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Anushka Sarkar
9 Anushka Sarkar Articles
Kya Huaa Tera Vaada: Will Bulbul get Vihaan back?3 years ago 5
On the eve of Bulbul's wedding to Vihaan, he walks into the ceremony announcing that he has tied the knot with his first love Anika Sony TV's Kya… Read Article ▶
Kya Huaa Tera Vaada: Mona Singh ties the knot amidst drama3 years ago 0
She was all set to call off her wedding to Jatin, but fate had something else planned for her Mona Singh and Jatin (Hiten Tejwani) had decided to… Read Article ▶
Kya Huaa Tera Vaada: Will Vihaan and Bulbul fall in love?3 years ago 1
They fight like cats and dogs, but isn't that the first step towards love - if you go by the clichéd storylines The new twist in Kya Huaa Tera Vaada… Read Article ▶
Kya Huaa Tera Vaada: Mouli Ganguly's oldie husband turns possessive!4 years ago 0
But that's bound to happen if you have a biwi as pretty and stylish as Anushka Sarkar, no? When Anushka Sarkar (Mouli Ganguly) made an appearance… Read Article ▶
Bade Acche Lagte Hain's Mamaji enters Kya Huaa Tera Vaada as an Australian4 years ago 0
Actor Deepak Qazir Kejriwal, the baddie from BALH has now taken up the role of Anushka Sarkar's new hubby Looks like Mamaji's bad days are over in… Read Article ▶
Kya Huaa Tera Vaada: Why did Ekta Kapoor kill off Pawan Shankar aka Pradeep Singh?4 years ago 1
The show has taken a 10-year leap, the children have grown up, Anushka Sarkar is in jail, Pradeep Singh is dead, and Mona Singh has not aged a day… Read Article ▶
Kya Huaa Tera Vaada: Mona Singh and Anushka Sarkar's daughters continue the fight even after the 10-year leap4 years ago 0
The moms take a back seat as their daughters continue their epic war over dad Pradeep Singh who recently passed away in the show The maha-episode… Read Article ▶
Bade Acche Lagte Hain: Does Rajat Kapur's fate depend on Ram Kapoor's death?4 years ago 4
While Anushka Sarkar is taking her own sweet time to pull the trigger, we wonder what's going on in the mind of Priya Kapoor's secret admirer Promos… Read Article ▶
Bade Acche Lagte Hain: Is Ram Kapoor quitting the show?4 years ago 124
And is that why he will be shot dead during the maha-episode combining Bade Acche... and Kya Huaa Tera Vaada that will be aired on December 4? But… Read Article ▶


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E.W. Scripps: Papers: 1868-1926
E. W. Scripps Papers is a collection of letters and photos from the Scripps Manuscript Collection at Ohio University. Edward Willis Scripps (1854-1926) was a businessman and journalist associated with the founding of the Scripps Howard chain of newspapers and the United Press International independent news gathering company.

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Sunderland Ladies 3 Durham Women 0
Another derby win for Lady Black Cats.
Sunderland Ladies continued their perfect start to their debut WSL season with a 3-0 win over Durham.
The Lady Black Cats faced their local rivals for the second time this campaign in their first outing in the Continental Cup. Both sides looked to have shaken off the nerves that hampered the first encounter in the opening game of the WSL season.
Durham began the brighter of the two teams with Stacy Crooks playing Zoe Ness through the Sunderland defence, but her pull-back was hit high over the bar by Jess Round.
As Sunderland settled into the game they began to create chances in front of goal - the closest of which fell to Steph Bannon, who saw her 18th-minute header from a corner hit the bar.
Kelly McDougall found herself in shooting range but her 36th-minute effort from the edge of the area was well saved by Danielle Hill in the Durham goal.
Sunderland finally took the lead on the stroke of half time. A long ball over the top from Bannon allowed Abbey Joice to race through the Durham defence and lob the goalkeeper.
Five minutes into the second half Beth Mead doubled the home side's advantage after getting in on the end of a Kelly McDougall header and then placing her shot beyond the keeper.
Sunderland continued to dominate, creating regular chances but were unable to convert. Emma Kelly, making her first start for the side, broke free on the right hand side after good build-up play but dragged her shot wide.
As the game progressed Durham began to sit back deeper and deeper as Sunderland continued to press for goals. Mead had a chance to double her tally after a fierce strike from the edge of the area but her effort hit the post and bounced away to safety.
Shortly afterwards Sunderland goalkeeper Helen Alderson was forced to come way out of her area to clear a long ball forward by Durham. The brave challenge resulted in Durham forward Stacy Crooks leaving the pitch after a clash of heads.
Sunderland continued to press and in the 79th minute Mead was clumsily taken down on the edge of the area. Victoria Greenwell looked to repeat her free-kick heroics of the last local derby but her effort was comfortably saved by Hill.
After several last ditch clearances and goalmouth scrambles it looked as if Sunderland would have to settle with just the two goals, but then in stoppage time Durham's defence finally cracked under the constant pressure and they conceded an own goal to give the home side a comfortable 3-0 win.
Sunderland: Alderson, Holmes, Greenwell, Furness, Bannon, Wilson, Ramshaw (Bass, 84) McDougall, Mead, Kelly, Joice.


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Robert Mruczek gave up a lot to become a video game referee.
He gave up the free time he used to spend playing games literally for days on end, like he did in 1984 when he ran "Star Wars" for a marathon 49 straight hours.
He gave up thousands of dollars after he began offering prize bounties for new video game world records — and then had to dole out rewards as longstanding marks began to fall.
And, on a cold winter day at the apartment he shares with his parents in Brooklyn, New York, the 41-year-old glances up from the boxes of VHS tapes filled with extraordinary gaming feats that clutter his bedroom, and considers another measure of his sacrifice. "Dusting," he says.
There is indeed a good deal of dust in the headquarters/bedroom of the senior arcade referee of Twin Galaxies, the 25-year-old collective of gaming enthusiasts and referees that serves as the closest thing to an official video game record-keeping organization. This room, where Mruczek verifies video game records by scrutinizing the videotaped efforts of gamers from around the world, is cluttered with gaming systems, a TV with rabbit ears, binders of classic trading cards, assorted fantasy tchotchkes (including a statue of a white tiger) and six different editions of one of Mruczek's favorite books, the Rambo-spawning "First Blood."
There isn't much free space in Mruczek's quarters, but the setup works for him. Since 2001 he has been a Twin Galaxies official, holding the chief referee spot for nearly four years before the workload forced him to take a lower post in December. (By day he works in accounts payable at an advertising firm.) He's screened more than 1,200 tapes, checking for suspicious pauses, glitches and other telltale cheats before verifying accomplishments in games from "Frogger" to "Halo." He knows the tricks gamers might play — even those that involve a controller and an electric toothbrush.
Don't get him wrong; he isn't going through all these tapes because he enjoys mind-numbing, 27-hour runs of "Asteroids" or a fastest-completion "speed run" of a game that still runs several hours. In fact, there are even some games he won't watch at all anymore, particularly "Q*bert." "That's why I have junior-level referees," he says.
