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Clinical Trials
Pharmacokinetic Study of Two Generic co-Formulations of Lopinavir/Ritonavir for HIV Infected Children (SURF) (SURF)
Radboud University
Information provided by (Responsible Party)
Radboud University
First received: April 23, 2008
Last updated: February 24, 2009
Last Verified: February 2009
History of Changes
This pilot pharmacokinetic study is designed to exclude a large difference (>40%) in
pharmacokinetics (esp. AUC) between two new Lopimune formulations and the branded
formulation. The formal bioequivalence study with adequate power will be conducted by the
manufacturer. In order to get data independently from the manufacturer and to have this
information in an earlier phase, this small pilot study is initiated.
The initial study showed a declined bioavailability of the granules under fasting conditions. The study has been extended with an arm determining the pharmacokinetics of the granules after food (compared to the oral solution taken with food).
HIV Infections
Drug : Lopinavir/ritonavir
Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|The Pharmacokinetics of Two Generic co-Formulations of Lopinavir/Ritonavir for HIV Infected Children: a Pilot Study of Lopimune vs. the Branded Product (SURF Study).
Further study details as provided by Radboud University:
Primary Outcome Measures
- Plasma concentrations of lopinavir and ritonavir. [ Time Frame: 0 (predose), 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 6.0, 8.0, 24 and 32 hours post ingestion (11 samples) on Days 1, 8 and 15. ]
- safety: adverse events [ Time Frame: entire study ]
|Study Start Date:
|September 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator:
Kaletra tablets
Lopinavir/ritonavir 200/50mg; 2 tablets; single dose
Other Name: Kaletra
Lopimune granules
Lopinavir/ritonavir 100/25mg; 4 sachets with granules; single dose
Other Name: Lopimune granules
Lopimune tablets
Lopinavir/ritonavir 100/25mg; 4 tablets; single dose
Other Name: Lopimune tablets
Detailed Description:
Cipla has developed two co-formulated forms of lopinavir/ritonavir for second-line
antiretroviral therapy for children: Lopimune granules and Lopimune tablets. They contain
100mg lopinavir and 25mg ritonavir.
Primary objective of this study:
To determine the pharmacokinetic profile of lopinavir and ritonavir in two different co-formulations (Lopimune granules and Lopimune tablets) after single-dose in HIV-negative, healthy adult subjects, and to compare this to the branded product.
Secondary objective:
To evaluate the safety of single-dose administration of the two generic co-formulations of lopinavir/ritonavir and compare this to the branded product.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 55 Years
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subject is at least 18 and not older than 55 years of age on the day of the first dosing.
- Subject does not smoke more than 10 cigarettes, 2 cigars, or 2 pipes per day for at least 3 months prior to the first dosing.
- Subject has a Quetelet Index (Body Mass Index) of 18 to 30 kg/m2, extremes included.
- Subject is able and willing to sign the Informed Consent Form prior to screening evaluations.
- Subject is in good age appropriate health condition
- Subject has a normal blood pressure and pulse rate, according to the investigator's judgment.
- Female subject is either not of childbearing potential, or is of childbearing potential and practicing one of the following methods of birth control: condoms, sponge, foams, jellies, diaphragm or copper intrauterine device (IUD); has a vasectomized partner; or total abstinence from sexual intercourse.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Documented history of sensitivity/idiosyncrasy to medicinal products or excipients.
- Positive HIV test.
- Positive hepatitis B or C test.
- Therapy with any drug, including oral contraceptives.
- Relevant history or presence of pulmonary disorders (especially COPD), cardiovascular disorders, neurological disorders (especially seizures and migraine), gastrointestinal disorders, renal and hepatic disorders, hormonal disorders (especially diabetes mellitus), coagulation disorders.
- Relevant history or current condition that might interfere with drug absorption, distribution, metabolism or excretion.
- History of or current abuse of drugs, alcohol or solvents.
- Inability to understand the nature and extent of the trial and the procedures required.
- Participation in a drug trial within 60 days prior to the first dose.
- Donation of blood within 60 days prior to the first dose.
- Febrile illness within 3 days before the first dose.
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Contacts and LocationsChoosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision.Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00665951
Locations Show More
|Radboud University Medical Centre
|Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Sponsors and CollaboratorsRadboud University
|Principal Investigator:
|David M Burger
|Radboud University
More Information
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. D.M. Burger, hospital pharmacist, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00665951 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 23, 2008
|Last Updated:
|February 24, 2009
Keywords provided by Radboud University:pediatric
HIV infection
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on May 29, 2020
This information is provided by ClinicalTrials.gov.


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To the outsider, Portland can seem intimidatingly hip. Or it can be downright inscrutable. It is a sea of grandpa sweaters and vintage dresses, a town where every touch of grime, every aging neon sign, seems intentional—all populated by purposeful masses of every imaginable clique, pursuing agendas creative or corporate or downright hedonistic.
That's because Portland retains that balls-out ambition from Oregon's earliest days. Where our forerunners battled dysentery and ornery oxen to claim their plot of land, settlers now go up against different kinds of adversity—seasonal affective disorder and an often combative job market—to claim a more liberal definition of the American Dream. Want to stride boldly through your 20s and 30s without deciding what you want to be when you grow up, and still get by? Want to dress like a cracked-out Jackie-O? Want to work in advertising?
Finder is assembled with residents—both sophomore and longtime—in mind (and it provides a crash course for tourists). In lieu of a short-stay itinerary, we give you a packed-to-the-gills guide to the Portland lifestyle—the best places to brunch, an expert's bar crawl, a scrutinizing rundown of local retailers, a quick how-to on biking and the organic lifestyle, even an introduction to the suburbs—to help you get your bearings. Because you don't sightsee here, you absorb.
Let Finder help you explore or reconsider this fine city: Is Portland a green metropolis that keeps things simple, or is it the next viable hub for entrepreneurs? Is that a town-wide appreciation for local brews, or are we all just functioning alcoholics?
We'll admit it, Finder proudly retains the independent tone of parent publication Willamette Week. This guide is beholden to no one, and does not shy away from sassy backtalk (or from naming a beloved spot as a city institution). It's a loving collaboration between those born and bred in Portland, and a few who have lived an itinerant lifestyle all over and still approach this city as a novel gem.
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MOUNT HOLLY � As the first half of the MEGA 7 3A/4A Conference season winds to a close, East Gaston has put itself in title contention.
The Warriors moved into sole possession of second place on Tuesday night after its 11-0, five-inning victory over West Mecklenburg at Choctaw Field.
East Gaston (5-5, 4-1) trails only league-leading Olympic (8-4, 6-0), which dropped Charlotte Catholic (8-3, 3-2) into third place with a 9-0 home victory on Tuesday.
�Winning our league was our goal when the season started,� said Warriors coach Randy Sellers, whose team hosts Berry Academy Thursday at 7 p.m. in the final game of the first half of its league schedule. �We�re in second place now and control our own destiny. But with so many games left, we don�t want to get too far ahead of ourselves.�
East Gaston, which won 10-4 at Catholic last Friday, rapped out eight hits and tallied 11 runs in only four innings to make the shutout pitching of Patrick Murphy (2-0) a winner on Tuesday.
