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Find Your Adventure
Travel Stories
by Daphne Miller
When New York State native Dana Asher visited Napa for a wine tour with operator Napa Insiders last year, she hoped to brush up on her knowledge of the grape. But the vacation left her with a more than just an appreciation for Pinot Noir.
�As soon as I looked around, I started fantasizing about moving there,� Asher laughs. �I am dying to get back. I bought a Napa map and framed it and it�s up in my kitchen right now.�
Asher�s not the only traveler who is heading to California wine country because of its vintage blend of wine, food and scenery. Almost five million visitors flood the Napa Valley every year, according to the Napa Valley Conference and Visitors Bureau. And many of them are turning to organized tours like Napa-based Napa Insiders� five-day, all-inclusive tours. Run by valley resident James Tennant, the upscale tours specialize in intimate, small-group forays to boutique wineries and restaurants hand-picked for their character and quality.
�I choose the destinations based on my own research, by the feeling I get when I go into the tasting room, and based on opinions from people I know in the valley,� Tennant says. �There have to be reasons we go there � for the wine, the people and the character. Not only does the wine have to be good � the winery has to really want visitors.�
Tennant runs 12 seasonally based, organized tours a year, highlighting the various stages of wine production and local scenery. For example, the Harvest & Crush tour takes groups close to the action during the valley�s bustling October stretch, while Picnic Time focuses on soaking up the region�s idyllic summer weather. Customized tours are also popular for groups who want more control over their itinerary.
I have a wide range of clients from all over the country � Texas, New York, Philadelphia. As far as wine knowledge is concerned, some people know nothing about it and want to learn more, and some know a lot,� Tennant says. �So I plan a range of experiences.�
A former resident of Canada and Florida, Tennant moved to San Francisco in the early 1980s to found a franchise car-rental business. Like many of his current clients, Tennant fell in love with Napa at first sight, and began running guided tours in 2004.
�I had been to the wine districts of France, Italy, Canada and New York State but was blown away by Napa,� he recalls. �Napa combines great food, wine and scenery with a friendliness and relaxed approach that is unique.�
Located 45 miles north of San Francisco, Napa Valley was settled in the 1830s by farmers attracted to its rich vol-canic soil. Many of the original farmers planted small vineyards with cuttings they had obtained by Catholic priests from the Sonoma and San Rafael missions. Quicksilver, lumber and cattle were early sources of income
for locals, but over the years, the wine industry established the valley as one of the world�s premier wine-growing regions.
Though Tennant�s itineraries are dynamic (and they change as he makes new finds), his tours consistently include a few favorites. In the 18th-century-style salon at Swanson Vineyards in Rutherford, small groups convene around an elegantly appointed circular table for a private wine and chocolate tasting. The one-hour event recalls days of indulgence and deep discussion in the salons of Paris, but groups are free to talk about anything from the virtue of Muscat to that day�s sports scores.
�One of my fears was that it was going to be a snobby wine tour, but it was extremely down-to-earth,� says Asher. �Most people on the tour knew a little about wine but not much. We were encouraged to talk openly, even if we disliked what we tasted.�
Texas native Jackie Butler traveled with her husband, Dale, on a tour in 2005, and agrees. �We were new to wine, and the other people on the tour were more knowledgeable,� she says. �Jim was full of knowledge but kept everyone interested. Even the people who knew a lot about wine learned new things. And he would add wineries based on people�s tastes.�
Because the pairing of food and wine is so intrinsic in wine country, the tour pays serious attention to dining. Meals include evenings at lauded eateries like Celadon in Napa as well as gourmet picnics at wineries like Bouchaine in Carneros. At restaurateur Pat Kuleto�s estate, tucked high in the Napa mountains, groups feast at a table overlooking undulating vines. The repast, prepared by on-site chef Janelle Weaver, almost exclusively uses ingredients grown on the fantastical farm.
�The meals were amazing,� recalls Butler. �On a lot of tours, you feel limited with a set price. Jim was so attuned to what made a meal great and we never felt like he was keeping tabs. We ordered anything off of the menu we wanted, and if he wanted us to try something new, he would just order it so we could try it.�
The tour also aims to take the pressure off clients who are typically plagued with the stresses of cars, clocks and schedules. Groups are chauffeured in vans and given lodging at the Napa River Inn, chosen for its luxurious 19th-century ambiance and prime location, just a few walking blocks from downtown Napa. The property also offers amenities such as a full-service spa, restaurants, a gourmet general store and a gallery displaying local art.
�My husband has MS (multiple sclerosis) and we were concerned about a lot of walking,� says Butler. Her husband, Dale, continues: �Jim was very accommodating and helpful. When we were up at Kuleto�s we had to get from the tasting room to the house, and he made sure our getting around was taken care of. Also, we generally live by a calendar, watch and clock � but during the tour, we had no clue what day it was. If we wanted to know, Jim would tell us, but otherwise, he just let us relax.�
Much of the appeal of the tour stems from Tennant�s own genuine love of the region and the places the group visits. At Reverie Winery in Calistoga, he gleefully pointed out bottles of wine tucked away along the tasting trail (pourers walk visitors through the grounds and pour wines at strategic spots), then gazed in wonder at a redwood grove that sometimes serves as a setting for hors d�oeuvres for his group.
As for Asher, who is still dreaming of sun-soaked days among vines bursting with fruit, the combination of Napa�s allure and the tour�s pampering approach was a definite hit.
�We were a close-knit group, there was no driving, and we were completely catered to,� she says. �It could not have been better.�
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Napa Insiders runs tours from March through December. Per-person prices range from $2,195 to $2,295 for five days and four nights. Accommodations, wine and most meals included. Contact Napa Insiders: Tel: 866-918-8500. www.napainsiders.com
NAPA VALLEY � Travel Tips
� The Napa Valley is serviced by both the Oakland International and San Francisco International Airports, located approximately 40 miles to the south and southeast, respectively.
� The Napa Valley enjoys moderate temperatures most of the year. Almost all the rain falls between November and April. Summer temperatures range from the low 80s in the south end to near 90 in the far north; but nights can be cool enough for a sweater or light jacket.
� Visitors can learn about Napa history by reading Silverado Squatters, a classic account of Calistoga and the Napa Valley written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The author and his new wife settled for nine months in the bunkhouse of an abandoned silver mine in the late 1800s.
� Napa Valley is the second-most-visited tourist destination in California (Disneyland ranks as #1), and features more than 200 wineries.

