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Windsor - posted Thu., Oct. 10, 2013
On Sept. 25, the Windsor Town Green was buzzing with people who were honoring the hard work and commitment of local residents by means of engraved bricks to be laid into the brick patio. These special "Heritage Bricks" were engraved with the names of people who are a strong part of Windsor.
First Town Downtown and Windsor's Chamber of Commerce announced their 2013 award winners: Ray Embury, Michael Deneen and Mary Beth Welsh. Each was honored with an engraved patio brick for residents to enjoy for years to come. The presenter of the awards was Kristen Barbarotta. The recipients placed their brick in an empty spot in the patio to remain there permanently.
Welsh is a member of FTDT, is the Economic Development Committee co-chair, and a realtor for Century 21. "I am extremely proud of this honor," said Welsh. "I love Windsor. There are a great deal of changes going on here and they are all for the better. I am happy to be a part of that change. The green is the nucleus of the town and I am very happy to be a permanent part of that."
Though First Town Downtown merged with the Windsor Chamber of Commerce and there is still only one board for both parts, some activities are separate. FTDT helps find suitable tenants for vacant shops and office buildings. They also want to inspire a community feel in the town. They help raise money for local activities to promote unity and pride among the residents.
Ray Embury works for Konica/Minolta. "I had served as the director for the Windsor Chamber of Commerce for seven years," said Embury. "I understand the needs of the organizations. Because of that, I have been successful in orchestrating help from Konica/Minolta to these groups. We donate printing for the events that they have as well as any other printing needs that they may have. These are two great organizations to be a part of. People should look into becoming a part of the change in Windsor by becoming members."
Embury has received the Chamber's Ray of Hope Award in 2011 and the Hallas Award in 2012. "Out of all of my accomplishments, the one that I am the most proud of would have to be my 20-month-old grandson, Dawson," said Embury. "He is the light of my life. I'm so proud of him."
"We have a brick ceremony twice a year," said FTDT coordinator Ashley Dufresne. "Usually it will be in the fall and spring. We have an annual awards dinner, and that is when we decide who will receive an honorary brick. We also sponsor 'Taste of Windsor.' We are always trying to get the town together to celebrate life in Windsor."
Heritage Bricks are also available for purchase from the First Town Downtown website www.FirstTownDowntown.org for $50 each and include three lines of text, up to 20 characters per line.
One such brick was engraved for Betty and Joseph Mancarella's 55th wedding anniversary. "This was a great way to celebrate," said Betty. "Our 55th is coming up in October. This is definitely something we will never forget. What a special way to be a part of Windsor forever."
The Mancarellas' daughter, Paula Pierce, was at the ceremony. "I'm so proud of my parents," said Pierce, the secretary for the Windsor Chamber of Commerce. "They are truly wonderful people."

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- To provide scholars with a mentor, group coaching, and volunteer experiences to enhance their career development and expand their professional networks
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PowerAMP, my music player of choice, has just been updated with a number of new features and fixes, the most exciting of which to me are the addition of reconfigurable widgets and widget management. You can now tap the top right corner of a PowerAMP widget to go to a new management UI where you can customize and completely change it without the need to remove and recreate it from scratch.
Earlier today, Google started pushing some new open source code to AOSP (Android Open Source Project) marked with 2 new tags: android-4.2.2_r1.1 and android-4.2.2_r1.2. The build number corresponding to the 4.2.2_r1.2 release is JDQ39E.
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We've already identified some obvious user-facing changes, which we'll post about separately soon to keep it clean and organized. The purpose of this post is, as before, to find the low-level changes that may not be obvious.
Swiftkey's new Flow beta has been a crowd-favorite since its release. The company behind one of the best Android keyboard replacement apps has pushed a new update that brings a variety of bugfixes—including a bunch of crashes—and improvements such as a nicer-looking installer, a new Turkish layout, and better punctuation prediction for non-English languages.
The beta is currently available for smartphones and tablets. Here's the full changelog:
Changes in this version:
* Fixed crash on changing keyboards
* Fixed force close on clicking update language
* Fixed other crashes
* Resolved majority of non-English punctuation problems
* New look installer to match SwiftKey Flow colors and include an introduction to SwiftKey Flow
* Added Turkish layout
* Chrome Beta should now behave like Chrome
* Snap and tap (correction of words) now compatible with Vietnamese
* Memory usage of settings app reduced
* Improved handling of non-zero length selection in Chrome and Samsung mail client
* Fixed jumping cursor in ExDialler and Samsung calculator
* Microphone key disabled in fields that don't support voice input
* Fix for keyboard disappearing when phone build installed on tablet sized devices
* Disabled predictions in Kingsoft Office and UC browser to make SK usable in them
* Double space for period turned off by default to prevent accidental period insertion when flowing
* Replaced 'learnt' with 'learned' in personalization page (US English)
* Turned off slide down from candidate bar to close keyboard when flow is on (to be consistent with the description in the Settings menu)
Known Issues:
* Crashes when looking at the heatmap if you visit immediately after using the alternative symbols layout
* Comma key on Arabic keyboard inserts western comma
* Predictions sometimes blank when switching between languages
* Flowing words sometimes results in surprising capitalizations
* "No SD card" ribbon looks bad on low end devices
Check out the source link for more info.
