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What's Now: San Francisco
- January 19, 2017
- The Applied Innovation Exchange, 425 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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A monthly speaking series at the Applied Innovation Exchange
What's Now: San Francisco is a monthly conversation about the most important innovations emerging in the San Francisco Bay Area right now. Every month Capgemini's Applied Innovation Exchange will host a remarkable person who deeply understands one of the many areas exploding with innovation.
For more on the What's Now: San Francisco speaker series, please visit the website.
Upcoming Conversations:
Date/Time: January 19, 2017
Speaker: Jen Pahlka, Founder & Executive Director of Code for America & Tim O'Reilly, Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media
The Bay Area tech community, like much of the rest of the country, is still grappling with what Trump's election will mean for the future of the United States. Jen Pahlka and Tim O'Reilly will lead this difficult and important conversation during our January What's Now: San Francisco event. The founder and Executive Director of Code for America, Jen served as U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer from June 2013 to June 2014 and co-founded the USDS. Tim O'Reilly was a pioneer in the Gov. 2.0 movement in the decade leading into the Obama years. Jen and Tim will discuss the role that technologists passionate about civil service can play in the next four years. How can tech industry professionals serve their country? Will they resist working in Trump's White House? Should the tech community back out of public service, or deepen its commitment? At What's Now, we'll assemble a great collection of people to think through these challenging issues in real time.
Click Here for more information on the upcoming session and how you can attend.
Recent Conversations:
Date/Time: November 15, 2016
Speaker: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California
Date/Time: October 18, 2016
Speaker: Nick Pinkston, Founder & CEO, Plethora
The digital revolution has thoroughly transformed everything to do with information, and we're now in the early stages of the digital revolution transforming the world of material things. Makers of today are like the hackers of the 1990s, who did the experimentation and early innovation that prefigured the information and media world we take for granted now. Today's makers are roughing out innovative new processes that dramatically collapse the time it takes to manufacture goods, and open that process up to anybody who wants to make anything at any time. In our October What's Now: San Francisco event, Nick Pinkston, co-founder of one of San Francisco's most intriguing next-generation manufacturing firms, Plethora, explained what's happening in this new industrial revolution and reflected on the coming repercussions.
Click Here to watch Nick's entire session.
Date/Time: September 22, 2016
Speaker: Jane McGonigal, Director of Games Research & Development, Institute for the Future
At the fourth What's Now gathering at Capgemini's Applied Innovation Exchange, Jane McGonigal, world-renowned game designer and bestselling author, shared the latest in her ground-breaking body of work. Jane believes that Pokemon Go has created super-empowered hopeful individuals around physical activity and social interaction. She outlined the neurological research about the benefits of play, and discussed the success of Pokemon Go. Jane's most recent project involves incorporating gaming into political action through a new form of social canvassing. This game, which launches October 10th, explores whether the same neuroscience that turns Pokemon Go players into super-empowered hopeful individuals can be replicated to draw out these traits in order to increase political engagement.
Click Here to watch Jane's full speaking session.
Date/Time: July 28, 2016
Speaker: Saul Griffith, Co-Founder & CEO, Otherlab
Saul Griffith, co-founder and CEO of Otherlab, presented for the first time an interactive wall-sized map detailing America's daily energy use at the July gathering of What's Now: San Francisco at Capgemini's Applied Innovation Exchange. Saul and his Otherlab team aggregated data from a wide range of obscure databases and created a dynamic visualization that shows the flow of energy through the entire American economy and society. Every day the average American uses the same amount of energy that he or she would get from eating 1,000 cheeseburgers. That's the equivalent of all Americans consuming 320 billion burgers worth of energy every 24 hours.
Watch Saul Griffith's entire presentation here.
Date/Time: June 16, 2016
Speaker: Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick, WIRED
The second gathering of What's Now: San Francisco was held at the Applied Innovation Exchange in San Francisco and featured Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick at WIRED magazine. Kevin Kelly is one of the most original thinkers in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he has spent much of his life seeking out other cutting edge innovators in the region. He has written several influential books and found several influential ventures, from the Hackers Conference, to The Well, to Cool Tools. In his new book, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, Kevin gives early insight into many critical fields exploding in activity throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including two he has been particularly obsessed with - artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Kevin didn't just want to use his What's Now gathering to talk about his book and answer questions. Kevin wanted to "probe the hive mind" of all the innovative brains who gathered that night. We had technology on hand that allowed everyone to instantaneously answer Kevin's questions and collectively learn from the group during this fun and informative evening.
