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Hello readers today I have the pleasure of speaking to an extraordinary man Geno Chaviano. He is a co-founder of the HAVANA SAN JUAN Orchestra, an 18 piece Big Band named after his family's NYC nightclub in the 1960's during the era of Mambo to Classic Latin Music. In addition, he produces live entertainment events and concerts with his company Da BRONX Productions. Geno is a board member of Voices Against Brain Cancer and founder of Jack's KidZ, a non-profit foundation in honor of his late brother, Jack, for the support of inner-city youth. Here is the man of the hour Geno Chaviano
David: What inspired you to start the Havana San Juan Orchestra?
Genco: As I child growing up in the Bronx, sometimes on a Saturday of Sunday morning I would find my parents in the kitchen having breakfast with some of their friends who had performed the previous night @ HSJ such as Cachao,La Lupe, Tito Rodriguez, Jose Fajardo etc. As a kid I never realize these were legends in the making....fast forward my family has always been about tradition and the music which is the roots to all latin music is the music that came from the 50's-60's, so in honor of my family/culture I feel privilege and honor to keep this ALIVE!
David: You are also a board member for Voices Against Brain Cancer and Jack's KidZ. Why are these organizations important to you?
Genco: Well, VABC was founded by my soul-brother Mario Lichtenstein, who lost his son Gary to BC @ the young age of 24, at the same time I lost my Aunt OLGA Chaviano to this disease. JACK's KidZ is something very dear to my heart, my brother was only 21 yrs old when his life was taken from us when he went to help someone that was getting robbed. Because my parents always instilled education and sports, I started this foundation in his honor to help guide and nurture our young starting with the inner city KidZ....I will always feel the pain in my heart, but I also have the comfort that JACK my angel will always protect and guide me from above.
David: You have held positions in the film/entertainment. What are your goals in the entertainment industry?
Genco: I have been involved in the entertainment business for over 15 yrs from TV to FILM To LIVE, now New Media....
My goals is the apply my knowlege in all facets to create, develop and produce high quality entertainment, starting with HAVANA SAN JUAN Orchestra tour with the goal of making it into a play. then continue with a full feature film on my aunt OLGA Chaviano, one of Cuba's most famous Mambo dancer from the late 40's-50's. I also, co-own the rights to a documentary call LOS Magnificos, the story of the 11 Latino in the Hall of Fame baseball players
David: What is the message you want to send out through your music?
Genco: It very simple the world has always enjoy the golden era of Cuba 1950's and its music then it came to the USA with its huge exodus of the early 60's, to be enjoyed all making one of our treasures,we MUST KEEP IT ALIVE!
David: What are your last words to all the readers?
Genco: "G-d blessed me with a mission to fulfill, it's my honor and privilege to complete the task on hand then I can pass on to the next guy, so get your popcorn ready because the movie is about to begin....pa'lante!"(forward motion)
David: Genco thank you for your time and I wish you the best of luck. Readers I had the pleasure to hear Genco and the Havana San Juan Symphony Orchestra perform and they were amazing. I can't wait to hear them again on the 16th of June at the Hammerstein Ballroom for the Voices Against Brain Cancer event. Tony Danza will MC Featuring LOU GRAMM with special tributes to Bob Marley/Celia Cruz/George Harrison all accompanied by the 40 piece HAVANA SAN JUAN Symphony Orchestra directed by Louis Bauzo.


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I have a script for updating some features on my database every night (just for copying and replacing some features). This features are "read-only". My problem is that I can't avoid that these features are opened by users, and my script can show the following error:
ExecuteError: ERROR 000464: Cannot get exclusive schema lock.
Either being edited or in use by another application.
Can I force the phyton script, via some command, copying the files, even been opened by some user? Can I take down all the connections on my database before running the script?

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Five Lucky Consumers Capture It All Through Exclusive Access at the World-Class Tennis Tournament
CENTER VALLEY, Pa., August 28, 2007 – Olympus Imaging America today announced winners of its national sweepstakes, which is sending five lucky tennis fans and their doubles partners on a weekend getaway (August 31- September 2, 2007) in New York City to experience the fast action and excitement of the 2007 US Open Tennis Championships . The winners of this dream trip are: Karen Woodby of Jonesborough , TN ; Alex Dixon of Clatskanie , OR ; Harriet Ahr of Inverness , IL ; Rosemarie Keyser of Naples , FL ; and Mary Walter of Ormond Beach , FL. Winners are receiving hotel, airfare, spending cash and two admission tickets to the world-class tennis tournament, including exclusive access to designated professional photography locations at the event, enabling them to capture the on-court and behind-the-scenes drama .
The winners are shooting with the newly available Olympus E-410 and the E-510 digital SLR (single lens reflex) cameras, both of which are highly regarded for the ability to take live action shots . The winners' access to the tournament begins in the Olympus suite located at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where they are coached by Olympus Visionary Jim Sugar, an award-winning photographer, on best techniques for shooting nonstop tennis action. Access also includes the Olympus Photographers' Lounge and other elite locations, where capturing great pictures is a snap. The ultimate experience is in the photographers' pit, where the winners shoot where the professional photographers work, capturing amazing up-close images.
"The sweepstakes is one of the many elements we are implementing as the official camera sponsor of the US Open 2007," said Mark Huggins, executive director, Brand Marketing, Olympus Imaging America Inc. "Each element showcases how consumers can capture amazing photos using Olympus cameras."
ABOUT THE US OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS The US Open will mark the culmination of the US Open Series, the six-week summer tennis season linking all major ATP and Sony Ericsson WTA Tour tournaments in North America to the US Open. The US Open is the highest annually-attended sporting event in the world. More than 95 million viewers watched the 2006 US Open on CBS Sports and USA Network, and international broadcasts reached more than 180 countries. The 2007 US Open will be held Monday, August 27 through Sunday, September 9 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing , N.Y.
ABOUT THE OLYMPUS VISIONARY PROGRAM Established by Olympus Imaging America Inc. in partnership with some of today's most talented photographers, the Olympus Visionary program is dedicated to creating superb digital images with the help of Olympus ' digital cameras and lenses. Olympus Visionaries span all fields of photography and work in a diversity of styles and subject matter, but they are united in realizing their creative vision through digital photography. The Visionaries use Olympus digital cameras in their daily assignments and personal work; participate in speaking engagements and appearances; and provide Olympus with input into equipment development. The Visionaries include several Pulitzer Prize-winning and Magnum photographers, as well as internationally-renowned photographers from the United States , Bermuda , Canada , Italy and Japan .
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The Rural Life... Life in Christian County Kentucky... And What I Think About It...
The little country store at Honey Grove, Kentucky, was still open when we moved to Christian County, but it has been closed for about five years now and the building stands empty.
As I drive the roads of the county, I see many old buildings that used to be stores. Within five miles of our home, I know four old store buildings and another newer one. Their histories are probably much like the history of the store at Honey Grove: business dwindled to the point where the store could no longer operate.
The little store at Honey Grove was once a thriving grocery. It served a farm community that was separated from town by a dozen miles of dirt road and several streams.
The building itself is about a hundred years old. It was built by its first storekeeper, a Mr. Harned. It originally stood on the opposite side of the road, and its front door was once its backdoor. It has one large room below and an attic above.
The store had a long church pew and rocking chairs both inside and outside, so folks could rest and visit while enjoying a cold drink and a sandwich or snack. A long counter ran halfway down one side of the room. The cash register, two glass-topped showcases, and the meat cutter were lined up on the counter top.
A small kitchen sink at the back of the store provided a place for the storekeeper to wash utensils and for farmers to wash the soil from their hands. Customers were welcome to use the outhouse behind the store.
Miss Eva Shanklin, a widow lady, was the storekeeper for over 50 years, and under her ownership, the store reached its zenith after World War II and then went into a long slow decline. She stocked all the staples of kitchen and home and many things for the farm -- flour, sugar, laundry bluing, washboards, hairpins, quilting thread, motor oil, school tablets, nails, and much more. The grocery truck made a big delivery every week, and she sent to Hopkinsville for the things it didn't bring.