What he does like, and what has driven him to become one of gaming and the Internet's most prominent scorekeepers, is witnessing history. "The world records are the most fun to watch, and I think the best enjoyment for me is seeing what has never been done before, right before my eyes," he says.
He pulls out a tape of Billy Mitchell, the legendary player of a perfect "Pac-Man" game (and current hot-sauce maker), cracking a million points in "Donkey Kong." When Mitchell sent in the tape last year, it was the first time Mruczek had ever seen such a feat — and as far as he can tell, it's the first time anyone has done it.
He cues up the tape, which, having been output from a "Donkey Kong" arcade machine, plays sideways on his TV. Mitchell's good enough to have cleared one of the game's boards at just the right moment to make sure that the score is a flat-out 1 million. The six-digit counter rolls from 999,999 to all zeroes. Billy goes on to score 1,047,200 points, a new world record. Somewhere in there he has the game's hero jump from one girder to another in a move that floors the gaming referee. "Every now and then he does something that surprises me," Mruczek marvels. "And I thought I'd seen it all."
Saying that Mruczek knows gaming is like saying Stephen Hawking knows about time and space. He says the maximum score possible in "Pole Position" is common knowledge and, as far as he knows, no one has ever reached it. He knows how "Ms. Pac-Man" ends: at level 133, after which the player will see either one, two, three, four or eight glitch screens. "We've never seen five, six or seven," he says. "That would be big news for Ms. Pac-Man." He was once quizzed by a radio show, being asked to listen to someone playing a mystery video game. He didn't just correctly guess the game ("Space Invaders") or the version (Atari 2600). He says he counted the sounds of the explosions and guessed the score within 30 points.
In the 1970s, when Mruczek started going to arcades, there weren't even video games in them: He remembers a racing game made of a Matchbox-sized car, metal parts and pipe cleaners. He also remembers being a whiz at "Pong" at age 5, beating all comers at the Sears department store.
There could be no doubt that he was serious about games when, in 1984, he pulled off that historic "Star Wars" marathon. After years of avid gaming, in 2001 he signed up with Walter Day, the head of Twin Galaxies, to be a referee. For the most part he judged tapes that were sent to him, although occasionally he'd travel to a competition at an arcade or to satisfy a random request. "The farthest I traveled was Philadelphia," he says. "A mother basically put me on a train and paid for my fare to go watch her son play 'Dance Dance Revolution.' "
As a referee, Mruczek got in contact with top gamers from around the world. And while much of his expertise was in the oldest schools of gaming, he found a welcome audience among more modern gamers. "It speaks volumes that what he knew fundamentally about competitive gaming transcended to a generation like mine," says Mike Damiani, a 23-year-old gamer from Texas who does speed runs of "Zelda" games.
In 1999, super-gamer Billy Mitchell decided to further the field of high-scoring with a high-stakes proposal: He offered cash prizes for gamers who could achieve new records on a key group of games. He also put $100,000 on the line for anyone who could pass a seemingly unsurpassable threshold in "Pac-Man" — though that offer was more of an attempt to quiet unproven braggarts than to really pay anything out.
Mruczek latched onto the idea and began offering his own rewards, initially just for one of his all-time favorites, the 2000 Dreamcast game "Crazy Taxi." In 2004 he kicked what he started calling his bounties into full gear, offering more than three dozen prizes for new records. He was stunned as old records suddenly started falling.
"The first one was claimed within 24 hours and the second within 24 after that," he says. "After 20 years no one had been able to pull something off. [And then] all of a sudden a couple of dollars and, lo and behold, you have a new world record, and a benchmark was established."
In 2005 he and a few other Twin Galaxies referees posted challenges for more than 150 games, with over $20,000 in potential winnings. They offered $150 for the fastest completion (without dying) of "Halo 2" on the hardest difficulty mode; $300 for a new "Pole Position" world record; and $1,000 for reaching the "Frogger" score claimed by George Costanza in an episode of "Seinfeld."
Mruczek says 90 percent of the bounties came from him and will be his to pay out. More than 50 gamers from around the world competed, and by year's end more than $8,000 worth of feats were accomplished.
The biggest win came from Dwayne Richard, a 37-year-old gamer from Grand Prairie in Alberta, Canada. He scored a new world record on the arcade game "Joust 2" and will be paid $2,500 for his efforts. He hadn't tried Mruczek's other bounties, but this one was different. "It was so much money," Richard says. Mruczek, who thought the game was one of the 10 hardest ever to hit the arcades, asked players to not only surpass the previous best achievement of reaching the game's 26th level, but to reach the 100th. He hadn't expected the record to fall.
But Richard — who Mruczek considers one of the world's great players — says he once observed a quirk in the game's enemy attack patterns and thought he could exploit it. Certain enemies could be killed with ease if the player just got to the right place late in the game and stood his ground. So Richard bought a "Joust 2" machine for $1,000 and got to work. "It was a full-time job for me," he says. "I played six or seven hours every day." After a little more than a week he crushed the record: He hit level 130.
"I can't think of a finer performance I've ever seen on a title so hard," Mruczek says. And now Richard has his sights on an even grander prize: a $12,000 bounty set this year for a game called "Crystal Castles." The record has held for two decades — Richard hopes to change that.
These are the Olympic-level feats that make game-reffing satisfying for Robert Mruczek. He raves about the accomplishments of Richard and Mike Damiani. He champions the skills of Todd Rogers, a Florida Atari 2600 maven who has more than 30 world-record marathon sessions under his belt — each marathon exceeded 24 hours.
By the end of 2005 Mruczek was thrilled with all he had seen, but also realized that even he could be overwhelmed. Playing games endlessly hadn't gotten to him — but refereeing had. Financial complications have kept him from paying all the bounties just yet (Richard hasn't gotten his full $2,500). And Mruczek still has a backlog of tapes to review. A big cardboard box in his room is filled with tapes he still has to watch, dozens of hours of "Asteroids" and even "Q*bert" lying in wait.
So the bounties will take a break until he can fulfill his current obligations. The next wave of challenges won't be issued until late this year or early 2007, he says. He's no longer working as the chief referee, just as a specialist on certain gaming platforms (although his old position is yet to be filled).
Still, reffing is in his blood, and it doesn't look like he'll be stopping any time soon. "There are a lot of games I'd like to see people submit scores for and there are a lot of noteworthy performances that have yet to be done," he says. "I'd like to be one of the team that actually watches them when they happen."


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The Senate has passed the immigration reform bill by a vote of 68 to 32. This bill is not law yet. To become law, it must pass in the House of Representatives and be signed into law by the President.
The bill faces strong opposition by the Republicans in the House of Representatives. Speaker John Boehner, the leading Republican in the House of Representatives, has stated that "The House is not going to take up and vote on whatever the Senate passes. For any legislation, including a conference report, to pass the House, it's going to have to be a bill that has the support of a majority of" Republicans.