The Warriors scored once in the first inning and twice in the third before erupting for eight in the fourth.
Murphy retired the side in the top of the fifth, striking out two batters, to close out the victory by the 10-run rule.
�Lately, we�ve had a lot of people step up for us,� Sellers said. �We�ve made some tough decisions that have helped our team and made our team realize they have to pull together.�
Three players had two-run singles to spark the rout, though it was Justin Williams� two-out RBI double in the first after Tyler Price had reached on a throwing error that gave Murphy all the run support he would need.
Jack Dobbins� two-out, two-run single in the third made it 3-0. Then Matt Grimmett and Sawyer McGraw had two-run singles in the fourth. Matthew Fletcher drove in another run with a RBI single and Dobbins drew a bases-loaded walk to force in another run.
The rest was up to Murphy and the Warriors� error-free defense. Murphy struck out five batters, got six more outs on pop ups, three more on grounders and catcher Jared Bassett threw out a would-be basestealer in the third inning.
Leadoff singles by Joseph Burns and Jose Hidalgo in the first and second innings, respectively, were the only safeties by the Hawks (2-6, 2-4).
�Early in the year, we were trying to find a formula that worked,� Sellers said. �So we tried people in different positions and different spots in the lineup.�
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Go with common sense
In the June 2 news story, "At peace: Gentry succumbs to ALS," The Hook quotes Dr. Karen Schwenzer, chair of the committee, as saying that a patient with a terminal illness is "willing to try anything" and is therefore "vulnerable."
When rules interfere with common sense, common sense should take precedence.
If a person is definitely going to die, no matter what, it certainly is not right to exploit him or her– nor is it right to deny him or her a chance to perhaps live a bit better or longer. As long as Dr. Bennett's intent was to help ALS patients (rather than, say, just do research at their expense as was done years ago on black syphilis patients), he should have been allowed to continue what looked to be a very helpful study.
The crux of the matter is Dr. Bennett's intentions. He wanted to help people who have no hope. The possible benefits surely outweigh the risks– and there's nothing unethical about that.
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Environmental Law is 40 years old as a distinct body of law. This article is my historical perspective from 4 decades of teaching Environmental Law, emphasizing the early issues that set the foundations for today's Environmental Law, as well as the background in Administrative Law, Land Use Planning and Natural Resources Law that were the seeds of Environmental Law, the issues that blossomed, the issues that disappeared, and those that remain with us. The article contains kudos to the pioneers in the area. We note the changes in paradigms from resource exploitation to resource conservation and from the Master Builder to the Environmentalist.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Binder on Forty Years of Environmental Law
Denis Binder, Chapman University School of Law, has posted Perspectives on 40 Years of Environmental Law. Here is the abstract:
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Very excited and proud to announce our brand new feature, 9 innings. In this feature we will interview (9 questions of course) a current Cubs player or Cubs prospect for your reading enjoyment. This is a big accomplishment for us as we hope it brings you, the reader, even closer to the team and players you love.
In the first installment of 9 innings, we sit down with Cubs prospect Rock Shoulders, learn all about him here, and I hope you enjoy the interview.
Bornon3rd: You were originally drafted in 2010 by the Boston Red Sox but you chose to go to Junior College instead, was there any reasoning behind that? Do you have any regrets?
Rock: I went back to school just because the Red Sox and I couldn't come to an agreement, and I also didn't have a great senior year in high school. So I couldn't really bargain with them much and I absolutely have no regrets in going to a juco for 1 year, I recommend that most people should.
Bornon3rd: What is the toughest thing about playing so far from home?
Rock: I'm kind of use to playing away from home because when I was younger I traveled a bunch and my parents could always make it. I also had that last year at college, so I got used to it but if I could change something it would be to have my mom and dad watching still.
Bornon3rd: Best player you have played with or against, where at?
Rock: It's hard to say because I played with so many great players in the showcases growing up but I will say its fun to play with guys like (Javier) Baez and (Dan) Vogelbach.
Bornon3rd: What are your short and long-term goals?
Rock: My short-term goals are to make it to the big leagues as quick as possible and my long-term goal is to be in the hall of fame one day.
Bornon3rd: In your short time with the Cubs, how have the fans been with you? Thoughts on Cubs fans so far?
Rock: Man cubs fans are awesome. I have never seen anything like it until I signed and realized that these fans are great.
Bornon3rd: What would you be doing if you weren't playing baseball?
Rock: If I wasn't playing baseball I would probably be at a local little league trying to teach/help kids with baseball.
Bornon3rd: What other sports do you like? Or, what hobbies do you have (movies, cars, music etc.)
Rock: I played a little football and basketball when I was younger, so I watch those sports on tv. But I love watching movies, playing ps3, fishing, and collecting shoes.
Bornon3rd: Who would you or who do you model your game after? Best comparison?
Rock: I don't know who I would say I model my game after, I pretty much just go out and give it 100% every game and just leave it on the field.
Bornon3rd: Your name, it's unique obviously, when/how did you get your nickname?
Rock: I think I got it when I was about 6. My real first name is Roderick but when I was younger one of my friends' mom couldn't say that so then she started to call me ROCK the first two and last two letters of my name. So If someone asked for my name I said rock, even at school.
An absolute huge thank you to Roderick "Rock" Shoulders (Follow him on Twitter) for sitting down with me and answering some questions from Arizona where he is playing in extended Spring Training. I would love some feedback on this feature, really happy with how it came out, and I hope you really enjoyed getting to know Rock a little bit more. Keep checking the blog as we hope to have this as a weekly feature.
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NewsForge: "Remember Rekall?"
NewsForge's editor Joe Barr spent some time with the current development version of Rekall 2.2. Rekall is a dual-licensed GUI database front-end with aspirations of becoming Linux's answer to Microsoft Access (screenshots of tables, forms and debugger). He finds it already very usable today and predicts a bright future. The release of the final Rekall 2.2 version is expected for late April or May.
I wanted to use rekall, and then could not work out if I could download a version for windows.
Please, please trolltech - put a windows version somewhere. If you want to charge for it, then _make it clear_. Add it to rekallrevealed.org under download that you have to pay for it, and add a very simple way for me to pay for it.
By John Tapsell at Thu, 2004/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Hmm
By Aaron J. Seigo at Thu, 2004/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Hmm
opps, yeah my bad ;)
By John Tapsell at Fri, 2004/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: Hmm
You can't have a GPL version of Rekall for Windows since there is no GPL version of Qt for Windows. We have a Windows version available for sale simply at www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/
By Shawn Gordon at Thu, 2004/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Hmm
"You can't have a GPL version of Rekall for Windows"
Yes you can. Someone buys a version of Qt and then releases their software under the GPL license. It isn't likely to happen, but people write GPL'd software for Windows by buying Visual Studio. Quite how Trolltech would react to this I don't know, as they think GPL'd software on Windows is a bit hazy.
