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MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND FREE OPEN HOUSE AT THE WARBIRD MUSEUM

Final preparations are underway for The Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum’s annual open house Memorial Day Weekend, May 26th, 27th and 28th.

There will be free admission to the museum for all military, active or retired.  Additionally, ALL Florida residents will be admitted free.  ID is required.

You are invited to attend the upcoming Serious Game Design and Development Boot Camp - a 3-day intensive professional development workshop intended for game designers, developers, and programmers interested in creating serious games.  This training course will provide the students with practical knowledge and skills necessary for serious games design and development, ranging from selecting appropriate training strategies and creating a serious game design concept to applying the latest programming techniques featuring the Unity3D engine to develop effective games for training.

Upcoming Course Dates:  July 24-26, 2012 in Orlando, FL (Seating is limited, so please register early!)

To learn more about this training opportunity and register, please visit:  http://www.eruditioncorp.com/bootcamp.html

As part of the Serious Game Design and Development Boot Camp series, this course is brought to you by a strategic partnership between serious game industry leaders Erudition Corporation and Design3. 

You’re Invited to A Lunch & Learn Seminar:  Orlando, FL
REPORTING and COMPLIANCE for FEDERAL CONTRACTORS

When:  Tuesday, May 22nd, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Where:  The Citrus Club
                255 South Orange Avenue
                Suite 1800
                Orlando, FL 32801

Presented by:
Rich Wilkinson, Director
Government Contracting
Watkins Meegan

For more information click on the attached brochure

Recent Graduates' Job Search Expenses:  Expenses incurred by taxpayers when searching for new employment in the same trade or business are deductible as a miscellaneous itemized deduction Therefore, they are deductible only for regular tax purposes and only to the extent they and other miscellaneous itemized deductions exceed 2% of adjusted gross income.

While the costs of finding first-time employment are not deductible, since first-time employment by definition cannot be in the taxpayer's same trade or business, moving expenses associated with first-time employment are deductible if the time and distance tests in are met. According to IRS Publication 521 , Moving Expenses (For Use in Preparing 2011 Returns) : "If you go to work full time for the first time, your place of work must be at least 50 miles from your former home to meet the distance test."

The inaugural Entrepreneurs Academy will launch this month on May 30 and 31.  We are filling up and have received much interest in this exciting new program.  Our goal is to have 20 to 25 participants in this first class and we are more than half full.  The inaugural academy is designed for growth-oriented entrepreneurs / CEOs / business owners with 2 to 25 employees and have been in business for a couple of years.  We have over 30 speakers participating in this two day program held at Rollins College.

Participants will create their own 12 month plan and we will provide one-on-one consulting with them at 4 months and 12 months to monitor progress with their plan.  They will also be invited to attend Orlando, Inc. Business Success Strategies for one year to continue learning and connecting. We will be encouraging alumni engagement in future classes.  I know that the insights and learning that will be shared will be tremendous.

For more information continue reading below:

Dear Entrepreneur,

Attached is the second Myth Buster Memo published by the White House yesterday courtesy of Kinberg & Associates.

Recommend you read this memo and keep it, along with the first myth busting memo, handy to use to help open up discussions when you find Contracting Officials are not communicating with you as well as they should be under these policy memos.

Florida Hospital invites you to:

Rehabilitation of Our Wounded Warriors and Lessons Learned in the Global War on Terrorism

When:  Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Lecture:  6:30pm – 7:30pm
Where:  Werner Auditorium – Florida Hospital Orlando, 601 East Rollins Street | Orlando, FL
               32803  
Registration and Refreshments begin at 6:00pm

Presented By:  Charles R. Scoville, COL (Ret), DPT
                           Chief, Amputee Patient Care Service, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

~Together with~

Paul F. Pasquina, COL, M.D.
Chief, Department of Orthopedics & Rehabilitation, Walter Reed National Military Medical
Center Director, Center for Rehabilitation Sciences Research, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Armed Forces Appreciation Night

On 16 May 2012, from 6:00-830 pm, the Citrus Club, one of our AUSA Corporate members will again host Armed Forces Appreciation Night.  This is the tenth year that AUSA and the Citrus Club will hold this event at the premier private business and social Club of Orlando.  Again we invited our sister Central Florida service organizations to also attend.  This event will be jointly sponsored with, the Central Florida Council Navy League of US (NLUS), and the Central Florida Marine Corps Foundation (USMC-F).  The event is free to our memberships and invited guests.  It is great to have such an outstanding corporate member supporting AUSA.  We hope to see a good number of members at this event. Please RSVP directly to the Citrus Club at 407-843-1080 for this event.

Polhemus is coming to Orlando
You're Invited to See G4

The Tether-Free 6DOF Motion Tracker with over 10 hours of Battery Life and a preview of the new G4 4-button 6DOF mouse.

Polhemus will schedule private appointments in one hour time slots.  Just visit the following site and complete the short request form and Polhemus will contact you with available times:  http://www.polhemus.com/?page=G4_orlando   

Get out of the office for an hour and schedule a time to check out G4.  Light refreshments will be served.

When: June 20 & 21, 2012 (Wednesday & Thursday)
Where: Marriott Courtyard East (12000 Collegiate Way | Orlando)

Want to learn more about G4?

G4 video:

http://www.polhemus.com/?page=G4_Video_Wireless_Motion_Tracker%20

G4 product page:

http://www.polhemus.com/?page=Motion_G4

Calling on NCS Member Companies to Step Forward & Support
this State-wide Data Collection Effort!