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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Covel Commons, UCLA
200 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Crowdfunding is poised to make a major impact on the real estate market. Funds raised by online platforms have grown from $1.5 billion in 2011 to a projected $10 billion in 2014, with this rate of growth expected to continue to accelerate going forward. By 2025, the global crowdfunding market could reach between $90 billion and $96 billion - roughly 1.8 times the size of the global venture capital industry today.
Goodwin Procter, the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and the UCLA Ziman Real Estate Alumni Group, have joined forces to host a one-day comprehensive program featuring the nation's leading crowdfunding experts who will discuss the evolution of the real estate crowdfunding industry, its impact on the real estate market, its potential for growth and how you can get involved.
This program has been approved for 5.5 California MCLE credits (general).
8:00 a.m. - 8:55 a.m.
Registration & Networking Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Tim Kawahara, Executive Director, UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate
9:20 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Keynote: Lewis G. Feldman, Partner, Real Estate Capital Markets Group; and Co-Chair, Crowdfunding Practice, Goodwin Procter LLP
This opening presentation will discuss the themes which are poised to significantly impact the real estate investment landscape, specifically focusing on dissemination.
9:55 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.
Networking Break
10:15 a.m. - 11:05 a.m.
Meet the Crowd
Crowdfunding is poised to make a major impact on the real estate market. This panel will address the different and unique capabilities various platform have to offer.
Moderator: Lewis G. Feldman, Partner, Real Estate Capital Markets Group; and Co-Chair, Crowdfunding Practice, Goodwin Procter LLP
Jilliene Helman, Co-Founder and CEO, Realty Mogul
Adam Hooper, Co-Founder and CEO, RealCrowd
Arthur Weissman, Vice President, Business Development, WealthForge
Ray Sturm, Co-Founder and COO, RealtyShares
11:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Raising Debt Online Through Crowdfunding
How is raising debt through a crowdfunding platform different than borrowing from a conventional lender? This panel will feature a discussion between conventional and crowdfunding lenders, highlighting the similarities and differences between their approaches.
Moderator: Eric Sussman, Senior Lecturer, UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate
Carlo Tabibi, Co-Founder and CEO, Patch of Land
Paige Serden, Senior Vice President and Regional Manager, Real Estate Division, City National Bank
Ron Suber, President, Prosper Marketplace Inc.
David Manshoory, CEO and Founder, AssetAvenue
12:05 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.
Lunch Break & Special Presentation - TBA
1:25 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
What It's Like to Crowdfund a Deal as a Sponsor
What it's really like to crowdfund a deal. Experienced operators share their stories raising money online to fund their real estate deals.
Moderator: Gary M. Tenzer, Co-Founding Principal and Managing Director, George Smith Partners Inc.
Andy Carpiac, Owner, Kittridge Realty and Hard Rock Hotel, Palm Springs
Jay Kerner, President and CEO, U.S. Realty Partners Inc.
Mark F. Crawford, President and Managing Partner, Crawford Park Financial Inc.
Eric Siragusa, Vice President and Partner, MHP Funds LLC
2:20 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Evaluating the Key Legal Issues
An overview of The JOBS Act and other regulations impacting the crowdfunding industry. This panel will cover the relevant issues that must be considered when using a crowdfunding platform.
Moderator: Steve Ellis, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP
Lawrence Fassler, General Counsel, Realty Mogul
Rick Weintraub, Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel, CommunityLeader Inc
Jonathan Littrell, General Counsel, AssetAvenue
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Networking Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.
Breakout A:
Why VCs Are Investing in Crowdfunding Platforms
The crowdfunding industry has generated headlines recently due to an influx of venture capital investment. This panel will feature prominent venture capitalists discussing their optimism for the growth of the industry.
Moderator: Curtis Kaiser, Founding Attorney, Kaiser Law Group
Hrach Simonian, Principal, Canaan Partners
Buck Jordan, Managing Partner, Canyon Creek Capital
Breakout B:
Technical Capabilities
The relevant technical issues. This panel will discuss the process of building a campaign and will also touch on platform security.
Moderator: Gerry Stegmaier, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP
Brian Fritton, Co-Founder and CTO, Patch of Land
Justin Hughes, Co-Founder and CTO, Realty Mogul
Dan Baird, Vice President, CrowdEngine
Fred Bryant, Chief Compliance Officer, WealthForge
Breakout C:
Marketing Your Campaign
What does it take to successfully market a crowdfunding campaign? This panel will feature marketing experts in the field who will discuss the dos and don'ts of attracting your crowd.
Moderator: Joseph Barisonzi, Co-Founder and CEO, CommunityLeader Inc
AdaPia d'Errico, Chief Marketing Officer, Patch of Land
Cynthia Nevels, Founder, Think.Crowd.Fund!
Joey Jelinek, Co-Founder and CEO, GroundBreaker
Eric Senn, Chief Executive Officer, Bumbershoot Ventures
4:20 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks: Lewis G. Feldman, Partner, Real Estate Capital Markets Group; and Co-Chair, Crowdfunding Practice, Goodwin Procter LLP
Dan Baird
Vice President
Dan is the VP of CrowdEngine with over a decade ofentrepreneurial to Fortune 500 strategy and launch experience.Starting at 19, Dan co-founded LoveSac Furniture Co, and since founded retail franchises, led strategic initiatives with ConAgra,and has consulted, advised, and invested in several startups.
He received a BA from the University of Utah and an MBA fromThunderbird in Global Branding and Entrepreneurship.
Joseph Barisonzi
Co-Founder and CEO
CommunityLeader Inc
Accomplished executive with fifteen years of experience and a verifiable record increasing organizational value, enhancing productivity, streamlining operations and improving sales performance. Dynamic and inspirational leader with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and talent for grasping innovative ideas, developing comprehensive strategies and implementing actionable plans.
- Innovative systems thinker
- Motivational leader
- Intuitive organizational development specialist
- E-commerce and internet platform developer
Specialties: marketing operations, community development, sales acceleration, strategic planning, emerging technology, leadership development, social entrepreneurship, immigrant investment, crowd-sourced funding.
Fred Bryant
Chief Compliance Officer
Fred Bryant co-founded WealthForge during his junior year at the University of Richmond. Since its inception, WealthForge has been focused on creating a more functional marketplace for early stage capital formation, allowing for a more efficient distribution of capital to the best ideas.
Fred is a graduate of the US Army Ranger School, deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, and is a recipient of the Bronze Star Medal. He received his Bachelors Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Entrepreneurship from the University of Richmond. He enjoys competing in endurance events.
Andy Carpiac
Kittridge Realty and Hard Rock Hotel, Palm Springs
Andre ("ANDY") Carpiac is the owner of Kittridge Realty, a Los Angeles based group of commercial real estate companies focused on hotel, office and mixed use real estate investments in Southern California. Andy is also the majority owner of the Hard Rock Hotel Palm Springs and recently completed a crowdfunding equity sale via Realty Mogul for a minority stake in the hotel. He has over seventeen years of experience in the acquisition, operation, development and management of hotel, office, industrial, retail and mixed use properties on the West Coast.
Andy was previously a partner at Pacifica Capital Group, a privately held real estate investment firm that purchased and assembled a 3.6 million square foot portfolio of office, industrial and retail properties in Southern California. Pacifica sold the last property in the portfolio in early 2005 in advance of the last commercial real estate crash. Over his career, he has been personally involved as a principal in more than $500 million in commercial real estate projects.
