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So, the light in the breakroom where I work is on a motion sensor that turns the light off when the room is empty and turns it back on when someone walks in. So I go in there today to eat lunch and I'm sitting on the couch trying to ignore the other six people in there, all eating and vapidly watching Fear Factor. You know, since H.R. 666 went through, requiring that there be an episode of Fear Factor playing on at least one channel in every market at any given time, so that I am always in danger of seeing some dude eat an elephant cock while jumping out of a helicopter with his head in a box of rats. On fire. Or whatever. God, I hate that show.
Anyway, so everyone's watching it and drooling onto their sippy cups and I'm hunched over my food like a guy doing 15-25 upstate for pedophilia, trying to will myself deaf and blind, when suddenly the lights go out. There's 7 people in the room, and the stultifying effects of that damn show convinced the motion detector that the room was empty. Then we all kind of looked back and forth at each other, and the lights came back on, and some chick changed the channel.
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This adventure will leave you wanting more!
Minimum Age: 6 Year(s)
Above a mountain valley on Kanin, stands the adventure center of Slovenia. Additionally, with other activities, you can now try one of the most popular zip-line adventures.
Zipline consists of a block suspended on a cable. Feel relaxed in safe equipment and gear which are connected to a long wire, on average 600 m. Then, find yourself sliding down the long wire with your block between two mountains by gravity. There are 5 rides which have an average 30 m altitude difference.
Imagine that you are on a platform, looking at your zip line guide, a bit afraid of what will happen next. Your zipline guide safely attaches you to the block using a security belt, smiles at you, and then pushes you and off you go! Suddenly, your feet leave the ground, and you are 200 meters above the ground, flying free like a bird! What an exhilarating experience!
The meeting point is at the office, noted in the "meeting location". We collect the equipment and take you to the starting point where we have a safety talk, and a little practice. After the trip, our jeep takes you back to the office.

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This lesson is part of a larger unit on "Coming of Age" novels. In this unit, students focus on the strategies of asking questions and making inferences, and they also gain familiarity with characterization analysis and analysis of theme. In today's lesson, students have the opportunity to make inferences about a text with the use of a graphic organizer. Inside, you will find a detailed lesson plan, customizable student notes that include the shared passages from Avi's What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything? and Thoeodore Taylor's The Cay, an overhead transparency of the graphic organizer for use with the lesson, and exit slips that will help you to determine which students may require additional support in mastering the week's focus objective. This resource is part of the Coming of Age Unit collection.
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Myth #9: One Way to Save Money is to Find the Air Conditioning Company With the Cheapest Service Call Fee
When you are looking for the services of an HVAC company, what do you look for first?
The price of the company's service call fee?
Or do you read the company's reviews?
Myth #9: One Way to Save Money is to Find the Air Conditioning
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Ninth installment from Nine Air Conditioning Myths Dismissed.
It makes sense. Your air conditioning unit breaks down, and you need a technician to come quickly and take a look.
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Also, be on guard for bullying. Sometimes these companies will try to scare you into purchasing excessive services or products.
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Video catches purse snatcher dragging woman, little girl down stairs, Calif. cops say
A mother and her daughter were walking up a flight of stairs in San Jose, California, earlier this month when a man came up behind them — grabbing the woman's purse and violently dragging them back to ground level, video of the attack shows.
Police searched the area for witnesses and clues on May 6 around noon when officers responded to the reported purse snatching, San Jose police said in a news release Tuesday. That's how they discovered video surveillance footage that captured the robbery, as well as catching the fact that the suspected attacker had left in a black four-door Lexus, police said.
The description of the vehicle and robber combined with the way the robber operated pointed to Pablo Cabrera Jr., a 26-year-old San Jose man, as the suspect, according to police.
"All of Cabrera's victims were Asian females carrying expensive purses," police said. "Cabrera attacked victims from behind, grabbed their purse, and ran to his car."
Police arrested Cabrera on May 11 at his San Jose home and found more evidence there tying him to the multiple crimes, the department said.
He was booked at the Santa Clara County Jail on robbery charges and a parole violation charge, which was related to previous burglary charges, according to police.
"This was very brazen and very cowardly," San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia said, according to the Mercury News. "In the video, how violent he was, with no care of the child, it resonated with all of us. We're happy to get him off the street."
Authorities shared the 18-second clip of the attack when announcing Cabrera's arrest.
Police said the attack left the woman and her daughter with mild injuries, according to the Mercury News, which reports that police think Cabrera targeted "at least four other women" in robberies of the same variety.
"We are fortunate this predator was caught before any more members of the public were victimized," Garcia said in a statement.


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Contest WW SSB from 3A Monaco
Saturday 25th October, during the Contest WW SSB , I have transmitted from 3A with the
call 3A/I1UWF.
It is always very difficult to find a good location in Monaco, the high mountain does not allow good opening. A suitable place would be the roof of the Oceanographic Museum but...
This time I have parked my car along the quay of Fontvieille harbour, beeing as much as possible far from the mountains and opened towards East and South.
My idea was to work 10 and 15 m. for about two hours, starting time 13.00 UTC; antenna is a MFJ whip that can reach 3,6 m. and collapsed 0.7 m.
Unfortunately in 10 m. there were no signals therefore I moved quickly to 15 m. The first QSO has been with a brasilian station then with some friends from Sanremo.
Later on I moved to 20 m., adapting the size of the antenna to get 1/4 lambda, in this band thee were much more stations calling "Contest".
I made QSO's mainly with european OM but I have also the satisfaction to be called from CN3A and CN3B.
I switched to 40 m. using a home made antenna having a trimagnetic MFJ base, a mast high 3,4 m., a coil and a rod to tune the band. I was looking for Emilio IZ1GAR; I found him quickly giving him the point.
In this operation I gave up the classic paper log to use a new PC ASUS EEE serie on which I have installed a copy of my electronic VRR Log.
I found very pratical this way to record my QSO's; I have had only few difficulties at the very beginning.
I have had no problem with Monaco Authorities; after two hours of transmissions I dismounted my antenna and put the radio into the bag, obviously under the sight of the pedestrians.
About 40 QSO's were entered into my log.
A particular thanks to Sanremo friends who followed me through the bands.
See you on the next operation!
QSL via I1UWF
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The Goddard College BFA Program was thrilled to host Justin Torres as our Spring 2014 Visiting Writer. Torres is the author of the national best-selling novel We the Animals. We are big fans. His award-winning fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Flaunt, and many other publications. He has also published nonfiction in venues including The Guardian and The Advocate. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Torres was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He currently teaches at Columbia University, Lesley University's Low Residency MFA Program, and The Writers' Foundry MFA Program at St. Joseph's College. He lives in Brooklyn.
During his April 2014 visit to Goddard, Justin Torres read from his work, gave generously of his time, and generally enchanted Goddard's students, staff, and faculty. After reading from his book, Torres gave one of the most engaging question-and-answers any of us had ever had the privilege of hearing. The following morning he offered a fiction-writing workshop and even granted an early-morning interview with Duende staff members Cerridwen Aker, Erric Emerson, Jørn Earl Otte, and Cameron Price. The interview that appears here is an amalgam of our formal student interview with Justin Torres and the fascinating Q & A after his reading.
Cerridwen Aker: Were there particular authors you tried to emulate or who influenced you over the course of writing We the Animals?
JT: Emulate? I would say no. But influences, for sure. Dorothy Allison was a major influence on what I think about the potential of the novel. ... I wanted to go to the dark places and she went there with such honesty and such grace. She opened my eyes to the potential and showed me characters I hadn't seen before. James Baldwin is someone that I write nothing like, but who influences me enormously. On the craft side, I have people like Grace Paley, Stuart Dybek, who write very concise, condensed, precise prose. ... I like the themes and content of their books as well, but I really studied how they got a major narrative arc into five pages.
Erric Emerson: After your reading last night, you said that when you were initially writing We the Animals, you were still in the process of learning how to write. Could you describe what that means? Anything you can recommend to someone who is still learning their craft, starting a novel or working on a novel?
JT: My friend said once, and I think it's so true, "Writing a novel is like training for a marathon, and the only way to train for a marathon is to run a marathon, and you only know you can do it once you've done it."
But what was I learning? You have to figure out why you're writing. I started writing out of anger; I started writing as a vendetta. I was angry that there weren't more stories with experiences like mine. I was angry at my family. I started writing in a score-settling way. So I had to move beyond that, learn how to write in a bigger, more empathetic way. On a craft level, you just improve when you try to do something. I read a lot of poetry. I learned a lot from poetry, how the abstract can be handled through the concrete. If I want to write about something abstract and write about it through abstract language that doesn't always work. . . I was learning how to take myself seriously, to stop dicking around. If I'm going to claim this identity as a writer, I'd better fucking write. If this is what I'm going to do with my time on this earth, then I better take it seriously and stop being such a butterfly.
