CISCO SYSTEMS NAMED “OFFICIAL NETWORK TECHNOLOGY PARTNER”

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“My health care plan I put In place In My state has everyone Insured, but we dIdn’t go out and raIse taxes on people and have a unelected board tell people what kInd of health care they can have,” roMney saId In an IntervIew wIth cbs’ denver affIlIate, kcnc.

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Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in computer networking, has been named the “Official Network Technology Partner” for the 2012 Republican National Convention.

“Cisco has transformed how people connect, communicate and collaborate,” said Committee on Arrangements Chief Executive Officer William Harris in making the announcement. “Cisco’s support is critical to our convention without walls efforts to make the convention open and accessible to people across the country and around the world.”

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Romney: Mass. health plan better than Obama’sClaiming health care bragging rights, Mitt Romney said Thursday his plan

to provide health insurance to everyone in Massachusetts was superior to the one it inspired,President Barack Obama’s much-debated national law.

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The “rolling roll call of the states” is the formal process by which delegates cast votes on behalf of their respective states and paves the way for the nomi-nation of the party’s presidential candidate, which will officially take place on the final day of the convention next Thursday.

Convention spokesman Kyle Downey said the states will vote in alphabetical order, as opposed to the occasional approach of trying to rig the process so a specific state — for example, Mitt Romney’s home state of Massachusetts — puts him over the threshold he needs to secure the nomination.

The vote is also generally held later in the convention — usually on the third of the four days.

The process used to be far more en-tertaining and important, with the par-ty uncertain who its nominee would be at the time it went to convention. There was some talk early this year of a competitive convention if the GOP nominating contest dragged on too long, but it’s clear now that Romney will be the party’s nominee.

All of Romney’s opponents except Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Rick

Santorum have released their del-egates, with Newt Gingrich releasing his today.

Santorum is expected to release his delegates this week; Paul is not ex-pected to release his.

Some have suggested Paul could win as many as 500 of the 2,286 del-egates at stake. But those close to the situation suggest the number will be closer to 200, and Paul campaign manager Jesse Benton says the cam-paign has identified 373 delegates and alternates (alternates generally don’t vote).

“We have identified every RNC del-egate and alternate, both bound to us, bound to Romney or unbound, and have 373 delegates and alternates that support Dr. Paul,” Benton said.

That’s about the only drama that will take place Monday. The rest is basically a formality and a campaign rally.

While the vote will pave the way for Romney to officially win the nomi-nation, he won’t actually accept that nomination until Thursday. That al-lows the party to continue spending primary funds (which it cannot legal-ly do after he’s officially nominated) during the intervening three-day pe-riod and makes for a grand finale at the end of the convention.

GOP delegates will vote to nominate

Romney on Monday

By Aaron Blake,delegates froM each state wIll cast theIr votes for presIdent on the fIrst day of the republIcan natIonal conventIon.

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Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in computer networking, has been named the “Official Network Technology Partner” for the 2012 Republi-can National Convention.

“Cisco has transformed how peo-ple connect, communicate and col-laborate,” said Committee on Ar-rangements Chief Executive Officer William Harris in making the an-nouncement. “Cisco’s support is crit-ical to our convention without walls efforts to make the convention open and accessible to people across the country and around the world.”

Harris said Cisco has installed, configured and provided operational support for switching and routing the

convention’s core network infrastruc-ture including WAN, VoIP, wireless access points and real time network monitoring.

“This is the first national political convention of the social media age, and Cisco’s secure and reliable net-work is providing the infrastructure allowing convention participants to interactively share the event with oth-ers in the Times Forum and citizens around the country,” Harris noted.

“We have been proud to work with the Republican Convention to pro-vide an unmatched user experience to Convention attendees as well as to the audience of this historical event,” said Blair Christie, Cisco’s Chief

Marketing Officer and Senior Vice

President of Worldwide Government Affairs and Global Corporate Com-munications.

“More than ever before, we are operating in an environment where seamless, real-time communications are an essential part of success. The power of Cisco’s networking tech-nology offers the flexibility, security, and mobility necessary to meet the unique needs of events like the Re-publican National Convention.”

Under the agreement, Cisco has installed, tested and configured the equipment used by the Committee on Arrangements and has provided both remote and on-site operational support.

In addition, Cisco will assist in decommissioning the highly sophis-ticated gear once the convention is

completed on August 30.

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Claiming health care bragging rights, Mitt Romney said Thursday his plan to provide health insurance to everyone in Massachusetts was superior to the one it inspired,President Barack Obama’s much-debated national law.

“My health care plan I put in place in my state has everyone insured, but we didn’t go out and raise taxes on people and have a unelected board tell people what kind of health care they can have,” Romney said in an interview with CBS’ Denver affiliate, KCNC.

The law signed by Romney in 2006 sought to expand health care but did not guarantee coverage for all. Rom-ney and Massachusetts lawmakers decided that rather than reinvent the entire health care system, they would instead close a series of holes, allow-ing the vast majority of residents to keep their existing plans.

Obama’s law basically followed the same outline — a private insurance system with an expanded government safety net. But there are some impor-tant differences.

The federal law is national, and most of its important provisions are binding even in states that oppose it. Romney’s law was a state effort that enjoyed support from both political

parties, and the Republican can-didate argues that health

care reform should re-main a state pre-

rogative.

Obama’s law cut Medi-care payments to hospitals, insurers and other service providers. As a state law, Romney’s plan had no ef-fect on Medicare.

Romney’s law has led to about 400,000 Massachusetts residents gaining coverage, state officials say. More than 98 percent of state resi-dents are covered. Obama’s law has already led to coverage for more than 2.5 million young adults on their par-ents’ plans. If all of its provisions go into effect, more than 30 million un-insured people will be covered.

The Massachusetts law requires res-idents to have insurance, with certain exemptions.

Those who can show they earn too much to qualify for the state’s subsidized health care plan, but not enough to afford even the least ex-pensive nonsubsidized plan, are not required to pay the so-called “indi-vidual mandate” penalty.