Android 4.2.1 along with its source were released today, but outside of the December bug in the People app, it wasn't immediately apparent whether it contained other fixes and improvements or not. The list of files touched by the Nexus 4 OTA was extensive, but now thanks to developer Al Sutton, we can confirm that most of those were probably just minor edits to bump the version number.
According to Al and his handy AOSP diff script, here are the only changes in Android 4.2.1 (4.2.1_r1) open source code compared to Android 4.2 (4.2_r1).
Hello and Welcome! Android 4.1.2 hit yesterday, and, in record time, we are pumping out a new version of everyone's favorite series. If you want to know about everything new in 4.1.2, you've come to the right place. To be perfectly honest, there isn't much to cover. 4.1.2 is just as minor as its 0.0.1 version bump would suggest. I've gone over all 164 system APKs (old and new) with a fine tooth comb, and this is all I could come up with.
As a developer, I absolutely love days like today. If the high-level "improves performance and stability and fixes bugs" changelog of Android 4.1.2 isn't good enough for you, how about we dive into the actual low-level source code commit logs Android engineers made into AOSP since 4.1.1_r1.1 (JRO03D) all the way through today's release 4.1.2_r1 (JZO54K). These commit logs are spread over probably 100+ repositories, so hunting for all of them manually would probably take you days.
Remember the sudden 4.03.605.1 OTA update that unexpectedly hit some HTC Rezound devices earlier this week and brought global roaming with it? And the 4.03.605.2 full RUU that we followed up with shortly after? We've just gotten a hold of the full low-level Verizon changelog for these releases (the .2 one to be exact), so here's what's different compared to that final ICS OTA from only a few weeks ago (remember, half of the changelogs' value comes from knowing what to not expect):
- Global support enabled
Issues Resolved
- Let's Golf 2 v1.2.1
- Skype video call – color incorrect
- Lockup
- Mobile Hotspot shows incorrect number of devices
- Time displayed after powering off and then right back on
- BUA+ read requests
- BUA+ not displaying in Landscape mode
- Data stall
- Mobile IM removed
- Guided tour video can now be found in "Basic Set-up and Usage Videos"
- Location settings pop-up removed
- Data widget updated
- IPv6 default set to "Enabled"
- VMM version updated to 0.37
- Static IP
- VVM notification in "all Messages" tab after deleting
- VCAST Music – removed MP3 purchase references
We're also hearing that the end date for this trial is September 3rd - presumably, that means that if everything goes well, that's the date it's going to get approved and possibly roll out to everyone shortly after.
If you still had any doubts at this point that the HTC Rezound Ice Cream Sandwich update was indeed rolling out as reported by the first batch of users, let me dispel them right now. Verizon Wireless just updated the official document detailing the Android 4.0.3 rollout (it's indeed HTC build version 3.14.605.12 and Sense 3.6). Here are some screenshots of the doc along with the changelog:
Need some reading for the weekend? Google has you covered. To celebrate the shipping of the first batch of Nexus 7 pre-orders, Google has posted up the full, official, exhaustive changelog for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Covering everything from Accessibility to Widgets, the changelog delivers comprehensive explanations of each and every change users can expect to find in Android's latest iteration, as well as changes to Google apps and the "new Google experience on Android," including Google Search and Google Now.


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Politician Assures Us Her Twitter Silence Isn't Due to Hawaiian Sojourn
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|Oh the things you'll find on a politician's Facebook page...
Obviously, when it comes to Twitter, Fiona Ma is No. 2! (Our top loyalties, obviously, are spoken for).
So when we noticed the other day that Ma hadn't tweeted for two weeks solid, we got nervous. Had she jetted off to Hawaii without telling anyone like another famous member of the political Twitterati?
Not quite. When Ma answered our query of whether she was in Hawaii or not, she wasn't in the middle of the Pacific Ocean but on Ocean Avenue.
As for her Twitter silence, her answer was beautiful in its simplicity: "I just haven't been doing anything really interesting lately." This is Grade-A logic. But, yes, it could spell the end of Twitter as we know it.
Indeed, Ma informs us that while she had abstained from Twitter, she'd been updating her Facebook page. Silly us. We have to get over our 20th century mores about glancing at people's Facebook pages.
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Former Pharmaceutical Rep Creates Jobs in Military Apparel Manufacturing Industry
In 2006, pharmaceutical giant Schering-Plough closed its manufacturing facility in Manatí, Puerto Rico leaving hundreds of people unemployed, among them, Armando Semprit.
