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Posted 26 November 2010 - 08:37 PM
Its been 30 years since Ive played and I can actually remember what little I knew. I am very excited about playing now.
Posted 26 November 2010 - 08:56 PM
I would restring it and see how it feels and sounds. It would probably be worth having a decent guitar tech have a look at it (check for any luthiers near you). Get a decent set-up and have them check it over. Don't just trust whoever the local guitar shop uses.. some are good and some are awful. Do a little research first.
I picked up an old guitar of mine a while ago. Unfortunately, the neck had twisted a little and the action wasn't great. A little investment with a local luthier and I had a nice-sounding guitar back.
You may find it needs some adjustment of the action and/or the intonation, and it may be worth replacing the saddle and nut with bone (but the latter isn't necessary), but there is no reason why this shouldn't be a nice guitar.
I think these were mass-produced, but well thought of. It should be a good guitar for you to get going on again.
Don't clean it with any furniture sprays! If you use anything other than a (slightly) damp rag, use naptha. It works much better.
I hope it works well for you! There is nothing wrong with an old guitar. In fact, some get better with age (though it does depend on how well cared for they have been. Get a case and a humidifier if you live anywhere with humidity issues.
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Posted 26 November 2010 - 09:25 PM
Posted 27 November 2010 - 03:15 AM
As for myself, I've always liked the tone and ring of a Yamaha, and I can't help but think they only improve with age.
Posted 27 November 2010 - 10:13 AM
I will get it checked out but I believe my brother has taken very good care of it. He wasn't even going to let me use the guitar until I bought a hard case (he only had one) I couldn't decide for sure what size to get so I borrowed one that he said was a soft case and gave me his. It sounds pretty good, even with me playing!
It will be a little while before I'll post a song, LOL, thank God for yall!
Posted 27 November 2010 - 02:41 PM
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Posted 29 November 2010 - 06:51 PM
A poorly set up guitar has caused more folks to give up on playing than probably anything else.. Simply because it makes it more difficult to play..
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 02:54 PM
Does anyone know an easy song to play? I'm anxious to start playing a song.
So far I know c, d, g, a, am, em, is there a song I could play with this?
Posted 30 November 2010 - 04:58 PM
I agree with everything said above, especially Alistair's recommendations re: luthiers, and particularly, humidifiers. A 40+ year old acoustic can begin cracking if it isn't properly humidified. And you don't want that to happen.
As for songs to play using the open chords you posted, go to YouTube and type in "guitar lessons" and be prepared to spend the next 6 months sorting thru all the video lessons available for free. I strongly recommend the following YouTubers who post lessons and keep adding to them all the time:
Marty Schwartz whose YouTube handle is "guitarjamzdotcom" - he is great for beginners who want to jump right in strumming along to all the songs they've always wanted to learn as well as providing more intermediate and advanced lessons as you progress.
"deltabluestips" - A bloke from Liverpool who is great for learning fingerpicking techniques and teaching yourself a solid foundation in blues music. Try not to let his accent and occasional 4 letter word sidetrack you.
"creativeguitarstudio" - a Canadian fellow who is very good at teaching assorted playing techniques as well as music theory.
"tonedr" - a down to earth Southern gentleman who mostly posts song lessons and does a very good job of walking the viewer through each song, step by step.
"robbourassaguitarist" - excellent teacher and player who has developed an extremely good beginner's course of videos. I recommended these to my 14 yr. old nephew 8 months ago when he was just beginning to play. He played for me two weeks ago for the first time since my recommendation and the lil' bugger astounded me with his playing ability.
And finally, not on YouTube but a free lesson site that has hundreds of very good lessons, is Vanderbilliy.com. Just go to the main page and click on the video vault link. Once in the video vault, click on "instructional" under "Video Selections", then sort by "Top Rated Contributors" under "Video Quick Search" and browse your life away.
I'm so happy to hear you have picked up the guitar again. Writing song lyrics will get even easier because you'll have song structures in mind as you write, and those structures have time constraints that force you to really pare down what you want to say by making what you say as perfectly clear as you can be with as few words as possible. Just gut out the first few weeks of callous building on your fingertips and you'll never look back.
Posted 30 November 2010 - 05:41 PM
As to those chords.. there are plenty of songs! In fact, you could probably do a version of most songs with just those chords .. especially if you add F to that list!
With what you have:
Tambourine Man
Heart of Gold
Add that F and the list gets endless.
A decent site to pick up songs is http://www.chordie.com (which also has pictures of the chords).
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 07:32 PM
Posted 30 November 2010 - 07:56 PM
See I had this great idea (since I'm just a bum now, not working) I figured I play 3-5 hours a day! Well I did that for the 1st three days and it's hard to type now. I have blisters on my blisters. Today was my 4th day with my new toy and I wanted to play with it so bad, I tried holding the chords ever so lightly, LOL. Should I give the blisters a few days off or just keep playing? My husband thinks I'm crazy to try to play like this, and I don't want the skin to fall off but I don't want to wait!
Alistair, F will be my next chord. Right now I love the way g sounds especially with d. I plan to add a chord a day because if I try to learn too many too quick, I'll forget them all.
Midway, thanks for all the great info! I will go through all of the names you listed and check them each out.
My goal of course is to play my own songs. Thanks for all the wonderful help!
Posted 30 November 2010 - 08:08 PM
Practice is good. Good practice is better. You won't be able to play properly if the pain is too much.
Surgical spirit (rubbing alcohol) can help with the fingertips. A couple of days off wouldn't hurt, either.