The Supreme Court ruled that Obama’s individual mandate consti-tutional — as a tax. It, too, has ex-

emptions for financial hardship, reli-gious beliefs, and membership in an American Indian tribe.

The law Romney signed also

c r e a t e d an unelected board — known as the Commonwealth Health In-surance Connec-tor Au-t h o r i t y Board — w h i c h o v e r -s e e s a n i n -dependent state agency that decides what level of insurance complies with the state law.

The agency can also exempt people whose financial hardships prevent them from enrolling in health insur-ance.

Since Obama’s plan was modeled on Romney’s, some conservatives remain wary of the former Massa-chusetts governor. Some GOP activ-

ists were angered when a Romney spokeswoman touted the Massachu-setts plan on Fox News earlier this month.

In Thursday’s interview, one of a series the presumptive Republi-can presidential nominee gave local broadcast outlets in swing states, Romney was asked how he’d appeal to women voters on health care and other issues. The Obama campaign has been pounding Romney for his

stances on birth control, abortion and other women’s issues.

Romney replied by talking about how he’d improve the economy and education. Then he shifted to health care, saying it was “a big issue.”

Romney also laughed off concerns that a hurricane could disrupt the Republican National Convention in Tampa next week. “The winds of change are coming,” he said, “so we’re looking forward to it.”

Romney: Mass. health plan better than Obama’s

WASHINGTON (AP) —

El presidente Barack Obama y su rival Mitt Romney se acu-saron mutuamente de ser una amenaza para el bienestar de los estadounidenses de mayor edad, un tema traído a colación después de que el republicano eligiera a un compañero de fórmula que propone cambiar significativamente el programa gubernamental de salud Medi-care que da servicio a millones de ancianos.

Romney acusó el martes a Obama durante su gira electoral y en un an-uncio de televisión de querer qui-tarle a Medicare para “pagar por el Obamacare”, como los republicanos se refieren a la reforma al sistema de

salud que propuso el presidente. La acusación causó una mordaz respu-esta de la campaña de Obama, que calificó la publicidad de deshonesta e hipócrita.

Medicare siempre ha sido un tema político delicado en un país donde los adultos mayores están entre los gru-pos con mayor participación en las urnas. Este grupo de electores será especialmente crucial en las eleccio-nes de noviembre, que se espera sean de las más reñidas en la historia de Estados Unidos.

Las acusaciones de Romney fueron un fuerte contraataque a las declara-ciones demócratas de que él y su candidato a vicepresidente Paul Ryan cambiarán drásticamente Medicare.

Ryan, legislador por Wisconsin, pro-vocó protestas por proponer en cierta

ocasión la privatización del programa gubernamental de salud para ancia-nos. Desde entonces ha dado marcha atrás a la idea para favorecer un plan que daría a los futuros jubilados pa-gos fijos del gobierno que podrían destinarse ya sea a la compra de planes privados de pensiones o para unirse a un programa del gobierno similar a Medicare.

El ataque de Romney es una indi-cio de que pretende superar una des-ventaja genérica republicana sobre el tema de Medicare al decir a los electores que Obama ha recortado el gasto para un programa que es abru-madoramente popular y ha enviado el dinero a uno que es controvertido.

Obama “se llevó 716.000 millones de dólares del fideicomiso de Medi-care”, declaró Romney en un acto de campaña en Ohio.

Obama y Romney se enfrentan por plan de salud para ancianos

El presidente Barack Obama en un acto de campaña en el Museo y Granja Nelson Pioneer, en Oskaloosa, Iowa, el martes 14 de agosto de 2012. (Foto AP/Carolyn Kaster)

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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and New York State Senator Jose Peralta were joined at Make the Road New York in Jackson Heights, Queens to-day by Make the Road New York Co-Executive Director Ana Maria Archi-la, United NY, Queens small business owners, workers and advocates for working families in calling for an in-crease in the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9.80 over the next three years. The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012, co-sponsored by Gillibrand, would boost the incomes of an estimated 651,000 New York City workers, including approximate-ly 184,000 Queens residents, accord-ing to the Fiscal Policy Institute, and generate an estimated $618 million of new consumer spending at New York City businesses according to the Eco-nomic Policy Institute. Raising the minimum wage is one of the simplest and most effective policies for help-ing working families, and it is also a tool for economic growth. When low-wage workers get a raise, they immediately spend it in their local communities, spending which ripples through the local economy.

“Working poor New Yorkers who go to work every day at minimum wage jobs aren’t even keeping pace with the rate of inflation,” said Senator Gillibrand. “Not only does the cur-rent minimum wage oftenkeep these working families below the poverty line, it keeps needed spending power out of our local economy. Increas-ing the minimum wage is a common sense solution for our working poor

families who are decid-ing which bill they can afford to pay this month and for our local Queens businesses who will profit from additional consumer spending.”

“There is no question low-wage workers here in Queens and across the country are struggling to make ends meet as costs continue to rise but their paychecks remain stagnant,” said Congressman Joseph Crowley. “Wages must be at a level where New Yorkers can afford rent, put food on the table, and pay their bills and this proposed increase will help these families do just that. Raising the minimum wage also helps stimu-late the economy, creating a boost for the many Queens businesses that will benefit from increased consumer spending. I salute Senator Gillibrand and State Senator Peralta for support-ing this much-needed effort and I join their fight to create fair wages for all New Yorkers.”

“During the 1960s and ’70s, a single minimum-wage job could support a family of three,” State Senator Jose Peralta said. “Today, the same job isn’t enough to keep a family out of poverty. Increasing the minimum wage would not only better the lives of New York’s working poor, it would give our economy a much needed shot in the arm. Minimum wage earn-ers cannot afford to sock away mon-ey, so any increase will immediately benefit local businesses through di-rect spending. Raising the minimum wage is both the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. The time has come to act.”