Senior citizens around here remember when Shanklin Grocery had a jukebox and young people met at Honey Grove on Saturday nights to visit and dance. Some walked for miles to get there because they didn't have a car or a bicycle, or even a horse or a mule.
For decades, travelers and locals alike stopped at Honey Grove for an ice-cold drink and a good balogna sandwich. Honey Grove was well known to have the coldest soda chest on this side of the county.
Even in its last few years, the grocery did a considerable business in lunch meat sold by the pound and and in lunch meat sandwiches made to order and eaten within the store.
In the late 1990's, it became impossible to find the traditional 4-square crackers for the balogna sandwiches, and the old chest cooler suddenly quit working one day and had to be hauled out of the building. Looking back, those little tragedies seem to be omens of impending demise.
Times have changed in ways that make it very difficult for country stores nowadays. Good blacktop roads crisscross the county, and many country women go to town daily because they have jobs there. After work, it's easier for them to shop in town than to go to an expensive little country store that may not even have what they want.
Through the years, the grocery at Honey Grove became a convenience store, and finally went out of business entirely. Perhaps beer and lottery tickets could have saved it, but Miss Eva would never have considered it and after Miss Eva's retirement, her daughter would not have allowed it in the the building. It's probably just as well. Honey Grove is an isolated settlement on a little-traveled road and a little store with beer and lottery-tickets would have been a sitting duck for robbers.
I know quite a bit about the store at Honey Grove because I worked there for several years before it closed. I lettered the "Fresh Produce" sign that is hanging above the bench in the photo above.
Over the counters of Shanklin Grocery, I became much better acquainted with the neighbors who stopped in to drink a soda, eat a sandwich, or buy a pack of smokes. I spent a lot of time sitting with the regulars and listening to them talk. That was part of the job, and I learned a lot of local history doing it.
At the time I worked there, Miss Eva had retired, and the store was operated by Mr. B.B. Bradley, an old gentleman who lived in Honey Grove. He ran the store for about six years because he could not bear to see its doors closed. After B.B. passed away, the store closed within six months.
I look back at my three years of working in Shanklin Grocery as a time of bonding with the community, and I'm thankful I had that opportunity. I'm thankful too that I had the opportunity to be one of the last storekeepers at Honey Grove (though a minor one.) It makes me feel that I am a little part of the history there.


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The counterfeiters are becoming increasingly harder to detect. Unfortunately, the devices they're selling aren't getting any better.
A counterfeit electronic component operating in a medical electronics system may make itself known when the system experiences an unexpected failure. The failure may be relatively innocuous—a monitoring device that suddenly begins to display meaningless numbers—or it may be directly life-threatening, such as a functional failure in a defibrillator. Even after the failure has occurred, the failed component may not be recognized as counterfeit unless it's inspected for that purpose.
1. Shown is a real-time X-ray image of part of a plastic BGA.
Because of the nature and complexity of the global electronics component supply system, it's fairly easy for counterfeit components to be unknowingly purchased by practically any system assembler. The ways in which counterfeits are produced, and the rapidly increasing skill of the counterfeiters in disguising their bogus components make the problem even more severe.
Many counterfeit components find their way into the inventories of independent distributors who fill the critical role of supplying manufacturers with new components that are either obsolete, allocated, or on long lead-times from the factory. To protect their customers from the increasing counterfeit threat, some distributors have begun thorough incoming inspection processes to detect counterfeits and remove them from the supply chain. As the quantity of counterfeits has grown, and as counterfeiters have become more sophisticated, this effort has grown into a sizable laboratory in some cases.
Inspection often involves not only components that the distributer is considering for purchase, but also components that OEMs have acquired from other sources, and even counterfeit components that have been declared genuine by private test labs.
In the global supply network the vast majority of counterfeit electronic components are plastic-encapsulated microcircuits (PEMs) that began life on a previously used circuit board that was ultimately scrapped, and probably within a western country. When the electronic equipment is discarded, their boards are harvested and shipped in vast quantities to China. Trucks haul the export containers from the docks of Hong Kong harbor to the town of Shantou where most of the component harvesting and counterfeit processing is performed within mainland China.
In one case in particular, workers were heating printed circuit boards, one at a time, over small fires until the solder reflowed. The board was then struck against a hard surface to make the components fall off and the components were then gathered off the ground. The individual components were then packed in bags, washed in streams and rivers, dried on sidewalks, sorted, and returned to the counterfeiter's workshop where the original part markings were sanded off. The surface of each component was then painted to resemble the original component color and cover sanding marks. After drying, the parts were then remarked using an ink or laser-etch process.
All of this rough treatment would be damaging even to brand new components—never mind components that have already seen a lifetime of service. Some of the components are already defunct, since they came from failed systems. The rough "sorting" of the components is especially significant. This work is done by women and children, who pay attention only to the dimensions of the components and the number of leads. All of the ones that look the same go into the same pile. Aside from the fact that some of the components are unquestionably dead electronically at this point, a single pile may contain components having different revision codes, or even different functions. But every component in a pile will get the same new matching part-marking.
The purpose of all of this work is to make each component as cosmetically similar as possible to the new component that it's impersonating. The point at which these counterfeits have value is at the moment when they are sold to a buyer as factory-new components. At that time, the counterfeiter's work is, so to speak, finished. If he is selling, for example, what purports to be a reel of PQFPs made by National Semiconductor, he will also counterfeit, or have someone else counterfeit, the reel and its labels. What the buyer examines will appear to be a new reel that holds new National Semiconductor PQFPs. If the counterfeiter is worried that his cosmetic work may not be quite up to standards, he may go out and purchase a few genuine National Semiconductor PQFPs and put them at the beginning, middle and ends of the reel. The sharp-eyed buyer who examines the first or last 30 or 40 components on the reel will be satisfied. The remaining 99% of the reel, however, holds counterfeits.
Not all counterfeit components are PEMs. There are counterfeit BGAs (as shown in Fig. 2) and flip chips (both technically PEMS), counterfeit ceramic-packaged microcircuits, and counterfeit passive components, such as resistors and capacitors. There are also counterfeit components that are created completely by the counterfeiter. These might be new-looking PEMs that have a lead frame and new, unused external leads—but no die!
Counterfeit components may begin their journey when they are sold over the counter in the town where they were created. From there they may be sold multiple times until they wind up in the inventory of an independent distributor. Not all independent distributors are concerned about the authenticity of the parts they sell, or are they willing to perform the multitude of tests required to verify authenticity. Counterfeits can thus easily wind up in all products, including medical products.
What makes counterfeits so dangerous in medical products is the impossibility of predicting their behavior. A refurbished counterfeit, even though it's mounted on a new board, is already elderly. An assembler of medical electronic systems who is unwittingly mounting counterfeit components is risking an unpredictable percentage of field failures in a relatively short time frame. Some counterfeits unquestionably live through a second installation and may still function properly for some time. But there are many that do not.
The counterfeits that have already experienced a normal service life, have endured the rigors of refurbishing, and that appear to operate normally are the most dangerous. Exposure to humidity, thermal cycling, and contaminants gradually degrade any PEM. Moisture and contaminants form tiny electrolytic cells on internal surfaces. Moisture ingression, thermal cycling, and corrosion can easily remove the insulating mold compound between two adjacent internal lead fingers and cause a short. It might attack and break a wire where it's bonded to a pad on the die. Or corrosion might create a large delamination that blocks heat dissipation and causes the die to overheat and fail. The damage might even cause the component to fail intermittently, a condition that might be diagnosed as a software problem.
The risk of unanticipated electrical failure is greatly increased by the remarking process applied to counterfeits. A given component may have been temperature-screened for use in commercial applications, but the counterfeiter may apply a new marking showing that the component was screened for industrial or even military applications. Or he may simply apply a new marking that indicates the component was made in 2009 instead of 1997. Or he may re-mark the component to indicate that it operates at a higher speed than it actually does. Critical system failures are often caused by those counterfeits that function electrically but that have subtle differences that the assembler probably will not think to test for because they are assumed to be brand new parts.