The plant closing was partly due to the 10-year phase-out of Section 936 of the Internal Revenue Code, which provided a tax credit against U.S. taxes imposed on income earned by a U.S. corporation on the island. Pharmaceutical companies originally came to Puerto Rico over 40 years ago to take advantage of Section 936, turning Puerto Rico into a worldwide pharmaceutical center that currently produces 16 of the top 20-selling drugs in the U.S.
Nevertheless, Schering was one of dozens of manufacturing plants that ceased operations in Puerto Rico over the last decade, and Semprit only one of thousands of individuals who lost their jobs. His six years of experience as a medical representative and his Master's degree in Global Management overqualified him against countless of line employees looking for jobs amidst the worst recession this economy has ever seen.
But Semprit was well prepared to take a hit. At the age of 28 he enjoyed a good salary, and had put away quite a bit for a rainy day. In order to keep himself busy while another opportunity arose, Semprit applied for insurance and securities licenses and spent the next two years hitting the pavement looking for clients.
"Because of my savings, I only worked the field part-time," Semprit says. "But within two years, most of those savings had depleted, and I started to feel unemployed."
What helped Semprit put an end to his "unemployed" feeling was reading the newspaper. As he explains it, one of his strategies when seeking new clients was to read announcements companies were making about new products that were sure to reap great revenues.
"I would visit them and advise them on where to invest their earnings," Semprit says.
It was while thumbing through the newspaper one day in March 2008 that Semprit came across and ad for a company that was selling machinery and equipment for people interested in federal contracting. This caught Semprit's attention and he paid the company a visit simply to offer his services as an investment broker, and to see first-hand the company's operations and the type of equipment it was selling. The company was Rebmar, Inc. dedicated to the manufacturing of military uniforms and accessories in Morovis, in the heart of Puerto Rico's central mountainous region. All of its industrial sewing machines and equipment were for sale. Rebmar's owner --based on the mainland-- was near retirement and looking to close operations on the island, since his children had no interest in running the company.
Reading the newspaper again the next morning, Semprit saw an article about a Business Matchmaking event the U.S. Small Business Administration's Puerto Rico office was conducting later that week with the Puerto Rico Association of Engineers and Land Surveyors.
"I went to the event to meet people and network, and also to learn about the federal contracting process," Semprit says. "I listened as presenters spoke about the great potential of the HUBZone program, of growth opportunities in Puerto Rico, and the federal government's investment in contracting."
Within a couple of weeks of attending the SBA's Matchmaking event, Semprit had visited the Puerto Rico State Department to read up on Rebmar's corporate certificates and financial statements, and later visited the company again, this time making an offer to purchase the machinery as an individual.
"I knew nothing about manufacturing," Semprit admits. "But I had to either invest the money I had left in a profitable business or find myself another job quickly."
It took about a week of negotiations, but Rebmar's owner finally agreed on a selling price that was reasonable to Semprit. The young man was becoming an entrepreneur. He incorporated his new business as Noliar Inc., engaging in the manufacturing of apparel, bags, pouches, vests, and tent and gas mask accessories for military troops. He also obtained Rebmar's list of clients, who let him know they needed someone to fulfill the contracts pending.
On April 4, 2008, Semprit began operations with five employees at Rebmar's facilities, which were housed in a building of approximately 40,000 square feet owned by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO). Soon after, Noliar completed the contracts that Rebmar had left pending, and also landed two subcontracts from a prime contractor that was manufacturing commercial products for the federal government.
Within a few months, however, PRIDCO informed Semprit that it needed the facilities for another company, and Semprit relocated his business to another PRIDCO-owned building in Morovis – this time 21,600 square feet big.
But a cash flow problem led Semprit to visit his bank to apply for a loan. It was then he learned of the U.S. Small Business Administration's 7(a) Loan Guaranty program, which provides long-term financing to acquire equipment and machinery, inventory, fixtures and accessories, renovations, purchase land, build new buildings, purchase existing businesses, and for the repayment of debts. The SBA can guarantee up to 85 percent on loans up to $150,000 and up to 75 percent on loans higher than $150,000 up to $5 million.
Semprit attended an SBA orientation session and was referred to the Puerto Rico Small Business and Technology Development Center for training, counseling and technical assistance.
"Like a good student, I took the SBTDC course on how to start a small business and went to all my classes," Semprit says. "Because of my college major, I had basic knowledge of how to prepare a business plan, but the SBTDC helped me polish it. I also learned how to do my bookkeeping, and although I hire an accountant to review the company's books, I still do all the numbers myself."
At that time Semprit ultimately didn't get a loan, but he recently obtained an SBA-guaranteed line of credit from Banco Santander Puerto Rico that is helping him establish commercial credit experience. Noliar Inc. has invested in more sophisticated equipment to be more efficient, and has fulfilled contracts for the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, among others. In addition, the company is also working as a subcontractor for Propper International, in addition to having six other clients, and foresees closing the year 2012 with $1.5 million in revenues.