The thirty-two Senators who voted against the bill were:
- Barrasso (Republican-WY)
- Blunt (Republican-MO)
- Boozman (Republican-AR)
- Burr (Republican-NC)
- Chambliss (Republican-GA)
- Coats (Republican-IN)
- Coburn (Republican-OK)
- Cochran (Republican-MS)
- Cornyn (Republican-TX)
- Crapo (Republican-ID)
- Cruz (Republican-TX)
- Enzi (Republican-WY)
- Fischer (Republican-NE)
- Grassley (Republican-IA)
- Inhofe (Republican-OK)
- Isakson (Republican-GA)
- Johanns (Republican-NE)
- Johnson (Republican-WI)
- Lee (Republican-UT)
- McConnell (Republican-KY)
- Moran (Republican-KS)
- Paul (Republican-KY)
- Portman (Republican-OH)
- Risch (Republican-ID)
- Roberts (Republican-KS)
- Scott (Republican-SC)
- Sessions (Republican-AL)
- Shelby (Republican-AL)
- Thune (Republican-SD)
- Toomey (Republican-PA)
- Vitter (Republican-LA)
- Wicker (Republican-MS)
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Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 1:45pm to Wednesday, December 31, 2014 - 1:45pm


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May 6, 2013
With only two weekends off during the spring semester, the Arizona Wildcat men's tennis team spent one of those weekends volunteering with Habitat for Humanity on Saturday. The team arrived at the construction site on E. 28th St. armed with snacks, painting supplies and plenty of enthusiasm.
"We all really enjoyed working with Habitat for Humanity over the weekend," said head coach Tad Berkowitz. "Our team felt very proud to be a part of the day and we can't wait to get involved again in the future."
The team, including coach Berkowtiz and assistant coach Tom Lloyd, was assigned the task of painting the entire interior of the home in a shade of eggshell white. The enthusiasm of the players paid off as they remained focused and team-oriented and finished the job two hours ahead of schedule and with an element of perfection.
"It was a fantastic opportunity for our team to give back to the community that has given us so much," said Lloyd. "The Habitat for Humanity representative gave a stat that children in homes are 600% more likely to finish high school and go to college. That hit home with me."
Painting was among the final processes to enable the new owner, a woman in her 40's, to move in to her new home.
The team plans to work with Habitat for Humanity again in the future and continue to volunteer in the community.


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I've heard that tourist visas on arrival are being extended to include more countries?
Starting in October 2014, India will be extending their visa-on-arrival program to include 180 countries.
India currently offers visa-on-arrival to tourists from only 11 countries, including Finland, Singapore and Japan.
A quote from their Planning Minister on the matter:
The electronic visa-on-arrival will be available at 26 major airports in India and would be valid for 30 days from the date of the tourist's arrival in India.
Note, however, that this does not include all countries - for example, nationals from Pakistan, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Somalia still cannot get visas on arrival.


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CofC's Long Ball Costs Wildcats in 4-3 Extra-Innings Loss
Courtesy: BCUathletics.com
Release: 04/26/2014
CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Bethune-Cookman Wildcats (20-25) took another heartbreaker in game two of the series with College of Charleston (30-13), as a pair of home runs led to a 4-3 10th-inning loss after the Wildcats battled back to take a ninth-inning lead on Saturday at The Ballpark at Patriots Point.
"Today we actually played did some things better than we did the day before, and played a little bit better," Head Coach Jason Beverlin said. "The bottom line is its just two heartbreakers. You try and learn from what happened, and you've got to put it past you quick and come out ready to go tomorrow."
The polar opposite of the series opener, the Cougars took the first inning advantage, as a two-out Carl Wise single turned into a run on designated hitter Nick Pappas' RBI single through the right side.
Trailing 1-0, starter Keith Zuniga and the Wildcats settled in, holding the Cougars in check through three consecutive frames, allowing just one CofC runner in that span. The lead grew to 2-0 in the fifth as Ryan Welke came home on left fielder Bradley Jones' RBI single in the fifth.
The Wildcats showed patience at the plate in the seventh to overcome the two-run deficit, loading the bags with Shaun McCarty reaching base on balls, Jake Welch as a hit batter and Josh Johnson on a single to right field. Left fielder Bryant Munoz chopped a hit to the right side, diving head-first into first to bring in McCarty, forcing a throwing error by second baseman Gunnar Heidt to tie the game at 2-2 on Welch's score.
Facing CofC's closer, Michael Hanzlik, Welch beat the throw on a 1-out single to shortstop and scored from second on Johnson's RBI single to left field, pushing the Wildcats ahead 3-2.
After eight strong innings on the hill with four strikeouts, starter Keith Zuniga yielded to Christopher Waltermire, who struck out the first batter faced. The next batter, Brandon Glazer, proved more troublesome, fouling off five pitches of a nine-pitch at-bat before sending a home run beyond the left field wall to knot the score at three-all.
The Wildcats battled to reclaim the lead in the 10th, but ultimately left Eric Sams and Jordan Robinson stranded.
In the bottom half, CofC third baseman Blake Butler parked a leadoff first-pitch fastball over the center field wall, dealing the Wildcats their second straight extra-innings walk-off loss of the series.
Waltermire (1-5) takes the loss for the Wildcats, while Hanzlik (2-1) picked up the win for CofC, pitching two innings.
At the plate, Munoz and Johnson each hit 2-for-5 with one RBI to lead the Wildcats, while Welch scored two of B-CU's three runs.
The Wildcats and Cougars return to The Ballpark at Patriots Point for the series finale on Sunday at noon.
For all the latest information on the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats, follow the official Twitter feeds, @CookmanBaseball or @BCUathletics, or "Like Us" on Facebook at BCUathletics.
To join the conversation on social media, be sure to tag your B-CU-related posts with the official hashtag of B-CU Athletics, #HailWildcats.


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Alabama's loss at LSU was a huge reality check for the University of Alabama program. Many of the players on this roster don't know what it is like to lose more than once in a season. Many of these players don't know what it's like to not be in contention for a BCS National Championship.
In the last three seasons (counting this year) Alabama is 0-1 in games played when the national championship wasn't a very clear, reachable goal in front of them. The one game was the January 2009 Sugar Bowl loss to Utah 31-17. In that game, Alabama played disinterested.
Many of the current players weren't a part of that Sugar Bowl team that didn't handle the lack of a big prize to play for. There's no Andre Smith distraction situation currently, but there is unchartered waters for so many of these young players that contributed to Alabama being out of the national championship picture.
Alabama's coaches are now faced with that rare scenario of getting a group of talented (many four and five-star recruits) motivated to play for pride, the team and personal improvement.
What's wrong with Alabama?
There are 5 things that Alabama must improve on to avoid a late season collapse. Losing 4 of the last 5 games (Miss State, Auburn and a bowl game after the LSU loss) isn't out of the realm of possibility. Do I see that happening? No way. Did I see Alabama out of the national championship picture with two losses before the season? No way. It's something previously unimaginable that now is with-in reason.
1.Play with intensity & energy – The two times Alabama hasn't come out with energy and never found it during the game, it's lost. LSU wanted it more in the 24-21 Tigers win. I never saw the urgency that Nick Saban wants in that LSU game.
2.Play to your strengths – It shouldn't matter who carries the ball for Alabama. There should never be a hesitancy to run the football because the defense dictates they don't want you to.