The device shown in Fig. 3 is a good example of such a part. It's an acoustic image, made by an acoustic micro imaging system that pulses high-frequency ultrasound into the part and receives the return echoes from internal interfaces. At the center of the image is the die, from which lead fingers radiate outward. What is actually being imaged here is the interface between the mold compound in the package and the die/lead frame. Gray regions mean that the mold compound is well bonded to the material beneath it. Red and yellow regions mean there is a disbond or delamination between the two materials. The numerous red and yellow defects are what one would expect to see in a refurbished part. Some of the defects seen here are likely harmless, but others, such as those around the periphery of the die, could easily cause electrical failure.
2. Acoustic image of a component in which numerous defects (red and yellow) could cause electrical failure.
Recently, counterfeiters greatly improved the cosmetic appearance of their products by developing a blacktop material that very closely resembles the factory finish of a genuine component. The part is first sanded to remove the original surface (the scratch marks from this process are very diagnostic of counterfeits), and the new blacktop paint is sprayed on, allowed to dry, and a new part marking is applied to the surface. Routine optical inspection by the buyer wouldn't reveal that a lot of incoming parts was counterfeit. The sides of the component, however, may reveal that the part is counterfeit because the paint over-spray often extends part of the way down the sides. But even this indicator may be missing from carefully prepared counterfeits.
To overcome this problem, SMT's lab began experimenting with a new solvent that under proper test conditions would remove the new counterfeit epoxy coatings while having no effect on the surface of a genuine component. The suspect component is partly immersed in the solvent and heated to a specific temperature for a specific time. If the component is counterfeit, the layer of blacktop will be removed completely. Fig. 4 shows the results. The solvent has removed the blacktop from the left side of the component in the figure, where sanding scratches are visible on the surface of the mold compound. At the right, the blacktop and portions of the bogus marking can be seen.
3. A scanning electron micrograph (SEM), in which highly engineered blacktop has been removed (on the left), reveals sanding marks in the mold compound.
Because counterfeiters are becoming more sophisticated in their camouflage techniques, multiple technologies are needed today to identify counterfeits. The full range of capabilities includes electrical testing, light microscopy, acoustic microscopy, solderability testing, solvent testing, decapsulation for die verification, various types of x-ray, and others such as data sheet comparison and BGA co-planarity measurement.
All of these methods have specific procedures that are invaluable in specific situations. For example, on a counterfeit PEM where the heated solvent had already removed the false topcoat and counterfeit markings, acoustic micro imaging was used to penetrate slightly into the surface of the mold compound where it revealed the original etched part marking. Much of the etched depth had been sanded away, and the etched marking was not visible optically, but the acoustic image made it legible.
In the past, buyers could often identify and reject counterfeit components when they spotted misspelled company names or misshapen lettering. Such crude counterfeits may still turn up today. But the huge volume of more carefully disguised counterfeits flowing through supply chains today require much more than casual visual inspection for the buyer to identify them as fakes.
Tom Sharpe is the vice-president of SMT Corp., located in Sandy Hook, Ct., a company he co-founded in 1995. He's also the current vice-president of IDEA (Independent Distributors of Electronics Association), where he has served continuously on the Board of Directors since 2003.


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Featured Project: Dokuwiki NROFF render Plugin
As the Citadel Project uses the Dokuwiki, it has use in extending its functionality. To unify our Documentation needs, we've created a Dokuwiki plugin to render Manpages, the NROFF plugin.
use it like that:
curl 'http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/documentation:cmdman:webserver?do=export_nroff&sec tion=1' >webserver.1
note that 'section' controls the man-section which it should live in.
Get the plugin here: nroff.tgz
Maybe you'd like to create a template with a dummy manpage for your users.


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Chinese Immigrants in Cuba: Documents from the James and Ana Melikian Collection
The Chinese Immigrants in Cuba collection includes hundreds of original documents, manuscripts and photos covering the migration of 125,000 Chinese who signed up to be cheap labor in Cuba from 1847 until the later 1890s. The archive continues until the 1970s and records the Chinese community in Cuba and is rich with photos. This massive collection, from the archive of James and Ana Melikian Collection, is probably the largest one in private hands concerning Chinese in Cuba. At present the collection contains over 1341 records and about 8,000-9,000 pages.
- 1 Image
- 1 Public
- Pedro
- Second Contract
- 1 Colon
- 1 Governor of Cuba
- 1 Ingenio S. Carlos
- 1 Jose Romano
A contract between Pedro, a Chinese settler, and Jose Romano. The contract was to last for a year and lists the legal requirements of both the employee and the employer. Notes that Pedro completed a contract previously with Ingenio S Carlos. Signed by the governor of Cuba, Jose Romano and Pedro, who signed in Chinese.
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Jason M necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
We require a website design for a new website. .PSD only, (with each element separated out on layers). No mark up required.
Design is for an international trader of industrial equipment. Currently operating in 45 countries. Current website can be found at http://www.worldpoly.com.au
We have alogo, brand and general style guide that the site needs to fit within. This can be found in the brochure DOWNLOAD SITE ASSETS HERE.
Keymessages to be put forward are:
- Workingwith Polyethylene since 1963.
- Operatingin 45 countries.
Brochure,website functional specification and images can be found at [link to downloadassets pack]
Pleaserefer to "Home Page" on page six of functional specification for description ofwhat we require from the design concept.
We are alsolooking at a space to rotate multiple languages from page 3 of includedbrochure (will likely using a flash element).
- Professional. Credible. International- Use of system fonts (e.g. Arial, Helvetica) for heading and menu items, so we can do text based rather than graphic based for SEO purposes- Site will be part of a group of sites, so needs space in footer for cross linking (more for Google than user). Approx 6 sites.
- Needs to be inline with current branding and look and feel of current brochure.
- Too colourful or cartoony
- Busy
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- Restrictive layout. Design needs to maintain integrity when large amounts of content are included
- Gimmicky. We need the site to convey the international and credible nature of the business, but without using gimmicks to achieve this.


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we are going to use a processor that (supposedly) should support OpenVG for 2D acceleration (a Freescale iMx51). We're running WinCE 6.
However we are porting an existing .NET application to the new device, and I would like to use OpenVG inside a Windows Form. I saw a blog where someone used OpenGL ES inside a Windows Form by using the coredll.dll function call getDC() to get the drawing context, and then P/Invoking all the calls.
Is a similar approach going to work for OpenVG? I am a total noob to this, and we wont have the device up and running for a long time yet. Thanks in advance!


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When I woke this morning at 2:40am, I thought that I had surely lost the first spot in line. After all, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project is the Court's first First Amendment case arising out of the past decade's war on terror. But the winter cold and late night rains conspired against my contemplated competitors: when I power-walked up to the Court, no one else was there.
A few thoughts before I suit up and head back out:
- I have no idea how HLP will turn out. No idea at all. That makes this morning's oral argument all the more exciting and will hopefully provide for a challenging, yet rewarding, write-up this afternoon. In the meantime, listen to my former boss's case preview.
- Opinions today. Expecting a few dogs, but if the Court hands down, say, Salazar v. Buono, Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, or United States v. Stevens, I'll have some comment up this afternoon.
- The line didn't really get going until closer to 7am. I am shocked at just how few people got to the Court before dawn. Those who did arrive, however, were all law students, and undergraduate aspiring lawyers. As such, although I had a great time getting to know everyone in line, I will not be writing a vox populi column from this morning's experience. Instead, look for my report from yesterday's Lewis v. City of Chicago line to be posted by tonight.
- I've started to strike up relationships with the Court's night shift police officers. They're friendly, talkative, and have great stories from their years serving at One First. Too bad they won't go on the record…but I'll keep trying.
- So very glad that tomorrow's cases do not compel F1@1F coverage. I love being out there, but I do also love a good night's sleep.
Shower time. More later today.