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 10:06 PM
Posted 30 November 2010 - 10:24 PM
Before, during, after, and in between playing sessions. Spread your fingers apart from each other, bend them back toward the back of your hand, hold your arm out in front of you like you were holding a waiter's tray and use your other hand to press the fingertips back towards the back of your hand using your other hand - rotate your forearm so your hand is pointing to the left and press your fingertips down again and hold it a few seconds, rotate your forearm so your hand is pointing straight in front of you and press your fingertips down again and hold it a few seconds, and rotate your forearm so your hand is pointing to the right and press your fingertips down again and hold it a few seconds. Now switch arms and do the same stretches again. You will really feel it in the forearms and the wrist.
When playing becomes acutely painful, you've played too much. Soaking your hands and wrists in hot/warm water will ease some of the stiffness, the same as for any other joint. Treat visible inflamation with cold packs. (I've never had to use the cold packs myself because my knuckles and joints have never swollen from playing.) Use your common sense and and listen to your hands and arms and treat them accordingly.
Posted 11 December 2010 - 11:30 AM
Dottie, on 30 November 2010 - 02:54 PM, said:
Does anyone know an easy song to play? I'm anxious to start playing a song.
So far I know c, d, g, a, am, em, is there a song I could play with this?
as Alistair said add an F to your chords and the list is endless here's a link that will help http://www.angelfire...rds/IVviIV.html
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Posted 13 December 2010 - 11:13 AM
SoddyBottoms, on 11 December 2010 - 04:30 PM, said:
Dottie, on 30 November 2010 - 02:54 PM, said:
Does anyone know an easy song to play? I'm anxious to start playing a song.
So far I know c, d, g, a, am, em, is there a song I could play with this?
as Alistair said add an F to your chords and the list is endless here's a link that will help http://www.angelfire...rds/IVviIV.html
hi dottie
welcome to the guitarist club!!
the first easy songs that sprung to my mind with those chords was:
knocking on heavens door
G D Am
that's it!!!
Stand by me
G Em C D G
learn F, it opens up a lot of posibilities - and you're half way to a bar chord - it'll help with finger strengthening.
All along the watchtower
Am G F G
this a good site for guitar tuition:
some good you tube lessons on here and also an easy songs for beginners section. Keep it up,
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Posted 13 December 2010 - 01:42 PM
Let me go see what f looks like, lol! Seems like I thought it was impossible but it could have been a different chord.
Hi Andy,
Thanks for the heads up, I'll check out the songs you mentioned!
Posted 13 December 2010 - 02:24 PM
sorry i missed that alistair had already mentioned justin's site - but it is very good.
have fun
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Posted 15 December 2010 - 03:12 PM
SoddyBottoms, on 30 November 2010 - 11:51 AM, said:
Gotta agree with that! I have never come across a "bad quality" Yamaha product of any kind - whether it be musical instrument, Hi-Fi gear or motorbike. They might not be at the very leading edge of the fields they work in, but they are consistently well above the average in every respect.
Posted 16 December 2010 - 01:54 PM
It looks like F is impossible! My fingers cant reach that far, is there an alternative to F?
Posted 16 December 2010 - 03:08 PM
You need to hold down the 1st and second strings on the first fret with the same finger. Keep trying!
If you struggle, you can just about get away with just playing the 2nd string on that fret (and let the first string do as it will, trying not to play it at all.
However, persistence is the key
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 06:19 PM
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 06:48 PM
also learn your open E and A minor using the same three fingers I mentioned,, in the future it lets you move to other bar chords faster
another is learn A7 using your middle and ring finger instead of the standard way of index and middle.. in the future this will allow you to move the a7 chord scale up the neck easier
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OâCONNELL LEADS BY ONE AFTER FIRING SECOND-ROUND 67
Granada and Grilli share lead in Girls Division
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. â Kevin OâConnell of Cary, N.C., took advantage of the early morning conditions and avoided the weather as he fired a 5-under-par 67 Wednesday and took sole possession of first place after the first two rounds of the AJGA Richmond Junior in the Boys Division.
Julieta Granada of Asuncion, Paraguay, and Michelle Grilli of Lutherville, Md., are deadlocked atop the leaderboard in the Girls Division at 3-under-par 141.
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âI shot an 8-iron and it landed behind the hole and just rolled down the hill and in,â Grilli said. âIâm pretty happy with my round overall.â
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Play was suspended on two different occasions due to weather in the afternoon for a combined total of 2 hours and 32 minutes.
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Financial News asked senior industry executives to give their forecasts for the coming year in 10 words or fewer. The predictions ranged from a bright outlook to a total washout.
William Vereker - Head of corporate client solutions Emea, UBS
A year of equity capital raisings and new issues.
Marisa Drew - Co-head Emea investment banking, global co-head global market solutions, Credit Suisse Securities (Europe)
Sponsor monetisations through IPOs; M&A returns to Europe (I hope).
Xavier Rolet - Chief executive, London Stock Exchange Group
Anthony Fasso - Chief executive international and head of global clients, AMP Capital
China: likely more liberalist, transformational policies from the new leadership.
Vincent Camerlynck - Chief executive Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas Investment Partners
Everything RMB.
Clem Chambers - Chief executive, ADVFN
Lionel Aeschlimann - Managing partner and head of asset management, Mirabaud
Emerging market equity offers attractive valuations relative to developed markets
Peter McKellar - Chief investment officer, SL Capital Partners
General partners driving successful exits from their portfolio companies.
Dörte Höppner - Secretary general, European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
Europe's return to growth.
