AlfaMag Newsletter - July 2007
The Current
The official newsletter of AlfaMag Electronics, LLC.The fun newsletter to read..!!!
Highlights
"Featured Product"
"Brain Teasers"
"Bits & Pieces"
"Rick's Favorite Recipe of the Month"
Featured Product
"Custom Transformers and Chokes"
Formats include, but not limited to: ETD, EF/EE, U, RM, and toroidal cores. A wide variation in winding construction is employed including multi-strand copper, foil, litz, heavy duty copper, triple insulated wire, and margin tapes. Our engineering can help with design assistance.
* Drive Transformers
* Control Transformers
* Flyback Transformers
* High Current Inductors
* Current Transformers
* Common Mode Chokes
* Output Chokes
Please give us a call or email if you have any questions. You can contact us at 1-800-413-6693 or email us at support@alfamag.com
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Brain Teasers
1. I begin and end with the letter "e". Have eight letters, but just one letter within me.
Answer:_____________________
2. I'm there in darkness, but not alight. Can be seen in daytime, but I'm missing by night. I'm there in the shadows, but not in sight.
Answer:_____________________
3. Look at me one way and I'm heavy, weigh a lot, but turn me around, and you'll find that I'm not.
Answer:_____________________
4. Which of these letters is the odd-one-out?
B, C, D, J, K, L, W, X, Y. (it's not sequential)
Answer:_____________________
5. I'm a five letter word, yet it sounds strange to say, six still remains when you take two letters away.
Answer:_____________________
6. I can be driven, yet have no wheels or feet. Can be sliced, yet remain complete. (think sports)
Answer:_____________________
7. Which letter comes next in this series?
W - L - C - N - I - T - ?
Answer:_____________________
8. The sound of humor, happiness, joy, thrilled -- now add an "s", it's carnage, massacred, killed.
Answer:_____________________
9. Which of these words is the odd one out?
Recount
Creator
Trounce
Counter
10. Lived in reverse, who or what could I be? The incarnation of wickedness and evil - yes that's me!
Answer:_____________________
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Answers: (1)Everyone (2)The letter "d" (3)Ton (4)W (5)Sixty (6)Golfball (7)S (8)Laughter (9)Creator (10)Devil
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Bits & Pieces
* * * * *
"Fail Your Way to Success"
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS is to know how to survive failure. Failure is not fatal -- it just feels that way sometimes..!! That's what I had to keep telling myself when I first embarked upon a writing career. I was genuinely astonished each time I received the standard two-line letter from an editor telling me my masterpiece was unpublishable. I became a brilliant failure, though. I was so good at failure, I finally failed 71 times before my first book was accepted for publication.
I decided that failure is not better if you do not swallow it. Although a failure feels like forever, it is fleeting. Each time I failed, I would celebrate it as a success. Seventy-one times I enjoyed a meal out on my failure. I felt down each time I received a rejection slip, but I never felt out because I always ensured that at least three editors had one of my books at any one time. My chief "success philosophy" is, "Give people every opportunity to say 'Yes' to you."
A fear of failure can so often overwhelm a desire to succeed. If you do not understand failure, it will undermine you. We, all of us, must graduate from the school of failure if we are to gain entrance into the university of success. Failure does not stand in the way; it is the way. Nobody begins as a success: failure is the fire that forges the metal in us to succeed. By learning how to fail, well, learn how to succeed well. Here are some thoughts on failures:
* There are only lessons. Every event in the universe offers a teaching. Look for the lesson and you can then pass the grade. There are not failures, only lessons. Lessons are everywhere if you "see" them.
* Failures teach success. Every failure is a step to success if you take it that way. By learning how not to succeed you , automatically learn more about how to succeed. Every failure is a lesson in success.
* Failures are not "bad". Nothing is implicitly "bad" or "good", it's what you do with something that makes it so. If you take it that failure is "bad", "bad" is what you get. Look for the good news in every failure.
