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Based on the Cisco 2013 VNI report, there will be a projected 55% increase in IP Traffic Mobile, 44% increase in Annual Cloud Workload in the next 3 years, and 50B Connected 'Smart Objects' by 2020; increasing the attacks on the Enterprise Surface.
While the Internet of Everything is creating huge opportunities for organizations that can innovate quickly to capture value and remain competitive, it means IT also needs to step up and adopt a new model: Fast IT. A model that is simple, smart, and secure. Fundamentally, this model means the approach of using architectures becomes even more important, where Compute, Storage and Network must converge with services assured and security enforced in a mobile-cloud world.
Join us at ASEAN Cisco Connect 2014 to know more about the latest IT trends and meet your fellow innovators who will join you in enabling the Internet of Everything.
|0800 - 0900
|Registration and Light Refreshments
|0900 - 0915
|Welcome Note
By Albert Chai, Managing Director of Cisco Malaysia
|0915 - 0945
|National ICT Trends in the next 5 - 10 Years
By Ng Wan Peng, Chief Operating Officer, MDeC
|0945 - 1045
|Cisco Keynote Presentation:How Cisco will help create an agile and adaptive IT infrastructure, enabling trends such as cloud, mobility and social, software defined networking, big data & analytics in the network and data center, and the latest in security. Learn how Cisco can help businesses achieve the outcomes and keep pace in the Internet of Everything world in terms of technology and skill sets
By Joseph Bradley, IoE Evangelist and Managing Director of the IoE Practice, Cisco Consulting Services
|1045 - 1115
|1115 - 1715
|Cloud / Virtualization
|Workspace of the Future
|Big Data/Analytics
|1115 - 1200
|Mobility Begins with Wireless
By Walt Shaw
|Trends and Data Center Innovation
By Sudheesh Subhashithan & Mike Griffin,
One Cloud
|Workspace of the Future
By Carl Borchardt
|Capturing Value from Big Data and Analytics
By Dave Bhattacharjee
|1200 - 1245
|High Density & High Availability in Wireless Deployment
By MinSe Kim
|1145 - 1245
|WPR: Transformational Workspace
By Lisa Ng
|Contact Centre Analytics & Demo
By Rajesh Krishnan Chakram
|1245 - 1345
|1245 - 1415
Fabric Building Blocks (Nexus Switching Evolution)
By Girish Bhat
|1345 - 1430
|Intelligent Branch
By Rupesh Chakkingal
|Digital. Design. Disrupt. Done.
By Shagufta Anurag & Darren Rizza
|From Digitally Disrupted to Digital Disruptor
By Adrian Lim,
Accenture Infrastructure Services
|1430 - 1515
|A New Security Model for IoE World
By Tim Snow
|1415 - 1430
|Cisco Flexible Workspace Solutions
By Cameron McNeill
|Data Virtualization & Composite
By Puneet Kumar Bhugra
|1515 - 1530
|1430 - 1615
Cloud Solution Building Blocks
By David Nyugen
|1530 - 1615
|Internet of Things (IoT) Use Cases
By Shankar Subramanian
|Next Generation Network Architecture to Support the Workspace of the Future
By Kenneth Lim
|Cisco IT Analytics Implementation
By Vineet Jain
|1615 - 1700
|Turning Mobility into Reality
By Brent Angus ,
Dimension Data
|EMC Well Run Hybrid Cloud Strategy - Harness Everything, Achieve Anything
By Wong Tran
|Transforming Business with Mobile Workspaces
By Annamalai Chockalingam & Philip Tang, Citrix Systems
|1700 - 1800
|Evening Networking/Lucky Draw
|0900 - 0915
|Welcome Note
By Albert Chai, Managing Director of Cisco Malaysia
|0915 - 0945
|National ICT Trends in the next 5 - 10 Years
By Ng Wan Peng, Chief Operating Officer, MDeC
|0945 - 1045
|Cisco Keynote Presentation
By Joseph Bradley, IoE Evangelist and Managing Director of the IoE Practice, Cisco Consulting Services
|1045 - 1115
|1115 - 1715
|Cloud / Virtualization
|Workspace of the Future
|Big Data/Analytics
|1115 - 1200
|Mobility Begins with Wireless
By Walt Shaw
|Trends and Data Center Innovation
By Sudheesh Subhashithan & Mike Griffin,
One Cloud
|Workspace of the Future
By Carl Borchardt
|Capturing Value from Big Data and Analytics
By Dave Bhattacharjee
|1200 - 1245
|High Density & High Availability in Wireless Deployment
By MinSe Kim
|1145 - 1245
|WPR: Transformational Workspace
By Lisa Ng
|Contact Centre Analytics & Demo
By Rajesh Krishnan Chakram
|1245 - 1345
|1245 - 1415
Fabric Building Blocks (Nexus Switching Evolution)
By Girish Bhat
|1345 - 1430
|Intelligent Branch
By Rupesh Chakkingal
|Digital. Design. Disrupt. Done.
By Shagufta Anurag & Darren Rizza
|From Digitally Disrupted to Digital Disruptor
By Adrian Lim,
Accenture Infrastructure Services
|1430 - 1515
|A New Security Model for IoE World
By Tim Snow
|1415 - 1430
|Cisco Flexible Workspace Solutions
By Cameron McNeill
|Data Virtualization & Composite
By Puneet Kumar Bhugra
|1515 - 1530
|1430 - 1615
Cloud Solution Building Blocks
By David Nyugen
|1530 - 1615
|Internet of Things (IoT) Use Cases
By Shankar Subramanian
|Next Generation Network Architecture to Support the Workspace of the Future
By Kenneth Lim
|Cisco IT Analytics Implementation
By Vineet Jain
|1615 - 1700
|Turning Mobility into Reality
By Brent Angus ,
Dimension Data
|EMC Well Run Hybrid Cloud Strategy - Harness Everything, Achieve Anything
By Wong Tran
|Transforming Business with Mobile Workspaces
By Annamalai Chockalingam & Philip Tang, Citrix Systems
|1700 - 1800
|Evening Networking/Lucky Draw
Who Should Attend?
Networking , Video/Collaboration, Security, Business Users
Connecting a mobile experience "your way" without compromise today can make amazing things happen for your business tomorrow. You know that in order for mobility to work well, all the parts have to work together. You need infrastructure and identity. Security and policy. And mobile device management to make it easier to get users onto the network.
Then you need to keep them safe and productive once they get there. You need applications designed and architected to work with mobility. That's why Cisco takes an architectural approach to mobility. We want to save you time and integration costs and make your users happier.
What if you could stop worrying about your mobile infrastructure and start innovating with mobile experiences like learning more about how shoppers shop or how students learn? That's the big idea behind our Connected Mobile Experiences. It takes you beyond connecting your own workforce. It lets you reach out to your customers and entice them with new experiences. It helps you understand their behavior. Increase their loyalty. Enhance your revenues.
That is what makes Cisco different. Our technology only succeeds if it makes it easier for you to do business. Our success is tied to your success — in mobility and in all things.
Strategic Partner
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Diamond Sponsors
Annually, Accenture releases its Technology Vision report, identifying top trends that will impact customers over the next few years. This year, the key theme is how every business is now a digital business, and one of the most important elements to support this change is the importance of making infrastructure smarter and more intelligent. Accenture will discuss how, through analytics companies are able to harness the power of a truly 'intelligent infrastructure'. Read the Accenture Technology Vision 2014 report via www.accenture.com/malaysiantechvision
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leader in mobile workspaces, providing virtualization, mobility management, networking and cloud services to enable new ways to work better. Citrix solutions power business mobility through secure, personal workspaces that provide people with instant access to apps, desktops, data and communications on any device, over any network and cloud. This year Citrix is celebrating 25 years of innovation, making IT simpler and people more productive. With annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com
Dimension Data's passion is to find ways to use ICT to make our clients' businesses work better. We turn your ambitions into achievements.