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1. Establish speed limits of 35 MPH on Palos Verdes Drive South through the landslide and 40 MPH east of the landslide to the City Limit.
2. Adopt Resolution 2006- , A resolution of the City Council of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes establishing speed limits on Palos Verdes Drive South.
Currently Palos Verde Drive South, from Hawthorne Blvd. to East of Seacove Dr., continuing through the landslide area and from west of Schooner to the eastern city limit is posted at 45 mph, 40 mph and 45 mph respectively. This study provides the basis for setting the speed limit at 35 mph in the landslide area; 45 mph West of the landslide area and 40 mph East of the landslide area matching the City of Los Angeles speed zones.
In accordance with the California Vehicle Code (CVC), radar or laser enforceable speed limits in the City of Rancho Palos Verdes are generally established by one of two methods. If the roadway meets the definition of an arterial or collector street, the prima facie speed limit is determined by using a Traffic and Engineering Speed Survey. On the other hand, if the roadway is classified as a residential roadway, a speed limit of 25 miles per hour applies and no survey is needed. The CVC further states in order for a speed limit to be enforceable, the engineering survey must be prepared every five years.
The City's consultant Traffic Engineer recently completed the Traffic and Engineering Speed Survey with input and direction from the Lomita Sheriff's Department and City staff. The street segments surveyed allow for speed enforcement by the Lomita's Sheriff's Department which used radar or laser speed determination equipment.
To satisfy the requirements of Section 40802(b) of the California Vehicle Code (CVC), Engineering and Traffic Surveys are required by the State of California to establish intermediate speed limits and to enforce those limits using radar or other speed measuring devices. These surveys must be updated periodically (every 5, 7 or 10 years, depending upon specific criteria) to ensure the speed limits reflect current conditions as dictated by the California Vehicle Code. The surveys must be conducted in accordance with applicable provisions of the CVC, following procedures outlined in the 2003 Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and the California Supplement to this manual (which replaced the California Traffic Manual in May, 2004).
Engineering and Traffic Surveys supporting the current speed limits on Palos Verdes Drive South (PVDS) were performed in July 2002 and adopted by the City Council in February 2003. Due to the ongoing and substantial changes to roadway conditions on PVDS, especially in the vicinity of the Portuguese Bend landslide, it is appropriate to re-survey this roadway to ensure that the legal speed limit is appropriate and safe. This approach is supported by the MUTCD and California Supplement, which state: "At least once every five years, States and local agencies should re-evaluate non-statutory speed limits on segments of their roadways that have undergone a significant change in roadway characteristics or surrounding land use since the last review."
The Engineering and Traffic Survey for the City of Rancho Palos Verdes presented to the Traffic Safety Commission on June 26, 2006. Recommended speed limits for Palos Verdes Drive South within the City. For the purposes of this report, PVDS is considered an east-west roadway. Previous Engineering and Traffic Surveys separated PVDS into five (5) separate segments, with limits indicated on Attachment A. The existing speed limits on PVDS are 45 mph, except for the segment between a point 1,500 feet east of Seacove Drive and a point 2,400 feet west of Schooner Drive, which has a 40 mph speed limit. The 40 mph zone generally corresponds to the Portuguese Bend landslide area. This report recommends that PVDS be separated into three (3) segments as shown on Attachment A. The reduction in segments is intended to consolidate speed zones into roadway portions that have distinctly different characteristics, as discussed below.
West Segment – Palos Verdes Drive West to 1,500 ft east of Seacove Drive
Center Segment – 1,500 ft east of Seacove Drive to 1,300 ft west of Schooner Drive
East Segment – 1,300 ft west of Schooner Drive to the East City Limit
To the east of PVDS, 25th Street within the City of Los Angeles has a posted speed limit of 40 mph. To the west of PVDS, Palos Verdes Drive West within the City of Rancho Palos Verdes has a posted speed limit of 45 mph.
Section 627 of the CVC requires that Engineering and Traffic Surveys be conducted based on the methodology mandated by the California Department of Transportation, which includes:
1. Measurement of prevailing speed.
The Legislature, in adopting Section 22358.5 of the CVC, has made it clear that physical conditions such as width, curvature, grade and surface conditions, or any other condition readily apparent to a driver, in the absence of other factors, would not require special downward speed zoning. The basic rule of Section 22350 is sufficient to regulate such conditions.
The basic fundamentals for establishing speed limits recognize that the majority of drivers behave in a safe and reasonable manner, and that the normally careful and competent actions of a reasonable driver should be considered legal. Speed limits established on these fundamentals conform to the consensus of those who drive the highway as to what speed is reasonable and safe, and are not dependent on the judgment of one or a few individu-als. A radar or pneumatic tube speed survey is usually used to determine the prevailing speed of reasonable drivers.
Speed limits are also established to advise of conditions, which may not be readily apparent to a reasonable driver. For this reason, accident history, unexpected roadway conditions, traffic characteristics, and land use must also be ana-lyzed before determining speed limits. Speed limit changes are usually coor-dinated with visible changes in roadway conditions or roadside developments.
It is generally accepted that speed limits cannot be successfully enforced without voluntary compliance by a majority of drivers. Consequent-ly, only the driver whose behavior is clearly out of line with the normal flow of traffic is usually considered a violator for enforcement purposes.
The attached resolution adopts speeds for Palos Verdes Drive South at 3 different segments of the roadway. West Segment - Palos Verdes Drive West to 1500 feet east of Seacove Drive, this segment is generally divided by a raised median and has two travel lanes in each direction. It is approximately 1.8 miles long. Segment two is from 1500 feet east of Seacove Drive to 1300 feet west of Schooner Drive. Segment begins 1300 feet west of Schooner Drive and extends east to the City Limit.
Data was obtained regarding the prevailing speed of vehicles, traffic colli-sions, visibility restrictions, and roadway conditions within the project area. Radar speed measurements were conducted in May 2006. This information is shown on the Engineering and Traffic Survey sheets (Attachment B), and copies of the radar speed surveys are shown in Attachment C.
The criteria and operational procedures described below were used to measure vehicle speeds with electronic radar for each of the three segments on Palos Verdes Drive South. Traffic in both directions was recorded. The specific location on each roadway segment was selected after considering the following:
1. Stop sign and traffic signal influence.
The surveys were conducted in good weather conditions and consisted of a minimum of 100 samples taken during off-peak periods. A hand-held radar unit was utilized in an unmarked vehicle on the segments. Due to the heavy volume and frequency of vehicles traveling in platoons, it was determined that hand-held radar measurements would produce more accurate data on the uncongested, free-flow speed of traffic than 24-hour speed data obtained with pneumatic tubes.
