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Stanford Alexander Center for Excellence in Real Estate
Curriculum of Courses 2013 - 2014 Real Estate Course Descriptions
Proposed Course Offering Fall 2013, Spring 2014 and Summer 2014
Fall 2013
- FINA 7497 Essentials of Real Estate
Instructor: Chuck Jacobus, Attorney
(4 credits, required/core course)
(Qualifies for TREC credit toward license requirements)
Introductory, overview course covering all major aspects of real property and estate business, including land title and ownership interests, title, encumbrances and title insurance policies, surveys , laws and regulations controlling real estate, development and construction, financing of real estate, roles and responsibilities of participants in real estate development and related topics.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or consent of instructor
- FINA 7397 Developing a Real Estate Project
Instructors: Kyle Miller, WHITESTONE REIT, VP Operations
Susanna Kartye, Principal – The Sarrazin Group, LLC
(3 credits, required course in MBA degree program, elective course in MS Finance degree program)
Introduction to the real estate development business including products, process and professions The course follows the development process from market assessment, feasibility analysis, financial modeling, site acquisition, planning and design, public sector interface, financing, construction, marketing, joint ventures, property management and dispositions.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or consent of Instructor
- FINA 7397 Multifamily Residential Real Estate Fundamentals
Instructors: Jerry Winograd, Judwin Properties, David Hargrove, The Greystone Group
(3 Credits, elective course)
This introductory course provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental aspects of residential multifamily property and the business. The course will explore multifamily market and economic feasibility, acquisition of new sites and existing property, new development, investment analysis, management of operations, landlord/tenant law, leasing, facilities management, and disposition.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or consent of instructor
- FINA 7380 Real Estate Finance and Investment
Instructor: Steven J. "Jamie" Bryant, VP Development, Midway Companies
(3 credits, required/core course)
(Also available as undergraduate course FINA 4380)
This introductory course provides an overview of financing for all major real estate assets as well as the principles and practices of real estate finance and investment. The course will focus on the fundamentals of commercial real estate, the financial tools needed to analyze and make decisions related to real estate, and the variables that need to be identified and quantified as part of that process. The course will also review leverage, and its impact on real estate projects, and how to calculate various forms of debt structures used to finance commercial real estate. The course examines pre and post- tax investment analysis, annual cash flows, sales proceeds at disposition with focus on tax implications and target IRR attainment. In addition, this course will utilize case studies to illustrate these practices, and the real life decision making that takes place by real estate professionals on a day to day basis.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing, Completion of Courses: FINA 6387 and 6335
- CNST 6305 Construction Management Principles
Instructor: Neil Eldin, UH College of Technologies and Engineering
(3 credits, elective course)
Principles common to construction management processes. Basic techniques for project control skills
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Spring 2014
- FINA 7397 Advanced Real Estate Finance and Investment
Instructors: Gary Husmann, Senior Vice President Financial and Investment Services Transwestern Southwest Region, John T. Fenoglio, Executive Vice President, CBRE Capital Markets of Texas
(3 Credits, elective course)
This advanced course addresses capital structures for real estate investments, capital markets and real estate based securities. The course also includes a focus on real estate income properties, development of financial proforma projections, analysis of commercial leases and analysis of cash flow derived from various types of commercial leases. The course examines project disposition alternatives with tax implications on IRR and alternative methods of using capital accumulation. Case study examples are drawn from all types of income properties, retail, industrial, office and residential rental properties. Financial analysis utilizes the ARGUS program and proficiency in ARGUS program analysis and development of proforma cash flow statements are skills to be mastered in this course.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and completion of FINA 7380 Real Estate Finance and Investment, or instructor's approval
- FINA 7397 Real Estate Law
Chuck Jacobus, Attorney
(3 credits, elective course)
Introductory course covering the fundamentals of real property law including ownership interests and title, contracts and leases, transactions, brokerage, environmental and other land use regulatory controls, financing and creditor interests, statute of fraud issues, elements of offer and acceptance, contractual remedies, taxation and related topics.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or consent of the instructor
- FINA 7397 Residential Community Development and Homebuilding Fundamentals
Instructor: Will Holder, President, Trendmaker Homes, Houston.