Noliar –who's named after Semprit's mother "Noli"—recently obtained certification under the SBA's 8(a) Business Development program, which provides eligible socially and economically disadvantaged firms with growth opportunities through federal contracts.
Almost four years after that fateful day in March 2008, Semprit employs 28 people, a fact that brings optimism to a town like Morovis with an unemployment rate of 21 percent. Looking back at the road he's taken and the challenges he's faced as an entrepreneur, Semprit sees the glass as half-full.
"I'm still here," Semprit declares. "I'm creating job opportunities for people who probably wouldn't have had another option. I look forward to what's to come."
Industrial Engineer Finds Success in Packaging Solutions
As a child, Yoel Rivera never imagined that one day he would be the owner of a successful one-of-a-kind business.
Like most, upon graduating high school he attended college; in his case the University of Puerto Rico's Mayagüez Campus, acknowledged throughout the world for producing some of the best engineers.
Shortly after obtaining his degree in Industrial Engineering in 2002, Yoel began working with one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the nation, developing standard operating procedures, and later maintenance plans. The validation aspect of a manufacturing process had always interested him, however, and he moved on to a company that provided this type of service to the pharmaceutical industry. Yoel began conducting validation services in the area of packaging, the final quality-control aspect any production line.
"I loved it," Yoel says. "Due to market demands, packaging is constantly changing so that products continue appealing to the consumer."
During the next few years, Yoel continued working in this field and identified that FDA packaging regulations had been included as a critical aspect of every consumer product, regardless of the market. Now, there were companies out there that performed validation in general for various industries, but none that was trained to specifically conduct the service in the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries.
Based on this need, in 2005, the young entrepreneur decided to go out on his own and, together with a business partner, started a validation company from home, with two full-time employees. Ultimate Solutions Corporation was born. Soon after, the business was employing 13 people. In 2007, however, his business partner developed a cleaning product and left to pursue another venture.
Yoel maintained his 13 employees and continued working on the validation contract they were performing at that moment. After the project was completed, Yoel realized he couldn't afford a staff of 13, and had to let five of his employees go.
The businessman then had the opportunity to personally become certified to conduct validation for Johnson & Johnson's McNeil subsidiary, and he was subcontracted under Ultimate Solutions Corp., conducting validation services for the pharmaceutical company.
"Around 2008, I realized the economic scenario was becoming a little complex for the pharmaceutical industry, and I began exploring other business alternatives," Yoel states.
Yoel ultimately found a different niche to fill, representing lines of high technology equipment, such as thermo-formers, transfer systems, scan-ware, case-packers, and high-speed troubleshooting cameras, among others. His clients ranged from the pharmaceutical companies he knew so well as Amgen, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Warner Lambert, to others such as local brewery Cervecera de Puerto Rico, also known as the company that produces Medalla Light beer.
But being an entrepreneur and handling all administrative aspects of his business, while at the same time managing projects, was becoming a little tough to handle. That is when Yoel visited the Puerto Rico Small Business & Technology Development Center's Caguas Regional Office.
The Puerto Rico SBTDC, administered by the Inter American University under cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration, provides management and technical assistance to aspiring and potential entrepreneurs. Every year, thousands of men and women like Yoel visit an SBTDC office to get help with their business plans, marketing plans, viability and market studies and loan packaging, among many other services.
After listening to Yoel's situation, SBTDC Regional Director Lorna Báez recommended he develop a team of talented professionals and move the business out of his home; she also helped introduce Yoel to the New Innovation and Incubation Center (INNOVA), in Caguas.
"I needed a business plan in order to be accepted, and within a period of three months Lorna had helped me accomplish that," the entrepreneur indicates. "I presented it and was accepted into the incubator program immediately."
Since then, Ultimate Solutions has grown to 28 employees and continues growing. The business provides services in the following areas: packaging regulatory documentation; packaging equipment and automation; industrial engineering in packaging lines; packaging training; and packaging outsourcing.
Ultimate Solutions currently operates out of a 225 square foot office, and Yoel is looking to rent a 1,500 square foot facility where he can accommodate the office and a workshop, and develop new packaging projects. Yoel is grateful to the PR-SBTDC and the New Innovation and Technological Small Business Incubator for the support they have provided.
"As individuals, we have certain limitations, so you definitely have to develop a team," Yoel declares. "They [SBTDC and INNOVA] have helped me overcome that conflict, to understand that the human resource is the most valuable asset an entrepreneur can have. You also have to find a product or service that is viable and keep on defining it as time goes by as something that is unique and that customers will trust, and hire you so that you are useful to their operations."
Recently, Yoel was selected as one of Caribbean Business' "40 under 40" entrepreneurs to watch. Although this recognition has brought much satisfaction to the businessman, he is quick to point out that "to see a satisfied customer and to see my employees progress while my business progresses are my greatest satisfaction. When I pay the payroll, I feel like I am contributing to society.