The accident rate on the three segments is expressed in accidents per million vehicle miles (MVM). To calculate these rates, accident data was obtained for the period of May 1, 2004 through April 30, 2006. 24-hour volumes were obtained during May 2006 from the City's annual count program.
The results of the speed measurements were computed and analyzed, and are summarized on the Engineering and Traffic Survey forms. Significant values obtained from the computations are as follows:
• The critical speed, or 85th percentile speed, is the speed at or below which 85 percent of the traffic is moving. This speed is the primary guide in determining what the majority of drivers believe is safe and reasonable. Speed limits set higher than the critical speed are not considered reasonable and safe.
• Speed limits set lower than the critical speed make a large number of reasonable drivers "unlawful," and do not facilitate the orderly flow of traffic. Therefore, the current guideline is to set speed limits at the nearest 5 mile-per-hour (mph) increment to the critical speed unless other factors require a lower limit. Speed limits set on this basis provide law en-forcement officials with a means of controlling reckless or unreliable drivers who do not conform to what the majority finds reasonable. This methodology, which is contained in the 2003 MUTCD California Supplement, constitutes a slight change from previous guidelines that suggested setting speed limits at the nearest 5 mph increment below the critical speed.
• The 10 mph pace is the 10 mph speed range which contains the most vehicles. It is a measure of the dispersion of speeds within the samples surveyed. The accepted practice is to keep the speed limit within the 10 mph pace after considering the critical speed and any factors requir-ing a speed lower than the critical speed.
• The accident data for each street segment was compared to accident rates that can be reasonably expected to occur on streets and highways, considering the volume of traffic accommodated. These anticipated accident rates have been developed by the State of California and are considered reasonable for use in District 7, which includes the City of Rancho Palos Verdes.
Adopting Staff's recommendations will establish reasonable speed limits along Palos Verdes Drive South.
The recommended action will not have a negative fiscal impact. By adopting Resolution 2006- , speed limits of 35 mph and 40 mph along Palos Verdes Drive South will be enforceable.
Submitted by,
Jim Bell
Les Evans
Attachment: A) Speed Zones


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Resume Samples for Freshers Engineers
Resume plays an important role in finding you a good job. You might have all the required skills a company looks for, but if your resume does'nt reflects that, you may not get through a good organization. This is because shortlisting the resume is the first screening process of a recruitment.
The recruiters of a company receive hundreds of resumes for any given position, and on average, they will get to spend only about half a minute on yours. Organizing information incorrectly might cost you a shot at the selection process and is also a very common mistake made by job seekers. A good resume would be error free. It will not have grammatical errors, punctuation errors etc.
A resume should include the following details
- Contact Details
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Contact Details: Includes your current address, your email id and your contact number.
Objective: This will include in two or three sentences the purpose of the resume. Describe briefly what is your aim behind applying for that particular post.
Summary: Summary can include your experiences, your education, your achievements and your strengths.
Work Experience: This section describes briefly about your current job and the company, description of the job, roles and responsibilities, achievements etc. After describing the current employer, you can describe the previous employer, job description, roles and responsibilities, achievements and the period of employment.
Education Details: Your highest education qualification should be given first. The University and the percentage can also be included along with it. This can be followed by your other educational qualifications.
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Investors can expect to be asked to open their wallets in coming months as companies continue to tap them for much needed capital.
Several big companies, including
The surge comes as companies move from shoring up their balance sheets to funding growth to capitalise on the more stable economic environment.
More than $18 billion has been raised in the past 12 months, with accelerated issues of new shares and share placements the dominant structures.
Another $2 billion of capital raisings are thought to be in the pipeline, including
Speculation is mounting that
"Investor appetite has been incredibly good this year. Every time we have raised money for an existing listed company there has been strong support from institutional and retail investors," says UBS joint head of equity capital markets Andrew Stevens.
Stevens says the trend of resource companies tapping investors for money as a way of financing large projects is likely to continue. The other is merger and acquisition activity as companies look for expansion opportunities, although getting these deals to completion has become more time-consuming since the global financial crisis, he says.
Some recent capital raising activity has revolved around demergers, including for
"Business models have been reassessed and, where a decision has been made that businesses should no longer be together, sometimes money has been raised to reset the balance sheets for the new separated entities," says Stevens.
There are a number of ways a company can raise capital in the secondary market but the main offerings are share placements, rights issues, accelerated entitlement offers and dividend reinvestment plans.
In the primary market, capital is generally raised through an initial public offering (or float), hybrid and retail note issues or bond issues.
Which one a company chooses will depend on several factors, including how quickly they need the money, how much they need, who has the capital and who is willing to invest, says Jamie Restas, partner at Kelly & Co Lawyers.
"Quite often a company wants to raise a lot of money in a short time so it will look to the institutions, but then have a separate offer to allow retail investors to take up shares at a discount price," says Restas.
A key difference between the options is the amount of paperwork involved for issuer and investor.
A company can do what is known as an accelerated book-build, where institutions are offered shares in a short time period, often overnight, with little or no marketing. In this case no offer document is required and the shares are generally offered at a discount to the recent trading price (actually, it is a discount to the volume-weighted average closing price to a pre-determined day before the offer date).
As any extra allocation of shares will dilute the shareholdings of retail shareholders, most boards also offer retail investors the opportunity to buy more shares at the same price offered to the institutions. So the same capital raising may include an offer to retail investors in the form of a share purchase plan or rights issue.
Rights issues are an offer of securities to existing holders in proportion to their existing holdings. They may be renounceable or non-renounceable. An accelerated entitlement offer is a form of rights issue that operates on a different timetable.
With a renounceable issue, shareholders are able to sell their rights on the Australian Securities Exchange. In a non-renounceable issue investors either take up their rights to buy shares or they don't.
A recent development has been the introduction of a simultaneous accelerated renounceable entitlement offer (SAREO), whereby institutions and retail investors are offered shares at the same price. Any shares that are not taken up in the offer by both groups of shareholders are then sold in a book-build at the end of the process.
Following some legislative changes, companies doing a rights issue no longer have to issue a full-blown prospectus. Instead, they can take the "low document" approach, in which case a retail "offer booklet", comprising a chairman's letter, the ASX announcement/investor presentation, tax information, procedural details and disclaimers, must be provided.