Andy is a graduate of UCLA with a degree in Business and Economics. He is a past founding member of the SF Bay chapter of YPO (Young Presidents Organization) and currently serves on the Foundation Board of Loma Linda University Children's Hospital.
Mark F. Crawford
President and Managing Partner
Crawford Park Financial Inc.
Mark Crawford brings over 30 years experience in the real estate business to his ventures. His experience includes development, brokerage, mortgages, and investments of residential and commercial properties. In addition, he has obtained government approvals for over 1,000 apartments and subdivisions. As President of Crawford Park Financial Inc., he syndicates funds to purchase and/or renovate apartment units and acquires, arranges, brokers, and holds promissory notes secured by deeds of trust, mortgages, and security agreements. CPF originates via a DRE (Dept. of Real Estate) License in California.
AdaPia d'Errico
Chief Marketing Officer
Patch of Land
AdaPia d'Errico is an entrepreneur, investor and strategic business advisor. As CMO of Patch of Land, she positions the brand through online community building, strategic partnerships and brand development. Previously she founded two businesses and served companies like Disney and Mattel in brand development, social media, and community development. She also spent several years in banking, and in investor relations for a Swiss hedge fund.
AdaPia has a BBA from the University of British Columbia.
Steve Ellis
Goodwin Procter LLP
Steven Ellis is a partner in Goodwin Procter's Litigation Department and a member of the Consumer Financial Services Litigation Practice. He has extensive experience in the defense of consumer class action lawsuits in both federal and state courts across the country. Mr. Ellis has represented prominent financial institutions, insurance companies, money transmitters and other major corporations in class action cases involving home mortgage loans, credit card processing, loan servicing, money transfers and other financial services.
Lawrence Fassler
General Counsel
Realty Mogul
Lawrence is the General Counsel of Realty Mogul. Previously he ran a real estate construction firm, and before that he worked for over 15 years as an attorney with prominent New York and Silicon Valley law firms (Shearman & Sterling and Cooley) and a medical device company that was ultimately acquired for over $4 billion.
Lawrence holds Series 7 and 66 licenses, and has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and a joint JD/MBA from Columbia University.
Lewis G. Feldman
Real Estate Capital Markets Group
Goodwin Procter LLP
Lewis G. Feldman is a partner in Goodwin Procter's Real Estate Capital Markets Group and head of the firm's Public Finance Practice. Mr. Feldman has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business every year since 2000 and is considered to be among the nation's leading real estate and public finance attorneys, specializing in structuring, entitling and executing large-scale financings for government and the private sector.
Mr. Feldman also serves as co-chair of the firm's Crowdfunding Practice, acting as counsel to both crowdfunding platforms and their investors. Most recently, Feldman was the featured keynote speaker at CFGE's Crowdfund Investment and Alternative Finance Summit in New York.
Brian Fritton
Co-Founder and CTO
Patch of Land
Brian oversees the development of Patch of Land's platform and technology initiatives. Previously, Brian worked for a major search engine where he architected customer-facing products, developing enterprise-grade APIs, and built custom billing and audit systems. Brian also worked with an eCommerce solution provider leading the development of websites for brands such as Maui Jim, Warner Music Group, Ghirardelli and Anna's Linens.
Brian is an active member of the global invite-only Young Entrepreneurs Council, speaks often on technology's role in startups and received a Bachelors in E-Business from Chicago's DePaul University.
Jilliene Helman
Co-Founder and CEO
Realty Mogul
Jilliene is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and operation of the business. Realty Mogul is crowdfunding for real estate, a marketplace for accredited investors to pool money online and buy shares of pre-vetted real estate investments.
Jilliene is a Certified Wealth Strategist and holds Series 7 and 63 investment licenses. Prior to Realty Mogul, she was the youngest Vice President of 10,000+ employees at Union Bank, a subsidiary of one of the largest financial institutions in the world, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ.
After exposure to corporate finance, marketing and strategy, the majority of Jilliene's time with Union Bank was spent working in Wealth Markets as the Sales Development Manager for The Private Bank. Jilliene lead a team of Sales Development Specialists and coordinated sales efforts between the broker-dealer, registered investment advisor, lenders, trust advisors and wealth planners and worked on investment accounts up to $300 million.
Jilliene has underwritten over $3 billion of real estate ranging from retail, multifamily, office, residential, mobile home parks and self-storage.
Jilliene holds a degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University and has lived in in China, Spain and Japan.
Adam Hooper
Co-Founder and CEO
Adam is the co-founder and CEO of RealCrowd, a venture-backed business that has built a better way to invest in real estate. By leveraging the collective experience of the founders in both real estate and technology, RealCrowd is an online real estate investing platform where accredited investors can co-invest in specific, institutional quality real estate with best in class professionals. RealCrowd has brought over $400 million of investment property to their network since the company's inception in 2013.
Justin Hughes
Co-Founder and CTO
Realty Mogul
Justin is the CTO and Co-Founder of Realty Mogul. Realty Mogul is crowdfunding for real estate, a marketplace for accredited investors to pool money online and buy shares of pre-vetted real estate investments.
In addition to overseeing all technology development at Realty Mogul, Justin is a member of the executive team that sets the high-level goals and strategic direction of the firm. He also coordinates operations to ensure internal processes run smoothly.
Justin is an avid technologist with a passion for real estate investing. Previously Justin built and ran an independent consultancy in Los Angeles providing services ranging between the creation and execution of digital marketing strategies, web and application development, general IT support services and online event production. Prior to running his own business, Justin was a national sales leader for a major telecommunications provider.
Justin is a licensed real estate professional in California, holds Series 7 and Series 63 licenses, and earned his Bachelor's Degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Joey Jelinek
Co-Founder and CEO
GroundBreaker is the largest disintermediated real estate crowdfunding marketplace and white-label portal builder. GroundBreaker provides real estate companies with their own crowdfunding website and gives them access to thousands of accredited investors through the use of GroundBreakers marketplace.
Before founding GroundBreaker, Joey spent his career fundraising for institutional real estate owners on Wall Street. Joey transacted over $14 billion in real estate ventures and investments at Morgan Stanley and served as the COO of CBRE Florida Capital Markets. Joey also built Morgan Stanley's mortgage trading platform, allowing the bank to securitize trillions in mortgage backed securities. Joey experienced the painful and tedious process of private fundraising when he founded Byron Partners, an opportunistic real estate investment firm.
Joey's education includes Cornell (Business/Entrepreneurship) and Columbia University (Masters with Distinction, in Real Estate). Joey played water polo for Cornell and Columbia and gets super stoked about extreme sports and meditation.
Buck Jordan
Managing Partner
Canyon Creek Capital
Buck Jordan founded Canyon Creek Capital in 2010 and has over 10 years of experience in venture, media, consulting and M&A. The fund is focused on funding early stage "Bridge to the A" and Series A investments in companies which have strong founding teams and demonstrated market adoption. Buck has become known for producing top of market due diligence and providing a tremendous amount of value for his portfolio companies. He is an advisor to several start-ups in the community, received his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and is a former Army Captain and Blackhawk Pilot.
Curtis Kaiser
Founding Attorney
Kaiser Law Group
Curtis Kaiser, JD/MBA serves as the co-Chair of the Los Angeles chapter of Tiger 21. Curtis also serves as the leader of a ProVisors collaboration group of professional trusted advisors in Long Beach, California, and is a founding member of Bruin Professionals Long Beach. He currently serves as an Instructor at both UCLA's Anderson School of Business, where he taught a course in Strategic Business Communication, and the University of California Irvine's Paralegal Program, where he developed the program's Estate Planning course.