For more information on SBA programs and services, visit www.sba.gov/pr.
Teacher Turned Salesman Turns Techie with a Little Help from SBA
American author Napoleon Hill once said that patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. Perhaps no other words have rung as true for businessperson Michael González.
Born in New Jersey to Puerto Rican parents, González arrived in Puerto Rico at the age of six, when his father was transferred to the island. As any other child, González was involved in many after-school activities, and expressed great interest in music and theater.
Ready for college in the early '70s, González chose the Carroll College at Waukesha, Wis. to pursue studies in Education, and after obtaining his bachelor's degree, he went on to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he obtained his master's degree in Cultural Foundations of Education. In 1979, he married his wife Dolores, who's originally from Mexico, and a year later they moved to Puerto Rico, where González began teaching at a top-notch private school in San Juan.
In the meantime, his father was an independent representative of a stateside company called that was engaged in the distribution of medical equipment. In 1982, the elder González recruited his son to sell the products he represented. In 1988, however, the company realized it was encountering too many difficulties collecting bills from hospitals, and decided to leave the island, but not before offering González' father the option of manufacturing their products locally. They entered a contract under which the company provided the production know-how, in exchange for annual royalties to the Gonzálezes.
But after the González family was all set with a loan approval and a commercial building in Vega Baja made available by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO), the company decided not to go forward with their deal.
"We sued them, but the ruling was for an amount of money that was not enough for us to go forward with the business," González says. "We probably should have left it at that, but all of us –my father, my brothers and I—decided we could take a stab at the manufacturing business without any help."
Over the next five years the business suffered continuous losses, and the family closed and turned over the plant.
"I wouldn't change anything," González assures. "We received a doctorate in life. We were able to run the first manufacturing plant of surgical kits in Puerto Rico, employ over 40 people at one given time, and produce a high quality product."
In 1994, his business experiences –the good and the bad— led González to establish Modern Tech Associates, engaged in the sale of remanufactured hospital equipment, such as X-ray machines and beds. In 2002, González hired his first employee and three years later he hired another salesperson. In 2009, the same year González hired his first secretary, Modern Tech Associates began catering to neighborhood pharmacies, selling automation equipment such as robotic pill dispensers and a more compact version of a robot they call "intelligent cabinet". This business move led González to hire a technician in 2010 to service and repair equipment.
By the time Modern Tech Associates reached its 10th anniversary, another business opportunity had come up, and which would define Gonzalez' future success as an entrepreneur.
While visiting a client one day, González was asked if he could provide service to TV rentals, since their biomedical division had closed, and it was usually those technicians who serviced the equipment. González was not very familiar with the TV market, but thought he would give it a try.
"It was a very innovative system, controlled by a company that does not provide service locally," says González. "I traveled to the U.S., where the company trained me and offered that I represent the product in Puerto Rico."
What made the system so innovative? It was controlled centrally by a computer and could be activated or de-activated at any given time, with no need for the patient to wait for the TV rental staff to make its rounds. The interactive communication system also has other capabilities besides TV programming, games and on-demand movies that are offered at no extra cost to the hospital.
The system enables prescribed patient education and real-time communication between patient and the healthcare team. A barcode scanner provides an extra measure of assurance that clinicians are giving the proper medication to the patient, and doctors can access and update electronic medical records at the bedside. The system also provides educational programming for hospital personnel, and for patients, as required by the Joint Commission and the Health Department. Upon his return to the island, González approached Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in San Juan and made his sales pitch.
"They told me they were involved in many projects at the time, but asked me to submit a proposal," the businessman says.
And so González did. In 2002, with seven part-time employees, a full-time technician and his son Gabriel as supervisor, González founded Modern Techealth Alliance Corp.
The system would cost over $700,000, since it required having a small computer installed in each hospital room. González visited several banks looking for financing, but was turned down, until someone recommended he visit the Puerto Rico Small Business and Technology Development Center. Administered by the Inter American University under a cooperative agreement with the SBA, the PR SBTDC provides individual counseling, training and technical assistance to existing and potential entrepreneurs.
"At first the business counselor looked at us a little strange, but then she became interested in the project," González recalls. "She visited our office and helped us put together a solid package. I owe a great part of this achievement to her."
Soon after, Banco Santander de Puerto Rico awarded González with a $584,500 loan under the SBA's 7(a) loan guaranty program, which provides long-term financing to acquire equipment and machinery, inventory, fixtures and accessories, renovations, purchase land, build new buildings, purchase existing businesses, and for the repayment of debts. The SBA can guarantee up to 85 percent on loans up to $150,000 and up to 75 percent on loans higher than $150,000 up to $5 million.
Auxilio Mutuo ultimately gave González the contract, which included the installation, operation and daily collection of TV rentals. Modern Techealth Alliance was in business, providing its initial service to Auxilio Mutuo on November 1, 2003 and with very good results, according to González.
