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Panama DIJ and Alto Crimen cooperate, and CPS goes down
by Bob Wolfe
“Anyone who thinks crime doesn’t pay is just stupid.” Roger Imerman, Founder/CEO, Computer Protection Services, August 2010
Roger Imerman and Frederick Allen Osborn (aka Fred Allen, Bobby Harris, Brent Farnsworth, and more) formed computer Protection Services (CPS), in January 2010. The company was purported to be the answer to crime in Boquete, and perhaps Panama, advertising services to individuals, businesses, and government agencies.
Since most home invasion burglaries focus on laptops and easy to sell electronics, such as digital cameras, CPS proposed a solution to this type of crime, allegedly using proprietary software by Absolute Software, Inc., a Canadian firm. Theoretically, if a stolen laptop were connected to the Internet after their software was installed, the computer would signal law enforcement as to the location.
Several local computer experts questioned the feasibility of such a product here in Panama, where many law enforcement offices (including Boquete) do not have Internet access. Also, many stolen items are fenced into Costa Rica within hours of theft, and interagency cooperation on thefts such as this is not the norm.
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The Rio Caldera
by Rolando Bute
Nearly 500 rivers lace Panama's rugged landscape and most of them originate as swift highland streams, which meander in through the valleys and form coastal deltas at the sea.
About a million years ago, Rio Caldera, with its headwaters at about 2900 meters above sea level, was formed on the far side of the Cerro Baru and pushed its way toward what is now called the Pacific Ocean, creating different valleys and paths along the way.
Today, as we stand in the beautiful area of the District of Boquete, we can see how this river, together with the Chiriqui River, found their way to the sea. Seen by some as a beautiful mountain stream running through the Boquete Valley, others recognize it as a temperamental thing, a raging monster that has its way with Boquete whenever it feels like it.
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The Canal’s First Woman Pilot
by Jerry Wager
 What makes a person be the first to do something? Commitment, drive, being in the right place at the right time, plain ol’ luck? Probably all of that—at least it was for Sarah Terry, the first woman pilot on the Panama Canal. This is her story.
Sarah grew up on the South Shore, near Boston and Cape Cod. Her earliest memory was doing small boat capsize drills with her dad and older brother at age four. Her father was a small boat enthusiast, sloops, stone horses, etc., so Sarah grew up on the water around boats. By the time she was a teenager, she was sailing on her own and competing in club races, sailing everything from catabouts to Rhodes 19s. So, it must have been somewhat difficult, having grown up on the water, to spend her high school years at a woman’s boarding school in Poughkeepsie, NY (some 100 miles from the coast).
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Manuelito Sanguino
Por Jamie Pigott
Frente a ti está reunido un decisivo jurado de 25 de los más finos músicos clásicos de Europa. Te examinan con escepticismo. El objetivo de esta élite audiencia es separar nítidamente el trigo del afrecho; seleccionar los pocos y dotados aspirantes que ganarán el derecho a ser entrenados en las artes musicales por los mejores tutores del mundo en el prestigioso Conservatorio de Música de Montijo.
El solo hecho de que hayas logrado estar delante de este tribunal es un milagro; a tu papá, quien te acompaña, le dijeron que eras demasiado joven para hacer una audición a los 6 años. Deberías esperar. Regresa cuando tengas 8 años. Fuertemente consciente del innato don musical que posees, tu papá presenta tu caso nuevamente hasta que finalmente, aunque con cierta vacilación, el ilustre panel cede, y el examen de aptitud musical que normalmente se reserva para pupilos dos años mayores es aplicado.
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SEAFOOD SOUP
 by Lucy Miranda
Before sharing my recipe, I wish to point out that seafood represents an essential part of a healthy diet. It contains proteins, which cover the nutritional needs of both growing children and older adults. The levels of cholesterol are low in most varieties of fish and seafood. Although the opposite was believed up until a few years ago, not even clams and oysters contain high levels of cholesterol. In fact, these varieties contain high quantities of sterols (which inhibit the absorption of cholesterol when consumed in the same meal), not cholesterol, and can have a positive effect.
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