By David at Fri, 2004/04/30 - 5:00am
I suppose that was Total Rekall not final Rekall :)
By Vinnie The Pooh at Thu, 2004/04/29 - 5:00am
Here's an idea...
By John Tapsell at Thu, 2004/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Web
That's alaready a subproject started within Kexi project. More info will be
Pre-alpha sceenshot:
By Jaroslaw Staniek at Thu, 2004/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Web
Will there be any integration of kexi and rekall?
By John Tapsell at Thu, 2004/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Web
We all know that 'integration' term is so uncertain, do we?
-If you mean: data-exchangeability - yes, at least using DBMS functionality.
-If you mean: database schema portability - maybe yes (at least a subset, probably using XML schema that have to befined within OASIS)
-If you mean code merging, here are some problems: 1) Kexi is KDE app, Rekall -plain Qt app; 2) Kexi is plugin-based, Rekall not so deeply, AFAIK; 3) licensing issues: Kexi -LGPL on *nix, win32/64, Rekall -GPL on *nix.
By Jaroslaw Staniek at Fri, 2004/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: Web
Not to put down the wonderful things that theKompany does, but it would have been that little bit nicer if they used LGPL so that it could be integrated in KDE, and projects such as kexi.
By John Tapsell at Fri, 2004/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: Web
Why would full blown software be released under library-gpl?
By broken_bazooka at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Web
Sorry, a another reply...
Hmm are you allowed to release a win32 binary (and source) under the lgpl since you can't release the win32 QT source code?
By John Tapsell at Fri, 2004/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: Web
By anno at Fri, 2004/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: Web
Rekall *is not* a plain-qt app. It can be built that way, but the KDE versions is, well, KDE:)
Rekall *is* plugin based:) Anyone who would like to write a plugin for Rekall, feel free to go ahead! EMail me and i'll tell you what is what.
By mikeTA at Fri, 2004/04/30 - 5:00am
I just want to remind you of
one of the best data base admin tools. Ihn my humble opinion Rekall could be a good program but it has to be modular, so that a true framework can be created, I just remind you of Gideon.
By gerd at Thu, 2004/04/29 - 5:00am
By Gerd Brückner at Thu, 2004/04/29 - 5:00am
who cares about Rekall?...
...when we have kexi coming and it looks really amazing I don't mean to flame but seriously kexi's gonna kick ass :)
By Pat at Fri, 2004/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: who cares about Rekall?...
Rekall exists now in a fully usable form. Kexi may well kick a lot of butt when it's done, but for now Rekall is an amazing tool to have available.
By greg at Fri, 2004/04/30 - 5:00am
Re: who cares about Rekall?...
Well I'm rather impartial on this, except to say that we need something 'Access like' to be able to knock up good databases, queries, forms etc. Kexi looks very interesting, as does Rekall, so I'm happy to have them both. The commercial Rekall will not be a problem for most people as it is so cheap that will be free software to many businesses and organisations!
By David at Sun, 2004/05/02 - 5:00am


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Car Review: 2013 Toyota RAV4 XLE AWD
From first glance last year, one could tell there was something special about Toyota's fourth-generation RAV4. We spent a week driving the 2013 Toyota RAV4 XLE AWD in some pretty harsh weather conditions and this SUV knows how to handle snow and sleet.
The new RAV4's design achieves strong proportions while conveying the agile and fun character. Sophisticated and dynamic, the exterior features a progressive silhouette, with a sleek-sloping roofline and an aggressive character line. The RAV4 pursues a modern design with aggressively sculpted front and rear fenders and boldly proportioned taillights that define itsathletic presence. The stance looks stronger and much more in tuned with today's customers.
In a significant break with its heritage, the RAV4 switches from its side-hinged rear door to a convenient roof-hinged liftgate with a space-saver spare tire will be stored under the cargo floor. Standard on the Limited grade is a one-touch power rear liftgate with driver-selectable memory height settings. As on other recently introduced Toyotas, RAV4 engineers paid special attention to aerodynamics — the most obvious detail being small vortex generators molded into the taillight cases and near the base of the A-pillars. Less obvious are the aerodynamic undertrays beneath the passenger cabin that help smooth and control airflow. From the 17-inch alloy wheels, to the Barcelona red metallic paint, the RAV4 has a skin that is light years ahead of past models when it comes to styling and substance.
The RAV4 XLE model we tested did not have leather seating, or heated seats, for that matter, but the new cabin was nonetheless very impressive. The new RAV4's dash panel is driver-centric and asymmetrical, with primary and secondary controls all within easy reach. On the passenger side, the sculpted dash panel creates a sense of airy spaciousness.
The RAV4's dash panel and gauges all feature Clear Blue illumination, which provides crisp visibility in most ambient light conditions, and a unified, coherent appearance at night. The RAV4 XLE driver and front passenger ride in premium bucket seats with sport bolstering, providing ample support of the lower hips, lower torso and shoulders during cornering. The XLE has premium fabric with French stitching on the seats and portions of the dash panels. All RAV4s feature 60/40 split/fold second-row seats that recline several degrees to enhance passenger comfort. In contrast to the 2013 RAV4's compact exterior dimensions, the cargo area is deeper, larger and easier to access than in the previous generation, with just over 38.4 cu. ft. of cargo capacity behind the rear seats. With rear seats folded, the RAV4 has a maximum cargo capacity of 73.4 cu. ft. This is a very large area, and you really need to see the back seats folded down to appreciate this space.
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Welcome to La Fiesta Grande, among the best Mexican restaurants in the Amarillo area! In business for over 30 years, it's our goal to provide the best food and beverage, while providing the highest level of service for our guests in a clean, inviting, friendly and entertaining environment. We have Happy Hour Monday through Thursday, plus Saturday, with always great specials, and Margarita Wednesday! We also have an excellent Mexican catering menu that's available at either of our Amarillo restaurant locations.
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1. One of the best days I've ever had was two days before our wedding: it was about 95 degrees out and Chris, my brother, and I went to our favorite swimming hole near where we grew up. My brother had been working on a stone dam there all summer and the water had risen so it was super deep. After so much stress of wedding planning, etc. We were brought nearly to tears at how great it felt to let loose and just go swimming. That is one of my most cherished memories.
2. My sister, Caroline is autistic and developmentally disabled. I've never known how to bring it up on my blog before. So, there I just did. I get nervous talking about personal stuff because I worry that I'll come across as "woe is me".
3. I'm not a very good cook. Chris cooks most of the meals around here. If left to my own devices, I would probably eat brown rice and sweet potatoes every night. Luckily, the man knows how to cook. I do make a good dessert though...which lead me to:
4. I really, really love sweets. Too much. It drives me crazy when people bring donuts in to work, which seems to happen daily. I can't not eat them.
5. I've been missing my family a lot lately. I get a little weepy when I think that the last time I was home was December. I feel a great deal of responsibility towards my family, it's hard to be away, but I can't wait to visit this summer.
6. I feel really old and cranky when I hear people talk about current pop culture. Mostly because I have no idea what they're talking about. I'm embarrassingly out of touch with new music. I recently had to have a coworker explain who Lana Del Ray was. I might be 80.