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PREMIO Team Building
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- Costa Rica & Panama
- 主要联系人
- Rolando Ramiez
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- www.catalystteambuilding.cr
Catalyst Global team building products are sold and distributed in Costa Rica and Panama under exclusive licence by PREMIO Team building.
At PREMIO team building our success is based on a fresh approach which focuses on listening to customers and designing and delivering team building activities, team building games and team building exercises which match their desired outcomes bringing lasting impact to the health of an organisation and the happiness of its people. We believe that skilful communication, teamwork, leadership and team bonding are the backbone of an effective team.
At PREMIO we generate change and enrich the lives of people both personally and professionally through teambuilding, training and experiential learning programs. Whether you are looking for a fun team bonding activities, interactive business game, out and about technology based programs, conference energiser or ice breaker, we have the right solution.
At PREMIO team building we tailor solutions to suit the unique needs of your team and your desired outcomes including staff development, change management, networking, strategic planning, communication, process improvement, customer relationship management or CSR. As part of the Catalyst Global network, we offer the Catalyst Global guaranteed quality assurance of high standards, product excellence and extensive experience when organising and delivering corporate events and team building products.
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It's the morning of 30 November 2009 during my visit to South Africa. I sat down at the computer wanting to write something, anything really. My usual method and medium is online, blogging etc., but I don't have internet here in my mother's home and am exploring ways to keep working while not having the option of being connected to the information flow. This is the more traditional way writers approached the process over history, being restricted to pondering over your words that are collected and stored for potential release into the consciousness of others at a later date, if ever. I am used to working on something that will generally be read in a few weeks or days via blogger, even more radically, with the current move towards micro-blogging like twitter, instantly.
I sat down at the living room table facing the screen, noting as the laptop booted up, a wooden ornamental yellow tulip, inside a vase on the table, jutting out from directly behind the centre of the PC's screen. I had purchased it a few days ago in an Amsterdam airport as a gift to my mother traveling to my destination here in SA.
I have written allot about synchronicities involving yellow flowers on my blog centred on the peculiar phenomena of finding them present in the majority of screen appearances of actress and movie star Kirsten Dunst.
Flowers directly behind peoples heads, seemingly sprouting from their crowns, have also been noted as ways in which the subtle body of a human is being highlighted by the environment surrounding the body.
Just like a halo behind a religious painting of a saint or a lotus flower representing the chakra of a Buddha, I see objects moving behind the profile as clues to the extended non physical self of a person whether in a film or in real life.
By imagining my laptop screen as the head of a person I found it humorous to attribute this same phenomena, a flower crowning the head and realizing the subtle body, as happening to my PC. It seemed a silly and whimsical thought, suggesting my computer as a being with a subtle body. The unusual is however what tickles and excites me and a kept the fleeting thought in mind as the screen went clear and dark just before Windows starts up, suddenly becoming a surface with a mirror like quality. Now, directly in front of me was my own reflection on the laptop computer screen, positioned just so that the upper part of my skull was cut of by the top of the screen just above the ears. Behind this was the yellow tulip I had imagined crowning the laptop's "head", now also crowning my own reflection.
Immediately I was reminded of the poster for the film "Adaptation". It shows a flower pot, containing a flower, broken and lying on its side. Imposed over the base of the flower pot is the face of Nicholas Cage. His crown is cut off by the rim of the pot resulting in it resembling the situation I was staring at on my PC screen. A flat topped head with a flower emanating from the centre of it.
These events had made the previous passing thoughts of my computer screen as a head with a potential flowering subtle body seem a little more tantalizing.
Next my 14 year old cat, Angie, jumps up onto the table looking for attention, rubbing her head against the laptop screen and trying to walk over the keyboard. I give her some token scratches but generally dismiss her advances as writing is the order of the day. Angie then proceeds to make herself comfortable behind my laptop screen, lying down and coiling her tail around the yellow flower vase.
At this point none of these events had yet struck me as significant enough to write about, just the regular ebb and flow strange silly ideas as I ready myself to write and wait for Windows to load and settle.
I look again at Angie and the yellow flower and decide the charming moment could make a potentially interesting photo then retrieving my camera. Trying to compose the shot I decide it would make for a better image if the cat was looking up at me and I call her name to illicit a response.
This has an unexpected result as she moves her whole body and tail. I quickly snap what ever I can as Angie is moving out of frame and alignment with the yellow flower. As all of this unfolds the movement tips the vase and shatters its delicate glass on the table. As I stare at the scene, Angie now removed from the sharp looking glass on the table, the previously banal moment reaches that often experienced critical mass that highlights it for full attention. The lightning flash of recognition, when confronted with indisputable gorgeous mystery of indivisible self and other, moves electrically through my body.
The real life physical vase, that was seconds ago associated only in my mind with the broken flower pot of Adaptation, has just moved into physical alignment with the thoughts. A mentally perceived broken flower pot, with a flower coming out of a head, entraining with the very same elements, just slightly rearranged given my particular actual moment's context. Highlighted smashingly by the crash of the vase.
Was all this to trigger the idea and firmly plant the seed as to highlight machines as genuinely having subtle bodies?
It's 3 December 2009 and I just got home from lunch with an old friend. I had many acid experiences with him where we 'broke open our heads' as teenagers. I hadn't seen him in 2 years during a previous visit to South Africa.
A great sync happened right out of the gate as I mentioned taking Ayahuasca in Winnipeg during the past few years. He said he isn't very familiar with the substance but coincidentally had just watched a YouTube video the day before where Alex Grey describes a personal Ayahuasca journey. I described an interview clip that I am familiar with, then realizing we were talking about the same one.
That is Alex Grey on Ayahuasca to be specific.
He was delighted when I explained this was an interview made by my friend Jim. Jim is the very person who I was doing Ayahuasca with in Winnipeg.
One evening we just reminisced about (maybe a decade before), we were both in a kitchen tripping and looking for popcorn at a party. We had found oil and a pot but been frustrated in our efforts of finding the last key ingredient, the actual corn kernels. The host had assured us this item was indeed present in the kitchen but he couldn't tell us exactly where and was too preoccupied in his own ecstatic adventure to assist us.
Spontaneously I declared out loud that we are both currently tripping on a powerful enlightening substance and should be able to locate the popcorn with our psychic powers. I stopped without thinking and pointed at one of the seemingly endless cupboard doors, pronouncing that the popcorn is "there!" Slowly I bent down to open the door as my friend looked on with much interests to see if the popcorn prophecy would be fulfilled. It was indeed right behind that very door!
Very pleased with our now obviously 'enlightened state' we proceeded to put the popcorn on the stove and heat it up. A few minutes later, having gotten sidetracked by 'something shiny', we returned to the kitchen, its floor now largely covered in popcorn. We had forgotten the simple act of covering the pot with a lid.
A solution was quickly contrived as we sprinkled salt all over the floor and proceeded to recline and eat straight off of the ground, laughing at the unusual moment and how silly we were being.
I was telling this same friend about many of the recent adventures in Winnipeg with Jim, Jupiter and Ayahuasca. As an unusually open minded university psychology lecturer he was pleasantly open and receptive to the unusual synchromystic type banter.
He dropped me off at home and I put on the T.V to be greeted by a scene from the animated "Flushed Away" with Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet.
Flushed Away was talked about quite a bit in another post I wrote in Africa K2 and the 2012 Maya Mega Ritual.
A frog Marcel Marceau mime type character with a yellow sunflower in his hat, holds up a 'flip open' cell phone. The mime is a henchman of "The Toad" or Ian McKellen as the bad guy and has been sent to present a message to Jackman and Winslet. The cell phone the mime frog is holding flips open and McKellan's animated face appears on the screen of the device.
The screen covers the mime's face and McKellan's occupies the area where the mime's head would be. This has now become the perfect equivalent of the situation addressed above where my face was mirrored on the laptop as a yellow tulip protruded behind the screen!
This reminds me that I also noted a laptop on a morning T.V show today with a star shape wall decoration right behind it. Just like both yellow flower incidents the computers screen had entrained with a radiating star/crown motif.
