Carta a Nuestros Lideres Electos y a la No-Electa

Comenzando el lunes algunos más van a poder ir a trabajar desde sus oficinas. No es mucho estimulo real a la economía ya que la mayoría de los que trabajamos en esos servicios profesionales nunca dejamos de trabajar, solo dejamos de ir a la oficina. Muchos de esos campos que menciona la orden como CPAs, abogados y servicios financieros lo que venden es el conocimiento que tiene cada profesional en su campo y para eso no necesitan ir a la oficina. Los corredores de Bienes Raíces pueden mercadear propiedades desde su casa.

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No me quejo de que pueda ir caminando a mi oficina y hacer par de horas de trabajo enfocado más fácil que en casa con mi esposa trabajando en el mismo cuarto, una nena de 6 años que necesita atención y hacer trabajo de escuela, y uno de 15 meses que tiene 15 meses. El problema con este plan desde el punto de vista de estimular actividad económica es que hace 6 semanas le quitaron la habilidad de trabajar a muchas de las personas a las que nosotros servimos y aun no tienen claro cuando lo van a poder hacer. Es de poca ayuda que dejen a alguien ir a su oficina de Bienes Raíces si sus prospectivos clientes están solicitando ayudas federales y locales para mantener sus negocios vivos. Es de poca ayuda que una abogada pueda ir a su oficina si sus clientes y prospectivos clientes están tomando decisiones de cuantos empleados pueden mantener en la nómina para no quebrar ya que no pueden producir.

NO es momento de quitar todas las limitaciones, pero SI hay que entender las potenciales repercusiones a largo plazo para la calidad de vida de nosotros y las generaciones que nos siguen que tiene la ley marcial que estamos viviendo. Si no comenzamos a mover la maquina económica de luego del paro en seco que le dimos ella va a sufrir por mucho tiempo en lo que pueda arrancar y durante ese tiempo sufrimos todos con ella.

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Antes de exponer lo que pienso referente a la “reapertura” hago un paréntesis… por aquí más o menos imagino que muchos de ustedes leyendo ya han formulado su opinión sobre quien soy. Algunos decidieron ya que soy una persona algo sensata que le gustaría ver lo que es Puerto Rico fuera de una recesión económica por primera vez en su vida profesional y quizás hasta les caigo algo bien… otros ya están seguros de que soy un fucking becerro que quiere matar a sus padres y a su abuela de COVID y que me merezco que me pongan la cara en un petri dish con COVID. En este punto me parece importante hacer la observación de que en el discurso social en el 2020 se pierde el hecho de que entre el 0 y el 100 hay un cojón de números.

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Estar a favor de crear actividad económica no significa que quiero que salgamos a la calle a escupir las aceras, abrasarnos en la playa y compartir un comida como los perritos de la película aquella de Disney que acaban dándose un beso porque cogen el mismo pedazo de espagueti.

De la misma manera el hecho de que pienso que deberíamos usar mascaras en TODOS los espacios cerrados públicos y que no debemos permitir congregaciones grandes de personas no significa que soy un comunista que quiere que el gobierno me resuelva todos los problemas y que debemos estar encerrados en nuestros hogares como si estuviera una manada de Dothraki de la serie Game of Thrones decapitando a mis padres y a sus amigos afuera de mi apartamento.

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Vivir en los extremos es malo para ti y los que te rodean, recuerda: entre el 0 y el 100 hay muchos números y en la búsqueda de soluciones a problemas complejos hay que buscar balance y eficiencias.

Volviendo al tema central del estímulo económico… Si un negocio en cualquier industria o espacio puede operar, aunque sea de manera limitada, manteniendo protocolos de distanciamiento social e higiene los deben dejar operar a la capacidad que puedan. Las que no puedan operar manteniendo esos protocolos necesitan hacer los ajustes necesarios para poderlo hacer antes de volver a operar si quieren abrir antes de que exista una vacuna o un tratamiento uniforme en la comunidad médica. En algunos casos eso va a llevar a que algunos negocios desaparezcan, eso siempre es triste, pero si no empiezan a operar los que están listos, se van a quebrar muchísimos más negocios. En otros casos la nueva realidad va a llevar a algunos negocios a innovar en su espacio (o en el de otro) y alcanzar niveles de exito mas alla de lo que esperaban.