Peter Hemington - Head of M&A, BDO
The switch from famine to feast in private equity deals.
Daniel Marcus - Global head of strategy and business development, Tradition
Trading equality and fair access, underpinned by quality of liquidity.
Ferdi van Heerden - Chief executive, Momentum Global Investment Management
Monetary policy normalisation, within a changing global regulatory landscape.
Naïm Abou-Jaoudé - Chief executive, Dexia Asset Management
Less risk aversion for a boosted recovery in 2014.
Charles Dumas - Chairman and chief economist, Lombard Street Research
Continued US bull market, driven by foreign capital inflows.
Mike Meriton - President and chief executive, GoldenSource
Data as a service – year of the data utility.
Jean-Christophe Gérard - Co-head, HSBC Private Bank Investment Group
Unexpected positive developments in emerging markets.
Jon Little - Partner, Northill Capital
A recovery which actually feels like one to normal people.
David Cobb - Co-chief executive, Smith & Williamson
Recovery of business confidence and start of business investment cycle.
Abdallah Nauphal - Chief executive, Insight Investment
Government bond markets will not sell off in any serious way.
Tom Becket - Chief investment officer, Psigma Investment Management
The resurgence of Asian equities and China-linked investments.
Paul Simpson - Head of global transaction services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Balancing regulatory evolution and scrutiny with opportunities for business growth.
Edi Truell - Group chief executive, Tungsten Corporation
Alternative sources of finance will give SMEs access to capital.
Paul Price - Global head of distribution, Morgan Stanley Investment Management
The second coming of asset allocation products and solutions businesses.
Mark Pumfrey - Head of Emea, Liquidnet
Currency markets – often ignored but increasingly volatile and interesting.
David Riley - Head of credit strategy, BlueBay Asset Management
Discipline in the search for value and don't overreach for yield.
Dr Michel Maila - President and chief executive, The Global Risk Institute in Financial Services
Helping non-executive directors fulfil their oversight responsibilities in financial institutions.
Campbell Fleming - Chief executive, Threadneedle Investments
Tapering and the headwind it presents for emerging markets.
Peter Elam Håkansson - Chairman, East Capital
Macroeconomic recovery versus tapering – which one is strongest?
Jeremy Bennett - Chief executive Emea, Nomura
Culture, and the efforts to improve it.
Martin Gilbert - Chief executive, Aberdeen Asset Management
Fundamentals will come back into focus, having been overlooked recently.
Carl Hess - Global director, Towers Watson Investment
Not having to strain to find yield
Cliff Asness - Managing and founding principal, AQR Capital Management
A return to the conviction that diversification matters.
Paul Simpson - Head of global transaction services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Balancing regulatory evolution and scrutiny with opportunities for growth.
Andreas Utermann - Global chief investment officer and co-head, Allianz Global Investors
Monetary policy will be looser for longer than consensus.
Michael Cole-Fontayn - Chairman for Emea, BNY Mellon
Collateral, collateral, collateral – needing it, sourcing it, unlocking it.
Simon Smallcombe - UK managing director, Axa Life Invest
The income that people secure in retirement and its suitability.
Alex McDonald - Chief executive, The Wholesale Markets Brokers' Association
Cross-border regulation, resolution, conduct, mutual recognition and substituted compliance, benchmarking.
Marc Saluzzi- Chairman, Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry
Will Europe's economy return to growth? Happy to be challenged!
George Anson - Managing director, HarbourVest
Get your fund raised before the next crisis hits.
Amir Orad - President and chief executive, Nice Actimize
Regulatory uncertainty causing confusion. Cybercriminals taking down a western exchange.
Stuart Fiertz - President and co-founder, Cheyne Capital
Will Europe, ex-Germany, reform in time to save the euro?
Bruno Poulin - Chief executive, Ossiam
Who will pay for all of this debt?
Michael Reuther - Board member responsible for investment banking and treasury, Commerzbank
Financial repression and single event risks.
Jan Dehn - Head of research, Ashmore
That HIDCs (heavily indebted developed countries) will once again fail to recover.
David Mercer - Chief executive, LMAX Exchange
Bitcoin 2014 – a virtuous circle leading to a virtual crash.
Stephen Rosen - Chief investment officer and founder, Omni Macro Fund
The limits of central bank credibility.
Laurent Seyer - Global head of distribution, Axa IM
Quantitative easing: the beginning of the end?
Larry Brainard - Chief economist, Trusted Sources
Failure to address economic stagnation and deflation.
Simon Hill - Chief investment officer, Buck Global Investment Advisors
The globally destabilising divergence of monetary policies between different economies.
Klaus Holse - Chief executive, SimCorp How sustainable is the recovery and how is risk evolving?
Pete Drewienkiewicz - Head of manager research, Redington
Reduction of excess liquidity from the system (or lack thereof!).
Charlie Metcalfe - President, Nikko Asset Management Europe
Political risks will drive volatility and trump economic fundamentals.
Robert Bergqvist - Chief economist, SEB Group
To weigh slow growth and subdued inflation against the risk of asset price inflation.
Jiro Okochi - Chief executive and co-founder, Reval
High cost of capital.
Jae Park - Chief investment officer, Loomis, Sayles & Company
Is tapering tightening? Fed says no, but financial markets disagree.
Hendrik du Toit - Chief executive, Investec Asset Management
How investors will cope with the prospects of rising interest rates.
Saker Nusseibeh - Head of investment and chief executive, Hermes Fund Managers
How will investors cope with normalisation?