Mr. Kaiser began his legal career over a decade ago as an associate with Morrison & Foerster in Orange County, which was then California's largest law firm. He served as Corporate Counsel for Digital Interactive Systems Corporation, an early stage software company, of which he was a co-founder, before founding the Kaiser Law Group in 2007.Curtis is one of only four Board Certified Specialists in estate planning specialist in the Long Beach, California area. He adeptly guides families, individuals, and small business owners on creating estate plans that minimize taxes, costs, and complications while maximizing simplicity, ease of implementation, and family harmony.
He earned his B.A. degree, with honors, from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his J.D. degree from Santa Clara University, where he was named a Dean's Fellow and received a full merit scholarship. Mr. Kaiser also earned an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Business where he was selected as his class commencement speaker.
Jay Kerner
President and CEO
U.S. Realty Partners Inc.
Jay Kerner is the President and CEO of U.S. Realty Partners, a regional commercial real estate operating company and consulting firm focused on high quality properties in California and Arizona. He has over twenty eight years of experience in the acquisition, operation, development, leasing and management of retail, multi-family, office and mixed use properties.
Mr. Kerner was formerly Regional Director of Capital and Counties, U.S.A., a privately held real estate investment trust with 2.5 Million square feet of retail, office, multi-family and mixed use properties organized as a subsidiary of Capital Shopping Centres Group, London (a publicly traded FTSE 100 company; CSCG.L). In addition to his duties overseeing acquisitions, dispositions, financing, and operations, he was a key executive involved in the sale of the company to Equity One (NYSE; EQY) in 2011 for more than $600 Million. Prior to that, he was Senior Director of Acquisitions for Federal Realty Investment Trust, a public REIT with more than 19 million square feet of high quality mixed use and retail properties in the best markets in the U.S. (NYSE: FRT). Mr. Kerner was also President of Kerner Management and Investments, a regional shopping center operator and developer, for more than 10 years. Over his career, he has been personally involved in more than $1 Billion in commercial real estate projects.
Mr. Kerner is a graduate of UCLA with a degree in Business and Economics. He is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and has served as a speaker at past events. In addition, his is a licensed California Real Estate Broker and General Contractor. Mr. Kerner is also the author of Chasing Yield; an Individual Investor's Guide to Passive Commercial Real Estate Investments.
Jonathan Littrell
General Counsel
Jonathan Littrell serves as General Counsel to Asset Avenue and is a Founding Partner of Raines Feldman LLP, a full-service law firm based in Beverly Hills, California. Mr. Littrell has significant transactional experience in a broad range of real estate, corporate, private equity and securities disciplines. Jonathan's corporate practice includes the representation of public and privately held companies in all aspects of corporate governance and finance including entity selection and formation, corporate structuring and restructuring, formation of funds and joint ventures, private placements of debt and equity and securities filings. Mr. Littrell has practical experience in all levels of real estate including acquisition, entitlement, relocation, construction and asset management having previously served as a Project Manager for a prominent Los Angeles-based development company specializing in the construction of low income tax credit housing. Mr. Littrell has also worked directly with local government agencies including the Los Angeles Housing Department, Community Redevelopment Agency and the Los Angeles City Council.
David Manshoory
CEO and Founder
David is the CEO and Founder of AssetAvenue. A passionate entrepreneur with over a decade of proven success in startups and commercial real estate investing, he founded AssetAvenue to simplify the commercial real estate investment process by providing members with an online platform of meticulously pre-vetted investment opportunities in real estate notes. Prior to founding AssetAvenue, David was co-founder and CEO of one of the fastest growing startups in the country and also founded Momentum Capital Partners, an investor-backed real estate fund. David earned his Masters of Real Estate Development from University of Southern California.
Cynthia Nevels
Cynthia Nevels, also known as "The Go-To-Lady", has helped public and private organizations overcome insurmountable management, marketing, technology and operational obstacles. For 14 years, Cynthia has served as Senior Partner with Integrality LLC, a business management and marketing consulting firm serving clients in major markets around the globe. She is the Founder of Think.Crowd.Fund! and creator of SafeCrowd©, a new equity crowdfunding transparency and validation web application.
For over 14 years, Cynthia has become an integral part of helping her clients meet their goals. Clients such as Capital One Bank, Palo Alto Software, J2 Global Communications, Dallas County Community College District, Denton Country Transportation Authority, PeopleFund, Wells Fargo, Capital One Bank, Taylor Distribution, Inc., Marcus Graham Project, Inc., Government Procurement Connections, Inc., Tarrant County College and Omni Telecommunications.
Nevels recently joined the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas' team of Social Enterprise mentors for the heralded GroundFloor initiative. She currently serves on the board of the American Institute for Education, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship and Marcus Graham Project, Inc. In 2012, she was appointed to serve on Chicago's Task Force for Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Enterprise. During her career in Silicon Valley, she served as Global Program Manager for the leader in Customer Relationship Management, Siebel Systems, Inc. (now Oracle). As well as, recruited software engineers for e-business consulting firm Proxicom of San Francisco and Keane Consulting of Boston, MA. Nevels previously served as Vice Chairman of the Texas Jump$tart Coalition, a statewide financial literacy clearinghouse and a member of the National Jump$tart Coalition. In 2004, Nevels was appointed by Consumer Federation of America of Washington, D.C. to serve as State Director for the Texas Saves, a social marketing and asset building campaign supported by Governor Rick Perry, Consumer Federation of America, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and the FDIC.
She is a syndicated business and technology columnist and the Senior Editor of Disruptive View and host of public talk radio program, Disrupt Radio. She has been featured in Fortune Magazine, Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Black Enterprise Magazine, Fort Worth Business Press, Rolling Out Magazine and Fast Comp.
Eric Senn
Chief Executive Officer
Bumbershoot Ventures
Eric is an entrepreneur who has worked for four start-up companies since graduating from Yale University in 2010 - StageIt.com, ESM College, Austin Music Weekly, and Bumbershoot Ventures. StageIt is an online venue for live and intimate concerts and was funded by Sean Parker and Jimmy Buffett; ESM College is a video-based, ed-tech platform; and Austin Music Weekly generated high quality, live content of local bands.
Bumbershoot Ventures is the umbrella company Eric co-founded for The Right Arm, a universal tablet stand and mobile stand-up desk. Eric designed, patented, and secured funding for The Right Arm, and the product successfully raised over $118k on Kickstarter in February 2014. During its first week, The Right Arm Kickstarter campaign was the most popular design project in Texas and one of the top ten most popular design projects in the world.
Eric is currently building a crowdfunding platform set to launch in 2015.
Paige Serden
Senior Vice President and Regional Manager
Real Estate Division
City National Bank
Paige Serden is a senior vice president and regional manager with City National Bank's Real Estate Division. Paige oversees the division's Los Angeles Region, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and is responsible for construction lending, operations, and business development. A recognized industry expert, Paige has been in real estate financing since 1985. She currently serves on the boards at Southern California Leadership Network, UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and co-chairs the bank's Women's Caucus.
Hrach Simonian
Canaan Partners
Hrach joined Canaan in 2007 and focuses on both the consumer and enterprise sectors. Hrach currently sits on the board of CompStak, Realty Mogul and Washio and led Canaan's investment in Instacart and Plixi (acquired by Lockerz). Additionally, Hrach has worked closely with several Canaan portfolio companies including Kabam, Associated Content, Zoosk, PrimeSense, Tremor Video, Cardlytics, Switchfly, SandForce, Ebates, and OneFineStay. All this, and he can repair virtually anything with duct tape and a bent screwdriver.