This year,
Capital management within a company isn't all about raising money. A company that has performed well and has excess capital after making or considering acquisitions or reinvesting in the business may consider returning some to shareholders.
One way of doing this is through a share buyback.
UBS head of capital management Michael Liu says that after a few leaner years there appears to be a turn in the number of shares being bought back by companies.
"The level of buyback activity generally mirrors the economy, with a bit of a lag," he says. "As boards and management become more positive about the company's operations and cash flows, there is more of a willingness to return excess capital."
Liu says there is a focus on merger and acquisition activity, including
"The expectation is on more M&As to drive shareholder value, and if that continues on, then any spare capital will be used to make acquisitions," he says.
"If those acquisitions don't eventuate for whatever reason, we might then see some additional capital management and buyback activity."
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Resources for Families
Frequently Asked Questions
My child has special needs/behaviors that I can't handle. Where can I go for help?
The following are good places to go for help in your area:
Where might I find a support group for me or my child?
Visit the parent support group section of our site to search for groups in your area.
What post-adoption services are available in my area? How do they differ for different types of adoption?
First call the agency that placed your child. You can also your local department of human service (also called social services), as well as any private adoption agencies in your area. Support groups (see above) will be a great place to find another services. You can search the National Adoption Directory for more information.
Why might I need respite care? Where can I find it?
Sharon McCartney, in "Outside the Box: Where to Look for Respite Resources" writes, "The issues of grief, control, loss, and attachment that can lead to the behavioral and developmental problems particular to adopted children are well-known. Caring for a child with these problems can be both emotionally and physically taxing. Add to this the fact that many adopted children are also identified as children with special needs, and the demands of their care become even greater. Respite resources can ease the stresses of caring for an adopted and/or special needs child and many programs are available outside those developed by state child welfare systems."
Some of the best sources to find respite care are your local parent support groups, your local foster are or adotion agencies, or the state or community foster adoptive parent association. You can also contact the ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center at 800-473-1727.
For information about financial support for respite care for children adopted from foster care, visit the NACAC state subsidy profiles.
As a relative, am I eligible for financial assistance?
Support for relative caregivers varies from state to state. AARP, Child Welfare League of America, Children's Defense Fund, and Generations United have created fact sheets containing the most up-to-date state information related to grandfamilies, including:
Census data on the number of grandparent caregivers
A comprehensive list of kinship care family resources and services
State foster care policies for kinship caregivers
Information about key public benefits programs
State kinship care laws
To access these fact sheets, visit http://ipath.gu.org/State921334.asp or contact Generations United at 202-289-3979 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
I have a grandchild/adopted child who has special needs. Why wasn't I given a subsidy?
Adoption subsidy/adoption assistance is designed to encourage and support the adoption of children who were in the public foster care system. Is it not private or international adoptions.
If you adopted from foster care, our staff can help you—call 800-470-6665 or e-mail email@example.com.
I didn't adopt through the foster care system, but I really need help to meet the child's needs. Where do I turn?
I want to disrupt this adoption. How do I do that?
You can also contact your local or state Department of Social Services, community family support organizations, children's mental health programs, special needs organizations, or—if the child is adopted—an adoptive parent support group.
If these options have failed, typically parental rights cannot be terminated without a legal order of abandonment.
What is HIPAA and how does it affect me?
In Adoptive Families magazine, Mark T. McDermott wrote the following:
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104-91, which also amended ERISA, extended the prohibition against discrimination to governmental employers. As a result, health insurance coverage for adopted children is now available to all families covered by group health plans as soon as those families assume financial responsibility for the child.
Several other things were accomplished by HIPAA. For example, HIPAA mandates that group health plans must offer the employee the right to enroll the new child in the plan immediately. Under prior law, immediate enrollment was sometimes not possible if the adopted child joined the family at a time when the employee was not eligible to elect coverage, i.e. when it was not "open season."
In contrast to this positive side, HIPAA can also have a negative impact for adoptive families. As one legal expert asserts, HIPAA regulations are "chock full of ambiguities" concerning child welfare agencies' responsibilities under the law. Does HIPAA prohibit agencies from releasing identifiable health information about foster children to pre-adoptive and adoptive parents? Are child welfare agencies covered entities?
In a February 17, 2004 Information Memorandum, HHS states that "[s]ome title IV-E child welfare agencies may be defined as health care providers." The memo concludes, however, that "HHS and the Children's Bureau cannot determine whether all child welfare agencies are subject to HIPAA's regulations."
In short, most state agencies have had to decide for themselves whether HIPAA regulations apply. Unfortunately, many agencies that try to follow HIPAA have begun to limit key medical information disclosure to pre-adoptive parents.
How do I protect myself from and respond to allegations?
Preventing Allegations
Handling False Allegations
Do I still have access to EPSDT services after adoption?
This will vary state to state. To find out, contact the Medicaid person in your state. This contact is listed in question 8 of NACAC's state subsidy profiles.
How does Medicaid work for my child?
Children who are eligible for federal and state adoption assistance programs are automatically eligible for Medicaid benefits (states may choose to provide another type of coverage for state-funded children as long as the coverage is identical to Medicaid). Medicaid benefits transfer across state lines if families move.
For more information on specific benefits or how to obtain the card in your state, visit NACAC's state subsidy profiles.
What about educational and school issues? What are IEPs and does my child need one?
Seeking Special Educational Services
The U.S. public education system is required to accommodate all children, no matter what their needs. Free, Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) was first authorized through the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (P.L. 94-142), and one key to making FAPE a reality is the Individualized Educational Plan (IEP), a customized set of goals and strategies to help each child learn.
In Canada, each province administers educational policy, and sets the rules for children's educational plans. Any parent in Canada can request a plan for his or her child, even if the child does not have serious special needs.
Under U.S. federal law, IEPs can be developed for children who are found to have "mental retardation, a hearing impairment including deafness, a speech or language impairment, a visual impairment including blindness, serious emotional disturbance…, an orthopedic impairment, autism, traumatic brain injury, another health impairment, a specific learning disability, deaf-blindness, or multiple disabilities, and who, by reason thereof, needs special education and related services." (IDEA, 1997 Regulations, Subpart A, §300.7) Young children who are experiencing developmental delays may also qualify.
The process works as follows:
Step 1: Identification — Anyone who knows the child—including a parent, teacher, or physician—can refer a child for evaluation if he or she suspects that the child has a special need. The earlier the intervention, the better, so it is important not to take a wait-and-see attitude.