Audience Q & A: Most of the characters are of you all as kids, and then there's a huge jump in age. Can you explain that choice?
JT: The book is very episodic. First it's about these boys and they're just boys. Then in the final quarter of the book it jumps forward in time. I made that jump into adolescence because I read a lot of coming-of-age novels, a lot of good ones, a lot of bad ones, and I wanted to do something different with the form. There is something about the form that implies a linear narrative: you come into yourself, you realize who you are, and then you go out into the world. It was not like that for me at all. Shit just kept happening to me and then I was an adult. I wanted the reader to feel that propulsion, that rejection from family, from the narrative. I wanted it to function like a punch in the gut, because at that point in the story everything changes for the narrator; it comes out of nowhere. I wanted the reader to feel that as well.
Audience Q & A: Can you talk about writing from a child's point of view? It seems it would be very difficult.
JT: Yes it is really difficult. It is so difficult that I didn't do it. I cheated. It actually is retrospective narration, but I kept it immediate. I focused on not having a lot of reflection. Technically it is past tense. Technically this book is being narrated by an adult. It feels like a child's point of view because it stays really focused in these immediate moments.
Obviously, a lot of this book is similar to my own life: my parents were teenagers when they had us; my father's Puerto Rican; my mother's white. The hard facts of the book are the hard facts of my life. But it's fiction. It's a novel. But I thought about what I wanted to say about being a child as part of this family. There was an openness to being loved at any moment, and I try to keep that as a point of tension in the narrative so that you [the reader], like the child, don't always know what's coming, and I try not to explain too much.
Audience Q & A: To follow up on that, I wonder if you could give us your stance on treading the line between writing fiction or creative nonfiction.
JT: I don't have a stance, and that was such a problem. When I started writing, I read a lot of poetry; I read a lot of nonfiction and fiction that was good. I just wanted to write good prose. I didn't pay that much attention. I didn't think about those distinctions between genres, which was great for writing. But when you publish a book, genre becomes very, very important. I got a lot of pressure to call it memoir. ... But I was too protective of my family to write memoir. So I don't have a firm stance. I love fiction; I feel writing fiction allowed me to get to an emotional truth. I would've felt mired down in facts and factuality if I'd tried to write nonfiction. ... But I wish I'd had a stance. That would be my advice: have a stance, really define that for yourself before you go out there because it gets tricky.
Audience Q & A: So not really knowing what's fact and what's fiction, but assuming there is some fact woven in there, what was it like to be so bravely honest about facts of life that were particularly vulnerable, especially your sexuality?
JT: Is it brave? It's also selfish to be as honest as I've been. The family I grew up with was dealing with a lot of shit; there was a sense that the world was out to get us. You didn't air the family laundry, it was the cardinal rule. If we couldn't rely on each other, who could we rely on? But I did that. It was also an act of betrayal. I don't know how brave that is; it's the ethical conundrum I'm in. ... I have to believe that the artistic value of the book rescues some of the hurt I've caused.
As far as sexuality goes, I nearly died of shame. I was in a self-inflicted coma. Shame nearly killed me. I was seventeen and when I got out of the mental hospital, I decided I wasn't going to be ashamed of things anymore. That doesn't seem super brave to me, just a way of staying alive.
Audience Q & A: Since each of the chapters can stand alone, how did you choose the progression? I feel the model could still work even with different chapters in different places.
JT: I didn't think too much about it when I was putting the book together. I was really broke and living in New York, and I wrote when I had a moment. I had all these condensed, distilled bits. I hadn't read many novels that stayed as essentialized, as episodic, as this book does. It took me a really long time to believe that the theme was enough, that the notes that are hit and returned to provided enough glue to pull you through the book. It was ordered differently; when I met with my editor this was the main thing we worked on. ... Everything in the book was shuffled a little bit, except the beginning and the end.
Cameron Price: Some of your subject material — at least the subject material I have read, We the Animals, and the story in The New Yorker — has gay themes and relationships in it. Are you ever concerned that your work will be pigeonholed as "gay literature," rather than just a good story or good literature?
JT: I don't worry about it. It does happen, but it's not something I worry about. I think queer identity and queer sensibilities are all part of my obsessions. Race, class, sexuality: these are things I want to engage with and write about. So I don't worry about it at all.
There are a lot of great gay writers: that's what they are doing, and they are good at it. They are writing to a very specific audience, and that's not what I'm doing.
Jørn Earl Otte: Your writing also has a very broad appeal. It's about a specific type of family, but it seems that anyone can tap into that family experience. Can you talk about what you think gives the book a broader audience?
JT: I did not have a lot of specific locators in time, space, or geography, to make it as timeless as possible. I thought about the characters a lot as mythological, essential beings. You can talk about abstract topics through very specific characters.
Audience Q & A: We never really know the timeframe of the book, but is it set around the early 90s, late 80s?
JT: I tried to not put any proper nouns in there, no McDonald's or anything. There is reference to a VCR which I think dates it pretty specifically. I avoided it to the point where my editor made me put more in. ... I wanted it to be as universal as possible and as mythic as possible. I wanted Pops to be representative of masculinity and Mom of femininity. It's about childhood and boyhood and everything that is timeless about that. There are many good books that where and when they are set is very important, but that's not the kind of book I wanted to write.
Cameron Price: You mentioned that you needed to write this book, but you didn't know if anyone would read it. Obviously a lot of people are reading it now, which is great. So the book is probably more successful than you thought it would be. What has it felt like to suddenly go from working hard, humbly trying your best to wake up every day and it sucks, to not only having the book published, but having a lot of people reading and talking about it? Is it scary?
JT: It isn't scary; it is destabilizing. I didn't know what it meant. I was very distrustful of what was happening and why it was happening. A lot of people feel entitled and feel frustration that the world does not recognize their genius. When something good happens to them they move into it so easily, so effortlessly. Oftentimes they become more graceful and lovely human beings. I'm not one of those people. I'm suspicious and skeptical when people treat me like I'm entitled to good things. ...
When I see the book and it's in fifteen languages, I think, "There something going on: about demographics, about marketing, about buzz. This is fraudulent; this is hype; this doesn't have to do with the work." And to a certain extent, I think that's true. I am a young, half Puerto Rican, gay man. I check a lot of boxes; I get invited to be on a lot of panels. I'm aware of that. But I can't stay in that place because it's destabilizing. I've been catapulted into the middle class, and it's fucking weird. The middle class is weird; things work differently. I'm getting used to that, but I haven't figured it out, and it's stopped me from writing quite a bit.
Jørn Earl Otte: You talked last night about how young gay kids ask why the book isn't happy. But there are still lots of places in the country — and I come from one of them — where it is difficult, if not impossible, to come out as openly gay. What would you say to a young person who doesn't feel like they can come out and be who they really are because of where they live?
JT: It's really hard. One glorious thing is the Internet, but not everybody has the Internet, and you can't exactly go to the public library and be like, "Hey, I'm gay! Who's out there?" I encourage people, especially queer people, to use the Internet responsibly as much as possible, because you can escape your horrible, conservative, backwards town and it isn't silent. Sometimes I think, "God, if I'd had the Internet when I was young!" I could've gotten into a lot of trouble, but I think it just would've changed things to see how much positivity is out there. There's that "It Gets Better" campaign; I'm not sure that it actually gets better in that way. Rather, being older, you are less vulnerable. And that is a wonderful thing. It does get easier to deal with the disappointment and cruelty of the world.
It's the responsibility of the perpetrators to change the way they act, and the responsibility of all of us to make the world better for coming generations, and to hold on. I get asked for advice a lot. When I was younger I would have loved for someone to tell me: it's extremely hard and it sucks, and you should be angry, and it's going to continue to be difficult for some time, and then you get older.
There's an interesting thing about being an author. . . I was so shy, and then I had this book come out and I had to learn to be a ham. You have to be a stand-up comedian and a motivational speaker. It is so different than the skills it takes to actually write a novel, which are privacy, a deep depression, being on your own, spending time in your own head.
Cerridwen Aker: So you're teaching now. Have the students influenced how you think about your writing practice, or do you view your practice differently after teaching?
JT: To be perfectly honest, I think that teaching is hard and that it is something that one should do only when one really wants to get outside of oneself— why am I talking like Yoda right now? I think I should do it when I really want to step outside of myself, when I really want to engage with students in the act of teaching and help them learn something. But if I'm there because of other circumstances, like to pay my rent, I start getting resentful. I feel like I owe them a lot, and I don't want to give them anything, and that's bad. It's a real danger with teaching creative writing especially, because you're engaging with so much. I really push my students to engage, I really go there with them, and then I'm responsible. It's exhausting. I've had some really good teachers in my life. It's one of the strangest things that writers are teachers. What percentage of writers are good teachers? What percentage of teachers are good writers? They're different professions, and they require different skills. Not all writers are good teachers, and I don't know that I am.
