Client Spotlight: Braman BMW

As your premier Miami BMW dealer, we here at Braman BMW provide for your every automotive need. We've been serving Southern Florida BMW buyers for over 30 years. Located in the heart of downtown Miami, we're just a few blocks from I-95 and I-195. We're happy to offer a great selection of vehicles to West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale BMW customers.

Here at Braman BMW, our extensive inventory and superb staff allow us to serve the entire South Florida metropolitan area from our Edgewater location. We proudly provide new and used BMW vehicles and service to Fort Lauderdale BMW and South Florida BMW owners and buyers. We're South Florida's first stop for BMW parts, accessories, and service.

Client Spotlight: Liz Garrison

Mission: To guide entrepreneurs through the minefield of Social Media Marketing and the latest technology

Company Overview: Overwhelmed by the world of SOCIAL MEDIA and Technology? Tune in here to learn the methods behind the madness thereby allowing you to maximize your passion and to ReaLIZeU.

Windows, Apple or Raspberry Pi?

Microsoft or Mac - that is the big question. However what if you are a fiercely independent type - then you may be a Linux person. What many do not realize these days is GUI aside Linux and Lion are UNIX cousins.

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of Linux is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released 5 October 1991 by Linus Torvalds.

We feel it is important to acknowledge Linux because what many may not know is that while windows may still hold sway in desktops - Linux and Unix have long been the preferred server environments. Also here is a piece of trivia the UNIX kernel keeps MACs so stable.

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video.

We are sharing this device because it can give you an idea of how small a working desktop computer can be as well as a glance into the possible future of computing (imagine this connected to the cloud).

Want to know the shock - this is a $35 working computer! You can learn more http://www.raspberrypi.org/ 

Maxim Williams - Bon Secours Healthy Communities Initiative

Maxim Williams joined Bon Secours St. Francis Health System in July/August 2008 as Director of Community Relationship Building and local leader of Bon Secours Healthy Communities Initiative.

Prior to arriving in Greenville, he spent 7 years consulting in the private and public sector as a People Strategy Consultant and Coach for private and public agency organizations across the nation, as well as to business owners and professionals within California. Maxim holds a Master’s Degree in Consulting/Organizational Psychology and research experience in the areas of Emotional Intelligence, Diversity & Inclusion, and Leadership & Team Building. Maxim hails originally from Canada, is of Jamaican heritage, and has lived in places across the United States prior to relocating to Greenville in the summer of 2008.

In 2012, his current work involves facilitating the local Bon Secours St. Francis Healthy Communities coalition of up to 150 individuals and organizations across sectors that has lead to the first organic community garden in West Greenville; a new urban trail system; the first neighborhood land trust in South Carolina; and plans for urban farm and market activity.

Maxim is the Vice-Chair of LiveWell Greenville; a board member of the Greenville Free Clinic; International Center of the Upstate; The Warehouse Theatre; a regular emcee for Pecha Kucha Night Greenville; a 2010 speaker at the inaugural TEDX Greenville event; an organizer of TEDx Greenville Salons, and a sought after facilitator/advisor. In his spare time, Maxim trains and competes in the martial arts.

For more information, Maxim’s work can be found at
http://www.stfrancishealth.org/sterling or
http://www.facebook.com/LiberateCoCreateTransform.

Client Spotlight: Braman Bugatti

Braman Bugatti is you connection for all of your Bugatti needs in Fort Lauderdale and Pembroke Pines. Our friendly, professional sales staff is dedicated to helping you begin the process of owning one of the most exclusive brands in the world: the Bugatti. Our expertise with these rare vehicles makes us your best resource to learn more about them. We are conveniently located on Biscayne Blvd. near Highway 1, Venetian Islands, and Interstate 194.

Client Spotlight: Top Flight LLC

At Top Flight LLC, we identify, groom, nurture and train the best of the best business owners and entrepreneurs. We validate business owner performance standards to meet corporations Tier 1 requirements. We expand opportunities for businesses with an established Tier 1 relationship, diversifying their base to ensure their sustainability in the market place. We provide educational resources, tools and connections enabling both suppliers and corporations to mutually succeed in the achievement of their respective goals and objectives.

The combined knowledge and skills of the Managing partners collectively benefits our country through job and wealth creation.