Prior to joining Canaan, Hrach served as the Digital Media Research Associate at Rutberg & Company. The research group's coverage spanned product and technology categories, including semiconductors, devices, infrastructure, and services. Previously, Hrach held several positions at Northrop Grumman and TRW in the solid state laser research & development department conducting experiments in high power laser research and beam manipulation. Hrach also interned at two startups, The Retail Exchange and Jamdat back in 2000 and 2005.
Hrach holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and served as a co-president of the VC Club. Previously, he earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where his research focused on neuronal networks, linear systems analysis, and solid-state lasers. He also earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA specializing in biomedical engineering.
Eric Siragusa
Vice President and Partner
MHP Funds, LLC
Eric is a Partner at MHP Funds, LLC, co-managing multiple Mobile Home Park investment funds with Dave Reynolds and Frank Rolfe. MHP Funds and their affiliated companies are believed to have a portfolio containing the 15th largest number of mobile home lots, and the 3rd largest number of Mobile Home Parks in the country, with over 100 parks and 10,000 lots in 16 states.
In 2006 joined the Board of Directors of the non-profit North San Diego Real Estate Investors Association, Inc. (NSDREI), one of San Diego's leading real estate education and networking organizations. He has served as President of the NSDREI since 2008. Eric also serves as an educator, mentor and consultant to other real estate investors and professionals, and has been a featured speaker, panelist, author and radio-show guest.
Eric holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego and has received multiple patents.
Gerard M. Stegmaier, Esq.
Privacy and Data Security
Goodwin Procter LLP
Mr. Stegmaier is an attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Goodwin Procter LLP where he leads the firm's D.C. privacy and data protection group. He practices technology law with special emphasis in the areas of e-commerce, privacy, intellectual property and the First Amendment. His practice encompasses transactional, regulatory and litigation matters for emerging enterprises as well as Fortune 100 companies. He acts regularly as outside global coordinating counsel for many leading enterprises for privacy and information governance, especially cross-border for cloud computing matters.
Mr. Stegmaier also serves as an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law where he created and has taught one of the first courses on information privacy law for over ten years. He has represented many of the Internet's pioneers on important questions of first impression. He serves on the Advisory Board of Internet Law & Regulation, a Bloomberg publication, and organizations such as the Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business School regularly seek out his views.
Mr. Stegmaier is a magna cum laude graduate of George Mason University School of Law where he was an editor of the law review.
Ray Sturm
Co-Founder and COO
Ray Sturm is Co-Founder and COO of RealtyShares and is responsible for finance and operations. Ray began his career in finance, working in investment banking first on the Acquisition Finance team at Bear Stearns and then the Restructuring team at Lazard Frères. From there, he joined CCMP Capital as a private equity investment professional. While at CCMP, Ray evaluated both company and infrastructure investments in a variety of industries in both North America and Europe.
Ray holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a JD from the University of Chicago Law School, and a BBA in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.
Ron Suber
Prosper Marketplace Inc.
As President of Prosper Marketplace, Ron is responsible for developing and executing the business development strategy to attract borrowers to the site, as well as ensure a balance between institutional and retail investors on the Prosper platform. He brings more than 20 years experience in sales, marketing and business development across the hedge fund, broker dealer and registered investment advisor industries.
Before to joining Prosper, Ron was Managing Director at Wells Fargo Securities. Prior to Wells Fargo, Ron served as the Head of Global Sales and Marketing and Senior Partner for Merlin Securities. Ron also served as President of Spectrum Global Fund Administration, and spent 14 years at Bear Sterns where he served as Senior Managing Director and Manager of Global Clearing Sales.
Ron earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Eric Sussman
Senior Lecturer
UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate
Since 1995, Eric has been a lecturer in accounting and real estate at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, where he has been voted Teacher of the Year thirteen times by Anderson's MBA students, and has been awarded the Citibank Teaching Award (1998) and the Neidorf Decade Teaching Award (2008), both voted upon by a committee of faculty members. He has also received recognition by Businessweek as one of the Top Ten Most Popular Business School Professors in the country. He teaches in the areas of cost/managerial accounting, financial accounting (beginning through advanced), financial statement analysis, equity valuation, corporate financial reporting, and real estate investment and finance to undergraduate, graduate, and Executive Education students.
Outside of campus, Mr. Sussman is president of Amber Capital, Inc., Manager of Fountain Management, LLC and Clear Capital, LLC, and Managing Partner of Sequoia Real Estate Partners, and the Pacific Value Opportunities Funds, which have acquired, rehabilitated, developed, and managed over two million square feet of residential and commercial real estate in the past 20 years.
He received his MBA from Stanford, with honors, in 1993, after graduating Summa cum Laude from UCLA in 1987. He is a licensed CPA in the State of California.
Carlo Tabibi
Co-Founder and CEO
Patch of Land
Carlo Tabibi is Patch of Land's CEO, executing the company vision of bridging the gap between traditional real estate financing and the new world of crowdfunding. For 20 years Carlo has been operating, developing, and investing in real estate. Carlo has founded or invested in multiple online retail businesses including Tabcom.com and perks.com where he is currently Chairman.
Carlo holds a Bachelor's degree in Real Estate and Finance from USC and studied at Loyola Law School.
Gary M. Tenzer
Co-Founding Principal and Managing Director
George Smith Partners Inc.
Gary M. Tenzer is co-founding Principal and Managing Director of George Smith Partners Inc., ("GSP"); a Los Angeles based real estate investment banking, financing and consulting services firm. GSP represents many of the largest and most prominent developers and owners of real estate throughout the country.
With over 35 years of experience in originating, structuring, underwriting and negotiating sophisticated real estate financing transactions, Mr. Tenzer has been personally involved in the placement of over $8.0 Billion dollars of real estate financing throughout the country. In addition to arranging financing for his clients, Mr. Tenzer has had extensive experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant. He has been involved in over three hundred real estate litigation matters, representing both plaintiffs and defendants, and has testified over 100 times in state and federal courts at both jury and bench trials.
Mr. Tenzer is a member of the Sustaining Board of the UCLA Ziman for Real Estate and has been a frequent lecturer at undergraduate and graduate real estate finance classes at UCLA and USC; he is also a member of the Urban Land Institute.
- Master of Science in Business Administration (MSBA) 1979: University of Southern California. Major in Real Estate Finance, with specific focus on real estate economics and financial feasibility and rate of return analysis.
- Master of Business Administration (MBA) 1978: University of Southern California. Majors in Finance and Entrepreneurship and Venture Management. Emphasis on capital structure and creation of start-up enterprises in the real estate industry.
- Bachelor of Arts (AB) 1976: University of California, Berkeley. Degree in Economics with emphasis on Urban Land Economics and quantitative analysis; minors in Psychology and Astronomy.
Richard A. Weintraub
Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel
CommunityLeader Inc
Richard A. Weintraub is the Founder of Weintraub Law Group PC. Rick is an 'AV'-rated attorney by Martindale Hubbell. He has been Lead Counsel in more than 400 public and private offerings and more than 250 mergers and acquisitions. Rick also is the Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel for CommunityLeader Inc., a provider of white-labeled platforms designed to provide software and services to firms to manage offerings of securities in the Regulation D, Regulation A+ and Crowdfunding areas.