Audience Q & A: In your writing, what are you working on now?
JT: Oh, now I'm going to have a panic attack. I'm working on a book. I write from personal experience so luckily my twenties were horrendous, just so awful. So that will also be a great book. Now that I'm in my mid-thirties I feel like I've got the distance to write about that time. When I wrote [We the Animals] I didn't expect anyone to read it. People read it. The New York Times reviewed it, and they made fun of how I use semicolons. It was a very nice review, but they were very cynical. Now, every time I use semicolons I think, "Oh no, The New York Times isn't going to like this."
I've met different people — the Filipino community, the queer community, working-class folks — that love the book for different reasons and also feel that I represent them. They want me to do this, this, and this. With all those different voices, it's very difficult for me to write with the freedom that I wrote the first book. I'm just figuring out how to quiet it down, so I haven't been writing as much as I would like. I am writing about a character that's similar to myself, that is a sex worker in New York. It's going to be another cheerful, delightful book, full of laughs.
Audience Q & A: How long did it take you to write the book, and can you talk a little bit about your writing practice?
JT: Six years. And look at how short it is! That's like a page a month; it's terrifying. A lot of that was just figuring out how to write. A lot of that was work and being busy and messing up my life. Once I was fully committed and transitioned to being serious about being a writer — instead of just being a mess — it still took me a long time.
I'm a really, really slow writer. To even call my process "a practice" is so generous. When I'm in it I can sit down and write for twelve hours. It's there and I'm doing it and I believe in it. The next day I'll read it and hate it, and I'll hate myself and go into a shame spiral for two weeks. I'm trying to become more disciplined. I know a lot of writers; the ones who are disciplined and write every day have something to show for it. So if you write, I would say, be as disciplined as you can. I haven't quite figured it out yet. I invent fake deadlines for myself, and then I teach myself how to bake bread instead and don't write. Write every day, that's the answer. Write every day, and it won't take you six years.


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The Kentucky Derby is tomorrow, which means it's time to put on your fancy hats and enjoy some Southern food and drinks while watching the race!
The Mint Julep has been the traditional beverage of the Kentucky Derby for nearly a century. The refreshing and simple cocktail contains only fresh mint, bourbon, sugar, and ice. If you'll be celebrating at home tomorrow, here's a quick and easy Mint Julep recipe from Berkley Bar for you to enjoy:
Mint Julep Recipe
6 fresh mint leaves
3 tsp powdered sugar
2oz bourbon
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To the Editor:
Citizens of Darke, Miami, and Shelby counties are being asked to renew the Tri-County Mental Health and Recovery Levy. The levy — approved by voters since 1973 — is one of Ohio's longest-standing mental health levies.
It is a renewal, not an additional tax. The five-year, 0.6 mill property tax, with reductions and rollbacks, amounts to just $14.31 per year for a home valued at $100,000 — less than 5 cents per day per household.
Yet that tiny amount provides critically needed local funds that ensure the availability of mental health and recovery services to all residents of Miami, Darke, and Shelby counties — regardless of ability to pay — through a network of provider agencies. Services include: counseling; 24-hour crisis services; access to hospitals and detox beds; medication-assisted treatment; supportive housing; criminal justice programs; suicide prevention; peer support; education and advocacy; prevention and wellness; community coalitions; and more.
The Tri-County Board continually works to close gaps in the "continuum of care." Our communities are currently being challenged by heroin and other opiates. The Tri-County Board is an active partner with treatment providers, law enforcement, the courts, schools, city and county officials, and others to meet the problem head-on with prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery programs. We can't say for sure what challenges may lay ahead in the future, but the funds provided by the Tri-County Mental Health & Recovery levy enable us to be ready.
For more information or with questions, readers may refer to the website YESforMentalHealth.com
Please join your neighbors in continuing to support this important local issue. Please vote YES for the Mental Health and Recovery renewal levy Nov. 8, or when you vote early or absentee. The need in our communities has never been more urgent.
— Mark McDaniel
Executive director
Tri-County Board of Recovery and Mental Health Services


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How chocolate and pizza helped a bank's once-parent company rebound after the 2008 crash
When the jury's verdict came back on May 8 clearing BankAtlantic of fraud charges, executives at BBX, BankAtlantic's one-time parent company, left the courthouse and grabbed their phones to relay the news to employees and friends. By the time they arrived at the Fort Lauderdale headquarters that afternoon, BBX employees had covered the office's glass windows with congratulatory messages in colorful dry-erase markers.
"Congrats. Persistence prevails!" wrote one manager.
Longtime friends and employees celebrated with champagne toasts and chocolates from Hoffman's Chocolates, a chocolate manufacturer that BBX owns.
Then, in typical Alan Levan style, the chairman and CEO of BBX Capital returned to his office to keep working. Anyone who walked by could look through the decorated windows and see Levan at his desk making business calls.
"It was a quick celebration, but back to work," said Seth Wise, executive vice president of BBX and president of its real estate division. "And that's Alan."
Levan and his team have plenty to do. In the five years while the lawsuit was under way, BBX's executives rebuilt their business from a portfolio of unwanted loans into a holding company with $1.5 billion in assets.
During that time, BBX broadened its holdings beyond its longtime sweet spot of real estate to include investments in home improvement, vacation timeshares and sweets. Its sweets and confections division, which didn't exist a few years ago, earned BBX the 45th spot on this year's North America Sweet 60, an annual list of the largest candy companies on the continent.
When the win was announced, BBX was on the verge of closing a $57 million-dollar deal to add another candy company to its portfolio. Within 10 days, the diversified holding company, which earns its money by investing in, managing and owning other businesses, filed a request to list on the New York Stock Exchange. The request was granted in July.
Said Levan, "I wake up every morning raring to go. With all these businesses [in the portfolio], there's something going on all the time."
Highs and lows
Levan, 72, has seen plenty of ups and downs during his nearly five decades doing business in Florida. First, there have been Florida's various boom-and-bust real estate cycles. He has served as CEO of four NYSE-listed companies and steered a bank through the global financial crisis.
The SEC charges and the 2007 investor lawsuit it stemmed from were not Levan's first court battles. In 1992, Levan and BankAtlantic sued national broadcaster ABC after it aired a segment suggesting the bank had misled its investors in real estate joint ventures. A federal jury awarded Levan and BankAtlantic $10 million in libel damages before the decision was overturned by a federal appellate court. BankAtlantic settled a separate suit with the investors out of court.
Levan also sued a bank analyst after the analyst published a report suggesting BankAtlantic was in financial trouble in July 2008. The parties reached a settlement in 2010.
For Levan, the 10-year-long SEC case brought a new low.
In 2007, investors filed a class-action lawsuit charging that BankAtlantic and Levan knowingly made false statements about the health of certain loans and failed to disclose concerns about the portfolio. Initially, a jury found the defendants liable; a federal judge threw out the decision and ruled in favor of the company and Levan in 2011.
The SEC opened a separate investigation into BankAtlantic and Levan shortly after the investors filed suit in 2007, examining the same loans. In 2012, the SEC filed its own investor-fraud lawsuit. The SEC's complaint accused Levan and the company of misleading investors in filings and investor earnings calls to hide bad loans. It also charged them with hiding BankAtlantic's losses using accounting tricks — losses that, when revealed, led to an immediate 37 percent drop in share price.
"BankAtlantic and Levan used accounting gimmicks to conceal from investors the losses in a critical loan portfolio," Robert Khuzami, director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said in a public statement at the time of the suit. "This is exactly the type of information that is important to investors, and corporate executives who fail to make that required disclosure will face severe consequences."
In a 2014 trial, BankAtlantic and Levan were found liable. That decision was overturned on appeal. Earlier this year, a second jury trial was convened; the jury cleared BankAtlantic and Levan of all charges.
Even as other banks settled a wave of crisis-related lawsuits with regulators, BBX executives kept up the fight, spending $20 million in the process.
"The SEC was intellectually and morally bankrupt in bringing the charges," Levan said. "We weren't willing to do anything but get full exoneration and embarrass the SEC."
During the litigation, Levan was forced to step down from his role as CEO. Some banks refused to lend to BBX. Potential business partners expressed worries about the lawsuit.
"How do you know how many opportunities we missed out on because people looked at us in a way where they were concerned about the SEC taint?" Levan asked.
But even with the specter of the litigation hanging over the company, BBX shares rose in over-the-counter and public trading trading from 35 cents at the end of 2011, before the SEC suit was filed, to its current price of $6.24 as of Aug. 11.