I am NOW convinced computers have subtle bodies and we are learning to see them.
I finish re-reading this piece mostly written in SA and decide to look at the background of my screen right NOW. To my delight I see that the whole time I have been working on adapting this for The Blob my PC has been emanating and entraining with a flourishing plant. Confirmation in my mind of the ideas expressed in the piece.
WE/ME are realizing our Consciousness is not located in the mind but everywhere and when. Computers are growing out of the universe just as WE/ME have. We were only a bridge for bringing them into existence. All is nature and conscious already. The mind can't yet always see it because it tends to look for intelligence that behaves like itself before it recognizes awareness in another. The quest for A.I is over.
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GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Few farm systems can match the Reds' recent productivity.
The Reds have reached the playoffs in three of the last four seasons with predominantly homegrown clubs, establishing Tony Cingrani, Zack Cozart, Todd Frazier, Mike Leake and Devin Mesoraco as regulars along the way. They've also traded highly regarded prospects Yonder Alonso, Brad Boxberger, Yasmani Grandal and Didi Gregorius to acquire key pieces Shin-Soo Choo (since departed) and Mat Latos.
The quality of farm systems usually runs in cycles, and all of those promotions and trades have left Cincinnati's a little thinner than usual. What the Reds may lack in depth, they make up for with excitement, as they feature two of baseball's most dynamic prospects.
Right-hander Robert Stephenson was only the 17th pitcher selected (27th overall) in the loaded 2011 First-Year Player Draft, but his pure stuff is as good as any of them. He has one of the best fastball-curveball combos in the Minors, and after surging to Double-A last year, he could reach Cincinnati by midseason.
"Robert Stephenson is right there with all the big-name guys in terms of stuff," Reds farm director Jeff Graupe said. "His fastball and curveball are potential 70s [on the 20-80 scouting scale], but I don't think his changeup is talked about enough. His changeup is a weapon. It's every bit a 50 pitch."
Billy Hamilton needs no introduction, not after setting a professional record with 155 steals in 2012 and swiping 13 bases in 13 games during his first big league callup last September. Scouts can't recall a player as quick as Hamilton on the basepaths, and he'll take over as Cincinnati's center fielder this year.
Hamilton is part of the Reds system's greatest area of depth: outfielders. Sweet-swinging Phillip Ervin (a 2013 first-rounder) and Jesse Winker (a 2012 supplemental first-rounder) likely will start this season in high Class A and could arrive at Great American Ball Park next year. Yorman Rodriguez, Junior Arias and Jonathan Reynoso are very toolsy, and Cincinnati also is high on Donald Lutz and Kyle Waldrop, among others.
"Outfield depth is certainly something we have," Graupe said. "With our depth, we have a bunch of guys we see as potential everyday players. It's a good blend of upside, a mix of bats and athletes and defenders and speed and power. Everyone brings something different to the table. It will be fun to see how it all shakes out."
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The Reds selected Winker 49th overall in the 2012 Draft and paid him $1 million because of his offensive potential. He has justified that faith in his 1 1/2 seasons as a pro, with his .301/.402/.476 batting line reminiscent of what Jay Bruce did at the same stage of his career.
MLBPipeline.com: You weren't the only sandwich pick out of Olympia High (Orlando, Fla.) in 2012, because the Padres took right-hander Walker Weickel six picks after you. How much do you stay in touch? Did you face him in the Midwest League last year.
Winker: I run into him when we're playing and I see him sometimes when we're home. It was cool going through the Draft process with another guy; you could discuss how it was going. I did face him in the Midwest League, which was pretty cool after playing together all those years. I think I went 2-for-4 against him, with a walk.
MLBPipeline.com: Scouts praise your ability to produce for both average and power. Do you see yourself as hitter who has power or as a power guy who can hit?
Winker: A hitter who has power. I try to take a good approach every at-bat. I like to battle the pitcher. I don't see myself as just a free-swinging guy. I will take a single to left field. But I enjoy putting the ball up in the seats as well.
MLBPipeline.com: Scouts aren't as high on the rest of your game, your speed and defense. Have you heard that? And does that motivate you?
Winker: Personally, I take pride in my defense. I don't want to be a one-sided player. My goal is to one day be a Gold Glove outfielder. I want to get better every day.
Camp standout: Sal Romano
A product of Southington (Conn.) High -- which also produced former Reds All-Star Rob Dibble and Carl Pavano -- Romano lasted 23 rounds in the 2011 Draft because he was strongly committed to attend Tennessee. Cincinnati was able to lure him to pro ball for $450,000, knowing that his development would require patience.
Romano was relatively inexperienced as a high school pitcher from the Northeast, and he's still learning how to repeat his delivery with his big 6-foot-4, 250-pound frame. In his first two years as a pro, he has gone 12-17 with a 5.02 ERA while allowing more than twice as many baserunners (301) as he has strikeouts (141) in 184 2/3 innings.
Still just 20, Romano has shown more consistency this spring.
"He's had a really nice camp," Graupe said. "He's been throwing 92-93 mph with plus sink and a good curveball. He's been working on commanding his hard sinker and learning when to mix in his curveball."
Breakout candidate: Amir Garrett
Better known as a basketball player in high school, Garrett caused a stir shortly before the 2011 Draft. He wowed scouts as a 6-foot-5 left-hander who could reach 96 mph, and the Reds gambled on him in the 22nd round. They paid him a $1 million bonus while allowing him to play hoops at St. John's.
Garrett pitched just 77 2/3 innings in 2012-13 while juggling the two sports. When his playing time dipped as a sophomore at St. John's, he opted to transfer to Cal State Northridge, which meant he had to sit out this season per NCAA rules.
Garrett's hoops inactivity allowed him to report to Spring Training this year, and he arrived in Goodyear in mid-February. He says he hasn't given up on basketball yet, but his development could really take off if he focused solely on baseball.
"He's been outstanding," Graupe said. "He's going to go to [low Class A] Dayton and be in the Opening Day rotation. He's an impressive kid who throws hard, has a plus slider and a fringy changeup that's going to get better with time. It's a fresh arm, a power arm. You can really dream on him. There are not many 6-foot-5 left-handers with his athleticism and arm."
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The Food and Drug Administration will hold a meeting in June to reassess the safety of GlaxoSmithKline's former blockbuster drug Avandia, which was severely restricted in 2010 due to concerns about its impact on the heart.
Regulators announced the highly unusual move in a government notice published on Friday. The FDA said it will ask a panel of outside experts to review a new analysis of the key study examining Avandia's heart risks.
A spokeswoman for Glaxo said the drug company commissioned researchers at Duke University to reanalyze the study, called RECORD, which followed patients for five years and tracked rates of heart attack, stroke and death. The new analysis "did not show a statistically significant difference," in heart safety between Avandia and older diabetes drugs, according to company spokeswoman Mary Anne Rhyne.
The reliability of the study's results was a key topic of debate in the FDA's previous review of Avandia.
Glaxo argued that the study showed Avandia was as safe as other diabetes drugs. But some FDA scientists said that the study was unreliable because it underreported heart attacks and other problems.
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Currently U.S. patients can only receive Avandia after signing a waiver from their doctor indicating that they understand the risks and have tried other drugs to treat their disease. London-based Glaxo voluntarily stopped marketing the drug in 2010.
Presumably, the FDA could loosen restrictions on the drug if new evidence suggests it is not as dangerous as previously thought.
First approved in 1999, Avandia became the top-selling diabetes pill in the world by 2006, with sales of $3.4 billion. Sales began plummeting the following year after medical researchers began questioning the drug's safety. The drug was also banned in Europe.
Last year Glaxo plead guilty to failing to report safety problems with Avandia to government officials over a seven-year period. The guilty plea was part of a larger $3 billion settlement with the Department of Justice - the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history - for various criminal and civil violations involving 10 of the company's drugs.
Shares of GlaxoSmithKline PLC fell 5 cents to close at $48.47 in trading Friday.