7. Overt "romance" makes me giggly and uncomfortable. The mere thought of a candle-lit dinner for two with roses makes me itch. It's not that I'm not romantic, I just don't like planned "romance" (i.e. typical ideas of what it means to be romantic). This also counts for PDA...shiver.
8. I wasn't a very good student. Many people seem surprised about this fact, but I came close to not getting into college (I did end up being a very good student in college). I think my teenage slacker-ism is why I sometimes over-extend myself now, I take on lots of projects to make up for all that time lost skipping class. (I know I should just get over it, I'm 28...jeesh).
9. I get very nervous about making the right face when people give me gifts. Because of this I hate opening gifts in front of people. I worry that I'll either look disappointed or not excited enough, I want them to know how much I appreciate that fact that they even thought of me. Giving me gifts basically results in a ridiculous amount of inner turmoil.
10. I know absolutely nothing about make-up. I've been doing an approximation of the same routine since I was 19. One of my goals for this year is to get better at make-up.
11. I hope to someday be able to move back to the Maine coast. I daydream about Maine and the ocean on a daily basis. There are many places I would love to live in this world, but in the end I hope I end up back in Maine.
Jen's 11 Questions...
1. If money, schooling or time was no obstacle, what career would you choose?
Honestly, I'm happy to say that I'm really, really happy with my current job. But... I always thought that extreme movie make-up would be so much fun to do. Like, horror movie/ zombie movie make-up. I did a few projects post-college using prosthetics, mostly just creating fake wounds for one of my former art instructors, I always thought that it would be so much fun to do as a career.
2. What's the one thing you look forward to every day?
Breakfast. I know it sounds silly, but I love breakfast. When I have time to make a cup of coffee and eat breakfast before work, I'm very happy.
3. What is your number one, all-time, favorite blog?
It changes daily.
4. Biggest online pet peeve?
I'm going to have to agree with Jen here: I can't stand the rampant negativity that surrounds blogging. It's so easy to just not read a blog if you don't like it. The fact that people spend so much of their time dragging down people they don't even know upsets me. There's so much positivity to be had, why be negative? And yeah, I know to just shrug it off, but c'mon.
5. What is your all-time favorite book?
I love the Chronicles of Narnia. But really, anytime I have to read is my favorite.
6. What would your "last meal" be?
Steamed lobster with butter and corn on the cob. And a gallon of guacamole.
7. Do you believe in love at first sight?
Nope. Personally I think a strong relationship needs to go beyond physical appearance, and friendship and mutual respect trumps good looks any day of the week.
8. What would your ideal Sunday morning consist of?
Waffles and/or cinnamon buns, lots of good, strong coffee, then packing up and going on a hike.
9. Why do you blog?
So many reasons but mostly for community and to keep myself thinking creatively!
10. If you had to choose one color to wear forever, what would you pick?
Navy blue
11. What is your all-time favorite band?
The Ramones...always and forever.
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Not sure where you get this from. He's been on his way back to fitness for the past three years and when he does play he takes no responsibility and thinks it's okay to just chase after the ball like a Jack Russell in the park. Complete nothing player and at this moment in time we need players who want to stand up and be counted.
Never sure what to think about Keane. He did badly as a manager but is outspoken and articulate, so people latch on to some of his more extreme opinions. He says he wants back into club management. I would not like him at Everton in any capacity.
Never have the words "reprehensible cunt" been more appropriate to describe a person.
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Hook essayist's prediction comes true
Randy Salzman submitted his essay about the perils of America's energy gluttony to the editor on April 7. On the day it was published (which was, appropriately, April 22, Earth Day), one of his more dire predictions came true: a deepwater offshore oil rig sank.
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Bet is was a wish more than a "prediction"
All this technology everybody rails against has rasied the standard of living and lenghthened the life of every culture it has touched.
29 miners died... a very sad tale... and everything reasonable needs to be done to protect them.. except outlaw coal... The cola these men mined provided electricity that ran hospitals, mri machines, exray machines etc....
The damage from oil spills is eclipsed a million times over in our standard of living.
" BP has not said how much oil is beneath the Gulf seabed Deepwater Horizon was tapping, but a company official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the volume of reserves, confirmed reports that it was tens of millions of barrels - a frightening prospect to many."
I doubt the people of the Gulf states will ever agree that the devastation of this to their standard of living will ever be justified.
Ask this guy to predict the LOTTO numbers for me will ya ?
Somewhat like predicting that a major athlete will be caught doing something naughty. "I are innosint"
But then, it is nice that some journalists are not devoted to celebrity gossip, fashion faux-paux, and predicting the next James Bond.
That funny Crozetette! Thats the only thing that matters anymore.
Mine disasters, oil rigs exploding-this is an excellent essay by Mr. Salzman who says:
"We've got to become conscious on our carbon consumption and personally do something about it."
A good place for our community to take a stand and make a difference would be to immediately support Mr. Van der Linde's recycling efforts. Just read Dave McNair's article, you will realize the tremendous waste of energy going into landfilling our local trash. Businesses have already made the change, now it's time that citizens insist our government does likewise. We can start, by signing up with trash haulers who do not truck to a landfill, but take the trash to Van der Linde Recycling. Then, contact your elected representatives and make sure we do not continue to fund the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority's wasteful landfill based operations.
Here's a clear example of the waste occurring in our local trash agreement. From Mr. McNair's Green Home article:
"Under the contract, Waste Management must bring city trash to the Authority-sponsored BFI/Allied/Republic transfer station in Zion Crossroads (which happens to be right next to Van der Linde's MRF), due to the city's service agreement with the Waste Authority. From there, the trash is trucked 77 miles away to a BFI landfill, while the City's curbside recycling, picked up by BFI/Allied/Republic and sorted at its transfer station, is supposedly trucked 87 miles away to a MRF in Chester, Virginia."
And I predict there will be a car accident because vehicle pollution is bad too. Just call me the next Nostradamus.
Jeane Dixson predicted 600 things each year and if one came true, she was hailed as a genuis. As for the other 599, heck, journalists can't be bothered with such details.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling - Chicken Salzman
Oil platform failure was/is inevitable, but how many are willing to give up our cars? The envirnmentalist and conservation movements may have worthy objectives, but their proponents take the cake for hypocrisy. You see them advocate for smaller cars and recycling, relatively painless adjustments, but what about a change that would really reduce energy ensumption and carbon emissions like giving up airconditioning. Large office buildings, malls, etc, that cannot operate without airconditioning in summer because of their lack of ventilation could be assessed a hefty tax to offset their contributions to energy depletion and pollution. No, I'll bet most greenies run their airconditioners in their cars and homes even though it's a luxury, not a necessity.
200,000 gallons of oil a day spewing into the Gulf --all previous estimates wrong - oil headed to the shores of Louisiana. This could be Virginia's future.


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For those of us with more than one child, finding time to have one on one time with our kids could pose a challenge, especially when we homeschool and are with all of them most of the day.
I have a friend (her kids go to school) who takes a different child out for dinner every Monday night. Another friend takes her kids out by themselves for their birthdays. Another takes each child out once a month for the morning.