* Failures can be "good". Every event in the universe can be helpful if you take it that way. Defeat can stand you on your feet; endings make way for beginnings; the worst trial can set your free. Make your failures work for you, not against you.
* Failures are not final. Failure is not falling down, it is staying down - and even then all you are doing is learning another lesson. Perhaps the ultimate lesson is that you are always free in life to make another chance for yourself. Are you willing?????
Robert Holden, "Living Wonderfully / Harper Collins"
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*** Rick's Recipe of the Month ***
"Tex-Mex Burgers"
Liven up your summer holidays with these Southwest-inspired burgers. With charred onions, salsa, and avocado, they have just enough fireworks in them to make your parties everyone's favorite. They're easy to make and fun to eat...!!
Ingredients
* 1 lb. raw extra lean ground beef
* 1/2 cup cilantro, fresh, chopped, divided
* 4 oz canned green chili peppers, drained, diced
* 1 tsp chili powder
* 1 tsp minced garlic
* 1/2 medium Vidalia onion, cut into four 1/4 inch thick rounds
* 3 sprays cooking spray
* 4 cup romaine lettuce, shredded
* 1/2 cup salsa
* 2/3 medium avocado, diced
Preparation
1. Preheat grill (or grilling pan).
2. In a large bowl, combine beef, 1/4 cup cilantro, green chilies, chili powder, and garlic until thoroughly mixed; form into four 1/2 inch thick patties.
3. Coat patties and onions with cooking spray. Grill flipping once (or more as necessary if using a grilling pan), until burgers are desired degree of doneness and onions are lightly charred and tender.
4. To serve, place 1 cup of lettuce on each of 4 plates. Top each with 1 burger, 2 tablespoons of salsa, 1 onion slice, 1/4 of diced avocado and 1 tablespoon of remaining cilantro.
I got this recipe from the Weight Watchers Recipe website, and it's only 7 pts per serving. Wishing everyone a safe and happy summer holidays....!!!!
Ummmm, Ummmm....!!!!!
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The official newsletter of AlfaMag Electronics, LLC.The fun newsletter to read..!!!
Highlights
"Featured Product"
"Brain Teasers"
"Bits & Pieces"
"Rick's Favorite Recipe of the Month"
Featured Product
"Custom Transformers and Chokes"
Formats include, but not limited to: ETD, EF/EE, U, RM, and toroidal cores. A wide variation in winding construction is employed including multi-strand copper, foil, litz, heavy duty copper, triple insulated wire, and margin tapes. Our engineering can help with design assistance.
* Drive Transformers
* Control Transformers
* Flyback Transformers
* High Current Inductors
* Current Transformers
* Common Mode Chokes
* Output Chokes
Please give us a call or email if you have any questions. You can contact us at 1-800-413-6693 or email us at support@alfamag.com
Brain Teasers
1. I begin and end with the letter "e". Have eight letters, but just one letter within me.
Answer:_____________________
2. I'm there in darkness, but not alight. Can be seen in daytime, but I'm missing by night. I'm there in the shadows, but not in sight.
Answer:_____________________
3. Look at me one way and I'm heavy, weigh a lot, but turn me around, and you'll find that I'm not.
Answer:_____________________
4. Which of these letters is the odd-one-out?
B, C, D, J, K, L, W, X, Y. (it's not sequential)
Answer:_____________________
5. I'm a five letter word, yet it sounds strange to say, six still remains when you take two letters away.
Answer:_____________________
6. I can be driven, yet have no wheels or feet. Can be sliced, yet remain complete. (think sports)
Answer:_____________________
7. Which letter comes next in this series?
W - L - C - N - I - T - ?