(3 Credits, elective course)
This introductory course provides an overview of residential community project planning and development as well as an insight into the business of residential homebuilding. Topics include residential land development site selection, regulatory considerations, community governance and relating homebuilding to community development. Focus areas include residential business operating models, creating value propositions, and the operating mechanics of a development/construction company.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or consent of instructor
- FINA 7397 Real Estate Profession Capstone Course
Instructors: Jonathan Brinsden, CEO Midway, Brooks Howell, AIA, Gensler
(3 Credits, elective course)
The Capstone course integrates the student's full range of accumulated real estate professional skills and knowledge through a practical "real world" development project undertaken by an interdisciplinary team of students for a practicing real estate professional client. The work concludes with a project development plan proposal presented by the team to a panel of real estate professionals.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing, Real Estate Certificate Program Admitted
- FINA 7397 Market Analysis - Project Feasibility-Real Estate Valuation
Instructors: Scott Rando, Cushman & Wakefield Valuation, Bob Christy, Christy Consulting
(3 Credits, elective course)
This introductory course covers the fundamentals of market research in real estate and determination of development project feasibility. Topics include land economics, market demand forecasts, assessment of competitive conditions, determination of market risk and project absorption projections for residential, commercial and mixed use projects.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or consent of Instructor
Summer 2014
- FINA 7297 Real Estate Professional Internship
(2 credits, elective course)
Student internship positions in professional real estate offices are a major component of the Graduate Program as essential to the transition to a career in the industry. Internship positions are coordinated through the UH Bauer Rockwell Career Center and supported by the UH Graduate Real Estate Program Executive Advisory Board.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing, Real Estate Certificate Admitted
- FINA 7397 Seminar: UH Bauer Real Estate Center Professional Research Project into Real Estate Best Practices
(3 Credits, elective course)
This seminar is sponsored by the UH Bauer Real Estate Center to join practicing real estate professionals together with real estate students to undertake a research project that addresses a topic of interest to the real estate community. The research results are to be published and presented in a major conference by the Real Estate Center.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing, Permission of Instructor
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GRIMPday 2009: Rescue professionals with no fear
GRIMPday is an international, multidisciplinary technical rope rescue competition which takes place every October in Namur. The fourth edition was a face-off between 23 teams, from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Germany. The participants were firefighters, soldiers, police officers, rescuers, etc.
All are members of "GRIMP" - Groupe de Reconnaissance et d'Intervention en Milieu Périlleux (Reconnaissance and Intervention in Dangerous Environments Group).
In teams of six and observed by evaluators, participants carried out a series of practical exercises on a timed and graded course: vertical evacuation of a victim, Tyrolean traverse, rappelling, underground progression, stretcher evacuation on a hill, etc.
This event is less about a competition, and more about a gathering that allows participants to share rescue techniques, which vary significantly from country to country. Speed is also not the only criterion: the grading includes the level of coordination and calm of the team, the attitude of the leader, and of course the respect of all safety standards. And of course the most important element: that the victim is rescued without injury.
For this competition, the winner was the British team from WEST MIDLANDS FIRE SERVICE, ahead of the Swiss team from S.I.S. NEUCHATEL and the Belgian C.E. COMMANDO team.
All results are available on www.grimpday.com.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Three men are being celebrated for coming to the aid of a Chicago woman who was being attacked on a running path along Lake Michigan.
Brandon Williams of suburban Calumet Park has been charged with criminal sexual abuse in connection with the Wednesday attack.
According to police, the 36-year-old victim was running along the path in Jackson Park when she was allegedly attacked by the 24-year-old Williams. She ran onto Lake Shore Drive as she called for help. Two nearby men came to her aid and her attacker fled. A third man, 38-year-old Donny Jones of Markham, stopped his car and allowed the woman in.
She pointed the alleged attacker to Jones, who chased and caught the man. He and the other men held Williams until police arrested the man.


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Criminal Justice
The Criminal Justice Program offers students an interdisciplinary degree experience designed to provide them with the skills and knowledge necessary for a career in criminal justice or advanced studies. The program provides an understanding of the justice system, its functions, problems, and cultural impacts, as well as an understanding of the forces that impact crime and deviance.
Students can major or minor in criminal justice.
