as a Rule 31 General Civil mediator. She was voted one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in the Mid-South in 2012 by Mid-South Super Lawyers/Memphis Magazine. She was also elected to Best Lawyers in America® for her work in Business Litigation and Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs. Ms. Blair has been elected by her peers as a Mid-South Super Lawyer in the area of Plaintiff's Personal Injury Litigation every year since 2009. She is a past president of the Tennessee Lawyers' Association for Women, a past board member of the Nashville Bar Association and a past chair of the Bench Bar Committee of the Tennessee Judicial Conference.
Alan Cates, with Husch Blackwell in Chattanooga, is a member of the firm's Financial Services & Capital Markets industry team, focusing his practice on investment management and private wealth matters. With decades of comprehensive legal experience, he has guided individuals and their businesses in estate planning and business succession planning. He has also represented individual and institutional executors and trustees in virtually all sorts of litigation matters, both as defense counsel and initiating action. He has represented taxpayers in administrative proceedings and in courtrooms, and provided critical services to tax-exempt organizations and has served as "general counsel" to families and their businesses. Mr. Cates frequently presents on financial topics such as taxation, estate planning, business succession planning and probate and trust issues across the country. He has spoken before the Tennessee Bar Association, the Tennessee Society of CPAs, estate planning councils, and at estate planning and planned-giving seminars at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Texas A&M University, and the University of New Haven. He is a member of the Tennessee Probate Study Committee, which reviews and comments on pending legislation in the areas of trusts, estates and similar issues. Before entering private practice in 1975, he served as the planned giving officer for the University of Tennessee. He also served on the faculty of the National Planned Giving Institute at the College of William & Mary for more than 25 years. Mr. Cates has been listed in Best Lawyers In America®, Litigation-Trusts and Estates, Non-Profit/Charities Law, and Trusts and Estates since 2003, and he was named Chattanooga Trusts and Estates "Lawyer of the Year," in 2010 and 2017. He has been listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers® since 2006.
Michael R. Crowder is an associate with Kennerley, Montgomery, & Finley, P.C. Mr. Crowder's practice focuses on estate planning, wills, and trusts. Mr. Crowder crafts their wills and trusts in a way that ensures their assets are best utilized during their life and then effectively passed along at death, taxes are minimized, protection from creditors is maximized, and, most importantly, loved ones are provided for. Mr. Crowder particularly enjoys being an advocate for his elderly clients. He assists them in planning for, applying for, and remaining eligible for Medicaid, VA, SSI, and other benefits - he has won multiple hard-fought appeals for his clients' TennCare and SSI benefits. He also helps them negotiate, or, if necessary, litigate family disputes over property rights or other issues. Additionally, he helps clients obtain and administer conservatorships for their disabled loved ones. Michael also assists in the administration of estates in probate court, and helps his small business and non-profit clients on issues ranging from formation and governance, taxes, contracts, fundraising, employment issues, property rights, and litigation.
Harlan Dodson, with Dodson Parker Behm and Capparella PC in Nashville, has been helping people and businesses solve problems and plan for the future for more than 40 years. Clients seeking general business advice, estate planning services, or representation in litigation count on his vast experience and track record of getting the job done. Mr. Dodson provides hands-on guidance for his clients, whether working with them to launch a business, structure a complex real estate deal, or draft a will. Upon graduation from Vanderbilt University, he joined his father's firm, Hooker, Keeble, Dodson & Harris. In 1985, he founded Dodson & Associates, and the firm merged with Shipley & Behm in 1988. He is a frequent speaker and writer on business entities, and especially limited liability companies, as well as on wills and estate planning. He has taught Estate Planning at the Nashville School of Law since 1975, where he was presented with the Distinguished Faculty Award in 2007. He has also served as Adjunct Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University. He is the editor to the West Publishing Company's Tennessee Practice Series volumes on business formation and estate planning. Additionally, he continues to be a lecturer for the bar review company BAR-BRI on wills and estates. He is the author of Introduction to Estate Planning and Administration in Tennessee, the definitive textbook on the subject matter.
Elizabeth Hickman serves as Director of Estate Services/Trust Officer with Pendleton Square Trust Company's Nashville office. In this role she provides leadership for the estate team and serves families and their advisors in administering family trust relationships. An attorney, she also works closely with the company's Chief Fiduciary Officer on legal and compliance matters.
Prior to joining Pendleton Square, Elizabeth was in private practice as an estate and trust attorney with Goodman Callahan Blackstone, PLLC in Nashville, where she led the firm's probate and trust administration practice. Previously she worked at Cumberland Trust and Investment Company on the administration of complex estates throughout the Southeast. Elizabeth earned a B.A. in history at Wake Forest University and an M.A. in Art History at Vanderbilt University before attaining her law degree at the Nashville School of Law. In addition to her professional responsibilities, Elizabeth serves on the board of the Estate Planning Council of Middle Tennessee.
Glen Kyle, elder law attorney with Franklin & Kyle Elder Law, LLC in Knoxville, concentrates his practice in the areas of life care planning, estate planning, and probate and trust administration. Before attending law school, he traveled extensively in Europe and lived in Edinburgh, Scotland. He earned a bachelor's degree in History from Rutgers University in 2005. He then worked in retail banking for nine years, during which time he developed strong relationships with older adults in the Murfreesboro community. Throughout his banking career, Mr. Kyle saw the need for our society to protect older adults from financial exploitation. These experiences led him to earn a law degree from the only Tennessee University with an Elder Law Clinic – the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Through the Elder Law Clinic and elder law classes, Mr. Kyle graduated with a working knowledge of estate planning, Medicaid, and Medicare. In addition to being an honor student, Mr. Kyle was elected by peers and professors to be the Business Editor of the Memphis Law Review. He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Knoxville Estate Planning Council, the Society of Financial Service Professionals, the Knoxville Bar Association, and the Tennessee Bar Association.
Patrick B. Mason is a founding member of the Mason Zoccola Law Firm, PLLC, in Memphis, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning, estate and trust administration, probate litigation and corporate law. Mr. Mason earned an accounting degree in 1979 at the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. in 1986 at Vanderbilt University School of Law. He became a Certified Public Accountant in 1981 and has been practicing law for the last 31 years in Memphis. When he is not practicing law, he loves playing tuba with the Mullins Community Orchestra, his home church's musical ensemble. A part of the Mullins UMC family for over fifty years, he is one of the leaders of the church and invests much of his time in church activities, including singing as a baritone in the choir.
Steve McDaniel, is with Williams and McDaniel PLLC in Memphis, is an accredited estate planner and is a certified estate planning law specialist. He is also a Rule 31 Listed Mediator in the field of General Civil Mediation, as certified by the Tennessee Supreme Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission. He was named one of the Top 100 Estate Planning Attorneys by Worth Magazine. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Litigation-Trusts & Estates and Trusts & Estates since 2007. He was named the Trusts and Estates "Lawyer of the Year" in Memphis. He was named one of the Top 150 Attorneys in the State of Tennessee by Business Tennessee Magazine. He was listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers® in the field of Estate Planning & Probate. Steve teaches at the University Of Memphis School of Law, teaching trust law.
Sara E. McManus is an associate with Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, in Chattanooga. Ms. McManus holds an LL.M. in Taxation and has experience in a wide variety of tax-related areas, including federal tax controversy, state and local tax controversy, conservation easements, nonprofit and exempt organizations, and estate and succession planning, including charitable and international estate planning. Ms. McManus was named a "Rising Star" by Mid-South Super Lawyers® in 2016 and 2017. She is immediate Past President of the Southeast Tennessee Lawyers' Association for Women (SETLAW) Board of Directors and serves on the board of . Ms. McManus also has experience in probate litigation including representation of estates as well as matters related to creditor claims. In addition, she has experience representing investors and developers as to EB-5 immigration. She has also represented individual and business taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Tax Court and the Tennessee Department of Revenue. Representative tax controversy matters include negotiation of installment agreements for individual and business taxpayers, representation of estates as to audits of federal estate tax returns, and representation as to federal and state level audits of individuals and businesses.
Hunter R. Mobley is Of Counsel at Howard Mobley Hayes & Gontarek PLLC, specializing in the areas of estate planning and administration, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements and tax-exempt organization law. In addition to representing individuals and families, he represents churches and charities in tax, governance and gift acceptance matters. From simple wills to tax-sensitive trust documents, he enjoys meeting with individuals and families of all shapes and sizes. Hunter is a frequent speaker at local and statewide continuing legal education seminars on estate planning and charitable planning. He is an adjunct professor at Belmont University's College of Law as an adjunct professor. He received an LL.M in Taxation from New York University, a J.D. from the University of Kentucky and a B.S. from Davidson College. In the community, he serves on the boards of Association for the Preservation of Tennessee's Antiquities (APTA), Montgomery Bell Academy Young Alumni, Christian Women's Job Corps (CWJC) and Christ Church. He also serves on the Planned Giving Advisory Council for Alive Hospice in Nashville.
Jeff Mobley, a member of Howard Mobley Hayes & Gontarek PLLC in Nashville, concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning, tax planning for estates and trusts, business succession planning, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, estate administration, resolution of disputes involving estates, and related real estate matters. He is certified as an Estate Planning Specialist. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America® (2001-2014 editions) and Mid-South Super Lawyers (2005-2013 editions). He is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He has served as President of the Nashville Estate Planning Council and as Chair of the Probate Court Committee of the Nashville Bar Association, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Nashville Bar Association. He is a co-author of Pritchard on the Laws of Wills and Administration of Estates (7th Ed. 2009). He is an adjunct professor at Belmont University's College of Law. He was listed as one of the top lawyers in Tennessee by Business Tennessee magazine (Jan/Feb 2010), one of only eight attorneys listed as tops statewide in the area of Trusts & Estates. He was listed as one of the top lawyers in Nashville by Nashville Post magazine (Jan/Feb 2011), one of only five attorneys listed as tops citywide in the area of Trusts & Estates.
Julie Travis Moss is Of Counsel with The Blair Law Firm in Brentwood. Her practice areas include estate and trust administration, guardianships and conservatorships, estate planning, real estate, and related litigation. She also advises closely held business owners regarding general corporate matters. Her twenty years of diverse legal experience includes ten years as a general practitioner in Michigan and teaching legal writing at Vanderbilt Law School. Ms. Moss earned her B.A. degree from the University of Michigan and her J.D. degree from Loyola University Chicago. She is licensed to practice in the states of Tennessee, Michigan and Illinois (inactive) and is also admitted to practice before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Courts for the Middle District of Tennessee, the Western District of Michigan, and the Northern District of Illinois. She speaks frequently on estate planning, administration, and litigation topics, and she is a member of the Nashville Bar Association's probate and estate planning committees.