Si llevas más de 4 años viviendo en Puerto Rico y aun no te has dado cuenta de que en la crisis hay oportunidad no estas prestando nada de atención a tus alrededores. Si no llevas 6 semanas pensando en cómo atemperar tu negocio o tus habilidades a la nueva realidad ya perdiste 6 semanas importantes y sugiero empieces a meterle mano a ese plan YA; no reces para una reapertura sin prepararte para ella. Por ejemplo… Si tienes una tienda de ropa y aun no tienes manera de vender online y una manera de entregar o permitir recogido sin que alguien entre a tu local, te vas a quedar atrás, aunque quiten todas las restricciones mañana. El comportamiento de casi todos consumidores en todas las industrias cambio por obligación en los últimos varios meses. El comportamiento de muchos de esos consumidores va a verse cambiado para siempre.

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Ahora de un punto de vista social/comunitario… los horarios arbitrarios que establecen para salir de la casa, ejercitarse y trabajar no tienen sentido alguno. ¿Para qué dejan el toque de queda a las 7pm? Si una persona quiere ver una propiedad para comprarla y el tiempo que tiene para verla es a las 5 o 6pm, ¿de qué sirve no dejarle ir a ver la casa con su bróker a las 7pm si puede a las 5pm? Si un CPA esta reunido con su cliente y es un tema complicado (como los son casi todos los temas contributivos este año), ¿qué impacto negativo en la salud publica tiene que se puedan quedar reunidos hasta después de las 7pm o que el CPA se quede trabajando en su oficina hasta después de las 7pm?

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De 5am a 3pm para salir a ejercitarse… ¿por qué limitan hasta las 3pm el ejercicio afuera? ¿Alguien del Task Force ha tratado de salir a correr en Puerto Rico entre las horas de 11am a 3pm? ¿Qué peligro adicional se crea por yo salir a correr a dar la vuelta caminando a la cuadra con mi esposa y nuestros hijos (manteniendo distanciamiento social) de 4-5pm o de 5-6pm cuando no haga tanto calor? ¿Y las personas que trabajan y están educando a sus hijos que no logren termina antes de las 3pm?

Que se jodan. ¿Si no logran terminar antes de las 6-6:30 para poder ir al colmado o la farmacia? Que se jodan. Puedo correr por la acera frente a la playa, pero no en la arena… puedo hacer ejercicio afuera pero no en un parque. ¿Cuál es el beneficio? No es pregunta retórica… en serio no logro entender el beneficio ni la ciencia aplicada a decidir esos horarios ni esas limitaciones.

Esto es una extensión de la clase cívica que comenzamos a coger todos en el verano de 2019. Una clase que tuvo alrededor de un millón de participantes en una de las sesiones presenciales en el Expreso Las Américas. Tenemos que aprender. Tenemos que estar más involucrados con la política publica de nuestra isla. Tenemos que dedicar mas tiempo a conocer los candidatos que se postulan en especial los que se postulan en nuestras comunidades. Tenemos que dejar en la Era Pre-Verano 2019 el voto integro dónde se vota por personas que no sabemos ni quien carajos son, y a veces hasta personas que ni que saben acerca de política pública solo porque se pusieron el mismo uniforme que uno que me gusta. En la vida no hay problema con que te caiga bien Anthony Davis y odies a Lebron. En la politica no tienes que esperar a que alguien se cambie de partido para decir que es un batata y no darle tu voto.puerto_rico_flag_efe.jpg_916636689

Tenemos que atrevernos a hablar cuando veamos cosas que no están bien y tenemos que atrevernos a preguntar cuando vemos cosas que no hacen sentido. Ahora mismo yo tengo que ir a dar una clase de matemática a mi hija y después organizar un webinario, pero ajá… a nuestros líderes electos y a la no electa… dejen a la gente producir y ser saludables puñeta.    

Gracias,

Jorge

Dear President Obama: Why Cuba and not Puerto Rico?

Dear President Obama,

Hi. It’s me again, Jorge Gonzalez-Castro. I wrote you a letter a few months ago asking you to put an end to American colonialism. This time around I’m using my second last name, Castro, deliberately because I know Cuba is really popular right now and it might get me a few clicks. Full disclosure, I’m not related so please don’t send the FBI to my house. 🙂 All joking aside, I’ve been thinking about the letter I wrote and I realize that I may have been too ambitious. Perhaps asking for the end of American colonialism is too lofty a request, for that I apologize.