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Why buy property in dalaman Turkey
Property buying in the Dalaman area of Turkey has always been focused on visitors that need to be close to the international airport with easy access to many of the local coastal resorts of Gocek, Fethiye, Marmaris and the stunning town of Dalyan etc.
In recent years, one of Turkey's secrets has been revealed, the beautiful natural lake district of Akkaya just minutes away from the centre of Dalaman and the beautiful white sands of Sarigerme beach, set in lush green landscapes, a firm favourite with many Turkish people who love nature and wildlife.
Now that the secret is out, foreign visitors have also fallen deeply in love with the area and it has seen some amazing luxury properties being developed all with idyllic natural settings. Holiday homes are being snapped up and investors have seen its potential for rental opportunity and are now cashing in with excellent rental yields from both Turkish and international tourists and nature lovers.
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Dalaman is a large town that lies on the south-western coastline of Turkey in the Mugla province, with most people linking the town only with Dalaman International Airport which serves as the gateway for tourists visiting some the stunning seaside resorts of the area, such as Marmaris, Fethiye, Oludeniz, Gocek etc from across Europe.
The town of Dalaman is situated just 5km south of the airport and plays a huge role in agriculture in the Mugla province, being a large sea level plain with huge citrus fruit groves which can easily be seen along the main road leading to the airport, providing the area with an its main income source.
Dalaman is also home to one of Turkey's largest open prisons, for less dangerous offenders who are sent there for rehabilitation to learn new skills before being released, if you have the time it's worth popping into the prison restaurant to sample some of their culinary delights at very reasonable prices.
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Dalaman town is best suited for buyers who want to be close to the airport and be part of a busy town with all amenities close at hand. The local beach of Sarigerme, a long stretch of golden sand, is just a short drive away a tiny relaxed village with just a handful of bars and restaurants, though the beach can get very busy in the summer being highly popular with Kite boarders.
Real estate in Dalaman town can be found in the centre or on the outskirts surrounded by huge open fields, either modern apartment complexes or large private villas that often come with large plots of land at much lower prices than the holiday resort areas nearby.
Akkaya, a little know yet beautiful village located just five kilometres from Dalaman more suited for nature lovers has some wonderful properties set in the hillside surrounding a stunning natural lake. Also known as 'Turkey's secret village' completely unspoilt by tourism the village is popular with affluent Turkish people and has a growing interest from other nationalities too.
Many of Akkaya's properties offer back-to-nature living coupled with a luxury lifestyle, with stunning views over the lake with backdrops of the glorious pine-clad mountains. As the area is becoming a more popular place to visit, prices are currently rising and rental yields are excellent, attracting the more discerning tourists who love to be at one with nature and wildlife.
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everyday life. Change is a natural and normal part of life, and therefore a
moderate amount of stress is part of normal living.
But, stress can be bad for your heart. If you have heart disease, stress can lead to angina symptoms and maybe a heart attack.
Can narrow your arteries
Could reduce blood flow through your coronary
arteries, which could cause angina or a heart attack
Increases your blood pressure
Could increase the workload on your heart and
rupture a plaque in your coronary artery, causing a heart attack
Increases your heart rate
Increases your heart's workload, and could cause a potentially dangerous irregular
heartbeat (arrhythmia)
There are several steps you can take to
help reduce your stress level. Doing so will have a positive impact on your
health and your life.
Try different ways to reduce stress such as exercise, deep breathing, meditation, or
yoga. For more tips on how to manage stress, see:
No single method of "stress-busting" works
for everybody. You may need to experiment with several different methods to
find one that works for you. You may need to combine a few methods to get the
best results.
When you find one or more methods that work for
you, your mission is not yet accomplished. You also will need to change the
situation that is causing you stress, if you can, or perhaps change your
reaction to that situation.
For more information, see Stress Management.
Last Revised:
April 5, 2012
Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:
Rakesh K. Pai, MD, FACC - Cardiology, Electrophysiology & Robert A. Kloner, MD, PhD - Cardiology
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This Used 2011 PRS "Experience 2011 Custom 24" Limited
Edition Guitar
Body: One-piece mahogany back, carved artist grade flamed maple "ten" top
Color: Burnt almond
Finish: High gloss "V12"
Neck: One piece mahogany neck
Fretboard: Ebony
Inlay: Black mother of pearl "bird" inlays with white Mother of pearl outlines
Neck Profile: Pattern regular
Tuners: PRS Phase III open-back low mass locking tuners
Headstock Veneer: Flamed maple with white mother of pearl eagle headstock inlay with gold outline
Frets: 24
Scale Length: 25"
Bridge: Gold plated PRS floating vibrato Bridge with nickel plated saddles
Pickups: Two PRS "59/09" humbucking pickups
Electronics: Five-way blade pickup selector, master Volume & tone controls
Case and Accessories: PRS artist package hardshell case, hang tags & case candy
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Used Paul Reed Smith Private Stock McCarty Zombie Heart in mint shape. The finish is absolutely stunning, and all the woods were hand picked by the original dealer for the best looking and tonal woods. The frets, finish are all untouched. The bridge pickup has some small dots of tarnish, but very minor. Beautifully balanced weight, and tonally is very diverse with the woods, pickups and push/pull options built into this one of a kind instrument.
Model: McCarty
Serial Number: 16-227034 #6080
Neck: Honduran rosewood with red/orange spines 12th fret bird with pink heart abalone outline on heel
Fingerboard: Madagascar Rosewood
Top: Maple burl
Back: Maple burl with matching backplates
Middle: Mahogany
Headstock Veneer: Zombie heart finished burl maple
Neck Shape: Pattern
Side Dots: Pink heart abalone
Color: Zombie Heart
Fingerboard inlays: Gradating birds consisting of red with gold vein, dark red coral, red/white spiney, medium red coral, red/orange spines, mandarin orange, yellow/orange spines, honey jasper and sun corian with pink heart abalone outlines
Headstock veneer inlay: Madagascar Rosewood Private Stock eagle with pink heart abalone outline
Finish: High gloss nitro
Pickups:: 57/08 bridge & neck
Electronics: Volume, push/pull tone with 3-way toggle
Bridge: Aluminum stoptail with brass inserts
Tuners: Gold/nickel phase III locking tuners with Madagascar Rosewood buttons
Weight: 8.2lbs
Case: Private stock black snakeskin tolexView full product details
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Pre-owned 1966 Fender Jaguar in Lake Placid Blue.
One family has owned this since it was purchased brand new in 1966. A stunning piece of Fender history in a rare Lake Placid Blue which has faded into a beautiful green hue. This famously happened to these colors due to the tints in the clear coat. You can see some of the original blue under the pickguard and in the worn areas. Everything is original, except a very old hardshell case. The case and trem bar are included. The mute is mostly functional but slowly deteriorating from age.
Pickups have strong output (pictured). See pictures for detailed images of the wear and beautiful aging inside and out!
Traditionally, the Jaguar has two circuits—lead and rhythm.
The lead circuit allows for the activation of both pickups with three slide switches on a chrome plate on the lower bout, while the rhythm circuit only deals with the neck/rhythm pickup through controls on the upper bout's chrome plate. It should be noted, that when in the rhythm setting, the bridge pickup is deactivated and the lower-bout volume and tone controls go inactive.
Make: Fender
Model: Jaguar
Year: 1966
Color: Lake Placid Blue
Serial: 178526
Condition: Very good
Accessories: Hardshell case (non-original), trem bar
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Used Gibson Les Paul Custom Centipede Burst. In excellent condition, shows very little to no wear on the finish or frets. The back shows very light swirl. The top shows only very light pick marks near strings. COA included, OHSC included, extra black toggle switch cavity cover included, uninstalled pickguard included in case as well.
Former 'black tie' Custom dresses to kill with a gorgeously figured top, pearl block inlays, bound split-diamond headstock, and full-bore Gibson Custom tone and craftsmanship.