We will position you to respond to today's challenges, with targeted, pertinent services and IT solutions. We ensure your business is supported by a robust networking platform and help you optimise the performance and availability of the unified communications and collaboration tools that run on it – including desktop andcontact centre technologies. We can also assist to put in place a next generation data centre, support your move to cloud computing, and ensure that all elements of your infrastructure are secure.
These capabilities are underpinned by a full lifecycle of IT services encompassing consulting, professional, support, managed, procurement and supply chain and IT outsourcing services. The result is a stable yet agile technology estate – one that sets you up to embrace business change with confidence. For more information, please visit http://www.dimensiondata.com/en-AP
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.
Gold Sponsors
Global Knowledge is the worldwide leader in IT and business skills training, with more than 1,500 courses that span foundational and specialized training and certifications. As the largest and most trusted Authorized Cisco Learning Solutions Partner, our learning specialization covers Borderless Networks, Collaboration, Data Center, and IP Next-Generation Networks. Our training courses include hands-on and virtual practice labs featuring the latest Cisco equipment in real-world, relevant scenarios to help prepare you for real networking environments and Cisco certification exams. We are proud of our exceptional instructors who have the most extensive networking experience in the industry and collectively hold more CCIEs and CCSIs than any other training provider.
Global Knowledge offers a complete IT education program management solutions that includes enrolment, assessment, progress tracking, and certification. When you train with us, you'll benefit from the simplicity, reliability, and expertise of the Global Knowledge learning experience. For more information, please visit: http://gkapac.com/my/
Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications & collaboration; data centre & cloud services; and managed services.
Logicalis consists of highly trained service specialists to meet the needs of corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, Microsoft and VMware
The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues of over $1.4 billion, from operations in Europe, North America, South America and Asia Pacific, we are specialising in the areas of advanced technologies and services. Find out more at http://www.ap.logicalis.com/
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Our dedication to the principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.
Customers around the world choose us for our "go beyond" approach and broad portfolio of solutions for server-to-storage virtualization, business applications, data protection, and more. Our solutions and virtualized storage technologies provide nonstop availability of critical business data and speed product development, so companies can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before.
Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com/as/
Panduit is a world-class developer and provider of leading-edge solutions that help customers optimize the physical infrastructure through simplification, increased agility and operational efficiency. Panduit's Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) based solutions give Enterprises the capabilities to connect, manage and automate communications, computing, power, control and security systems for a smarter, unified business foundation. Panduit provides flexible, end-to-end solutions tailored by application and industry to drive performance, operational and financial advantages. Panduit's global manufacturing, logistics, and e-commerce capabilities along with a global network of distribution partners help customers reduce supply chain risk. Strong technology relationships with industry leading systems vendors and an engaged partner ecosystem of consultants, integrators and contractors together with its global staff and unmatched service and support make Panduit a valuable and trusted partner. www.panduit.com
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
Broadband Sponsor
TIME dotCom (TIME) is Malaysia's second-largest and only 100% fibre optics-based fixed-line telecommunications provider, delivering high-performance Data, Internet, Voice and Managed Services solutions. TIME, whose track record dates back to 1996, reaches beyond its Malaysia base to cater to booming data demand across the Asia-Pacific region through its wholly-owned Global Transit (GT) and AIMS subsidiaries. GT provides global bandwidth services to leading services providers and enterprises across the region, while AIMS offers carrier-neutral data centre services and enhanced services, which range from data recovery to cloud computing. Combined, the TIME Group offers a comprehensive suite of telecommunications solutions to meet fast-growing and rapidly-changing demand for connectivity. Visit www.time.com.my for more information.
Albert Chai
Country Manager
Cisco Systems, Asia Pacific
Albert Chai brings 18 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications industry across the Asia Pacific region and is currently the Country Manager for Cisco Malaysia. Prior to his current role, he was the Director of Sales for Enterprise and Public Sector in Cisco Malaysia and Client Executive for Axiata Group overseeing strategic accounts in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. He joined Cisco as the Director of Sales for Service Provider in July 2009 managing sales and business development for telecom customers in Malaysia.
Albert was previously the Vice President of Sales responsible for South East Asia region with Acision, a global leader in messaging and mobile internet solutions. Prior to that, he was the Country Director of Logica based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He transformed Logica's consulting, outsourcing, system integration and products business by growing their annual revenue multiple fold during his tenure.
In the early days, he held various technical consulting , account and sales management positions in Ericsson and Ericsson Hewlett Packard Telecommunications (EHPT). He graduated in Electrical and Electronic Engineering but found his true passion helping clients leverage IT as a strategic enabler to deliver better results.
National ICT Trends In The Next 5 – 10 Years
Ng Wan Peng
Chief Operating Officer
Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC)
Ms Ng Wan Peng is the Chief Operating Officer of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC). Her areas of responsibility include Corporate Governance, Information Intelligence & Analytics and Corporate Performance.
Under her care are the different operational divisions, i.e. Industry Developments, specifically the Creative Multimedia, Infotech, Shared Services & Outsourcing Clusters, Critical Enablers including Talent, Innovation Capital as well as Digital Enablement, Corporate Services, Customer Service, Corporate Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement. She also oversees the Digital Malaysia implementation as part of MDeC's new mandate moving forward.
She has more than 20 years' experience in the ICT field. She has extensive experience in managing large-scale projects, in the areas of Strategic IT Planning, Project Management, Systems Integration, and Methodologies Development. Ms Ng has consulted for both private and public sector organizations in IT policy and project implementation in government, defense and education sectors in Malaysia and abroad.
Cisco Keynote
Joseph Bradley
IoE Evangelist and Managing Director of the IoE Practice
Cisco Consulting Services
As an IoE Evangelist and the Managing Director of the Internet of Everything (IoE) Practice in the Cisco Consulting Services organization, Joseph M. Bradley is responsible for ensuring the world's top business and public sector leaders understand how to capture their share of $19 trillion in value that IoE will create over 10 years. In this capacity, he leads a team of technology and business consultants who are uniquely qualified to assist CXOs, government leaders, and their management teams to realize the potential of IoE in today's rapidly changing world caused by the convergence of mobile, social, data, and cloud computing.
Bradley was instrumental in developing Launchpad, the next-generation consulting model for Cisco Consulting Services. Launchpad provides a data-driven path to outlining what customers need to do today to capture value from IoE. Further, Launchpad leverages the IoE Practice's proprietary customer research and network analytics to identify dark assets that should be connected to the Internet. Once these things are connected, the IoE Practice enables customers to analyze the new data they produce to create useful information. New processes are then created so that insights are delivered to people where, when, and how they need them to improve the way they work.
Bradley built the foundation for Cisco Consulting Services and the IoE Practice by directing the research and production of Cisco's influential IoE thought leadership titled, "Embracing the Internet of Everything To Capture Your Share of $14.4 Trillion" and "Internet of Everything (IoE) Value Index: How Much Value Are Private-Sector Firms Capturing from IoE in 2013?" This project was followed by further groundbreaking research that showed the total IoE value at stake for both enterprises and public sector organizations to be $19 trillion. This thought leadership was embraced by Cisco starting with the 2013 "Tomorrow Starts Here" corporate brand campaign and later became the rallying point for Cisco to align behind the most significant transformation of the Internet since the Internet was created. With Cisco's backing IoE has now been embraced by the technology industry at large and most of the world's top businesses and public sector organizations.
Mobility begins with Wireless
Walt Shaw
Director of Product Management, Wireless
Enterprise Networking Group
Cisco Systems
Walt Shaw is Director of Product Management, Wireless, in the Enterprise Networking Group (ENG) at Cisco, and is responsible for the Access Point portfolio, as well as the RF innovation roadmap. In the recent past years, he has brought the first enterprise-class spectrum intelligence and 802.11ac platforms to the market, including the Aironet 3700 Series, which is the fastest ramping AP in Cisco's history. Walt has over 20 years of experience in licensed and unlicensed wireless, network and application-level security, and other infrastructure technologies in roles in Engineering, Business Development, Marketing, and Product Management.