Michelle Poss, with the Law Office of A. Michelle Poss in Nashville, is a sole practitioner focusing her practice in areas of elder law, disability and probate, including estate administrations, conservatorships and guardianships, trust administrations, Social Security and V.A. claims. Ms. Poss is also a V.A. accredited attorney. She received her J.D. from the Nashville School of Law in 1998 and practiced with Finch & McBroom for almost 6 years. She joined Sobel, Poss & Moore in September 2004. She is an active member of the Nashville Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association and the Conservatorship Association of Tennessee. Ms. Poss is Tennessee Attorneys for Justice pro bono service award recipient. She is a member of the Nashville Bar Association Memorial Service Committee and is a Nashville Bar Association Fellow. She currently serves as a board member of the Conservatorship Association of Tennessee, CASA and the St. Thomas Foundation Murfree Circle.
Timothy L. Takacs is in private practice in Hendersonville, Tennessee, with Takacs McGinnis Elder Care Law, PLLC, which limits its practice exclusively to elder care law. He was one of the first elder law attorneys in the nation to assemble an inter-disciplinary team of experts to provide integrated client care. Since 2004, Mr. Takacs and the other members of his firm have taught the fundamentals of life care planning practice to hundreds of lawyers throughout the United States. Mr. Takacs is a founding member of the Life Care Planning Law Firms Association (LCPLFA) and was the Association's first president. He was also a founding member of the Special Needs Alliance, an organization of the nation's leading lawyers on issues pertaining to persons with disabilities and special needs. He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) and was a member of NAELA's Board of Directors from 2004-2008. In 2000, Mr. Takacs organized the Tennessee Bar Association's Elder Law Section and was the Section's first chairperson. Also in 2000, he founded Vista Points, Inc., the state's first special needs "pooled" trust. Mr. Takacs has been certified by the National Elder Law Foundation as a Certified Elder Law Attorney. He is the founder of The NAELA eBulletin, an email newsletter for elder law attorneys; and is the author of Elder Law Practice in Tennessee (Lexis/Nexis, 1998; supplemented annually) and A Guide to Elder Law Practice (Lexis, 2007). Mr. Takacs received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law.
Alexander M. Taylor was a tax lawyer with the Chief Counsel's Office for the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C., from 1970 to 1974. He is now a shareholder with Kennerley, Montgomery, & Finley, P.C., in Knoxville. His law practice concentrates on estate planning, probate, elder law, and general tax issues. Alex is a graduate of the University of Tennessee Law School (J.D., 1970) and George Washington University (L.L.M. in Taxation, 1974). Mr. Taylor is a member of Knoxville Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association (member of estate planning and elder law sections), the National Association of Estate Planning Attorneys, the Knoxville Estate Planning Council (Past President), and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Mr. Taylor is certified as a specialist in estate planning by the American Bar Association's Estate Law Specialist Board, Inc. He is also certified to represent veterans and their families before the United States Veterans Administration.
Matthew Thornton with Bourland, Heflin, Alvarez, Minor & Matthews PLC in Memphis, concentrates his practice of law in the areas of probate and estate law and residential real estate. In addition, drawing upon his generalist experience and mediation training, Mr. Thornton is a Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 Listed Mediator. He has successfully represented clients in negotiating disputes and in arbitration and civil trials when negotiation fails to achieve the desired client results. He serves on the Executive Council of the Tennessee Bar Association's Estate Planning & Probate Section and its legislative subcommittee, where he has been an active participant in the shaping of new developments relating to estate law.
DAY 1 — Thursday, December 13
8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Planning Opportunities & Challenges in 2019 and Beyond
Harlan Dodson
Dodson, Parker, Behm & Capparella, PC
Mr. Dodson will offer tips and strategies for drafting wills in 2019 and beyond, including drafting "dos and don'ts," building flexibility into the plan, "must-have" provisions, and the need to keep your clients current on their wills and estate plans.
9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Estate Planning with Trusts in Tennessee
Jeff Mobley & Hunter Mobley
Howard Mobley Hayes & Gontarek, PLLC
Trusts are powerful tools that can be used to achieve specific estate planning goals, regardless of the size of your client's estate. Over the past several years Tennessee has enacted cutting-edge legislation regarding Tennessee trust laws. This presentation will walk you through the various types of trusts used in Tennessee and will discuss recent legislative changes, creditor rights with regard to trusts, the taxation of trusts, and the use of various trusts as an estate planning tool.
10:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
Morning Break
10:45 a.m. to 11:45 p.m.
How Care Gets Paid for in Today's Elder Care Continuum
Timothy L. Takacs
Takacs McGinnis Elder Care Law, PLLC
Mr. Takacs will provide an analysis of the elder care continuum and its various components. He will provide education on major payer sources and programs including Medicaid, Veterans Affairs (VA), Medicare, Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income, federal employees' health benefits, as well as private wealth. The objective of this presentation is to give attendees a better understanding of sources, both public and private, that help older persons and persons with disabilities pay for health care and long-term care.
11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Lunch (included with registration)
12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Understanding the Role of the Personal Representative in Probate
Alan L. Cates
Husch Blackwell LLP
The duties of a personal representative are dictated in a will and controlled by the probate laws of Tennessee. The duties of a personal representative are directly related to the stages of executing the will or trust such as: Identifying assets, paying the bills, filing lawsuits (if needed), and closing out the estate in accordance with the will and controlling probate law. Failure to adhere to the required duties can result in heirs filing a lawsuit against the personal representative for breach of fiduciary duty alleging that the personal representative owed a statutory and reasonable duty to protect the assets of the estate while trying to wind down the estate, and then breached that duty by failing to exercise due diligence to perform the tasks required. Mr. Cates will cover:
- Duties of the personal representative
- Misconduct and/or removal
- Compensation guidelines
- Special administration issues
1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Estate Administration – Best Practices, Tips and Pitfalls to Avoid
Elizabeth B. Hickman
Pendleton Square Trust Company
Estate Administration – Best Practices
- Opening and managing the estate with the court
- Efficient estate administration: tips and timetables to keep in mind
- Communications with the client, the court, other counsel and beneficiaries
- Handling issues that arise with personal property
2:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Afternoon Break
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Qualifying for TennCare and VA Benefits: Use of Irrevocable Trusts
Alexander M. Taylor & Michael Crowder
Kennerley, Montgomery, & Finley, P.C.
- Recent cases that make it harder to protect client's home from TennCare estate recovery
- Disadvantages of outright gift
- Features of property designed grantor trust for TennCare and veterans planning
- Why and when to bifurcate the trust
- The key role of the trustee
- Irrevocable trusts in VA benefits planning
- Gift tax return
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Tax Consequences of Trusts
Patrick B. Mason
Mason Zoccola Law Firm, PLLC
In this session, Mr. Mason will discuss:
- Difference between fiduciary accounting income and taxable income
- Grantor trust status and reporting
- Non-grantor trusts
- Taxation at trust level
- Tax consequences of a beneficiary distribution
- Living vs. Testamentary trusts for tax purposes
- Estate taxation and reporting
- Federal and state income taxation
- Tax basis
- Adjustment in basis
- Basis consistency
- Section 645 election
- Termination of grantor trust status
DAY 2 — Friday, December 14
8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
2018 Probate Litigation Case Law and Legislative Update
Rebecca Blair
The Blair Law Firm
Ms. Blair will walk you through some of the most significant cases and legislative changes from the past year.
9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Ethics in Estate Planning and Estate Administration
Steve McDaniel
Williams McDaniel
Attorneys implementing estate plans and administering those plans often face numerous ethical issues, such as joint representation, client confidentiality, client competence, and billing inquiries. This ethics presentation will explore many of the difficult-to-resolve dilemmas faced by trust and estate attorneys.
10:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
Morning Break
10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Long-Term Care Advance Planning
Glen A. Kyle
Franklin & Kyle Elder Law, LLC
According to the American Health Care Association, nearly half of all Americans will need long-term care at some point in their lives. In fact, one in five over the age of 50 is at a high risk of needing long-term care within the next 12 months. Let Mr. Kyle give you some tips on helping your clients meet their long-term care needs.
- Durable power of attorney for financial matters
- Health care power of attorney
- Special needs trust
- Advance medical directives
- Living will
- "Do not resuscitate" (DNR) orders and organ donation considerations
- Emergency medical services (EMS)
- Wills and trusts
11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Lunch (included with registration)
12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Elective Share, Homestead, and Alternatives to Full Probate
Matthew Thornton
Bourland, Heflin, Alvarez, Minor & Matthews PLC
Mr. Thornton will walk you through some alternatives to full probate administration and will offer tips on minimizing the fees and costs that often mount up during the probate of an estate and will show you how to utilize alternatives to opening an estate. You'll learn about:
- Portability rules, claiming unused exemption
- Homestead allowance
- How to determine the elective share estate
- Elective share rights and procedure
1:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Ethics in Elder Care
Michelle Poss
Law Office of A. Michelle Poss
Ms. Poss will cover the following topics:
- How Rules of Professional Conduct apply
- Who is your client?
- Conflicts of interest
- Mental capacity of the client
- Using a care manager to enhance service to clients
3:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Afternoon Break
3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Charitable Trusts
Sara McManus
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
A charitable trust is an irrevocable trust which may be set up inter vivos or as a part of a trust or will at death. Let Ms. McManus walk you through the types of charitable trusts and offer you tips on how best to use them to your clients' advantage.
- When are charitable trusts used?
- CRTs vs. CLTs
- Tax planning, requirements and consequences
- Trustee powers/duties and administration issues
- Exceptions to the rules
- Charitable planning in smaller estates
- Sample trust language
- Recent developments related to charitable trusts and giving
4:15 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Twenty-Five Tips & Techniques from the Other Side – Estate Planning from an Estate Administration Perspective
Julie Travis Moss
The Blair Law Firm
With twenty years of experience in estate planning and estate administration, Ms. Moss will walk you through the best tips and techniques she has learned along the way, addressing issues such as:
- Drafting your documents for a smooth administration
- The importance of implementing the estate plan
- Planning to avoid probate (no Trust needed!)
- Making good decisions now to avoid conflicts later
Nashville School of Law
4013 Armory Oaks Dr.
Nashville, TN 37204
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- $497 for entire program
- $70 off for additional attendees from same firm
- $347 for one day only
- $247 for materials
- $50 early bird discount until November 2
15.0 hours of CLE (2 hours of GENERAL and 3 hour of DUAL)
Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. The conference begins at 8:00 a.m. and concludes at 5:00 p.m.
Lunch will be provided with registration!
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BOSTON -- This is probably not the best week to air any reservations about the American passion for independence. After all, we don't have fireworks for Dependence Day. We don't hold parades to celebrate Interdependence Day. We don't get a holiday for Connections.
Our allegiance to independence as a nation is Yankee doodle dandy. But I'm wondering whether our ode to independence as a people is a bit over the top. We foster an unrealistic view of the way we live, not just in the designated years of caring for our children but in the undesignated years when we care for our elders.
Maybe independence is too crisply defined as "exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; direction of one's own affairs without interference."
This comes to mind because here in Massachusetts we've have had five serious car accidents involving elders in the past month. An 86-year-old struck an elderly man in a crosswalk. A 93-year-old drove through the window of a Wal-Mart, injuring six people. An 89-year-old killed a 4-year-old child.
Yes, I know. An octogenarian may be no greater a menace on the highway than a 35-year-old texting while driving. But the spate of accidents predictably prompted a call to require regular testing of everyone over 85.
This in turn prompted one elder in a car-dependent suburb to lament, "It would ruin me. I'm so dependent on it. If I couldn't drive I'd have to be dependent on someone else."