There have been some running back issues to consider. Trent Richardson went down with an injury in the LSU game and wasn't used to run after that. Mark Ingram looked pretty good but not dynamic. In my opinion Ingram is not even 70% of the running back he was last year. He goes down quicker after contact, doesn't have the consistent devastating cuts, he's not explosive through the hole and he's not playing with the emotion he did in his 2009 Heisman Trophy campaign.
Despite those things, even if you have to go to Eddie Lacy or Demetrius Goode or Jalston Fowler, don't you have confidence that Alabama would still be successful running the football? I do.
When Alabama doesn't run the football from the start and establish the physicality of run-blocking in the offensive line with an aggressive approach, it plays into the hands of the defense. When Alabama passes more than it runs, it's more difficult for them to wear down opponents like they used to do.
Passing when they load the box and run when they don't is a flawed reactionary strategy. The offense should dictate to the defense what it wants to do rather than being passive.
3.Throw the ball down the field and convert big play opportunities – Alabama had a few more throws down the field vs. LSU but it didn't convert them into explosive game-changing plays like LSU did. The passing game just doesn't threaten and loosen the defense enough. Alabama's passing game selection, whether it's game-planned, called from the coaches' box or checked out of by McElroy on the field doesn't compliment the running game well enough.
4.More effective, influential leadership has to emerge – I think many of us underestimated the impact of the veterans on last year's national championship team. We looked at the talent combined with the coaching and assumed that newer versions of those players lost would form on this season's team. What we didn't account for was the hard times that those players had previously experienced.
Those trials and tribulations, some dating back to the Mike Shula era, had hardened some players and given them the drive to seize every moment in 2009. Those players demanded that every younger player follow their lead. That "demand" for greatness is missing from this year's team.
The veteran leaders on this team, Greg McElroy, William Vlachos, Julio Jones, Mark Ingram, Mark Barron, Dont'a Hightower and Marcell Dareus are, for the most part, great players that lead more by example. Ingram and McElroy would be exceptions, although I'm not sure how vocal Ingram has been since the Florida game and G-Mac isn't an intimidating figure that you feel you better follow, or else.
Someone from this group or outside of it, needs to turn up the volume and turn up the intensity in leadership.
5.Get the return game going again – For an area that looked to be so dynamic on paper has turned into a huge drop-off from the record-setting Javier Arenas era. Other areas of special teams have been solid but this unit was depended on to offset some youth and deficiencies in other areas.
Julio Jones, Trent Richardson, Marquis Maze and talented players blocking should have created more game-changing plays in the return game than it has.
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High school baseball: Brand new ballgame for Maple Mountain's Nick Van Wagoner after beating a drug addiction
courtesy Van Wagoner family
SPANISH FORK — You could certainly call Nick Van Wagoner the Comeback Kid.
But his is no ordinary comeback. And this is no ordinary kid.
Indeed, after all the tough, terrible times he's put himself through over the last couple of years — and he blames nobody but himself — he's finally found his way back to playing the game he loves.
Van Wagoner is a Maple Mountain High senior who's a star pitcher on its first-place baseball team. He currently carries a grade-point average of about 3.4 and is eager to serve a mission for the LDS Church.
With all that going for him, you'd never know that, at this time last year, he was living at a substance abuse treatment center in Salt Lake City, trying to put his life back together. Or that two years ago, this tormented teenage boy was a lost soul spinning out of control due to a drug problem that threatened to destroy him.
It's been a long, difficult journey back from those days and nights spent at Odyssey House, the treatment facility that Nick's dad, Mark Van Wagoner, credits for finally getting his son back on the right path and saving his life. There was that time he spent at the Provo Detention Center, a lockdown facility with tall fences topped by barbed wire, and all those days and nights spent in a drug-induced stupor when the only thing that seemed to matter to him was the next high. He wound up wasting more than two years of his life, and now Nick Van Wagoner is doing his best to make up for all that lost time.
"One of my best friends got me introduced to it," said Nick, now 18, of his first experience with smoking marijuana when he was around 15 years old. "At first I was a little iffy about it. I didn't think it was OK and I was worried about it because of what it would do to you. I'd always been told when I was younger that drugs were bad and to stay away from them.
"But my friend kept doing it, and I kept telling him to stop. Then one day I wondered what it was like. And that curiosity is what got me. And once I started, I kept doing it for a long time. I liked how it felt, and I kept telling myself that it was harmless. "But that eventually led to harder, more dangerous drugs. I tried pretty much everything except meth over a two- to three-year period," Nick admitted. "You keep telling yourself this isn't going to hurt me. But pretty soon it catches up with you and you're done for. You become curious about other drugs and your friends are doing it, so you say 'I want to try it, too.' "The worst part is all the bad habits I created — lying to people, wasting so much of my time and not getting anywhere in life, feeling unhappy and depressed. So I kept going back to it and it only made it worse."
"As a parent, when something like this happens to your child, you're in denial," Nick's father, Mark Van Wagoner, said. "You can't believe it's happening to you and you try to deny it.
"You always think it's gonna be somebody else's kid, not yours. But when it comes right down to it, you find out that your kids are just as vulnerable as any other kid. You've been in denial all this time, and by the time you accept it, it's almost too late."
Nick had never been in trouble before. The third child born to Mark and Lynnette Van Wagoner, he loved to play baseball and was a gifted left-handed pitcher who, like many young boys, dreamed of playing in the big leagues someday.
Then everything started to change — and soon those high hopes and glorious dreams seemed shattered.
"We knew he'd had some challenges in school," his dad said. "He'd been caught doing some things a couple of times, nothing too big, and we thought we had handle on it.
"But then he started pulling away from the family, missing more school, and his grades started dropping. Anything we tried to get him to do, he didn't want to do it. His friends were more important to him that anything else."


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Athey, Susan; Schmutzler, Armin (1999). Innovation and the Emergence of Market Dominance. Working paper series / Socioeconomic Institute No. 9906, University of Zurich.
This paper analyzes a model of oligopolistic competition with ongoing investment. It incorporates the following models as special cases: incremental investment, patent races, learning-by-doing, and network externalities. We investigate circumstances under which a firm with low costs or high quality will extend its initial lead through further cost-reducing or quality-improving investments. In many commonly-studied oligopoly games, such investments are strategic substitutes. We derive a new comparative statics result that applies to games with strategic substitutes, and we use the result to derive conditions under which leading firms invest more than lagging firms. We show that the conditions are satisfied in a variety of commonly-studied oligopoly models. We also highlight plausible countervailing effects from two distinct sources. First, leading firms may find it more costly than others to achieve the same increment to their state. This force is particularly salient inmany models of patentn races, where firms make research investments in an attempt to find a new technology that delivers a given level of cost or quality. Second, countervailing effects may arise in dynamic games with more than two firms are sufficiently patient.
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For the longest time, back in the days when I actually had a home phone line, I resisted getting caller ID. Instead, I took a certain pride in maintaining this "purist" approach to picking up the ringing phone without any indication of who was calling.
I was old school, by golly, and my stance meant I was more fully partaking in this daily adventure we call Life. Occasionally, though, it veered into misadventure territory as I quickly regretted picking up the phone. Telemarketers come to mind, as do fussy editors at my newspaper and time-sucking chatty friends and family.
So my ultimate line of defense was the answering machine, which would serve as a screener to keep certain folks at bay.