High Density & High Availability in Wireless Deployment
MinSe Kim
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
Cisco Enterprise Infrastructure and Solution Group
MinSe Kim is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer in Cisco Enterprise Infrastructure and Solution Group, who has been enthusiastic advocator in wireless and mobility technology and solution. He has been devoting various technology passage in Cisco, started as Channel Partner enablement in 2000 and as a Specialist for Wireless and Data center solution, moving on to Consulting Systems Engineer, and Product Manager role in APAC, which eventually leads him to current Senior Technical Marketing Engineer as Mobility and Enterprise Solution Evangelist.
He has 20 years of Professional networking Experience including Wireless, Mobile solution.
Intelligent Branch
Rupesh Chakkingal
Rupesh Chakkingal is part of Enterprise Segment Market Strategy and product management team at Cisco focusing on global enterprise routing. He has more than 14 years of combined experience in product management, product marketing, vertical markets, industry solutions and enterprise business consulting. Rupesh Chakkingal is a graduate from Kelley School of Business (Indiana University) with MBA in General Management and M.S in Strategic Management. He also holds a M.S in Telecommunication from University of Colorado, Boulder. Rupesh holds a Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) certification in Routing & Switching and is also a Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP).
A New Security Model for IoE World
Timothy Snow
Consulting Systems Engineer - Security
Cisco Systems, Asia Pacific
Tim Snow brings over 15 years of experience in infrastructure design and information security. Tim's responsibilities at Cisco during these 10 years include providing architectural and detailed consultative solutions to Enterprise and SP customers in the area of Network and Information Security Systems. Mr. Snow is a member of the Cisco's Technical Advisory Group for Security products, vision and strategy. He also creates collateral on Cisco's architecture blueprints in the areas of product, technology, applications, and design strategies in reference to addressing customer business objectives.
Tim holds a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science from the University of Windsor (Canada), and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Michigan amongst multiple CCIE's and vendor neutral certifications.
Internet of Things (IoT) Use Cases
Shankar Subramanian
Sales Director - Asia
Enterprise Networking
Shankar Subramanian is Sales Director of Enterprise Networking in Asia region. He leads the team responsible for Cisco's foundational Switching & Routing, Wireless and Acceleration technologies Sales, Systems Engineering and Business Development across six countries in Asia region. His team is responsible for driving increased sales bookings, business relevance and customer satisfaction.
Shankar brings over 24 years of Networking, Security, Datacenter, Server and Internet Applications experience to Cisco.
Prior to joining Cisco, he held various positions in companies such as HCL Hewlett-Packard, Iverson, Compaq, Network Associates Inc & Brocade Communications covering sales, business development, systems engineering, customer support, product management & channels development positions.
Turning Mobility into reality
Brent Angus
General Manager, Networks Business Unit
Dimension Data Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Brent has over 25 years of experience in the IT and networking industry. He possesses extensive business and technical knowledge in networking and system integration.
Nagi has over 27 years of experience in networks, systems consulting, software services and business development in Asian and global markets. He has performed roles in Practice Management, Business Development, Consulting, Account Management and Partner Management, with extensive experience in high-level strategic consulting and network architecture management.
Nagi joined Dimension Data Asia Pacific (formerly known as Datacraft Asia) in August 2004 as General Manager for Converged Communications and has been instrumental in growing this business by more than 400% over a five-year period. He assumed the additional role of General Manager for Customer Interactive Solutions (CIS) in January 2009, with the responsibility of driving both the lines of business across the Asia Pacific region.
Prior to joining Dimension Data, he had held senior management positions at various companies including Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computers and Satyam.
Trends and DC Innovation
Sudheesh Subhash
TAC and Advance Services Engineer
Cisco Systems
Sudheesh is a 16 year telecommunication veteran. With 11 of the those 16 years spent as a Cisco TAC and Advance Services Engineer. Sudheesh helped to Design and Support some of our larger service provider networks including ATT, Sprint and Verizon. Among MPLS, UCS, FCoE, vPC and Fabricpath experience, he also brings a significant level of experience migrating customers from Cat6500 to Nexus and Next generation data center.
Over the last 4 years, Sudheesh has been an excellent SAVBU/ECBU escalation resource and has regularly presented UCS, FCoE and Nexus platform related technologies to customers and partners. We believe his experience will lend itself well to making the upcoming training a success.
Mike Griffin
Consultant Engineer
Cisco Systems
Fabric Building Blocks - Nexus Switching Evolution
Girish Bhat
Senior Product Manager
Data Center
Cisco Systems
Girish Bhat is a Senior Product Manager in Data Center group with 14 years of industry experience in Product Management, Business and Technical Management. He has worked in various technologies including Data Center, Virtualization, Routing & Switching. Girish specializes in Product Strategy, Definition, Marketing and Lifecycle Management and has participated in many GTM Activities including Product Launches, Sales and Partner Training, Customer Presentations and Executive briefings across ASEAN & Japan.
Cloud Solution Building Blocks
David Nguyen
Technical Marketing Engineer
Cisco Systems
David Nguyen is a Technical Marketing Engineer with UCS focusing on data centre fabrics, compute, virtual I/O and virtualisation. In his current role, David helps drive the technical strategy and is a technology evangelist for the business unit. He also works closely with customers on designing, building, and maintaining data centre. He is a Routing and Switching CCIE (CCIE 8013).
Prior to his current role, David has held various positions across many different disciplines in networking such as an IT administrator, support, sales and marketing. David has authored best practice guides and technical guides on implementing and deploying campus and data center networks.
EMC Well Run Hybrid Cloud Strategy - Harness Everything, Achieve Anything
Wong Tran
Senior SDS Specialist
As a senior member in EMC regional specialist team involved in notable key projects, Wong Tran is the technology evangelist specializing in Virtualization and software defined data centre. Wong has had years of extensive hands on experience in Enterprise solutions from building private clouds to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
Workspace of the Future
Carl Borchardt
Business Development Manager - Cisco Collaboration Asia Pacific
Cisco Systems
Carl Borchardt is the Business development Manager for Cisco's Collaboration Route-To-Market business across Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China. He leads a Business Development team executing on market development and capturing market transitions with Cisco's Collaboration solutions.
In this role, his team leads the transition to new consumption models, Business development of Cisco's Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS), Enterprise License Agreement and Business Transformation models.
Prior to joining Cisco, Carl gained broad exposure with Siemens and Avaya across global markets, interception points between business and technology, and working with clients on transformational strategies. Much of his experience has been in identifying, adapting and aligning technologies, transformational strategies and market trends with top tier global and domestic clients and partners operating in the Asia Pacific theatre.
Digital. Design. Disrupt. Done.
Shagufta Anurag
Space Matrix Group
Shagufta Anurag is the Founder and Managing Director of Space Matrix and drives all aspects of design strategy, quality, and validation of the company's building and interior design practice, which includes all the studios of the company across Singapore, Thailand, Australia and India. As well, she manages the entire operations including client services and project management. Shagufta also spearheads the company's knowledge and research-based initiatives firm-wide.
Shagufta's philosophy, which permeates the Space Matrix approach to design, is to capture the spatial matrix by understanding the customer's business strategy, culture, and branding requirements and then translating them through innovative design into a functional, productive and creative work environment.
Darren J Rizza
Group CDO
Space Matrix Group
Darren joined Space Matrix Group in 2011 to provide strategic leadership to the group's companies. He is a business-driven, entrepreneurial board level executive with demonstrated experience in planning, developing, and implementing innovative digital information and design technology solutions to address business opportunities and growth in highly creative and design oriented settings. A thought leader in the building design industry for digital technology, he posses solid technical training, team coaching, project management and is a customer service expert with a strong ability to connect with non-technical users.
Darren holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University.
WPR: Transformational Workspace
Lisa Ng
WPR Manager, Capital Program Management
Workplace Resources
Cisco Systems, APJ & GC
Lisa Ng has been with Cisco Systems for the past 10 years. She is currently responsible for Capital Program Management as Center of Excellence (COE) for the APAC, Japan and Greater China region.