Somewhere along the way we have to acknowledge that there are worse things than being dependent. And somewhere we have to wonder why we turn to legislation when we need conversation. Looking to the state to take the keys from dad is rather like outsourcing our children's sex education to the schools because we are too tongue-tied to talk about sex at home.
As a society, and as individuals, we are woefully unprepared for aging, even when it's our parents. We have 76 million baby boomers already entering their 60s. As one of them, Paula Span, says, "When my dad was my age both of his parents had died and he was retired. I'm never going to be able to retire and I might be caring for my dad when I'm in my 70s and he's in his 90s."
Span has written "When the Time Comes," a welcome "support group in print" for anyone with aging parents. She leads a compassionate and eyes-wide-open journey with families struggling to do the right thing from the car-key moment to hospice.
About 34 million Americans provide at least some of the care for frail, aging family members and yet we don't see it as a normal, predictable part of the life cycle. As Span says with amazement, "We prepare for everything. We prepare for education, for marriage. We read 40 books on pregnancy and childbirth. But we don't prepare for the idea that we'll spend years taking care of an older relative."
Instead, we retain what she calls "this hazy idea that we'll all be healthy for years and years and then just die." There is no best-seller called "What To Expect When They Are Declining." Nor is there any "Missing Manual" on what to do when our parents become too frail or confused to live alone. It always seems sudden when we get the call about the "accident" or the illness or the pot left on the stove.
The concern around the car keys is a symbol of the denial shared by parents and adult children. But it's also a template for talking about everything from assisted living to end-of-life care. These are the courageous conversations to initiate before "the time comes." "Immortality is not on the menu," urges Span, "so let's dispense with that and talk about what's going to happen."
What inhibits us is not just the parent/child relationship but the belief that there is something shameful, improper, and infantilizing about "help."
Our parents raised us to be independent. We raise our children under the same rubric. What we left out is the lesson that caregiving continues through the life cycle. Needing help is not role reversal but joint responsibility. We are bound to break through this reticence when the 76 million boomers start hitting 75.
But all this is hitting this generation as adult children, a phrase that is no longer an oxymoron.
Driving is not all that's driving this. Sooner, not later, our country has to pass a reality road test on independence.
Ellen Goodman is a columnist for the Boston Globe and the Washington Post Writers Group. Her e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Summary of Chapter 23. Triggers and behaviors
Triggers and behaviors are similar, in that they are both intended to be used in XAML files to simplify element interactions beyond the use of data bindings, and to extend the functionality of XAML elements. Both triggers and behaviors are almost always used with visual user-interface objects.
To support triggers and behaviors, both
VisualElement and
Style support two collection properties:
Style.Triggersof type
Style.Behaviorsof type
A trigger is a condition (a property change or the firing of an event) that results in a response (another property change or running some code). The
Triggers property of
VisualElement and
Style is of type
TriggerBase is an abstract class from which four sealed classes derive:
Triggerfor responses based on property changes
EventTriggerfor responses based on event firings
DataTriggerfor responses based on data bindings
MultiTriggerfor responses based on multiple triggers
The trigger is always set on the element whose property is being changed by the trigger.
The simplest trigger
Trigger class checks for a change of a property value and responds by setting another property of the same element.
Trigger defines three properties:
Propertyof type
Valueof type
Settersof type
IList<SetterBase>, the content property of
In addition,
Trigger requires that the following property inherited from
TriggerBase be set:
TargetTypeto indicate the type of the element on which the
Triggeris attached
Property and
Value comprise the condition, and the
Setters collection is the response. When the indicated
Property has the value indicated by
Value, then the
Setter objects in the
Setters collection are applied. When the
Property has a different value, the setters are removed.
Setter defines two properties that are the same as the first two properties of
The EntryPop sample demonstrates how a
Trigger applied to an
Entry can increase the size of the
Entry via the
Scale property when the
IsFocused property of the
Entry is
Although it's not common, the
Trigger can be set in code, as the EntryPopCode sample demonstrates.
The StyledTriggers sample demonstrates how the
Trigger can be set in a
Style to apply to multiple
Entry elements.
Trigger actions and animations
It is also possible to run a little code based on a trigger. This code can be an animation that targets a property. One common way is to use an
EventTrigger, which defines two properties:
Eventof type
string, the name of an event
Actionsof type
IList<TriggerAction>, a list of actions to run in response.
To use this, you need to write a class that derives from
TriggerAction<T>, generally
TriggerAction<VisualElement>. You can define properties in this class. These are plain CLR properties rather than bindable properties because
TriggerAction doesn't derive from
BindableObject. You must override the
Invoke method that is called when the action is invoked. The argument is the target element.
ScaleAction class in the Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit library is an example. It calls the
ScaleTo property to animate the
Scale property of an element. Because one of its properties is of type
Easing, the
EasingConverter class lets you use the standard
Easing static fields in XAML.
The EntrySwell sample demonstrates how to invoke the
ScaleAction from
EventTrigger objects that monitor the
Focused and
Unfocused events.
The CustomEasingSwell sample shows how to define a custom easing function for
ScaleAction in a code-behind file.
You can also invoke actions using a
Trigger (as distinguished from
EventTrigger). This requires that you are aware that
TriggerBase defines two collections:
EnterActionsof type
ExitActionsof type
The EnterExitSwell sample demonstrates how to use these collections.
More event triggers
ScaleUpAndDownAction class in the Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit library calls
ScaleTo twice to scale up and down. The
ButtonGrowth sample uses this in a styled
EventTrigger to provide visual feedback when a
Button is pressed. This double animation is also possible using two actions in the collection of type
ShiverAction class in the Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit library defines a customizable shiver action. The
ShiverButtonDemo sample demonstrates it.
NumericValidationAction class in the Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit library is restricted to
Entry elements and sets the
TextColor property to red if the
Text property is not a
double. The
TriggerEntryValidation sample demonstrates it.
Data triggers
DataTrigger is similar to the
Trigger except that instead of monitoring a property for value changes, it monitors a data binding. This allows a property in one element to affect a property in another element.
DataTrigger defines three properties:
The GenderColors sample requires the SchoolOfFineArt library and sets the colors of the names of the students to blue or pink based on the
Sex property:
The ButtonEnabler sample sets the
IsEnabled property of an
Entry to
False if the
Length property of the
Text property of the
Entry equals 0. Notice that the
Text property is initialized to an empty string; by default it is
null, and the
DataTrigger wouldn't work correctly.
Combining conditions in the MultiTrigger
MultiTrigger is a collection of conditions. When they are all
true, then setters are applied. The class defines two properties:
Conditionsof type
Settersof type
Condition is an abstract class and has two descendent classes:
PropertyCondition, which has
Valueproperties like
BindingCondition, which has
Valueproperties like
In the AndConditions sample, a
BoxView is only colored when four
Switch elements are all turned on.
The OrConditions sample demonstrates how you can make a
BoxView a color when any of four
Switch elements are turned on. This requires an application of De Morgan's Law and reversing all the logic.
Combining AND and OR logic is not so easy and generally requires invisible
Switch elements for intermediate results. The
XorConditions sample demonstrates how a
Button can be enabled if either of two
Entry elements have some text typed in, but not if they both have some text typed in.
Anything you can do with a trigger, you can also do with a behavior, but behaviors always require a class that derives from
Behavior<T> and overrides the following two methods:
The argument is the element that the behavior is attached to. Generally, the
OnAttachedTo method attaches some event handlers, and
OnDetachingFrom detaches them. Because such a class usually saves some state, it generally cannot be shared in a
BehaviorEntryValidation sample is similar to TriggerEntryValidation except that it uses a behavior — the
NumericValidationBehavior class in the Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit library.
Behaviors with properties
Behavior<T> derives from
Behavior, which derives from
BindableObject, so bindable properties can be defined on a behavior. These properties can be active in data bindings.
This is demonstrated in the
EmailValidationDemo program that makes use of the
ValidEmailBehavior class in the Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit library.
ValidEmailBehavior has a read-only bindable property and serves as a source in data bindings.
The EmailValidationConv sample uses this same behavior to display another type of indicator to signal that an email address is valid.
The EmailValidationTrigger sample is a variation on the previous sample. ButtonGlide uses a
DataTrigger in combination with that behavior.
Toggles and check boxes
It's possible to encapsulate the behavior of a toggle button in a class such as
ToggleBehavior in the Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit library, and then define all the visuals for the toggle entirely in XAML.
The ToggleLabel sample uses the
ToggleBehavior with a
DataTrigger to use a
Label with two text strings for the toggle.
The FormattedTextToggle sample extends this concept by switching between two
FormattedString objects.
ToggleBase class in the Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit library derives from
ContentView, defines an
IsToggled property, and incorporates a
ToggleBehavior for the toggle logic. This makes it easier to define the toggle button in XAML, as demonstrated by the TraditionalCheckBox sample.
The SwitchCloneDemo includes a
SwitchClone class that derives from
ToggleBase and uses a
TranslateAction class to construct a toggle button that resembles the Xamarin.Forms
RotateAction in the Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit provides an animation used to make an animated lever in the LeverToggle sample.
Responding to taps
One drawback of
EventTrigger is that you can't attach it to a
TapGestureRecognizer to respond to taps. Getting around that problem is the purpose of
TapBehavior in the Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit
The BoxViewTapShiver sample uses
TapBehavior to use the earlier
ShiverAction for tapped
BoxView elements.
The ShiverViews sample shows how to cut down on the markup by encapsulating a
ShiverView class.
Radio buttons
The Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit library also has a
RadioBehavior class for making radio buttons that are grouped by a
string group name.
The RadioLabels program uses text strings for its radio button. The RadioStyle sample uses a
Style for the difference in appearance between checked and unchecked buttons. The
RadioImages sample uses boxed images for its radio buttons:
The TraditionalRadios sample draws traditional appearing radio buttons with a dot inside a circle.
Fades and orientation
The final sample, MultiColorSliders allows you to switch between three different color-selection views using radio buttons. The three views fade in and out using a
FadeEnableAction in the Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit library.
The program also responds to changes in orientation between portrait and landscape using a
GridOrientationBehavior in the Xamarin.FormsBook.Toolkit library.
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|Subrata Paul was named winner of the Arjuna Award
Indian International goalkeeper Subrata Paul was named the winner of the prestigious Arjuna Award on Monday, 22nd August 2016. Subrata Paul has been a key member for the Indian side for several years and was one of the few bright spots in India's AFC Asia Cup 2011 campaign where he earned the nickname "Spiderman" for his fantastic performances under the bar for the Blue Tigers.
On his new feat, the goalkeeper said, "The Arjuna Award is one of the highest Awards for sportspersons in our Country. Over the years the best in their respective fields have been conferred with the Award. A sportsperson never plays to get any Award. But when your achievements get recognized, it is an added motivation to do better. I need to thank all my Coaches, my Teammates, AIFF, the Football fraternity and my family who stood by me and supported me over all these years."
AIFF President Mr. Praful Patel and General Secretary Mr. Kushal Das also congratulated Subrata Paul. Indian Senior National Team Head Coach Stephen Constantine also passed on his best wishes to the current DSK Shivajians shot stopper saying,"No one deserves the Arjuna Award more than Subrata. He has done so much for Indian Football both on and off the field. I am very happy for him. Congratulations."