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All that being said, I don’t think it would be too ambitious of a request for you to spend a few days in your colonies as you have in Cuba. Please spend a few days in Puerto Rico and actively participate in the conversation about what to do with the United States’ colonies. I’m grateful that several people from your administration have visited, these visits have helped and have enriched the public discussion. If you were to take a stand, even by simply taking part in the public conversation, a severe economic collapse can be avoided.

If the most powerful man in the nation remains silent, even someone whom is bullish on Puerto Rico, like I am, can get worried. I know that I and my family will be OK Because we love each other and we’re not afraid of hard work. There’s something about making a living by selling things door-to-door on full commission that gives you confidence in your ability to provide under any circumstances. I know I’ll be ok because I have faith in myself, my family and my friends. I know I’ll do whatever I need to do to be fine, but this is not about me.
This is about millions and millions of United States citizens who are being treated as second-class citizens. There are conversations  taking place in the Supreme Court right now where it’s essentially being written in to law that Puerto Ricans are, in fact, second-class citizen. I find it troubling that this has not been a higher priority for someone whom I believe to be a great humanitarian.

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Please President Obama, stand up for Puerto Rico by joining the public conversation. Stand up for millions of citizens of your nation (even though only some of us have the right to vote for President). Please join me and many others and stand up for millions of veterans of the US Armed Forces, past and present, who called your predecessors ‘Commander in Chief’ even though their parents and families couldn’t vote for President. Stand up for millions of young citizens that are working exhaustively to make a positive impact in their circles. Please, President Obama, stand up for an island that has a history with many parallels with the island that you were born on.

You have been an inspiration to many seeking equality and hope… Please, stand up once again. There are millions of US citizens that will stand up with you.

Best,

Jorge

Eero is the home WiFi solution I’ve been waiting for


FEBRUARY 22, 2016 – ENGADGET.COM by @nicole

Wave goodbye to the days of getting no WiFi in that one room.

Let’s face it: Your home WiFi network probably sucks. Or at least, it sucks enough that you’d much prefer to plug in directly to your router every time you get online. Except, of course, you probably can’t. Like a lot of people, you likely have smartphones or tablets that depend on wireless connectivity. Or perhaps you have your router in your living room but your office upstairs and you can’t spare the cash to run gigabit Ethernet throughout the house.

Last year, a company called Eero resolved to solve all of that. Instead of having just one router be the main WiFi hub for the whole house, the idea behind Eero is to use multiple hubs that talk to one another — each Eero device does triple duty as a router, a range extender and a wireless access point — essentially creating a mesh network for the home. That’s why Eero offers its system as a pack of three (you can certainly get just one Eero too, but that wouldn’t be using it up to its full potential). Today, the company is announcing that those initial pre-orders are finally shipping, while you can now order an Eero for yourself on the company website as well as from Amazon later this week.

But Eero is expensive. A single unit is $199 while a three pack will cost you $499 (Pre-order prices were lower at $125 and $299 respectively). That’s a lot of money to spend on a home wireless network, especially when you consider many routers and range extenders retail for under $100. Is it worth it? After several days putting the Eero to the test, I have to say that the answer is a loud and unequivocal yes.

Before we get to its blistering speeds, let’s start with just how cool this thing looks. For a device as boring as a networking hub, the Eero is a stunner. It has an elegant high-gloss curve on the top and a charmingly small footprint (measuring just 4.75 by 4.75 by 0.85 to 1.26 inches). I have no qualms displaying this out in the open, which isn’t what I can say about most unsightly routers. That’s actually part of the idea behind the Eero; because it’s pretty enough to put out in front of furniture, it’s much more likely to broadcast stronger signals in the first place. It’s the same philosophy behind Google’s OnHub router, and it’s not a bad one.

Now the Eero does have only two Ethernet ports, which seems pretty limiting for a router, but as you’ll see, I actually don’t think that’s too much of a downside. There’s also a USB port, but that’s strictly for diagnostic purposes at this point in time. As for the internals, it has a 1.0 Ghz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of flash storage. It supports dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/ac (2.4 and 5 GHz).