Students majoring in Criminal Justice are required to complete courses related to crime, policing, corrections, criminal justice, criminal law, and juvenile justice. They are also required to take courses in political science, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. Students are encouraged to take criminal justice electives on topics such as social problems, drugs and crime, forensic anthropology, and family violence.
Students who minor in criminal justice are required to take 15 hours of criminal justice and sociology courses. This plan of study complements the educational pursuits of students in many different majors. This program provides a general overview of the criminal and juvenile justice systems and an understanding of the cultural and environmental factors that impact crime.
Students who major in criminal justice are required to complete an internship or independent study course to fulfill the cross-cultural experiential requirement. Most students choose an internship. Students have interned with numerous local and state police agencies, correctional agencies, juvenile justice institutions, day report centers, probation and parole agencies, law firms, and courts.
After Graduation
Students who graduate with a degree in criminal justice are prepared for many unique employment opportunities. Graduates are eligible for careers in: law enforcement, community and institutional corrections, victim-based programs, probation and parole, and juvenile justice programs among others.
Our program also prepares graduates for further education in the areas of criminal justice, criminology, sociology, and law school.


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Several news organizations, including the Bangor Daily News and Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported on the misplacement and recovery of scallop innards collected for marine research at the University of Maine Darling Center in Walpole. A scallop diver delivering the scallop parts to a university researcher mistakenly placed the package in the wrong vehicle with UMaine license plates at a designated convenience store. UMaine College of Education and Human development faculty member Abigail Garthwait, who had stopped for gas in a university vehicle, discovered the package a short time later and notified marine scientists. The Seattle Post Intelligencer and the Houston Chronicle carried an Associated Press version of the story.
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In January, we featured six-year-old Alaina (Lanie) Hettinger in our Someone You Should Know segment.
She was diagnosed with Caroli's disease, which affects her liver. She also has a disease called FSGS, which impacts her kidneys.
In April, Lanie got a double transplant of her kidney and liver and is still in the hospital in Minneapolis.
Friends of the family are organizing a benefit on June 29th. The Living Thru Lanie Benefit starts with a 5K run/walk at Cub Park in Sumner at 8 a.m. Pre-registration is $25.00
Activities continue in the afternoon and evening at the Sumner-Fredericksburg High School.
The Hettingers lived in Sumner before moving to Iowa City.
For more information, visit Living Thru Lanie on facebook.


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Adult Basic education & GED classes in Salem
Our Adult Basic Education (ABE)/General Educational Development (GED) program assists adults in improving their basic skills in several areas, including mathematics, reading, writing, basic computer literacy and learning strategies classes. More information is available under how to enroll.
The Salem Lancaster campus offers pre-GED and GED classes, including –
- Computer Basics
- Math Fundamentals
- Math Review
- Reading Skills 1 & 2
- Reading for Social Studies
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- Developing Writing
- GED/Essay Writing
- Foundations of Writing
Although most students enrolled in the program are preparing for the GED exams, many are enrolled to enhance basic and pre-employment skills.


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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Since the start of the season, the first order of business for the Green Bay Packers defense has been to stop the run.
So far, so good. The Packers rank fifth in the NFL against the run.
Their next task is stopping All-Pro running back Ray Rice and the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday.
Green Bay (2-2) will be short-handed in the road matchup with the reigning Super Bowl champions with pass-rushing linebacker Clay Matthews (thumb) and inside linebacker Brad Jones (hamstring) both out.
Veteran nose tackle Ryan Pickett, part of a deep defensive line that has contributed to the Packers' success against the run, is probable for Sunday's game after suffering a hand injury in practice earlier in the week.
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It'll probably be a long time until we see another scenario like the Boston Red Sox last September. There were rumors they were going to trade for Bruce Chen on the last day of the season. I've read or typed that 68 times, and it never stops being amazing.
To prevent that from happening this season, the Red Sox signed a few noteworthy pitchers to minor-league deals, including Aaron Cook. But with the noteworthiness comes a little contract leverage, and Cook now has options now that the Red Sox did not call him up by May 1. From WEEI.com:
Cook has 24 hours to either exercise his opt-out clause or work out an agreement to stay in the Sox organization. If he exercises the opt-out clause, the team would then have 48 hours to call him up or trade him. At the end of that window, if he was not in the majors, then the 33-year-old would become a free-agent.