Arthur Weissman
Vice President, Business Development
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The Smithereens announced Jan. 12 on their website they are paying tribute to the 50th anniversary of Beatlemania with a new CD called "The Smithereens Play The Beatles Washington, D.C. February 11, 1964 Concert. The disc features the group re-creating all the songs of the group's Washington, D.C., concert in the same order that they were played on Feb. 11, 1964.
As one of the highlights of the upcoming Fest for Beatles Fans at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City, the group will be performing the CD in its entirety on Feb. 9 at noon. It will also have copies of the CD available for sale at the Fest. The album will also be available on the Smithereens official website.
The new CD isn't the group's first homage to the Fab Four. They've released their first Beatles tribute, "Meet the Smithereens," in 2007 and followed it up the following year with "B-Sides the Beatles" in 2008.
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Pigskin Brewing Plans Taproom and Brewery at Creekside Gahanna
Last fall we featured a new startup beer brewer called Pigskin, which announced plans to renovate a warehouse space at 1400 Dublin Road to open a new taproom and brewery. The team behind the new business announced tonight on Facebook that they would be relocating to Creekside in Gahanna.
"It's been a long journey, but we finally have a place to call home and we could not be more excited," said Brewer and Chief Marketing Executive Mike Rockwell. "We want to thank all our fans for being so patient and we cannot wait to serve a pint to each and every one of you."
The operation had to be relocated due to zoning issues with the original Dublin Road building. Rockwell anticipates that the new location will be open sometime in September or October.
Their taproom will feature a variety of local breweries from around Central Ohio in addition to their own beers brewed in-house.
More info can be found online at www.pigskinbrewingcompany.com.
5 Responses to Pigskin Brewing Plans Taproom and Brewery at Creekside Gahanna
Yikes – tough business location.
Have to say — I would never open up a business in that area. Creekside is a fortress that is protected North South East and West by pulling over families of 4 driving 40 in a 35. Tickets are the preferred source of revenue versus obtaining revenue via the tax stream.
But good luck.
And parking is a BIG BIG problem there. Bottom line, that parking garage was designed poorly.
There should be an entrance to the South. Garage parkers have to 'backtrack' in the garage to get to their desired location.
But again, good luck. Love craft beers and people chasing their dreams.
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Did you know that in a recent survey by Harris Interactive that only 16% of the online public know what a wiki is? For some, this will seem surprising. Others will say "what's a wiki?" I had coffee today with my friend Kevin Flaherty of Wet Paint, the Seattle-based wiki company. He told me that they were perplexed that "wiki" was deemed one the 10 most annoying words on the web, so they ask Harris Interactive to do the survey comparing "wiki" to the terms social network, blog and online... Continue Reading
The Verdict: Exceeded Expectations You're going to have to forgive me, I'm about to spew all sorts of facts and figures while at the same time stroking my ego. I fear that it will sound like bragging , but we were completely blown away by the success of the RSS in Plain English Video and I want to share. The video was posted on April 23rd, 2007. Today is May 28th and in just over a month the video has been... Viewed over 80,000 times across three hosts (Blip.tv, YouTube and DotSub)... Continue Reading
As we had hoped, the RSS in Plain English video has been a learning experience. One important lesson has been a better recognition of the needs of non-English speakers and the hearing impaired when it comes to video. We want the video to be useful for everyone. Thankfully, (sorry I can't remember who) Darran pointed me to the Rocketboom episode where they reveal how they are using a service called DotSub to add user-generated subtitles in multiple languages to their videos. How cool. So, I had... Continue Reading
Wow. That was fun. It appears that the RSS in Plain English Video is still making it's way around the Web, but the major buzz has subsided and we're ready to move on here at Common Craft. Before we do, I wanted to address some of the things that came up recently. First, credit where credit is due. Sachi, my lovely wife and partner, came up with the idea for the paperwork format. She also did the video editing and figured out how to make it shorter. The credits in the video don't mention... Continue Reading
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About the Vermont Design Institute
The Vermont Design Institute (VDI) is a non-profit organization of design professionals formed as a resource and design center to serve grassroots communities in Vermont and elsewhere. VDI has been in existence since 1993 when it was born out of an outreach effort by the Vermont Council on the Arts.
VDI has been a stand-alone organization since 1995 and has expanded to serve places beyond our own region with a diversity of projects—from designing a school for children below the poverty level in Sikkim and community gardens and learning-playgrounds for children in Johannesburg to affordable housing, small town market centers, land conservation, and ecosystems protection for rural towns in Vermont.
VDI is a collaborative of professionals with expertise in architecture, historic preservation, landscape architecture, transportation and regional planning, natural resource protection, ecological economics, and land conservation.
The Vermont Design Institute is incorporated in the State of Vermont. We are supported by the Vermont Arts Council and the Preservation Trust of Vermont, among others. Our mission is to facilitate community planning and design at the local level; provide hands-on education about creating livable, sustainable communities meeting the needs of a climate-neutral future; and promote holistic design as a transformative tool for problem-solving.
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VDI functions as a resource and design center providing expertise in community visioning, design and planning services which meet community needs, hands-on activities which engage the public in decision-making, and facilitation of implementation and transformation. We believe that design tools are critical to solving our current socio-physical problems and to the transforming of our communities into climate-neutral places for all. Our programs involve working with rural communities and urban neighborhoods to empower them in their redevelopment and transformation. This may include enhancement of the village center, development of a network of trails and open space, solving transportation conflicts, strengthening historic places through restoration, or envisioning the greening and healing of old industrial sites as wilderness areas within our cities. VDI provides design resources and expertise to develop community visioning, creates design and planning drawings, and empower implementation through hands-on workshops, contracted projects, and pro bono programs. The contracted projects are most often grant-funded and matched through local participation.
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The Vermont Design Institute organizes one community design charrette per year. VDI matches professional design expertise with local knowledge to address design issues concerning strength of historic villages, solutions to gateway and circulation issues, build-out scenarios for critical parcels of land, viability of local food systems, and linkages between the natural and built environments. Aimed at enhancing sustainability, the charrettes focus on empowering local participation in community change, enhancement, and transformation.
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The Design Institute is involved in programs at the elementary school through university level. VDI created "Footprints toward Sustainbility" and "Design is Elementary" programs for school children and teaches service-learning studio courses at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
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Ming-Na (Pinyin: Wēn Míng-Nà; born November 20, 1963) is a Macanese-born American actress. She has been credited with and without her family name, but most credits since the late 1990s have been without it. She has been known by such variants of her name as Ming Na, Ming Na Wen, Ming-Na Wen and Ming Wen. She is known for voicing Fa Mulan in the Mulan films and Kingdom Hearts video game series, and as Dr. Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen on the NBC Medical drama series ER. She was a regular on other notable TV shows such as As the World Turns, Vanished, and The Batman. She was also the series lead on her own show, Inconceivable, a Medical drama aired on NBC, but the short-lived show was cancelled after two episodes. In October 2009, the actress returned to television as main character Camile Wray in Stargate Universe. Wen was born on Coloane Island, Macau, to Cantonese parents and lived in Hong Kong with her mother (then working as a nurse) and older brother, and later moved to the USA as a child with her mother, older brother, and stepfather first to Queens, New York and then to Pennsylvania. Wen attended high school in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon. During her teen years she worked at
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The Park City Police Department last weekend responded to at least three separate cases involving fisticuffs on Main Street within a short period of time, including one that resulted in a smashed restaurant window and another that left a man with a broken ankle.