“New York City is one of the most expensive cities in the world, and sad-

ly also a place where working people who earn minimum wage don’t make enough to support their families,” said Ana Maria Archila, Co-Exec-utive Director, Make the Road New York. “Most of these workers are La-tino and African American women, and they deserve better than to work for poverty wages. Increasing the minimum wage would not only help families put food on the table, but it would also bring new energy into the local economy of neighborhoods like Jackson Heights by putting more money in the pockets of people who will use it at local small businesses in their own neighborhoods.”

“As a small business owner that employs ten workers, I don’t resort to paying my employees just $7.25 an hour – because I know it is just not enough,” said Hanette Gomez, DDS, owner of Clinica Dental Latina in Corona, Queens, and Cosmetic Den-tal Image in Howard Beach, Brook-lyn. “My employees deserve better, and I want to make sure they know I appreciate their work. They deserve a wage that allows them to live with dignity and respect. The cost of living in Jackson Heights has gone way up, and more and more working people need help even just to cover the ba-sics. Paying people a little more lifts all boats, including mine; if more

people spend in my neighborhood, my business does better in the long run. And that’s why I pay all my employees above the minimum wage, and why I support legislation that will increase the minimum wage to $9.80.

“Every day I go to work I wonder

if my husband and I are going to be able to pay the bills and spend time with our little daughter Leslie,” said Leticia Guaman, Queens resident and Queens factory worker who makes minimum wage. “I work at a factory that pays only the minimum wage, and after 35 hours of work a week I end up bringing home about $175 af-ter taxes. It is impossible to cover the basic expenses for my family with this salary. For example, in order to cover the monthly rent of $1300, my family sleeps in the living room and we rent out our bedroom. In order to save money, I walk to most places instead of taking the train. How is it possible that two parents working full-time can’t make enough to sup-port their family? We need a higher minimum wage, not just for my fam-ily, but for thousands of workers who struggle every day.”

“Gone are the days when having a job, and going to work every day equate to making a decent living,” said Camille Rivera of UnitedNY. “Even with parents working multiple jobs, they are still having trouble put-ting food on the table, and keeping a roof over their kids’ heads. Increas-ing the minimum wage would help make it easier to raise a family in New York, while also sending a clear message that workers have rights,

and deserve to be treated with re-spect.”

Senator Gillibrand, along with 16 of her Senate colleagues, is pushing the effort in the Senate to pass the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012, legislation which would increase the minimum wage to $9.80 in three 85-cent increments over a three-year pe-riod. To keep up with the rising cost of living, the wage would be indexed to inflation. The purchasing power of the minimum wage is currently at a historic low, with the last increase in the federal minimum wage taking place in July 2009. If the minimum wage had kept up with inflation, it would be estimated at more than $10.50 an hour today. The legislation will also raise the minimum wage for tipped workers for the first time in more than 20 years, raising it to a level that is 70 percent of the regular minimum wage.

A majority of the lowest wage earn-ers in New York, or 84 percent, are adult workers, not teenagers in after-school and seasonal jobs. More than half of low-wage workers are women, many with children, and more than 40 percent are minorities, including an estimated 249,200 Hispanic residents in New York City who would benefit from a pay increase.

According to United NY, someone working full-time at minimum wage earns $290 a week, or just $15,080 yearly without any time off. This annual salary for a minimum wage earning working poor family of three is $3,000 below the poverty level on an annual basis, making it difficult to make ends meet and increasing de-pendency on government assistance programs. The Fair Minimum Wage Act will boost the minimum wage to $20,000, lifting those working poor families above the poverty line.

GILLIBRAND, PERALTA JOINED BY MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK, QUEENS SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, WORKERS IN CALLING FOR

INCREASE IN FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE

purchasIng power of the MInIMuM wage laggIng behInd the pace of InflatIon hIts a hIstorIc low current MInIMuM wage falls $3000 short of annual poverty lIne for hundreds of thousands workIng poor faMIlIes across new york state

alMost 90% of MInIMuM wage workers are adults - More than half of those workers are woMen, over 40% MInorItIes

IncreasIng federal MInI-MuM wage froM $7.25 to $9.80 over next three years would generate approx. $618 MIllIon In consuMer spendIng In new york cIty, create Jobs, benefIt Queens busInesses

p5nY. Business Latino • Edition 34 | August 24 -31-2012 LOCAL NEWS

A new measure, signed into law recently by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, gives the state Department of Educa-tion more authority to make sure the schools are using approved instruc-tion methods and protecting students’ finances after they pay tuition. A new law in New York will keep closer tabs on schools created to train adults for careers in services and business.The measure designed to better protect students was signed into law recently by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The law gives the state Department of Educa-tion more authority to make sure the schools are using approved instruc-

tion methods and protecting students’ finances after they pay tuition.

There are more than 450 licensed, registered or certified schools in-structing in various trades statewide. But up to another 1,000 are believed to be operating without a license.

State Education Commissioner John King Jr. said the law will provide more oversight to what he called a growing and critical sector in New York education.

The measure followed cases in which students lost their tuition after some schools abruptly closed.

Law addresses NY’s private business schools

the Measure, whIch wIll keep closer tabs on schools created to traIn adults for ca-reers In servIces and busIness, was sIgned Into law recently by gov. andrew cuoMo.

Hoy en día con los recortes presupuestarios que han en-frentado durante todo el año los distritos escolares a lo largo y ancho de los Estados Unidos, las instituciones educativas están reconociendo cada vez más la importancia de la seguridad física del equipo informático para la prevención de pérdidas y robos de costosos equipos informáticos.

SEATTLE-”Hemos notado un au-mento importante en el número de escuelas que ahora hacen uso de so-portes de seguridad informáticos en sus laboratorios, bibliotecas y aulas de clase durante el año recién pasa-do”, dijo Michael Fairbanks, vice-presidente de ventas de Tryten Tech-nologies Inc. El volumen de tráfico no autorizado dentro de la mayoría de espacios educativos deja vulnerables a las escuelas, institutos y universi-dades, en especial, ante robos o daños de activos informáticos de consider-able valor. Los soportes de seguridad de Tryten y las consolas de montaje son la primera línea de defensa para la protección de información sen-sible, ya que eliminan la necesidad de recuperar o remplazar los costosos equipos informáticos de la escuela.