My kids are still young and if I am getting a babysitter in the evening or the morning, it's either for me and my hubby to go out or for me to take some time off for myself, so at this stage in the game, I don't take my kids out on personal trips, not just yet. But having said that, I do make it a point to have special one on one moments with my kids which I know they enjoy tremendously.
Growing up, one thing my parents did really right was that they ALWAYS, no matter what, had time for us kids. They were always interested in what we had to say, and would listen to us talk about whatever was on our minds as if what we were saying was the most important thing that they had ever heard.
I am the oldest of 5 and I really don't remember ever having any official one on one trips with any of my parents. But I also never really felt the desire for it. Sure I enjoyed going shopping for clothes with my mom or having my dad walk me to my friends house on Friday nights, but I do think that its possible to give kids their one on one time by simply listening to them and let them realize that what they say really matters.
I have many one on one moments with my kids throughout the day that I see they truly enjoy. When the little ones are napping and the boys are watching a video and my daughter walks into the kitchen, I offer her a cup of tea and ask her to join me for a few minutes to chat. While the little ones are playing and the older two are building Lego, I invite my four year old to come snuggle on my lap for a bit so we can just cuddle for a few minutes.
Even the little ones, if I see the bigger ones are busy, I'll sit down and have a tickle fest with one of them then continue to chase the second one around the house.
There are so many of these moments that we can seize and to the kids it means the world to them. It also gives them a chance to talk to you about things that they may not say while among their siblings. So if you see your other kids are busy and one of your kids happens upon you, invite them to join you for a cup of lemonade on the back porch, or to jump on your lap in the rocking chair.
It's a lot more simple then we think and has an amazing impact.
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Last week, we wrote about San Francisco City Hall's foray into "civic innovation," to foster greater governmental openness through web-based technology.
We spotlighted the OpenGov Foundation's partnership with the city to upload the entire municipal code to a website, SanFranciscoCode.org, to make local laws readily accessible for anyone (regardless of city of residency, apparently) to comb through, offer comments, or suggest legislative tweaks.
Sup. Mark Farrell trumpeted the open city code website as a great way to incorporate citizen feedback to improve government. It earned a mention the San Francisco Chronicle and other news outlets after Farrell proposed doing away with a silly law that effectively bans bicycle storage in garages, prompted by a comment left on SanFranciscoCode.org.
In and of itself, the idea is not bad – transparency and openness are laudable goals.
That being said, judging by the quality of "civic engagement" happening so far, there's a long road ahead before this particular experiment in digital democracy takes us anyplace we'd like to go.
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Other brilliant insights from cantankerous "innovators": What do we need San Francisco General Hospital for, anyway?
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I still wanna play in ojai, but i fractured my arm at the local skatepark and need to heal up! Haha. You can always touch base at ryan(at)slidemagazine(dot)com.
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MOUND HOUSE, Nev. � In a dim parlor furnished with red velvet couches and a stripper pole, Brooke Taylor is having a sale on herself.
"I offer a lot more specials and discounts and incentives for people to come in to see me," said Taylor, 32, a brunette prostitute in a short, green dress at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch outside Carson City, Nev. "People are looking for deals."
Nevada's legal brothels, which took root in the mid-1800s silver-mining boom, are dwindling, down to about 19 from roughly 36 in 1985, according to George Flint, an industry lobbyist. Many have been the highest-profile businesses in their sparsely populated regions, and their decline hurts already-stretched county budgets and marks the end to local institutions � though not the universally beloved sort.
The state's flagging economy, decreased patronage by truckers squeezed by fuel costs and growing use of the Internet to arrange liaisons are to blame, managers say.
"A lot of our clients don't have the discretionary income they had six years ago, five years ago," said Susan Austin, 63, the madam of the Mustang Ranch in Sparks, about 15 miles from Reno. "The ones that can come in, they aren't spending quite what they were spending before."
Recent years have not been kind to Nevada. The 18-month recession that began in December 2007 still holds a grip on the state. It had America's highest unemployment rate in July, 9.5 percent, compared with 7.4 percent nationwide, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Since the last quarter of 2007, the state's economic health has declined 46 percent, according to the Bloomberg Economic Evaluation of States. That's second- worst in the nation behind New Mexico.
Most brothels are in rural areas with few people and employers. If Manhattan had the density of Lyon County, home to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, the population would be 594.
The brothels pay little to the state, sending most of their fees and tax payments to the counties that oversee them.
Every dollar helps. In Lyon County, where the largest private employers are an Amazon.com distribution center and a Wal-Mart Stores outlet, total revenue fell from $33 million in fiscal 2009 to $29 million in 2012, according to Josh Foli, its comptroller. In the past five years, the county's staff has been cut about 25 percent, Foli said.
In the fiscal year ended June 30, Lyon's four brothels paid it $369,600 in business-licensing fees and $17,800 from work permits for the prostitutes, Foli said. The brothels also pay room and property taxes to the county, along with sales tax to the state on merchandise, including t-shirts.
Then there's the main transaction: Visitors select from a lineup of women, negotiate a price and pay a cashier in advance. The women, independent contractors, say they typically give half to the house. Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, said his customers spend $200 to $600 on average.
Austin, who said she became a prostitute at 49 before becoming a madam, said the Mustang Ranch is seeing fewer clients than five years ago, though she wouldn't provide figures.
"They're getting less services because they're paying less, but they're still seeing their favorite ladies," Austin said in the brothel's Italian suite, which features a four- poster bed, tiger-print carpet and hot tub. "It's like anything: When the economy takes a dive, you just live with less frills."
Some say the downturn is overdue.
"Legal prostitution creates a cultural acceptance," said Melissa Farley, executive director of Prostitution Research & Education, a San Francisco-based group that fights the sex trade. "The evidence tells us prostitution is profoundly harmful."
The decline of the bordellos threatens an emblematic industry in a state that, since gangster Bugsy Siegel envisioned Las Vegas's casinos in the 1940s, has cultivated a global reputation as a sinner's paradise of gambling and louche delights.
The houses were woven into the fabric of the American West in the days of the pioneers, said Barb Brents, a sociology professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. While some states banned them, Nevada left the question to local governments in counties with fewer than 700,000 residents. Ten of the state's 17 counties allow them.
"They don't bother anybody," Brents said. "Brothels operate on an idea that men are a certain way and women are a certain way and there's a need for these services."
In the Mustang Ranch's Wild Horse Saloon, scantily clad women put that idea into action, approaching men on barstools and at tables. A woman leads a customer through a locked door. A 41-year-old redhead who calls herself Phoenixxx twirls on a pole atop the bar in a tight striped dress, then moves to a corner where she repeats the moves, this time in the nude. Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" booms from the stereo.
The spectacle masks the fall of the fleshpot. Prostitution is shifting online, said Scott Peppet, who teaches law at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and writes about technology and markets.
"A brothel is an intermediary," Peppet said. "It's pulling together women so it's easy for buyers to find them." That role is now being filled by the Internet, he said.