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Industry vet and Uvphactory co-founder Damijan Saccio has joined New York City's Postal as executive producer. Postal, Humble's sister shop for design and VFX, also brought on creative director Gene Nazarov. He too arrives from motion design and visual effects studio UVPhactory, which Saccio co-founded in 2000.
I first met Saccio about 14 years ago. I remember talking to him about animation and how his role as a teacher at a variety of colleges in the New York area helped him find young talent trained on Softimage his studio's software of choice at the time — while Saccio continues using Softimage, he did add Maya and Cinema 4D to his toolbox.
Saccio and I have kept in touch through the years — he has helped make me smarter about animation, motion graphics and stereo — so when I heard the news about his move, I decided to reach out.
This is a big move. Any hesitation at all about going from owning your own shop to working for someone else?
Yes, indeed, it was a big change. I've been my own boss for about 16 years now and it's definitely going to be a bit of a change from having my own company. But I would always joke that I had the strictest boss, so I guess this new gig can only be an improvement. But, seriously, I've been very fortunate in finding the fine team at Humble. It turns out that the owners and head of new business all have a lot in common with me. We immediately got along and have the same goals. The best thing was that they had strengths I had been looking for and I have strength they had been looking for. It sounds like a soundbite, but if really seems like it's a perfect match.
Does this allow you to focus more on the creative and less on the day to day?
Yeah, there's definitely less of the "I need to make sure we order more toilet paper for the studio," or "I need to re-wire that janky Ethernet connection," and more about coordinating the delivering of nine versions of a set of soft drink spots on time and make sure all the crazy amount of awesome effects we're adding are completely seamless.
What do you think you can accomplish at Postal that you might not have been able to do at Uvphactory?
Well, I think it's mostly a question of scale. We will continue to be able to do a lot of cool artistic and experiential projects we were known for, but now we'll be able to do more larger scale and higher-end projects that I think will really make people's heads turn!
Humble has some amazing directors in their roster, and I look forward to helping them realize the height of their visions, in addition to doing some amazing new things that will really help define Postal as the design and creativity cauldron that it now is.
You brought some of your guys with you to Postal? Why was that important?
Well, my team is my family, and really it's all about the individuals that make a team so good, so of course I wanted to make sure that our core crew was going to have an opportunity to really shine at this new location.
The guys at Postal are extraordinarily talented and we're excited to work together to make cool new things. I'm all about taking people from myriad backgrounds and putting them together in one room. I think this new mix is going to create some really cool stuff.
What tools do you use?
We'll use whatever it takes to realize the visions of our creatives, but the usual tools that consistently get used are Maya/Softimage with Vray/Redshift, Nuke/After Effects, Flame and Final Cut Pro. There are a lot of other bells and whistles we employ, but these are the ones that are consistently used.
What are you working on now?
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Taxter is ranked 24th in the Division and second in the conference in the mile
EASTON, Mass. (February 16, 2017) – The Stonehill College men's track and field team will compete in the Northeast-10 Conference Indoor Championships on Saturday, February 17-18, hosted by American International College at Smith College Indoor Track Facility in Northampton, Massachusetts.
The men's squad was voted to finish third in the conference earning 79 points, while 12-time champion and returning champion from last year Southern Connecticut State University (95 points) was voted first with six first-place tallies and returning 2017 runner-up American International College (94 points) was voted to finish second with four first-place marks. Merrimack College fell behind the Skyhawks totaling 67 points, as Adelphi University rounded out the top five with 65 points.
The men stunned the field in 2013 as the squad claimed its first NE10 Indoor Championship title in program history and has taken the runner-up position six times, with the last being 2014. The squad placed fourth last year during the indoor season, falling behind Merrimack who took home third, recording 5.5 points more than the Skyhawks.
Two student-athletes and one relay have also bypassed the NCAA provisional time including Lucas Taxter (Readville, Massachusetts/Xaverian Brothers) in the mile, Stephen Vercollone (Pembroke, Massachusetts/Pembroke) in the 800 meter, and the distance medley relay which includes Vercollone, Taxter, Alexander Demeule (Merrimac, Massachusetts/Pentucket Regional) and Hampton Boyd (Holliston, Massachusetts/Holliston). The DMR is ranked ninth in Division II and second in the conference, while Taxter sits 24th overall and second in the conference and Vercollone is 22nd overall and fourth in the conference. Vercollone is surrounded by three competitors that have provisionally qualified for NCAA's, while there is the top runner who has automatically qualified.
The 4x800-meter relay placed fourth at the Championship last year, and is currently ranked first with their time of 7:44.25 from the New England Championship. The 4x400-meter relay turned in a second-place finish last season and is currently ranked fourth in the Conference.
Ethan Famiano (Warwick, Rhode Island/Bishop Hendricken) and Collin Kuchachik (Orange, Connecticut/Amity Regional) are ranked fourth and fifth, respectively in the 60-meter hurdles to help the Skyhawks with points.
Connolly holds fourth-place rankings in the conference for the 60-meter and 200-meter runs.
Anthony Innamorati (Clinton, Massachusetts/Clinton) tallied his first All-Conference honor last year, taking home second, as he is currently ranked fourth overall in the pole vault.
Stonehill's shot put duo of Xavier Young (Barnegat, New Jersey/Barnegat) and Darren Shi (Yarmouth, Massachusetts/Yarmouth) aim to pick up as many points as possible with their second and fourth-place rankings. Along with the duo, Stefan Balestra (Lincoln, Rhode Island/Lincoln), in the weight throw sits third with his mark of 54 feet, 11.5 inches from the URI Coaches' Tribute Meet this season.
The distance events include multiple top-10 rankings, including Sam Bradford's (Bedford, Massachusetts/Bedford) second-place mark in the 5000-meter run, while Kenny Vinacco (Scituate, Rhode Island/Scituate) isn't far behind as he sits in fourth.
Demeule and Jimmy Murphy (Mansfield, Massachusetts/Mansfield) are both ranked in the top 10 for two events. Demeule is seventh in the mile and eighth in the 3000-meter run, while Murphy is fourth in the 3000 and ninth in the 5000.
Joe Connolly (Wilmington, Massachusetts/Austin Prep) holds fourth-place rankings in both the 60-meter dash and the 200-meter run. Jordan Sullivan (Sound Beach, New York/Miller Place) is also fourth in the high jump with his height of 6 feet, 4.25 inches at the New England Championships this season.
Following the NE10 Championships, Stonehill will compete in the BU Last Chance Meet, hosted by Boston University at the BU Track & Tennis Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
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A grim criminal trial centering on a police officer nearly killed while sprinting after suspected car thieves took a steamy detour yesterday with talk of pricey vibrators and marathon sex-toy parties.
As Sefer Mujo and Tiku Qoko went on trial in Brooklyn for gravely injuring a cop who was in hot pursuit of them when he got clobbered by a motorcycle, it was revealed that the stolen car they were in had been stocked with Pocket Rocket vibrators and a $300 sex swing.
Officer Carlos Olmedo almost lost his life during the May 2010 chase into a busy Bensonhurst street, which was set off when he spotted the men in a missing Toyota Corolla that belonged to a sex-toy saleswoman.
Tirzah Warshavsky turned red-faced and occasionally tittered as she testified that her trunk was packed with "adult toys" when it was stolen weeks earlier from outside a Bay Ridge restaurant.
"It was good stuff," Warshavsky said after testifying. "Those vibrators were $30 to $40 a piece."
Lawyers from both sides danced around the topic in court, describing the contents in the Corolla's trunk only as "adult toys" while Warshavsky squirmed on the witness stand.
The 34-year-old Florida woman, who formerly operated an online sex-toy business, had parked the car outside a Fourth Avenue restaurant before she went in and "did my thing" at the X-rated party for nearly 12 hours.
"It's like a Tupperware party, but with adult toys," Warshavsky said.
When she resurfaced hours later, the car and all its kinky contents were gone.
The Corolla turned up on the radar of police little more than a month later, when Olmedo and partner Marlon Key discovered it was stolen while investigating an unrelated robbery in Bensonhurst.
While the robbery victim couldn't identify any of the men on an 84th Street stoop as his mugger, a scanner atop the cops' car revealed that a 2008 Corolla parked near the house had been stolen.
After Mujo and Qoko tried to take off in the car with a partner, the pair got out and bolted. Olmedo ran after them, right into the path of a motorcycle.
The 33-year-old father of three suffered a fractured skull, leg and shoulder, and was in a month-long coma.
Mujo, 20, and Qoko, 19, face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of assault.
A third member of the crew, Mario Koruni, was sentenced Monday to one to three years in prison for criminal possession of stolen property.


