Armenian-born and Californian by adoption, one of the world’s most important art-businessmen, Larry Gagosian has announced the birth of a his new baby. “The gallery will be open to the public on September 25, 2009”. The website of the famous gallery has officialised the news: Gagosian is invading Greece and more precisely number 3 of Merlin Street in Athens.

Having put aside for the time being the inauguration in the difficult climate of Moscow, Gagosian’s art multinational par excellence is moving forward, and for its eighth exhibition space – of the others, three are in New York, two in London, one in Los Angeles and one in Rome – he has chosen the Greek city.

While galleries of contemporary art are still dozing due to the summer heat, the very wealthy manager, always full of intuitions, is preparing strategies for the autumn season, landing in Greece, which is “populated” by names such as Dakis Joannou, Dimitris Daskalopoulous and Dinos Martinos, great art collectors recognised at international level.

As in the case of Rome (opened in 2007), the debut of the gallery will be assigned to Cy Twombly, one of the highest quoted living artists on the art market, with the painting exhibition entitled Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves. According to the latest online rumours, the new deed of Larry Gagosian – who in the meantime has even opened a company office in Hong Kong – will be directed by the heiress Marina Livanos.

Experts of the art economy are trying to explain Gagosian’s investment in the Greek capital, “market” of little charm for the international art market, but “The Shark” – as he is called in the sector for his craftiness and voraciousness – must have scented a trading climate with excellent possibilities of expansion. The art market is now worldwide, and the Gagosian as an international gallery does not operate locally, but only globally. The objective of the new Athenian deed will be to promote and promulgate works of art, keeping away the worldly aspect of the matter which is increasingly catching on in the artistic world.

“Larry Go Go”, another name given to the 63-year-old Californian gallery owner, started his career by commercialising posters and bills near UCLA university, and then opened in 1979 the first Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles. Over the years he has organised exhibitions of the main contemporary artists, from Francis Bacon to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as historical masters such as Picasso, De Kooning, Giacometti, Warhol, Pascali and Boetti. His rich stable of artists includes the highest paid ones in the world, from Damien Hirst to Jeff Koons and Richard Serra and many other contemporary artists for whom Mr. Gagosian “worked miracles”, he who is the man also known as the star of auctions worldwide for his record offers on behalf of collectors who want to remain anonymous. Indeed, in 2007 he confirmed his influence on the market when he thrashed all previous records and bought two sculptures by Koons: Hanging Heart (magenta/gold) for more than 23 million dollars sold at Sotheby’s New York and Diamond (blue) sold at Christie’s New York venue for about 11,8 million dollars.

Shy, anti-worldly and reserved, Larry Gagosian releases few statements but he is always under the mass media spotlights. Besides the announcement of the opening of the new gallery in Athens, another piece of news has started circulating. The Gagosian Gallery in the Big Apple has taken federal action against Lufthansa and others to get compensation for damages, after a painting by Brice Marden was destroyed. Realised in 1969 by the American artist, Au Centre would be estimated at 3 million dollars. The painting would have been destroyed last year while it was being transferred from Moscow to New York. The painting, a two-panel work in two shades of grey, would have come loose in its travel frame while it was being transported, resulting in a loss of colour and the consequent destruction of the work. The gallery sued the airline company and Art Crating Inc. in June, before the state jurisdiction of New York, but the case was referred to the federal Court on 21st August.

Watching Kannada movies online is a great idea if you want to get to know the culture of Karnataka before you are about to travel there or you are about to make business in Bangalore for example. But to understand the context I really recommend to watch at least one today’s and one historical Hindi movie before. By doing so you could feel the differences that are represented in different cultures in India. You would also recognize that Hindi movie is always a bit more modern than Kannada ones.

One of the interesting facts that you could investigate is the relationship of a Hindi movie to Soviet Union film industry in last century. You would find that they were closely related, especially if you look at it from Soviet Union side. Actually some of Hindi movie actors become great heroes in Russia those days. Raj Kapoor was adored by huge amount of soviet women for example. When he came to Moscow people recognized him on the streets. Bollywood and Soviet film industry have also made some films together in the past. More closer look gives you a feeling that Bengali film industry was very much connected to Russian cinema. Tarkovski, the great soviet movie maker, was a big example to lot of directors of Bangla movie those days and as I hear also today some student in Satyajit Ray Film Institute set his films on pedestal for themselves.

This is something that you would not find for example in watching Kannada movies online. They represent a bit different India all together.

” Remote Viewing ” (mental spying) was initially carried out by Eastern Block countries at the height of the ” Cold War.”

Secret PSI research associated with the state security and defense establishment was going on in the former U.S.S.R. and its many satellite communist countries since the early 50’s.

Paradoxically, the Soviet Union, although based on pragmatic and dogmatic, no-nonsense materialistic principles devoid of any spiritual content, had since the early 1950’s developed many PSI laboratories in order to study the applications of what the Soviets coined Psychotronic (bio energetic) research.

They had a clear lead in this field over any other country.

Military – controlled research centers specializing in the paraphysical were set up in Moscow, Leningrad (today called St. Peterburg), Omsk, Irkutsk, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Saratov, and the heavily guarded room B12 at Solnechnogorsk (NE of Moscow).

According to some yet classified documents, other establishments were set up in the U.S.S.R. for the same purpose in Siberia and at the Durov Institute.

These laboratories were under the control of either the K.G.B. or the G.R.U. (Military intelligence branch).

In contrast to their Western counterparts, these institutes were unencumbered by the desire and necessity to conduct double-blind studies, uniformly repeatable experiments, and to publish their results in international publications, at the risk of encountering the ire of skeptical colleagues. They, therefore, invited and studied naturally gifted psychics, psychokinetic performers, Siberian shamans, and Indian yogis.

Their stated purpose was “mental spying.” However, in reality, they had more sinister goals in mind, centered around the ability to control the minds of individuals at a distance. The Soviets felt a fanatical need for the indoctrination to their cause of masses of people, selected high-placed influential individuals in the West, or terrorist cells.

The perceived bellicose intentions and military arms race of many Western societies increased their paranoia, made them overreact by isolating themselves, and caused them to try frenetically to win the “war that could only leave, if at all, one winner upon the face of this planet, and most probably none.”

In the megalomaniacal world of the “Cold War, ” the possibility to control, without the targets’ knowledge, the minds of selected individuals at any distance became a paramount goal within the Soviet’s security system apparatus. It seemed to them as the perfect weapon.