Craigslist, the free online classified-advertising site, eliminated its adult-services section in 2010 in response to pressure from state attorneys general. Many ads shifted to closely held Backpage.com.
In Las Vegas, the state's largest city and one where prostitution is outlawed, women offer themselves online as "escorts." Backpage.com carried more than 500 advertisements for Las Vegas on Aug. 25 alone. The come-ons ranged from "Teach Me . . . Spank Me . . . Pull My Hair!!!!" to "Fun, freaky, flirty, fulfill, favored, fetish friendly."
In 2012, the city's "vice enforcement/arrests" rose 67 percent to 8,908 from the year before, according to a 2012 annual police department report.
Jose Hernandez, a police spokesman, said prostitution "is a concern of ours." He said a lieutenant for the vice division was too busy for an interview.
Some women see freelance escorting as dangerous work. In December 2010, the bodies of four prostitutes who had advertised online were found near a New York beach.
Some Nevada brothels have guards and panic buttons in the rooms. Workers must be examined by a doctor weekly.
"There's a huge benefit for us working girls to work in this environment as opposed to escorting," said Taylor, the Bunny Ranch prostitute. "We're tested here. It's safe."
Taylor, who has appeared on the cover of Hustler magazine, began at the Bunny Ranch on New Year's Eve 2005 and learned she could earn in an hour what she made in two weeks as a case manager for adults with developmental disabilities.
Hof, 66, her boss, said the good times will return. The recession allowed him to buy five struggling brothels, bringing his holdings to seven.
"With the economy coming back, I think it's going to do real well," said Hof. "I'm buying up everything."
Flint, 79, the lobbyist, said he began representing the industry in 1985 and now has about 10 clients, including the Bunny Ranch. Flint said rural brothels that depend on truck drivers have been among the hardest hit.
"A lot of these long-haul truckers have to buy their own fuel," he said. "They could afford diesel when it was $2.49 a gallon, but now when it's up over $5, particularly in rural Nevada, they don't have any leftover income."
Flint has hedged his bet on fornication: He also owns Chapel of the Bells, a Reno wedding service, where his office is decorated with portraits of Napoleon.
One of the state's smallest brothels is in Winnemucca, straddling Interstate 80, where a billboard bears the silhouette of a woman in a cowboy hat with the invitation: "Wild West Saloon. Girls, Girls, Girls! Truckers Welcome. Get Off Now."
Owner Mike Yeager, 65, said he's escaped the recession thanks to a steady clientele of truckers, hunters and gold miners. There's a $100 minimum and timers count down patrons' sessions. Sitting at the bar, he predicted a stable future.
"There's always money in this business," said Yeager. "Put a couple of girls in here and you're always going to make money."
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Abstract: The literature in consumer psychology has tended to lack a clear separation between theoretical models of creativity and beauty evaluations of products. The present study examined whether creativity and beauty affected willingness to pay jointly or separately. In three experiments using paintings, wrist watches and designer lamps as stimuli, the present study shows how creativity and beauty both positively influence consumer willingness-to-pay for the product, but each explains different parts of the variance. Further, product complexity differentially affects consumer judgments of creativity and beauty. The results show that it is essential to develop separate models of creativity and beauty evaluations in consumer psychology, in that they seem to be distinct factors, explaining different parts of the variance in their consequences on willingness to pay, and are affected differentially by antecedent factors, such as complexity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7940
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text: … The question with the 32-year-old Aquino is whether this is a flash in a pan or if Don Cooper has done something to unlock his potential. The bottom line here is that the White Sox have pitching to trade, which should make Ken Williams' phone ring frequently in the next week. He'd love to move Linebrink, but would he deal Pena if his staff projected that Aquino could be just as effective? Could he receive an offer rich enough to deal Santos, who has the chance to become a right-handed complement to Thornton if not, ultimately, a candidate to replace Jenks?


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December 3, 2009
Based on an interview with Joan Veon
Joan Veon is an author, journalist and expert on globalization; she also hosted her own radio talk show and is a successful businesswoman. In these 2 videos she explains the mechanism by which corporations gain power over all levels of government: local, county, state, federal, foreign and the United Nations, thus creating corporate fascism, on a global level.
[efoods]Public- Private Partnerships are one of the most effective tools that are used by the globalists to implement Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, with the goal of destroying the structure of governments that represent the people, and puts profits and resources in the hands of the private interest collectivists.
The public part of the Public- Private Partnership (PPP) is the government, which becomes corrupted and no longer represents the taxpayers, when it accepts funding from private interests. Further, the government becomes silent against abuses to the public when they have been compromised by PPP business arrangements, and, worse yet, may also sell off resources and utilities that were owned by the taxpayers. The government does this because they are broke and more taxation is unpopular.
The private part of the PPP is often a combination of these entities:
– Corporations (usually multinational)
– Foundations (like Rockefeller)
– Associations
– Universities
– Any entity with a lot of money
– Non-Governmental Agencies (NGO's). NGO's are usually environmental agencies, like the Sierra Club and the Nature Conservancy.
The private stakeholder in the business arrangement always has profit as its goal, not service. Service was formerly the role of the representative government. The assets that once belonged to the taxpayers are then transferred to private interests, in a transfer of wealth through the assets, to private parties that seek profit at any price. Frequently, deceit, deception and distortion are used to fleece the taxpayer into this 'solution' for governments that are broke.
American local, county, state and the federal governments have gone broke and are ripe for the sale of their assets to PPP's because of deficit spending, and a lack of economic common sense. John Maynard Keynes promoted deficit spending to Roosevelt as a way to escape the Depression. This results in diluted government and loss of power.
Ms. Veon reports that the only way to combat this is:
1. Being alert and recognizing this scam
2. Understanding the structure and intent of the PPP
3. Taking action by exposing the PPP deceit at government meetings
For a wealth of information on PPP's and other related topics, visit Joan Veon's website at www.womensgroup.org.
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Adjustable beds come in various guises -the pocket spring mattress or the modern foam mattresses. Adjustable beds can be electronically controlled through a controller. The head, neck, shoulders, upper and lower back, hips, thighs, legs and feet can be comfortably positioned on the bed by adjusting the different parts of the bed. This can be done by the simple touch of a button.
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Over the last three days, I saw infinite being after beautiful infinite being come into the class with what they thought were problems ... Right in front of our eyes, they found their voices. Their wings. And their joy. I went into this class expecting something great - and what came out of it was so-much-greater.
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A synchronized music and Christmas lights show opened at the WNC Ag Center this weekend, putting a little extra cash in local businesses' stockings this holiday season.
FLETCHER – A synchronized music and Christmas lights show opened at the WNC Ag Center this weekend, drawing about 600 cars in its first two nights and putting a little extra cash in local businesses' stockings this holiday season.
Shadrack Productions' show allows drivers to meander through an intricately choreographed display of Christmas lights that pulse and dance to pre-programmed music broadcast over your vehicle's radio at 107.5 FM.
The dazzling show — built around the theme of "The 12 Days of Christmas" — took the Bristol, Tenn.-based production company three tractor-trailer loads of equipment, 10,000 feet of data cable and roughly a million LED lights to create, organizers said.