In 2008, Lisa was based in Beijing for two years as the Greater China Workplace Manager, focusing on client relationship management. Shortly after the Beijing stint, Lisa moved to Shanghai to manage the operations for the Cisco Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo before returning to Singapore to resume her role of Center of Excellence for Financial Management Services for the region. She was responsible for partner management, financial management and its transformation.
Cisco Flexible Workspace Solutions
Cameron McNeill
Director, Smart and Connected Communities
Cisco APJC
Cameron McNeill is the Sales Director for Cisco Smart + Connected Communities in Asia Pacific and Japan, primarily responsible for the overall sales strategy for Public Sector City Digitization projects in region. This responsibility incudes the successful conclusion of Cisco business and sales negotiations for complex solutions sales deals focused on Cities and working with Governments, Councils and Partner eco-systems in the Asia Pacific and Japan region.
Based in Hong Kong, Cameron has been with Cisco for nine (9) years and has had an interesting blend of experience working in the Asia Pacific region sharing these learnings and best practices with customers and translating these into viable business outcomes.
Next Generation Network Architecture to Support the
Workspace of the Future
Kenneth Lim
Regional IT Manager, ASEAN
Has been in ICT industry for 16 years and gained technical & management experience through working in various IT MNCs in multi-functional roles with global portfolios.
Within Cisco, Kenneth is involved in & led acquisition integration activities across Asia Pacific, India and Greater China and led the video collaboration strategy across new acquisitions globally.
Currently, he is the IT Site Leader for ASEAN, the single face of IT to the clients, and is responsible for aligning with global IT service owners to bring the best experience to Cisco's internal clients & partners, focusing on video collaboration platforms, personal computing and network strategies.
Based in Singapore, he is a frequent speaker for Collaboration Strategies & Workplace of the Future.
Transforming Business with Mobile Workspaces
Annamalai Chockalingam
Citrix Systems
Annamalai Chockalingam, has over 25 Years in Technology related industries and primary focus has been in pre-sales and solution selling. Currently at Citrix as Solution Engineering Director for ASEAN after being at EMC for 12.25 in a similar capacity. He has an Engineering Degree and a MBA from National University of Singapore. He currently oversees and manages the Citrix ASEAN Territory Solution Engineers and Networking Solution Engineers. He and his team primarily support & enable the Citrix ASEAN Sales Management team from a sales, presales, demo, proof of concept and solutions perspective.
Transforming Business with Mobile Workspaces
Philip Tang
Senior Product Specialist
Citrix Systems
In a career spanning over 25 years Philip has held senior technical and pre-sales roles at companies that have had major impact on the computer server and virtualisation sector. He has a deep knowledge of the applications and server /IT industry from both technical and business perspectives and is able to match technology to business requirements and communicate at all levels. He has been involved in many public speaking events and C-levels engagements.
Philip has worked throughout the Asia-Pacific region and has held senior technical and marketing roles with major multinational corporations like Digital Equipment, Compaq Computers and currently with Citrix Systems ASEAN as a Senior Product Specialist. His role is to promote the Citrix Mobile Workspace solution, focusing on Enterprise Mobility and Cloud Services. His 15+ years in Citrix has helped him gained exposure within the multitude of challenges encountered by clients at all levels.
Capturing Value from Big Data and Analytics
Dave Bhattacharjee
Director, Cisco Consulting Services, Analytics
Dave Bhattacharjee is a Director in Cisco's Consulting Services Analytics Practice. He has twenty years of experience advising the Fortune 500 on the strategic use of information and data analytics to create value for the business. He has served clients in multiple industries including Energy, Utilities, Public Sector, Financial Services, Telecommunications and Retail. Dave's current areas of focus are in the application of predictive and prescriptive analytics to address business problems such as customer care, retention and acquisition and operational efficiencies in an organization's value chain.
Prior to Cisco, Dave worked in leadership positions at IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Arizona State University. He is a published author and public speaker on topics related to business innovation and technology.
Contact Centre Analytics and Demo
Rajesh Krishnan Chakram
From Digitally Disrupted to Digital Disruptor
Adrian Lim,
Accenture Infrastructure Services
Adrian currently leads infrastructure services for Accenture Malaysia and is responsible for the growth and delivery of IS Malaysia, from strategy to transformation and operations. In addition, Adrian is an advocate for Accenture Technology and has appeared in both printed media and industry analysts briefing on the role of intelligent infrastructure in the digital era.
Adrian spends most of his time within the energy industry to support the client's transformation agenda, ranging from IT Operating Model design to infrastructure strategy and transformation. Currently, he is leading an end-end IT strategy for a greenfield integrated refinery and petrochemical complex with a strong focus on infrastructure transformation to drive tangible business results.
Prior to his current project, Adrian has worked across multiple industries including Financial Services with experience of merger integration, Global Shares Services Design, Build and Operate and SAP ECC 6.0 implementation.
Data Virtualization & Composite
Puneet Kumar Bhugra
Business Solutions Manager, ASEAN, Cisco Systems
With over 13 years of experience, Puneet is leading effort towards building business solutions for various verticals with banking as specific focus across ASEAN. He has spent considerable effort since last couple of years to help and build economically and technically viable solutions for customers, helping them achieve their business goals.
Puneet has been with Cisco for last 6 years and prior to that he has worked in Wipro in various capacities including sales, consulting, solution engineering for ICT industry. BFSI and Telecom was his key focus from beginning and worked with various global customers helping them adopt next generation wave around IT.
Puneet holds CCIE certification and MBA along with his engineering degree to build strong foundation for his technical and business capabilities.
Cisco IT Analytics Implementation
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Vulture in Saudi Custody Suspected as Mossad Agent
Believe it or not, Saudi Arabian security forces are holding a vulture, code named R65, that they suspect of being an Israeli Mossad agent.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 1/4/2011, 10:03 AM / Last Update: 1/4/2011, 10:00 AM
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Saudi Arabian security forces have captured a vulture that was carrying a global positioning satellite (GPS) transmitter and a ring etched with the words "Tel Aviv University." They suspect the bird of spying for Israel, Maariv-NRG reported Tuesday. The GPS and ring were connected to the bird as part of an long-term project by Israeli scientists that follows vultures' location and altitude for research purposes.
The arrest of the vulture - whose identification code is R65 - comes several weeks after an Egyptian official voiced the suspicion that a shark that attacked tourists off the Sinai shore was also acting on behalf of Mossad. The incidents may reflect a growing irrational hysteria among Arabs surrounding Israel's military prowess and the efficacy of its intelligence services, possibly fueled by the Stuxnet virus' success..
Maariv said that the R65 was caught near the home of a sheikh in the community of Hayel in Saudi Arabia. The words "Tel Aviv University" etched in English on a ring clasped to its leg, and especially the transmitter, caused the finders to suspect espionage and alert the security forces.
Ohad Hatzofe, bird ecologist for the Nature and Parks Authority, said that the vulture story has been making the rounds in Arabic internet sites, including Al-Jazeera forums and Arabic military forums. "The subject is receiving great publicity and it is important that Saudi authorities understand that it is not true. There is also an international treaty of nature protection professionals, that forbids doing things like this," he added.
The researchers said that seven vultures that were marked in Israel in the last few years reached Saudi Arabia. Transmissions from four of them have ceased and they are presumed dead. One vulture - beside R65 - is still alive and flying around Saudi Arabia, after spending the winter in Sudan.
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"Game of Thrones" fans are going to be seeing a phrase that paints the emotion of season 4 of the popular HBO series. "Valar Morghulis" which means "All Men Must Die" are seen on all the new posters released from the show. On Tuesday Zap2It debuted four of the posters, all black and white, with the phrase written on it. The plot of the Game of Thrones has been clear that the sides will continue to have friction, but the marketing campaign of "Game of Thones" is splendid.