Renaud de Planta - Managing partner, Pictet Group
Secular rise of renminbi against a long-term decline in eurozone.
David Blumer - Head of Emea, BlackRock
US monetary policy is key to next year's global outlook.
Jeff Holland - Managing director and co-founder, Liongate Capital Management
Central bank forward guidance.
Keith Skeoch - Chief executive, Standard Life Investments
Rising interest rates, tighter money policy.
Willie Watt - Chief executive, Martin Currie Investment Management
How asset classes will react when financial stimulus reduces.


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Domestic battery charges filed
MARTINSBURG – A Martinsburg man was arrested Tuesday on one felony count of domestic battery third offense.
Benjamin Edwin Berry IV, 27, of Brigadier Circle, was later arraigned Wednesday and is currently being held at Eastern Regional Jail on $10,000 bail.
According to court records, on Tuesday, Cpl. D.S. See of the West Virginia State Police responded to Berry's residence for a report of a physical domestic dispute.
When he arrived at the scene, See found the alleged victim in a car in the driveway. She told police Berry was in the residence and had struck her several times in the face. Berry told See that the alleged victim had been verbally abusive throughout the evening and he slapped her in the face. A check of Berry's criminal history revealed that he had two prior convictions for domestic battery.
Four charged in smuggling scheme
MARTINSBURG -Four people, two of whom are Eastern Regional Jail inmates, were arraigned Wednesday in connection with an alleged scheme to smuggle drugs into the jail.
Bradley Kain, 31, of Shenandoah Junction, and George Stillions, 22, of Leetown Road, Summit Point, who are both currently incarcerated at the jail, were each arraigned on two counts of conspiracy and one count of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
Stillions' sister, Crystal Stillions, 21, of Summit Point, and Kain's wife, Misty Kain, 29, of Tuscawilla Drive, Charles Town, were each arraigned on charges of transporting a controlled substance into the jail, conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
According to court records, on Jan. 7, Cpl. B.W. Bean of the West Virginia State Police responded to the jail after a correctional officer reported that two inmates were found to be in possession of drugs following contact visits.
Bean obtained a list of those who visited each inmate on the day the drugs were discovered. Among those who had visited Kain was his wife. Bean also learned Stillions had been visited by his sister that day.
Bradley Kain admitted he obtained suboxone from his wife during their visit. Kain told police the reason he wanted the suboxone was because he could sell it for $100 per strip. His wife also admitted to giving Kain the suboxone.
George Stillions told police he was approached by another inmate, who knew he had an upcoming contact visit. Stillions said the inmate asked him if he would meet with his girlfriend to bring something into the jail for him.
Stillions admitted the inmate's girlfriend met his sister outside the jail before his visit and gave her controlled substances. Stillions said his sister then handed the drugs to him during the contact visit.
Crystal Stillions confessed to taking the drugs into the jail and giving them to her brother. She told police her brother was to give the drugs to another inmate.


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This shall probably be the crowning achievement of the year and maybe a decade to come.
Okay, so that's a slight exaggeration, but it's gonna be pretty damn great.
EDIT: Yep, I've heard it 7 times now and it is the album of the year. Absolutely incredible
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Arthur WilliamsDecember 31,2013
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FAYSTON Arthur Williams, 87, of Fayston, died Dec. 28, 2013, at Copley Woodlands in Stowe, surrounded by his family and caregiver. He was a longtime civic leader, polo enthusiast, skier, sailor, and devoted father, brother and friend.
Arthur was born July 3, 1926, in Bath, Maine, the son of John Winslow Williams and Emma Kaiulani Sewall. His childhood years were spent at the familys summer home in Small Point, Maine, and their primary residence in Baltimore, Md., where he attended Gilman School and enjoyed riding bikes and waging BB gun wars with neighborhood friends. Arthur graduated from the Clark School in Hanover, N.H., in 1946, and received his bachelors degree in English and American history from Bowdoin College in 1951.
He joined the American Field Service during World War II, where he served as an ambulance driver for the French Army. After teaching for a few years at private schools in Connecticut and New York, Arthur and his wife, Hanne, moved to the Mad River Valley in 1958 and taught together in one-room schoolhouses in Moretown and Fayston.
Arthur was one of the original investors in Sugarbush Resort in Warren, Vt. He served three two-year terms as town representative from Fayston and then was appointed chairman of historic sites and the first executive director of the state Council on the Arts. He retired from the arts council in 1986 and stayed on as curator of the Vermont State House to oversee the State House restoration project. He later founded the Friends of the Vermont State House to support the ongoing financial needs of the restoration project. Arthur was also the original founder of The Community Fund, which was set up to meet the needs of Mad River Valley residents.
Arthur was an avid polo player for 40 years. He and a group of longtime friends founded the first professional polo league in the Mad River Valley, and he played in tournaments throughout New England and in Canada.
He always loved an adventure, whether exploring the Maine coast in a favorite boat, skiing down the slopes at Sugarbush or playing in a polo game. Later in life, he discovered a love for painting and completed dozens of oil paintings of maritime scenes. He also loved to write and recently completed his memoir.
Being active and enjoying the outdoors were always priorities in his life, along with a deep devotion to his family and friends. He was well-loved for his sense of humor and caring, sensitive nature. As his health began to fail over the past year, Arthur greatly appreciated the phone calls and visits from his many friends in the Mad River Valley and the State House. He often said that his friends and family were what made life worth living.
Survivors include his sister, Anne Winter; sister-in-law, Ann Williams; his children, Astrid, John and Nate; four grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. His wife of 55 years, Hanne Nielsen Williams, and his two brothers, Jack and Sewall, died earlier.