Another opportunity for Modern Techealth arrived in 2006, when González obtained a contract with Doctors' Center Hospital in Manatí. Once again, he approached Banco Santander, who approved another loan under SBA's 7(a) program, this time in the amount of $475,000. This contract allowed González to hire five additional employees.
Eight years after its founding, Modern Techealth generates almost $1 million in annual revenues and employs 12 people, including González' sons Joaquín, Gabriel and Juandiego.
"My wife Dolores and I are still married and have six children, and I consider raising and supporting my family with love and happiness to be my greatest success," González says.
Modern Techealth provides technical support and service eight hours a day, five days a week, as well as support calls on weekends. González continues to run both his companies with the following philosophy.
"One piece of advice I always have for my children is to never give up," González says. "If one door closes, try to enter another way, even if it's through a window. There is no formula for success, but there is one important ingredient – persistence."
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The Haute Couture designer dresses are the much desired clothing line presented by leading design houses to a select coterie of customers who can afford it. The Haute Couture designer dresses are very expensive and hence quite unaffordable for most buyers, because style and fit of the designer dresses are more important than money spent or time consumed. So fashion houses have come up with the concept of prêt-a-porter or ready to wear line where designer dresses are made in standard sizes and larger numbers. The idea is to offer designer dresses that fit most people and can be worn without alterations. The advantage of prêt line is that more number of people is able to buy designer dresses. The designer dresses themselves, while not exclusive, are available in limited numbers, and hence are more expensive than the normal clothes available at retail shops. But most people don't mind paying extra for limited edition designer dresses.
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Design houses and designers offer their prêt line collection for public viewing in the Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer season during fashion weeks. The Fall/Winter collection is presented in February while the Spring/Summer collection is presented in September or October. Such fashion shows have the best designer dresses and attract huge publicity and viewership. Paris, Milan, New York and London fashion weeks are the most coveted ones for the designers. Smaller designers may choose to display their designer dresses separately and usually before these fashion weeks.
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Just when the green movement was ready to kick into a higher gear, the recession throttled the enthusiasm.
"It's difficult to launch green initiatives at a time when people are being laid off," said Neal Lewis, executive director of the Sustainability Institute at Molloy College.
Michael Deering, vice president of environmental affairs for LIPA, is singing from the same hymnal, noting that although there's a greater understanding how energy-efficient improvements creates long-term savings, companies are cautious about making investments today when they don't know if they'll be in business tomorrow.
But after the initial shock of the economic downturn, the green industry has begun to regroup, Lewis said, and 2011 saw some green gains.
Overall, Long Island gets a mixed report card for alternative energy, energy efficiency and non-energy related green initiatives.
Alternative energy
It was a bright year for solar power on Long Island. Last Friday, the switch was flipped on the largest solar farm in the eastern United States at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, connecting 32 megawatts of power to the LIPA grid.
"This adds a substantial portion of solar to the energy mix," said Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Farmingdale-based Citizens Campaign for the Environment.
Additionally, Suffolk County took the lead on a 17 megawatt solar project featuring the suspension of solar panels over parking lots outside its H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge and at train stations.
"These two major projects will benefit all LIPA customers," said Gordian Raacke, executive director of the East Hampton nonprofit Renewable Energy Long Island.
On a smaller scale, residential and commercial solar installations, aided by a drastic reduction in prices, continue to grow despite the economy. "With prices coming down, rebates are coming down too, and people want to get in before rebates and tax incentives go away," Raacke said.
But the sun proved to be stronger than the wind. "Off-shore wind has made zero progress on Long Island," said Esposito, blaming a lack of political will and leadership on the issue.
LIPA, in collaboration with the New York Power Authority and Con Edison, is still in the drawing board phase for a potential wind project 13 to 17 miles off the coast. On a smaller scale, a few private wind turbines were installed this year, Raacke said.
One sign of green-tinted hope was The Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center opening its doors at Stony Brook University with a goal to develop new technologies that can be commercialized. Current projects include a solar-powered device for cooling and technology for harvesting energy from shock absorbers.
"Federal budget cuts are a concern, but we have been winning competitive grants," said Yacov Shamash, vice president for economic development and dean of the college of engineering and applied sciences at Stony Brook.
Commercial and municipal buildings
President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed by Congress in 2009, helped many municipalities on the Island complete renewable energy, energy efficiency and other green projects, Lewis said. One example: The Village of Lake Success recently installed two solar electric systems, stemming from two federal stimulus grants totaling $500,000.
Among private companies, the Great Neck-based North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System has taken the lead in committing to seek LEED certification for all construction and remodeling projects. The health system currently has dozens of projects at various stages registered to receive LEED certification, said Vince Capogna, executive director of the U.S. Green Building Council's Long Island chapter in Hauppauge.