Step 2: Evaluation and Assessment — A team of experts (identified commonly as an IEP team, a multi-disciplinary or M-team, or an individual program review committee or IPRC) assess the child, and if the team determines that the child has exceptional educational needs, an IEP is created. Parents are an important part of planning the IEP. They meet with the evaluators to discuss evaluation findings and determine how to best meet the child's educational needs. Depending on age and the nature of the special needs, the child can be included in meetings too.
Step 3: Placement in the Least Restrictive Environment — If the child meets certain criteria, the school system offers a special program, placement, or services that can meet the child's needs in the "least restrictive environment." In most cases, children are in a regular classroom with an array of special services. A special class for all or part of the day is another possibility, as is an allotment of time spent in a resource room with a specialist, or having an aide to help the child manage in the regular class. Services may include physical, language, or occupational therapy, or monitoring by medical personnel.
Step 4: Monitoring and Modification — After a plan is in place, teachers and parents must monitor the child's performance. As needed, the IEP team can modify the plan to provide additional services or move the child to a different setting.
IDEA and Education
In 1997, the Education of All Handicapped Children Act was amended and reauthorized as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Changes and clarifications in IDEA:
Inclusion—also known as mainstreaming—is clearly the trend for children with special educational needs, but it is not the best idea for all children. Judy Grove, the Adoption Council of Canada's executive director, has eight children—six who joined the family through adoption. "There is no one-size-fits-all approach," Judy asserts. "A lot depends on what you perceive the child's disability to be. When children have developmental delays, normalization and higher expectations can be helpful. Other disabilities may be best served in more segregated environments."
Schools in the U.S. may also grant special services to home-schooled kids or to children attending private schools. If parents in these circumstances suspect that their child has exceptional needs, they can ask the public school for an evaluation. If special services are warranted, and the parent convinces a hearing officer that the public school did not make FAPE available, then the school may have to pay for an approved private school. Public school systems in the U.S. and some Canadian provinces can also provide services to children in hospitals, residential treatment centers, and in the child's home if the child is homebound.
Section 504
Sometimes a child's physical or mental impairment hinders her work in a regular class, but the child does not meet the criteria for exceptional education services. In these situations, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act dictates that U.S. public schools provide accommodations to address the child's disability.
Section 504 accommodations relate directly to the child's disability. Schools may, for instance, modify rules, policies, or practices; remove architectural or communication barriers; or provide assistive technology. In terms of education, a child who has Section 504 protections has access to the same free and appropriate education as children who are not disabled.
Compared to IDEA—which has set rules and enforceable timelines—Section 504 guidelines are much less specific. For example, IDEA specifies that parents must receive written notice of all meetings and a copy of the IEP. Section 504 does not include either requirement.
Questions for Parents to Ask Regarding Special Needs Services
Being Your Child's Educational Advocate
Finding Additional Resources
Center for Adoptive Families' training manual, Adoption Awareness in Our Schools: A Training Curriculum, is available for $25.00. Contact:
Center for Adoptive Families
5750 Executive Dr., Suite 107, Baltimore, MD 21228
410-869-0620 or 301-439-2900 • firstname.lastname@example.com
FAIR's Adoption and the Schools manual can be ordered for $25.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling. Contact:
Families Adopting In Response
P.O. Box 51436, Palo Alto, CA 94303
650-328-6832 • firstname.lastname@example.com • www.fairfamilies.org
Louisiana Adoption Advisory Board, Inc.
P.O. Box 2332, Baton Rouge, LW 70821
225-342-6832 • www.laab.org


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If the sidebar window or a service window has a location in a different origin than the social worker, then the mozSocial API (either entirely, or at least getWorker()) should not work from the window. The risk is that the worker code "trusts" the other side of a port (and indeed can't check the origin of the port even if it wanted to) and thus may give up "secrets" to this other origin. This should happen regardless of whether the URL being from a different origin is intentional or unintentional. FWIW, bug 764241 is discussing whether to allow this to happen intentionally, but regardless of the outcome of that discussion, this extra check should be added as a "defense in depth" technique.
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same-origin restriction added https://github.com/mozilla/socialapi-dev/commit/31ace0ace39797ff445666832fe1c0c923fabee6 note, somehow another changed to support username in the menu leaked in, though git diff didn't show that before :/
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Is there anything I can do to test this? Does this have any tests?
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Rent seeking
What's wrong with Philippine society is that its economic system is primarily characterized by rent seeking. So, what's rent seeking? It's the non-market extraction of surplus or profit. It means the profit is generated from licenses, quotas, monopolies, protection, and other government granted privileges.
It differs from true capitalism where the profit or surplus is extracted from the market, usually through innovations in product or marketing and distribution. True capitalism is dynamic because it results in innovations and increases in consumer welfare. Society benefits as a result. In rent seeking, there's no innovation, nor additional value to the consumer. Instead, there's unearned extraction from the consumer. Welfare is diminished.
Rent seeking in the Philippines hasn't stopped. It just takes new forms.
A vivid example of this is the Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) rate to be given to Renewable Energy Developers under the Renewable Energy Act. Under the proposal of the National Renewable Energy Board, all electricity consumers must pay an additional 12 centavos per kilowatt hour, amounting to 8 billion pesos per year, to subsidize Renewable Energy developers.
Why the need for a subsidy? Because the cost to produce energy by RE developers is much higher than conventional sources. The price for conventional sources (coal, natural gas, geothermal, big hydro) averages about P5 per kilowatt hour while the price to be paid for run of the river hydro is P6.15, biomass at P7.0, wind at P10.37 and solar at P17.95.
The difference between the price of conventional sources and the price to be paid for Renewable Energy must be made up by the FIT Rate, which is really a surcharge on consumers.
Some may ask: shouldn't the Philippines do its share to halt carbon-induced global warming?
No, because the country's contribution to carbon emissions is only less than 1% (.48%s). Hence, unlike the rich, developed countries, it has no moral or legal obligation to slow down global warming. Furthermore, the share of renewables in its energy mix is already 32%, much more than the 10% in the US and other countries.
But here's the cake: Not only are we poor consumers being coerced to pay three times as much for solar energy and two times as much for wind, but in addition the developers are guaranteed a generous rate of return for the next 20 years! No risk on their part, even of technological obsolescence, because that risk has been passed on to us poor consumers who must pay the same FIT Rate for the next 20 years even if the cost to produce solar energy drops by 50%.