Setting up your Eero network is pretty easy. To do so, simply download the Eero app (yes you’ll need either Android or iOS to get your Eero going) and follow along with the installation instructions. You’ll first have to create an account with Eero by adding your email address as well as your phone number. That sounds a little strange at first, but Eero CEO Nick Weaver tells me that the system uses these to send verification codes instead of having you set up an account password. “Most of our early users set very insecure passwords,” he says, “and because this account controls your home network, we wanted it to be as secure as possible.”

Then you plug the Eero into the modem like you would with a router. A light on the Eero will then flash blue, indicating that it’s in pairing mode. Go ahead and tap Next to pair the device with your phone and then select the room it’s in. From there, simply name your network, set up a password and voila — you’re up and running. The app is useful for pairing the Eero with your phone, of course, but it also makes it easier to set up additional Eero units throughout your house. Plug one in anywhere — Eero suggests a distance of around 40 feet or so between units — and the app will instantly find it and add it to the network.

Another cool feature is the ability to create a special Guest Network simply by enabling it on the app. You can text the login details to your friends and family when they’re over for a visit right from the app itself. The app also lets you see how many devices are connected to your network. If you’re a more advanced user, you can also check on all kinds of stats like DNS settings, assign IP reservations and port forwarding, and enable Universal Plug and Play for devices like game consoles and media centers.

Now onto the speeds. Oh, the speeds. This is where the Eero really and truly shines. Prior to trying out the Eero, I had both the Xfinity SMC modem / router as well as the Apple Airport Express. In a series of tests using the Speedtest.net application, both the Xfinity and the Apple router regularly pulled in download speeds of around 8Mbps and upload speeds close to 6Mbps. There were times in the day when I would luck out and get closer to 18Mbps on download, especially if I was within a few feet of either router, but it was a crapshoot. Worse still was when I tried to use the internet in one of the upstairs bedrooms — sometimes I couldn’t get signal at all, it was so bad.

But the Eero is a different beast altogether. Right from the get-go, I was getting average download speeds of 90Mbps (upload speeds were still around 6Mbps). 90Mbps! That’s comparable to the kind of speeds I get when I plug my computer in directly into the modem via Ethernet. Thinking this was a fluke, I then tested the speeds in the corner of my bedroom that was notorious for being a WiFi dead spot. Here, the speeds dropped to an average of around 30Mbps, but that was still far better than I ever got with my existing routers.

The real magic occurred when I plugged and connected a second Eero in that same bedroom. All of a sudden, that 30Mbps average jumped right up to 90Mbps. I was amazed. This wasn’t isolated to just the Speedtest app either. With the Eero, Netflix videos streamed immediately when it would typically take a few seconds of buffering. CNN loaded in 5 seconds instead of 10. Downloading a 5MB image took 2 minutes of 3. Regardless of the test I threw at it, the Eero outperformed the Airport Express and the Xfinity router handily every time.

“The magic happens when they all work together,” says Weaver, explaining how the Eero works. “You get much faster and more reliable speeds, because your devices are much closer to the device that’s broadcasting your WiFi. We also use two radios and special software so that you get one network name and better performance than using range extenders.”

Now, as we mentioned earlier, the Eero isn’t exactly cheap. But when you combine its speed, its looks, its ease of use and oh, did I mention its speed, then the Eero could well be worth it. It certainly is for me.

The Death of Reason?


FEBRUARY 22, 2016 – RECOVEKO.COM by @therealJGC

It’s a cool time to be alive in the United States (and colonies), it can also be scary. I suppose you could say that about any period in time throughout the history of the planet. Every generation or ‘time-period’ has had significant advances, and also significant threats. Think about being alive when humans discovered how to harness fire, thatthe-stone-age-fire must’ve been awesome! On the flip side those people only lived a few decades on average due to the constant threat of other animals and nature’s elements. Being alive in the Middle Ages must’ve been a trip as well (for some), there were technological and philosophical advances thatslidemiddleages still affect the way we live today. But, of course… it’s no secret a lot of bad shit happened during that time as well since the Middle Ages are also commonly referred to as the Dark Ages. Point being, good and bad things always happen.