Dividing up the series, at Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday, the Lannisters are featured. Posters showing Tyrion, Tywin, Joffrey, Jaime and Cersei have people looking over the photographs trying to decipher any interesting facts. There are plenty of theories, but nothing except the posters to see.
However over at Yahoo, the first look offers posters of Daenerys and Jorah was posted on Tuesday. The intriguing video included offers more questions than answers for the fans who are delighted to see the series back on HBO.
What does Valar Morghulis bring to Game of Thrones? Well, our High Valarian language skills are a bit rusty, but it looks like the series is going to see plenty of drama starting in April.
"Game of Thrones" Season 4 premieres on HBO on April 6 at 9 p.m. ET.


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I am installing Oracle grid 11gR2 using silent install with response file. I am getting error after "Collecting interface information for node 1" in logs.
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Here I have specified only for 1 node. Do I need to specify interconnects for both nodes.
ERROR message: One or more nodes have interfaces not configured with a subnet that is common across all nodes.


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For many years now there has been a surge of Paranormal TV shows that are primarily about ghost hunting, talking about real ghost stories, and some fictional TV shows about it. Here are five ghost TV shows that you can stream on Netflix at the moment:
A Syfy channel ghost show that uses documentary style-footage, photos, and a firsthand testimony to tell the stories about real hauntings. At the moment Netflix has season 1.
2. "Ghost Hunters: International"
This show was pretty good and for one reason it's locations. The show investigated castles from around the world, prisons, and other places where the ghosts were haunting. Netflix streaming doesn't have "Ghost Hunters," but its spinoff show might keep you occupied.
Even the kids can get on the ghost action with this show about Casper the Friendly going to boarding school to learn how to be scary. Great for the Halloween season for the children!
Jennifer Love Hewitt starred in this CBS show about a medium who struggles in her daily life and struggles to help the spirits that call her. Netflix has five seasons of the hit show.
Remember when Animal Planet aired this series? "The Haunted" was a show that got firsthand accounts from the people who went through these terrifying events. The show though took a different turn, it looked at how the animals were affected in the house too.
So those are some diverse picks for any ghostly mood from a cartoon too real accounts, you'll find something about ghosts on Netflix.


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After having spent the last few years attending club nights run by the modernist revival organisation The New Untouchables, I felt compelled to photograph the many colourful individuals that are dedicated to the scene. Amongst the pages of this book you will find some of the immaculately turned out individuals that I have had the pleasure of photographing.
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The Scosche retractable charge and sync cable is a good alternative to your 30-pin cable or micro USB cable. While most cables provide one solution, this one contains two connections for users.
Whether you are looking to charge an older iPod, iPad, or iPhone, the 30-pin option is a solid source for power and sync. With the capability of extending and retracting the cord to meet distances up to 3.5 feet, the Scosche retractable cable fits in smaller spaces for travel and reach during charging.
If you have an older idevice and a Bluetooth headset, this one cable could help you charge both. Of course, charging would need to occur for your devices at different times, but it is one less cable you would need to carry. This cable could also be a good solution for those who use a external battery case with their iPhone as most use a micro USB port.
Devices that are compatible with this cable include:
- Android devices
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- Smartphones
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Americans' dreams of
retirement are more likely to resemble fitful
nightmares unless they do more to plan, say
numerous studies that show many workers fail
to adequately prepare for life after work.
Several forces undermine their
efforts to save enough. These include an erosion
of traditional retirement programs that have
served as financial safety nets, less-than-diligent
personal money habits, skyrocketing health
care costs and potentially unrealistic expectations
about their ability to work long enough to
boost savings.
Yet, studies contain some bright
spots, too. Most individuals do save for retirement.
Older workers seize opportunities
to save more and do a decent job of getting
back on track. Meanwhile, all workers receive
more guidance, thanks to tools such as automatic 401(k) enrollment and life-cycle
funds that make it easier to invest wisely.
where Americans stand.
The "do-it-yourself"
era of retirement
Today, retirement can stretch out for decades,
bringing both the promise of extended leisure
as well as a steep price tag. It's one Americans
increasingly must fund themselves.
Consider that between the years
1985 and 2005, the number of major U.S. employers
funding old-style pension plans on behalf
of their workers dropped by nearly one-third,
from 91 percent to 61 percent, Hewitt Associates
reports. Qualifying for pensions by working
long enough to be vested is a different matter
entirely. Fidelity Research Institute estimates
only 51 percent of American households expect
to get a pension with median benefits of $18,000
a year.
Other polls put the percentage
of pension recipients far lower. Boston College's
Center for Retirement Research says 16 percent
of households are entitled to defined-benefit
pensions, down from 31 percent in 1983. An
additional 21 percent of households will get
pension benefits plus benefits from a so-called
defined contribution plan such as a 401(k).
That's down from 29 percent in 1983.
Though numbers differ, the trend
is clear.
"The displacement of defined-benefit
pension plans by defined compensation programs,
of which the 401(k) is the most
popular, places more responsibility on the
employee," says Anthony Webb, an economist
at Boston College's Center for Retirement
Research. "Participation is usually voluntary.
You decide how much to contribute, how to
invest your funds and how to withdraw funds
during the course of retirement. And those
choices are opportunities to get things wrong."
getting on board ... slowly
The message of do-it-yourself planning isn't
lost on workers. Despite rules that generally
make it pricey to cash out of them before
age 59-1/2, 401(k)s are becoming
cornerstones for the 47 million participants
enrolled in them. That's more than twice the
21 million in private-employer pensions, the
Investment Company Institute (ICI) reports.
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Saddle up and get on down Farm Road 666, because Texas institution Deadhorse is coming back Austin. This throwdown hoedown will be hosted at the Gypsy Lounge on Saturday, September 21, and it also features local chug merchants The Blood Royale, along the hardcore stylings of Confused and Waarface. DRI band leader Kurt Brecht is also slated to be on hand to perform a few numbers with Dead Horse, though it's unclear if they will be playing Pasadena Napalm Division material.
The Gypsy Lounge is another venue trying to cover the gaping hole left by the departure of Emo's from the Red River district, and their interest in booking metal shows is a worthy cause and should be supported. There are tons of local businesses sponsoring it as well, so it seems like there's a lot riding on it. Thus the math is simple - Deadhorse is always a good time, this venue needs the support, and you were going to go regardless. Glad we got that resolved. See you there!
The lineup:
Deadhorse (feat. Kurt Brecht)
The Blood Royale
The venue:
The Gypsy Lounge
1504 E 6th St Austin, Texas 78702
(512) 243-6118
Admission: $10
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The Stavronikita Monastery
|When you visit it, don't miss out on enjoying the fabulous view. It is near Karies, 1,5 hours on foot. It must have been founded by Nikiforos Stavronikitas (967-976) the emperor's officer. In the 13th century, it was devastated due to the continuous raids. The monastery was sold to Gregorious Geromeriatis who expanded the walls and restored the main church. After his death (1540), Patriarch Jeremy took over. It was totally destroyed by fire in 1607 and 1741. The monks renovated the main church and constructed the famous aqueduct (1628). During the War of Independence(1821) it underwent severe ordeals. Successive fires-1864, 1874 and 1879-destroyed all the previous efforts. What is typical at the monastery is the tall clogged tower.All the buildings are small. The main church was built in the 16th century. It is decorated with murals of the Cretan School. They were painted by Theofanis and his son, Symeon (1546). The portrait of Patriarch Jeremy I is depicting in the stones of the murals. The beautiful carved temple was constructed in 1743. The mosaic icon of St Nickolas is interesting- it was found by fishermen in the sea. An oyster was stuck on the head at St Nickolas. When it was removed, the head bled. Pieces of saints' relics, old vestments etc are also kept in the monastery. The library includes 171 manuscripts(58 of them are on parchment). It is a coenobium with 40 monks. It has got the 15 position.
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While almost any large, flat case can be converted for use as a face painting kit, some are especially suited for this purpose. Because of this, a few face painters have gravitated toward model helicopter cases. This month's face painting kit series article features Peta Rogers (Princess Peta) of Face Your Fantasy and her beautifully converted model helicopter case.