Click Here to watch Kevin Kelly's entire speaking session at What's Now: San Francisco.
Date/Time: May 16, 2016
Speaker: John Battelle, Co-Founder & CEO- NewCo.
John Battelle was the perfect featured speaker to kick off the What's Now: San Francisco series. John was the founding managing editor of WIRED magazine, just a few blocks away from the San Francisco Exchange. As co-founder of the Web 2.0 Summit, he helped reboot the tech industry with a new narrative after the dotcom crash. John has launched half a dozen media startups, including his latest, NewCo Platform.
John laid out his ideas on the evolution of yesterday's startups and spoke on the big-picture story of the Bay Area tech boom, while providing new insights into one of the region's key drivers of innovation.
John sees the tech story as receding in importance, he believes the defining features of tech startups are now moving into the broader economy and transforming business culture.
The timing of this shift could not be more fortuitous, according to John, given mounting challenges ranging from inequality to climate change.
Click below to view highlights of John Battelle at What's Now: San Francisco


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Clean, alternative energy sources are our only hope for a future on this planet. The old ways of depending on oil and coal are doing major damage to our environment. It is this damage that is causing global warming and the destruction of species and habitats. Many scientists predict that if we don't make some serious changes in the next ten years that it may be too late to turn things around. Luckily, many people are working hard to make clean energy sources available for everyone on Earth. One of these alternative energies is that of wind energy.
How Wind Energy Works
The sun heats the earth unevenly, causing some places to get much warmer than others and causing the air in different places to be different temperatures. This uneven heating happens in cycles every 24 hours around the planet. Since warm air rises and cool air falls, the uneven heating causes the air on Earth to be in constant motion. That is all wind is…moving air. The energy from that moving air has been used in a variety of ways throughout our history.
Since almost the beginning of time, people have looked for ways to use wind to do work. Sailors used wind power to move their ships. Many ancient civilizations used windmills to grind grain and to pump water for irrigation systems. Now, in the modern age, we are still working on ways to get our energy from the wind. One way to do this is by using wind turbines to generate electricity. When wind blows on a turbine, it creates mechanical energy by causing the blades to turn (think of how a pinwheel turns when you blow on it.) The blades then spin a generator and the mechanical energy is changed into electricity. This electricity can then be transported through power lines for use in homes and businesses.
Why Should We Use Wind Energy?
Wind energy is a great choice as an energy source because it is clean and renewable. As long as the Earth exists, there will be wind and wind energy does not create any pollution so it is safe for our environment. Wind is also free. Even though the turbines cost money, the wind itself is free for everyone. In some areas, the wind is fairly constant and can be used to provide all, or at least most, of the electricity that is needed. In other places, wind energy is better used together with another clean energy source, such as solar power.
Wind energy is also a good choice because turbines come in a wide variety of sizes. Turbines might be small enough to fit on the rooftop of a house or they may be as tall as a 20-story building with blades longer than a football field! This means there is a turbine to fit every need, no matter how large or small. Across the planet you can see a variety of turbines in use, from small, single turbines used to operate a farm irrigation system to giant wind farms, or fields of many large turbines working together.
Many people like the idea of using wind energy because it doesn't take up much space compared to other energy sources. While it might take a bunch of turbines in one area to make enough electricity, the ground underneath them is still open and safe to use for other things like farming. This makes wind energy one of the most space-efficient kinds of alternative energy available.
Finally, the wind blows everywhere. This means that people in very remote areas where electricity is not available can use wind turbines to make their own electricity. If the area is very windy, turbines could create enough electricity to power small villages or towns, helping people in these areas enjoy the things we often take for granted like lights and refrigerators.
What's Bad About Wind Energy?Almost everything in the world has both good points and bad points and wind energy is no different. Even though wind energy is clean, cheap, and easy to use, there are some things about it that many people don't like. It can be a source of great noise pollution. Just one wind turbine can make as much noise as a car traveling at 70 miles per hour so imagine how noisy a wind farm with hundreds of turbines would be.