We believe that bringing value is the best way to help you succeed

We are here to help you achieve your goals Top Flight was a concept brought to fruition by Stephen Bailey, Lionel Spearman and James Staton. After many years working in corporate America as well as volunteering their time for non profits (often in which they held senior leadership positions) they noticed many patterns. Also not to be overlooked we have over 5 decades combined of actual experience as business owners and leaders in the business community – each owner is well recognized for their individual experience and expertise.

It was as a result of that combined corporate and entrepreneur experience. We observed small businesses did not have a unified consistent method or champion to assist them in realizing their aspiration regardless of size. With this in mind Top Flight was created to assist business owners and Entrepreneurs by providing them with the resources they need to achieve their goals regardless of the size and enable them to become the elite, the best of the best or better worded a “Top Flight” business regardless of their goals regarding gross revenue or goals.

Featured Guest: Tauran Woo – Tauran Photography

Our special guest for the next interview will be Tauran Woo.

Tauran is an International award winning photographer, specializing in weddings and portraits, serving the greater Los Angeles area, Orange County, and worldwide.

Mr. Woo was recently features in CosmoBride and has on occasion served as the official photographer for the Black Card Circle. 

To say Mr. Woo is a talented photographer would be to call Picasso just an artist.

To quote: “My unique style fuses fine art, photojournalism, and fashion photography together to offer couples a high quality, stylized collection of imagery that will last a lifetime and beyond.

My goal and desire is to present you with imagery of your wedding that will capture the beauty, majesty, joy, tenderness, fun, love and passion of the event - precious memories for you to treasure for your lifetime, and to endure for generations to come. You are unique and beautiful, let your imagery reflect your taste.” 

Mr. Woo is the former Associate Producer of E! Entertainment Television’s Emmy Award winning show, Talk Soup!

We will discuss the changes technology have affected his profession as well as how technology has allowed him to build a regional, national and global brand of creative excellence, in short Cameras, Photography, Business and Technology!

 It promises to be an informative and educational session!

To learn more about Tauran Photography

• http://www.tauranphotography.com/index2.php?ver=v1
• http://www.tauranblog.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/TauranPhotography

To learn more about Ethyrial

• http://www.ethyrial.com/

Client Spotlight: Braman Cadillic

We carry the full line of Cadillac vehicles: Cadillac CTS, Escalade and SRX. We're just a few blocks from I-95, making us easy to get to from West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale or anywhere in South Florida

Braman Cadillac carries hundreds of new and pre-owned vehicles. View our complete inventory to view current vehicle specials. With such a wide selection of Cadillac vehicles on hand, we're confident you'll find the luxury vehicle of your dreams here at Braman Cadillac of Miami. Remember that every new Cadillac is backed by the Cadillac Shield, the most comprehensive suite of owner benefits offered by any luxury automotive brand in the world.

Client Spotlight: Debriants Office Services

Keeping Offices Productive is the Bottom Line

"A business cannot be productive unless its personnel can rely upon their office equipment."

Employee's skills are best used to serve customers, not to repair office equipment.

Debriant's Office Services, Inc. is a single source equipment repair company.

We keep offices running by providing two types of service:  emergency repair and preventive maintenance.

Our goal is to help companies extend the life of their equipment and reduce down time, so their employees can be fully productive.

When office equipment fails, emergency repair must be quick and complete.

Our expertise includes:

ü Equipment Repair

ü Preventive Maintenance Programs

ü Capital Equipment & Inventory Control

o       First you reduce the number and type of vendors you have to coordinate.

o       Second, composite itemized billing is provided.

o       Third, when a machine needs to be replaced you do not have to wonder.

The issue of selling the latest model to you is removed. Extending the life of your equipment is our primary method of compensation.

New MacBook Pro's w/Retina abandons all conventional thinking, while abandoning legacy hardware in the process.

The new Macbook Pro w/retina may be the most forward thinking collection of parts that we have ever seen in a computer. And before you haters get on your job and do what you do best. I am speaking of the collective of technologies involved, yes these specs exist in other computers but not all of it together in one system as Apple has designed here. If you are geek, nerd, gadget head, or whatever classification of techie you call yourself, if you don't recognize this system as the Rolls Royce of notebooks your haterism has permanently affected your nerd core and and rendered you inoperable, and as such please turn in your  geek card immediately.

Death to Legacy

If you don't want this machine it's only because your a liar, or you can't afford it and therefore must hate on it.  No legacy technology exists on the machine as every technology present has had shelf life of 10 years or less except for Ram and CPU. Here we go take a look at the specs on the beast.