Q: How did you begin face painting?
Peta: I live in a beautiful part of the world—Hobart, Tasmania in Australia. Prior to face painting, I painted animals in pastels and watercolour. In early 2009, when my children were badly painted at an event, I thought, hey, I can do this! And so it began. Just as my business started to take off, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and was too sick for two years from the treatment to paint. After treatment, I took a receptionist job where, unfortunately, an unhappy environment forced me to resign. In late 2011, I made the decision to go back to face painting and make my business work. This was the best decision I ever made, and I feel blessed to have found my passion late in life.
Q: What do you like best about your business?
Peta: I love that I am doing something that brings me so much joy. I am my own boss, and I get paid to do something I love.
Peta's kit of choice: Model helicopter case
Peta: When I started out, I used a scrapbooking case on wheels, and a fold-out camping table. To this day, I still love my old kit for its size, weight, and compactness. The drawback to it was having to carry so much gear, take the time to unpack on setup, and take time to repack when finished. I upgraded to a large CD case which I attached to a keyboard stand to make an all-in-one kit. Again, I liked this second kit for ease of setup and take-down. It wasn't so much to carry, and was still fairly light. However, it was a little too cramped, which lead me to my newest kit, the model helicopter case.
Weight empty: 7 kilograms (15.4 pounds)
Weight loaded: 24 kilograms (52.9 pounds)
Dimensions: 88.5 cm x 33.6 cm x 20 cm (34.8 in. x 13.2 in. x 7.9 in.)
Wheels or no wheels: The kit comes with wheels
Q: What type of events do you use your kit for?
Peta: Now that I am established, I work a nice balance of private parties (from under ten faces) to corporate or large events (sometimes as paid events or sometimes as pay-per-face events) with hundreds of faces. I also offer Henna, glitter tattoos and special effects.
Don't miss the slide show which shows the conversion process Peta used to create her dream kit for face painting. Visit the Face Your Fantasy business page on Facebook to see a more extensive gallery of face painting samples by Princess Peta.


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Strode News
- 04/05/12 - Cuts, Curls, Colours and Creativity... Strode Hairdressers can do it All
Over 100 Strode College hairdressing students unleashed their creativity and technical know-how this week to create some slick, stylish and stunning hairstyles at the College's Annual Hairdressing Competition, held at the Wessex Hotel in Street.
The students, who come from across Somerset, study at Strode's hairdressing training centres in Street, Bridgwater and Yeovil. They showed the breadth of their skills with cutting, colouring, curling, crimping, extending and much more.
The competition gives the students the opportunity to showcase their skills and creativity outside the everyday salon situation, while they experience the excitement, pressures and standards of competition hairdressing.
They gave the judges a difficult task by presenting some dramatic and eye catching looks in six themed categories: Modern Day Look, 1960s Beehive, Hollywood Red Carpet, Cats the Musical, Pop Icon and Avant Garde Catwalk. For all categories students were required to create a total look using makeup, clothes and accessories and mood boards had to be produced.
The six judges were from top hair and beauty salons in Wells, Yeovil, Glastonbury and Bruton. Head judge, Cyril Gallie from 'Cyril Gallie at the Hair Shop' said: "The hairdressing work displayed in the competition is very imaginative and of a high standard. Every year the students get more enthusiastic. They've shown us some amazing ideas and some great skills and they will do well in their future careers."
Strode's Hairdressing Course Manager and competition organiser Sandra Hellier said: "The students have worked extremely hard in planning and preparing for the competition. They had to research looks and styles to produce a mood board showing their inspiration and ideas for their total look, including the makeup. And, they have sourced costumes and accessories to complete and enhance their total look.
"Each student had to enter one of the competition categories as part of their Level 2 or 3 Hairdressing course or their Level 2 Barbering course. This allows the students to show their skills, technical ability and creative flair outside of the salon."
James Staniforth, Principal of Strode College said: "It's been a fantastic competition. The quality of work from our hairdressing students is outstanding and they should be proud. The standards they achieve at Strode and in the salons where they work is clear for everyone to see and shows that they will go on to have successful careers in the industry."
The competition was sponsored by Wella, Aston and Fincher.
Winners received certificates and prizes including top brand hairdressing equipment and products.
Left: Stylist add the final touches
Right: Barber finishes his Modern Day Look
Left: Models pose as judges inspect
Right: First prize winners
Left: Second prize winners
Right: Third prize winners
Winners of the Strode College Hairdressing Competition 2012
Modern Day Look - Level 2 Hairdressing and Barbering students
A modern day style for a young man who wants to wear the latest trendy look, using colour to enhance the cut and style.
- 1st Prize: Stylist Jess Lee from Shepton Mallet (formerly Whitsone School) and model George Lee.
- 2nd Prize: Stylist Aiden Fisher from Cheddar and model Stuart Thorne.
- 3rd Prize: Stylist Kate Owen from Shepton Mallet and model Ivor Edwards.
1960s Beehive Look - Level 1 and 2 Hairdressing students
Hair dressed up with ornamentation, taking inspiration from the 1960s Beehive.
- 1st Prize: Stylist Laura Whitcombe from Street (formerly Crispin School) and model Zoe McFarlane
- 2nd Prize: Stylist Sarah Brown from Bridgwater and model Karen Meek
Hollywood Red Carpet Look - Level 1 and 2 Hairdressing students
Hair dressed, with ornamentation, taking inspiration from models and actresses who walk the red carpet at film premiers.
- 1st Prize: Stylist Georgia Oliver from Stoke-sub-Hamdon near Yeovil (formerly Stanchester Academy) and model Mimi Sneddon
- 2nd Prize: Stylist Emma Coleman from Wells (formerly Crispin School) and model Savannah Tucker
- 3rd Prize: Stylist Karen Adams from Bridgwater and model Emma Lang
Cats the Musical Look - Level 1 and 2 Hairdressing students
Using creativity, imagination and colour, hair to be styled taking inspiration from 'Cats' the musical.
- 1st Prize: Stylist Stefano Fauceglia from Barton St David (formerly Crispin School) and model Candice Langstaff
- 2nd Prize: Stylist Kayley Govier from Street (formerly Crispin School) and model Charlotte Carpenter
- 3rd Prize: Stylist Kylie Davis from Glastonbury (formerly Crispin School) and model Kirsty Haskins
Pop Icon Look - Level 2 Hairdressing and Barbering students
Hair to be coloured and styled to create the look of a pop icon from any decade.
- 1st Prize: Stylist Sophie Chapell from Yeovil (formerly Westfield School) and model Sammy Veal
- 2nd Prize: Stylist Lorna Moule from Bridgwater and model Sophie Jones
- 3rd Prize: Stylist Sarah Elwood from Baltonsborough and model Alana Cross
Avant Garde Cat Walk Look - Level 3 Hairdressing students
Hair to be coloured and styled with ornamentation and clip extensions to create an outrageous, individual fantasy look that would interest designers, gain media attention and inspire other hairdressers.
- 1st Prize: Stylist Kelly Smith from Somerton and model Hayley Davies
- 2nd Prize: Stylist Tanya Cook from Somerton (formerly Huish Episcopi School) and model Sophie Groves
- 3rd Prize: Stylist Nicole White from Yeovil (formerly Bucklers Mead School) and model Shannon Norman


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No Need For Speed – For Now
Today I added another half marathon notch to my belt. Woohoo. The day started off early with a bowl of oatmeal, natural peanut butter, and honey, plus a coffee (it wouldn't really be breakfast if it didn't include a coffee). Oh, and snuggling with Elliot. He really is a snuggle whore – not that I'm […]Read more "No Need For Speed – For Now"


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This isn't just another cheesy "As seen on TV" products. This one works. With the Hercules Hook ($15/set of 10) you can hang all of those beautiful pictures without breaking out the heavy duty screws and tools. Each small reinforced steel hook will support up to 150 pounds. Easily installs by hand, and when removed will leave a pin size hole. You're gonna love these so much that you'll be hanging things from one end of your house to the other.