That era now seems so impossibly 20th century quaint. These days, by contrast, just about everyone has caller ID on their mobile phones or otherwise. Having no clue about who is calling is as archaic as tape cassettes and Classmates.com.
All of which points to this reality: when we make phone calls, the stakes are higher because we are in a competition to get through the gatekeeper known as the "Answer" button. Whenever just about anyone sees a call coming in, broadly speaking they have one of two reactions to the number that shows up on their screen: positive or negative.
And regardless of our station in life, it's a universal truth that we want people's "gut" reaction to our number (or our name, if we are programmed into the other person's phone) to be positive. This does not necessarily mean they will always pick up, depending on their circumstances in the moment, but then the playing field shifts to voicemail:
Do they look forward to hearing what you have to say, and try to respond as quickly as possible? Or do they let your message languish or delete it outright, perhaps not even bothering to hear your remarks let alone return the call?
In short, are you welcomed in or screened out?
In business, the implications are huge and can mean the difference between failure and success. Here is a three-step process for maximizing your chances of being welcomed in much more often than screened out:
Be a Giver
Think about it: whenever we make or receive a phone call, so often the person doing the dialing is looking for something from the person they are calling: an answer to a question, a request for our time and energy later, or the fulfilling of a need that takes on some other form.
This isn't an indictment—it's simply human nature, and it's the nature of communication overall.
As often as possible, then, make calls with an intentional desire to add value to someone else. Doing so will set yourself apart and result in your call being answered more frequently.
In the public relations and marketing world, where so many PR types are focused solely on making one self-serving pitch after another, having a reputation for giving (a genuine compliment, a story idea unrelated to your clientele, a helpful networking tip) is an asset that will put you light years ahead of your peers.
Keep it Short
Whether you are making a sales pitch or staying as a guest at a friend's home, it's always better to leave before the other party wants you to leave. That same truth applies with phone calls.
All it takes is one time to have your precious time chewed up by someone who talks aimlessly about whatever pops into their head or doesn't know how to get to the point of their call. Thereafter, you are apt to relegate them to "ignore" status when their name surfaces on your caller ID.
So confirm at the outset that the person you are calling has some time, keep your call brief and then strive to be as helpful as possible. After you both hang up, one measure of your success will be if the other party wishes you could have stayed on longer.
Likewise, if you do get shuttled into someone's voice mailbox, keep it short and sweet. Some of the worst messages are those that meander all over Kingdom come and come across as vague. Remember: the person calling you back should have an idea of the topic at hand.
Follow Through
Phone calls frequently include a promise of some sort. You will send information by a deadline that was discussed…you will meet at a given time and place…you will take action that comes up as a pivotal part of the conversation.
Now, there are some extreme examples of following through on your word. Years ago, Amway Executive Diamonds Terry and Linda Felber overcame snowstorms that blanketed a huge chunk of the country. With airlines grounded and much of the area immobilized, they completed the last part of their arduous trek by renting a snowplow to get to the World Wide Group conference where they were scheduled to speak.
You may not be able or willing to move heaven and earth in similar fashion, but it's within most everybody's reach to take the relatively easy steps that we pledge to take in our day-to-day interactions.
The question we all would do well to ask ourselves: Have I built a reputation as somebody who follows up and follows through on my word? If the objective answer is "yes," then we will have laid the groundwork for the next phone call we make.
That's the one which the other person not only picks up, but looks forward to answering.


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Since its inception in 1965, Italmélodie has been delighting musicians and musician hopefuls alike with its impressive collection of instruments, sheet music, and musical equipment. Located in the heart of Little Italy, the store boasts a wide range of instruments from harmonicas to grand pianos to tiny, hand-held bongos. Each day, hundreds of music enthusiasts pass through the two-storey musical institution, eager to buy, sell, trade or rent first rate instruments of their choice.
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Italmélodie is the perfect place to pick up that hard to find instrument, such as the didgeridoo (bamboo rain stick) or local brands of djembes, (small hand-held bongos) such as Moperc and Luka. Italmélodie quenches the musical thirst of those just at the beginning stages of their development to the most advanced musicians in the city.
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Use rather in a sentence
- I said I would rather not drink a whisky cocktail. [5]
- They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever. [5]
- Miss Grower was wont to express optimism in deeds rather than words. [9]
- Her hands trembled with rage, and stammering rather than speaking she desired the praetor to order a composing draught for her. [10]
- Consider the man who stands by his duty and goes to the stake rather than be recreant to it. [5]
- The military road was good, but rather steep, and there was a good deal of it. [5]
- One reason for unwillingness to do so is that some of you would rather remain within reach of the country of your nativity. [7]
- This was rather unintelligible to Ruth, who was nevertheless somewhat amused by the study of a type of character she had seen before. [5]
- He was rather trying the common arguments, as one tries tricks of fence merely to learn the way of parrying. [6]
- The wife was trembling, she was very pale, her eyes were rather staring, but she fought to control herself. [11]
- Perhaps a little torture would do it, he thought; and so he had made the rather tactless remark about the scarcity of dollars. [11]
- We are concerned today with peoples rather than governments. [9]
- I wish you to understand that we have a rather select company at the table of our boarding-house. [6]
- He turned rather to put the stakes back into his wagon. [9]
- Surely, said I to myself, they can not be green, but rather a yellowish white, bloodless, having only fibre, the heart all pinched to death. [11]
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College Hockey:Bentley Rallies For Draw With Princeton In 'Hope' Game
PRINCETON, N.J. — Perhaps Bentley should play more of its home games in the Garden State.
Down by a 3-1 count with less than six minutes remaining in regulation on Friday at Codey Arena at South Mountain, the practice home of the NHL's New Jersey Devils, the Falcons fought back with two scores in just 53 seconds to seal a 3-3 tie with Princeton, the sole NCAA Division I hockey school in the state.
Bentley wore its white uniforms and was designated as the home team in the First Annual "Hockey for Hope" game, with the proceeds to benefit the Cheer Me Up Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides financial assistance to sick and underprivileged children.
Bentley also goes to 1-2-1 on the season with the tie, while Princeton was playing its first true contest of the 2006-07 campaign after a 3-2 exhibition win over visiting McGill last weekend. Princeton outshot Bentley, 45-33, and was scoreless on five power plays, while the Falcons converted one of their five man-advantage opportunities.
Sophomore forward Jeff Gumaer redirected home a wrist shot from the left point by freshman defenseman Bobby Preece at 15:20 of the third period for his second goal of the night to complete Bentley's comeback from a two-goal deficit after two periods of play.
Freshman forward Anders Olson had brought the Falcons within a goal at 14:27 when he one-timed a pass by sophomore forward and Boston University transfer Pat Percella from behind the Princeton net past the outstretched glove of Tiger sophomore netminder Thomas Sychertz. It was the first goal of Olson's collegiate career, while freshman forward Kane Osmars also picked up his first-ever point on the play.
Sychertz came on halfway through the game in relief of Princeton freshman starter Zane Kalemba, one of five New Jersey natives involved in the contest along with teammate Christian Read and Bentley skaters Joe Cucci, John Hooks and Percella. Both Princeton netminders finished with 15 saves apiece, while Bentley senior goaltender and UMaine transfer Ray Jean made 42 stops, including 17 in the second stanza alone and 12 more in the third period.