The cases were reported at 12:48 a.m. and 1:16 a.m. on Saturday, and the damaged restaurant window was still visible Monday morning.
In the case logged at 1:16 a.m., the police said, a fight was reported on the 500 block of Main Street. The police said in an online statement several men started a fight with another man, inflicting injuries to a cheek, his lip and an ear. A woman attempting to intervene was punched in the face and slammed into the wall of a building, the police said.
The police said one of the people involved was arrested on four charges, including assault, after being treated by a medical crew. The police are searching for one other suspect for questioning.
The online statement indicated officers were on the scene for more than an hour. The officers found damage at a nearby business as the investigation was underway. The police said the damage, apparently a smashed window, was the result of another fight.
A smashed window was visible at Silver Restaurant & Lounge afterward. Shawn Hyer, the general manager, said in an interview nobody involved in the confrontation that resulted in the damaged window was inside the establishment beforehand. Hyer, who was not there at the time, said a disc jockey inside saw the fight start outside.
"It was disheartening. There was a big, ugly brawl in the street," Hyer said.
The window must be replaced. He said damage is estimated at approximately $1,200.
The police said the fight started outside a nightclub across the street from Hyer's place. The police arrested a suspect Monday night on charges of assault and disorderly conduct.
In the 12:48 a.m. case, meanwhile, officers were called to a nightclub on the 300 block of Main Street to respond to a report of a fight. People there pointed the officers in the direction of the nearby China Bridge garage on Swede Alley, the police said in an online statement. The officers found five people. The five fled when they saw the officers, running away in different directions, the police said.
Two suspects jumped off the second story of the garage as the police chased them, the Police Department said. One of them suffered a broken bone in his ankle when he landed, according to the police. He was taken to a hospital. The other was also captured.
The police said the two fled after a fight with two other men. The other two were referred to as "a bald male" and a "fat male," according to the police.
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The genius of modern Hollywood lies not just in its ability to make movies, but to create weekly audiences for them. Back in the pre-TV days, when two-thirds of Americans were weekly moviegoers, that was unnecessary. Even as late as 1948, some 90 million Americans went to their local movie theaters every week without any national advertising to prod them. That habitual audience withered away after the introduction of color TV in the mid-'60s. Today, Hollywood can count on less than 10 percent of the population seeing any given movie, and getting those people requires multimillion dollar ad campaigns.
Studios must now provide two different products to multiplexes: the movies, of course, for their 39,000 screens, and, far more important, ad campaigns that will fill seats with popcorn-munching, soda-guzzling consumers (without which every multiplex in America would be out of business). So, when Paramount booked 3,900 screens in May for Thor, it also had to (and did) deliver 9 million warm bodies—including people who never read the comic book, and despite the movie's bad reviews—on opening weekend.
The nearest equivalent, in theory, is a presidential election. Candidates need a large national audience to vote at a particular location on a particular date. But these elections occur only once every four years. Studios mount campaigns biweekly—and without a partisan base of support.
The challenge for the studios' marketing departments is to build campaigns on budgets that don't bankrupt their employers. In 2010, studios spent on average $32 million in advertising per movie in wide release. While this sum includes everything from coming attraction reels to newspapers ads, the lion's share of it goes for 30-second TV spots, aired the week before the movies open.
"People-moving is a far more difficult proposition than merely predisposing people to buy a product," one studio marketing chief explained to me. "Despite all the talk about using the Internet, and stunts and hype in gossip columns, the only real tool for pushing millions of people into movie theaters on the opening weekend is TV spots."
Ironically, the very medium that destroyed Hollywood's habitual audience is now viewed as its salvation.


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This one-of-a-kind presentation combined visual art and performative dialogue.
In playing with and even parodying conceptions of the history of life on Earth, artist Beauvais Lyons, self-appointed director of the Hokes Archives, provokes skepticism and critical thinking on the part of audiences of all persuasions, whether proponents of evolution, creationism, or intelligent design. In confusing the boundaries between art and science, and between the imaginary and the real, Lyons challenges the ways that beliefs about the world are formed.
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A square $666\times666$ has been covered using tiles $5\times1$. A single square $1\times 1$ hasn't been covered. Find in how many places the not covered square can be.
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Hint: Can you colour the individual squares with $5$ different colours such that any $5\times1$ tile covers one square of each colour? If so, what can you say about the colour of the uncovered square? Can you do this colouring in two similar but different ways? If so, the uncovered square must have the right colour in both colourings. Can you exhibit for each of the squares with the right colours an explicit covering that leaves that square uncovered?


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This 2013 vintage is no exception, and Mother Nature helped make it another great growing season. Great aromas the minute it goes into the glass. Super balance between 50% malolactic fermentation and a kiss of French oak that keeps the spotlight on the great fruit.
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bring the glass to your nose. Lemons, peaches, banana, tropical fruits, creaminess, a hint of coconut and vanilla oak. On the palate great citrus and tropical fruit characters come together in a creamy, crisp, lushness. There is just enough oak to give it a touch of toasted bread and
vanilla. There is just enough malolactic to give the wine a rich creamy texture, which balances wonderfully with the acidity. This is a great example of great fruit = great wine.


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If Seinfeld's Elaine Benes gave up writing catalogue copy for J. Peterman and became the Vice President of the United States, what would that look like? It would look a lot like Veep, the sharp comedy series starring the eternally hysterical Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Be sure to catch up on the Veep: Season 2 DVDs ($25) before season 3 premieres on April 6 after Game of Thrones on HBO.
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2010 was a big year for Salmonella. The ubiquitous, rod-shaped, Gram-negative, disease-causing relative of E. Coli surfaced up in a wide range of foods grown, processed, and sold in the U.S. Salmonella has caused sickness in hundreds of thousands of men, women, children, and pets nationwide.
According to current CDC estimates , Salmonella in foods is responsible for 1,027,561 Illnesses, 19,336 hospitalizations, and 378 deaths per year.
Here is a partial listing of FDA recall announcements for food productions tainted with Salmonella.
January 14, 2010 FDA Health Alert for Merrick Beef Filet Squares Dog Treats Packaged and Distributed by Merrick Pet Care Products may be contaminated with Salmonella
March 4, 2010 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to protect the public following the early identification of Salmonella Tennessee in one company's supply of hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP). This is a common ingredient used most frequently as a flavor enhancer in many processed foods, including soups, sauces, chilis, stews, hot dogs, gravies, seasoned snack foods, dips and dressings.
March 8, 2010 - GNS Foods, Inc. is announcing a voluntary recall of mixes containing certain pretzels. The products contain the ingredient Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) being recalled by Basic Food Flavors because of the potential to contain salmonella. The manufacturer of these pretzels, National Pretzel Co. of San Francisco, CA, used this flavoring, and is voluntarily recalling its related pretzel products. GNS is voluntarily recalling snack mixes which include these pretzels.
March 30, 2010 Red & Black Pepper Spice Recalls Linked to the Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak Investigation
April 12, 2010 - Response Products, Broken Bow, NE is voluntarily recalling Cetyl M for Dogs, lot numbers 1210903 and 0128010, due to a possible Salmonella contamination from the hydrolyzed vegetable protein component provided by Basic Foods of Las Vegas, NV.