Top Wood Species: Maple
Pieces: 2
Grade: B
Binding: Multi-ply
Back Wood Species: Mahogany
Pieces: 1
Binding: Multi-ply
Weight Relief: Yes
Glue: Titebond
Carve: Les Paul Custom
Neck Wood Species: Mahogany
Pieces: 1
Truss Rod: Yes
Profile: LP Custom
Thickness at Fret 1: .818"
Thickness at Fret 12: .963"
Inlay: Pearl Split Diamond
Peg Head Binding: Multi-ply
Logo: Gibson
Headstock Angle: 17 degrees
Joint Angle: 4 Degrees
Joint Angle Tolerance: .600-.625
Nut Material: Corian
Width: 4.28 cm / 1.687"
Fretboard Wood Species: Richlite
Pieces: 1
Radius: 12"
Frets: 22
Scale: 24 3/4"
Binding: White
Side Dots (Color): Black
Rhythm: 490R
Lead: 498T
Case Style:Reissue Les Paul
Color: Reissue Brown with Pink Fur Lining
Serial Number: C 066
Weight: 8 lbs 12 oz.
Year: 2015
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Twenty-eight of the world's most stylish, playful and charismatic women hit the beaches and hot spots of Ibiza for the next phase of the MARTINI® Royale Casting – a search for the new female MARTINI® star who will also receive €150,000, 12 pairs of Christian Louboutin shoes and 12 outfits from my-wardrobe.com.
Named after the MARTINI® Royale drink, The MARTINI® Royale Casting is a global search to find a woman who demonstrates the philosophy of MARTINI® "LUCK IS AN ATTITUDE." From more than 3,500 applications, the 28 women from 23 countries were selected by the impressive international judging panel consisting of iconic shoe designer Christian Louboutin, my-wardrobe.com founder Sarah Curran and Yuri Buzzi, the winner of last year's MARTINI® Kisser Casting.
The international finalists arrived in smoking hot Ibiza, to compete in a series of challenging tasks set out to test who really has what it takes to be the next female MARTINI® star. These challenges were filmed as part of an entertainment series that goes live today on facebook.com/MARTINI®.
The women were also given the opportunity to show the global judging panel that they have the attitude and style required for the role as they were photographed together by iconic photographer Bryan Adams. The exclusive photo shoot was directed by Art Director Tom Usher and styled by my-wardrobe.com founder Sarah Curran. Each of the semi-finalists wore a chic, signature bikini from the British swimwear brand Heidi Klein.
Photographer Bryan Adams and Art Director Tom Usher comment "It was fun to photograph and direct the photo shoot of the 28 MARTINI® Royale Casting finalists in Ibiza. They were a beautiful group of women and really there were a few finalists in particular that really grabbed our attention; however, it wouldn't be fair at this stage to say who they were."
My-wardrobe.com founder Sarah Curran, international judge and invaluable adviser to the finalists during their challenges in Ibiza, comments: "The talent really was exceptionally high. It is going to be very hard for people to choose who they want to win the MARTINI® Royale Casting. My advice to those voting is to look out for the woman that has that little bit of something special and unique and whose confidence and attitude shines through."
During the week in Ibiza, each of the women were tested to their limit with a series of challenges. These included the 'Catwalk Challenge' illustrating their style, an 'Acting Challenge' which revealed their confident attitude, and a 'Photography Challenge' to see if they have the creative skills required to be the next female MARTINI® star.
From today, the public can watch the women strut their stuff in the first of twelve episodes to launch on FACEBOOK.COM/MARTINI.
By voting for your favorite, you can help MARTINI® decide which woman has what it takes to become the next female MARTINI® star... So now it's time to decide, who will you choose?
Following the results of the FACEBOOK.COM/MARTINI voting, MARTINI® will announce seven finalists in October, when the next female star of MARTINI® will be revealed at the Grand Final in Milan.
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MauiAmy necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
Co-Ownership Solutions -
ALOHA Designers! We need your help! Launching a new biz:
Co-Ownership Solutions.
We are a service that matches luxury buyers who wish to co-own property together in Hawaii. We're like a e-Harmony matchmaker for luxury resort property.
Our property prices range from $1 million/+. We're new so we can only offer the basic reward for logo work but will be willing to use winner for future design projects like press kits, property brochures, etc...
We are looking to Incorprate "HAWAII" into our logo as well.
Would like a modern clean organic look combined with a LUXURY refined feeling. The age group of our clientelle varies but need to attract clients who are familiar with luxury brands.
Info Below - Good Luck & Aloha!
Thank You for working on our project - MAHALO!!
Pacific Northwest Urban Yuppies, Baby Boomers, Western Canadians...people who have visited Maui numerous times, anyone who owns multiple second homes in destination resort areas.
Like basic colors like silvers, granite, white, black, taupe, etc...anything modern & organic or vintage modern.
We do not want anything with primary colors of green, red, purple blue.
No dolphins, turtles, whales, rainbows, or house logos.
We are into your creativity & are open to your vision!!
We are open to outline of chain of Hawaiian islands, Tiki huts, umberllas, or tourches, waves, or anything original & abstract!!! We love abstract!
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With a relatively high income plus a fair amount of deductions would it be of any concern to use a home tax program as opposed to hiring a tax professional to file? I have heard from no one in particular that with a higher income you should always use a tax professional. Is it possible to raise red flags just by filing yourself?
A. First of all, I do not believe that the IRS makes any pre-judgement of "taxpayer-prepared" returns. So, while not always the best way to go, there are not any "red flags" raised just because you prepare your own return, whether manually or via a "home tax program" (is that anything like a "home pregnancy test"?).
That being said, I certainly wholeheartedly agree that with a higher income, or rather with anything other than the simplest of returns, you should always use a tax professional instead of relying on tax software.
As I have written here and elsewhere many times in the past, no tax preparation software is a substitute for knowledge of the tax code. And no tax preparation software is a substitute for the services of a trained tax professional!
As with any software program the rule is "garbage in - garbage out". If you don't know how to enter the information, or what information to enter, you will not get the best, or even the correct, answer.
Forget about those tax-time television ads that tell you even a caveman can prepare his taxes correctly simply by using a particular tax software program. It just ain't so!
When the IRS comes after you for errors on your tax return you can't blame it on the software. The US Tax Court has on two separate occasions rejected the "Turbo-Tax Defense" when a taxpayer attempted to blame tax preparation software for a negligent tax return.
As a professional tax preparer I attend several tax preparation workshops, seminars, conferences and conventions during the year. I am constantly hearing instructors and participants alike discuss problems with their tax preparation software, the answer often being that one has to override the system and "force" the correct entry.
FYI, in 35+ years of preparing tax returns I have never used tax software to prepare a 1040. I prepare 400+ tax returns a year – all by hand. When I am asked what tax software I use I simply point to my head, indicating my brain.
IRS statistics indicate that taxpayers using do-it-yourself tax software spend an average of between 6 and 10+ hours longer preparing their tax returns (depending on the number of worksheets and schedules) than taxpayers who do manual calculations. Further, the IRS estimates that do-it-yourself software users spend an average of 10 to over 20 hours longer on the return than if they used a paid tax preparer, again depending on complexity.
The bottom line is – if you don't know what you are doing do not rely on a tax preparation software package to make up for your lack of tax knowledge. Using a tax professional will save you time, aggravation and money.
You can click here to find a tax professional in your area. FYI, I am not looking for any new 1040 clients.
While I am on the subject – I got the following ASK THE TAX PRO email submission at the tail end of December:
Q – "I've had a negative AGI the past two years and when I go to TurboTax to enter my info it doesn't ask if I want to carry it over like it did in years past. Is this still possible? And if so, where would I enter it?"
My email response to the submitter was as follows:
"I have absolutely no idea!!! In 35 years of preparing tax returns I have never used any tax preparation software. ASK THE TAX PRO is not a forum for specific tax software questions! If you do not know anything about taxes you should not be relying on tax software."
To repeat – ASK THE TAX PRO is not a forum for specific tax software questions! Even if I did use tax software I would not offer free "how to use your software" information online – that is what "technical support" is for.