Still, I love being alive in 2016 and I wouldn’t want it any other way. Technology is advancing at a once unimaginable rate. Some people (mostly pessimists) like to say we’re not as far along technologically as we should be but I’ll tell you what… ‘Back to the Future’ ain’t got shit on us (except the collar that walks the dog for you, we need someone to get on that ASAP). We can stream videos taken halfway around the world, and even halfway to another Universe. We’ve seen video of a guy jumping out of a vessel in space… IN SPACE!! We have technology capable of connecting billions of people and exponentially more ideas. Many of us have colleagues, customers and friends that we interact with daily that live in other countries and continents. There are already driverless cars! If you can reach an Internet connection you can reach information about just about everything known to human kind…. EVERYTHING!! I love being alive right now for these and many, many other reasons.maxresdefault

…the civilized world is facing a new threat… the impending death of reason.

All that being said, the United States (and colonies) are facing a new threat… the impending death of reason. Continue reading “The Death of Reason?”

Where I’m From: Puerto Rico


FEBRUARY 16, 2016 – THEPLAYERSTRIBUNE.COM by @TeamCJCorrea

Puerto Rico means a lot to me. I love Puerto Rico. I love playing for these guys out here. When I came back, everybody told me, “Every time you hit a home run we scream at home and we go crazy!”

For me to be able to create that impact means everything. At the end of the day, it is a sport, and they love watching it, but it really does have an impact. For me, that’s really gratifying — something really special.

This offseason, everything changed. I thought it was going to be the same as when I left, but I talked to my mom right before I flew into Puerto Rico, and she told me I had to be ready. People were going to be all over me. The fans were going to go crazy.

I was like, “No. mom, I don’t think so. I don’t think it’ll be different …”

But as soon as I got home, I could tell. It was different. People were noticing me everywhere. At the airport. At the mall. At restaurants. People ask me for autographs or pictures everywhere I go. But I enjoy it. I have fun doing it. These fans have supported me since I was a little kid. To be able to be back home with my people and to share these moments with them?

That means the world to me.

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Puerto Rico is home for me, but it’s a tropical, beautiful kind of place, with a lot of nice beaches, great people, great food. It’s a small island with great atmosphere. I just love being home.
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I kayak probably once a week, for fun. I love to be on the ocean.
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My draft year, we knew it was a pretty good draft class, we knew a lot of these players were going to make it to the big leagues, and there’s still a lot of good Puerto Rican players in the minors who are going to make an impact in the big leagues at soon as they get there.
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For me, it’s really important to take time for the fans, especially the kids, because they look up to me as a role model. I don’t take that lightly. I like to embrace that and be a good role model for them on the field and off the field as well.

There are a lot of great young Puerto Rican players coming up that will bring a lot of happiness to the fans here. We are all looking forward to the World Baseball Classic next year, where we can play together and represent Puerto Rico.

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I see my family pretty much every afternoon and night, but in the morning, I wake up early and go straight to the gym.
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Most nights, I train at the Estadio Municipal Luis Guillermo Moreno in my hometown of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico.
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I eat ice cream during the season, but in the offseason, I get a frozen yogurt after my workout most days. I try to be smart and disciplined about what I eat, especially in the offseason.

Family plays a big role in my life. My dad showed me how to have a great work ethic every single day. He would wake up at 4 a.m. and work construction all the way until 6 p.m., and then he would go to the ballpark with me. He made so many sacrifices so that I could succeed.

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I miss my mom cooking during the season all of the time, but you’ve gotta adjust in every single way to be able to preform on the field in this game. I eat pretty much anything. I have a strict diet, but I’m not that picky. I eat everything that I can. When my mom is in Houston, she cooks for me, and it’s great. But when she’s not there, I adjust.
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Most days, we all eat together. And then at night when I go to the ballpark, we all go together. We’re very close. I’m a family guy. I love spending time with my family. I’d rather be spending time with my family than be partying out there with some random people.
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We have a great time together and we all love baseball. They come to every game that they can. I’m excited because when my brother graduates from high school, they’ll be able to come to a lot more of my games.
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My little brother works out with me at the ballpark almost every day. He’s a good player, too, and he has a great work ethic. He’s not going to be like me and get drafted right out of high school. He’s gonna go to college first. But eventually, he’ll get drafted and become a great player.

This year, we asked the manager here to please let us practice at his stadium. He said, “Okay, but you have to let the kids watch you while you practice.” I love that stuff. I love to be able to show the kids how work gets done and how I work every day to get better.

