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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0701.00011.] This paper contains two interesting results. The first one can be considered as a ``descriptive set theoretic generalization'' of a theorem of V. A. Rokhlin on the existence of a countable generator for an aperiodic measure-preserving transformation. Such results are free of any measure on the space and \(\sigma\)-ideal of the wandering sets plays the role of the \(\sigma\)-ideal of measure zero sets. This theorem is as follows. Theorem 1. Let \(T: X\to X\) be an aperiodic Borel automorphism of a standard Borel space \((X,{\mathcal B})\). Then there exists a countable partition which along with the \(\sigma\)-ideal of wandering sets generate \(\mathcal B\). The second theorem gives a universal minimal model, more precisely: Theorem 2. There exists a compact minimal system \((X,T)\) such that given any aperiodic finite measure-preserving system \((Y,{\mathcal B},S,m)\), there is a finite invariant measure \(\mu\) on \(X\) such that \((Y,S,m)\) and \((X,T,\mu)\) are measure theoretically isomorphic. In fact, \(X\) is a shift invariant minimal subset of \(\overline N^ Z\), where \(\overline N\) is the one point compactification of the set of all positive integers and \(T\) is the shift. Recently F. Blanchard introduced a notion of uniform positive entropy (u.p.e.) in topological dynamics. A recent paper of S. Glasner and B. Weiss shows that this universal model is u.p.e..