"It's one thing to prosper in good times. It's quite another to prosper during bad times," said Eugene Stearns, Levan's longtime lawyer. "I think where Alan has distinguished himself is in good times he's prudent, and in bad times he's a survivor. He tends to emerge from the crises better than he was when he went in. And he's done it again."
Levan credits much of his success to persistence, one of his guiding principles. On his desk, he keeps an engraved Calvin Coolidge quote that begins, "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence." Talent, education and genius can't compare, the quote goes on to say; only persistence and determination are omnipotent.
With the charges cleared, more doors are opening for the holding company. Executives at BBX (formerly BFC Corp.) said they've noticed an uptick in interest from businesses hoping to sell to or partner with BBX. They attribute the attention to multiple factors, including recent press and financial success, as well as attention from companies that were previously uncomfortable doing deals with a company in the middle of a fraud case.
This coming fall, BBX will also be opening pizza locations in Coral Springs, Kendall and Miami after announcing in 2016 a partnership with MOD Pizza to become the national fast-casual chain's Florida franchisee. BBX plans to open 50 to 60 locations in the state over several years.
Business at a young age
Levan was born in Brooklyn and moved to Florida with his family when he was 13, in 1959. What attracts him to business, he said, is the creative possibilities of what he describes as an art form.
"I love starting with a blank sheet of paper and projecting out, drawing org charts and boxes," he said.
As a college sophomore, Levan sold ads for the student directory. By the time he graduated from Tulane University in 1966, he was managing business for the directory, the yearbook, the radio and the newspaper.
As a student, he also learned the hard way. While president of his fraternity, only the most dedicated pledges made the cut, and the number of pledges dropped from 40 to 15. Then the dues came and he realized "the 25 extra pledges were paying the overhead," Levan said with a laugh. After that, he had to re-think his strategy and build the pledge class back up. "It was a very early life lesson in managing a large budget."
When Levan graduated, he moved to New York and entered JP Morgan's bank analyst program. After two years of analyzing financial statements and learning how to identify healthy companies, he returned to Florida to work in real estate.
In 1971, at age 27, he founded his first company, IRE Financial Corp. The Florida-based company raised hundreds of millions of dollars selling real estate securities through SEC-registered public partnerships. The company expanded into the banking sector when it bought BankAtlantic Bancorp, a Florida savings and lending bank, in 1984.
A core team
One of the elements of Levan's success has been a cohesive team that has worked together through thick and thin.
After investing in BankAtlantic, Levan joined its board of directors. Fellow board member John Abdo and he met for lunch.
Thirty-three years later, Abdo says his immediate impression of his future business partner was he was "very, very smart."
"We talked about the banking business," Abdo said, "and we talked about each other personally, our growing-up stories. We had a lot of similarities."
Born a year apart, both were raised in South Florida and, coincidentally, had worked as ushers for the Wometco movie theater chain, watching films for free and earning 60 cents an hour, Abdo said.
The two became partners in multiple business transformations.
"I couldn't imagine my business life without him," said Abdo, who is now vice chairman of BBX. "He's just a thoughtful, gracious person and a joy to be with."
In 1985, at age 12, Levan's son Jarett began working in the bank's mailroom before rising to bank teller at age 15. He introduced his father to Seth Wise, Jarett's childhood friend, who joined the bank briefly in 1992 as a loan analyst and returned in 1996. The younger Levan and Wise gradually took on greater responsibilities at the bank as they grew older, and eventually joined Abdo and Alan Levan to make the core of BBX's executive management. The four attribute their successful partnership to their mutual respect.
"Everybody on the team gets the opportunity to share their thoughts and ideas, and dissent," Wise said. "If you disagree, you're free to disagree and make your case and hopefully get to the best outcome."
BankAtlantic days
The purchase of BankAtlantic kicked off a new era for the company. IRE changed its name to BFC Financial Corp., and under BFC's direction, BankAtlantic more than tripled in size from a $2 billion company to more than $6 billion in assets to become one of the largest community banks in the state.
Under BFC's direction, the bank transformed itself from a sleepy savings and loan bank to a major Florida player that marketed itself as a fun banking experience, known for its smiling red mascot and for staying open seven days a week.
With his success, Levan became involved in a variety of philanthropy and community activities. As a board member of the Florida Grand Opera board, he hosted pre-opening parties at his home. In 1991, he founded the BankAtlantic Foundation, now the BBX Capital Foundation, which has distributed over $15 million to local charities. Levan financially sponsored the building of dozens of homes in Broward, said Nancy Daly, the chairwoman for Habitat for Humanity for Broward, while employees also volunteered "countless hours" servicing mortgages, as well as building on their construction sites.
Hit by the global crisis
Then the 2008 financial crisis struck. Business worldwide, including at BankAtlantic, collapsed. The company held weekly strategic meetings and aggressively wrote down capital as losses mounted.
"It was a worst-case scenario every day," Levan said.
Although the company survived, it continued to post losses as the Florida economy suffered. In 2012, Levan and his partners sold BankAtlantic. North Carolina-based BB&T acquired most of its assets, leaving BBX (then BFC) with only the most toxic assets that no bank would buy.
After the sale, Levan once again found himself looking at a blank sheet of paper.
The bank had hosted all of the company's infrastructure. BBX now had no computer system, no phone system, no human resources division, no office space. What it did have was the strategy of its core executives, the relationships it had built during its tenure and the real estate assets nobody else would touch. All three proved fruitful.
SEC legal case
While BBX survived the financial crisis, regulators continued their scrutiny. In 2008, the SEC had notified BankAtlantic that it was investigating and planned to bring an enforcement action against the bank. In 2012, the SEC filed its lawsuit alleging BankAtlantic and Levan hid losses during the crisis by making misleading statements to investors and committing accounting fraud.
The SEC argued that executives knew in early 2007 that certain loans were in trouble but did not fully disclose what they knew until the third quarter of the year. Much of the SEC case revolved around statements made by Levan during investors' earnings calls and over email.
In response, Levan and his lawyers argued that they had been alone early on in writing down loan values and disclosing problems to investors during the financial crisis. They believed the bank was scapegoated because it acted ahead of other banks and argued that no one could fully predict the catastrophic severity of the crisis.
The SEC case went to trial in 2014, and jurors found the defendants liable for fraud. A judge ordered the bank and Levan to pay $5.85 million in fines and barred Levan from serving as an executive of any publicly traded company for two years.
The defendants appealed, and in 2016 the decision was overturned pending a new trial.
Pushing onward
Those close to Levan say he never let the accusations impact his work.
"I know for sure how it affected him. We talked about it," said Jarett Levan, Alan's son and president of BBX. "But he didn't bring that to the office."
Said Abdo, "Alan is very stoic and never gives anyone else his problems. He kept it inside. Of course, I knew it bothered him because it's been a huge weight on him and the company and all of us."
Even as Levan admitted it was "daunting" to take on the regulators, he focused on his business, insisting that persistence and optimism would prevail.
The team devised separate business plans for each of its hundreds of real estate holdings. Some they sold or foreclosed, others they decided to develop or hold, waiting for the value to appreciate as neighborhoods evolved.
"When presented with reams of data, Alan can really quickly tease out what the important parts are," Wise said. "He's just got a real good business sense of being able to look at a page full of numbers and really hone in on where we have the risk and where we have the opportunity."
As real estate in Florida rebounded, so did the value of BBX's positions. The company has continued building up the portfolio through acquisitions, investments and developments.
Through a series of acquisitions in 2013, the company also bought the Bluegreen Corp., a vacation timeshare company that has been one of the company's primary profit drivers. The company owns and manages resorts in vacation destinations worldwide and enables bookings through a points system. BBX reported $321 million in revenue from Bluegreen in the first half of 2017, 86 percent of the company's revenue for the period.
The company also developed a third strategy: investing in various businesses where their management expertise could add value. The first sweets company was Hoffman's Chocolates, purchased in 2013. The deal developed naturally out of existing relationships — the local candy company had been a customer of BankAtlantic.
At the time, Hoffman's was nearly 40 years old and had four Palm Beach County locations. The company now operates nine locations in Palm Beach and Broward, with plans to open in Miami-Dade.
With its purchase of Hoffman's, BBX stumbled into an untapped niche. After the deal was announced, other mom-and-pop candy companies contacted BBX. Most were wholesale companies with $2 to $10 million in annual revenues — pocket change in an industry dominated by giants such as Hershey's and Mars.
For BBX, combining operations and marketing functions while retaining individual brand identity has been a winning recipe. It now has eight confectioners in its portfolio that make a range of sweets including chocolate, coconut patties, hard candies and toffee.
Although BBX's share price rose, some doors remained closed as the lawsuit continued.
The company approached the NYSE several times about possible listings and was told the exchange couldn't consider an application while the litigation was pending. Some business deals pulled back at the last minute without explanation when companies began due diligence. Lenders remained shy.