- May 27, 2010 Salinas, California - organicgirl Produce is voluntarily recalling a limited number of cases of 10 oz organicgirl Baby Spinach with an expired Use-by Date of May 22 and Product Code 11A061167 because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
May 21, 2010 Urgent Nationwide Alfalfa Sprout Recall. Raw Alfalfa Sprouts Linked to Salmonella Outbreak in 10 States
- June 17, 2010 - ConAgra Foods Packaged Foods, recalling Marie Callender's brand Cheesy Chicken and Rice frozen meals. These products are being recalled after the company was informed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of an investigation involving 29 people in 14 states who have been diagnosed with salmonellosis linked to Salmonella serotype Chester.
- CDC August 2, 2010 Investigation Announcement: Multistate Outbreak of Human Salmonella I Infections Associated with Frozen Rodents
- CDC August 20, 2010 nvestigation Update: Multistate Outbreak of Human Typhoid Fever Infections Associated with Frozen Mamey Fruit Pulp
- August 25, 2010 Kirkland Signature brand Milk Chocolate Salted Caramel Macadamia Clusters recalled due to possible salmonella contamination.
- December 28, 2010 - Including packaging details; states affected; and clarifying product only packed on two dates (Nov. 30 and Dec. 6, 2010) is covered by tbis recall - Following confirmation from regulators of a positive test for salmonella on curly parsley in Quebec and cilantro in Detroit, J&D Produce Inc. is initiating a precautionary, voluntary recall of these two items and other potentially affected products packed only Nov. 30 and Dec. 6, 2010. There have been no reported illnesses.
Closer to home, on March 29, 2010 , Lance, Inc. - headquartered in Charlotte - recalled 28,087 cases of Tom's Barbecue Potato Chips packaged in 1 oz, 2.25 oz and 8.5 oz sizes. According to the FDA recall notice, the products were possibly contaminated with Salmonella. No illness have been reported as yet (http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm206881.htm).
On December 10, 2010, the FDA announce that Tropical Nut & Fruit of Charlotte, NC, is "voluntarily recalling all its products containing walnuts supplied by Atlas Walnuts, LLC after November 16, 2010 because they have the potential to contain Salmonella. " http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm236656.htm
Illness caused by Salmonella usually last for 4 to 7 days and most folks recover fully. Death can result if the disease spreads into the blood stream. Fortunately, if the infection is diagnosed in time, the patients can recover. Most persons who have picked up Salmonella through contact with food or feces have these symtoms:
- diarrhea
- fever
- abdominal cramping
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) gives these recommendations to prevent the spread and ingestion of Salmonella:
- Wash hands with warm, soapy water for at least 20 seconds before and after handling raw meat and poultry. Also wash cutting boards, dishes and utensils with hot soapy water. Clean up spills right away.
- Keep raw meat, fish and poultry away from other food that will not be cooked. Use separate cutting boards for raw meat, poultry and egg products and cooked foods.
- Cook raw meat and poultry to safe internal temperatures before eating. The safe internal temperature for meat such as beef and pork is 160° F, and 165° F for poultry, as determined with a food thermometer.
- Refrigerate raw meat and poultry within two hours after purchase (one hour if temperatures exceed 90° F). Refrigerate cooked meat and poultry within two hours after cooking.


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The 6 Hours of Nürburgring is one of the most prestigious sportscar races in all of Germany, second only to the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Lewis will lead to the Gotz Audi Team racing Gotz Motorsport's all wheel drive and V-8 turbo, Audi RS-4. Lewis drove the same vehicle back in June in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring.
Overall, Lewis has raced at Germany's renowned Nürburgring in five 24 Hours of Nürburgring (2004, '05, '10, '11, '12) and two Nürburgring Six Hours ('09, '10) as well as the American Le Mans Series race on the Grand Prix Course ('00). He has earned several podium finishes making him one of America's most successful drivers at the circuit.
The 15.753-mile long course at Nürburgring with 73 turns is well-known as the most difficult circuit in motorsport. It takes skill and bravery to master the track to finish on the podium. This Saturday, Lewis and his team will test metal against mettle to secure the first place win.
In addition to his racing career at Nürburgring, Lewis has earned several prominent titles in the American Le Mans Series and Grand-AM Rolex Series. In 2010, he raced to runner-up in the ALMS GTC Championship. Lewis has driven in over thirty 24-hour races including three 24 hours of Le Mans (leading GT class in 2003), 14 Rolex 24 at Daytona and five 24 hours of Nürburgring. He has raced every major class of sports car in every major international series.
Lewis' record has driven him to continue his driving passion as the professional driver and instructor of the Palm Beach Driving Club at Palm Beach International Raceway. He provides one-on-one instruction to members of all driving levels who bring their street cars out to race on Palm Beach International Raceway's road course.
For more information and Shane Lewis' race results at the 6 Hours of Nürburgring, please go to www.PalmBeachDrivingClub.com.
About Shane Lewis
Shane Lewis has been racing since 1989 and is widely considered one of motorsports leading race and development drives. The Jupiter, Fla. Resident's impressive resume include race victories in championships throughout the world. Included are the American Le Mans Series, The European Le Mans Series, the Rolex Sports Car Series, SCCA World Challenge, Continental Challenge, VLN and the World 24HR Series.
Always a fan favorite, Shane has competed in an impressive 32 twenty-four hour races including three 24 Hours of Le Mans, fifteen 24 Hours of Daytona, five 24 Hours of Nürburgring and the 24 Hours of Dubai. He has race din eight 12 Hours of Sebring, Seven Petit Le Mans, won two 6 Hours of Nürburgring and has won the 12 hours of Magy Cours, France. When not competing, Shane is teaching performance driving to Palm Beach Driving Club members as the official Club Pro at Palm Beach International Raceway. Shane works with Palm Beach Driving Club members instructing them on how to get the most out of their high performance road cars and racecars.
About the Palm Beach Driving Club
Palm beach International Raceway is home to the Palm Beach Driving Club providing exclusive opportunities that cater to automotive enthusiasts. Operating as an affiliate of the track, the Palm Beach Driving Club is a private member club that offers members exclusive track time, catered meals, one-on-one sessions with driving professionals and access to on and off track events. Club members have access to track session fifty-two weeks a year that offer four to eight hours of open track driving.
About the Palm Beach International Raceway
Palm Beach International Raceway is a re-branded and re-designed state-of-the-art venue that is rapidly becoming one of the most popular raceways in the county for racers and spectators alike. As a leader in its operating form and function, Palm Beach International Raceway seeks to provide its driver with a higher level of challenge, excellence and opportunity. Palm Beach International Raceway boasts three completely refurbished, exceptionally designed tracks, including a high-performance road course, an all-concrete drag strip and a 7/10's mile karting track and karting center. Palm Beach International Raceway is also home to the Palm Beach Driving Club, a private member club that offers automotive enthusiasts the ultimate experience. Palm Beach International Raceway is currently sanctioned by the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) and certified by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body for many major racing events.
Palm Beach International Raceway's exceptional track designs accommodate high-level national events to local amateur series, along with a variety of other events such as concerts, corporate hospitality for motor racing events, product launches and more, which gives it the capability to host more than 1,000 events per year.


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The Best Tuesday Ever
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
My local news radio station, KMOX, announces birthdays every weekday morning just before 7 AM. One of the "happy birthday" voices says, "This is the *best* birthday ever!" I'm sure that's a clip from some movie I've never seen, but it kind of sticks with you.
I started thinking that today is the best Tuesday ever -- well, at least it's the best Tuesday of this week -- and tomorrow will be the best Wednesday of the week, because each day that is given to us is a chance to do a little better than before. Today, I can drink 8 more ounces of water than I did yesterday, or eat one more piece of fruit than yesterday, or walk a couple of steps more than I did yesterday....