"It's awful labor intensive," said Roger Forbes, on-site manager for Shadrack. "We've been here two weeks, working 12 hours a day. But it's going to generate a lot of revenue – people going out to local restaurants and things like that. And it's a lot of fun for us. We enjoy it."
The show is the brainchild of Shadrack's Keith Glover, a retired music teacher and high school principal who owns a boat dealership in Bristol. In 2006, Glover and his son, Josh, were looking for a way to boost business during the slower winter months and came up with the idea of creating a musical light show.
Glover spent more than 700 hours programming his first Christmas show in Bristol, synchronizing the dancing lights to songs such as the Mannheim Steamroller's "Stille Nacht" and "Wizards in Winter" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
This year, Shadrack's Christmas Wonderland is running four shows simultaneously, in Sevierville, Tenn., New Market, Md., Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Fletcher. The local show is already getting rave reviews from local business owners such as Eva Ritchey, whose trolley company is offering two tours nightly.
"We've already booked five groups to go out, and we have an agent, Aloha Travel in Brevard, that has booked two tours and is working on two more," Ritchey said Sunday. "So it's really given those of us in Henderson County, especially in tourism, something else to offer in the winter."
Ritchey said the impact of the show, which runs through Jan. 1, "far exceeds the sum of itself, because now we can put together a package that says, 'Come and ride the trolley, see the light show and then come back and eat and shop in downtown Hendersonville.' "
The computer-generated show uses LED bulbs, Forbes said, which use minimal energy and avoid the kind of hassles experienced by home-based Christmas light artists.
"Losing one bulb isn't going to kill everything. There's some instances where you might lose half a strand, but it's a not a Griswold," Forbes joked, referring to Chevy Chase's bungling character in the 1989 film "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation."
Forbes said the environmentally friendly light complex is powered from a 50-amp circuit, the same as your home clothes dryer. He estimated one night's show uses the equivalent electricity of "running your dryer on high for an hour."
It takes drivers about 30 to 45 minutes to make their way through the circuitous route of multicolored "megatrees," leaping light arches, animated displays of drummers drumming and lords-a-leaping and through the twinkling "Wall of Light."
Although the route is laid out with directional arrows and perimeter lighting, Forbes spent a bone-chilling Sunday afternoon fixing what he called "a few boo-boos," places where drivers transfixed by the lights went a little astray.
On opening night Friday, Forbes said a lady ended up with her car stuck in the midst of the light complex after making a wrong turn. Asked by an attendant how she got there, she explained that she had turned at "the deer."
"He said, 'What deer?' " Forbes chuckled. "It turned out she'd gone past one of the maids-a-milking. That's when we understood how she got off track. No harm done. It happens."
After Thanksgiving, another vendor will open a tented Santa's Village at the Ag Center. Children will be able to meet and have their photo taken with Santa, enjoy refreshments such as hot cocoa, s'mores and funnel cakes, and try inflatable slides, bounce houses and other amusements.
Shadrack's Christmas Wonderland is open from dusk to at least 10 p.m. every night, including holidays. Cars and family vans are $20; activity vans or minibuses, $30; and tour/school buses are $75. For more information, call 888-321-7547 or visit www.shadrackchristmas.com/asheville.
The Trolley Company is offering tours to the show for charters and individuals, leaving from the Visitors Center at 201 S. Main St. at 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. For reservations or more information, call 828-606-8606 or email email@example.com.


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What do your clients really know about private equity investment opportunities? They can be forgiven their skepticism in the wake of the PE implosion in 2008. But today, opportunities abound for the diversification, enhanced return potential and access that private equity now offers.
Endowments, public and private pension funds, and high net-worth individuals have allocated to private equity (PE) for the past three decades as the asset class has traditionally outperformed other investment options. According to the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments, the average endowment had an asset allocation of 14% to private equity in 2012.
Private equity firms are now targeting mainstream investors with new products as the market for institutional money has crested, while new legislation such as the Jumpstart Our Businesses Startups (JOBS) Act has simplified the process for firms to raise money from retail investors.
Here are seven considerations for advisors in preparation for the coming onslaught of PE product announcements:
1. Due Diligence and Performance of PE Manager – According to Preqin, a PE information service, top-performing PE managers tend to show persistent outperformance over time. Advisors should research a management team's background and performance record before investing in a particular fund or product.
2. New Terminology – PE products come with a unique set of acronyms and terminology. Advisors should understand these new terms before investing.
3. Role in Client's Portfolio – PE products have different benefits and risk profiles. Advisors should understand how these products fit within their client's investment objectives and explain the risks and benefits of products, such as venture capital vs. distressed debt vs. mega-cap buyout strategies.
4. Liquidity and Lock-up Provisions – Advisors should understand all special considerations in buying or selling the product and be able to explain that process to their clients.
5. Transparency and Diversification – With many PE products, investors do not have information on the underlying holdings of the PE investment. Advisors should understand if the product provides PE diversification, i.e., across managers, funds, vintage years, stages of investment, geographies, investment types and industries. If not, the advisor may need to combine multiple products to create a diversified PE portfolio.
6. Fees, Sales Charges and Expenses – Many PE products will include one or more layers of fees, sales charges and expenses. Advisors should understand how management incentives align with investor interests, the net return to investor after all fees, and be able to explain various fees such as carried interest, management fees, and affiliated fund fees and expenses to their clients.
7. External Managers – For advisors who want exposure to PE but do not have the expertise or time to research these products, consider using external managers who can build, monitor and manage a diversified portfolio of PE investments.


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Comet Hale Bopp is among Neil Folberg's compelling night images of the land and sky of Israel and the Sinai, offered to the viewer as mystical points of entry and departure. Folberg sets an ancient land resonant with meaning—and the cradle to three major world religions—against the awesome and eternal spectacle of the night sky. Folberg's night landscapes carry an aura that is both earthly and divine, emphasizing the singular and poignant presence of objects against the backdrop of the infinite. His photographs describe places where the spiritual is at once near, imprinted in the forms of the arid landscapes, and far away in the dark, starlit recesses of space.
Neil Folberg (born in San Francisco,1950) began studies with Ansel Adams in 1967 and received his B.A. in Photographic Field Studies from University of California at Berkeley. He has had several international traveling exhibitions, and is the author of Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land (Aperture, 2001), winner of the New York Book Show Prize, First Place Photography, 2002; And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues of the World (Aperture, 1992); and Desert Land: Photographs of Israel, Egypt and Jordan (Abbeville Press, 1987). He lives and works in Jerusalem, where he is often found in his Vision Gallery.


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Beekeeping Level I
May 30th & 31st, 2020
Course fee per person $225.00 plus tax (if attending as a couple or friends and are willing to share manuals there is a discounted price of $175.00 for one particpant)
Topics of the program include spring & summer maintenance, honey collection, spring & fall feeding, winter readiness. Some good discussions and hands on experiences in a beehive!
All participants will receive a copy of the Ontario Beekeeping Manual written by the Tech Transfer Team associated with the Ontario Beekeeper's Association and the the University of Guelph (valued at $40.00) and Board's Northern Nectar's Beekeeping Essentials Manual (valued at $20.00).