It's possible that the Red Sox and Cook will work out a new contract, but it's also possible that the Red Sox trade him. What, like a bunch of pitchers will get hurt, making them regret the trade? Yeah, right. What are the odds of that?
(When you put it like that, you'd have to think the Red Sox work something out. Remember: Bruce Chen.)


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By SHEILA SELMAN
GOSHEN — People volunteer for all sorts of reasons and causes.
But before volunteering people should know two things: why they want to volunteer (their agenda) and what boundaries they want to set.
Adrienne Penner, education director for the Boys and Girls Club of Goshen, explained that knowing those two key items can make the difference between a good volunteer experience and a bad one. Penner, a recent transplant from Johannesburg, South Africa, spoke to attendees of the Women's Business Network at Boscos Place in Goshen Wednesday.
Once a person has decided why they are volunteering — and there are a litany of reasons — that agenda needs to be communicated to the volunteering agency or organization, she said.
Penner told the story of a group of women who came to volunteer in Malawi. They brought with them 4,000 dresses for young girls. The dresses were made from pillow cases. It was winter in Malawi, so the dresses were too thin to wear right away.
Penner had to explain to the volunteers that if they were to distribute the dresses now, they would not be used for the girls because it was too cold and the Malawians would not keep them for another six months and would most likely use them for something else. Also, what would they give to the boys of the villages? she asked the volunteers. And the organization was trying to keep from giving handouts to villages, so it wouldn't foster more dependency.
The women couldn't move beyond their agenda of distributing the dresses and ended up not having a good experience, Penner said. Had the women let their agenda be known to the agency, they would have known that the dresses were not a fit for that particular group.
The Malawians were also upset because they disappointed the volunteers, and African hospitality frowns on disappointing foreign visitors.
However, when an agenda is known and communicated the experience can be fantastic, she said.
Penner's positive story was a personal one for her. Five weeks before her wedding she was diagnosed with brain cancer. She wanted to call off the wedding but her fiance refused. So instead of a big wedding, the couple opted for a backyard barbecue wedding five days before her surgery.
Because she was under strict orders to do nothing stressful, Penner didn't plan the wedding. Others took over and when Penner arrived to say her vows, she was surprised. Instead of a backyard barbecue, her wedding was in a church that had been donated with decorations and flowers that had been given by strangers. The reception was the same, with food being served to 300 by people the couple had never even met. And to top it off, a three-day honeymoon was also given to the couple.
The memory is still an emotional one for Penner.
People give their time, talents and resources for many reasons, she said. But when people give, it restores their humanity.
And it's chronic volunteering where transformations occur, she said.
"Everyday moments allow for the big moments of transformation," Penner said.
The Women's Business Network is a monthly gathering of women facilitated by the Goshen Chamber of Commerce.


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The San Francisco 49ers seem well on their way to overcoming another slow start, now pulling within a point on an Aldon Smith sack of Matthew Stafford in the endzone. Stafford tried to shovel the ball away as he was going down, but the play was not reviewed and the safety stood.
Smith now has 4.5 sacks for the 49ers during his rookie year out of Missouri.


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By Playbill Staff
13 Oct 2013
Robin Richard: Angela Lansbury or Karen Morrow
Marc Escuro: Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury is a five-time Tony Award winner for her performances in Mame, Dear World, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd and Blithe Spirit. She was also Tony-nominated for Deuce and A Little Night Music. Her Broadway credits also include The Best Man, A Little Family Business, The King and I, Sondheim: A Musical Tribute and Anyone Can Whistle, among others.Continued...


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When you sign up for Parallels' Technical Account Manager (TAM) program, you'll get a dedicated resource you can count on—a senior-level advisor with thorough knowledge of your IT environment. Your TAM will be able to respond rapidly when issues arise and can provide you with both technical and strategic help in using Parallels products.
With a TAM, you'll have a single point of contact and accountability who can manage issues across all Parallels departments—escalating them when needed, and acting as a proactive advocate for your company at all times. With your TAM's help, you'll be able to achieve your goals more rapidly and increase your ROI.