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Wow MCQ1, really nice;
I just finished a rough assembly of a STG58 with a entreprise receiver. I'm waiting for my locking lug .260" and my compliance parts from gunpartsguy. I plan on bluing it after stripping and refurbishment. I hope it turns out at nice as yours. I've built many AK's, a couple of AR's and many 1911 customs but so far just this one FAL! When I want a toy to play with and fondle (remember I said toy), I do think the FAL is going to be the winner.
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Malloy makes it official: He's running
Little surprise as Malloy says he will seek new term; Danbury mayor, 5 others vying for GOP nomination
HARTFORD -- Since losing the 2006 Democratic gubernatorial primary, Dannel P. Malloy has never stopped running for governor, even after his whisker-close victory over Greenwich millionaire Tom Foley in 2010.
Throughout his nearly 3½ years in office, the governor's daily public schedule has sent him all over the state, visiting farmers in Shelton, the fragile coastline in East Haven, power projects in Bridgeport, reconverted factories in his hometown of Stamford.
It's a never-ending string of public appearances, seven days a week. On Saturday morning, he'll run in the second annual Newtown 5K road race to benefit a Sandy Hook Elementary School charity.
So it comes as no surprise to political observers -- and the six Republicans jockeying to topple him -- that Malloy accelerated his own time schedule by six weeks on Friday, finally admitting offhandedly to Capitol reporters that he and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman will seek a second, four-year term.
Malloy blurted out the inevitable at the end of a regular news conference that follows the monthly meeting of the State Bond Commission, which he controls and which approved about $35 million in grants and loans that state taxpayers will pay off through long-term debt.
"Nancy and I have talked about the race and we both reached mutual conclusions that we should go to the people of the state of Connecticut and ask them for their support to continue the work that we have been undertaking for the last 3.6 years and we're very happy to announce today that we will begin that work, but nothing will change with respect to our approach to finishing the session or doing the hard work of passing important legislation," Malloy said.
The wide-open atrium of the Legislative Office Building, where dozens of Capitol employees, lobbyists and visitors stood watching the news conference, echoed with applause upon the announcement.
For weeks, Malloy had said he would reveal his future plans after the legislative session ends May 7, a week before the Democratic state convention.
A minute after his seemingly spontaneous announcement, Malloy's campaign sent emails trumpeting the news and asking for contributions, signaling the official start of fundraising.
Malloy is committed to raising $250,000 in individual contributions of $100 or less to leverage millions in public financing. "It's a lot of work to raise $250,000 in small allotments, and let the work begin," he said, ending the news conference.
But Friday was an excellent occasion to lift the veil. During a national TV show that morning, Malloy, 58, beat around the bush when asked if he would run again. It didn't take Connecticut reporters very long to bring up the issue, yet again, as they had for months. He first deferred the question, then circled back to it.
"I'm looking at some of the things other candidates are saying and I want to be able to hit the ground in May when the session is over," he said.
On Thursday, Malloy signed legislation to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 over three installments, topping out Jan. 1, 2017. In a symbolic return to the scene of President Barack Obama's recent visit to Connecticut, Malloy chose the same New Britain restaurant that the president selected to illustrate the need to raise more people out of poverty.
"(Friday's) announcement allows Gov. Malloy and Lt. Gov. Wyman to formally launch their fundraising efforts while also taking advantage of the monumental decision to adopt the highest minimum wage in the country," said Khalilah Brown-Dean, assistant professor of political science at Quinnipiac University. "The high level of bipartisan support among voters for increasing that wage will prove to be a key electoral hurdle for the Republican challenger."
Pollsters also say the minimum wage is a great issue with women, particularly for the Democratic Party nationally, which is still reeling from the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act, although Connecticut AccessHealth CT is among the most successful health exchanges in the nation.
At this point, with the recent Quinnipiac University Poll showing him in a tie with Republican Tom Foley, Malloy has been using the free exposure of news reports to keep his appearances in full public view. The poll also showed a 48 percent approval rating among state voters that only passes the magical 50 percent threshold after adding the 2.3 percent margin of error.
Republican hopefuls who will be sorted out during the GOP's convention in mid-May -- the same weekend as the Democratic state convention -- include Foley, who lost by 6,404 votes in 2010; Senate Minority Leader John McKinney; Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton; Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti; former failed attorney general candidate Martha Dean; and Joseph Visconti.
Gary L. Rose, chairman of the Department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University, said the major indicator that Malloy would seek re-election was the lack of movement among other potential Democratic candidates preparing for the May 16 party convention in Hartford.
"The word was out among the party that he was in the groove for another term," Rose said in a phone interview. "I think that he got a little shaken up by the last poll. I know McKinney, Foley, Boughton started to hammer on him. Now's the time to start rebutting and campaigning. So I think the polls and top-tier Republicans forced him to declare a little earlier."
Case in point: McKinney charged that for months, Malloy has been raising money from state contractors "and politically connected friends" across the country. "The governor's announcement was expected and anti-climactic," McKinney said in a statement.
"What is most fitting, if not ironic, is that the governor chose to make his announcement in front of the state bond commission, the very vehicle he has exploited over the past three years to pick winners and losers, run up state debt, and increase borrowing to unprecedented levels. This is one of the reasons Connecticut cannot afford four more years of Dan Malloy," McKinney said, stressing that last year Malloy borrowed more money than any governor in Connecticut's history.
"I understand why he deliberated so long before announcing," Boughton said in a phone interview. "If I had his record I wouldn't run."
Boughton, a former state legislator and failed lieutenant governor running mate with Foley in 2010, said Malloy had a "unique opportunity" in 2010 when he reopened contracts of unionized state workers.
"Instead, he punted the ball," Boughton said. "He owed his election to the advocates and special-interest groups he was negotiating with."
Lauretti also blasted Malloy.
"I'm not surprised that the governor announced today," Lauretti said in a phone interview. "Where else is he going to go? I don't know who'd hire him in private business. He can't quit his day job unless he gets something else."
Jerry Labriola, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, said Friday that Malloy is presiding over one of the worst economies in the nation, with an unemployment rate higher than the national average.
"Gov. Malloy faces a difficult challenge over the next eight months as he tries to run on a record that includes the largest tax hike in state history, $3 billion in spending increases and an economy that continues to stagnate," Labriola said. "Voters know that Connecticut can't afford four more years of Dan Malloy."
James Hallinan, most recently spokesman for state Democrats and now a Malloy spokesman, quickly countered.
"As usual, Jerry's orbiting in his own galaxy," Hallinan said. "Meanwhile, back on earth and since Gov. Malloy took office, over 50,000 private sector jobs have been created, the state budget is balanced, there's a surplus and money's been put in the Rainy Day Fund. Additionally, the minimum wage has been raised, more than 170,000 people have signed up for quality, affordable health care, pre-K is being expanded and college is being made more affordable."
The 2014 gubernatorial race is on.
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Secured vs. unsecured loans
One of the simplest ways to distinguish between business finance products is to see whether or not the lending is secured. You'll often hear lenders — and the team at Funding Options — talking about 'security' for business loans, and although it's a simple idea, it's crucial to all types of business finance. On this page we'll look at secured vs. unsecured loans, the differences between using security and getting an unsecured business loan, and what it could mean for your business.
Secured business loans
A secured business loan is backed up by security, usually valuable assets and items that your business owns. Secured lending is often known as asset-backed lending — because it's business lending backed by assets.
Usually, assets refers to tangible items like commercial property, machinery or vehicles. There are other types of secured lending though — for example invoice finance uses accounts receivable. There are also products like merchant cash advances which, although based on card terminal sales, are technically unsecured.
Examples of secured lending
- A business looking to raise money to buy a competitor secures finance against plant machinery and commercial premises — with a much longer repayment term than would normally be available.
- The director of a company using their residential (i.e. private) property to secure a loan for their business
- Invoice finance: because it's related to the value of the invoices your business has raised (i.e. money owed to your business), it's technically secured lending