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Solemate is the powerful, portable speaker with rich Dolby® sound* that lets you share your music anywhere.
The go-anywhere, do-anything portable wireless speaker with rich Dolby® sound* that lets you share your music everywhere. All you have to do is provide the tunes and Solemate will do the rest.
Transform your laptop, tablet or phone into a portable jukebox – wirelessly. Or use the handy cord in the sole.
Don't let your eyes deceive you – this small speaker is loud. Solemate packs a custom-designed bass slave together with a powerful woofer for deep bass and dual tweeters for soaring highs.
Comes in multiple colours (not all may be available where you are)
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Photographer's Note
A group of my English clients relaxing in the hot thermal waters of Manupirua Hot Springs on the shore of Lake Rotoiti. We had sailed across the lake in the catamaran in the background. A perfect day weather-wise. Everyone enjoyed the experience. These Springs, on a lake in the Rotorua area can only be reached by boat.
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dekanski (5180) 2013-02-19 6:20 [Comment]
fabbs99 (17135) 2013-02-21 11:57
Hi Neil,
Exclusive shot of the hot thermal waters of Manupirua Hot Springs with the colors are deep and the details are excellently expressed.Very well shot.TFS.
amir2009m (292) 2013-02-24 2:40
Ciao Neil,
very nice landscape, so good light and colors amd a beautiful Wonderful sky...good quality of the image and nice dept too...excellent work...
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- Copyright: Neil Rawlins (Antipodean) (1658)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2013-02-16
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State lawmakers are trying to derail a constitutional amendment that would limit their power to redraw political boundaries for the Legislature and the Florida Congressional Delegation.
Common Cause and other good government groups gathered enough signatures to put a constitutional amendment on the fall ballot that creates an independent commission to handle reapportionment.
Attorney Mark Herron went before the Florida Supreme Court Thursday to defend that amendment.
"The people who, who signed these petitions want to take partisanship out of the process, they want a commission to do it as opposed to the Legislature."
But Tallahassee Attorney Barry Richard told the high court the amendment is deceptive and misleading. He had a problem with the use of the word "nonpartisan" in the constitutional amendment.
"It has always meant one thing and only one thing, and that means that in the selection process, wherever it may be, parties and party affiliation plays no role."
Justice Raoul Cantero questioned Barry Richard.
"So does that make this court a partisan body?"
"You may not want to answer that question."
You may remember Barry Richard from the 2000 recount debacle. He was the mouthpiece for the George Bush legal team in Tallahassee.
The court gave no indication when it will rule on the challenge to the reapportionment amendment, but backers already have more than enough signatures to win a space on the November ballot.


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Feb. 7, 2008
It's a bye-week for the Huskies, so we are revisiting some offensive and defensive strategies that we feel will make us successful against Bowling Green and many of the other MAC opponents we will eventually face. I think this bye-week came at the perfect time for our team. We finished a two-week streak, in which we won three of our four games. The loss was definitely disappointing, but it put things back into perspective for us. Losing at Akron definitely proved that we can't abandon gritty defensive play, simply because defense is a critical component needed to win consistently, especially on the road.
I feel like my teammates are ready to get back on the court and prove that we are beyond the inconsistencies we've exhibited in the past. Losing is not always the worst thing that can happen, but not responding with better play when the next opportunity arrives definitely is. Everyone has a positive outlook and is focused on having an intense and meaningful week of practice. Our trip to Bowling Green will certainly be a measuring stick in terms of our improvement this week.
We'll see you next week!
Shari' Welton #2


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NEW: Hanger Gets Early Primary Challenger For Senate Seat
Augusta County Supervisor To Seek GOP Nomination In 2015
HARRISONBURG — Augusta County Supervisor Marshall Pattie on Monday announced his candidacy for the 24th District in the Virginia Senate.
Pattie will seek the GOP nomination for the seat, challenging Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Mount Solon.
Pattie is a Staunton resident and a management professor at James Madison University. He was elected to the Board of Supervisors as an independent in 2011, his first term in office.
Pattie is a former chairman of the Augusta County Democratic Committee.
Hanger is finishing his fifth four-year term representing the 24th District in the Senate. He last faced an intra-party challenge in 2007, when he defeated Lexington businessman Scott Sayre with 53 percent of the vote.
The district includes most of southeastern Rockingham County.
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Visit the Candrea's Corner information page and purchase tickets today!
The University of Arizona softball program is introducing Candreaˇ?s Corner, a general admission outfield season ticket option at Rita Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium.?
ˇ?This is a great opportunity for our team to create an even better home-field advantage, which I already consider to be the best in the nation; plain and simple,ˇ± Head Coach Mike Candrea said. ˇ?I think this is really exciting for our program.ˇ±?
Named in honor of the 10-time Pac-10 Coach of the Year, Candreaˇ?s Corner?is an inexpensive way for Wildcat fans to become a season ticket holder. Available to the general public for only $50 (senior and youth tickets cost $43 each), Wildcat fans can watch the defending back-to-back National Champions all season long while receiving the outstanding benefits of becoming a season ticket holder.?
Candreaˇ?s Corner? season ticket holders will have the first opportunity to purchase general admission outfield tickets for NCAA postseason play should the Wildcats be chosen as a host institution. Candreaˇ?s Corner?ticket buyers will also be able to annually renew their season tickets, as well as begin to accumulate priority points to purchase infield season tickets as seats become available over time. In addition, these ticket buyers will receive a 2007 National Championship team photo autographed by Mike Candrea.?
As an extra benefit of becoming a season ticket holder, Candreaˇ?s Corner?ticket holders will have the option to upgrade their tickets to infield seating on an individual game basis when tickets are available. Ticket holders may turn in their general admission outfield ticket on the day of the game and pay the difference to upgrade to an available infield seat for that game.?
The season ticket option is a great savings for the buyer compared to individual game pricing. Instead of paying six dollars for a general admission ticket, Candreaˇ?s Corner?season ticket holders will pay an average of two dollars per game. It is a perfect option for Wildcat fans that cannot attend every game and have purchased individual game tickets in the past.?
The friendly confines of Hillenbrand Stadium create an intimate setting that has helped it become one of the most recognizable venues in the country. Outfield seating at Hillenbrand Stadium provides a unique view of the fast-paced college game. Unlike baseball, outfield seats are right on top of the action and just over 200 feet away from home plate.?
Always among the nationˇ?s leaders in average home attendance, including the nationˇ?s top mark the last two seasons, support for Arizona Softball is still growing in the community as the Wildcats continue their tradition of excellence.??In 29 games during the 2007 season, Arizona hosted 44,487 fans for an average of 1,534 per date.? During conference play, Arizona average 2,093 fans per contest en route to their 10th Pac-10 Championship in school history. Since Hillenbrand Stadiumˇ?s opening in 1993, 459,866 fans have passed through the turnstiles.?
ˇ?We certainly appreciate the support that our loyal fans have shown over the years,ˇ± Candrea added.??ˇ?Every member of the team is proud of our fans for having their own pair of national championships with the best attendance in the country for two years running. This outfield season ticket option will only allow us to continue to draw the biggest crowds in the nation.ˇ±?
Looking ahead to 2008, Arizona returns six starters, including the 2007 Womenˇ?s College World Series Most Outstanding Player, Taryne Mowatt. The 5-4 senior will be joined by four senior Southern Arizona natives, including Adrienne Acton, Callista Balko, Cyndi Duran and Danielle Rodriquez.?
Arizona will open the 2008 season on Wednesday, February 16 against the USA National Team in an exhibition contest. Tickets for Candreaˇ?s Corner?are currently on sale, and individual game tickets will go on sale beginning January 31.?
Fans interested in purchasing tickets may do so in person at the McKale Ticket Offfice Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., by calling (520) 621-2287 or by visiting www.arizonaathletics.com.