Las Escuelas Toman Nota de los Soportes de Seguridad Informáticos de Tryten

Las escuelas modernas son cada vez más dependientes de la tecnología para facilitar el flujo de información, la distribución del conocimiento y el acceso a recursos académicos. A me-dida que aumenta esta dependencia en el equipo informático, el desafío de gestionar la prevención de pérdi-das sin aplicar restricciones excesivas contra el usuario final, se convierte en un problema al mismo tiempo. Tryten ha desarrollado una línea de soportes de seguridad innovadores que están diseñados para brindar so-luciones funcionales contra el robo.

Los soportes de seguridad ofrecen a las escuelas todas las ventajas de los equipos tradicionales de montaje, in-cluyendo beneficios ergonómicos y espacio superficial extra para trabajar, aparte de proveer todas las funciones de seguridad necesarias. Algunos de los soportes de seguridad para es-cuelas incluyen al Mac Mini Secu-rity Mount de Tryten, el iPad Lock-ing Mount y el Adjustable Computer Enclosure. Para mayor información o para comprar estos Soportes de Se-guridad, por favor visita: http://www.tryten.com.

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Overall levels of negative equity improved in the second quarter of the year compared with the first quarter, as home values continue to rise. But about half of borrowers under 40 still owe more than their homes are worth, the analysis found.

Younger borrowers are more likely to be affected by negative equity in part because they generally have been in their home for shorter periods of time and had less time to build equity before the housing debacle. But on the bright side, younger borrowers tend to be in relatively “shallow” water compared to older borrowers and are less likely to be delinquent on payments, said Stan Humphries, chief economist at

Zillow.com.

The disproportionate impact on younger borrowers may actually have a helpful effect on home values, by creating tight inventory of homes for sale. Younger borrowers trapped by negative equity tend to be reluctant to sell, even though their homes are often the most attractive to first-time buyers who might be ready to plunge into the market. “Sellers don’t want to sell, even if buyers want to buy,” he said.

When they do sell, prices are higher - which helps push values up. The process is actually moving the mar-ket toward recovery, but it’s a gradual process, he said. “Over all, the sec-ond-quarter report is positive,” said Mr. Humphries. “The housing market is healing, albeit slowly.”

These results come from the second edition of the new Zillow Negative Equity Report, which looks at cur-rent, outstanding loan amounts for individual, owner-occupied homes, and compares them to those homes’ current estimated values.

Of the 30 largest markets tracked by Zillow, negative equity fell the most from the first to the second quarter in the Phoenix metropolitan area (from nearly 56 percent to about 52 percent) and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area (from 46 percent to roughly 44 per-cent). The Las Vegas market contin-ues to have the highest rate of nega-tive equity, with nearly 69 percent of borrowers underwater (down from 71 percent in the first quarter.)

Are you an under-fortysomething with negative equity in your home? What will it take to get you to sell?

Half of Homeowners Under 40 Are Still Underwater

The country’s underwater homes are slowly resurfac-ing as the housing market improves. But younger borrowers are still more likely to be submerged, a new report from real estate site Zillow.com finds.

El porcentaje de los traba-jadores en los Estados Unidos que hacen las contribuciones a una cuenta de jubilación individ-ual (Annual IRA Contributions) ha bajado a un nivel histórico: 15%, según un nuevo estudio realizado por Greene IRA.

El Estudio sobre la IRA, entregado esta semana, muestra que el porcen-taje de los trabajadores americanos quienes tienen una cuenta de jubi-lación individual, ha bajado hasta solamente el 38%. Esto marca la cu-arta caída desde 2008 - el inicio de la actual crisis económica. En esas fechas, casi el 42% de los americanos tenían algún tipo de cuenta de jubi-lación individual.

Las cuentas de jubilación indi-vidual, que antes eran consideradas como un “refugio seguro” para los Americanos de clase media, aumen-taron su popularidad durante medios del año 2000. Aunque las cuentas de jubilación individual ofrecen benefi-cios considerables sobre los impues-tos, comparadas con otros tipos de inversiones, menos americanos las han elegido como su elección de in-versión en los últimos años.

El estudio comprensivo muestra que hasta las personas que tienen una cuenta de jubilación individual, no están realizando necesariamente las contribuciones. El 24% de los traba-jadores americanos tienen una cuenta IRA, pero no realizarán una contri-bución de impuestos para el ejercicio fiscal del 2011.

Las personas afortunadas que reali-zan una contribución, frecuentemente pierden algunas de las ventajas de im-puestos que ofrece el Servicio de Im-puestos Internos (IRS). Para el ejer-cicio fiscal del 2011, se espera que solamente el 9% de los trabajadores americanos realicen la contribución máxima permitido por la ley, para su cuenta de jubilación individual. Para la mayoría de los trabajadores de los Estados Unidos, esto ronda los $5000.

Estas noticias llegan a pesar de los cambios realizados durante el 2012 por IRS para incrementar los límites máximos de renta mediante las cuentas de jubilación individual. Estas nuevas reglas permiten que los ciudadanos de los EEUU puedan reclamar los beneficios fiscales de sus cuentas de jubilación individual tradicionales y Roth. En la mayoría de los casos, el Servicio de Impuestos Internos aumentó los límites de renta en $2000 para el 2012.

El estudio también revela una bre-cha creciente entre lo que los ameri-canos han ahorrado a través de sus cuentas de jubilación y lo que real-mente necesitan para su jubilación. Esta insuficiencia obliga a los ameri-canos mayores a ampliar sus años de trabajo. El 26% de los trabajadores dijeron que han aplazado la edad que tenían prevista para jubilarse, este incremento ha subido desde el 2010 (entonces alcanzaba el 18%).

Las noticias no son todas negati-vas. Los trabajadores americanos que tenían una cuenta IRA y que hicieron una contribución en el último año, tenían activos por valor de más de $148,000.