A celebration of his life will be held Jan. 18, 2014, at the Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield at 4 p.m., with a reception to follow. Interment will be at a later date in Bragg Hill Cemetery, Fayston. In lieu of flowers, please consider a contribution in his name to either Friends of the Vermont State House, 2 Governor Aiken Ave., Montpelier, VT 05633; or The Community Fund, P.O. Box 353, Waitsfield, VT 05673. Assisting the family is the Perkins-Parker Funeral Home in Waterbury. To send online condolences, please visit www.perkinsparker.com and Facebook.MORE IN ObituariesFrederick A. Full StoryBonnie L. Full StoryRichard E. Lemery
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Manuel Huerta
Representing: PUR
Gender: Male
Athlete Year of Birth: 1984
Athlete Place of Birth: Habana, Cuba
Athlete Weight: 55kg
Athlete Height: 170 cm
Athlete Lives: Guaynabo Puerto Rico
Website: http://www.manuelhuerta.com
WTS Ranking: 80 413pts
ITU Points List:: 102 1090.72pts
Athlete Biography
Moved to the US from Cuba in 1997 with my family. Swam and Ran Cross Country in high school. Did my first ITU event in 2003 and won junior nationlas that year as well. I now live and train In Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. 2012 Olympian.
Athlete Sponsors: Orbea, BigSur Partners, Ciclon, Shimano, SRM, Norma Tec, ISM, Orca, Brooks, Oakley, Hypoxic Costa Rica, Corrective Chiropractive, Compu Trainer
Athlete Language: Spanish, English
Athlete Tri Entry Year: 2004
Athlete Other Sports: Cross Country, Water Polo
Athlete Education: Florida Atlantic University
Athlete Hobbies: Movies and fishing when I go to Miami.
Athlete Sports Hero: Diego Maradona, Javier Sotomayor
Athlete Proudest Moment: Qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games
Athlete Coach: Roberto Solano


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Flying and Boating into the Maldives
As the aircraft took off from Trivandrum I realized I'd left back my sunglasses at the Bangalore hotel. The kind of glaring overexposure I was headed to needed protection for the eyes almost all along as long as the sun was up.
Its quite amazing how these pilots head out to the open skies with the unending ocean below with a compass as a guide as by the time you've just started surfing through a few inflight readables and trying to settle down proper, the aircraft starts loosing altitude and it's time to land.
40 minutes and the blue scape below started changing with the torquoise atolls of various shapes emerging all across the ocean below.
Sunglasses or not the sight was breathtaking not knowing though what was in store for me later, I wondered if I could get a closer look at these breathtaking blue lagoons in the middle of the ocean or better even could dive into one of them.
Exotic Paradise
At the equator, almost a stone's throw from the south west edge of India,1190 islands, 200 inhabited, rest beautifully sculptured by nature but all slowly going beneath the sea with passing time as the sea level rises.
Maldives is one of those rare exotic paradises on earth which is fast vanishing from the face of it and not much is what the human race can do to save it So if you haven't yet, try and make a visit to this unbelievable place before it's all as blue as the Indian Ocean.
Hulhule is the airport island where the far end of a not so long runway gets submerged under high tide several times in a day. An amazing stretch of land which almost ends before it starts.
Pilots are extremely careful I'm sure with their landing formulas and calculations and it's a treat for the passengers with their faces glued to the windows to get a wide angle of the airport & adjacent sea from their seats Hulhule to Male, the capital of Maldives, is a 10 minute speedboat ride. Maldives is a Muslim country with strict norms on alcohol & dress code at least in Male. With a population of 1,40,000 it's a bustling city with some fine buildings all on a sandy island which can be covered in a 30=minute walk.
Visa on Arrival
It's a visa on arrival country, but security is strict on drugs & alcohol. Male is a strictly dry zone but tourists are offered every drink of their choice at the island resorts.
Maldives is truly not about just it's capital. The real Maldives which it's so famous worldwide are it's secluded islands in the different atolls.
An atoll is a group of islands with a reef that nearly or entirely encloses a ring like lagoon. Maldives has 26 of these atolls all of which are natural and are further subdivided into 20 administrative ones.
The airport transfer takes you to a nearby jetty where to my disbelief I found a red & white sea plane waiting for us with a smiling male attendant in shorts & sandals. The man greeted us as he helped the passengers get on to the wobbly floating aircraft.
The pilot and his co pilot were in shorts & sandals too which I figured was their uniform being a sea faring vehicle. As the door was shut the engines got into full throttle with the aircraft moving ahead on water and in no time we were airborne. Within minutes the scene within the aircraft & beneath us changed.
Passengers got glued to their windows as the water beneath us changed from grey to turquoise to blue and the show started. Numerous atolls emerged out of the sea as if hand crafted some with sparkling blur lagoons between them.
Small islands with designed stretches of water villas into the sea. Uninhabited islands with greenery and some with white sand and nothing else floated by below. The landing on water was another experience and quite bumpy I must say, but the ever smiling shorts clad crew made it just perfect.
The sun outside was as equatorial as it could get and my new pair of shades seemed like a blessing. A small boat was waiting for us to take us to our resort which looked so like a floating sandwich from the sky. The water taxi pier was a bit far from the main resort jetty in the middle of the lagoon.