Rather than focus on the negative, Levan looked for opportunities. "You can't do business with everybody," he said, but "we're very resourceful. You do business with people who want to do business with you."
BBX's long-standing partnership with The Altman Companies, a Boca Raton-based developer, wasn't affected "one iota" by the charges in the case, said Joel Altman, chairman of The Altman Companies and founder of its development division. The developer has worked with BBX since 2000, he said, "and we're still doing business on many fronts, and I think that's the true testament. I think [Levan's] a very honorable person, and I think that he's a good businessman."
In March 2017, the second trial began. Nearly contemporaneously, the company began due diligence for its $57 million acquisition of IT'Sugar, a South Florida-based company that is the country's largest specialty candy retailer.
"We knew that we had to continue running our business despite the trial," said Jarett Levan, who led the IT'Sugar acquisition and also served as CEO while his father was barred from the position. "There was no thought about slowing down or stopping our activity because of the trial." (The same Calvin Coolidge quote on persistence hung outside Jarett Levan's childhood bedroom as a gift from his father and is now framed in the younger Levan's office, too.)
Charges cleared
On May 8, a judge's clerk took nearly 20 minutes to read the final verdict in front of a packed couttroom. The defendants were cleared of all charges. The lawyers and executives celebrated first at the law firm, then again at BBX's Fort Lauderdale headquarters. Then it was back to work.
BBX submitted its application for NYSE listing, and the request was approved on July 6. Trading began on July 13.
"We're back to business as usual," Abdo said, "which was always pretty action-packed. We're always looking at new opportunities and new deals and how we can grow our business."
In addition to the IT'Sugar deal, BBX also announced in June that it had completed and opened the first of three buildings in a Hialeah apartment complex, Altis at Bonterra, in partnership with The Altman Companies. Another joint venture with The Altman Companies is under construction in Texas, and three more are scheduled to break ground in the next 12 months.
For Levan, the lawsuit's end was simply the beginning of the next chapter. "Retirement is not on my horizon," Levan said. "I'm having too much fun. I get to come to the office every day." His own father retired from his exterminator business at age 89.
One thing the company has retired, however, is investor earnings calls. Instead, the company will do more investor relations with its roadshow presentations, investor conferences and annual meetings. In September, the company is planning a day of investor meetings in the boardroom of the New York Stock Exchange, where executives will ring the opening bell.
Although Levan doesn't foresee any crises soon, he wants to be ready when something happens. "We strive to be aggressive in our strategic planning and cautious in our risk," he said. After all, the Florida market always has surprises.
"Florida goes from no cranes to construction cranes on every corner. And now we have cranes on every corner."
Alan B. Levan
Title: Chairman and CEO of BBX Capital Corp. (formerly BFC Corp.), and chairman of Bluegreen Corp..
Community involvement: Founder and chairman of the BBX Capital Foundation (formerly BankAtlantic Foundation), which has contributed over $15 million to the South Florida community; member of the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Board of Trustees; chairman of the NSU Finance Committee; co-founder and co-chairman of the Susie and Alan B. Levan NSU Ambassadors Board; chairman of the NSU Fellows Society; former chair of the Broward College Foundation.
Education: Bachelor's degree in philosophy and English from Tulane University College of Arts and Sciences in 1966.
Honors and awards: Habitat for Humanity's Spirit of Humanity, NSU Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce's Cutting Edge, Sun Sentinel's Excalibur Business Leader of the Year, Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year for Florida, JD Powers Award for Customer Service in Banking, Tulane University Distinguished Alumni of the Year.
Family: Lives in Fort Lauderdale with his wife, Susie Levan; has five children and 11 grandchildren.


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I'm going to guess this web site with it's hundreds of quilt pictures also has the most photos of "body-less hands". So many of our photos are family members behind the quilt, holding it up for the camera!
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Flowering bougainvilleas were a colorful first addition to the Bath Botanical Gardens, established in 1775 in St. Thomas, Jamaica, and under the supervision of botanist Dr. Thomas Clarke. The gardens were also the first ones developed in the Western Hemisphere, creating important parallel horticultural precedents.
Bougainvilleas are native to Brazil and South America. A French explorer and naturalist, Dr. Philibert Commerson or Commercon (1727-1773), discovered the bougainvillea in Rio de Janeiro in 1768. He may have been traveling on a supply ship at the time. His discovery would soon find a name and go on to make a name for itself all over the world.
In 1766, a ship called La Boudeuse set sail from Nantes on a round-the-world voyage of discovery commissioned by the French government. At the helm was Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811), a mathematician and an admiral in the French navy. When La Boudeuse arrived in Rio de Janeiro to rendezvous with the supply ship, the occasion made horticultural history. Commerson's newly discovered plant received a name, bougainvillea, in honor of the admiral. (Some accounts say that Commerson traveled on La Boudeuse.) The French admiral would go on to discover French Polynesia. Today, other places where he traveled are also named for him, including Bougainville Reef.
In 1789, a documented description of the bougainvillea as "Buginvillea" appeared in the "Genera Plantarium" by A.L. de Jusseau. An amendment to the spelling of the name to the correct version, bougainvillea, appeared in the Index Kewensis in the 1930s.
Distribution of Species
During the 19th century, the bougainvillea spectabilis and the bougainvillea glabra species arrived in Europe, and then subsequently in Australia and other countries.
Bougainvillea Buttiana
Bougainvillea buttiana is a crimson bougainvillea found in Cartagena, Spain. Its name honors its discoverer, Mrs. R.V. Butt, in whose garden it grew. However, it transpired that the plant was a natural hybrid of a variety of bougainvillea glabra and perhaps bougainvillea peruviana, the latter a native of Peru. This plant is known as "orange ice." Its introduction may date back to around 1900 in Trinidad.
Official Records
In the 1980s, botanists officially recorded bougainvillea spectabilis and bougainvillea glabra as separate and distinct species. Creation of natural bougainvillea species resulted when bougainvillea plant species grew together. Horticulturists observed this in places like Africa, India, the Philippines, Australia and North America.
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Today, different species of bougainvillea are the official flowers of the islands of Grenada and of Guam; Lienchiang and Pingtung counties in Taiwan; Ipoh in Malaysia; Tagbilaran in the Philippines; and Camarillo, Laguna Niguel and San Clemente in California.
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Very excited about several hours set aside to do nothing but READ. (Whaaaaaaaaaaat?)
Yep, this weekend, the kids will have some time to themselves and I get a break in a silent, silent, silent room with nothing but The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler and YOUR BLOGS.
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Here's your chance to make my weekend AWESOME. In the comments below, please insert a link to your favorite recent (or not so recent) post. Preferably from your own blog, but you can post someone else's, too.
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During the week of May 22nd, Gartner hosted the 2017 Executive Supply Chain Conference in Phoenix, Arizona with approximately 1,900 supply chain leaders. As part of this event, The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 ranking was released. Lenovo improved by one position YTY, from 25 to 24. This event is a great opportunity to built in the Lenovo brand within the thousands of current and potential customers that value Gartner's insights and attend the event. Being part of Top 25 Ranking list enables us to be at Gartner's scope as to when large companies from around the world contact Gartner for consulting on buying decisions or evaluating partners.
For the past 13 years, this annual Global Supply Chain Top 25 ranking acknowledges supply chain leaders, highlighting best practices for supply chain and strategy organizations. This year Gartner analyst team concluded three notable trends from the thousands of companies they research that are accelerating the capabilities and further separating the companies from the rest of the market: 1) Digitization of supply chain 2) Adaptive organization and capabilities 3) Developing and Fostering Healthy Ecosystems.
The work Lenovo has done with the customer first, corporate sustainability and contributing knowledge to the supply chain practice initiatives were the significant differentiators that provided the outstanding ranking recognition, and the move up to number 24. Lenovo's achievement on The Gartner 2017 Top 25 Supply Chain list demonstrates the amazing orchestration of millions and millions of components to final assembly across Lenovo's Enterprise with the best quality in the industry and with industries best manufacturing, logistics, and suppliers. Lenovo's ONE team collaboration and execution from the teams around the world that are consistently creating 'order from chaos' with a relentless focus on customer centric value has set the foundation for Lenovo to propel into the new digital future for our long-term success.


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Southwest offers $69 one-way airfare
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As the FDA practice leader, Kathleen represents clients in the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, food and dietary supplements, consumer products, consumer protection safety, advertising, cosmetics, drugs, and medical industries.
Kathleen advises companies on regulatory pathway strategies, appropriate responses to FDA protocols and complete response letters, dispute resolution, responding to Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) issues, including 483s and Warning Letters, as well as day to day counseling on marketing and promotion launch and other communications, including responses to FDA Untitled and Warning Letters; and similar advice and counsel on food, dietary supplements, and cosmetic products, including various notices and registrations to FDA; recalls and other crisis management; and counseling on product testing, Section 15(b) notices and penalty investigations, as well as product recalls.