The guaranteed rate of return is not the only form of rent seeking. Under the proposal of the NREB, there will be no auction, whether among the different technologies (run-of-the-river hydro, biomass, wind, and solar) or among suppliers within a specific technology. Everything will be negotiated (wink, wink). No competition either on price or on time period (i.e., for a time frame less than 20 years) will be allowed.
Aside from that guaranteed rate of return and the no-sweat, no-competition policy, the developers will be enjoying a seven-year income tax holiday, duty-free importation, special realty tax rate, zero VAT on sales and purchases, cash incentives, 10% tax rate after income tax holiday, and so on.
The high-costing wind and solar energy producers are resisting a dispatch policy of cheapest first because they say that the country must have a "portfolio strategy." It's a conceit to think that the government can ever place bets on a particular technology. Should the government have subsidized the pager industry? Or the typewriter industry? The only valid criterion is value for money or efficiency. The market, not NREB, must determine the winners.
Besides, solar and wind are unstable and unreliable sources of energy, dependent as they are on weather and other climatic conditions. They would be poor choices for a diversification strategy. They can never be energy sources for industrialization.
Also, why the rush? A policy of waiting when solar prices are expected to come down to grid parity in five years would better serve the power consumers, but the NERB wants to hand out contracts and lock in the profits of developers for the next 20 years now. We can only speculate why.
Rent seekers usually cloak themselves with noble aspirations to mask their predation. Since the 1950s, rent seekers have raised the lofty banner of nationalism in order to keep out competition and to mask their government granted monopolistic privileges.
Today, the new cloak is not nationalism but "environmentalism." But it's the same old predation. Different color perhaps (green), but the same old predation.
What's disturbing is that the manufacturing sector, already suffering from the highest power cost in Asia, will have to bear this burden in addition to the lifeline rate and other impositions. This is the road to perdition because societies collapse when the productive sectors of society are "taxed" to subsidize the inefficient, non-productive sectors.
The scourge of Philippine society is not corruption per se, but rent seeking. What the NREB proposal shows is that the scourge has not been eliminated. It's just taking new forms. Pity us poor consumers. We can only say, "Please, moderate the greed."
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June 21, 2011 at 10:46 pm
There is a fine line between rent-seeking and incentives for investment. It is vital to know where that line is.
A friend of mine put up a factory in China. The government there gave him incentives to use solar power instead of the traditional sources.
The solar panels were expensive so the government offered very low financing and a very low down payment plus his amortization will come out of the earnings that will be derived from selling his excess power to the local grid. Is this rent seeking?
Another thing: the local government gave him 20 hectares for his factory because it will be located in an area with high unemployment. Is this rent seeking?
Finally, because his product is for export he is allowed to exchange his export earnings at a higher rate than the official exchange rate. He says that because of this incentive he can either sell his exports at a substantial discount or pocket the money as earnings. Is this rent seeking?
"It's a conceit to think that the government can ever place bets on a particular technology. Should the government have subsidized the pager industry? Or the typewriter industry? The only valid criterion is value for money or efficiency. The market, not NREB, must determine the winners."
Don't industrialized countries place bets on particular technologies? Is the space industry not subsidized? What do you think Obama was doing when he prioritized the US nuclear power industry in his growth program, was he letting the market determine the winner? What is the Chinese government doing when it encourages manufacturers to avail of solar power, is this not placing a bet on the solar power industry?
June 22, 2011 at 4:37 am
i dont understand this:
" but in addition the developers are guaranteed a generous rate of return for the next 20 years! No risk on their part, even of technological obsolescence, because that risk has been passed on to us poor consumers who must pay the same FIT Rate for the next 20 years even if the cost to produce solar energy drops by 50%."
true that the rate is the same, but the absolute amount shouldnt be the same. as he explained earlier:
"The difference between the price of conventional sources and the price to be paid for Renewable Energy must be made up by the FIT Rate, which is really a surcharge on consumers."
so if the price of conventional sources fall( which is a cost for the firms), the price paid by consumers must fall to to keep the rate of return constant.
June 23, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Rent seeking is asking for something that you couldn't get if there were a competitive market; hence it is played in the political-regulatory arena. It seems we like our "economic managers" to decide things for us (the wink-wink part of Chikiamco's piece).
But if Chikiamco is right, the FIT is just another IPP guaranteed contract. Thus, FIT is a daughter of the mother rent-seeking IPP.
What to do? Declare the IPP contracts as unconscionable. Then, do a "sliding" FIT – the subsidy element of FIT should disappear over time as cost of solar falls. The problem: These two are easier said than done.
Still, there is one very good reason for going solar. You as consumer cannot be coerced into paying a subsidy for electricity for anyone else. Unless of course "they" insist on taxing sunlight.
June 23, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Addendum: In mature democracies, rent seeking seems almost harmless because those who might be "coerced" to pay for the "rent" will find ways to resist. See David Henderson's definition at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentSeeking.html.
January 2, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Ang clueless mo naman.
Rent-seeking involves the government extracting from the private sector, or institutionalizing a practice where the government's allies or supporters are given choice positions, franchises or privileges that allow them to extract from other members of the private sector, not the government giving incentives to the private sector.
The 1987 Constitution institutionalizes rent-seeking because when it says sixty per centum must be owned by local investors, it forces the foreign investors to find local dummy partners who are usually oligarchs and are rent-seekers! Institutionalizing this requirement that foreign investors seek local partners or dummy partners is exactly rent-seeking. Think about it. Who will do most of the work? The foreign partner, of course. The local partner does nothing and just sits pretty and receives the "rent."
Buencamino naman. You are still trying to furiously defend Noynoy and his mother's ugly constitution and the rent-seeking system they set up.


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Attorney General Hardy Myers today announced his support of state laws that allow wine producers to ship their products directly to consumers in states that also allow the practice.
The announcement comes after Myers joined 35 other state attorneys general in an amicus, "friend of the court", brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Federal Court of Appeals decision striking down Michigan's ban on direct-to-consumer shipment of wine by out-of-state wineries.
In joining the brief, Myers said he was not expressing support for Michigan's ban on direct shipment of wine as a policy choice. Instead, Oregon joined the brief to support Michigan's effort to obtain Supreme Court clarification of the scope of state authority to regulate shipment of alcoholic beverages into a state.