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Experience programme
Enhance knowledge and visit well-known energy sites
- Combine classroom training with energy visits in your preferred region
- In collaboration with high-level experts and business partners
- For groups up to 25 participants
Key Benefits
- Learn from best practices in the energy industry
- Visit the latest high-tech facilities such as LNG terminals, storage facilities, power plants, technology centres and more
- Swap experiences with your peers
- Experience how the impact of culture, ethics and regional law reflects on your business
- Work on case studies based on real-life examples
The programme can be fine-tuned according to your company's learning objectives and feasible possibilities.
Choose elements from these programmes:
- Hydrogen
- Energy Storage
- Introduction to European Energy Markets
- Overview of the LNG Industry (e.g. focusing on liquefaction or regasification)
- Liberalisation aspects (e.g. Third Energy Package)
- Development of sustainable energy sources
- Gas transport and storage
- Innovation, future trends and scenarios within the energy industry
- Gas exploration and production
- Electricity value chain and technologies
- Leadership and business models
- Finance and risk management
Listen to Prof Dr Subir Verma, Dean of Placement & Corporate Connections at the International Management Institute, telling about his experience during the in-house programme organised for ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation).


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Designing websites using the Froala Design Framework is easy and requires minimal coding. Follow the steps below to learn how our Github Demo has been created.
This is how the basic structure looks like:
Froala Design Framework uses certain HTML elements and CSS properties that requires the use of the HTML5 doctype
<!DOCTYPE html>. Make sure you include it at the top of every page.
Choose the design block you wish to use and copy its HTML code in your
Example: If you use the content 2, design block 1, then you should copy the code below:

Website Design.

The most simple and yet powerful way to design websites. Froala Design Framework is the perfect design tool if you want to impress your users.

Notice: The class
.bgi-10 specifies the background image used. For more information about background images see Background.
By default Froala Design Framework uses the Lato font family. You need to include the Lato font in your
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:100,300,400,700">
If you want to use another font family, you have to include it like above and then add the following CSS rule:
body { font-family: Font Name; }
Notice: If you want to use Font Awesome Icons then you should also add the following line:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
To get started you should include the
css/froala.css CSS file. Additionally, depending on what design blocks you use you have to include the corresponding CSS file. Also, if you are using background image classes, such as
.bgi-10 then you should include the
css/backgrounds.css file too.
Example: If you use the a design block from content 2, then you should include its CSS file
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/froala.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/backgrounds.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/content-2.css" />
Notice: For demo purposes we are including each CSS file in the example. In order to optimize
CSS delivery and improve your website's performance, we strongly recommend you to use minified CSS code and combine all the files into a single CSS file.
The color CSS files are the ones inside the
css/colors folder. They contain the CSS rules for changing the colors of the design blocks. Text, background and highlight colors can be changed only by using 3 CSS classes:
.bg-* and
.hi-*, where
* may be replaced with one of our flat design colors.
Example: In the HTML section you can see that the design block from content 2 uses
.bg-black and
.hi-white-smoke. This means you should include the following CSS files:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/colors/white.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/colors/black.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/colors/white-smoke.css" />
Notice: For more details about the CSS color classes see Colors.
For demo purposes we are including each CSS file in the example. In order to optimize
CSS delivery and improve your website's performance, we strongly recommend that you use minified CSS code and combine all the files into a single CSS file.
Froala Design Framework uses the jQuery 1.10.0 library to enable Background Effects and Content Effects.
In addition to the jQuery library you have to include the JS file
js/fdk.min.js which makes full use of the Skrollr JS library.

Each design blocks has been tested on mobile devices to ensure that your website is mobile friendly. In fact Froala Design Framework is designed with mobile first styles throughout the entire library.
To ensure your website is mobile-optimized, add the viewport meta tag to your
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
initial-scale property controls the zoom level when the page is first loaded. The maximum-scale, minimum-scale, and user-scalable properties control how users are allowed to zoom the page in or out. You can disable zooming on mobile devices by adding
user-scalable=no to the viewport meta tag. With zoom disabled users are only able to scroll the webpage and this may increase your website's native application feeling. However, for some websites disabling zoom can do more harm than good, so use it carefully.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
We started from the basic structure, chosen content 2, design block 1, included the CSS and JS files and the result should look like the following code:


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Wonder World Park
(512) 392-3760
Wonder World Park
1000 Prospect Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
Visitors have enjoyed touring the Balcones Fault Line Cave for over 105 years at Wonder World Park, the first commercial show cave in Texas. Today, while the cave is still a highpoint, the park has many other attractions for family fun and educational entertainment.
Enjoy a guided tour and discover the nation's only true example of an earthquake-formed cave. Go deep underground and see up close the devastation of a major quake.
Exit by the "Stratavator" and ride high into the sky to the Tejas Observation Tower. Be amazed by the Topsy-Turvy World of the Anti-Gravity House where everything is backwards, even water flows up hill!
Board the train and splash through the waterfalls of Mystery Mountain on your way to the Texas Wildlife Petting Park.
Educational and fun for all ages, Wonder World Park Cave and Attractions is open year round except for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Gift shops, free picnic grounds, free parking and much more await your visit.
Try Keme's BBQ and Soul Food on site during operating hour.
Current Hours of Operation:
Monday-Thursday: CLOSED
Friday: 12:00pm-6:00pm
Weekends: 10:00am-6:00pm
The last tour of the day will depart at 5:00pm
If you would like to make a reservation for your group click here.
What's Near Here?
Residential Historic Districts
Take in our historic homes and architecture. San Marcos is fortunate to have preserved its past and many residential neighborhoods are designated as Historic Districts. The areas contain a variety of Victorian, Classical Revival, and Craftsman architecture built between 1880 and the 1940's.
Jack's Roadhouse
Purchased in 1996 by Jack Alves as Jack's Roadhouse, "justa a beer joint". On December 1, 2001, owners changed and bar was purchased by Floyd and Jamie Chapman. In August 2006, opened the grill and changed name to Jack's Roadhouse, "justa beer joint and grill".
Dunbar Park
Dunbar Park, a city owned park, is located at the corner of Endicott and MLK Dr. The park is seven acres and the amenities include a Playground, Basketball Court, Softball Field, Picnic Tables, Benches and Trash Cans.


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Canada's chocolatier since 1907
'Tis the season for sharing.
Enjoy an assortment of seasonal favourites with family and guests.
Chocolatier Magic
See how your favourite chocolates are made.
While we wait for Smell-O-Vision to become a thing, this video is best watched with a box of Purdys next to you.
We craft all your favourites at our Factory Kitchen in Vancouver, Canada—the city where our original chocolatier Richard Carmon Purdy opened the first Purdys shop. We use only top-notch ingredients like Canadian dairy, crunchy nuts that are roasted in-house and 100% sustainable cocoa.
Also in the video, spot Purdys CEO Karen Flavelle enjoying a bite of her favourite, Peanut Butter Fingers.
Holiday Baking Bonanza
Santa's not the only one who deserves cookies (or stollen or cake!)
Chocolate Pinecones
Impressive yet easy to make? And did we mention no baking required? Sign us up.Get the recipe
Peppermint Bark Pinwheel Cookies
Make an extra batch of these delightful peppermint cookies. You'll definitely need it.Get the recipe
Snowball Coconut Cake
Pardon the pun but this cake is an avalanche of flavours. And extremely gorgeous too.Get the recipe
Our take on the German fruit and nut loaf has a lot to love, including almonds and ginger.Get the recipe
100% sustainable cocoa
Every purchase you make helps improve the lives of cocoa farmers in rural communities.
Canada's chocolatier since 1907
We started out in Vancouver and it's where we still craft all your favourite chocolates today.
Purdys gift guarantee
Your gifts will arrive in perfect condition (as if you'd delivered them yourself).


