Video: Representing Charities: Profit v. Non Profit

his particular seminar is designed to educate attorneys what to request prior to becoming a Board Member including but not limited to: Is there a Board Orientation? What is the Board\u27s Liability? How to read IRS Form 990 and Financial Statements Legal Issues facing Charitable Organizations Best Practices Learning Outcomes include: Difference between Tax Exempt and Not-For-Profit & Calendar v. Fiscal Year Serving as a Board Member Representing Charitable Organizations/Tax Exempt Organizations as Legal Counsel Ethical Considerations for Exempt Organizations Practitioner

Inspire Student Confidence and Independence through Perseverance and Growth in the Arts

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“The Warm Heart Of Africa” Program Proposal For S.T.E.P Into The World

This capstone paper introduces “The Warm Heart of Africa”, an education abroad program proposal for pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers designed for the newly formed organization, S.T.E.P (Supporting.Teachers.Educational.Progression) Into The World. “The Warm Heart of Africa” will offer a month-long intensive program in the African nation of Malawi during the summer of 2012 with the purpose of providing participants with training in intercultural communication alongside an unforgettable cultural immersion experience. With a base of experiential learning, “The Warm Heart of Africa” design focuses on providing participants with a strong foundation in cross-cultural competency and sensitivity as it combines service-learning projects, a homestay, and cultural programming with classroom-based activities, structured group dialogue, and reflection. “The Warm Heart of Africa” is designed as a contribution to the internationalization of the field of teacher education and will act as a model for future study abroad programs aimed at providing intercultural training to educators. Over the past several decades great importance has been placed on the development of intercultural competence through study abroad opportunities. The field of study abroad continues to grow and with this growth has come a new target audience: K-12 educators. Research indicates that most American schoolteachers do not receive proper intercultural training. Many struggle to effectively manage their multicultural classrooms and are often unable to teach their students about the world (Wang, et. al, 2009)

Video: Charities for Fun & Profit: Serving & Representing Them

Registration & Continental Breakfast: 7:30 to 7:55 am Atrium & Lecture Room Welcome & Introduction: 7:55 to 8:00 am Elena Rose Minicucci, J.D., Director of Alumni Relations, NSU Shepard Broad Law Center Welcome Introduce Adam Scott Goldberg, J.D., LL.M. of Krause & Goldberg, PA Weston, Florida. Seminar Presentation 8:00 am to 9:30 am Adam Scott Goldberg, J.D., LL.M. I. Introduction 1. What is the difference between Tax Exempt and Not-For-Profit? 2. Why is the difference between a Calendar Year and a Fiscal Year? A. Many Charitable Organizations use July 1st to June 30th B. Tax returns are due 4.5 months after the close of the tax year II. The Fun Part: Serving as a Board Member 1. Example - American Lung Association 2. What to request and Review Before You Decide to Serve A. Articles of Incorporation B. Bylaws C. Internal Revenue Service Form 990 for the last completed fiscal year D. Copy of the exemption letter from the Internal Revenue Service (HANDOUT) E. Most recently filed corporate annual report from state of incorporation F. List of Board Responsibilities G. List of Existing Officers H. List of Existing Board Members I. Mission Statement J. Copy of the most recent Audit/Budget/Financial Report K. Copy of the FDACS Solicitation of Contributions Registration (HANDOUT) L. Copy of Florida Sales Tax Exemption Certificate M. Copy of IRS Form 1023 or 1023 EZ 3 3. Board Orientation A. Is there one? B. Did you meet the officers and the CEO? C. What are your financial obligations? D. What are your time obligations? E. Are there any conflicts of interest? F. Is it an advisory board or a governing board? 4. Board Liability A. Business Judgment Rule B. Potential Liability Risks C. Indemnification, Florida Statute 617.0834 (HANDOUT) D. Florida Not for Profit Corporation Act E. D&O Liability Policies F. Private Inurement and Excess Benefits G. Penalties for Violations 5. How to read an IRS Form 990 (HANDOUT) 6. What to look for in Financial Statements A. Days of cash B. Accounts Payable C. Accounts Receivable D. Reserves E. Restricted funds 7. Using Roberts Rules of Order (HANDOUT) III. The Profitable Part: Representing Charitable Organizations/Tax Exempt Organizations as Legal Counsel 1. Example - Probate Litigation Case in Broward County involving Charitable Organization 2. Legal Issues Faced by Charitable Organizations A. Tax B. Governance C. Employment and Workers Compensation D. Contract E. Pension F. Landlord Tenant G. Real Estate H. Probate and Planned Giving I. Arts and Entertainment J. Creation, Merger and Dissolution K. Patent and Trademark L. Lobbying M. Administrative and Governmental Affairs IV. Ethical Considerations for Exempt Organization Practitioners 1. Florida Bar 4 2. Internal Revenue Service IRS Circular 230 3. American Bar Association 4. U.S. Tax Court Rules i. Based upon the ABA Model Rules 5. Multiple Licenses i. The attorney is also a Certified Public Accountant ii. The attorney is also a licensed Insurance Agent 6. Florida Administrative Code A. F.A.C. 61H1-20.0096 B. Based upon Standards for Certified Public Accountants 7. Examples A. Confidentiality B. Conflicts of Interest C. Privileged Information 8. Best Practices A. Duty to notify B. Due to exercise due diligence C. Duty not to cause unreasonable delay D. Duty to charge reasonable fees E. Duty not to use uninvited solicitations F. Duty not to negotiate taxpayer refund checks G. Duty to have a clear understanding as to the engagement Questions and Answers: Opportunity to ask questions is included in presentation Seminar Ends 9:30 am Thank you and Critique