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A lot of people come out to watch me play. I don’t big-league anybody out here. I treat everybody like I want to be treated, so it is all respect. I want to be a good baseball player, but a good person as well.
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It’s really fun when the kids are out there watching me and they see how it’s done and how hard you need to work every single day to become a better player. I hope that they don’t only watch, but that they apply it to themselves and see that they’ll have to work as hard as I do in order for them to accomplish their goals.
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For me, it is not only about being a good baseball player It is about being a good citizen as well.
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It is not about myself. It’s about helping others and being able to do things for others — to create an impact on other people’s lives.
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That is what I want to focus on throughout my career, to be able to be a great player and help my organization win multiple championships. But I also want to be able to help the community. To help kids and be able to teach kids to play the right way.
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I enjoy every single moment because this is something that isn’t going to last forever. So while it lasts, I will have fun doing it, and I embrace it and I love doing it with the fans because at the end of the day, they support your career. You have to have a great relationship with the fans.

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Meet Puerto Rico provides Social Media offering for planners


February 15, 2016 – TRAVELDAILYNEWS.COM by Tatiana Rokou

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SAN JUAN – Attendance and engagement are two key elements to ensure a successful convention or conference, according to meeting planner feedback secured by Meet Puerto Rico, the organization responsible for bringing meetings and conventions to Puerto Rico. They regularly cite social media as not only one of the biggest opportunities, but also one of the biggest challenges for the industry. Meet Puerto Rico’s answer is Eleventes a suite of social media services making outreach simple and affordable for today’s busy planners and a way to build attendee engagement.

“The meetings industry has always been social, but the arrival of social media has created a whole new dimension for meetings, incentive trips, events and trade shows,” said Milton Segarra, President and CEO of Meet Puerto Rico. “That’s why we have developed – in conjunction with our social media company, Sparkloft Media – programs designed to help planners with social media. It is used to help the planner increase attendance, engagement and provide content for their meetings.”

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Eleventes guides conference organizers to select the tools that are just right for their needs. They can choose from more than 200 tactics to better leverage social media before, during and after an event. The goal is to create new content that resonates with the audience, building higher attendance by leveraging the social media connections of already registered attendees, and boosting sponsorship values. It also provides up to a full year of social media support, starting when the event is still in the planning stage with pre-event promotion to on-site engagement and attendee networking through its completion and beyond.

The activities include:

  • Attendance boosters – Drives attendance by using social media to create buzz and excitement for your event. Social media is one of the most cost-effective ways to increase registration.
  • Attendee Engager – Higher attendee engagement increases value for all parties involved. Eleventes allows the planner to use social media to create more memorable events and foster more meaningful connections, better mobile experiences and higher attendee productivity.
  • Membership Maximize – A social media presence is critical for any association that wants to stay connected with members, especially millennials. Eleventes® will help associations boost membership.
  • Sponsor Enhancer – Social media connects sponsors with the planner’s audience, helps create brand awareness or drive traffic to the trade show floor providing value.

Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO’s) also recognize social media as a significant opportunity – in the DMAI Destination Next study, social media was named as the number one trend to have an impact on marketing a destination.

– See more at: http://www.traveldailynews.com/news/article/70480/meet-puerto-rico-provides-social#sthash.MUCtuKil.dpuf

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No, Clinton Doesn’t Really Have More Delegates Than Sanders After Losing New Hampshire


February 11, 2016 – VICE.COM by@SarahMMimms

There’s a strange story coming out of New Hampshire: Hillary Clinton lost the race there on Tuesday night by a historic 22-point-margin, unprecedented in the state among Democrats, and yet she tied Sen. Bernie Sanders there for delegates.

Stranger still, although just two contests have taken place at this point, a quick Google search for the number of delegates allotted to each candidate right now reveals a graphic showing Clinton with a stunning 394 delegates to Sanders’s 44, even though he beat her in New Hampshire and drew her to a near-tie in Iowa.

A screenshot of Google results for the current 2016 count on the Democratic side.

These counts are misleading at best. As are headlines coming out of New Hampshire like “Clinton likely to leave NH with same number of delegates as Sanders”.

Sanders won 15 delegates in New Hampshire, while Clinton took nine. And he actually leads Clinton overall in pledged delegates as well, with 36 to her 32. What that Google search and some news outlets are including are superdelegates, the group of elected Democrats and party officials that are cast as shadowy characters every four years because of specious tallies like these.

The regular delegates that the candidates have earned so far must vote at the convention as their states did: 36 will back Sanders, 32 will back Clinton. The superdelegates can vote for whomever they want, regardless of the results of the elections that have taken place so far.