*Specs for lower-end 15inch version


Supported resolutions: 2880 by 1800 pixels (Retina); scaled resolutions: 1920 by 1200, 1680 by 1050, 1280 by 800, and 1024 by 640 pixels ( yes Diablo III will run @ 2880 x 1800 resolution but only OSX Lion and Mountain Lion


Processor: 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz) with 6MB shared L3 cache


Memory: 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L onboard memory


Storage: 256GB upgradeable to 768GB of Flash storage 


Size:  
Height: 0.71 inch (1.8 cm)
Weight: 4.46 pounds (2.02 kg)2


2 GPU's 
Intel HD Graphics 4000
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics       switching
Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on up to two external displays, at millions of colors


Thunderbolt digital video output
• Native Mini DisplayPort output
• DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter (sold separately)
• VGA output using Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter (sold separately)
• Dual-link DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter (sold separately)


Camera: 720p FaceTime HD camera


Connections: 
• MagSafe 2 power port
• Two Thunderbolt ports (up to 10 Gbps)
• Two USB 3 ports (up to 5 Gbps)
• HDMI port
• Headphone port
• SDXC card slot
• Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (sold separately) ( yes Apple has abandoned the traditional ethernet port. 
• Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter (sold separately, available July)


Wireless: 
802.11n Wi-Fi wireless networking;3 IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible
Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology


What's missing?
• No optical drive
• No standard hard drive
• No VGA ( external adapter)
• NO DVI (external Adapter)
• NO ethernet port (external adapter)

This is a completely modern platform, and for that reason this is not the notebook for everybody. If you are "old" and like "old" ports and "legacy" doohickies sorry, not for you. If you hate Macs for whatever your reasons. Why have you read this far? Go on get outta here.  If you like cords, things that are hard or difficult, or are predisposed to change, hater of shiny things, Linux or MS Fanboys, or just genuinely boring by nature. Check your pulse you mite be dead. 

Client Spotlight: Robertson-Wade Engineering

Robertson-Wade Engineering, Inc. is a professional consulting engineer firm that primarily specializes in structural engineering. We also have expertise in Civil Engineering design, project Coordination, Project Management, and construction services, which include certified welding inspector (CWI) services. While the services offered are somewhat standard for a number of structural/civil consulting engineer firms. Robertson-Wade Engineering is particularly accomplished in their short 16 years of being incorporated. Our professional consulting focus includes all areas of industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential markets.

Robertson-Wade Engineering is a “small firm”. The number of employees at Robertson-Wade ranged from 3 or 4 to as many as 10 depending upon our work load which is directly related to the economic climate. Our smaller size affords us the opportunity to have greater flexibility and ultimately undertake more “out-of-the-box” projects which other large firms cannot because of their set overhead costs and general in-ability to “turn-on-a-dime.” As shown below in our project descriptions, Robertson-Wade's “small firm” size has not and will not limit us in our ability to provide quality services for large scale industrial, institutional, and commercial projects.

This flexibility allows us to be current and competitive.

Of course our expertise and experience covers the basic areas of structural engineering such as reinforced concrete, structural steel, reinforced masonry, and wood framing design for buildings/residences, tanks, towers, manufacturing equipment support, and other miscellaneous structural areas. Robertson-Wade Engineering has also strived to and has been successful in their efforts to obtain expertise and experiences in several areas of specialty structural design including helical pile foundations, light gauge metal stud framing, light gauge rolled steel framing, heavy timer framing, and structural renovation of historical building structures and bellowers, renovations to existing building and residential structures involving the removal of load bearing walls for the purpose of making larger rooms and cathedral ceilings where flat ceilings once were.

Steel girder and abutment design for Covered Bridges and Hollow core slab bridge abutments and steel girder, timber deck/guard rail bridges.

Lotay Yang featrued guest on Webinar

Date: June 6, 2012


Time: 1:00 PM EST


Location:  www.anymeeting.com/etslsii1


Featured Guest: Mr. Lotay Yang


Mr. Yang is what many would consider the personification of the American Dream. He is a successful former investment banker to the rich and famous (some of whom  many would consider house hold names) who decided to spend his time and money helping others.