Titanium-Tethered Vancomycin Prevents Resistance to Rifampicin in Staphylococcus Aureus in Vitro

Rifampicin is currently recognized as the most potent drug against Gram positive implant related infections. The use of rifampicin is limited by the emergence of bacterial resistance, which is often managed by coadministration of a second antibiotic. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of soluble rifampicin in combination with vancomycin tethered to titanium metal as a means to control bacterial growth and resistance in vitro. Bacterial growth was inhibited when the vancomycin-tethered titanium discs were treated with Staphylococcus aureus inocula of $≤2×10^6$ CFU, however inocula greater than $2×10^6$ CFU/disc adhered and survived. The combination of surface-tethered vancomycin with soluble rifampicin enhanced the inhibitory effect of rifampicin for an inoculum of $10^6 CFU/cm^2$ by one dilution (combination MIC of 0.008 mg/L versus 0.015 mg/L for rifampicin alone). Moreover, surface tethered vancomycin prevented the emergence of a rifampicin resistant population in an inoculum of $2×10^8$ CFU

Effectiveness of exercise interventions for adults over 65 with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings: a systematic review

PurposeTo conduct a systematic review of the literature to evaluate the effectiveness of exercise interventions for people with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings.MethodsEight electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, AMED, PsycINFO, PEDro, The Cochrane Library and BNI) were searched from inception to July 2018. Snowball searching identified additional articles not identified initially. Articles were included if they: reported randomised or quasi-randomised controlled trials comparing exercise with usual care or no treatment; and involved people over 65 with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings. Outcome measures of interest were strength, endurance, mobility, mood and quality of life. Titles and abstracts of all studies were screened by one reviewer. Two reviewers independently screened full text articles for all eligible studies, extracted data and assessed quality and risk of bias.ResultsEight studies with 819 participants were included. Interventions were variable in terms of content, duration and frequency. There was some evidence exercise programmes may improve physical function of people with moderate-to-severe dementia, with significant effects seen for gait speed and endurance, and a trend towards improvement in strength. There was little evidence to suggest exercise programmes improve mood. Most studies were of low quality.ConclusionExercise was associated with improvements in gait speed and endurance for older people with moderate-to-severe dementia living in the community, but the quality of evidence was low. There was no conclusive evidence regarding effect on strength or mood. Findings are limited by the quality of the available evidence

Probate A to Z: Guiding You Through the Statutes, Rules, and Procedures (click SharkMedia below for video)

Learn about probate court statutes and rules of procedure in Florida Understand how Probate issues can impact other areas such as: real estate, family, and debt/creditor law. How to handle special challenges that arise in probate cases Discuss recent procedural changes in Miami-Dade & Broward Probate Cour

Response and Resistance to Paradox-Breaking BRAF Inhibitor in Melanomas

FDA-approved BRAF inhibitors produce high response rates and improve overall survival in patients with BRAF V600E/K-mutant melanoma, but are linked to pathologies associated with paradoxical ERK1/2 activation in wild-type BRAF cells. To overcome this limitation, a next-generation paradox-breaking RAF inhibitor (PLX8394) has been designed. Here, we show that by using a quantitative reporter assay, PLX8394 rapidly suppressed ERK1/2 reporter activity and growth of mutant BRAF melanoma xenografts. Ex vivo treatment of xenografts and use of a patient-derived explant system (PDeX) revealed that PLX8394 suppressed ERK1/2 signaling and elicited apoptosis more effectively than the FDA-approved BRAF inhibitor, vemurafenib. Furthermore, PLX8394 was efficacious against vemurafenibresistant BRAF splice variant-expressing tumors and reduced splice variant homodimerization. Importantly, PLX8394 did not induce paradoxical activation of ERK1/2 in wild-type BRAF cell lines or PDeX. Continued in vivo dosing of xenografts with PLX8394 led to the development of acquired resistance via ERK1/2 reactivation through heterogeneous mechanisms; however, resistant cells were found to have differential sensitivity to ERK1/2 inhibitor. These findings highlight the efficacy of a paradox-breaking selective BRAF inhibitor and the use of PDeX system to test the efficacy of therapeutic agents. © 2017 American Association for Cancer Research

Language Embedded Radiance Fields for Zero-Shot Task-Oriented Grasping

Grasping objects by a specific part is often crucial for safety and for executing downstream tasks. Yet, learning-based grasp planners lack this behavior unless they are trained on specific object part data, making it a significant challenge to scale object diversity. Instead, we propose LERF-TOGO, Language Embedded Radiance Fields for Task-Oriented Grasping of Objects, which uses vision-language models zero-shot to output a grasp distribution over an object given a natural language query. To accomplish this, we first reconstruct a LERF of the scene, which distills CLIP embeddings into a multi-scale 3D language field queryable with text. However, LERF has no sense of objectness, meaning its relevancy outputs often return incomplete activations over an object which are insufficient for subsequent part queries. LERF-TOGO mitigates this lack of spatial grouping by extracting a 3D object mask via DINO features and then conditionally querying LERF on this mask to obtain a semantic distribution over the object with which to rank grasps from an off-the-shelf grasp planner. We evaluate LERF-TOGO's ability to grasp task-oriented object parts on 31 different physical objects, and find it selects grasps on the correct part in 81% of all trials and grasps successfully in 69%. See the project website at: lerftogo.github.ioComment: See the project website at: lerftogo.github.i