The Soviets successfully set-up ELF (extremely low frequency) devices who could pulse subliminal sound messages at targeted individuals (using key words embedded in white noise or infra sound music) in order to manipulate their minds and their behavioral impulses.

Microwave pulsed behavioral modification and mind-control techniques were also used in the former U.S.S.R.. One of the most famous case involving such technology involved the discovery of this technology being applied to the U.S. embassy in Moscow that greatly alarmed the State Department and U.S. Intelligence. Despite vehement protests by the U.S. Government and concern for the mental and physical health of its embassy’s staff, the Soviets continued with their constant beaming of microwave signals towards the embassy. Henceforth, the embassy was literally shielded from these radiations by covering its entire structure with metallic plates. The full account of this incident is still classified.

Experiments attempting to instantly hypnotize subjects by purely telepathic means, without the subjects knowing in advance that they would be the targets of these highly concentrated “mind-waves,” were successfully carried out by the Soviets over distances of up to 2000 miles.

The best Psychotronic Research within the Eastern block was carried out in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The Czechs and the Bulgarians achieved very interesting results.

Kirlian Photography, named after its inventor Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, was found to be a better lie-detector machine that the other lie-detection techniques.

Some of the finest clairvoyants in the world worked for the Bulgarian Secret Police, dreaded for its implacable methods devoid of any sentimentalism.

The Bulgarian Secret Police had tight liaisons with the Institutes of Suggestology and Parapsychology in Sofia and Petrich.

The K.G.B. (Soviet security and intelligence) conducted some so-called deep-black operations where attempts were made to assassinate individuals, or have them commit suicide, by the use of “psychotronic techniques.” Although it seems that the K.G.B. was at least partially successful in some cases, the author refuses to dwell on further into this negative side of Soviet “mind research.”

In the U.S. although “mind control” experiments using hypnosis, behavioral modifying drugs, ELF, VLF (very low frequency sounds: 20-35 khz), and all kind of technical gadgetry had been tested on human subjects since the end of WWII (project MKULTRA) by the intelligence agencies, “remote viewing” abilities had been shunned by the operative technocrats of the C.I.A. and its predecessor: the O.S.S.

This was probably due to a cultural religious bias that many top brass of the agencies had against psychic abilities that they considered as the domain of spiritism and “malefic” forces.

Nevertheless, when it became apparent that the Soviets were making great strides in the subject of mental espionage and were spending in 1970 more than 60 million rubles on it (this sum reached 300+ millions by the mid-70’s), American intelligence became quite alarmed and after a detailed analysis took the Soviet “psychotronic” threat very seriously.

It then commissioned several programs to look into operative modalities that could duplicate and eventually outperform the Soviet successes that had by then been confirmed by Humint (human intelligence ) and electronic intelligence.

The main program was given to laser specialist Dr. Harold Puthoff (a former N.S.A. member during his military service at fort Mead, Maryland) and Russell Targ who both worked at Stanford Research institute (SRI), a gigantic scientific think-tank attached to Stanford University in California. SRI was already involved in many scientific projects for the defense establishment.

The initial RV (remote viewing) experiments happened in February 1972 using mainly Ingo Swann, a talented New York psychic, as a test subject.

Initially the testing modalities involved using computer generated random chosen targets that were then visited by human “beacons” to report back if the description given by the test subject seated in a “Faraday cage” at SRI (in order to shield him or her from any outside electromagnetic force) corresponded to the reality of what the “beacons” were seeing while witnessing the target site or object.

The first experiments were highly successful, and the CIA contracted hence SRI for an initial period in order to streamline and define the training and operational modalities of “remote viewing.”

Since most of the targets that were of interest to the defense establishment were secret sites in the Soviet Republics whose real location needed to remain classified and could not be revealed to the civilian remote viewers of SRI, an attempt was made to use geographical coordinates instead of other means to describe theses sites.

The results were as impressive as before, even though the test subject had no idea of what these coordinates corresponded to.

The use of coordinates (latitude and longitude) is what caused the project to be initially coded as Scan gate.

The US Army intelligence branch sent some personnel to be trained as remote viewers at SRI and opened their own operational top-secret unit with code names such as Sun Streak, Center Lane, and Grill Flames.

Eventually, SRI realized that instead of giving the RV (remote viewers) real coordinates, it was enough to give him or her a series of random generated numbers that the computer had assigned to the target.

SRI also realized that human beacons were not needed and that one got statistically the same rate of success without them.

Another strange realization made by SRI was that the RV would get the same rate of success whether the computer chose the target before its description by the RV or after! In other words, the RV was describing a remote target that would be chosen randomly by a computer in the future (even days or weeks later) after his or her description of it. This meant that the remote viewer was describing an event (the choice of target) belonging to the future.

We had therefore proof that, not only could one instantly bridge space as the remote viewers were doing routinely, but that time could be also traveled forward in the future in an instantaneous fashion!

Another proof of this phenomenon came as follows: SRI realized that if the subject would not be given in his or her future a definite feedback as to the success or failure of his or her description of the targeted site, the chance were very high that the Remote Viewing session would be a failure!

In other words: one needed an act of retroaction (feedback) in order to make that future feedback (picture shown of real target or just verbal feedback) a reality of success or not that would be given and experienced by the test subject.

This might be at first difficult to comprehend by non-RV and individuals not trained in the discipline of quantum physics. We had here a statistically significant proof that the future influences the past!

This means that the past (the memory of it) can be manipulated and changed depending on the presence or not of an event that chooses (quantum physicists would say that collapses the quantum probability function) to confirm or deny a certain correlated reality in the past!

Therefore, not only is the future malleable, but so is the past!

This is at the core of the technique (until now unexplained anywhere) that Mr. O’Donnell explains and where he shows that in order to choose one’s future, one needs within certain modalities to often change one’s past or memory of it (which is the same thing!)

In quantum physics research, a related experiment called-the double-slit delayed choice experiment was successfully carried out in the mid-80’s at the University of Maryland and the University of Munich, Germany. It proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that decisions taken in the present affect results achieved in the past, or that the future affects the past. That is to say that the effect affects the cause.

Mr. O’Donnell leaves each individual to ponder about the stupendous implications that this statement carries about the nature of reality, and will not explain it further. Rather, he uses it pragmatically for practical purposes.