The brief ride to the resort jetty was quite amusing with flying fish all around us swimming & flying along with the boat as we sped ahead. Crystal blue waters surrounded us in the middle of the Indian ocean with the white sand ocean floor was visible from the boat
I knew this was it, this is what you call paradise. A fleet of battery powered buggies picked up our baggage along with us from the jetty & transported us to the reception area of the resort as we were greeted with a cold towel & a welcome coconut drink.
While planning a trip to Maldives one must keep a few things in mind. Firstly keeping to one's taste & what one wants to do in Maldives it's always advisable to choose an island which is close to the airport.
The speed boat transfers from the airport or Male to the resort islands are quite costly and the air taxis ever more.
All resort islands are premium quality with different categories to choose depending on one's budget. Unless you are booked under a non Maldavian branded resort like the Taj or Hilton etc where the deals are all inclusive or packaged, while booking one must keep in mind that you are not allowed to carry any food or drinks to the islands and you need to buy everything including activities at the islands.
Not to scare the tourist, the same happens at most resorts around the world but here it's about an island and there's no checking out & checking into the neighborring resort like on land. While booking try to get an all inclusive deal for best buys with three basics prepaid for — all meals, stay & airport transfers.
Right after the checkin' process the buggies take you to your rooms. If it's the beach bungalows they generally drop you at the door step other wise you can walk up the wooden ramp to the water bungalows if that's your preference. The water villas are one of its kind here.
More or less all islands have water villas but they do vary in design and luxury. The best ones have their private infinity pools with decks. Ours was one of these villas in a row of twenty. It's hard to measure what you are in for while entering the villa from the ramp side. As the main door is opened you get into this squarish living room and then it hits you as you see the clear blue ocean at a distance through one of it's all glass walls.
Fit for the royals the bedrooms have a rectangular central glass floor for you to see the ocean beneath 24 hours a day.The private decks give you complete privacy with the infinity pool alongside and the best part is the steel stairs from the deck directly to the lagoon from your deck.
Jump in anytime in the waist high clear ocean and have a ball with the shoals of colorful sea life swimming around. I was speechless for a while. What is this place I wondered to myself.
This initial pangs of joy fills every stomach I'm sure as you see the full villa for the first time and by the time it subsides you would have changed into your trunks and have jumped into the ocean from your deck to get a feel of the real thing.
I was no exception. The sand beneath was fine white, temperature of the water perfect, the only problem was the glaring sun but that becomes irrelevant as reality hits you.
Middle of the Indian Ocean thousands of kilometers from home floating in the middle of a coral lagoon with natural habitat of the place all around you.
Is this what you sweat it out yearlong in the busy cities around the world ? Service is excellent in spite of the distance of the villas from the main room service hub or kitchen. The mini-bars were stacked. As soon as I got out of water soft drinks & snacks were served and to my disbelief I found the man serving us speaking fluent Bengali.
Majority of the staff at the resorts in Maldives are from districts of West Bengal & Bangladesh who are on contract and that makes your stay even more interesting. Syed Kamal, man for our villa, amongst other expertise was also the chosen one amongst the staff to feed manta rays and take tourists on night fishing.
All amazing things suddenly put together was getting me a bit dizzy. Lunch was served at the villa as we were a bit tired from the journey and we decided to rest a while till we started the evening.
We know ocean sunsets are dramatic and rare, but the ones here would mesmerize you if you know what I'm talking about. The regular staff here are quite indifferent to it as they see it every day maybe but for us it was another dream that started unfolding as the sun started going down behind the horizon
We decided to take a stroll on the beach in the aftermath of the sunset and walked the ramp down to the beach. There we saw Syed at work already in knee deep water feeding around 15 – 20 huge manta rays.
The sight was so stunning we completely froze, but later came to know the creatures are completely harmless and have been coming to the very spot for years around the same time of the day.
The spotless white sand beach curved at the end of the small island taking us to the other side with more beach bungalows.
A small detour of the island brought us to the same place we started from and it was time to get back to the villa as it started drizzling softly with heavy clouds covering the sky out of nowhere
Weather in Maldives is like this bright & sunny & the next moment you can get rain with not much fluctuation in temperatures between day & night or in fact year long. A poolside barbeque on our private deck was awaiting us to our delight. Syed with a helper had organized the fancy evening with our aforementioned choice of wine & some champagne.
Mine was not a honeymoon but it definitely felt like why we didn't do it here. I noticed at the air taxi bay & at the lobby of the resort that there were quite a few families ruling out the thought that this was meant to be just for romancing honeymooners.
We spend the next few days doing some wonderful things. In our all inclusive package we got a free sunset fishing trip and we signed up for this on our second day on the island.
We left the jetty around 5 pm and we went out in an open boat with about 8 people in it. After about 30 minutes we dropped the anchor to start the fishing. We got a line each with a hook with bait and a small weight and we dropped it in the ocean.
To start with the bait was just plucked off the hook and we also lost quite a few hooks because we got stuck on the sea bed. But when it started getting darker, people started pulling up fish and my wife actually got the biggest one of them all…a nice big red snapper. Not bad for somebody who never went fishing before.
The sunset was amazing and it turned the sky into a firework of colors. In the horizon we could see one cloud with an internal thunderstorm which lit up the cloud itself. It was quite peaceful and the one thing that could have turned this into a perfect trip was some cold drinks.
We were gone for like three hours and we didn't bring any water and I got quite thirsty in the heat. At about 8 pm we got back to the island for our dinner where the big fish was grilled and served with some salad and some drinks.
The other thing that we braved ourselves to do was snorkeling in the lagoon & learning some scuba diving at a nearby diving spot which the resort instructor took us to.