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Here's a quick recap of where we've been, where we're at, and where we're going.
The Playspedia Blog is a companion site to Playspedia.com.
We're creating and compiling some of the best Ultimate plays from players all around the world, and bringing them together here for players, captains and coaches of all levels to watch, learn from, and discuss!Learn more
A 3-player weave is more often used by handlers in game situations, but as a drill it can work on a number of disc skills that benefit all players.
Here's a quick recap of where we've been, where we're at, and where we're going.
We're happy to announce the release of our new Playspedia Blog – a companion site for Playspedia.com.
Here is a classic warm-up drill that works on endzone cuts, going-to the disc, and dump-swing-flow.
Typical Zone Offense involves 3 handlers back, spread across the field. But an alternative approach is to rely on 2 handlers, freeing up a player to help spread the field wider.
For players running Horizontal O for the first time, there are subtle differences in the types of continuation passes and cuts that Horizontal permits over Vertical. Here's a drill that helps players learn some of these elements of flow and continuation.
A common tactic for creating space on the field in a Vertical stack is to "flood" to one side of the field. Here is an example of running a flood to the break side.
Here is a simple play to help initiate the offense from a Vertical stack.
This is an advanced tactic for teams that have both Vertical and Horizontal strategies in their offensive arsenal.
Maintaining proper positioning and overall flow is one of the keys to running a successful Vertical offense. Here's a look at the general pattern of flow for the Vertical stack.


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Our first collaboration with B a Lady & THE SPACE CARDINALS... This was her first song she ever sang!! Our first name was The Spaceheads, which was allready in use by a London band, so now are we THE SPACE CARDINALS. Enjoy the song!!
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South Lanarkshire Council officials are seeking talks with the current owners of Lanark's former Royal Oak Hotel to discover what plans, if any, they have for the building's future.
It has lain vacant for several years, and concern is growing over its decaying state.
Lanark Development Trust has put hoardings showing the route of a Wallace trail through the town over its boarded-up windows, to brighten up the building for those arriving from the nearby train station.


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Latest news
Wessex Neurological Centre celebrates fifty years
The Wessex Neurological Centre based in Southampton General Hospital is celebrating its 50th birthday. Much has changed over the last half decade since the unit was first opened its doors on 17 November 1965.
The unit stood in splendid isolation in the grounds of Southampton General Hospital. There were tennis courts, fields and the remnants of a pig farm between the centre and the main hospital. The new building comprised of 70 beds and was a self contained facility. The first Neurologists were Dr Stanley Graveson and Dr Peter Robinson, and the first Neurosurgeon was Mr Jason Brice.
In 1965 the centre served the population of just over two million which has now grown to three million. Over the years from very small beginnings, the centre has grown into a large complex organisation whose influence has spread far beyond its walls, but without losing its sense of unity of purpose. 1999 saw the completion of a 13 bedded Neuro Intensive Care Unit.
Since that time, Southampton General Hospital has been listed as a major trauma unit. This designation means that if someone has a critical accident affecting the brain, spine or nervous system, they will immediately be transferred or flown to the hospital so they can be seen and treated in the Wessex Neurological Centre.
This provides services for over three million people from across central southern England, including Southampton, Portsmouth, Basingstoke, Salisbury, Isle of Wight, Chichester, and the Channel Islands. The catchment area has significantly grown over the years, and is a testament to the skills and professionals all working in the unit.
The centre treats patients with neuromuscular disorders, movement disorders (including Parkinson's disease), neuroinflammatory diseases (including multiple sclerosis), stroke, epilepsy and cognitive disorders. It also has a dedicated neurosciences intensive care unit, which is one of only 27 units in the UK providing specialised intensive care for patients who have severe illnesses or injury affecting their brain, spinal cord or peripheral nerves.
The neurology fund of Southampton Hospital Charity is a very active fund, and many grateful patients have made donations to benefit our future patients. To make a donation, please call the charity offices on 023 8120 8881.
This brings us to 2015 and the Wessex Neurological Centre is 50 years old and to celebrate the occasion there was a function at Avington Park to incorporate 'The Founders' from 1965 and present day consultants and on Friday 20 November all staff from the Neurosciences Care Group will be holding a party to celebrate. Sadly recently Mr Jason Brice and Miss Pamela Kimber have passed away but the Wessex Neurological Centre are extremely honoured and pleased that they could attend this celebration in the summer.
Founders Dinner:
Earlier in the year some of the founding members marked this special occasion with a dinner at Avington Park.
Six of the original members of staff were among the guests - Mr Ray Hunt (senior pathology technician), Judith Hope (senior ward sister), Pam Kimber (superintendent radiographer), Elizabeth Hockey (senior ward sister) and Margaret Rose (theatre sister).
Other former members of staff from the unit's early days were in attendance alongside present day staff and management.


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Our team is led by Stefan Lipa, one of the most experienced fundraising consultants in the UK. Stefan is responsible for each and every fundraising project for clients.
Stefan Lipa
Managing Director
Following a career in law and politics, Stefan has built up nearly three decades of experience as a fundraising consultant, working on high-profile fundraising projects. A lifetime of recruiting, leading and working with volunteers has equipped Stefan to advise on, supervise and manage many successful fundraising projects.
His breadth of experience has led Stefan to hold authoritative positions with bodies that promote quality in the fundraising consultancy sector:
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Anna Lipa
Company Secretary
Anna has been with Stefan Lipa Fundraising Consultancy Ltd since it began in 1994. With a background in mathematics and systems analysis, Anna advises clients on technical, administrative, database and software issues.
Having developed the Stefan Lipa Fundraising Consultancy fundraising database system, Anna has played a significant role in helping clients with record-keeping for their fundraising campaigns, as well as enabling them to produce reports and make Gift Aid tax reclaims.
Anna has also developed experience of researching and writing applications to charitable trusts.
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by Eli Boettger – October 23, 2017
There probably isn't a worse sports cliche than "game of inches."
I've made a promise to myself that I'd never use the phrase in my own work, and to this day, I'm generally confident that I haven't slipped.
I won't break the trend here, either, but the majority of this piece is centered around measurements of collegiate and professional basketball players from the 2017-18 season.
First off, a few disclaimers:
- NBA measurement data used in this piece is from NBA.com as of Friday, October 20
- NCAA measurement data is from official team pages as of Saturday, October 21
- NBA two-way players are included, as well as NCAA players that are sitting out this season either due to injury or transfer rules
- As always, not every measurement is perfect. If you are upset that a player is listed five pounds too light or heavy, just know that a slight change is not enough to skew a data set of hundreds of players
Let's begin.
The average 2017-18 NBA player is 79.07 inches tall (six feet, 7.06 inches) and weighs 218.73 pounds. The average 2017-18 NCAA D-I player is 77.02 inches tall (six feet, 5.02 inches) and weighs 202.21 pounds. That's a difference of 2.04 inches and 16.52 pounds.
I found the average height and weight of each NBA team and 336 of 351 D-I NCAA teams (15 teams did not have updated rosters for 2017-18). The complete graph of these averages (with weight on the x-axis and height on the y-axis) is below.
The separation between NBA and NCAA average roster sizes isn't nearly as large as I originally imagined. There are even a number of NCAA teams, such as Baylor, Penn State, and Duke, that size up fairly well with the NBA's smaller rosters.
Saint Peter's and St. Francis (PA), however, are about two inches shorter and 20-30 pounds lighter than the average NBA roster. It should be noted that a number of NCAA teams are similar in average height as some of the shorter NBA rosters, but even so, the majority lag far behind in the weight category. The idea that college players need to "bulk up" when they make it to the pros seems very accurate.
Interestingly enough, 12 of the 17 tallest players in D-I college basketball this season were not born in the United States. All 12 players are natives of different countries.
UCF's Tacko Fall and Florida State's Christ Koumadje are both taller than every single NBA player in the 2017-18 NBA season. Ever since Yao Ming's retirement in 2011 (he was 7-6), the NBA has lacked a jaw-dropping giant.
I was curious to see the distribution of heights between both leagues to understand where the NBA has the two-inch advantage. If the tallest two college players are larger than any and all NBA players, but the average NBA player is still two inches taller, there must be a significant amount of near-seven footers.
The table below shows the percentage of the respective league's players that fall into a certain height category. Percentage is indicated by the y-axis.
The NCAA has six times the amount of players that are under six feet tall, and almost double the players that are between 6-0 and 6-3. But then the NBA size takes over, with 38.79% of the NBA player universe coming from players that are between 6-8 to 6-11, and players over seven feet tall makes up nearly 10% of the league.
The difference between tallest and shortest player in the NCAA is far greater than the NBA, obviously.
UCF's junior center Tacko Fall stands 7-6/295 while Florida Gulf Coast freshman Darnell Rogers is 5-3/150. That's a remarkable difference of two feet and three inches and almost 150 pounds. Despite both schools residing in the Sunshine State, these two aren't scheduled to battle in the regular season. Root for a UCF/Florida Gulf Coast duel in March, though, as it could result in one of the greatest sports photographs of all time.
Over in the Association, Detroit's Boban Marjanovic and New York's Kristaps Porzingis stand at 7-3 while Cleveland star Isaiah Thomas is 5-9. The 18-inch differential is respectable, but not nearly as significant as Fall and Rogers' gap of 27 inches.
So when you hear arguments in mid-January about an undefeated college team being able to beat the NBA's cellar dwellers, just know that it wouldn't come without a lot of luck.
Especially if you're Saint Peter's.