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In a high-profile effort intended to increase awareness regarding medicinal cannabis and pot issues in general, Tennessee NORML sponsored "Marijuana Education Day" in Nashville on January 28 at the Sunset Grill, in what was described as a luncheon seminar.
For a fee of $30 attendees were brought up to speed on the latest developments in the realm of medical, legislative and recreational cannabis concerns. NORML founder Keith Stroup was on hand, and as reported by WSMV-TV, Stroup spoke and at one point confessed the cannabis conundrum: "Our problem is how do we translate the public support into public policy (when) most of our elected officials are timid."
The Nashville-based Green Hills News gave front-page coverage to the event as the paper's Social Editor Brenda Batey also was a speaker on a medical marijuana patient panel, in which she disclosed that cannabis was the only drug that actually relieved her nausea after receiving chemotherapy treatments for cancer. Another speaker was medical pot patient Constance Gee, who had been previously "outed" on the front page of the Wall Street Journal smoking medicine that she uses to treat Meniere's Disease (an inner ear disorder that causes vertigo) while her then-husband was still Chancellor at Nashville's Vanderbilt University.
One goal of Tennessee NORML is to get medi-pot legalized, and advocates want state lawmakers to approve legislation that would have medicinal cannabis grown by licensed farmers and regulated by the state Dept of Agriculture, with dispensaries then distributing the medicine to patients. Similar legislation previously stalled in the Tennessee General Assembly in 2010 and 2011 (partially due to Governor Bill Haslam's opposition), but hopefully "higher education" events such as Marijuana Education Day will result in more public and political support for legal medical pot in the Volunteer State.
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Overview of the Ptolemy Project
Edward A. Lee
EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/ERL M98/71
BibTeX citation:
@techreport{Lee:M98/71, Author = {Lee, Edward A.}, Title = {Overview of the Ptolemy Project}, Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley}, Year = {1998}, URL = {http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1998/3544.html}, Number = {UCB/ERL M98/71} }
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%0 Report %A Lee, Edward A. %T Overview of the Ptolemy Project %I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley %D 1998 %@ UCB/ERL M98/71 %U http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1998/3544.html %F Lee:M98/71


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recovery of property, regulation and compliance of the required record reporting and licensing
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Tax news you can use
Tax laws keep changing, but don't be the last to know about them. Here's the latest filing scoop.
There's no way to
plan for a disaster. But there is recovery help from
an unexpected source: the Internal Revenue Service.
You can count unforeseen casualty losses
as itemized deductions. Of course, you have to fill
out extra paperwork and keep good records.
And you won't recover dollar for dollar
the financial loss you suffered. But every little bit
helps. For major disasters, it's usually worth the effort
to claim
the tax write-off.
counts as a casualty?
First, your loss must meet IRS deductibility guidelines.
The agency classifies a casualty as the damage, destruction
or loss of property resulting from a sudden, unexpected
or unusual event. The losses can result from natural
or man-made disasters. Examples cited in the IRS literature
Natural wear and tear isn't a casualty
loss. The IRS won't accept claims for lost property,
termite damage to your home or the death of your prize
elm tree due to disease.
the deduction amount
After you've established that your loss is allowable,
it's time to figure out exactly how much you can deduct.
The IRS sets two limits: first you must reduce your
loss amount by $100, and the remainder then must be
more than 10 percent of your adjusted gross income and
is reduced by that 10 percent. You also have to subtract
any insurance money you got for the loss.
Taxpayers who suffered losses in last
year's hurricane season get an additional break this
filing season in computing their deductible loss amount.
You need Form
4684 to figure and report your casualty loss and
A to itemize your loss deduction. Attach both of
these to your individual income tax return Form
1040. You don't have to include supporting documents
with your return, but you need those records to help
you complete Form 4684 and to verify your expenses and
losses, if the IRS ever questions the deduction.
result of your loss claim
Then you have to figure out the "real money" value of
your deduction. Deductions don't directly translate
into tax dollars saved, so a casualty deduction of $5,000
won't get you a five grand refund. Rather, deductions
reduce your taxable income. The less taxable income
you have, the smaller your tax bill. After you determine
your casualty loss deduction, you must refigure your
taxes using the new taxable income amount to see just
how much of a refund you'll get.
Victims in presidentially
declared disasters areas -- regions hit by hurricanes,
tornadoes, floods, earthquakes or other calamities --
get special consideration. In these cases, taxpayers
can claim their losses in the tax year the disaster
struck, or they can claim it as if it happened the year
Many taxpayers find
that by filing an amended return and claiming the loss
for the previous tax year, they get a bigger refund.
This often is the case for individuals who didn't itemize
deductions the prior year.
The deadline for choosing
this option usually is the due date of a filer's current
year return. This means you can file the amended return
for the previous year by the filing deadline for the
year in which the disaster actually occurred. For example,
if in 2006 you suffered a casualty loss due to a Presidentially
declared disaster, you can amend your 2005 return up
until the current April 17 filing due date to claim
the losses in that prior tax year.
Yes, the paperwork
is a hassle. But the IRS provides additional details
in Publication
547, Casualties, Disasters and Thefts.
The agency also has a workbook
to help you track your losses, as well as Publication
2194, Disaster Losses Kit for Individuals, which
consolidates the tax-related disaster information you'll
If you're the victim
of a major disaster, claiming your losses on your tax
return could help rebuild your property as well as your
bank account.
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This morning I stepped into my manly-man-of-action fuzzy slippers, and got stung by a bee.
On my foot.
Bees hiding in my slippers? Really?
I told the L&T this was scientifically valid proof that my feet smell like honey, but in keeping with the TU's PG-13 rating, I'm not going to print her reply.
Instead, I'm going to clean a little house, shoveling a few links your way before they overrun my desk, especially as I'm packing goodies for my Weekend Brookie Trip.
Jamming a few flies and some tippet in the new backpack is easy; deciding which rod to fish is the tough bit. The 8.5′ 4wt Diamondglass? The 8′ 4wt Superfine? The 8′ 5wt Phillipson bamboo fly rod?
Sometimes life just feels so heavy, you know?
Starting Another Rod Test
I recently dug out the wallet to finance a new fly rod, though (remain calm), it's a relatively cheap one — an 8′ 5wt fiberglass rod from South Fork Rods (built by Margot and Dave Redington, whose last name might sound familiar).
Naturally, I don't need another 8′ 5wt (I've got several brilliant 8′ 5wt rods already), but the 8′ 5wt is my fly rod equivalent of Chili Verde; a baseline food that I use to compare new Mexican restaurants with those I already know.
Thus if a new Chile Verde (or 8′ 5wt fly rod) is brilliant, it's possibly (likely even) that the rest of the menu (or fly rods in the line) are also brilliant.
(While the rest of you are out fishing, I'm creating ISO 9000-level processes for making the world a better place.)
First glance? It's nicely made but looks a little clunky, and like so many rod builders these days, the grip doesn't exactly overwhelm. For an 8′ glass rod it's surprisingly strong (it says "5wt" on the website but "5/6wt" on the rod), which is either a useful thing or an odd performance characteristic for a rod you'd say was probably going to be fished at close range.
More as I fish it.
Russell Chatham Goes Broke in Montana
I read this article on the SF Gate site about Russell Chatham abandoning Montana after overinvesting in real estate, losing his shirt, and deciding he couldn't take a 40th Montana winter.
He's back in San Francisco and painting to pay the bills (at least his paintings still fetch big dollars), and the whole thing feels timely now because I also recently took delivery of a couple books from his just-revived Clark City Press publishing imprint.
I bought a copy of Silent Seasons and The River We Bring With Us, but — embarrassingly — forgot to also order a copy of Chatham's seminal essay work about fly fishing the west coast in the 60s and 70s (The Angler's Coast).
I plan to rectify that in the near future, but in the meantime, I believe his publishing house is run by his daughter, and if you ever wanted to own any of the classics in their backlist (or their new titles), then hurry on over.