Early in the protocol of SRI a technique coined Associational Remote Viewing was developed that allowed one to know in advance whether a particular remote viewing session targeting for instance precise information of a mundane type such as the numbers pertaining to a future lottery drawing, or the results of a future horse race, or the value of the DJIA for the next day etc. was most probably a correct prediction that could used to one’s advantage, or whether mental noise had been introduced and the vision was skewed and no money should be invested on it.

This very ingenious method is explained together with the foundation course that Mr. O’Donnell sends out.

SRI basically developed two protocols for remote viewing. The original one was a type of viewing where the RV was seated in front of an individual: “the monitor,” that would carefully help the viewer in his or her “remote trip” by asking him or her relevant questions in an interactive manner.

The viewer was also seated in a special biofeedback monitoring chair where special subliminal and tonal frequencies were beamed at his or her ears in order to help him or her attain a stage where the electroencephalographic trace and skin galvanometric response would detect a predominance of Alpha (7 to 14 cycles per second) or Theta waves (4-7 cycles per seconds) within the brain of the remote viewer. This Theta level correlates with the hypnagogic state that precedes sleep where one encounters a predominance of delta waves: 0-3 cycles per seconds (besides the periods of rapid eye movements were alpha waves: 7 to 14 cycles per second are predominant). At which point a special tonal frequency sound would be emitted by the biofeedback machine in order to allow the subject to recognize this state and hopefully be easily able to enter it at will in the future. And the remote viewing experience would start from that moment on.

The second protocol ( ERV or Extended Remote Viewing) was much more loose and devoid of technical gadgetry. In this case the individual would go deeply within him/herself until he or she felt that he or she was able to separate his or her awareness from his or her physical body and go for extended trips to remote locations bridging either space, time, or both. He or she would verbally record on a tape recorder his or her impressions and often sketch them, on a piece of paper.

Well-trained remote viewers would often get the impression of having a so-called phantom body that could go at will through walls and examine a location from an elevated high perspective or from a very close one, depending on his or her desire.

SRI attracted the attention of the DIA, NSA, Naval intelligence, INSCOM which is the intelligence branch of the army, and many members of the US Congress and Senate ( ex: Senator Clairborne Pell). As a matter of fact, early in the program, groups of army personnel were chosen to undergo the training that SRI provided and they started their own “remote viewing” units. These units came from the mid-80’s until the early 90’s under the tutelage of the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), and operated mainly out of Fort Mead, Maryland. Other units were rumored to exist.

Russell Targ left SRI in 1982 to form together with gifted RV Keith Harary their own remote viewing organization: Delphi Associates. They won a large sum of money after trading the silver future markets based on remote viewing predictions made by Keith Harary that had an almost perfect accuracy rate.

Dr. Puthoff left SRI as head of the remote viewing program in 1985 and was replaced by Ed May, a former Naval Intelligence Officer. Director Ed May moved the whole program under the tutelage of SAIC in 1991.

Most of these defense-related projects are now either defunct or have gone deeply undercover (totally unproven) since 1995 for unknown reasons.

The Europeans have very effective RV units and so do some other intelligence units belonging to other countries. However, none of them has ever officially declassified any of their material. The anecdotal details of their operations cannot be revealed. Their RV methodology targets even deeper levels of mind (interface point with delta) than the US. protocols.

The only known leak in European spheres happened in the Soviet union where “mind control” electronic equipment was made commercially available by cash-strapped former research laboratories.

In the US, on the other hand, since the official recognition by the CIA in November 1995 of the 20+ year project and the declassification of some of the related material, many former defense trained Remote Viewers or RV analysts have come forward and broken their code of silence.

Some have written books about their espionage experiences, and others have opened Institutes where they teach for a fee remote viewing methods to the general public. A great deal of media hype seems to have somehow inflated their feats.

The author feels very strongly that on the eve of the next Millennium all these newly open avenues of exploration of the infinite powers of the mind cannot but be of major help to all of us as humanity.

Chechen mafia is one of the largest mafia groups. It is said to be highly organized crime group operating in Russia. It is also known as the Obshina. There have been many controversies about its existence and its influence.

Chechen crime group is believed to have come into existence in 1974 when Chechen student Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev of Moscow State University laid the foundation of an underground movement. This movement later on became the Obshina – the Chechen Mafia.

Under the leadership of Noukhaev and Nikolay Suleimanov, Chechen Mafia became a well-organized criminal community in 1987. It forced the other criminal groups, the Balashikha, the Solntsevo, and the Lyubertsy, out of Russia and dominated the Russian mafia world. It has its activities extended out from Vienna to Vladivostok.

This mafia group is involved in many criminal activities like money laundering, drugs smuggling, automobile theft, illegal sale of plutonium and illegal human trafficking of Chinese immigrants to Japan.

The Chechen mafia used to support the fighters in the Chechen Wars by providing them arms and finances. This activity has caused confusion about the objectives of the Chechen Mafia that whether they want to gain profit from their illegal activities or want to fight for an independent state.

During the Chechen wars, lots of people of Chechen ethnicity migrated from Russia to Europe for refuge; many were separatists or former criminals. They started their illegal activities in Europe and gained power almost everywhere except in Italy as the Sicilian mafia was already very strong there.

Like Park Chung-hee (Asia/South Korea: 1962-79) and Idi Amin Dada (Africa/Uganda: 1971-79), Fidel Castro is a sports fanatic and enjoys watching all types of Olympic sports. Fidel Castro has visited the national team’s training camps, sports schools, National Schools Games and spent time with the students-athletes and Olympic players. Since 1990, the Cuban dictatorship has spent more than $80 million per year into Olympic sport. However, Cuba is not an Olympic paradise. Cuba’s modern sporting history has been marked by sporting defections.

Every dictatorship has a style of its own. Leonidas Rafael Trujillo had one: Dominican music. Francois Duvalier had one: Haitian culture. Kim Jong Il has one: the cinematography. He likes films as “Gone with the Wind”, a famous film American. The dictator of North Korea wrote an essay “On the Art of Cinema”.

The Idi Amin Dada regimewas notorious for torturing political prisoners, forbidding dissent and free speech. Under the dictatorship of Idi Amin Dada, about 350,000 people were killed. But he loves Olympic sports like Fidel Castro Ruz. During 1970s he had become an outspoken champion of sport in the Third World. I remembered that the Ugandan team won two gold, four silver and three bronze medals during the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand in 1974. Overall Ugandan team ranked tenth, before Wales, Trinidad Tobago, Tanzania and Jamaica.