Answer:_____________________
8. The sound of humor, happiness, joy, thrilled -- now add an "s", it's carnage, massacred, killed.
Answer:_____________________
9. Which of these words is the odd one out?
Recount
Creator
Trounce
Counter
10. Lived in reverse, who or what could I be? The incarnation of wickedness and evil - yes that's me!
Answer:_____________________
*******************************************************
Answers: (1)Everyone (2)The letter "d" (3)Ton (4)W (5)Sixty (6)Golfball (7)S (8)Laughter (9)Creator (10)Devil
*******************************************************
Bits & Pieces
"Fail Your Way to Success"
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS is to know how to survive failure. Failure is not fatal -- it just feels that way sometimes..!! That's what I had to keep telling myself when I first embarked upon a writing career. I was genuinely astonished each time I received the standard two-line letter from an editor telling me my masterpiece was unpublishable. I became a brilliant failure, though. I was so good at failure, I finally failed 71 times before my first book was accepted for publication.
I decided that failure is not better if you do not swallow it. Although a failure feels like forever, it is fleeting. Each time I failed, I would celebrate it as a success. Seventy-one times I enjoyed a meal out on my failure. I felt down each time I received a rejection slip, but I never felt out because I always ensured that at least three editors had one of my books at any one time. My chief "success philosophy" is, "Give people every opportunity to say 'Yes' to you."
A fear of failure can so often overwhelm a desire to succeed. If you do not understand failure, it will undermine you. We, all of us, must graduate from the school of failure if we are to gain entrance into the university of success. Failure does not stand in the way; it is the way. Nobody begins as a success: failure is the fire that forges the metal in us to succeed. By learning how to fail, well, learn how to succeed well. Here are some thoughts on failures:
* There are only lessons. Every event in the universe offers a teaching. Look for the lesson and you can then pass the grade. There are not failures, only lessons. Lessons are everywhere if you "see" them.
* Failures teach success. Every failure is a step to success if you take it that way. By learning how not to succeed you , automatically learn more about how to succeed. Every failure is a lesson in success.
* Failures are not "bad". Nothing is implicitly "bad" or "good", it's what you do with something that makes it so. If you take it that failure is "bad", "bad" is what you get. Look for the good news in every failure.
* Failures can be "good". Every event in the universe can be helpful if you take it that way. Defeat can stand you on your feet; endings make way for beginnings; the worst trial can set your free. Make your failures work for you, not against you.
* Failures are not final. Failure is not falling down, it is staying down - and even then all you are doing is learning another lesson. Perhaps the ultimate lesson is that you are always free in life to make another chance for yourself. Are you willing?????
Robert Holden, "Living Wonderfully / Harper Collins"
*** Rick's Recipe of the Month ***
"Tex-Mex Burgers"
Liven up your summer holidays with these Southwest-inspired burgers. With charred onions, salsa, and avocado, they have just enough fireworks in them to make your parties everyone's favorite. They're easy to make and fun to eat...!!
Ingredients
* 1 lb. raw extra lean ground beef
* 1/2 cup cilantro, fresh, chopped, divided
* 4 oz canned green chili peppers, drained, diced
* 1 tsp chili powder
* 1 tsp minced garlic
* 1/2 medium Vidalia onion, cut into four 1/4 inch thick rounds
* 3 sprays cooking spray
* 4 cup romaine lettuce, shredded
* 1/2 cup salsa
* 2/3 medium avocado, diced
Preparation
1. Preheat grill (or grilling pan).
2. In a large bowl, combine beef, 1/4 cup cilantro, green chilies, chili powder, and garlic until thoroughly mixed; form into four 1/2 inch thick patties.
3. Coat patties and onions with cooking spray. Grill flipping once (or more as necessary if using a grilling pan), until burgers are desired degree of doneness and onions are lightly charred and tender.
4. To serve, place 1 cup of lettuce on each of 4 plates. Top each with 1 burger, 2 tablespoons of salsa, 1 onion slice, 1/4 of diced avocado and 1 tablespoon of remaining cilantro.
I got this recipe from the Weight Watchers Recipe website, and it's only 7 pts per serving. Wishing everyone a safe and happy summer holidays....!!!!
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