A frequent author and co-author on publications related to FDA matters, Kathleen regularly speaks on these issues at industry events. Industry and legal groups have praised her work: Legal Media Group Life Sciences named her the "US Regulatory Attorney of the Year," "FDA Pharmaceutical Industry Lawyer of the Year," and a "Life Sciences Star." Chambers USA have listed her in "America's Leading Lawyers for Business."
Kathleen serves as vice-chair of the Consumer Product Regulation Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.
Ranked, Life Sciences: Regulatory/Compliance, Nationwide, Chambers USA (2018, 2019)
Ranked, Healthcare: Pharmaceutical/Medical Products Regulatory, District of Columbia, Chambers USA (2018, 2019)
Ranked, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2009–2017)
Recommended, Industry Focus - Healthcare - Life Sciences, The Legal 500 US (2017–2019)
Vice-Chair, American Bar Association, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, Consumer Product Regulation Committee
Member, Law360 Life Sciences Editorial Advisory Board (2016)
Recognized, FDA Law, Washington, DC, The Best Lawyers in America (2015–2020)
Top Woman Lawyer, Best Lawyers (2016, 2017)
Recognized, Life Sciences–Regulatory, Who's Who Legal (2015–2018)
Recognized, Food and Drugs, Washington, DC Super Lawyers (2014–2015)
Life Sciences Star, FDA (2012–2015), Regulatory (2016–2019), LMG Life Sciences
US Regulatory Attorney of the Year, LMG Life Sciences (2014)
FDA Pharmaceutical Industry Lawyer of the Year, LMG Life Sciences (2013)
Recognized, FDA & Pharmaceutical in the PLC Life Sciences Multi-Jurisdictional Guide (2015)
Recognized, Regulatory in the PLC Life Sciences Multi-Jurisdictional Guide (2012)
Recognized, Regulatory (Medical Devices) in the PLC Life Sciences Multi-Jurisdictional Guide (2012)
Recognized, Government Enforcement and Investigations in the PLC Life Sciences Multi-Jurisdictional Guide (2012)
Named, International Who's Who of Life Sciences Lawyers 2010
Top Lawyers: Food and Drug, Washingtonian Magazine (2011–2014)
Best Lawyers in Washington, DC – FDA Law, Washingtonian Magazine (2011–2015)
9/20/2019 - University of Passau Genome Editing in Human iPS Cells Workshop
6/13/2019 - 2019 Morgan Lewis Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices Conference: Manager and Investor Perspectives – Boston
6/4/2019 - Life as a Woman Entrepreneur: Building Boards, Building Teams
3/27/2019 - Food Business News Inaugural Trends and Innovations Seminar
3/25/2019 - American Conference Institute's 33rd FDA Boot Camp
2/28/2019 - DIA's Advertising and Promotion Regulatory Affairs Conference
2/12/2019 - FDA and IP Primer for Early-Stage Life Sciences Companies
1/8/2019 - Raising Money as a Woman Entrepreneur
11/7/2018 - Patient Organizations: An Introduction to Drug Law and Regulation
6/5/2018 - ML Women: Raising Money as a Woman Entrepreneur
11/2/2017 - FDLI Introduction to US Drug and Regulation
1/31/2017 - Fast Break Webinar: 21st Century Cures
9/27/2016 - FDLI's Advertising & Promotion Conference
6/21/2016 - 2015–2016 Morgan Lewis M&A Academy
6/21/2016 - Boston EU/US Life Sciences Forum: Growing Your Business in the US and Internationally
5/18/2016 - Clinical Trial Data Transparency: An EU & US Perspective
5/5/2016 - Food And Drug Law Institute's 2016 Annual Conference
3/16/2016 - 2016 FDLI Global Business Conference
3/2/2016 - ICPHSO 2016 Annual Meeting and Training Symposium
8/6/2019 - Can C.B.D. Be Used in Foods? Reply Hazy, Try Again, Baking Business
4/5/2019 - C.B.D.: The Risks vs. the Reward, Baking Business
4/5/2019 - FDA's Puzzle: Measuring How DSHEA Fits for Supplement Industry Oversight, The Pink Sheet
3/22/2019 - Attorneys: CBD Concentration, Supply Chains Will Be Questioned by FDA During April Public Comments
1/3/2019 - Morgan Lewis Launches As Prescribed Blog on Issues Facing Pharma, Biotech Sectors
10/15/2018 - Industry Should Seek Guidance, Supply-Chain Checks for California Cruelty-Free Compliance, Rose Sheet
9/5/2018 - FDA Focus: What Morgan Lewis' Practice Chair Is Watching, Law360
April 2018 - Life Sciences 2018: Regulatory Analysis, Who's Who Legal
12/12/2017 - Morgan Lewis Advises Repros Therapeutics in Sale to Allergan
5/15/2017 - More than 35 Morgan Lewis Lawyers Named Top Women in the Law by Best Lawyers
6/20/2016 - Morgan Lewis Forum to Highlight Global Regulatory and Transactional Considerations for Growing Life Sciences Companies
5/3/2016 - 35 Morgan Lewis Lawyers Recognized by Best Lawyers in America as Top Women in the Law
12/4/2015 - Morgan Lewis Advises Axsome Therapeutics in $51M IPO Closing
10/15/2015 - Morgan Lewis Life Sciences Capabilities Recognized in 2015 LMG Life Sciences Guides
6/26/2015 - Morgan Lewis Represents General Econopak in $175 Million Sale to Steris Corporation
1/14/2015 - Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis, Law360
11/21/2014 - Morgan Lewis Advises Merck KGaA in Global Agreement with Pfizer Inc.
9/29/2014 - LMG Life Sciences Praises Morgan Lewis's Life Sciences Capabilities
9/22/2014 - FDA Practice Leader Named "U.S. Regulatory Attorney of the Year"
7/16/2014 - Morgan Lewis Advises InnoPharma on $225 Million Acquisition by Pfizer
5/22/2014 - Morgan Lewis Advises Agile Therapeutics on IPO
3/24/2014 - Morgan Lewis Advises TC Transcontinental on Capri Packaging Acquisition
2/4/2014 - Morgan Lewis Advises Chiesi on Completed Cornerstone Acquisition
1/7/2014 - Twelve Morgan Lewis Partners Named to Washingtonian's Best Lawyers Listing
10/3/2013 - Morgan Lewis Receives 2013 LMG Life Sciences Awards
9/16/2013 - Morgan Lewis Advises Chiesi Farmaceutici on Merger Agreement with Cornerstone Therapeutics
1/7/2013 - Life Sciences Regulation To Watch In 2013, Law360
4/9/2012 - Morgan Lewis Advises Sun Capital on Acquisition of CornerStone
5/28/2010 - Attorneys See Uncertainty in FDA's Implementation of Biosimilar Approvals, Life Sciences Law & Industry Report
10/30/2019 - Morgan Lewis Partner Authors Article on the ABCs of CBD
October/November 2019 - The ABCs of CBD, Food Safety Magazine
10/3/2019 - FDA Extends Compliance Period for Wholesalers to Verify Returned Product
8/13/2019 - Patent Opportunities In FDA Bispecific Antibody Guidance, Law360
July 2019 - Life Sciences International Review Q2 | 2019
6/20/2019 - FDA Clarifies Premarket Path for Ecigarette Products
5/31/2019 - LawFlash: Supreme Court Clarifies Judges Must Decide Impossibility Pre-Emption
5/31/2019 - Supreme Court Clarifies Judges Must Decide Impossibility Pre-Emption
April 2019 - Life Sciences International Review Q1 | 2019
3/8/2019 - FDA Sings the Orange Book Blues to Announce a Potential New Patent Listing Approach
2/13/2019 - Looking Ahead to 2019, Dr. Janet Woodcock Provides Update on State of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
2/1/2019 - Trendy Genes – Citing Surge in Cell and Gene Therapy IND Submissions, FDA Previews New Related Policies
January 2019 - Life Sciences International Review Q4 | 2018
12/26/2018 - LawFlash: Proposal to Overhaul FDA's Over-the-Counter Drug Monograph Process Closer to Reality
December 20, 2018 (Updated December 21, 2018) - Legalization of Hemp Production – An End-of-Year Present?
12/19/2018 - FDA Announces REAL World Evidence Program—Is FDA REALLY Excited?