Mr. Yang is the founder of the global organizations Black Card Circle and Black Card Circle Foundation. He will discuss his experience with Ethyrial, share the history of his organizations and talk about the upcoming BCC ELE (Executive Leadership Exchange) in Shanghai, China.


Ethyrial had the pleasure of updating the foundation's website and equipping the foundation with the tools and technology to allow it to functions seamlessly on a global level. 


About BCC
Black Card Circle® connects influencers and activists for social networking, business networking, and philanthropy through exclusive events and personalized concierge services for its authenticated community of “Black Card” holders, respected professionals, upstanding community leaders, and inspiring entrepreneurs and activists.


BCC ELE (Executive Leadership Exchange)
Through Black Card Circle's Executive Leadership Exchange (ELE), participants will gain valuable insight into the Chinese film industry, develop crucial Chinese relationships, and learn how to produce film with the support of the Chinese government.

About BCCF

The Black Card Circle Foundation (BCCF) strives to raise awareness for IRS recognized not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organizations that promote self-reliance and sustainability. BCCF unites volunteers and hosts charity events with strategic partners like the Ritz-Carlton, Hyatt Regency, Tiffany & Co., Microsoft, and many other socially conscious organizations. BCCF raises awareness for non-profit organizations that serve one of the following 5 core areas:

• Education
• Environment
• Health Care
• Community Development
• Poverty Relief

About Ethyrial


Our mission is simple. Free you from your business to focus on running your business. We do this by providing the tools and support needed to run their day to day operations. We help you build your business because as business owners and technophiles we understand a simple truth, you did not start your business to sweat the details and technology done correctly should be a tool that adds value and works for you!






Full Discloser: Lionel Spearman currently serves as the Director of Corporate Communication for the Black Card Circle Foundation and is a member of the Board of Directors.

Client Spotlight: Braman Honda

Braman Honda, a Honda dealer in Greenacres, has been serving drivers in Lake Worth and West Palm Beach for years. Greenacres drivers come to us for quality, affordable vehicles along with some of the best financing plans in FL.

Contact us now to schedule your test drive! Our Honda specialists work hard to put you behind the wheel of the vehicle that suits your needs. Ask us about all Honda lease and auto loan programs available.

Phone: (800) 651-4185
Service: (866) 333-4935
Parts: (888) 479-0695

Using 21st Century Technology Lecture

We will be speaking at various meeting and events on how to make use of technology. We will share why technology is important as well as other issues surrounding how to develop and run your business effectively and efficiently.

As business owners your time is important. As a result you must work to make the best use of your time and resources. We will explain and share some of the tools to make that happen. We will also explain some basic tenant of website design and the fact your site should be a virtual employee! If it is not making you money there is a problem. Your website should be selling your good and services 24 hours a day. If your site is not a profit center there is a problem.We can also speak on business development and effective marketing.

If you would like us to speak at your meeting or event in the Dallas or upstate SC area contact us at info@ethyrial.com Should you be willing to cover room, board and an honorarium we would also be willing to travel anyplace in the country to speak.

Ethyrial was born back in 2004 in the R&D department of one of the world's largest internet marketing companies of the time. We were a solutions company before the buzzword was born. In 2011 we reformed and refocused because we recognized two unchanging truth in business and in life. Spearman Enterprises was founded in 1995 as a solution provider and project management company. Its initial goal was to create solutions to facilitate the efficient and improved operations of its clients as well as to protect their two greatest assets – their people and intellectual business property.

People need answers and things change. Companies need answers and we have dedicated our careers to giving our customers those answers. The new EG is your personal R&D, marketing and web department.

Our mission is simple. Free you from your business to focus on running your business. We do this by providing the tools and support needed to run their day to day operations. We help you build your business because as business owners and technophiles we understand a simple truth, you did not start your business to sweat the details and technology done correctly should be a tool that adds value and works for you!

C. Spearman - CEO  Studied computer science  Director of SEO for largest SEO companies of the time.  Started Ethyrial in 2005  Principle Hired Gun Advertising  CTO @ Market 2Millions/VMSOFT  CTO/Project Director@ Atomic Solutions  3rd Party SE evaluator for Google and Bing

L. Spearman II - CSO  Tuskegee University (BSME)  Grad School University of South Carolina  Grad School Dartmouth College  Project Engineer Monsanto  CTO/COO SRI (Suplier Resoures INC)  Managing Partner Spearman Enterprises  Managing Partner Top Flight  Joined Ethyrial Technology Group in 2011.