The Falcons carried the play early on and had two chances to break on top in a penalty-filled first period as sophomore forward Tom Dickhudt fired the puck over the Princeton net on a power play opportunity, before hitting the right post on a wrister from the left circle several minutes later.
Princeton then took its first lead of the fall with the teams skating four-on-four as freshman blueliner Brad Schroeder accepted a pass by Princeton senior captain Darroll Powe from the left corner and skated straight down the slot before shelving a shot past Jean at 10:17 for his first career goal in a Tiger uniform. Rookie forward Mark Magnowski had the other assist for his first collegiate point.
The one-goal advantage stood up into the second stanza before Princeton, wearing its black road uniforms just 45 miles away from campus, went up by two at 2:10. Senior forward Grant Goeckner-Zoeller carried the puck over the Bentley blueline on a 3-on-2, veered left and then broke to center before leaving the puck in the left circle for junior linemate Landis Stankievech, who went upstairs on Jean's stick side for a 2-0 lead. Sophomore forward Brandan Kushniruk also drew an assist for the Tigers. It became a 3-0 game at 10:36 when Powe pushed the puck ahead to Magnowski, who powered in from the left side and cut across the goal mouth before pushing a backhander past Jean.
"I felt very good about the second period," said third-year Princeton coach Guy Gadowsky. "I'm not certain about our mental play in the third period. I need to see some of the goals on tape, but I would like to see us do a better job with our mental attitude in close games. I thought we had an excellent second period and a poor third period."
He was pleased with the play of the Princeton freshmen in their first real collegiate contest.
"On the whole they played fairly well," said Gadowsky, who is carrying 10 rookies on this year's roster. "Schroeder scored a heck of a goal, and Kalemba, you can't get any better than allowing no goals.
"You can't chalk this up to (freshman) inexperience at all. They played well."
Bentley finally got on the board on the power play with 5:27 left before the second intermission when Gumaer one-timed classmate Anthony Canzoneri's cross-ice feed from the left side past a lunging Sychertz. Fellow sophomore forward Dain Prewitt picked up the other assist on the play.
The teams traded opportunities in overtime, with Princeton having perhaps the best chance with a minute left in the extra session when the puck squirted loose from the right wing boards and into the slot, where freshman forward Dan Bartlett wheeled and slapped a rolling puck straight towards the cage, only to see Jean make the save.
"We know we have to learn to play 60 minutes," said fifth-year Bentley head coach Ryan Soderquist, whose team came within an Atlantic Hockey championship game victory of the NCAA Tournament last spring. "We have a young squad, and we have to learn to play one shift at a time and watch the emotional highs and lows.
"We came back tonight against a solid team, and I'm happy our guys didn't give up."
He was also happy to see the stands filled with a sizable throng of Bentley supporters adorned in white t-shirts and Falcon tattoos, and brandishing inflatable stick-shaped noise makers in a home game set some 225 miles south of the Bentley campus in Waltham, Mass.
"It was great to see those white shirts," said Soderquist. "It was great to host such an event with the Cheer Me Up Foundation, as a parent of one of our players is part of the committee. We have a lot of alumni in New Jersey, and we appreciate them coming out and Princeton for helping us out."
"I think it's an excellent cause," seconded Gadowsky. "I hope we gave them an exciting game. It's an excellent charity, and I'm glad we were a part of it."
The Tigers won the first-ever meeting between the two programs, 4-2, back in January 2005 at Hobey Baker Rink in Princeton. The two teams will meet there again on Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. to close out this season's series.
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"Cost reduction, as we have seen dramatically in solar energy, is very much a part of shaping our clean energy future," Moniz said. "We've seen costs of modules decline by nearly 80 percent.
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Libya is a large country in North Africa. It is bordered by Tunisia and Algeria on the west, Niger and Chad on the south, Sudan on the southeast, and Egypt on the east.
Libya has a long coastline on the Mediterranean but the greater part consists of the central Sahara Desert. The Mediterranean coastal fringes have a Mediterranean climate with some rain between October and March, but the vast area of desert inland has very little rain at all and here some of the highest temperatures in the world have been recorded.
The general climatic and weather conditions over Libya are similar to those described for coastal and interior Egypt and Algeria. The climatic tables for Tripoli in western Libya (former province of Tripolitania) and Benghazi in eastern Libya (ancient Cyrenaica) are representative of conditions around the year in the coastal regions.
The scanty winter rainfall is brought by Mediterranean depressions, but the amounts are rather variable from year to year. Along the coast of the Gulf of Sirte, between Misratah and Benghazi, rainfall is rather less, so that the desert reaches the coast.
The wettest area of the country is in the hill and plateau region of the Al Jabal al Akhdar (the Green Mountain) between Benghazi and Darnah, where the land rises to over 500 m/1,600 ft and rainfall is as much as 600 mm/24 in per year.
Beyond a distance of 160 km/100 mi or less from the coast, annual rainfall drops below 100 mm/4 in and is often very much less. Indeed, over much of the Sahara, rainfall is so slight and irregular as to make any average figure almost meaningless.
As elsewhere on the coasts of the southern Mediterranean, winter weather can be changeable from day to day with cool, cloudy, rainy spells interrupting the generally warm, sunny, and settled weather. Inland, in the desert, conditions are almost uniformly settled and sunny with very high temperatures in summer and warm days in winter.
The climate here is similar to that shown by the tables for Aswan in Egypt or Biskra and In Salah in Algeria.
The coastal districts of Libya are affected from March to June by very hot, dusty winds from the desert which bring very high temperatures, often exceeding 50°C/122°F for a day or two. They are similar in origin to the khamsin winds of Egypt. They go under the local name of ghibli.
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A Turlock man convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman and who had previously been approved for a parole release before having the order revoked, has once again been denied parole.
The unemployment rate in Stanislaus County dropped to a new low for the year as the harvest season provides additional jobs for the area, according to the latest data from the Employment Development Department.
The Turlock Police Department is investigating a shooting in an industrial area of Turlock that left one man hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the head.
Library users around the county will soon be able to stroll into their local branch on a Friday and peruse all the books, periodicals, and other materials they wish to see, as the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors approved extending operations at all 13 branches.
A Turlock man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after causing a collision that injured one person.
A Turlock man was arrested for multiple sexual assault related charges after he allegedly raped a woman he had met on a dating website.
Emanuel Medical Center recently earned two national accreditations and recognitions for the efforts of the hospital to advance patient care.
A pickup truck that veered into oncoming traffic on Highway 99 in Merced County struck three vehicles, resulting in multiple injuries and one fatality Monday afternoon.
A position in the Turlock Fire Department that has been vacant since the recession was filled Friday when the department promoted long-time employee Gary Carlson to Division Chief of Operations.
What 20-year-old Rachel Overturf could do legally Wednesday became illegal Thursday when California became the second state in the nation to raise the minimum legal age to purchase cigarettes.
The officers that fired the shots that killed a suspect during a drug bust in Turlock Tuesday night were with the Modesto Police Department, but their names are not being released at this time.
