Park La Brea Apartments, The Park La Brea Arts Council Team Up for 8th Annual Art in the Park Benefiting Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times
LOS ANGELES, CA (ContentDesk) August 29, 2004 -- Park La Brea Apartments and The Park La Brea Arts Council will be holding the 8th Annual Art in the Park from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 11 and Sunday, September 12 at Park La Brea Apartments, 6200 West 3rd Street.
The event will benefit Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, a cost-free sleep-away camp for children with cancer and their families.
The two-day event will be filled with world-class artists, live entertainment, a food court, a children's art workshop and special appearance by Ronald McDonald.
Admission, parking and shuttle service are all free.
For more event information, please call 323-525-1908."We are thrilled to be able to sponsor this fantastic cultural event once again for the community of Los Angeles," said Barbara Barsi, marketing director, Park La Brea Apartments.
"Most importantly, we hope to raise even more funds for the kids and families that look forward to attending this very special camp each year."Each year, funds raised from Art in the Park help cover the costs of camping programs, including transportation, food and costly medical supplies.
In 2003 alone, more than 1,300 children with cancer and their families attended camp.
According to Carol Horvitz, executive director, Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, "As the need for our program grows, so do the costs, which is another reason why this event is so important."Last year, more than 5,000 visitors attended the event ? raising more than $25,000 in support of Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times.
This year, the event has been expanded to two days in order to increase donations and allow for additional artists to participate.
On the final event day, Los Angeles 4th District Council member Tom LaBonge, along with other city dignitaries will present a check to Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times' representatives.Originally designed in the early 1940s by Architects Gordon Kaufman and J.E. Stanton, Park La Brea is, to this day, a modern marvel of architectural design and planning. Inspired by the innovative housing of Le Corbusier in Paris, this architectural team set out to create multifamily housing in a new way.
Today, the entire 167-acre complex has been meticulously renovated with broadband cable television, telephone and Internet connections, gourmet kitchens, and beautifully restored interiors.
Spectacular gardens, a junior Olympic pool, state-of-the-art fitness center and a premiere location make Park La Brea the best place to live in Los Angeles.
For more information about Park La Brea, visit www.parklabrea.com or call 1-800-453-1018.Established in 1982, Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times is one of the oldest and largest cost-free, year-round, medically supervised camps in the country for children with cancer and their families.
It offers a full range of recreational activities as well as leadership development programs.
For more information about Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, please visit www.campronaldmcdonald.org or call 1-800-625-7295..
Hampshire Companies Acquires Park 80 East Office Building in Saddle Brook, NJ; Superbly Located Building Acquired on Behalf of Hampshire Generational Fund
(ContentDesk) July 28, 2005 -- The Hampshire Companies, a full service, private real estate investment fund manager with equity in assets valued at over $1 billion, today announced the acquisition of the Park 80 East Office Building, strategically situated at the juncture of Interstate 80 and the Garden State Parkway in Saddle Brook, New Jersey.
The acquisition was made on behalf of The Hampshire Generational Fund, LLC.Park 80 East is an 83,049 square foot multi-tenanted office building and one of the most visible office properties in Northern New Jersey.
The building sits on approximately 4.3 acres in a major Bergen County sub-market.
Major tenants at closing included Sealed Air Corporation, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and the United States Government Services Administration (GSA).
"This is a premier acquisition," commented William A.
Scully, Executive Vice President of The Hampshire Companies.
The Hampshire Generational Fund,...
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Student life and avoiding graduate loan debts
As a student, money is always a difficult subject.
Currently the average student leaves college with over ?13,000 in debt.
With the introduction in the autumn of top-up fees, students in England and Wales will be charged ?3,000 a year which is more than double what most pay now, things will only get worse.
Today's student needs to study hard, to stand any chance of getting one of the dwindling number of highly competitive graduate jobs that still exist.
Students also need to save what little money they have, and be extremely financially aware, if they are not going to experience lifelong crippling levels of personal debt after they graduate.
Standard student jobs such as stacking shelves in supermarkets, becoming a part-time retail sales assistant, bar work, call centre representative, data input operator, or working for the students union, are all useful tools to keep the funds coming in, but it seems that sometimes it is not always enough...
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Friends or Foe, The Importance of a Contract!
No matter what business you are in, how old you are, how long you have been doing business or who you are doing it with, a very important part of doing business is a contract. This is really the only thing that is there to make sure your partners do what they say they will do. It is also the only line of defence you have if you don't see eye to eye with your partner, which usually happens in business.Whether it is with a friend, a family member or a stranger off of the street, you must have a contract to protect both of your interests as well as your business. If you don't have a contract, no matter how successful your business is, without one, you leave yourself open to have it all taken away from you. A contract is especially important as many issues will come up down the line, such as:1.
How much Money is invested by Both Partners.2. How much of the Company each Partner Owns.3. When and How is the monetary investment paid back to each partner.4. Who controls and oversees the...
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MUTUAL FUND PERFORMANCE AND WHY THERE ARE NO DICE COUNTERS IN VEGAS!
A way that investors get ripped off and in a sense rip themselves off is based on the culture of performance in the mutual fund industry. If you stop and think about it there is absolutely no reason that the past has to equal the future. If you have not been particularly successful as a stock investor in the past, for instance, there is no reason that you won't be unsuccessful in the future. One reason I hope that you are reading this article is that you want to improve as an investor. Let's discuss how professional gamblers profit in Las Vegas.
Card counters are a type of professional gambler that uses their memory of what card cards have been dealt out of a deck in a game of blackjack (also called 21). Since there are only a certain number of each type of card they can increase their bets when it is more likely that they will win then lose. This works because after the shuffle the deck starts with a certain composition and a number of games are played until the next shuffle...
MUTUAL FUND PERFORMANCE AND WHY THERE ARE NO DICE COUNTERS IN VEGAS!
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PerTrac and MSCI Barra Announce Renewed Relationship
New York, NY (ContentDesk via ContentDesk Direct) July 13, 2006 -- PerTrac Financial Solutions, LLC, (PFS) creator of the PerTrac Analytical Platform, the worlds leading asset allocation and investment analysis software, announced today that it has renewed its relationship with MSCI Barra, a leading provider of benchmark indices and risk management analytics products.????The MSCI Hedge Fund Indices and Database, introduced in 2002, are a widely-used source of information on alternative investments, consisting of more than 190 indices as well as containing data on over 2,600 hedge funds and CTAs.
The indices, which are calculated based upon the performance of the funds in the database, serve as an important representation of the hedge fund opportunity set and are distinguished by their transparency, 95%+ monthly constituent reporting, and superior system of categorizing hedge funds using MSCI Barras granular Hedge Fund Classification...
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An Informative Forex Broker Review
According to our forex broker review, Gain Capital and Oanda come out on top.Gain Capial has set a high standard with trailing stops. The trailing stop can only be entered as a separate order. Once the investor is in an order he can enter his trailing stop limit in pips to trail the market the distance the investor has set with the closest distance the investor can go being 10 pips. Gain Capital also has a facility whereby a trader can download 5 years of tick data on the 6 major currencies. In addition, an investor can also download a free DDE application whereby he can obtain live quotes.
While most brokers allow only the standard ($100,000) or mini ($10,000) lot size, Oanda gives traders the ability to trade any lot amount. Another attractive quality is that has its own user forum. In addition, Oanda has the capacity to have multi-denominated sub accounts other than in USD with no minimum deposit. The different currency accounts available include AUD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CAD & CHF....
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