Two weeks ago tomorrow, I took a quick road trip up to New York City and Long Island. The NYC thing was because an old classmate, who is now a Blues musician living in Stockholm, Sweden, was coming in for a show, and a few of us were getting together for an informal reunion. The Long Island portion was to see my brother and his family - my nephew Aidan is 8, and I haven't seen him since he was three months old, and my niece, Emma, is 5, and we hadn't met at all.
Now anyone who knows me, knows I love to drive hard, and this was a great chance for me to unwind. And I was great until I got out of Pennsylvania, and hit New Jersey, in rush hour. St. Louis doesn't have the hyper-aggressive stop n'go traffic they do back East, and I was not exactly ready for it mentally. (I did not learn to drive in NY, I got my license in St. Louis, several years after I moved to the Midwest.)
I actually pulled off the road and had a crying jag/panic attack -- I couldn't face having to drive through Manhattan to get to Long Island.
I was terrified to do it.
I even had a text ready to send to my brother and my friend Barb, who was going to the show with me, "Sorry, I just can't do it, I need to go home."
And then I stopped and breathed. I realized that I really *did* want to see all of these people, and, at 50, this might be my last chance to drive to New York. Was I going to let the *thought* of the traffic defeat me?
Long story short: I went, I drove, I had a great time.
But wait, there's more!!
I realized that I need to channel that determination right back into my diet & health outlook, and get back on that highway to weight loss too.
That's what makes this the best Tuesday ever.
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I liked reading your blog very much. My sister and her family live on Long Island. I'm glad DH was driving when we missed the road we were supposed to take to drive from their home on Long Island to Ohio. It is NO FUN driving through Manhattan. That's why few people who live there have a car. But we very successfully did not run over all the Manhattanites who crossed in front of us, and we did get to Ohio safely and from there back home. I understand what you were going through.
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Massachusetts sales tax holiday 2014 offers tax-free shopping this weekend and merchants are all geared up and ready to go for Saturday and Sunday Aug. 16 and Aug. 17. Many of the retailers are offering sales on top of the tax-free purchases, according to Mass Live on Aug. 15.
The Bay State offers one of the better tax-free holidays among the states in the nation. Some states offer only tax-free clothes and school items. Massachusetts offers a sales tax holiday on items under $2,500 with the stipulations of no tobacco products, boats, motor vehicles, meals, gas, steam, electricity, telecommunications services.
ABC News local makes it simple:
What is included:
Single items of tangible property with a price tag of $2,500 or less
Items must be bought for personal use by individuals
Alcohol is included and exempt from the tax
What is not included:
Cars, Boats, Meals, Gas, Tobacco, along with any item with a price tag over $2,500
Purchases made by corporations or other businesses for business use
Purchases made by individuals for business use
This can be a big savings for families embarking on school shopping, which is why the sales tax holiday falls in August. While clothes in this state are always tax-free as long as the item costs under $175.00, it is not just clothes that parents need to provide for back to school.
Laptops, computers and tablets are being a necessity today for school work, so this helps immensely when it comes to saving some money. This is also a good weekend for buying an engagement ring. The tax-free weekend suspends sales tax on jewelry. Buying wedding bands for your up-and-coming wedding will also save you a good deal of money.
You save almost $125.00 on a wedding band costing somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,000. If you need a new TV, stove, refrigerator, washer or dryer, this is the weekend for saving big on these items.
Many of the retailers have extended their hours for the sales tax holiday this weekend. Apple, A.C. Moore, Babies 'R Us, Christmas Tree Shops, Yankee Candle, Sears, Pottery Barn, Macy's and J.C. Penney in the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside have extended their hours for this tax-free weekend.
Many of the big name stores across the state are offering extended hours, so check with your local stores. From lawn mowers to snow blowers, the sales are on and without paying sales tax on these items, you can have a great buy on your hands. If you buy a lawn mower for $1,500.00, you save $125.00 this weekend.
Retailers are reporting that people have shopped all week picking out furniture and the big-ticket items. When Saturday and Sunday roll around, they know what they want and they will walk right in and buy it. Retailers claim it is like a little Christmas in August when it comes to the amount of sales they do.
Many have come to depend on the sales tax holiday to boost their sales at the end of the summer. Retailers get crowds coming in to their stores wanting to buy items that they've waited to buy during this tax-free holiday.


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Isis Mobile Wallet (created by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA, Inc. and Verizon Wireless) is geared toward people who are on the go, a typical New Yorker, who uses their debit/credit cards a lot - whether it be reward cards at Duane Reade or their own personal credit card to make a purchase. Isis Mobile wallet makes thing easy, with a tap of your finger you can make payment for a item.
This experience was tested out by author, and based on the experience here are the advantages of Isis Mobile Wallet on Droid Ultra, which is exclusive to Verizon Wireless:
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Pembroke Castle
Idyllically set on the banks of the river estuary, this mighty fortress is largely intact, and its endless passages, tunnels and stairways are great fun to explore, plus there are super exhibitions, which tell the tale of its medieval life.
Once the literal seat of a succession of major barons who played leading roles in shaping Britain's history, this historic home is the birthplace of Henry Tudor, father to the infamous Henry VIII and grandfather of Elizabeth I.
Spend a day getting your history and imagination fix in one hit: you can picnic in the beautifully kept grounds or from St.
Anne's Bastion, enjoy views along the estuary while partaking of refreshments from the snack bar and visit the Brass Rubbing Centre and quickly and easily, make an attractive souvenir.
Complete your visit with a walk around the medieval town walls and millpond, and stand on the opposing bank to see the castle in all its glory, surrounded by serene waters.
It's always worth checking ahead to see if you can catch a bonus event: they're spread throughout the year and vary dramatically but have included battle re-enactments, falconry displays, dragon days, story telling and loads of other things worth watching out for!
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Under 3s go free! Opening Times: 2016 Details:
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On the 15th, 16th and 17th of July their opening hours will be 9:30am - 1:00pm
1 September - 31 October
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1 November – 29 February
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1st March - 31st March
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Last entry 4.15pm
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"Words and Music" to open Feb. 1
The first musical performance for 2013, "Words and Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein," will take place on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1 and 2. The hour and a half, kid-friendly production will take place in Cornerstone in the Sterling College Student Union at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
"We are excited about performing in Cornerstone this year because of the intimate atmosphere," said Mark Clark, assistant professor of music. "The students have been working really hard over interterm to learn new material and how to perform in this new setting. They have also had a lot of fun with the music, which a lot of people will recognize from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musicals such as 'Oklahoma,' 'South Pacific' and 'The Sound of Music.'"
Students performing in the show include: Ryan Bretches of Great Bend, Kan., Katelynn Cantrell of Ulysses, Kan., Ryan Ehresman of Wichita, Kan., Rachel Gardner of Topeka, Kan., Reid Goffigon of San Francisco, Calif., Sarah Grafel of Herndon, Kan., Ashley Hasart of Norco, Calif., Elijah Klein of Valley Center, Kan., Mandy Lee of Tulsa, Okla., Ashley McHenry of Great Bend, Kan., Chelsey Moore of Wichita, Kan., Stephen Newby of Columbia, Mo., Janny Ourn of Liberal, Kan., Shane Rogers of Wichita, Kan., Taylor Stucky of Pretty Prairie, Kan., Phil Taylor of Norco, Calif., Raven Taylor of Wichita, Kan., Kayla Van Nover of Wichita, Kan., and Cassidy Woodard of Abilene, Kan.
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