Diving is quite an exclusive & serious sport here with brilliant views of the reef & marine life. Unfortunately we were not trained enough for the same nor did we have the time for it so we stuck to just the prelims.
Peaceful Floating
Lots of lazing and lots of peaceful floating is what we ended up doing not missing the exquisite Maldavian cuisine we tasted in every meal.
Bicycles are available to ride around the resort if you choose to but walking for me was easier & more enjoyable.
For any fellow traveler all I can say is Maldives is as close to mother earth's most beautiful side, as you can get in the lap of man made luxury, so do it before it all goes beneath the waves.
Anupam Chanda is a travel writer/photographer from India with many articles published in leading publications across the globe. Since 20 years in the services industry with extensive on-job & personal travel, the writer has taken his hobby one step ahead my writing & documenting his experiences.
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Give me your favorite cars and why. and do go off on some outlandish shit like a veyron and shit like that i'm talking, a legitimate car you would drive for the rest of you life and be happy with your choice.
Im going with a bmw 2010 335xi because it's got the perfect balance of luxury and speed. Although i do like drifting which is a category i'd rather go with like a nissan silvia s15, i'm more of a speed kind of guy and i think this car is plenty fast enough for me in my small little town
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Posted 07 June 2013 - 01:06 AM
Posted 07 June 2013 - 01:58 AM
subaru wrx. or an m3. oooorr a ford GT
Posted 07 June 2013 - 03:14 AM
Beamerz and Benz' got me licking my chops. I hope to own one in 5 yearz. Anytime I see one, I think "yah, that's me". As far as models go, the model you posted is pretty sweet. Your basic coupe or sedan is most likely. Black too.
Posted 07 June 2013 - 06:07 AM
Always wanted a Mercedes G class
Posted 07 June 2013 - 06:59 AM
Posted 07 June 2013 - 12:13 PM
haha they try to make those fuckers look badass too hahaha
Posted 07 June 2013 - 12:14 PM
subaru wrx.
i've raced a couple of those STI's and they are fucking faaast. a lot faster than i expected.
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Actually, everyone at the shop got a new pair of New Balance sneakers today.
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Microsoft Select Plus - Ordering Instructions
Revised March 1, 2013
llinois State Board of Education
Microsoft License Ordering Procedure
Review your Microsoft Price List.
If the Microsoft part you want is not on the price list, please contact your preferred LAR. Select Plus Pricing can be found on the ISBE Web Site at http://www.isbe.net/msselect/contract.html.
Decide the quantity of new Select Product Licenses needed.
Each Select License grants the school the right to install one copy of the software. You can purchase a license only or if you purchase a license bundled with Software Assurance between 3/1/13 and 2/28/14 you have the right to upgrade to any new version of the product Microsoft releases prior to 02/28/16. Licenses purchased with Software Assurance after 3/1/14 will gain an additional year of upgrade coverage through 2/28/17.
List the quantity, part number, and price on your order.
If you own a Microsoft Product and want to upgrade it, you have these choices:
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- Buy new licenses bundled with Software Assurance for that product.
- You can buy Software Assurance only for any product only if you have purchased an OEM or Retail version of an eligible Microsoft product within the last 90 days.
- Contact your preferred LAR, and they'll help you with your upgrade purchases.
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#137520 - 01/20/05 11:59 AM Mules in Greece?
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I'm reading the Odyssey for a class I teach--and in Book VI, there's a passage translated by Robert Fagles in reference to Nausicaa about to go take her laundry out to the river:
"With that
he [Alcinous] called to the stablemen and they complied.
They trundled the wagon out now, rolling smoothly,
backed the mule-team into the traces, hitched them up,
while the princess[Nausicaa] brought her finery from the room
and piled it into the wagon's polished cradle."
I'm surprised by this translation and wonder at its accuracy. Could there have been mules as far back as 800 B.C. or so?
Also, it would be good to know what a wagon's cradle is, but I can look that up.
#137521 - 01/20/05 02:24 PM Re: Mules in Greece?
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I did find a site that indicated that mules were used on the desert in ancient Egypt.
So, that's that. Sorry, but I lost the url.
#137522 - 01/31/05 07:05 PM Re: Mules in Greece?
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I should think that mules came along shortly after the first time some early farmer left a she donkey and a he horse alone together. I doubt it was intentional but I also doubt if the farmer objected.
do you think he originally called it a honkey or a dorse like the cross bred dog namers do.
#137523 - 01/31/05 07:33 PM Re: Mules in Greece?
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Am I the only one here who saw the subject line and thought of McDonalds?!
#137524 - 02/01/05 07:11 AM Re: Mules in Greece?
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the only one here
I most certainly hope so.
#137525 - 02/01/05 07:34 AM Re: Mules in Greece?
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> hope so.
oh, good - wouldn't want to turn it into a cookery thread! ;)
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A Syrian military soldier looks a an identification card at a checkpoint on Baghdad Street, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. Syrian opposition groups claimed scores died on Wednesday in a government offensive near Damascus, attacks in which some activists say regime troops used poisonous gas. The government denied the reports. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)UNITED NATIONS The U.N. Security Council held emergency consultations Wednesday on the latest alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is determined to ensure a thorough investigation of all reported incidents.
U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the secretary-general is shocked at Wednesdays alleged use of chemical weapons on the eastern suburbs of Damascus. Syrian anti-government activists accused President Bashar Assads regime of carrying out a toxic gas attack that killed at least 100 people, including many children as they slept. The government denied using chemical weapons.