"The issue of state authority over shipment of alcoholic beverages has produced sharply differing decisions among the federal Courts of Appeals," Myers said. "I believe it is highly important to have Supreme Court resolution of that issue to end uncertainty and confusion, and to provide an interpretation of authority under the U.S. Constitution that applies consistently to all states.
"In seeking that needed clarification, I also support a ruling that accords states maximum authority to decide their policy choice as to direct shipment. I want first to ensure that the policy choice Oregon has made is not endangered. By joining the amicus brief, I am not endorsing or supporting the restrictive policy choice of Michigan, but only Michigan's authority to make that choice."
"Direct shipment is a critical component in ensuring and increasing the vitality of Oregon's thriving wine industry," Myers said. "We hope the policy of our state is one an increasing number of states will adopt."
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Ashley Postell will always have Budapest.
And, somehow, that takes the edge off everything else, including her quite normal teenaged angst and her remarkably abnormal opportunity for greatness as a collegiate gymnast.
Come what may, the Utah freshman once was the best athlete in the world on the balance beam, exhibited by her first-place finish in the event at the 2002 World Championships in Hungary. How many people can say they were better than everyone else on the planet at any one endeavor? It's a ridiculous thing to be able not only to say, but to comprehend.
"I'm still kind of shocked by it, said Postell, giggling. "It kind of makes you feel like you've accomplished something, like you've done something meaningful, like you've done something with your life.
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Postell was the only former World Champion competing Saturday night at the NCAA's North Central Regional meet at the Huntsman Center, where Utah, Brigham Young, Southern Utah, and three other teams battled to advance to the nationals.
Utah and BYU did, and Postell helped boost the Utes in their bid, but she also fell during her beam routine, an uncharacteristic mistake.
She won the uneven parallel bars, though, rolling up her best number of the season - 9.925 - in that event. She got a 9.875 in the vault, and wound up with a 9.775 on the floor, after she was deducted .10 for landing out of bounds. Despite the disappointing 9.325 in her best event, Postell was happy just to help out.
"This is about our team, she said. "That's what's really different about college gymnastics. And it feels good to have a team. Before I came here, gymnastics was always about yourself. It was always just me. This is . . . fun.
If team domination is fun, despite a couple screw-ups, the Utes had theirs Saturday night.
"Nobody's perfect, Postell said. "I'm OK. We found a way to win and that's the main thing. I'm happy to be a part of it.
The notion of team is a nice crescendo now for her, after the brutally solitary and chronologically puerile pursuit of elite gymnastics exacted its toll on Postell through her early - well, earlier - years in the sport. She was introduced to that existence after her mother, Linda, observed her dancing and tumbling in front of the TV, to somebody's floor routine being broadcast during the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.
Postell took to the gym easily, dedicating some 35 hours a week to training as she ascended to the discipline's top levels. "There were times when I wanted to quit, she said. "There are a lot of ups and downs in gymnastics. It's hard. But my mom encouraged me to stay with it.
Over the years, Postell traveled to competitions in France, Germany, Scotland, the Ukraine, Australia, and Hungary. She was home-schooled in Maryland, where she said her days consisted of schoolwork, training, and sleep.
After her world championship in 2002, at 16, she set her sights on making the 2004 U.S. Olympic team, but fell just one spot short of qualifying for the trials. Instead of jumping through the necessary hoops to get into that competition, Postell turned her attention to college. At first, she wanted to go to UCLA, but, on account of her home-schooling and a delay in taking the SAT, she wound up at Utah, where she is thriving in her first year.
Nearing the end of that freshman season, Postell is ranked fourth in the all-around among college gymnasts, with a realistic shot now at individual and team NCAA titles - if she exorcises her mishaps before the coming nationals.
"In the beginning, I felt pressure here, she said. "But, now, 12 meets later, it's better. It's less intense than gymnastics used to be for me. It's something new. I'm going to school, having fun, hanging out with my friends. I can enjoy this more. I get the best of both worlds - gymnastics and a life. It's great.


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They want the access to capital of a public company, but they want to maintain the control of a private company.
It's difficult to be the director of a public company if you're over 70.
And most crucial looking forward, what is the new succession plan for this public company—and will it be better?
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The suggestion that I should be run as a public company emanated from the fertile brain of my friend Mr. Linley Sambourne.
The entire cost of the bridge was £110,000, raised by a public company.
A small syndicate would be formed to buy from you, and that syndicate would sell to a public company.


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There are several avenues by which promising bioactive natural products can be produced in sufficient quantities to enable lead optimization and medicinal chemistry studies. The total synthesis of natural products is an important, but sometimes difficult, approach and requires the development of innovative synthetic methodologies to simplify the synthesis of complex molecules. Various classes of natural product alkaloids are both common and widely distributed in plants, bacteria, fungi, insects and marine organisms. This mini-review will discuss the scope, mechanistic insights and enantioselectivity aspects of selected examples of recently developed one-pot methods that have been published in 2009 for the synthesis of substituted piperidines, quinolizidines, pyrrolidines, hexahydropyrrolizines, octahydroindolizines and γ-lactams. In addition, progress on the synthesis of β-carboline (manzamine) alkaloids will also be discussed.
The challenging task of developing a drug candidate from a natural source to clinical usage has many obstacles. Toxicity, development of resistance associated with the drug candidate, and providing a sufficient amount of material needed for preclinical and clinical studies, all represent major challenges. Although nature has been generous in providing structurally diverse molecules with varying biological activities, it is not always possible to obtain the required quantities of the desired drug candidate. This lack of material has inspired innovative chemistry that develops new methodologies, catalysts and inventive synthetic routes for the synthesis and modification of natural products.
Our research program has been involved in the isolation and the optimization process of a number of marine alkaloids and peptides. Among the most intriguing is manzamine A (
During lead optimization of the manzamine alkaloids, the importance of one-pot methods for scaling certain drug leads became apparent. One-pot reactions are reactions in which two or more bond-forming transformations take place under the same reaction conditions without adding additional reagents or catalysts [
Due to the growing interest in marine alkaloids, a detailed discussion of select, newly developed one-pot methodologies that have been utilized for the modification of marine alkaloids or the synthesis of common alkaloid moieties emphasizing asymmetric synthesis, are presented here. This mini-review discusses applications, mechanistic insights and enantioselectivity of recently developed one-pot methods that have been published during 2009. Those reports that could be applied in the synthesis of marine alkaloid scaffolds (
Manzamine alkaloids are a unique class of compounds that contain a complicated ring system coupled with a β-carboline moiety (
Since the mechanism of action of manzamine alkaloids as antimalarial agents is not completely clear; several structure activity relationship SAR and optimization studies using
Inspired by the instability of aminomanzamines (
As a validation of this method, a one-pot approach was used for the synthesis of 6-cyclohexamidomanzamine A (
Although this method was developed particularly for the modification of manzamine alkaloids, it has clear utility in the synthesis of other alkaloids. The nitration of several biologically active natural products, as well as currently utilized drugs to generate the starting nitro materials for this one-pot reductive amidation method is ongoing. The goal is to show the general and practical applications for this method, as well as generating a library of compounds for further optimization and biological evaluation.