In total, there are about 40 LEED certified commercial properties on Long Island, with more than 200 projects registered to seek certification, Capogna said. "When you consider that there was only one LEED certified building in 2007 here, we're making progress every year," he said.
LIPA has increased its budget for its commercial energy efficiency programs, including new programs and outreach.
But according to Deering, uncertainty rules many businesses. "They're very cautious about making any kind of investment in upgrades to their facilities or equipment, even if it will lower the cost of operations," he said.


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Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in JAF CMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks and compromise a vulnerable system.
1) Input passed to the "message" parameter in jafshout.php and the "name", "url", "title", and "about" parameters when posting in the forum is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which is executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious user data is viewed.
This can also be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary PHP code via the "message" parameter passed in jafshout.php.
2) Input passed to the "website" and "main_dir" parameters in module/forum/forum.php, module/forum/main.php, and module/forum/headlines.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code by including files from local or external resources.
Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.
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Richard L. Green has fond memories of his college experience as a student at East Tennessee State University and places a high value on the excellent education he received. Graduating with a degree in business in 1973, "Dick" Green started his working career as a management trainee with General Shale Brick. Rising through the ranks, he was promoted to plant manager of the Knoxville brick plant. He later returned to Johnson City and was given the position of regional production manager, responsible for the operation of several manufacturing facilities.
Green was promoted to vice-president of marketing for General Shale in the early 90s and then to executive vice-president. In 1994, he assumed his current position, president and CEO of General Shale, the second largest brick manufacturer in the United States with more than 2,000 employees in eleven states. In 1999, General Shale became part of Wienerberger, AG, headquartered in Vienna, Austria. Wienerberger is the largest brick company in the world with operations in 23 countries. Green serves as a member of the Wienerberger Management Committee. Hard work, moral character and the ability to get along with others have been the hallmarks of Green's professional career. Green embraces a mentoring philosophy that allows employees to develop their potential fully. Under Green's leadership the company has experienced the greatest growth in its seventy-five year history and now has an active and structured program in place to encourage employee involvement at every level in the organization.
Born and raised in Johnson City, Green has worked most of his life in the East Tennessee area. Green's leadership in the brick industry earned him a spot on the Brick Industry Association's Board of Directors. He is also the chairman of the BIA's Brick Manufacturers Council and served as president of the Southern Brick Institute from 1998 to 1999. Currently, he serves on the AmSouth Bank Board, the Board of Directors of Northeast State Technical Community College Foundation and is a member of the University of Tennessee School of Architecture's Board of Advisors.
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Green and his wife, Karen Carden Green (Class of 1971), of 32 years, met while attending ETSU. His association with ETSU is a life long family affair. Green's mother and father, as well as many other members of his family, graduated from East Tennessee State University. His two sons, Joseph "Jody" and David are graduates of The University of Tennessee. Both sons currently reside in Nashville, as well as Jody's wife, Julie, and one of Green's greatest joys, his granddaughter, Lucy.


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Unlike some other pundits, I see a number of good ideas in the President's new proposals and actions announced on Tuesday.
Here are some of the President's ideas that to me make a good deal of sense; for more details see the as always excellent summary from Green Car Congress.
1. Temporarily suspend additions to the SPR. President Bush stated in his speech Tuesday:
One immediate way we can signal to people we're serious about increasing supply is to stop making purchases or deposits to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for a short period of time. I've directed the Department of Energy to defer filling the reserve this summer. Our strategic reserve is sufficiently large enough to guard against any major supply disruption over the next few months.
We currently have 688 million barrels in the SPR. Loans and sales from this reserve of 21 million barrels last fall were in my opinion quite helpful in mitigating the effects of the hurricane, and, if used in an aggressive and timely manner, could be a very important tool for responding to potential future crises. On the other hand, I agree with the President that it doesn't make sense to give up $70 a barrel to put more oil in. Temporarily suspending deposits might reduce demand by 70,000 barrels a day over the summer. Small, but I can't quarrel with Bush's summary: "Every little bit helps."
2. Temporary waivers of reformulated gasoline requirements. Bush also announced Tuesday:
[S]tate and local officials in some parts of our country worry about supply disruption for the short term. They worry about the sudden change from MTBE to ethanol — the ethanol producers won't be able to meet the demand. And that's causing the price of gasoline to go up some amount in their jurisdictions. And some have contacted us to determine whether or not they can ask the EPA to waive local fuel requirements on a temporary basis. And I think it makes sense that they should be allowed to. So I'm directing EPA Administrator Johnson to use all his available authority to grant waivers that would relieve critical fuel supply shortages.