12/17/2018 - Coming Soon: FDA Over-The-Counter Drug Approval Overhaul, Law360
12/13/2018 - Proposal to Overhaul FDA's Over-the-Counter Drug Monograph Process Closer to Reality
12/8/2018 - Experience with Generics Guides FDA Biosimilars Policy
12/6/2018 - LawFlash: Implications of Federal Right to Try Law
12/5/2018 - LawFlash: What Pharma Companies Need to Know About FDA's Draft IVD Guidance
11/1/2018 - New California Law Will Ban Sale of Cosmetics Tested on Animals, Bloomberg BNA
September 2018 - Life Sciences International Review Q3 | 2018
9/19/2018 - California to Ban Cosmetics Tested on Animals, Require Full Labeling for Professional Cosmetic Products
9/10/2018 - FDA Allows New Unit of Measure for Probiotics
9/10/2018 - FDA: Probiotic Products Can Use CFUs on Supplement Facts Panel
9/10/2018 - FDA Releases Policy on Risk-Based Inspections
8/9/2018 - FDA Biosimilars Plan Draws From Experience With Generics, Law360
June 2018 - Life Sciences International Review Q2 | 2018
6/1/2018 - A Closer Look At New Federal 'Right To Try' Law, Law360
5/30/2018 - Federal Right to Try Bill Becomes Law in Wake of State Laws
5/8/2018 - FDA Issues Guidance on Federal Menu Labeling Rule
3/7/2018 - FDA Issues Final Rule on Data Acceptance from Clinical Investigations for Medical Devices, Applied Clinical Trials
2/27/2018 - FDA Issues Final Rule on Data Acceptance from Clinical Investigations for Medical Devices
2/12/2018 - What Pharma Companies Need to Know About FDA's New Draft IVD Guidance, Applied Clinical Trials
February 2018 - International Life Sciences Review: Issue 8
1/24/2018 - What Pharma Companies Need to Know about FDA's New Draft IVD Guidance
5/31/2017 - Lawsuit Challenges GRAS Rule on Food Substance Safety
4/21/2017 - Congressional Committees Propose Restructuring of User Fees in Draft Language
1/24/2017 - New Approach for Biologic and Biosimilar Names
12/19/2016 - 21st Century Cures Act Benefits Biopharma Co. Data Use, Law360
12/15/2016 - 21st Century Cures Act's Effect on Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries
12/8/2016 - CPSC Recommends Carve-Outs in Protective Orders, Settlement Agreements
August 2016 - Pharmaceutical Packaging and Product Identifiers – US Requirements Coming in 2017, European Pharmaceutical Review Vol. 21 Issue 4
8/25/2016 - Court Strikes FDA Preapproval for Tobacco Product Labeling Changes
5/26/2016 - FDA Issues Final Rules That Change Nutrition Facts Labels
5/6/2016 - FDA Finalizes Tobacco Products Rule
May 03, 2016 (Updated May 06, 2016) - FDA Issues Menu Labeling Final Guidance
4/28/2016 - Follow the Data: FDA Addresses cGMPs for Data Integrity Issues in Draft Guidance
3/10/2016 - FDA and Amarin Reach Settlement on First Amendment and Off-Label Statements
8/10/2015 - Practical Implications from Amarin
7/10/2015 - Liquid Nicotine—New Warnings and Packaging?
6/5/2015 - Voluntary Qualified Importer Program Draft Guidance: Incentivizing Food Import Safety
4/20/2015 - Trade Agreements Act Compliance Activity Increasing at VA
2/25/2015 - Consumer Product Complaints and Section 15(b) Compliance: Checklist of Legal and Regulatory Implications
2015 - Co-author, Prescription Drug Promotion and Marketing, FDLI's Food and Drug Law Regulation 2011, 3rd edition and prior editions
11/19/2014 - Social Media and Medical Device Promotion: Major Developments for 2014?, presented at AdvaMed/MTLI's Advertising and Promotion of Medical Devices Conference
September 2014 - New Bookend to Drug Supply Chain Management in the U.S., LMG Life Sciences Guide 2014
9/16/2014 - Food Industry Alert: Potential New Recordkeeping Requirements for Beef Products
September/October 2014 - FDA Issues Updated Draft Guidance on Reporting Drug Samples, Journal of Health Care Compliance
8/4/2014 - FDA Issues Updated Draft Guidance on Reporting Drug Samples
7/17/2014 - FSIS Proposes New Recordkeeping Requirements for Ground Beef Processors/Retailers
6/23/2014 - FDA Ups Ante on Drug Inspections with Detention Authority, Law360
6/13/2014 - Food Companies Should Expect More False Advertising Claims
4/29/2014 - FDA Rule Prohibits Certain Nutrient Content Claims for Omega-3 Fatty Acids
4/25/2014 - FDA Proposes Tobacco Products Rule; E-Cigarettes, Cigars To Be Regulated
March 2014 - FDA Draft Guidance Proposes Change to Combination Product Exclusivity Policy
3/6/2014 - FDA Updates Reprint Guidance, Reiterates Narrowness of Off-Label Safe-Harbor
2/27/2014 - FTC Cracks Down on False Advertising in Dietary Supplements
1/27/2014 - What Is That in Your Beverage? And Wait—Is It Really a Beverage?
11/15/2013 - AdvaMed/MTLI Advertising & Promotion of Medical Devices Workshop
10/31/2013 - FDA Releases Good Manufacturing Practices for Animal Food
August 2013 - Supplier Quality – The New Frontier in Drug Manufacture, LMG Life Sciences
3/12/2013 - FDA Flexes Its FSMA Muscles, Initiates Mandatory Recall
1/9/2013 - FDA Releases Major New Food Safety Proposals
11/5/2012 - Food Retailers: FDA Is Coming to Town
7/25/2012 - FDA User Fee Act Full of Surprises for Pharma and Biotech
6/28/2012 - Healthcare Reform Law Stands—With Modifications to State Medicaid Expansion
June 2012 - An Overview and Update on Biosimilars, LMG Life Sciences 2012
5/2/2012 - Update on the Biosimilars Competition and Innovation Act: Overview and Life Cycle Planning for Biosimilars, presented at the BioNJ Diamond Circle Board of Trustees Meeting
4/2/2012 - It's Not Just Pill Mills The DEA Is After, Law360
3/9/2012 - Pharmacies and Suppliers Beware: It Is Not Just the Pill Mills They Are After
2/9/2012 - FDA Issues Three Draft Guidances for Biosimilars
1/11/2012 - FDA Gets (Un)Social
5/23/2011 - FDA Requests Comments on the Development of a User Fee Program for Biosimilar and Interchangeable Biological Products
1/7/2011 - FDA Food Safety Modernization Act Summary
12/23/2010 - FDA Food Safety Modernization Act Greatly Expands FDA Enforcement Powers
11/30/2010 - Utilizing REMS to Mitigate the Safety Risks of Pharmaceuticals: Perspectives on FDA Guidance, Lifecycle Management and Creating a New Scientific Discipline, FDLI Monograph Series
5/20/2010 - Healthcare Reform—New Path for Biosimilars, presented at a Washington Legal Foundation Webcast
5/19/2010 - May 2010 Health Care Reform Update, presented at a BioNJ Legal Breakfast Briefing, Bridgewater, NJ
4/26/2010 - The Use of Social Media in Promotion of Medical Products, presented at PLI's Health Care 2010: Managing Risks in the New Compliance and Enforcement Environment Conference, New York
4/19/2010 - Legal Issues Arising from REMS Programs, presented at the ACI REMS Conference, New York
4/15/2010 - Healthcare Reform Law: A New Regulatory Pathway for Biosimilar Biological Products
4/15/2010 - Healthcare Reform Law: Impact on Pharmaceutical Manufacturers


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What is CrossFit? It's three things:
Constantly varied. CrossFit Baldwin Park has a new workout with different combinations of exercises every single day. You'll never get bored with your workout here!
Functional movements. Our workouts are designed to make you better at the things you already do every day- whether it's hauling groceries in from the car, helping a friend move, or just keeping up with your kids on the playground.
High intensity. Who has the time to spend 2+ hours in the gym? Not us. CrossFit Baldwin Park's classes are only an hour start to finish, and a typical workout is 10-20 minutes. But oh boy, those 20 minutes will burn hundreds of calories and make you the fittest you've ever been.
We take our workouts seriously, but we also have a lot of fun, and CrossFit Baldwin Park's community of athletes is the best in Orlando. We cheer each other on, hold each other accountable, and blow off steam with cookouts and events outside the gym. All that's missing is you!
When Greg Glassman the founder of CrossFit was developing the program, he was thinking of how to train for the challenges faced by the Soldier, The Police Officer, the Firefighter, the Construction worker and the Housewife. What did all these people have in common? They never knew exactly what type of challenge they would face day to day. So CrossFit trains you for "the unknown and the unknowable" which means no matter what comes up in life you will be ready for it.


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Customer is a global information service provider based in Melbourne, Australia. Customer specializes in providing productivity improvement products to SMBs (Small and Medium Businesses). Customer provides sustainable solutions in the field of application development and develops products that focus on performance improvement. Customer focuses on offering products to industries in the field of energy and waste decomposition.