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- To investigate the bacteria that are important to phosphorus (P) removal in activated sludge, microbial populations were analyzed during the operation of a laboratory-scale reactor with various P removal performances. The bacterial population structure, analyzed by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with oligonucleotides probes complementary to regions of the 16S and 23S rRNAs, was associated with the P removal performance of the reactor. At one stage of the reactor operation, chemical characterization revealed that extremely poor P removal was occurring. However, like in typical P-removing sludges, complete anaerobic uptake of the carbon substrate occurred. Bacteria inhibiting P removal overwhelmed the reactor, and according to FISH, bacteria of the β subclass of the class Proteobacteria other than β-1 or β-2 were dominant in the sludge (58 percent of the population). Changes made to the operation of the reactor led to the development of a biomass population with an extremely good P removal capacity. The biochemical transformations observed in this sludge were characteristic of typical P- removing activated sludge. The microbial population analysis of the P- removing sludge indicated that bacteria of the β-2 subclass of the class Proteobacteria and actinobacteria were dominant (55 and 35 percent, respectively), therefore implicating bacteria from these groups in high-performance P removal. The changes in operation that led to the improved performance of the reactor included allowing the pH to rise during the anaerobic period, which promoted anaerobic phosphate release and possibly caused selection against non-phosphate-removing bacteria.
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FEMA ruling may prove costlyBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | November 29,2012MONTPELIER A ruling this week by the Federal Emergency Management Agency could reduce considerably the federal assistance on tap for Vermonts post-Irene recovery. But the financial setback wont stall plans to rebuild either the state psychiatric hospital or Waterbury office complex, key officials said Wednesday.
Officials at FEMA have determined that the 52-bed Vermont State Hospital, emptied of its patients after the 2011 flood, wont be eligible for permanent relocation, a special designation that would have allowed the state to recoup 90 percent of the replacement costs.
Neither will the state win 90 percent funding for key components of the Waterbury state office complex damaged by Irene, namely the boiler house, laboratory and sewer pump room.
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Administration Secretary Jeb Spaulding said Wednesday its too early to know how significant a financial setback the ruling presents, or if the state will appeal it. But the FEMA decision will by all accounts diminish the financial role of the federal government in a $182 million plan to relocate the state hospital and rebuild the office complex.
From the state perspective, the (permanent relocation) was the best possible funding mechanism they could have achieved, and unfortunately its also a difficult standard to reach, said David Mace, spokesman for FEMA, on Wednesday.
Spaulding and Rep. Alice Emmons, chairwoman of the House Committee on Institutions, said that regardless of the level of FEMA assistance, plans for the recovery will proceed unchanged.
The feedback Ive gotten today from (committee) members is theyre committed to going forward, Emmons said.
Spaulding and Emmons, a Springfield Democrat, said theyll find money for the Irene recovery plan in the capital bill.
The impact of the federal ruling will be felt most heavily in the hospital replacement plan, where Spaulding had earlier this year assumed that FEMA would pick up 90 percent of the $43 million proposal. He had based his projection on guidance from a FEMA consultant formerly assigned to the Waterbury case, who told administration officials they could count on winning permanent relocation status if the buildings were merely damaged.
In fact federal statute allows for that designation only in cases where the buildings are deemed destroyed, something Spaulding didnt learn until FEMA issued new guidance in June. Mace on Wednesday said it had become clear to FEMA officials that Vermont wouldnt clear that higher threshold.
Wed done our due diligence and determined it simply wasnt a viable option, and we felt the state needed to know that for their planning purposes, Mace said.
The hospital replacement plan relies on expanded capacity at existing facilities in Morrisville, Rutland and Brattleboro, as well as a new 25-bed hospital in Berlin. The plan will also feature a seven-bed secure recovery residence slated for Middlesex.
State officials had also anticipated 90 percent reimbursement for the boiler room and Agency of Natural Resources laboratory flooded during Irene. But both of those projects which carry a combined cost of more than $23 million were also denied permanent relocation status in the new FEMA ruling.
Mace said FEMA aims to have firm federal assistance numbers for the Legislature by January, at which point lawmakers and administration officials will scramble to accommodate the new projections in the capital bill.
Between insurance payments, bonding commitments and other revenue, Vermont has already come up with nearly $63 million of the $182 million it will need to complete the hospital and office rebuild. The remaining $136 million will be split between FEMA assistance and additional bonding.
The less help from FEMA, the more pressure on the capital bill, and Emmons said that could lead to some tough decisions next year.
People need to be prepared that some items that may have been there in the past may need to be postponed for a year or two, Emmons said.
Spaulding sought to put a positive spin on the situation, noting that as recently as 2002 Vermont had capital bills as small as $39 million. The two-year bill for fiscal years 2013 and 2014, by contrast, is nearly $160 million.
Asked whether hed consider raising the debt ceiling to accommodate Irene-related pressures, Spaulding said that would be an absolute last resort and not something we see as necessary.
Emmons, however, said she anticipates a proposal from members of her committee for a special Irene recovery bond that would seek debt authorization above whats been recommended by the Capital Debt Affordability Advisory Committee.
It still goes against your debt load, it still goes against your credit rating, but Im sure that is going to be put on the table by some members of the committee, Emmons said.
While ratings agencies may look unfavorably on debt beyond recommended limits and lower their bond ratings, Emmons said the state could avoid those negative consequences by creating a new revenue source to cover the additional debt service.
That would be the prudent thing to do, and then your rating agencies wouldnt be so concerned about it, Emmons said.
She said, however, that when it comes to proposals for generating new revenue via tax or other means, I dont think thered be the support to do it at this time.
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