Un Nuevo Estudio Revela que Solamente el 15% de los Americanos Hacen las

Contribuciones IRA

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With the Olympics gone, so are many of broadcast television’s prime-time viewers.

No broadcast program exceeded 10 million viewers last week, the Nielsen company said Tuesday. NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” on Tuesday was closest, finishing just under that mark.

Between “Talent” and an exhibition football game last Saturday, NBC kept the crown as the most-watched network for one more week, after tak-ing the previous three weeks because of the Olympics. NBC also debuted a new season of “Grimm” and the mili-tary-themed reality show “Stars Earn Stripes” that both finished among Nielsen’s top 20, but with less than six million viewers each.

NBC averaged 5.3 million viewers for the week in prime time, CBS had 5.1 million, Fox had 4.3 million, ABC had 3.7 million , ION Television had 1.1 million and the CW had 720,000 .

NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 7.8 million viewers. ABC’s “World News” was second with 7 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.5 million viewers.

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What:

Republican and Democratic National Convention Briefings The Latino Electorate and Election 2012

Who:

WASHINGTON DC -

The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund announced today that it will brief participants at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions on the growing Latino electorate and its likely impact in Election 2012.

With Latinos the fastest-growing and second largest population group in the United States, the Latino elec-torate is poised to play a decisive role in the election this November. Ac-cording to projections from the NA-LEO Educational Fund, more than 12.2 million Latino voters are expect-ed to cast ballots on Election Day, an increase of 26% from 2008.

The NALEO Educational Fund will brief attendees on these projections, as well as key findings from the Lati-

no Election Handbook, a publication profiling the Latino electorate in key states across the country. An analysis of key races to watch and the impact of Latina voters will also be present-ed during the briefings. Following the presentation, national coordina-tors of the historic Ya es Hora (“It’s Time”) campaign, an unprecedented collaboration of national Latino orga-nizations and Spanish-language me-dia, will discuss the Latino electorate and the efforts currently underway to turn out Latino voters in 2012.

NALEO and Latino Leadership toBrief RNC, DNC on Latino

Electorate and 2012 Election

Details:

Republican National Convention Briefing

10:30 AM - Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Columbia Restaurant – Ybor City

Don Quixote Room

2117 East 7th Avenue

Tampa, FL 33602

Democratic National Convention Briefing

10:00 AM - Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Holiday Inn – Center City

Mint Ballroom

230 N. College Street

Charlotte, NC 28202

Rosario Dawson, Chairwoman, Voto Latino (RNC Only)

Monica Lozano, CEO, impreMedia

Ben Monterroso, Executive Director, Mi Familia Vota (DNC Only)

Janet Murguia, CEO and President, National Council of La Raza

Arturo Vargas, Execu-tive Director, NALEO Educational Fund

Media:

This event is open to media.

Individuals must register in advance

with Amanda Bosquez at

abosquez@naleo.org or by phone at

(202) 546-2536 ext. 12.Please be advised

that media will be required to

present credentials (including a photo ID)

on-site in order to receive admission to the event.

A 2011 survey found that over half of US employers are moni-toring their employees’ computer usage. How can you find out if you are one of them? And if you are, what should you do about it?

There are two main ways employers track computer usage — with moni-toring software on your desktop, and by watching the traffic on the corpo-rate network. Also, many companies have written guidelines about Inter-net usage and may indicate if they are monitoring you. HR departments should have these policies available for employee review.

Monitoring Software on Your Com-puter

Monitoring software tracks all your activity and sends logs to the boss or IT department. Without your knowl-edge, they may be receiving reports listing the websites you visit, time spent in specific software programs, or even how much you play solitaire. The programs that do this are myriad, but there are often signs that they’re running.

On a Windows machine:First, look in the system tray and

start up folder. Do you see programs with names like VNC or LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, Shadow, SpyAgent, Web Sleuth and Silent Watch. An IT person can choose to hide these pro-grams from the user so they are not in the Start Menu, but many assume the user won’t look for them or know what these programs are.

The Windows taskbar often lists all the actively running programs. Check all the icons in the taskbar in the bot-tom right hand corner of the screen and make sure you know what each program is.

The Windows Firewall must give monitoring programs permission to send and receive information. Search ‘firewall’, open it, click ‘exceptions’ or ‘add program’. Then look to see if any of the above-mentioned programs or any programs that are unknown to you have permission to pass through the ports.

On a Mac:Open Finder and look under appli-

cations , click ‘utilities’ and launch ‘activity monitor’. Search for un-known processes or any with VNC in the name.

Are You Being Monitored At Work?

If you see something in any of these places that you’re unfamiliar with, search it online to see if it’s a moni-toring program.

(Sidenote- many of these monitor-ing programs can be purchased off the shelf and used to monitor home computers. These are also tools an ID thief could use on a public computer to collect data.)

If You Find Monitoring SoftwareIf you do find any monitoring soft-

ware on your work computer, do NOT try to remove it. Two reasons: first, doing so may make it look like you have something to hide, raising suspicions; second, your employer has a right to have this software in-stalled on the computer. After all it’s their machine.

Monitoring Through The NetworkThe second way employers can

monitor what you do on your com-puter is a lot harder to detect, because there’s no trace on your personal ma-chine; it’s all done through the net-work. Employers can track the files you access on the corporate drives, the email you send through the com-pany system, and the websites you visit via your work machine. And un-less you have an “in” with the IT de-partment, there’s virtually no way to know if your company is monitoring traffic this way.

So What If You Want A Little Pri-vacy?

Since so many employers have the power to monitor their employees, it’s safest to assume that you are be-ing watched. But what if you really need to do something privately?

EMAIL: If you are hunting for a new job or your employer is strict about use of corporate accounts for personal email, use web-based email. Most of the major providers encrypt webmail so it can’t be intercepted on the network.