A TAM can help you integrate Parallels technology with your organizational processes and can work across your organization to achieve consensus on key issues. A TAM can also identify common pitfalls and recommend steps to avoid them; monitor trouble tickets to make sure issues are resolved promptly; proactively identify root causes and trends in support issues; and recommend changes that will improve performance. Whenever you need help, your TAM will marshal whatever resources are needed, across all Parallels departments and functions. In short, your TAM will do whatever is needed to help you get the maximum value from your Parallels investment.Some of the functions a TAM performs include:
For more information about the Parallels TAM program, e-mail or call your Sales Account Manager. If you don't have a Sales Account Manager or have misplaced the contact information, click here for a list of our regional sales offices. Call an office in your region and choose option 3 for Service Provider Sales.


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Luxury Home with 8 bedrooms and private back yard/pool/spa in Kissimmee
- bedrooms 8
- baths 5
- sleeps 18
- pool yes
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed no
- type Villa
- community Emerald Island Resort
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$ 1,200 - $ 3,000 / week
$ 3,800 - $ 4,500 / month
vacation rental description
Come enjoy a unique, NEWLY RENOVATED vacation villa with distinguished privacy and unbeatable views! The residence is located in Emerald Island, a luxurious community only 3 miles from Walt Disney World. The enviable community at Emerald Island offers you the luxury and privacy of a 24 hour gated & guarded home base for your Kissimmee travels.
As mentioned above, everything is brand new! Our 8 bedroom home offers luxury accommodation, including 3 king beds,2 queen bed, 1 full bed and 6 twin beds--perfect for multiple families or individual rental. Our almost 3000 sq ft home will make you feel comfortable in any room, even with relative or friends! The villa has everything you would expect it to have and more: full game room with pool, darts, air hockey, and foosball, a fully-equipped kitchen, laundry room, towels, wireless internet, televisions, PS2 Video Games, grill, crib...etc. TVs in every bedrooms.
Our home has a spacious family room to relax in together during the day or evening, with luxurious furnishings, sumptuous sofas, a large-screen cable TV, DVD Player, and entertainment system--so you can enjoy your favorite movies, or set the ambiance for your vacation with the music you love. There's also a separate lounge area and another living room.
The Emerald Island clubhouse is the center of activity, sporting a community pool, spa, gym, sauna, arcade, further internet access, an expansive children's playground, volleyball courts and a nature trail that winds through the natural Floridian woodland setting.
Our home features a one of a kind view upon the natural Floridian environment, allowing for distinguished privacy and views for the comfort of your family!
If any problems or concerns arise during your stay, there is a management company on call available 24/7.
Please feel free to ask any questions while considering your booking.
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- 1 Crib
- Balcony
- Heating
- Patio
- 1 Sofa Bed
- Beach Chairs
- High Speed Internet
- Pool Table
- 6 Twin Beds
- Beach Towels
- Hot Tub
- Porch
- 1 Double Bed
- Cook
- Housekeeper
- Private Pool
- 2 Queen Beds
- Full Kitchen
- Kitchenette
- Sauna
- 3 King Beds
- Game Room
- Linens Provided
- Screened Porch
- Air Conditioning
- Garage
- Parking Included
- View (Water)
activities and attractions in Kissimmee Central Florida
-Golfing (Situated 5 minutes from Champion's Gate and Reunion resorts,
as well as Grande Pines Golf Resort, Ritz Carlton Golf Club, Shingle
Creek Golf Club, Hunter's Creek Golf Course, Mystic Dunes Golf Club,
Magnolia Golf Course, Palms Golf Course...ALL WITHIN A 10 MINUTE DRIVE)
-Walt Disney World (Located 3 miles from various Disney theme parks)
-Dining & Shopping (Tucked in between various restaurants and multiple
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-Tennis & Swimming (Located within the community)
-Fishing and Mini-Golf (Within minutes of Emerald Island)
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Low Season: $1295-$1795 per week
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RAHWAY, N.J. -- Susan Mitchell and Thomas Butler of Metairie know what it means to need a helping hand after a storm.
"The Red Cross has been there for us through a number of the storms when we needed feeding, when our power went out they were there," said Susan Mitchell, a Red Cross volunteer. "So we appreciate that."
They are part of the more than two dozen Red Cross volunteers from southeast Louisiana who are using their hurricane experience in New Jersey. They are helping feed thousands people affected by Hurricane Sandy and a Nor'easter, which hit the region overnight, dumping snow upon misery.