And it’s true that of 712 superdelegates that will cast their votes at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, 362 of them have already said that they support Clinton, according to an Associated Press analysis. Sanders has eight.

This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone with even a passing interest in politics. Those superdelegates include every Democratic member of Congress as well as other party officials and elected Democrats across the country, a majority of whom lined up behind Clinton’s campaign months ago. Last spring and summer when many of these superdelegates announced that they were supporting Clinton, Sanders’s campaign was thought of as a fun exercise to change the rhetoric in the campaign and move Clinton to the left — not a serious campaign that could make it all the way to the convention (which may still be a long shot, but certainly a possibility now) or even close.

Sanders supporters rushed to Moveon.org where they started a petition calling on superdelegates to “announce that in the event of a close race, you’ll align yourself with regular voters – not party elites.” The petition currently has 135,523 signatures.

This is understandable, but ridiculous.

These superdelegates have said that they support Clinton’s campaign, not that they will vote to nominate her at a convention five months away in the face of hypothetically massive support for Sanders when all of the primaries and caucuses are over. These are mayors and senators and governors and party leaders, not morons. Voting to nominate Clinton if Sanders enters the convention with a big lead among regular delegates would handicap her as the party’s nominee, as would the opposite. Democrats want voters to show up in the general election and vote for whomever they have nominated. Going over their heads to back a candidate who has lost the support of a majority of voters is not the way to do that.

Just over half of superdelegates want to vote for Clinton because they think there’s a good chance that she’ll be the nominee. But they haven’t locked in their votes and they won’t until they stand on the convention floor in July, when it is almost certain that the party’s nominee — either Clinton or Sanders — will already be a foregone conclusion. Only two states have voted so far, but it’s incredibly unlikely that Democrats will enter the convention without a clear winner. The party hasn’t had a brokered convention, in which two candidates enter locked so closely in the delegate count that the nominee is uncertain, since 1952.

There are 4,753 delegates, including those of the “super” variety, up for grabs for Democrats in 2016. The winning candidate will need 2,382 of them to secure the nomination. Clinton’s 354-superdelegate lead isn’t nothing, but if things go Sanders’s way over the next five months, that number is very much subject to change.

“Puerto Rico es como una serpiente que está mudando la piel”


February 8, 2016 – ELNUEVODIA.COM by @SharonMinelli

Inversionistas como Nicholas Prouty participaron en la conferencia Puerto Rico Investment Summit

Con protestas en el exterior y las mesas llenas en el interior, comenzó la cuarta edición de la conferencia Puerto Rico Investment Summit en el Centro de Convenciones de Miramar, San Juan.

El evento tiene como objetivo promover los beneficios que ofrecen las leyes 20, 22, 27, 273, 399, entre otras, para potenciales inversionistas que busquen mudar las operaciones de sus negocios a Puerto Rico e, incluso, instalar su domicilio aquí.

Tras la bienvenida que ofreció el gobernador Alejandro García Padilla a la audiencia, Nicholas Prouty, principal oficial ejecutivo de Putnam Bridge y ávido promotor de las ventajas de estas leyes, hizo lo propio desde el punto de vista de alguien que ha aprovechado los estatutos y se mudó con su familia a Puerto Rico en 2013.

Más allá de abundar en las ventajas económicas y contributivas que otros panelistas tenían en agenda detallar, Prouty entró en detalle sobre el estilo de vida atado a residir en un país caribeño con múltiples oportunidades de recreo al aire libre y con gente de tan buena disposición que, según su experiencia, hasta se han detenido a ayudarlo cuando ha detenido su auto por problemas mecánicos.

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Puerto Rico creditor group counters island’s debt exchange offer


February 10, 2016 – REUTERS.COM


Creditors of Puerto Rico’s sales tax authority, COFINA, on Wednesday proposed a counter-offer to Puerto Rico’s Feb. 1 debt exchange proposal, under which they would extend maturities but not sustain the cuts to principal that Puerto Rico’s original offer would entail.

The plan is sponsored by senior COFINA creditors, who hold about $7.6 billion of COFINA’s $17.3 billion in total debt. Senior holders include Metropolitan Life Insurance Co, Goldentree Asset Management and Whitebox Advisors, according to a source familiar with the matter.

(Reporting by Nick Brown; Editing by Chris Reese)

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