SMARTPHONE: As long as you are connected over your cellular data connection (and not the company Wi-Fi), you can surf the web and send private email (on your non-corporate account) without detection.

p10 nY. Business Latino • Edition 34 | August 24 -31-2012USHCCUNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

WASHINGTON, DC The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) is proud to announce the Third Annual Latino Employee Resource Group (ERG) Summit and Corporate Challenge on Monday, September 17, 2012 at the 33 rd Annual National Convention in Los Angeles, California.The Latino ERG Summit and Corpo-rate Challenge is a key component of the USHCC 33 rd Annual National Convention and has been designed to bring Latino ERGs together to share best practices and provide compelling results on the value of Latino ERGs in corporate America. Employee Resource Groups are a crucial asset to corporations for their role in diversity recruitment and retention, diversity in management, talent development, and reaching customers and clients in their respective communities.“In 2010, the USHCC launched the first-ever Latino ERG Summit Chal-lenge at the Annual Convention in Dallas. We recognize the tremendous impact that Latino ERGs have on the development and success of tomor-row’s Hispanic senior corporate ex-ecutives,” says Javier Palomarez, USHCC President & CEO.Over the last two years, over 80 out-standing corporations have actively competed in the challenge, including Aetna, Bank of America, ExxonMobil and State Farm. These companies’ Latino ERGs compete based on their impact in four key areas: career advancement of Latino professionals, alignment of Latino ERG initiatives and corporate ob-jectives, community involvement, and cultural Latino advancement within the firm.“The level of enthu-

siasm and excitement from last year’s event serves as a testament to the USHCC’s continued focus on ERG development, and we look forward to identifying and awarding another outstanding organization this year,” adds USHCC Chairman of the Board Nina Vaca. Leading the 2012 Latino ERG Summit Challenge is Dr. Robert Rodriguez, President of DRR Advisors LLC, based in Chicago. “I am so excited about the third an-nual Latino ERG Summit & Corpo-rate Challenge,” states Dr. Rodriguez. “Latino ERGs are leading the positive evolution of corporate employee net-works and are setting the benchmark of what it means to be a next genera-tion employee resource group.” For information on how to enter the 2012 Latino ERG Summit and Cor-porate Challenge, please contact Dr. Rodriguez at Robert@drradvisors.com. For more information on the USHCC 33 rdAnnual National Con-vention, please visit the Convention website at www.ushcc.com/conven-tion. About the USHCC 33rd Annual National ConventionThe USHCC Annual National Con-vention is the largest gathering of Hispanic business leaders in America. Held on September 16-18, 2012 in Los Angeles, CA at the J.W. Marriott L.A. Live, the 33rd Annual National Convention fea-tures several awards banquets, net-working receptions and business development workshops, bringing together over 5000 Hispanic business owners, corporate executives, cham-ber leaders and public officials. The USHCC is proud to present Cor-porate Convention Chair, Wells Fargo and HBE Convention.

USHCC TO HOST ANNUAL LATINO ERG SUMMIT AT 2012 LOS ANGELES CONVENTION

Washington, D.C.

The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USH-CC) is proud to announce the grand opening of a new regional office in Dallas, TX. This office, the first of its kind for the orga-nization, is located in the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau (DCVB), which serves as the official sales and marketing arm for the city dedicated to attract-ing conventions and visitors to Dallas.

“As the top visitor destination in the state with a diverse population base and a strong business reputation, Dallas is the perfect location for the USHCC’s first regional office,” said Phillip Jones, DCVB President and CEO. “We’ve collaborated on many initiatives, including the 2010 na-tional conference held in Dallas, and we look forward to a long, mutually beneficial partnership.

Dallas is ranked 3 rd in the nation in terms of highest concentration of For-tune 500 company headquarters. The Dallas metro-plex is home to various USHCC corporate partners includ-ing: American Airlines, AT&T, BNSF Railways, Comerica Bank, Exxon-Mobil, FedEx, Frito-Lay, Money-gram International, Rent-A-Center and 7-Eleven. The Dallas economy is the sixth largest in the United States, with a 2010 gross metropolitan prod-uct of $374 billion and a thriving His-panic population.

“The vision for this regional office is to extend the USHCC’s presence as the premiere organization represent-ing the voice of Hispanic business in America. An office in Dallas will al-low the USHCC to quickly galvanize its resources for the benefit of our partners.” says USHCC President and CEO Javier Palomarez. “We antici-pate great successes from this office and look forward to opening more like it in key cities across the coun-try.” “The selection process for the new home of the regional office was

an extensive one,” explains USHCC Chairman Nina Vaca. “There were several cities that were great contend-ers for this office, but Dallas topped the list in nearly every category. We look forward to building new rela-tionships in the city and strengthen-ing existing ones. The welcome from our friends and partners has been overwhelming and we are happy to call Dallas our 2nd home.”

### About the United States His-panic Chamber of Commerce:

Founded in 1979, the USHCC ac-tively promotes the economic growth and development of Hispanic entre-preneurs and represents the interests of over 3 million Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States that

combined generate in excess of $465 billion annually. It also serves as the umbrella organization for more than 200 local Hispanic chambers and business associations in the Unit-ed States and Puerto Rico. For more

information, visit http://www.ushcc.com.

UNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO OPEN REGIONAL

OFFICE IN DALLAS, TX

p11nY. Business Latino • Edition 34 | August 24 -31-2012 LEGAL NOTICE

Index No.: 31857/10Date of Filing: July 25, 2012SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKCOUNTY OF QueensDEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR NEW CENTURY HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2005-1, Plaintiff,-against-GUELMA EMILE, if living, or if either or all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said GUELMA EMILE, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and the respective husbands, wives, widow or widowers of them, if any, all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff; BANK OF AMERICA, NA; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

“JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendant(s).TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service of this summons is made by delivery upon you personally within this state, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.NOTICEYOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOMEIf you do not respond to this summons and complaint by

serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Jaime A. Rios of the Supreme Court of the State of New

York, signed on July 3, 2012, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, State of New York.The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by GUELMA EMILE to MORTGAGE LINE FINANCIAL CORP. in the principal amount of $468,000.00, mortgage dated December 2, 2004 and recorded in Queens County, State of New York, on December 17, 2004, in CRFN: 200400777035. Said mortgage was assigned to Plaintiff, NEW CENTURY MORTGAGE CORPORATION by assignment of mortgage dated December 2, 2004 and recorded on August 31, 2011 in CRFN: 2011000309540. Thereafter said mortgage was assigned to DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR NEW CENTURY HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2005-1 by assignment of mortgage dated January 30, 2012.Said premises being known as and by 253-41 149TH AVENUE, ROSEDALE, NY 11422.Dated: June 15, 2012Batavia, New York Yimell M Suarez,

Esq.ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C.Attorneys for PlaintiffBatavia Office 26 Harvester AvenueBatavia, NY 14020585.815.0288Help For Homeowners In ForeclosureNew York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies.