Fidel Castro once said: “What has Cuba’s role been in the Olympic Games? What has it achieved? What has been the fruit of our efforts to promote healthy clean sports? At the 1972 Olympics, we finished 14th among 122 countries. At the Montreal Olympics in 1976–Juantorena remembers this well, and so do we–we finished 8th among 88 participating countries. In 1980, in Moscow we finished 4th among 81 countries; in 1992, in Spain we finished 5th among 169 countries; and in Atlanta, in 1996 we finished 8th among 197 countries. Could anyone refuse these figures”. But under one of the world’s oldest surviving dictatorships, the sport has become a useful way for women and men to access to freedom.

Certainly, Cuban sport is a story of both frustration and miracles. The Cuban government reacted with increduly when in 1980 Roberto Urrutia, a weightlifter, unexpectedly announced his decision to seek asylum in the United States. At the age 14 Urrutia made weightlifting high top priority, and ten months later he established national records. Urrutia entered the 1975 Pan American Championship at the age of 18 and won gold medals for Cuba. In December, in Matanzas, he become the first Latin American weightlifter to obtain a World record. In 1976 he finally realized his dream of competing in the Olympics. Like Alberto Juantorena (track and field), Teofilo Stevenson (boxing) and Mireya Luis Hernandez (volleyball), Roberto Urrutia Hernandez, former member of Youth Communist Union, was a symbol of the Cuban Revolution. Roberto, was born on December 12, 1956, in La Havana, won 3 gold medals at the 1978 Weightlifting World Championships and ended world Soviet’s-year domination of international weightlifting. Certainly, he was voted Hero of the Year by Prensa Latina. Before the Moscow Olympic Games, Roberto Urrutia defected to the United States via Mexico.

In the past few years, we have seen a number of events take place: Taimaris Aguero, a player, came to seek freedom in Italy; Odelin Molina, an outstanding footballer from La Havana sought political asylum in the United States; and Dulce Tellez, a sportswoman, came to San Juan de Puerto Rico.

Aguero, who at 1,77, was considered one of the best female athletes in the Americas, at the age of 16 she become the youngest person ever to be a member of Cuban Team. During the 1993 World Junior Championships in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aguero finished first in the competition for best setter. When Tanya Ortyz, setter from 1987 to 1995, announced her intention to retire at the end of 1995, Aguero was considered a leading candidate for the post. Therefore, she was keywoman when Cuba finished first at the 1998 World Championship. In 2000 Aguero helped the Cuban team reach victory at the Olympic Games. If not the greatest setter ever, she is certainly the most celebrated in volleyball history. Nowadays Taimaris Aguero is one of the most remembered and dearest sportswomen by Cubans. Behind baseball, volleyball is the most popular sport in Cuba.

Dulce Tellez was named best player in the 2006 Pan American Championships in Puerto Rico. Under her leadership Cuba won the bronze medal in volleyball in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. She left Cuba in July 2006–three months before the World Championships in Tokyo. Before the 2006 World Championships, Cuba was ranked 3rd in the world. Now it is ranked 7th. Meanwhile, Odelin Molina, was born on August, 1974, in La Havana, was one of Cuba’s best footballer and played the 1991 World Championship Under-16 in Italy. In 1995 he defected to the United States, where he lives now.