"When we talk to them and they realize from New Orleans, first of all they're very thankful that we're there," Mitchell said. "And then we turn around and say thank you for coming to help us when we needed you. And we just tell them, hang in there. It's going to get better. It's just a matter of time."
Kim Wilkins, a Rahway, New Jersey resident, said she was "done."
"I have no more fight left in me. It's too hard. Nobody should be able to live like this. I feel like I'm on Survivor," she said.
Wilkins has been out of power for 10 days. She, her son and elderly mother spent Wednesday night in a hotel thanks to a friend.
But now, it's back to a cold reality.
"We take a match and we light it, put a big pot of water on there, just to keep the kitchen area warm. Just to have some type of warm," she said.
Her FEMA assistance application is pending, and Wilkins is growing increasingly frustrated with the delays.
"It seems like we can't get no help. Did they forget us? I felt like we've been forgotten. This little area right here, we've been forgotten," Wilkins said.
But Butler wants them to know they're not forgotten, and that he shares their heartbreak.
"It's just something about people suffering. It'll get better though. We come up here in the cold, it ain't cold in New Orleans," he said. "But it's going to get better for them. It's going to take time, but it's going to get better."
Waves of volunteers are expected to be coming in and out of the area for the next several weeks as the New Jersey and New York region grapples with the recovery from two storms.
If you would like to help, head to the Red Cross website.


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Coopération avec la fondation Anna-Lindh
Since 2005 the Council of Europe cooperates with the Anna-Lindh Foundation in the area of teacher training and education in the framework of the Pestalozzi Programme. It offers places for a number of teachers and teacher trainers from countries from the Southern Mediterranean in its training activities for education professionals (Modules and Seminars) and it coorganises teacher training events which take place around the Mediterranean.
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Town Square
Breast-density notification bill signed into law
Original post made on Sep 24, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, September 24, 2012, 9:09 AM
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on Sep 24, 2012 at 11:18 am
Thank you Sen. Joe Simitian and Governor Brown for signing!
And, a SPECIAL AND HUGE THANKS TO Amy Colton of Santa Cruz! Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU!!
~ Knowledge is Power and I am so very thankful that I will NOW be better informed.
:) God Bless you All!
on Sep 24, 2012 at 11:49 am
Congratulations and a huge thank you to Joe and Amy for your teamwork and determination in bringing this to fruition. I can write this note because I had the good fortune to have found my breast cancer tumor when it was in the early stages. I'll never forget the first meeting with my oncologist who assured me that with early detection breast cancer is one on the most curable forms of cancer. I hope this legislation will increase the survival rate for many more women.
on Sep 24, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Well meaning law. Inappropriate forum. Legislators should stay out of medicine unless absolutely necessary. Screening issues are complicated and should be based on well designed randomized patient studies, not anecdotal cases. Brown should have stuck to his guns.
on Sep 24, 2012 at 7:48 pm
If a law is necessary to require doctors to provide notice of suspicious tissue, then this law is necessary. Obviously, "well designed randomized patient studies" missed Amy Colton's cancer. Why should she, or anyone for that matter be subject to gambling their lives on randomized studies by those viewing their test results? Obviously, law needs to be this much more involved in medicine, since the implication is that doctors don't always tell their patients the truth about their tests. Lumps are potential cancers.
on Sep 24, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Many,many more women die of heart disease and lung cancer than of breast cancer.
This law will create much fear and many unnecessary treatments that have their own very high risks.
Medical decisions should be based upon evidence-not politics
False positive findings are a huge problem with breast and prostate tests
That is why the AMA now recommends against PSA tests for prostates
Because they lead to more harm to the patient than good.
on Sep 24, 2012 at 10:05 pm
If you don't trust your doctor to do the right thing without a State law mandating it, suggest you get a new doctor.
on Sep 26, 2012 at 5:01 am
Well, what will happen from this? Every woman will be told she has areas of "increased breast tissue density" to assure compliance with the law and avoid lawsuits..and it will be meaningless.
Thanks, Simitian and Brown, for making a doctor's advice meaningless.