Piperidine containing alkaloids are common in marine environments [
Based on their previous results, which showed that the addition of the amine to nitroalkene is fast, they proposed a one-pot cascade approach for the asymmetric synthesis of the piperidine moiety [
This one-pot reaction was compatible with a variety of nitroalkenes, amines and activated carbonyls. Different aryl and alkyl substituted nitroalkenes generated variation at the C-2 position. Moreover, both alkyl and aryl ketones were suitable for this cascade one-pot process giving different choices of substitutes on the C-4 position. Substituents on C-5 were possible through α-substituted enones, while β-substituted enones delivered variation at the C-6 position only when ammonia was used. It is interesting that only C-4 isomers were obtained in all cases.
The aza-Michael adduct
X-ray analysis of the piperidine crystals revealed that the exocyclic C-7 adopted a staggered conformation with respect to the ring. Moreover, the chemical shifts of the C-8 and C-9 carbons were significantly shifted upfield in an anti-parallel position relative to the nitrogen lone pair electrons. This data suggest that the N1-C7 σ-bond rotation was restricted. Based on these results, a Henry-aldol cyclization chair transition state was proposed in
To validate the importance of this n-σ* electronic interaction in the chirality enhancement, the methyl group was replaced in the chiral amine with a carboxylate group which is less bulky and would produce a stronger n-σ* interaction. As expected, the reaction of the amino esters
An elegant one-pot method was developed recently by Franzen and Fisher [
This retro-analysis required the addition of an activated amide
This one-pot, two step method was applied to several aromatic α, β-unsaturated aldehydes with good to excellent enantioselectivity. The indolyl moiety of
The absolute configuration of one of the benzo[a]quinolizidine derivatives was established by X-ray analysis as 2
The great diastereoselectivity observed in the acid catalyzed cyclization could be explained based on the reaction conditions. Considering the synthesis of indoloquinolizidines
As a possible application of this one-pot method in the total synthesis of biologically active marine alkaloids, the tricyclic core of schulzenine alkaloids could be easily constructed using Franzen and Fisher's method (
Recently, organocatalysis has been widely used in asymmetric synthesis due to its operational simplicity, low toxicity and ready availability compared to metal catalyzed reactions [
The key strategy is based on the asymmetric conjugate addition of the Schiff base of glycine ester
First, the asymmetric addition of the glycine derivative
Next, the synthesis of the octahydroindolizine skeleton
The cycloaddition of imines with succinic anhydride in a one-pot approach to construct the γ-lactam moiety in high yield was first reported three decades ago by Castagnoli
In the case of the iminolysis of maleic anhydride, a possible zwitterionic enolate intermediate could be generated through a prototropic shift which provides allylic stabilization. To validate this, Shaw and coworkers studied the cyclization of several polycyclic imines with maleic anhydride derivatives (
Tetrahydrophthalic anhydride
Although the 1H-NMR spectrum of the products obtained from the reaction of cyclopentane-fused maleic anhydride
A completely different reaction manifold was observed in the reaction of ketimine
In this mini-review, we have highlighted a number of one-pot asymmetric methodologies developed for the synthesis of important alkaloid moieties. One-pot reactions are highly practical and ideal for scaling drug leads to gram scale and greater. The manzamine alkaloids are still providing inspiration for new chemistry in which one-pot methodologies are being developed and will be discussed in separate reports. We anticipate a greater application of these methods and similar methodologies in the field of total synthesis of marine alkaloids and have highlighted the possible route to the schulzenine alkaloids. Two or more methodologies could be combined to design a complete synthesis of a particular target. The alkaloid moieties highlighted in this mini-review (
The authors would like to thank DOD, NIAID and the NIH National Center for Research Resources project, Grant Numbers 5P20RR021929, C06 RR-14503-01 for the financial support. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Center for Research Resources or the National Institutes of Health. A.E.W. gratefully thanks The Ministry of Higher Education of Egypt for a predoctoral fellowship.
Manzamine alkaloids.
Intermolecular cross-double-Michael addition facilitated by amines via β-elimination.
Proposed one-pot cascade piperidine synthesis.
Proposed chair transition state and the exocyclic chirality induction.
Retrosynthetic analysis of the indolo[2,3a]quinolizidine skeleton.
Organocatalysts used for the optimization of the one-pot conditions.
Schulzenine alkaloids.
Proposed one-pot synthesis of the tricyclic core of Schulzenine alkaloids.
Marine alkaloids that possess hexahydropyrrolizine and octahydroindolizine moieties.
Imines and substituted maleic anhydrides used by Shaw
Nitration of manzamine A.
Optimized one-pot conditions for the reductive amidation of nitroarenes.
Synthesis of 6-cyclohexamidomanzamine A (
Validation of the built-in 3o amine bases in manzamine A using nitro harmane as model compounds.
Optimized one-pot condensation for the asymmetric synthesis of piperidine moiety.
Chirality induction by chiral amines.
Enhanced exocyclic stereochemistry control by amino esters.
Optimized one-pot, two step conditions for the synthesis of indoloquinolizidine derivatives.
Optimized one-pot, two step synthesis of benzo[a]quinolizidine.
Proposed mechanism for the one-pot formation of quinolizidine moiety.
Organocatalytic retro-synthetic approach for the alkaloid core.
Optimized conditions for the conjugate addition and intramolecular amination steps in the synthesis of 2,5-disubstituted
Synthesis of Octahydroindolizine
Synthesis of Hexahydropyrrolizine
Milestones of the one-pot synthesis of γ-lactam moiety.
Possible cycloaddition pathways of imines with maleic anhydrides.
Polycyclic products from the reactions of anhydrides
Reaction of anhydride
Mechanism of the formation of a new γ-lactam product obtained from the reaction of the ketimine
New γ-lactam products obtained from the reaction of the ketimine