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p12 nY. Business Latino • Edition 34 | August 24 -31-2012EVENTS

If you’re sending out lots of resumes without getting many calls for interviews, it’s time to conclude that your resume isn’t doing its job. If you’re like most people, you’re making at least a few of these mistakes--which will put your resume promptly in the “no” pile.

1. It’s generic. If your resume reads just like dozens of other candidates’, no employer is going to call you. Your resume needs to convey that you’re an exceptional candidate, not just an average one who’s no different from other applicants. Which leads us to?

2. It just lists duties and responsi-bilities, not accomplishments. In a job market that’s flooded with candi-dates, a resume that reads like a series of job descriptions won’t excite a hir-ing manager. What will excite a hir-ing manager is a resume that shows a track record of achievement, so you need to list specific accomplishments, not just duties.

3. It’s full of dense paragraphs rather than bulleted lists. Employers will only skim your resume initially, not read it word-for-word, and large blocks of text are hard to skim. An employer will take in more informa-tion about you if you use simple bul-leted points.

4. It leads with your education, even though you’ve been out of school for more than a few years. Generally,

your education should go beneath your work experience, because em-ployers are most interested in what work experience you’ve had. Leading with your education just buries what will make you most attractive to an employer.

5. It doesn’t include the dates of employment for each job you’ve held. Employers want to know how long you were at each job and when. Resumes without clear dates are an immediate red flag that make hir-ing managers suspect you’re hiding something.

6. It wastes space on things that are irrelevant, like descriptions of your employer’s business. Some candi-dates devote two to three lines per job to describing the employer itself--its size and the nature of its business. Hiring managers might want that in-formation when you move to the in-terview stage, but your resume isn’t the place for it. Your resume should focus on you and you alone.

7. It’s not specific. Employers want concrete specifics. It’s not enough to say that you “revitalized” a depart-ment or “publicized” a program. What exactly did you do and what did it result in?

8. It includes everything you’ve ever done, rather than just the high-lights. The longer your resume is, the less likely an employer is to see the parts you want them to see. The ini-tial scan of your resume is about 20

seconds--do you want that divided among three pages, or do you want it focused on the most important things you want to convey? Short and con-cise means that employers are more likely to read the parts you most care about.

9. It includes irrelevant details, such as your age or your children’s names. Yes, people really do this. Employ-ers don’t care about these details, and including them will come across as naive and unprofessional.

10. It describes you in subjective terms. Your resume is for experi-ence and accomplishments only. It’s not the place for subjective traits, like “great leadership skills,” “strong writer,” or “creative innovator.” Hir-ing managers generally ignore any-thing subjective that an applicant writes about herself, because so many people’s self-assessments are wildly inaccurate; they’re looking for prov-able facts. If you have those traits, list the accomplishments that demon-strate them instead.

Alison Green writes the popular Ask a Manager blog, where she dis-penses advice on career, job search, and management issues. She’s also the co-author of Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Manager’s Guide to Getting Results, and former chief of staff of a successful nonprofit organization, where she oversaw day-to-day staff management, hiring, fir-ing, and employee development.

Reasons Your Resume

Isn’t Getting You Interviews

- Lantek, líder mundial en el desarrollo y comercialización de soluciones de software CAD/CAM/MES/ERP para la indu-stria del metal, informa de que está participando activamente en las redes sociales. Así, la compa-ñía es capaz de comunicarse con sus clientes actuales y potencia-les incrementando la efectividad de sus iniciativas y comunicados.

Los vídeos en YouTube de Lantek ya acumulan más de 5.000 visitas y contemplan una amplia variedad en torno a la actividad de corte por chor-ro de agua y al punzonado. Para ob-tener una lista completa de los vídeos existentes en el canal de Lantek en YouTube, visiteLantek sheet metal solutions.

Las redes sociales dan a Lantek un mayor

acercamiento a sus clientes

Del mismo modo, el usuario tam-bién puede encontrar a Lantek en Twitter, Facebook yGoogle+, además de en otros medios como Flickr, Deli-cious, Scribd e Issuu, donde cualquier persona interesada puede interactuar con la empresa y obtener información actualizada sobre aplicaciones para la transformación de la chapa y el acero.

Más del 83% del negocio de Lantek procede del mercado internacional, donde se desarrolla el software, ám-bito al que sirve y apoya a través de su red de oficinas y distribuidores al-tamente cualificados. La ampliación de la participación de Lantek en las redes sociales, área en el que lleva involucrada desde 2009, permitirá a las compañías del sector de la trans-formación del metal y del acero ben-eficiarse de una mayor variedad de canales de comunicación adicionales disponibles a nivel internacional que destacan, entre otras cosas, por ser fácilmente accesibles.

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La automotriz BMW, con sus siglas en alemán de: Bayer-ische Motoren Werke, “Fábricas bávaras de motores” y sus subsidi-arias MINI y Rolls-Royce, tiene su sede en Munich, Alemania. Su conocido logotipo blanquiazul de BMW se creó en 1917, cuando la empresa aún se dedicaba a la fabricación de motores de avión y simboliza la bandera del Estado Libre de Baviera.