SPORTING DEFECTIONS

1. Abvin Sánchez, Lazaro-Soccer…1995…United States

2. Aguero, Taimaris-Volleyball…2001….Switzerland

3. Aldama, Yamilé-Track and Field…2003…United Kingdom

4. Arocha, Rene-Baseball…1991…United States

5. Arrojo, Rolando-Baseball…1996…United States

6. Barthelemy, Giorbis-Boxing…1990…United States

7. Blanco, Enrico-Boxing…1967…Canada

8. Bordabehere, Roger-Cycling…1994…Venezuela

9. Borrell, Lazaro-Basketball…1999…Puerto Rico

10. Brito Ferrer, Michel-Gymnastics….2003…United States

11. Brito, Javier-Volleyball…2004…Puerto Rico

12. Caballero, Angel Oscar-Basketball…1999…Puerto Rico

13. Cala, Yosleider-Volleyball…2003…Puerto Rico

14. Campoalegre, Ramón-Water Polo…1998…United States

15. Casamayor, Joel-Boxing……..1993…..United States

16. Castillo, Ulises-Boxing……….1993…..United States

17. Contreras, José Ariel-Baseball…2002…Nicaragua

18. Chappe, Taimi-Fencing…2002…Spain

19. De la Pena, Janerky-Gymnastics…2003…United States

20. Delgado, Alberto-Soccer…2002…United States

21. Dennis, Angel-Volleyball…2001…Belgium

22. Díaz, Juan Carlos-Baseball…1996…Dominican Republic

23. Dominguez, Iván-Cycling…1998…United States

24. Duquesne, Alfredo-Basketball…1994…Canada.

25. Garbey, Ramón-Boxing…………1993…..United States

26. García, Ives-Swimming…2001…Puerto Rico

27. García, Osvaldo Junior-Water Polo…1995…United States

28. García Martínez, Aliet-Soccer…2000…..United States

29. Gato, Ramón-Volleyball…2001…Belgium

30. Gilbert, Andres-Basketball….1993…Puerto Rico

31. Gomez, Juan Carlos-Boxing……1995…Germany

32. González, José-Cycling…1994…Venezuela

33. Gregory, Elvis-Fencing…2002…Portugal

34. Griñan, Fernando-Soccer…….1996….United States

35. Guillen, Alain-Water Polo…1998…United States

36. Guillen, Arnaldo-Water Polo…1998…United States

37. Hernández, Adrian-Baseball…2000…Dominican Republic

38. Hernandez, Alain-Soccer…2000…Costa Rica

39. Hernandez, Ihosvany-Volleyball…2001…Belgium

40. Hernandez, Jorge Luis-Volleyball…2001…Belgium

41. Hernandez, Livan-Baseball…1995…Mexico

42. Hernandez, Odalys-Softball….1993…Puerto Rico

43. Hernández,Orlando-Baseball…1997…By boat

44. Herrera, Roberto Carlos-Basketball….1999…Puerto Rico

45. Herrera, Ruperto-Basketball…1994…Canada

46. Hurtado, Diobelys-Boxing…1995…United States

47. Ibañez, Ciro-Weightlifting…1986….United States

48. Juncosa, Abel-Shooting….1999….Canada

49. Lapera, Ulises-Field Hockey…1999…Canadá

50. León Tamayo, Charles-Gymnastics…2003…United States

51. Marshall, Leonel-Volleyball…2001…Belgium

52. Martinez, Juan Carlos-Water Polo…1993…United States

53. Martinez, Rey-Soccer…2002…United States

54. Matienzo, Richard-Basketball….1994…Canada

55. Miranda, Arturo-Diving…1995…Canada

56. Montalvo, Niurka-Track and Field…1997…Greece

57. Muñoz, Daimara-Swimming…1998…Puerto Rico

58. Nuñez, Jesús-Cycling…1998…Venezuela

59. Nunez, Vladimir-Baseball…1995…Venezuela

60. Ortega, William-Baseball…1996…México.

61. Perez, Angel-Kayak…1993…United States

62. Perez, José-Track and Field…1997…Puerto Rico

63. Piedra, Armando-Water Polo…1995…United States

64. Pino, Héctor-Basketball…1999…Puerto Rico

65. Ramírez, Rio-Diving…1993…Puerto Rico

66. Rodriguez, Heriberto-Cycling…1998…Venezuela

67. Rodriguez Osorio, Gunther-Swimming…2003…Puerto Rico

68. Romero Mayeta, Laseer-Volleyball…2001…Bélgica

69. Rosales, Nubis-Swimming…1998…Puerto Rico

70. Salas, Maikel-Volleyball…2004…Puerto Rico

71. Sánchez, Alex-Baseball…1994…By boat

72. Sánchez, Alexis-Track and Field…1998….Puerto Rico

73. Toca, Jorge Luis-Baseball…1998…By boat

74. Trevejo, Iván-Fencing…2002…Portugal

75. Urrutia, Roberto-Weightlifting….1980….Mexico

76. Valdés, Tatiana-Kayak…1994…United States

77. Vázquez, Juan-Basketball….1999….Canada

78. Wilson, Jesús-Wrestling…1994…United States

79. Zayas, Daniel-Weightlifting…1987…United States

The Best Nootropics That Can Unleash Great Potential – In the first place, an intriguing certainty: a Nootropic is a compound word made from two Greek words NOUS- “brain” and TROPOS- “changed or altered”. Nootropics are drugs that influence mental capacities, increment sharpness and fixation.

Whenever last chance is hanging in the balance, any favorable position makes a difference. World class German fighters walking into the Soviet Association in 1941 took speed (amphetamine) to fuel their assaults. With that guide, they achieved Moscow, caught a large portion of Russia and vanquished armed forces ordinarily 10x their size.

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How do Nootropics function?

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Noncommercial utilization of Nootropics:

The Best Nootropics That Can Unleash Great Potential were advanced when general society discovered that individuals like Barack Obama, Davey Asprey, Joe Rogan etc., utilize savvy sedates as Modafinil and others, aren’t hesitant to discuss that. Numerous Silicon Valley chiefs and Money Road agents additionally conceded that they utilize Nootropics in troublesome circumstances.

Numerous medications that are utilized as “shrewd medications” have a restorative, noncommercial reason. For instance, Modafinil is utilized to treat rest issue (a sleeping disorder, rest apnea, narcolepsy), and also consideration deficiency issue (ADHD/Include). Its beneficial outcomes have been exhibited in the treatment of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s ailments as well.

At the point when individuals who are performing genuine employments and having excessive duty spread upon them, these drugs will achieve ubiquity and end up business minded in a brief time frame. Nootropics have additionally turned out to be well known among officers, particularly in periods when unprecedented endeavors are normal. The utilization of “ponder drugs” is the most widely recognized among understudies, utilized individuals, and late investigations demonstrate enormous development among the more youthful populace.

Shouldn’t something be said about reactions?

Symptoms could or couldn’t occur,it all relies upon a person. A few clients revealed issues with rest, hard arousing, absence of craving, and so forth. Manifestations like discombobulation, queasiness, or cerebral pain are less normal. Some significantly more risky outcomes are not detailed as a rule, but rather a few safety measures should exist, particularly in individuals experiencing liver, kidney or heart infections.

Not at all like Methamphetamine or Amphetamine, brilliant medications shouldn’t make a condition of happiness or dependence. We say “shouldn’t” rather than “don’t” on the grounds that there is dependably a probability. All things considered, these medications can incite dejection or some sort of tension, which is naturally. When you center totally around your work or exams, your social life endures.

Are Nootropics legitimate?

The Best Nootropics That Can Unleash Great Potential have a expanded mishandle and control of medications, a wide range of stimulants are frequently connected with something negative, flippant and illicit. While saying the brilliant medications or Nootropics, individuals as a rule consider Amphetamines that are described as an unlawful substance. Its utilization in clean frame is prohibited for pharmaceutical purposes.

Mental stimulants, for example, Modafinil, Adderall, and comparable brilliant medications because they contain a specific measurement of this psychoactive substance. It ought to be noticed that it goes to the misuse of Amphetamine when this substance is utilized to such a degree, to the point that it animates the movement of the living being to the extremes of certain people. Clean Amphetamine is lessening the feeling of craving and exhaustion, keeping you alert for quite a while.

If anything is well known, there is a high rate of abuse. Requesting Nootropics online isn’t the correct way. For this situation, nobody can promise you the precision and creativity of the medication. Backers of this hypothesis of the corrupt utilization of savvy drugs credit these Nootropics to an indistinguishable properties from Sedatives, for instance, Methamphetamine (referred to under the road name as “gem meth”).

Moral problems:

From one perspective, we have specialists and drug specialists very suggest Nootropics for the treatment of different sicknesses for which the savvy drugs are recommended. Then again, the media and big names advance the legitimate utilization of Nootropics, however in the field of accomplishing better investigation comes about, enhancing working and psychological execution, and so forth.

Objectives and employments of nootropic drugs:

You have likely had involvement with Nootropics without acknowledging it. The caffeine in espresso goes about as a concentration enhancer and it is one of most profoundly devoured drinks over the globe. In any case, there are times when different favorable circumstances, for example, enhanced memory, are more critical to your business.

To figure out which Nootropics are best for you, consider your objectives and plan as need be.

1. Memory: Have you at any point required a particular errand finished just needed to recall an idea for the activity at last? Having an enhanced memory can help bring different bits of a business together more proficiently.