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Legendary Pranksters The Cacophony Society Honored with Book Release Party
and Midnight Screening
WHAT: "Tales of San Francisco Cacophony" book release, reading and signing
party and "Into the Zone: The Story of the Cacophony Society" Midnight
Screening / L.A. film premiere.
WHEN: Saturday, June 22, 2013 6-10pm (book release and signing party);
11:30pm film pre-show followed by Midnight Screening.
WHERE: Book release party at La Luz de Jesus Gallery / Wacko, 4633 Hollywood
Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90027. Midnight Screening at the Vista Theatre, 4473
Sunset Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027.
WHO: Book release party featuring readings by author/editors Carrie
Galbraith and (Burning Man founder) John Law, contributor Silke Tudor plus
Los Angeles Cacophony Society founder Reverend Al Ridenour. Performances by
Art Of Bleeding, Chuckles Klown, Rich Polysorbate. EGO Plum and the Ebola
Orchestra, Stinky "the World's Wurst Klown," Mike Odd, magician Christopher
Wonder and Rosemary's Billygoat.
COST: Film screening $10, book release party is free.
SCREENING TICKETS: http://www.brownpapertickets.
FILM INFO: http://www.intothezonemovie.


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This Is Us has three sets of Pearson siblings, each able to make audiences everywhere cry.
"It's so easy with the kids that we have," Mandy Moore says in the video above.
"The kids" include Niles Fitch, the teen Randall Pearson; Lonnie Chavis, the younger Randall; Hannah Zeile, the teen Kate Pearson; MacKenzie Hancsicsak, the younger Kate; Logan Shroyer, the teen Kevin Pearson; and Parker Bates, the younger Kevin. While they don't interact, the younger actors have left an impact on their older counterparts played by Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz and Justin Hartley.
"I don't work with them, but I am inspired by their performance," Brown says.


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Most businesses need to advertise to let people know they're in business. There are many ways to advertise, and each should be explored to see which is most effective for a particular business. The main outlets available for a business to advertise locally include newspapers, radio, and local television and cable stations.
Local newspaper advertising is often very effective. Weekly tabloid community newspapers typically have affordable advertising rates and target residents and visitors in a localised area. Classified advertising is most affordable, and text-only ads can be charged either by the word or by the "line" or space that they take up. If charged by the line, use abbreviations to keep cost to a minimum. Expect to pay about 10 to 20 cents per word for classified advertising. Display ads charge by the newspaper's column width and ad height in inches. Column width varies from publication to publication, which may be between about 1-1/2 inches to 3 inches. Ad rates are charged by the "column inch," that is, 1 column wide by 1 inch tall. Rates may span from £5 to £9 per column inch for a weekly tabloid newspaper. The cost of an ad that is 2 columns wide by 2 inches tall, typically about the size of a standard business card, would be calculated by multiplying the cost for a column inch by 2 for the width and then again by 2 for the height. At £6 per column inch, this ad would run £26. Discounts are offered for multiple runs.
Many people listen to radio stations in their car and at work and tend to have a favourite local station to which they are loyal listeners. Budgeting £325 to £650 for local radio advertising can usually buy a lot of air time over the period of one or two months. Ads are sold by time, usually in 30- or 60-second spots, and price is determined by the "cost per thousand" of listeners. Radio prices can be very reasonable, as little as £1.20 per thousand or even less. With radio, you can also target your listeners, reaching specific audiences such as females, sports enthusiasts, teens or those interested in religious messages.
With the advent of cable TV in many homes, businesses can benefit from both broadcast and local cable TV advertising. As with radio, ad prices are usually based on the "cost per thousand" of viewers and on the length of time for the spot. A 30-second spot in a medium-sized market typically costs about £3 per thousand viewers. Both radio and television often have higher rates for ads run in the daytime and lower rates for "overnight" time slots.
Other Options
There are dozens of ways to advertise your business locally. The phone book's yellow pages are expensive, and a year commitment is required, but they can be effective for certain types of businesses and services. Church bulletins, school yearbooks and local chamber of commerce directories are inexpensive ways to not only promote your business, but to show your support of the organisation. Billboard advertising ranges from about £455 to £1,625 a month, but offers 24 hours a day, seven days a week visibility to your ad. If you have a website, the Internet can also be used to market your business. To get a significant response locally you will need to use other forms of local advertising such as newspapers, radio and TV to entice people to visit it online.
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June 2018
A novel compound called GAT211 alleviates inflammatory and neuropathic pain in mice without producing tolerance or signs of abuse liability.
May 2018
Research suggests that helping patients quit and remain abstinent from smoking may improve their chances for sustained recovery from use of other drugs.
April 2018
Among patients with chronic pain, those who reported less ability to tolerate physical or emotional distress were more likely to misuse opioid analgesics.
October 2017 High-frequency electrical stimulation of neurons deep in the brain can reduce rats' relapse-like behavior and motivation to take heroin. The finding strengthens hope that deep brain stimulation might offer a new treatment alternative for opioid addiction, particularly for patients who have not benefited from other treatments.
September 2017 In a clinical trial, N-acetylcysteine did not help adults reduce their cannabis use, despite having been effective for adolescents in a previous trial. The results indicated that if adults are able to benefit from the medication, they will likely require a different treatment regimen than adolescents.
August 2017 Patients who initiate time-unlimited opioid-agonist therapy will generate lower average total crime-related costs over the next 6 months than patients who initiate a 21-day detoxification regimen.
March 2017 In two pilot clinical trials, buprenorphine helped participants reduce their illicit opioid use and injection drug use while awaiting admission to a methadone or buprenorphine treatment program. Researchers minimized the risks for improper use or diversion of the study medication by giving it to trial participants in a computerized, tamper-proof device that dispenses one dose each day.
November 2016 Patients who received transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) were more likely to abstain from cocaine than patients who received medications for symptoms associated with abstinence. Researchers concluded that TMS appears to be safe and its efficacy as a treatment for cocaine addiction deserves to be evaluated in a larger clinical trial.
October 2016 Public health messages can increase public approval for making naloxone legally available to friends and relatives of opioid users to administer if an overdose occurs.
September 2016 Patients who don't take their medications as prescribed often put themselves at risk for problems including misdiagnoses, complications, and death. A study suggests that adding low doses of quinine to patients' medications could provide an inexpensive, reliable, and safe method of monitoring whether patients are taking their medications as directed.