The Carnegie Arts center has opened the "Ready, Set, Show" art exhibit, featuring the creative talents of local children.
A Turlock man already facing a charge of being an accessory in a homicide was arrested again Wednesday after he allegedly shot two men.
New details have emerged in the officer-involved shooting that left one man dead in a busy Turlock parking lot Tuesday night.
Californians recorded a water conservation rate in April that surpassed state standards, according to the latest numbers from the State Water Resources Control Board.
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Mar 8, 2010 11:50 AM
You may have noticed that we're hardly perpetual rays of sunshine around here, but even so, we seem to spend a lot of our time enthusing about one gewgaw or another. Doubtblush exists to make it clear that we do not, in fact, like everything.
Map plates ($15) might be a cute idea if the plates were actually round, like plates are meant to be. We might venture so far as square, but plates that come in the shapes of actual countries? Wethinks this kitsch has gone too far. How would one even begin to stack them in the cupboard, let alone in the dishwasher? A reviewer even mentions that the maps are missing major cities...geographical FAIL.
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The Everett Public Service Internship Program. Each internship lasts ten weeks and provides $280 weekly for expenses. Accepted candidates will determine a starting date with their Intern Coordinator*. Everett Interns work on substantive projects, develop professional skills, and gain knowledge about the enormous societal impact of public service. Interns gather to attend exciting weekly events, both educational and social, presenting distinguished leaders and young heroes from the public sector. Select from the list of participating organizations and apply directly to the organization(s) of your choice. Do not send your resume to the Everett Program. Each listing includes contact information and instructions on applying. Deadlines will vary, depending on the organization. Mention in your cover letter that you are applying for an Everett Internship Position. For more information, go to the website.
The NC Congressional Research Service STUDENT DIVERSITY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM. CRS offers a limited number of paid and unpaid internship opportunities annually. Placements are made in a variety of public policy and functional areas, and work assignments are aligned with the intern's academic interests and/or professional goals. CRS internships give students and professionals a unique opportunity to observe and learn about the legislative process at the national level. For more information, go to the website.
United Negro College Fund Corporate Scholars' Internship Program. UNCF Corporate Scholars Programs help college students gain invaluable professional experience through paid internships at America's leading Fortune 500 corporations and national organizations. Since UNCFSP manages numerous programs for multiple program sponsors, eligibility criteria for opportunities may vary. You will be informed of all opportunities for which you are deemed minimally qualified. Program-specific criteria will be posted during the application stage. For more information, go to the website.
Wake Forest University's It's All About Business (IAAB ™) seeks to enroll rising sophomores, juniors and seniors from under-represented groups majoring in liberal arts, science and engineering programs (non-business majors). Program runs end of May – middle of June. During the intensive two-week program, students will learn the fundamentals of accounting, finance, management communication, computing and statistical skills, marketing, economics, project management and organizational behavior. IAAB ™ will be offered on a scholarship basis. This includes tuition, fees, and room and board. Students will be responsible for making their own travel arrangements. Program participation will be limited to 50 students.For more information, go to the website.
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Interactions 2016, June 6-9, 2016, Indianapolis, IN
NEC Advantage Executive Conference, May 18-20, 2016, Ponte Vedra Beach, FLIf you're there, I'll be playing keyboards again with the SIPtones! Our set will be during the evening event on Thursday.
Cisco Customer Care Analyst Day, April 6-7, 2016, Chicago, IL
Energy Thought Summit 2016, March 29-31, 2016, Austin, TX
"What's the Next Greatest Challenge in Energy?" - I'll be MC'ing this Open Mic session at 8:00 am on Wednesday
Channel Partners Conference and Expo, March 16-18, 2016, Las Vegas, NV
Vertical Communications 2016 Industry Analyst Conference, February 10-11, 2016, Dallas, TX
Unify Global Analyst Summit, January 19-22, 2016, Southampton, Bermuda
TMC ITExpo 2016 East, January 25-28, 2016, Ft. Lauderdale, FLI'll be moderating at 2:30 on Wednesday on the UC Track, "Are You Communicating or Collaborating?" I'll also be moderating at 10:00 on Thursday on the Business Transformation Track, "Making Video Easy - How Hard Can it Be?"
Cisco Collaboration Summit, December 7-10, 2015, San Francisco, CA
UC Summit 2015, November 15-18, 2015, La Jolla, CA
Here's the agenda - am presenting on Day 1 at 2:00 pm, and on Day 2 at 5:00 pm.
Telecom 2015, October 27-28, 2015, Toronto, ON
Top 5 Trends Shaping UC for 2016 - am presenting on Day 2 at 2:20 pm in the Westminster Room
2015 SCTC Annual Conference, October 5-8, 2015, Atlanta, GA
2015 ADTRAN Press and Analyst Event, August 10-12, 2015, Huntsville, AL
Interactive Intelligence, Interactions 2015, June 8-10, 2015, Indianapolis, IN
CTCA Spring Conference, June 2-4, 2015, Mono, ONI'll be speaking at 9:30 on Thursday as part of a Blue Ribbon panel, "The Future of our Industry"
Canadian Telecom Summit, June 1-3, 2015, Toronto, ON
Cisco Connect 2015, May 13-14, 2015, Toronto, ON
Cisco Americas Customer Collaboration Analyst Day, April 29-30, 2015, Austin, TX
Unified Communications Business Transformation Seminar, hosted by Nielsen IT Consulting, April 9, 2015, London, ONI'll be speaking at 9:50, co-presenting with Emily Nielsen - "Why Move Forward with UC"
Energy Thought Summit 2015, hosted by Zpryme Research, March 24-26, 2015, Austin, TX
Metaswitch Technology Day - Canada, January 26, 2015, Toronto, ONI'll be speaking at 10:15 - "Why HBS is a Win-Win Value Proposition"
ITExpo Miami TMCnet ITExpo 2015, January 28-30, 2015, Miami Beach, FL
I'll be moderating two panels - details to follow. Thursday at 12:30 - "What is Real Unified Communications, Really?", and Friday at 10:00 - "Customer Experience and Telco 2.0".
Cisco Cisco Collaboration Summit 2014, November 17-19, 2014, Los Angeles, CA
Unify Global Analyst Summit, October 22-24, 2014, Scottsdale, AZ
GENBAND Perspectives14, June 9-11, 2014, Orlando, FL
Interactive Intelligence Interactions 2014, June 2-5, 2014, Indianapolis, IN
Metaswitch Networks Metaswitch Forum 2014, May 12-15, 2014, New Orleans, LA
Cisco Americas Customer Collaboration Analyst Day, May 7-8, 2014, Phoenix, AZ
UCStrategies2014 UC Summit, April 27-30, 2014, La Jolla, CA
As a UC Expert, I'm part of the contingent hosting this event, which draws a great mix of UC vendors, channels and consultants.
CTCA, 2014 Spring Conference, April 8-10, 2014, Gravenhurst, ON
For a change, an event that's fairly close to home. I'm providing the opening keynote on April 9, and moderating a panel on cloud communications in the afternoon. Full details are on the conference agenda, I'll be adding updates on my blog.