You may need to recall a particular strategy, advertising system or client benefit stage that you once read. Whatever the case, there are numerous Nootropics for that reason. A manufactured medication found in the mid 1970s called piracetam can be joined with choline for enhanced memory maintenance. It’s one of Tim Ferriss’ most loved savvy medications and it’s a decent place to start for improved memory.

2. Attention: Being able to be centered can yield a higher effectiveness and better quality work. Caffeine is the concentration enhancer of many people, yet there are approaches to expand its adequacy. Caffeine joined with an amino in green tea called L-theanine produces more noteworthy concentration and clearness than caffeine alone.

3. Mood enhancer: Anybody in enterprise comprehends the uneasiness and gloom that is related. While doctor prescribed medications are no real way to deal with these high points and low points, there are natural choices. Mucuna pruriens is a herb from Africa that gives dopamine – a substance associated to satisfaction – for the mind. This joined with reishi mushroom enhances satisfaction while diminishing nervousness and alleviating pressure.

4. Hostile to weakness: There is a maxim in the business world: “The flame that consumes brighter, consumes shorter.” In the event that you are drinking some espresso and getting little rest, sometimes something will snap. Individuals can just work so hard regardless of whether enterprise requires extend periods of time infrequently.

Weight lifters advanced the utilization of creatine monohydrate, however it is an effective mental hostile to weariness supplement too. Shrewd Medication Smarts podcast have Jesse Lawler even said creatine was the best starter nootropic. Espresso can make them go, yet creatine can prop you up.

5. Imagination: Ever ask why performers and painters dependably appear to smoke a cigarette?

It turns out, nicotine is an intense enhancer of inventiveness, which is an essential expertise for business visionaries attempting to get away from a quandary or make bargains. Now and then working harder or longer isn’t the appropriate response – working all the more inventively can have the effect. On the off chance that nicotine strikes you as excessively addictive, iodine can be a characteristic wellspring of motivation and inventiveness.

Beginning with apprentice stacks:

The Best Nootropics That Can Unleash Great Potential are frequently utilized as a part of “stacks,” which are mixes of keen medications that can evoke synergistic impacts more significant than any one medication alone. For apprentices, there are more standard choices that you can browse.

1. Caffeine + L-theanine: Joining caffeine with L-theanine can intensify the advantages of caffeine alone. L-theanine is in charge of enhancing alpha cerebrum waves, which relate to unwinding, a lessened heart rate and less butterflies. On the off chance that you consolidate 200 mg of L-theanine for each 8 some espresso, you will have the best outcomes.

2. Bacopa monnieri: The greater part of the best nootropics come straight from the earth. Customary Indian societies have utilized the herb bacopa monnieri to enhance comprehension for a huge number of years. It is an intense long haul and here and now memory enhancer. It can likewise decrease nervousness and help with center. You can discover bacopa monnieri separate in 200 to 300 mg measurements (50 percent bacosides A and B).

3. Piracetam + choline: One of the most grounded memory enhancers is piracetam, which shapes recollections and increases productivity. Since this substance expands use of a mind concoction called acetylcholine, taking a choline supplement close by piracetam is more powerful than either alone. Attempt to get 1600 mg of piracetam with 200 to 300 mg of choline for ideal outcomes.

What’s the catch?

The Best Nootropics That Can Unleash Great Potential comes with its downsides. For a certain something, caffeine is confirmation of the fact that it is so natural to end up subject to an intense substance. Regardless of whether you are not physically reliant on a nootropic, you may appreciate the additional concentration for your business so much, you don’t understand the dependence shaping.

It’s likewise simple for business people to see films like limitless and have daydreams of glory. On the off chance that you can fit exercise, adhering to a good diet and satisfactory rest into your every day schedule, these will majorly affect your psychological limit than whatever else.

At long last, as with any supplement, there is dependably the “does it truly work” question. The supplement business has pushed a quack remedy in the midst of value items for so long that individuals are confounded about what is successful. Fortunately, you can take online tests to see in the case of something is truly having an effect. NooTracker is a web application that tracks psychological capacities while taking nootropics. Another alternative is Cambridge Cerebrum Sciences for more exhaustive tests.

On the off chance that you would like to get an edge over your opposition, nootropics are an extraordinary method to do as such. Try not to purchase and begin expending the majority of the previously mentioned sedates without a moment’s delay. Attempt them exclusively relying upon your objectives, see what works for you in a protected domain and make your own blends in like manner.

Considering The Best Nootropics That Can Unleash Great Potential can be found in the free market, and even can be requested on the web, the assumption is that these medications ought not be prohibited. In any case, in numerous nations, medications, for example, Modafinil, Piracetam, and so on must be acquired with a medicine, and utilized for the reasons for which they are expected, for example, treating a sleeping disorder, sudden weariness hits, and so forth.

Essentially, there are various good difficulties, on the grounds that Nootropics are viewed as a sort of doping for the cerebrum. In this manner, the individual who utilizes them accomplishes better outcomes, and is more effective than individuals who don’t take these brilliant medications. Be that as it may, frankly, nobody can restrict you to do likewise. In the event that you have a feeling that you require additional stimulants, or your work energy simply tumble down, Nootropics can be a decent arrangement on the off chance that you utilize them properly.

Conclusion:

In spite of the fact that they are called keen medications, Nootropics don’t work to build your knowledge. No, they won’t make you more intelligent than common. These medications simply upgrade cerebrum works by empowering the generation of various neurotransmitters which will keep you conscious and centered. In this way, the power is inside your mind, you simply don’t utilize it enough.

“Method Acting” as it is popularly known, has since its inception courted controversy and fascination. The so called “Method Actors” past and present, have arguably produced some of the most stunning and truthful performances in cinematic and theatre history.

To quote the famous acting teacher Sanford Meisner, acting is “Living truthfully under imaginary circumstances”. This living truthfully has remained the pivotal focus of great acting and the driving force behind the development of the method.

So what is Method Acting, and how did it develop?

When the term “Method Actors” is referred to, most people think of the greats of modern cinema, such as Robert De Nero, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, among many others. A whole legion of actors studied with the famous method acting teachers of the day, Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Robert Lewis to name a few. These teachers were all great actors in their own right, who later became collectively known as the Group Theatre. However, it wasn’t until a group of actors from The Moscow Art Theatre, visited New York in the 1920s, that America experienced what was to become the birth of “The Method”. The visiting actors were led by the person who would become known as the father of “Method Acting”, Konstantin Stanislavski.