El primer M6 se remonta al 1983 cu-ando se presentó el (E24), un Coupé de grandes dimensiones con una mo-tor derivado del M1. Ese modelo se vendió hasta 1989. La segunda gen-eración del M6 aparece hasta el año 2005, como modelo 2006, es decir no hubo M6 durante 16 años, se trataba de una Coupé de grandes dimensio-nes y en esta ocasión se adicionó un convertible, bajo el cofre se encon-traba el gigantesco motor V10 de 500 hp que compartía todos los elementos mecánicos con el M5.

Se terminó de vender en el 2010. Hubo que esperar casi tres años para ver la nueva generacion donde apa-recen la Coupé y el convertible. El Nuevo M6 de la BMW crece en todos los aspectos, el tamaño, la comodidad y la practicidad, a su predecesor. Es impulsado por un doble turbo V8 de 4.4 litros con 32 valvulas, que genera 560 caballos de fuerza y 500 lbs-pie de torque. Trae el sistema “valvetron-

ic” de admisión variable y con inyec-ción directa de combustible. En una marcada diferencia del anterior mo-tor V10, el nuevo M6 gana un V8 de doble turbo. Va de cero a 62 mph en 4,3 segundos.

La EPA no ha publicado los resul-tados de la economía de combustible aún, pero BMW dice que el nuevo motor V8 consume de combustible un 30 por ciento menos que el an-terior V10 llevando 560 caballos de fuerza y 500 libras-pie de torque. El motor está acoplado a una trasmisión de siete cambios denominada 7M-DCT (Dual Clutch Transmission) el accionamiento de los engranajes pu-ede ser completamente automático o hacerlos manualmente con las paletas ubicadas detrás del volante. La fuerza torsional es enviada al eje posterior y es recibida por un diferencial también firmado por M que envía el poder a las ruedas.

Al elegir entre los programas de cambio en los modos automático o manual, maximiza el ahorro de com-bustible, o la realización de plano. La parte delantera está caracterizada por enormes tomas de aire, igual para la parte media y baja, para proveer al sistema de doble turbo de aire a través del interenfriador, así como canalizar una buena parte del flujo hacia los ductos de frenos, que mantendrán el sistema fresco en altas velocidades. La parrilla ha dejado a un lado la form a ovoide para dar paso a un par de trapecios asimétricos que están flanqueados por la óptica principal que también es de formas extrañas.

El M6 viene con llantas de 19 pulgadas, un techo de fibra de carbono, un kit de carrocería (incluyen-do un deflector de aire frontal más agresivo, exten-siones de las aletas laterales y un difusor trasero), faros de xenón adaptativos , amortiguadores ajust-ables de suspensión, tapizados en piel. Asientos delanteros deportivos con ajustes de memoria para el conductor, de doble zona de control de clima automático, asientos delanteros con calefacción, Bluetooth e interfaz iDrive de BMW.

Tiene un enorme tablero, donde en el centro se encuentra la pantalla LCD que muestra la cartografía del GPS y todos los demás ajustes del vehículo coman-dados desde el iDrive, que pese a haber sido mejorado, aun es poco intuitivo y es dificil entenderlo. Trae el BMW ConnectedDrive que permite el enlace con teléfonos celulares y con dispositivos de a l m a c e – namient o externos y r e – producir l a m ú s i – ca en el s i s t e m a Bang & Olufsen. Las opciones incluyen un head-up display, entrada sin llave / encendido, radio satelital, HD Radio, la integración del iPod / USB y asiento de cuero para el salpicadero y

la consola y llantas de 20 pulgadas.

El M6 ofrece el interior de extraor-dinarios materiales y una estupenda mano de obra, con una cabina cen-trada en un diseño ultra moderno. Destaca en acomodar a dos pasaje-ros, pero el asiento trasero es sólo apto para adultos en viajes cortos a la oficina o cerca de la casa. Los viajes largos le dejaran el cuerpo torsido. El espacio de cajuela es de 12.3 pies cúbicos en el convertible (10.6 pies cúbicos con la capota bajada) y tienen u pass-through para acomodar obje-tos largos.

La buena calidad de materiales, como la piel, plásticos y fibra de car-bón está perfectamente conjugada, brindando una atmosfera premium, sin caer en lo ostentoso de otras mar-cas. El convertible se retrae con cal-efacción para las plazas traseras de forma independiente de la capota de lona, que doblan como un deflector de viento cuando el techo se cae. La bajada de la capota dura unos 20 se-gundos, levantando se tarda sólo unos segundos más.

La suspensión está dotada del DDC (Dynamic Damper Control) ofrece tres grados de firmeza; Confort, Sport y Sport Plus que el conductor puede elegir con tan solo pulsar un botón ubicado junto a la palanca de cambios –que más bien parece un joystick.

En equipos de seguridad estándar el M6 incluye ABS en las 4 ruedas, frenos antibloqueo con características avanzadas de espera y el secado, con-trol de tracción y estabilidad, asientos delanteros airbags laterales, airbags delanteros de rodilla, reposacabezas activos y BMW Assist.

El conductor del M6 cuenta con el MDM (M Dynamic Mode). Solo hay que presionar uno de los dos botones localizados en el brazo izquierdo del volante, están marcados como M1 y M2, con la configuración M1 la pu-esta apunto de todo el M6 se modi-fica con un modo deportivo, la respu-esta de la dirección es más firme y la amortiguación es más rígida, con la opción M2 el conductor puede modi-ficar hasta seis parámetros del com-portamiento dinámico del M6, por ejemplo para uso en pista, se puede alterar la respuesta de la transmisión, la gestión del motor para sacarle todo el poder al V8, se desconecta el DSC y el DDC se coloca en Sport-plus, también se modifica la información proyectada en el parabrisas mediante el Head Up Display. Andando en el, y abusando en las curvas, se portó maravillosamente.

No parecia un convertible. Los cambios en la transmisión en modo automático son prácticamente im-perceptibles y gracias al doble turbo, el torque está presente y disponible en prácticamente todo el rango de revoluciones. Pero es recién el descu-bierto poder de la nueva M6 de que realmente impresiona, sus rivales el Jaguar XKR o el Porsche 911 van a tener que mirarlo de reojo, porque este M6 viene con todo.

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