Zpryme, ETS - Energy Thought Summit, March 24-25, 2014, Austin, TX
I'll be wearing a few hats at this event, so I won't be hard to find. It's Zpryme's first smart grid conference, and the lineup is fantastic, not to mention Steve Wozniak keynoting. Details coming shortly here and on my blog.
TMC, ITExpo East, January 28-31, 2014,Miami Beach, FL
I'll be moderating four sessions this time around, and I'll be speaking at the trade mission pavilion hosted by the Ontario government's Economic Development department. Details coming shortly here and on my blog.
Cisco Collaboration Summit, October 22-24, 2013, Boca Raton, FL
Meeting of the Minds, September 9-11, 2013, Toronto, ON
TMC, ITExpo, August 26-29, 2013, Las Vegas, NV
I'll be moderating three sessions this time around - details coming shortly!
Mitel, Business Partner Conference 2013, June 25-27, 2013, Hollywood, FL
Interactive Intelligence, Interactions 2013, May 13-15, 2013, Indianapolis, IN
UCStrategies UC Summit, April 28 - May 1, 2013, La Jolla, CA
Know Your Alternatives, February 7, 2013, Toronto, ON
Why VoIP Now? End of Life Scenario Opens the Door for UC - am speaking on this session along with Emily Nielsen at 11:30 on Track #4 - hope you can join us!
TMC ITExpo East, January 30 - February 1, 2013, Miami Beach FL
What's not to like? Sunny Florida, end of January, Super Bowl weekend - oh, and ITExpo! Hope to see you there. I'll be moderating three panels - scan this link for details:
Contact Center Customer Experience: More than "Can You Hear Me Now?" - Wed. at 9:00, Customer Interaction Track
The Real Business Value of an Optimal Customer Experience - Wed. at 1:30, Customer Interaction Track
Turning the Demand for Truly Unified Communications into Revenue - Thurs. at 3:30, Service Provider Solutions Track
ShoreTel Partner/Analyst Conference, November 7-9, 2012, Orlando, FL
At this time, I'll be moderating an ITExpo session and speaking on one at the SUITS event, co-located there.
Vertical Communications, East Coast Analyst Briefing, July 31, 2012, Elizabeth, NJ
Mitel, Business Partner Conference, June 19-21, San Diego, CA
The UC Summit 2012, May 6-9, 2012, La Jolla, CA
This is my first time participating in the UC Summit, run by UCStrategies. It's an invitation-only event with a heavy focus on helping channels bring UC to market. The content and speakers are first-rate, and I'll be speaking on one of the panels on Tuesday. Hope to see you there!
Things You Need to Know About UC, Tuesday, 10-11am, Pacifica Ballroom
IT International Buyers and Global Export Forum 2012, March 20,2012, Toronto, ON
Am making the opening presentation to an audience of Ontario technology companies and international buyers of telecom and IT, including China, Japan, Brazil, Turkey and Mexico. The Forum is being organized by the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation. I'll be speaking about key trends and opportunities in telecom; presentation available upon request.
Am presenting on the SIP Trunking session - Breakout 3, 11:30 - 12:30
This is their Meet the Analysts event, which I'll be moderating. Joining me will be my former Frost & Sullivan workmate, Ronald Gruia, and Mike Abramsky from RBC Equity Research. We'll be sharing our views on key mobile trends for 2012 - should be a great session and a fun networking event. Doors open at 6, and you can get the details here, along with the registration form (it's free!).
1. Wed. at 11am - Building the UC business case
2. Wed. at 1:30pm - How call centers are being reshaped by smartphones, social media and fed-up consumers
3. Friday at 10am - Can UC get social?
This is one of my favorite events, and this year I'll be moderating one of the sessions:
The Market for Small Business Services - Wednesday, 10:50am, Track 4
This is our fourth summit, and once again, I'm pleased to say we have a very strong program. Would be great if you can join us - as usual, we're co-located at the ITExpo and won't be hard to find.
GridWeek 2010, October 18-20, Washington, D.C.
This will be my first time attending GridWeek, and sure will be interesting to compare the experience with our Smart Grid Summit. Am looking forward to meeting lots of companies - some familiar and some new - and if you to find me there, just drop me a line. I'll be attending through Wednesday morning.
The Telepresence Revolution, Wednesday, 4:05pm (if this link doesn't not get you to the session, please search for session #1359 on the Supercomm website)
Beyond Guys in Trucks: Mobilizing Enterprise Applications, Wednesday - 11 - 11:50 a.m.
Enterprise Class Telephony for the SMB, Wednesday, 9:30 - 10:15
When Voice Meets Web 2.0, Thursday, 1:00 - 1:45
Time to Raise or Fold? Consumer Telephony Strategies in a Down Economy
Voice 2.0 - New Ways to Monetize Voice, Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Service Provider IP Telephony - Considerations, Monday at 12:00 pm
Driving Benefits Through Analytics, Wednesday at 12:30 pm
- 2009 Technology Survival Roadmap - SIP Trunking and Beyond, Monday at 4:00pm
- Just for Carriers: SIP Trunk Intensive Workshop, Wednesday at 8:50am
I've been invited by KOTRA to attend this event, and it should be a great opportunity to meet up and coming companies from Korea. There are a number of companies I'm looking forward to meeting from areas such as telephony, wireless, video, IPTV, robotics and home automation.
I've attended this event before as an analyst, and this year will be particularly interesting since Avaya has now been privatized, and Charlie Giancarlo is at the helm. A lot sure can change in the course of a year!
Mobile Marketing 2.0, Thursday, 1pm
SMB VoIP Options, Thursday at 2:00 pm
Panelist: Drumming Up Business, Wednesday, 1 -2 pm
I'm co-Chairing the Unified Communications track, and we've got sessions running all three days. I'll be the lead presenter for one of the tutorials, and am moderating at least one session.
Tutorial: What Does Unified Communications Really Mean?, Monday, 1-4 pm
We're still finalizing some of speakers, but on the whole, the program is very strong. You view the full conference agenda here.
This is widely being touted as the must-do event in 2008 for the latest and greatest in disruptive communications technologies. You won't find a better speaker roster anywhere, and I'm sure the event will be as advertised, if not better.
I'll be moderating one of the sessions...
Mobile Voice Mashups, Thursday, 2:00 pm
To get some background on the event, and the views of Lee Dryburgh, who's putting this together, you'll enjoy my Q&A interview with him that I did for IP Convergence TV.
Finally, to help make up your mind about attending, I can offer you a 15% discount on your registration. To get this, just drop me a line, and I'll send the code to you right away.
I'll be participating in this event in two different ways. As I usually do, I'll be moderating a few sessions - see below. In addition, the Government of Ontario is sponsoring a pavilion to showcase Ontario IT/IP companies at the expo. I've been invited by the Canadian Consulate and the Ministry of Economic Development & Trade to open their Canada/Ontario Business Partnering Reception on the second day of the show - Thursday, 4pm at their pavilion on the show floor. Maybe I'll see you there, and all exhibitors are invited.
Here are the sessions I'll be moderating...
Intelligent Interconnects in the VoIP Peering Environment, Wednesday, 11:00 am
A Look at Hosted VoIP, Wednesday, 12:30 pm
The State of IPTV, Friday, 12:30 pm
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