It is said that as a result of personal frustrations towards the ham, wooden acting performances of his day, and in fact the inconsistencies of his own acting performances, Konstantin Stanislavski sought a system whereby he could almost guarantee a great performance at will. His principal goal was to attempt to discover and tap into the very essence of great acting. He had witnessed great performers of the day, such as the Italian actor Tommaso Salvini; bring to the stage inspired performances. Effectively what Stanislavski attempted to do, by watching such performers was to study, dissect and analyse great acting. By doing so, he hoped that by formulating a set of procedures, he could recreate the inspiration of great natural acting.

The main components of his system, such as the objective, relaxation, concentration and the like remained as the foundation and basic necessities towards developing the actor’s instrument. However “affective memory” or emotional memory as it later became known, was his most famous discovery and has perhaps attracted the most interest and controversy. The whole point of the emotional memory always was to personalise and bring emotional truth to a fictional set of circumstances. If the actor can recreate a personal, past event that had emotional significance to the individual, then it was hoped that the emotional truth, so valued of great acting, could assist in creating a great performance. However even Stanislavski himself eventually recognised the potential psychological dangers this technique could cause. In fact throughout his career, he sought new and safer ways to produce great acting towards his final technique which became known as “The Method of Physical Actions”.

During their visit, a number of the actors from The Moscow Art Theatre, among them Richard Boleslavsky, remained in New York, forming The American Laboratory Theatre. “The Method” that Lee Strasberg and other members of The Group had first witnessed and embraced, were Stanislavsky’s findings up to that point. The initial “first studio” teachings that Boleslavsky unwittingly unleashed were to cause unforeseen problems for its practitioners for years to come. However it is argued that despite this, America was to see the birth of some of the greatest performances before and since. It cannot be confirmed conclusively that these performances have been a direct result of the application of “The Method”. Many in opposition of “The Method” would state that the great actors were already highly gifted and great despite its influence.

Whether “Method Acting” is necessary or is even more harmful than useful, will probably be a major source of debate for years to come. However few can argue that the development has certainly brought an awareness and expectation that ham, wooden performances would never be acceptable again.

Having been a land surveyor in the 1920s, Brezhnev turned into a full part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1931 and studied at the metallurgical institute in Kamenskoye (now Dniprodzerzhynsk). After graduating (1935), he functioned as an engineer and also director of a technical college and also held a wide variety of local party posts; his career flourished under Joseph Stalin’s rule, and also by 1939 he’d become secretary of the local party committee of Dnepropetrovsk (Dnipropetrovsk). During World War II Brezhnev served as a political commissar in the Red Army, improving in rank until he turned into a major general (1943) as well as head of the political commissars on the Ukrainian front.

After the war he once again held posts as chief of several local party committees in Ukraine. In 1950 he was sent to Moldavia as first secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party with the job of sovietizing the Romanian public of which recently conquered territory. In 1952 he advanced to be a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU and also a candidate member of the Politburo.

When Stalin died (March 1953), Brezhnev had to drop his post in the Central Committee and also in the Politburo and had to acceprt the role of deputy head of the political department of the Ministry of Defense with the rank of lieutenant general. But in 1954 Nikita Khrushchev, who had achieved total control in Moscow, made Brezhnev secretary of the Kazakhstan Communist Party (1954), in which he vigorously implemented Khrushchev’s driven Virgin as well as Idle Lands Campaign in Kazakhstan. Brezhnev was quickly promoted to very first secretary of the Kazakhstan Communist Party (1955), and also in 1956 he was reelected to the posts of the CPSU Central Committee and also in the Politburo. A season later, after he’d loyally worked against the anti-party team which attempted to eliminate Khrushchev, Brezhnev was made a full member of the Politburo, and also in 1960 he became chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet – i.e., the titular top of the Soviet state. In July 1964 he resigned the blog post to be Khrushchev’s assistant as next secretary of the Central Committee, by that point he was regarded as Khrushchev’s heir apparent as party leader. Three weeks later, nonetheless, Brezhnev really helped direct the coalition that forced Khrushchev from strength, and, in the division of spoils that followed, Brezhnev started to be first secretary (after 1966, general secretary) of the CPSU (October fifteen, 1964). Following a brief time of collective leadership with Premier Aleksey Kosygin, Brezhnev emerged clearly as the dominant figure.

As top of the party, Brezhnev left many affairs of state – e.g., diplomatic relations with non-communist states and domestic economic development – to his co-workers Nikolay and Kosygin V. Podgorny, chairman of the Presidium. Brezhnev concentrated on military and foreign affairs. When Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubek attempted to liberalize the communist system in his country in 1967/68, the principle was created by Brezhnev, widely known in the West as the Brezhnev Doctrine, that asserted the right of Soviet intervention in situations where essential common interests of various other socialist nations are compromised by one of their number. This doctrine was used as the rationale for the intrusion of Czechoslovakia near the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact friends in 1968.

During the 1970s Brezhnev attempted to normalize relations between West Germany and also the Warsaw Pact and also to ease tensions with the United States throughout the policy referred to as detente. Under his leadership, the Soviet Union’s military industrial complex was greatly expanded and modernized. Under the leadership of his, the Soviets attained parity together with the United States in strategic nuclear weapons, and their space plan overtook the American one. A huge navy was equipped out and the army stayed the largest on the planet. The Soviet Union supported wars of national liberation in developing nations through the provision of military help to left wing movements and governments.

But Brezhnev’s unceasing build up of the defense of his and aerospace industries left some other sectors of the economic system increasingly deprived of money. Health-care services, consumer-goods industries, and soviet agriculture declined throughout the 1970s and early’ 80s as a consequence, resulting in shortages and decreasing requirements of existing.

In 1976 Brezhnev was made marshal of the Soviet Union, therefore becoming the one other party leader after Stalin to support the greatest military rank. The method of collective leadership concluded with the dismissal of Podgorny as chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in May 1977 and Brezhnev’s election to that particular position the next month. He therefore became the very first person in Soviet record to hold both the leadership of the party and the state. In 1979 Brezhnev reached agreement with U.S. President Jimmy Carter on a brand new bilateral strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT II), although the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty, as well as shortly after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan (December 1979) in an attempt to prop up a faltering communist regime there. Brezhnev’s government even helped General Wojciech Jaruzelski’s suppression of Poland’s Solidarity union in December 1981. The efforts of his to neutralize inner dissent within the Soviet Union itself had been similarly determined.