Many other areas will be covered within the workshop, ie. signs of swarms, Queen rearing, equipment maintenance and yard set up.
Workshop schedule begins on Saturday at 9am for registration and 9am to begin course until 5pm. Sunday begins 9am (to be decided by the group) running until 2pm. Refreshments will be provided but pack your lunch.


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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) Arizona safety Kerry Rhodes has confirmed he had a run-in with teammate Darnell Dockett at the end of Sunday's game against the New York Jets but said reports that Dockett had spit in his face were wrong.
``Yes, we had a disagreement on the field but, no he did NOT spit in my face. Absolutely did not,'' Rhodes said in an email released by the Cardinals. ``I'm not going to get into all the details because I think those are things you keep within the team. But Darnell and I talked after the game, we're both moving on and I'll leave it at that.''
The dispute reportedly centered on the Cardinals' desire to allow the Jets to score late in the game so the offense would get the ball to go for the tying score. Dockett didn't want to allow a touchdown.
The issue became moot when Shonn Greene purposely downed the ball at the Arizona 1-yard line and the Jets ran out the clock for a 7-6 victory.
The incident occurred at the end of an ugly game in which the Cardinals defense played well but the offense was horrible. It was Arizona's eighth loss in a row.
Dockett had a series of tweets that referred to the case. Although he did not get into specifics, he wrote that there are ``two sides to every story.''
``I can't tell y'all the truth or how I feel cuz they watching my tweets,'' Dockett wrote. ``Oh and by the way when I'm wrong I say it. Just FYI.''
In a tweet Tuesday that included a link to The Arizona Republic story on the matter, Dockett wrote that the truth always surfaces.
When asked about the incident in a radio interview, coach Ken Whisenhunt said such matters are dealt with internally.
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All kids love pets, but not all pets love kids. Which fidos, fifis and other furry (or fur-less) friends are best for families?
An increasing number of people are being infected with salmonella linked to pet turtles, the tiny varieties with shells less than 4 inches long. A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that the number of cases increased from 66 in March to 127 in May, according to Examiner.com. Two-thirds of those infected are under 10 years old.
Yikes, suddenly a cool, little turtle isn't sounding like the best family pet. Maybe a more traditional dog or cat is a better bet, but you have to consider that not all breeds are kid-friendly. While a mellow and social cat might tolerate being dressed up in doll clothes by a little girl, a timid and skittish one might rush for the closet at the sound of little feet. And while certain breeds of dogs love nothing more than to have their ears rubbed and pulled by tiny hands, others are likely to snap when a child touches the wrong spot.
And then there are those pets like hamsters and rabbits that seem easier for kids to care for because they're small and live in cages. But when it comes to cleaning the cage, these animals suddenly become burdensome. And many of these little rodents like nibbling on fingers.
Every kid wants a pet, but how do you decide on the right one for your family?
Do you have pictures of your kids cuddling the cat or playing fetch with the dog? Submit photos of your kids and their favorite pets in our gallery and we will feature them in a slide show on SFGate.
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Good creative party ideas are like Pot Noodle.
Instant and handy, they're just what you need when you need a break.
So when it comes to entertaining – a birthday, a Saturday night, a holiday do – (and you have no clue what to do for it) – having instant ideas to hand will save you time. So you can just get on with the fun.
And when your friends can't wait for the next big thrill, you either keep up or look boring.
Fortunately, Partycurrent is here to help.
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Forget "off the shelf" party planning. Say "no more" to party planning stress.
Adult parties deserve as much creativity as kids parties. In fact, given our hectic lives, we need even more fun than kids!
You won't find any "grown up" or serious ideas here. Creative party ideas that are creative are what we're about.
Creating experiences is what we do.
My name's Tom. And as an events planner in London, I'm going to give you all the help and tips you need to have a great time.
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- Thrilling party games, and more, to light up tonight's party or future do. Chuck in a road trip game for your next outing. Spook your friends with a dare.
- Fun ideas to bring your friends closer. Reminisce over dinner, a bonfire, or slip into silly fancy dress to forget the stresses of daily life. Forget being an adult for a while.
From nights in to work to the holidays, you'll have no excuse now not to party every month of the year. Let's get your party started!


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Of all the insane things to happen during the 2010 NFL season, perhaps the craziest thing of all has been the instant self-immolation of Randy Moss.
Just a year ago, Moss had nearly 1,300 yards receiving and 13 TDs. He now has a grand total of five catches for Tennessee and the Titans don't appear to have any desire to get him more involved in their offense.
Moss has always been a malcontent. But he has never been an afterthought. Until now, that is.
Moss began this year angling for a new contract with the Patriots. It was that intense desire to get paid that led to his eventual ouster in New England and his bizarre one-month loan to the Vikings. Tennessee was the only team to make a waiver claim for Moss after he was cut by Minnesota, and now the question isn't if Moss will get that one last fat contract he always wanted (he won't), but if ANY team will bother signing him.
The one thing that made Moss a valuable commodity was his breathtaking talent. But now that New England has thrived with him gone, and now that he's failed to make any difference in either of his new pit stops, that talent has become all but worthless on the open market. No team is going to sign Moss for anything other than one year at the league minimum.
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Would any team be dumb enough to give him a shot? Well, this is the NFL. There are always teams dumb enough to take a shot, and here they are:
Miami (6/1): Secretly, the Dolphins have been the most agonizing team to watch play in 2010. They're spiritually a 4-12 team, and their options on offense are comically limited. Even the recent reemergence of Brandon Marshall from a shallow grave isn't going to erase this team's urgent need for playmakers.
Denver (8/1): I like Denver as a possibility because no one there knows what the hell is going on, so it seems inevitable that Moss would be signed without anyone actually taking credit for it. I bet Moss could even show up to team headquarters one day saying he signed with them and have Pat Bowlen believe it.
Seattle/San Francisco (10/1): Because the NFC West makes a perfect halfway house for Moss on his way to the UFL and/or Spike's "Pros Vs. Joes".
Dallas/Washington (20/1): There's only so much longer the Skins and Cowboys can hold out, right? Where you see a wasted signing, Dan Snyder sees VALUE!
Atlanta (30/1): A winning team that could bring Moss into camp and then cut him if they feel like he isn't worth the effort. I think a smart team would hire Moss strictly to run go routes from the slot on third downs and return kicks, instead of making him an every down wideout.
Green Bay (30/1): Same as above. Also, the more years go by that they blow a chance to get to the Super Bowl, the more desperate they'll become.
Baltimore (32/1): Because any mouthy player falls right into line when Ray Lewis threatens to stab them.
New York Jets (40/1): Why not? They collect moody wideouts like Hummel figurines.
New England (100/1): This is where Moss would really like to go, but there's no way Bill Belichick will let him back without some sort of ritual humiliation. Fifty whacks to the fanny for you, Marshall Boy!
Oakland/Minnesota (10,000/1): Okay, there's no prayer of either of these happening. But if they did, how long until you stopped laughing? Weeks, right?