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3.6/5 rDev +9.4%
First off, Liberty Steakhouse is a great restaurant located in the Broadway at the Beach section of Myrtle Beach. My family went there recently and everyone enjoyed their food -- from kids meals to salads to steaks to burgers -- everyone went home happy. Picked up a growler of the Red Ale and polished it off quickly. The brew pours a deep red with a slight head -- the aroma of malt is excellent. It also has a slightly sweet smell to it. The taste is malty, slightly bitter, with a perfect amount of carbonation. REALLY easy to drink. Highly recommended. Growler cost $13.95 -- and at the time (October 2012) they had a $5 off deal on refills on Tuesdays.
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4.25/5 rDev +29.2%
04-13-2013 01:42:46 | More by Jetfan247
New Jersey
3.58/5 rDev +8.8%
Appearance: amber in color with a 1" head that slowly falls to a spotty surface foam. Bits of lace dot the glass.
Smell: very mild caramel and a hint of fruit sweetnes are all you can pull from the glass.
Taste: caramel, ripe red fruit sweetness, and a mellow bitterness make up a simple ale. There is a bit of graininess here too.
Mouthfeel: medium bodied beer. Lightly crisp to start, smooth at the finish. Aftertaste is very short.
Drinkability: an easy to quaff beer. Decent flavor profile, it hits the spot when you are looking for a red ale.
04-06-2010 13:53:09 | More by Gavage
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Pours a cloudy amber color with a one finger white head with very little lace. The aroma was faint and of caramel malt with a hint of floral sweetness. The taste has a carmel malt backbone with a hint of sweetness and a slight hop bite. The mouthfeel is moderate carbonation. Overall it is simply but solid.
08-19-2011 01:05:19 | More by goblue3509
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07-22-2012 02:46:13 | More by KerMUDGEon
4/5 rDev +21.6%
07-20-2013 12:18:56 | More by RedneckBeerz
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A - Pours a copper amber color, clear, mild carbonation, minimal lacing and head.
S - Mild nose composed of toasted malt, rye, and a slight nifty character.
T - Uneventful. Barely any roasted malt or barley flavor, some caramel, mildly earthy.
M - Watery thin body, smooth on the tongue, fairly clean finish.
O - I hate to trash any beer but this one did absolutely nothing for me, I ended up leaving a half a pint glass, sorry to say. Not much body, not much taste, not much more to say.
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08-22-2013 20:41:37 | More by Cooker_stp
3.65/5 rDev +10.9%
Poured a deep amber red color with a thin layer of khaki head. Good retention and some nice lacing. Smells of caramel, malt, grapes, grass, and a touch of pine. Tastes of citrus briefly up front, followed by lots of caramel sweetness, toasted malt, and bread. Finishes with a nice bitter grass and fresh pine notes. Medium in body with good carbonation. Sweet and malty with a nice bitter kick. Refreshing and easy to drink on a hot summer day.
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09-21-2013 22:54:17 | More by bmjivi221
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03-04-2012 22:44:55 | More by carrollmel7
3.53/5 rDev +7.3%
On vacation in Myrtle Beach stopped by this steakhouse/brewpub and was pleasantly surprised. First off, food was fantastic at this lace, but the beers weren't too bad either. I got a 16 oz pint for $3.50 (not bad for a beer brewed on site). A bit on the boring side, wanted a tad more flavor. Had a nice caramel maltiness and the hops were decent, but seemed kind of lackluster and reserved. Would have like them to really open up on this red ale, but overall still an above average beer that is good transition for those going from BMC to craft.
09-03-2012 17:45:26 | More by oriolesfan4
2.55/5 rDev -22.5%
Appearance: Cloudy, dark amber body with a thin, creamy off-white head.
Smell: Sorry, but the aroma on this one was nonexistent.
Taste: An Irish Ale that's as simple as they come, with a hint of caramel sweetness and a gentle hop bitterness. Truly a discouraging beer experience.
Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Somewhat watery.
Drinkability: "Full-bodied and malty..." is a rather dubious claim. I see what they're going for here; a light, refreshing beer that's more of a 'caricature' of the style.
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Today I had some spare time and access to car so I took the time to drive around San Francisco - What a treat! There are few cities in the world with such beautiful and varied streets and natural features. From its improbable-looking slopes, to its encapsulating coastlines and its plethora of parks, the whole city really is a feast for the eyes.
I finished off the day by taking a drive up to twin peaks, the highest point in the city and was blown away. The view put that of Coit Tower to shame - and thats no mean small thing!
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