Brezhnev held on to the hold of his on power to the conclusion despite his frail healthiness and increasing feebleness. He gave the Soviet Union a formidable military industrial foundation capable of providing big amounts of the most contemporary weapons, but in so doing he impoverished the majority of the Soviet economic climate. After the death of his, he was criticized for a gradual slide in existing requirements, the spread of cronyism and corruption inside the Soviet bureaucracy, as well as the typically stagnant & dispiriting character of Soviet life in the late 1970s and early’ 80s.

Summer Olympics 1972: Munich, Germany

On August 31st, 1972; 22 year-old John Akii-Bua (50.35 seconds) won in the fourth heat of the five Round One 400 meters-hurdles heats. Stavros Tziortzis (50.54s) who had earlier during the same year beaten a sickly Akii into second place, at a track meet in Europe, finished second (50.54). Olympic medal hope William (Bill) Koskei of Kenya, who won Uganda the silver medal in the same event at the Commonwealth of Nations’ Games in Edinburgh in 1970, had disappointingly finished fourth (50.58) in the second heat of this Round One. Koskei was eliminated from moving on to the semi-finals. The top three finishers of each of the five heats, plus one hurdler with the next best time, moved on to the Semi-Final Round of sixteen hurdlers.

On September 1st, 1972, Akii (49.25 seconds) won in the first of the two Semi-Final heats. It is notable that in this heat, Akii-Bua was drawn in lane 2 to race against two other top medal hopes: David Peter Hemery of Great Britain who was the Olympic champion and world record holder; and Ralph Mann of the United States who had the world leading time in the intermediate hurdles and was ranked number one in the world at the event. Akii-Bua commendably beat Ralph Vernon Mann (49.53), and Dave Hemery (49.66). Here, Akii-Bua raced with these arch-rivals for the first time ever. Akii-Bua’s confidence that he would win, was reinforced. The top four finishers of each of the Semi-Final heats were the finalists. Akii-Bua aimed to smash the world record by about a second.

On September 2nd, 1972, Akii (47.82 seconds), despite being drawn into disadvantageously tight lane 1 won in the final in a new Olympic and World record. He became the first man ever to officially run the race in under 48 seconds. In a photo-finishing fight, Ralph Mann (48.51) was second and Dave Hemery (48.52) won the bronze. After four decades Akii still holds the 47.82 Uganda record; and this is still one of the best times recorded by an African hurdler. Akii has remained Africa’s only Olympic gold medal winning hurdler; the only African with an Olympic gold in a track event that is less than 800m.

Summer Olympics 1976: Montreal, Canada

In July 1976 in Montreal, Uganda boycotted the Olympic Games, alongside nearly 30 mostly African countries. The boycott was over the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not banning New Zealand from the Olympics after the NZ national rugby team toured apartheid South Africa earlier in the year. Akii-Bua had trained hard, in the same year established a personal best and Uganda record in the 400m flat. He was looking forward to defending his Olympic title. Fast improving Edwin Moses of the United States had become the main international attraction among the intermediate hurdlers. Moses would at these Olympics win the gold and smash the Ugandan’s world record. It is also notable that In the third week of June 1976, Akii-Bua’s thigh (left hamstring) muscle tore. This injury could have reduced his chances at competing or performing well at 1976 Olympics.

Summer Olympics 1980: Moscow, Soviet Union

At the Olympics, on July 24th 1980 at the Grand Arena in the Central Lenin Stadium Area in Moscow, Akii-Bua now 30 years of age was placed in the first heat of three in Round One of the 400 meters-hurdles. The first four leaders in each heat, plus four with the next fastest time would move on to the semi final round of 16. Akii-Bua (50.87), long past his prime was fifth. After all three heats, the times were tallied, and Akii-Bua was able to move on to the semi-finals. Notably, over sixty countries including the United States, most rallying around protesting the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, did not compete in Moscow. Competition was significantly reduced.

On July 25th, 1980; the Ugandan (51.10), running in the second of the two Semi-Final heats was beaten into seventh place and eliminated from moving on to the final. The eight hurdlers with the fastest times were the finalists.

On July 31, 1980; Akii-Bua competed in Round One as part of Uganda 4x400m relay team. Uganda was placed in the second of the three heats. The top two finishing countries of each heat, plus the next two fastest countries would be the finalists. Uganda (3:07.0) was fifth and was eliminated from moving on to the finals. This would be the last time Akii would compete at the Olympics.

The northeast of Miami-Dade County in Florida, United States is home to Sunny Isles Beach, the City of the Sun and the Sea. Sunny Isles Beach is a city situated on a barrier island. It is spread over an area which is not larger than 2 miles. Though the area is small, it is a real estate developer’s delight, because those 2 miles pack in a lot more delightful stuff than one could dream up. Sunny Isles Beach is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the eastern side. While the western part has the Intracoastal Waterway and the northern part of the city has the golden beach. The southern area has the Haulover Park and Bal Harbour. It is one place which promises a magical combination of sun and sea.

Sunny Isles Beach is home to a largely Russian population, so much so that it is also referred to as ‘Little Moscow’. Moving along Collins Avenue, which is the main thoroughfare of the city, you will be able to find an abundance of Russian stores. Sunny Isles Beach is developing rapidly as a highly sought after resort area. Big names in the real estate business like Donald Trump have invested substantially in the real estate at Sunny Isles Beach. There are a lot of condominiums and high rise hotels being built in the area. All the old and outdated buildings are being replaced with luxurious skyscrapers. Since Sunny Isles Beach has been blessed with some beautiful views, the high rises are being designed to showcase the natural beauty of the area to its highest potential. The buildings have glass windows stretching from the ceilings to floors, promising to give the person residing in them; some ‘heavenly’ picture postcard views.

Furthermore the homes have been built with the latest technology integrated into them, helping the owners to get a taste of enjoying life in ‘smart homes’. The buildings have been equipped with facilities that are normally found in five star resorts. They have been structured and designed in cutting edge ways, which allow the residents to derive maximum comfort and luxury. All these features have also turned Sunny Isles Beach into an extremely attractive place for investing in real estate. Investors who have a good sense for potential winners are already making a beeline for buying up properties at Sunny Isles Beach. It has becomes so famous that MTV held its annual “Spring Break” celebrations for 2008 here.