Customer noticed that managing different business letters of clients was becoming arduous. Customer realized the need to develop an application to maintain business letters in an effective manner. Customer had the onerous task of managing the business letter templates stored at different locations. The users could not access these business letters via Internet. Business users had to invest a lot of time and effort to manually change the template sections according to their needs and customer observed the need of developing comprehensive system to manage business letters and templates.
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The ACCA: accelerating the growth and development of cloud computing in Asia Pacific since 2010.
The Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA) partnered with member company PLDT, ePLDT and PLDT Enterprise to hold its invitation-only Tech Brunch: Digital Transformation for Smarter Government last November 22, 2016 at the New World Makati Hotel. The event was attended by more than 70 delegates from the Philippines' public sector.
Mr. Jovy Hernandez, First VP of PLDT, welcomed the guests by presenting a brief overview of the country's digital landscape, and how digital transformation can be deployed in the public sector to boost citizen engagement and internal government processes.
The first keynote speech was delivered by Ms. May-Ann Lim, Executive Director of the ACCA, who provided an overview of the region's adoption and deployment of cloud computing. Ms. Lim introduced the "cloud first" policies, which were emerging in the Asia Pacific, as well as the public sector marketplaces and cloud accreditation/ certification trends that the Philippine government can take full advantage of.
Also present during the event was the country's Budget and Management Secretary Benjamin Diokno, who provided an update on the Government's Policy on Cloud Computing, and the Government's e-Procurement Processes. Mr. Diokno elaborated that cloud technologies help the public sector transform into a smarter government.
To complement Secretary Diokno's speech, Mr. Alberto Salvador, Jr.—Officer-in-Charge of the Policies and Standards Division of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)—delivered his remarks to provide updates on the new structure of the sector including the senior officials who will work hand-in-hand to push for a smarter government. Mr. Salvador also proposed a "cloud first" policy for the Philippines' GovCloud, as well as the department's initiative in pushing for data classification, security policies, and process of migration to the cloud.
The proposed cloud-first strategy:
All Departments, National Government Agencies and Government-Owned and Controlled-Corporations (GOCCs), including State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), are encouraged to adopt cloud computing as the preferred ICT deployment strategy for their own administrative use and delivery of government services.
Meanwhile, Mr Nico Alcoseba, VP & Head of PLDT's Disruptive Business Group, highlighted the importance of digital transformation in the public sector, and provided some insights in enacting a successful innovation in the public sector. These include: (1) leadership transformation – changing the top leaders, (2) omni-experience transformation – holistic change, (3) information transformation – changing the type of information we process, (4) operation model transformation – changing how operations function, and (5) WorkSource transformation – changing the very nature of work itself.
Also, Mr Peter Moore, the Regional Managing Director for Amazon Web Services, Global Public Sector - APAC and Japan, discussed the relevance and impact of technology, cloud and data center use in the public sector in the ASEAN region, and how the Philippine government can learn from their experiences. He also provided practical steps on how government officials can start working towards a smarter government.
Lastly, ACCA Chairman Mr Bernie Trudel delivered the final presentation of the day, discussing the trends in digitally transforming government and how to achieve it. From his experience in working with the government sector, he elaborated the key considerations when embarking on the digital journey.
The event was capped off with a couch session with all the keynote speakers, and Mr. Chet Alviz is AVP of S.M.A.C.S, Disruptive Business Group (DBG), was invited as the host moderator for this panel discussion. This was followed by the closing remarks delivered by Mr. Dennis Magbatoc, Corporate Relationship Business VP for Public Sector of PLDT Group.
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Calling all Singletons. The Escapologist launches its very own Singles Night
Want to get to know new people but don't know where to go to meet people without having an awkward conversation?
We have the ticket! Either come with a friend for £25 for 2 people or brave it alone at £14. Get a free drink in our steampunk-themed bar afterwards to enjoy and talk about the experience you have just had, breaking the ice and getting the conversation flowing straight away.
You will experience Anarchy of the Sea's (our pirate themed escape room) where you will be split into 2 groups and have to work together; the ultimate icebreaker.
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Player of the Week
Tony Mitchell 31627, Alabama
The hyperathletic forward spearheaded the Crimson Tide's charge to a decisive title in Puerto Rico, earning most outstanding player honors for the tournament. During the three-game run (wins over Maryland, Wichita State and Purdue)he averaged 19 points on 56% shooting, drained 6 threes, collected 29 rebounds (9.7) and swatted 5 shots. The length, strength and athleticism of Alabama is frightening to the point of outright intimidation. If opponents attempt to match wits with them in a 94-foot battle, they face a losing proposition. Mitchell is beginning to creep up draft boards (#41, 2013) despite being a definite tweener at the next level. His perimeter game is on the incline, but most of his playmaking is still a result of defensive disruption and transition throwdowns.
Who's Hot
Mississippi State
The Bulldogs were victorious in the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer, taking down ranked teams in Texas A&M and Arizona on back to back nights. They were far and away the most visually impressive team in the field, holding a +11 rebound margin and limiting the opposition to 40% field goals. Significant contributions were made by all eight members of the team's regular rotation, including a breakout performance by 5'11 freshman Deville Smith (7.5 PPG, 3.5 RPG, 2 APG). Forward Arnett Moultrie took down tournament MOP honors, scoring 19 points (8/9 FG) and grabbing 10 boards in the championship game. Can the Bulldogs maintain this high level of execution and effort for the duration of the season? If so, they have the pieces to be a major factor in the SEC and have the look of a dangerous postseason unit.
Who's Cold
South Carolina
Remember last week when I praised SC for 51% shooting in their opener? Well, that praise will be short-lived. The Gamecocks had a crippling week, suffering a home loss to Tennessee State and a road defeat at Elon. In the two losses they shot a combined 35% from the floor and a staggering 19% (10/51) from distance. Freshman Damien Leonard and Sophomore Brian Richardson were the main culprits. Leonard connected on 3/22 FG's and 2/16 three's, while Richardson shot 2/17 from the field and 0/11 from deep. Quite simply, no one on South Carolina's roster can create easy shots and heaving treys is the result. It's going to be a long year.
The Rebels have size and athletes, but it's hard to be less fundamentally sound than they are. They were extremely fortunate to escape their opener in the Virgin Islands Paradise Jam against Drake, in which they shot 37% FG, 18/38 FT and turned the ball over 20 times. That level of play was harshly in exposed in a 30-point drubbing at the hands of Marquette. They shot 32% from the field, 3/23 (13%) from the three-point line and turned it over 19 times. Lack of a true point guard continues to haunt their half court offense. Dundrecous Nelson took 28 shots (made 7) and 15 threes (made 2) in the two games, while assisting on only 3 buckets. Ugly.
Top Five Freshman Wings
1. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Kentucky- Ideal frame at 6'7 230. Still a work in progress offensively, but gets by on sheer athleticism and effort. Already a defensive dynamo (1.5 STL, 1.5 BLK) that can guard multiple positions and wreak havoc with his length. Crashes the defensive glass with handle to lead the break.
2. Rodney Hood, Mississippi State- The 6'8 stringbean is going to be an offensive machine. Shooting 48% from the field and 40% from distance in the early going with his effortless lefty stroke. Creates space off the dribble for his money mid-range jumper, displaying great elevation and high release.
3. Levi Randolph, Alabama- Lengthy wing is still searching for his niche within the Tide offense, but he's a smooth operator (7.2 PPG). Extremely well composed and under control for a freshman. He loves to dribble into a pull-up J, and rightfully so. It's a money shot.
4. Ky Madden, Arkansas- The 6'5 G/F provides multiple position versatility. Attacks the bucket with a vengeance, but his jumpshot needs work. Hasn't committed a turnover in either of his last two contests (45 minutes).
5. Rodney Cooper, Alabama- Another long-armed southpaw that has started from the word go in Tuscaloosa. He's averaging 4.6 points and 4.6 rebounds in 21 minutes, and is an impact player defensively.
*Brad Beal and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope did not fall under "wing" classification.
John Jenkins missed Vanderbilt's tilt against Bucknell on Tuesday with a sprained ankle. He returned on Saturday to face NC State and lit up the Wolfpack for 28 points on 10/16 shooting and 4 three's.
Marshawn Powell has reportedly suffered a serious knee injury with rumors of a potential ACL tear. Further examination is expected on Monday. He did not play in Saturday's loss to Houston.


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A set of two generously sized porcelain mugs with a colourful retro heart and love design.
These increasibly cheerful mugs will put a smile on any face. These beautiful mugs feature a crimson retro design and a deep jade heart design. They come boxed in sets of two and make a thoughtful gift, ideal for all occasions including weddings, birthdays, Christmas and as a token of love and affection for a loved one.
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