This proposal led Calculated Risk to worry that Bush intends to return to the air quality standards of 30 years ago,
and prompted Tim Haab to note sarcastically, "and if we put the lead back in it would be even cheaper." But I think what Bush was responding to was requests like this one from Governor Edward Rendell (D-PA):
I am writing to respectfully request that the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) issue a "No Action Assurance" for the Reformulated
Gasoline (RFG) requirements in the five-county Philadelphia area [Bucks, Chester, Delaware,
Montgomery and Philadelphia counties] for two
weeks or until such time as adequate supplies of complying gasoline are
assured in the area….We have information indicating that a major gasoline supplier in the
Philadelphia area is reporting more than 160 delivery-needed alarms, and
many more fuel outlets reporting that supplies are nearly exhausted. In
light of the circumstances, the requested assurance is "clearly necessary
to serve the public interest."
There is little doubt in my mind that temporary bottlenecks associated with the transition away from MTBE have the potential to create some significant local problems for which this is a very sensible solution.
3. Repeal energy company tax breaks. Here I quote from the related White House Fact Sheet:
Record oil prices and large cash flows also mean that energy companies do not need unnecessary tax breaks like the "geological and geophysical expenditure" depreciation acceleration provision in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This unnecessary tax break allows energy companies to rapidly depreciate costs related to oil exploration. The President also calls on Congress to repeal the Energy Policy Act provision subsidizing energy companies' research into deepwater drilling. The President is looking forward to Congress taking about $2 billion of these tax breaks out of the budget over a 10-year period of time.
The status quo, which the President is rightly resisting, is for Congress to muscle through a multitude of new tax incentives and subsidies to encourage certain behavior that suits its current fancy, as it did in last summer's energy bill, and then pile on with a new series of equally poorly thought-through new taxes, such as current ideas for a windfall profits tax. The energy companies didn't need any of these tax breaks. Eliminating the tax breaks is a far more sensible approach than adding a new tax on top of them.
How will this help lower gas prices? Only indirectly, insofar as it may help forestall a windfall profits tax or inefficient allocation of corporate energy budgets, which if unchecked ultimately would end up causing consumers to pay more. But in any case, it's a good idea on any of a number of other grounds, such as making a small improvement in the budget deficit. For this reason, I'm all for the President including it in his list.
4. Renewed calls for other measures. The President is also calling for a number of other measures that I think could help, including directing EPA Administrator Steve Johnson "to bring together governors to form a new task force to confront the larger problem of too many localized fuel blends," asking Congress to "simplify and speed up the permitting process for refinery construction and expansion," and asking Congress to authorize exploration for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
5. Protecting consumers from unfair pricing. The White House Fact Sheet describes these measures this way:
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating whether the price of gasoline has been unfairly manipulated since last year's hurricanes. The President is also directing the Department of Justice to work with the FTC and the Department of Energy to conduct inquiries into cheating or illegal manipulation related to current gasoline prices. The FTC and Attorney General are contacting all 50 state attorneys general to offer technical assistance and to urge them to aggressively investigate illegal price manipulation within their jurisdictions.
Perhaps this is part of what led James Glassman to summarize the speech as "a sad example of political capitulation by a former Texas oilman who certainly knows better." But I think there is another way to read this. There is currently an almost religious conviction by many Americans that the price of oil, rather than being determined by world markets, is controlled by a few big oil companies, as if the 2.5 million barrels of crude oil per day that ExxonMobil produced last year somehow give it the ability to control the price of the other 82 mbd that got sold. The certainty with which people hold this conviction seems directly related to the complete absence of any supportive facts. Surely the best way to confront this prejudice is to shine a clear, bright light on the hypothesis and investigate its premises in full public view. If that's the outcome of these investigations, it could be a good thing.
Now the domestic U.S. market for refined gasoline is another matter, where it is less clear to me what detailed and multi-sourced investigations might end up concluding. My personal view is that there is less competition in many local markets than there should be, partly as a result of the "boutique fuel" issue raised above, though I doubt that this adds more than 10 cents a gallon to the average price customers pay. Nor am I persuaded that the American press, fanned on by politicians' hyperbole, would succeed in helping Americans to understand some of the subtleties of this question or even the difference between the global market for crude and the local market for the particular gasoline they buy. But there's nothing for it at this point– the public is clamoring for investigations, so investigations they shall have, and hopefully the truth will emerge.
There are other aspects of Bush's proposals for which I have less enthusiasm. The reader may note that those I have described, at least the way I have described them, are fundamentally quite modest, for which a legitimate reaction might be, "yes, those may be good ideas, but they really won't change that much." But this in fact is exactly why I like them. I think there is an overwhelming political instinct in the current situation to do something huge, drastic, and ultimately quite harmful. Far better, in my opinion, to do a little bit of good rather than a whole lot of harm. In the rare cases that our elected officials opt for the former, they deserve our praise.
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is their any way i can open a sample into sfplay~ without using open. what i want is to be able to click a message box stating open 1.wav or open C:UsersLEEDesktopdrumsbassdrum1.wav. i dont want the open pop up menu to open at all. is that possible with sfplay~ if not what do i need to use. thanks.
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