Wind energy is not as trouble-free as solar energy, either. Many people live in areas where there is not enough constant wind to use only wind energy so they either have to rely on fossil fuels or another clean energy source for the rest of their electricity. Also, because wind turbines have moving parts, there is a chance of parts breaking or other mechanical failures. Depending on what goes wrong, it can be very expensive to repair a wind turbine.
Other people don't like wind energy because they say it is not always great for our environment. This is because the spinning blades on wind turbines can hurt or kill flying animals such as birds and bats. Many also think that wind turbines, especially large numbers of them together, ruin the natural landscape and destroy the beauty of our planet. Also, even though generating electricity from wind does not cause pollution, there is some pollution caused when the turbines are made. Some people feel like this makes wind energy less clean than some other alternative energy sources.
Although wind energy is not perfect, it is a cheap, clean energy source that is providing electricity for many people who want to stop using fossil fuels. It is also a great source of energy to use together with solar energy. Over time scientists and engineers will keep working on building newer and better wind turbines that will overcome many of the problems we currently have with wind energy. Until that time, it is important that we keep looking at wind and other clean energy sources so we can stop using the fossil fuels that are destroying out planet.Sponsors:

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Upcoming Oracle Corp. Events
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- From: Matt Lyons [mailto:matt.lyons@...]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:59 PM
Subject: News from Oracle CorporationLocal Oracle NewsletterMarch 2006Chris,Mark your calendars...
Oracle will be hosting an Oracle Applications / Technology Day on April 5th at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham . This will be a great opportunity to get the business owners in your organization to see what Oracle is doing on the applications front. Feel free to forward this invitation to others that may see value in attending.
Hope you can make it,
Matt Lyons
Oracle Corporation
Technology Account Manager, AL & MS
1 Perimeter Park South, Suite 100N
Birmingham , AL 35243Oracle Apps / Tech Day, April 5th
Oracle is pleased to bring together the "best of the best"not just quality products, but also highly experienced people and innovative processes. With Oracle technology, applications, and services, we provide greater insight for better decision-making and adaptive business processes for optimal responsiveness to dynamic markets. We do this with a low cost, low risk infrastructure. Discover how your business can benefit at Oracle Day 2006.You'll experience a day of valuable learning and networking with peers and Oracle staff. Start with breakfast and the Oracle keynote, Halfway to Fusion: Delivering Business Value, Continuity, and Choice. Then immerse yourself in breakout sessions, demos, and partner showcases. Don't miss your chance to:
Registration is Required: Register HereLunch and Learn @ Ruth Chris' April 20thLunch and Learn Series - The Value in Moving from Microsoft to Oracle
- Choose from multiple applications sessions: get "how
- Learn about current trends in technology sessions:
- Tour the demo kiosk area: see firsthand how Oracle
- Visit the Oracle Partner Showcase: take advantage
Interested in moving from Microsoft to Oracle? If so, then this L&L may be for you. Come to hear best practices as well as local successes as you move towards the Oracle platform:
April 20th
- Fusion Middleware as THE development platform
- Migration tools to move from MSSQL to Oracle DB
- Oracle DB Cluster
- Value of your Local Sales and Support Team
Seating is limited, Dir / CIOs only please
Check out the Migration Technology Center
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daniel.brock@...</ span>.Oracle Advanced Customer ServicesOracle Advanced Customer Services is a services group within Oracle that delivers an a la carte menu of Technical and Support services. Advanced Customer Services is different from your standard Consulting group in that they can deliver both Technical and Product Support related services from a single services agreement.Advanced Customer Services are designed to proactively work with the customer to ensure maximum uptime and prevent any database or application problems before they occur (Database Performance Tuning, Configuration/Set up assessments, Patching Analysis, Database Upgrades, RAC Installation, and many more). If in the event that problems do occur, Advanced Customer Services can provide a single point of contact for management and resolution of your critical support issues.To get more info, check out http://www.oracle.com/support/ advanced-customer-services/index.html or contact
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text: With a very security conscious society, biometrics based authentication and identification have become center of focus for many important applications as it is believed that biometrics can provide accurate and reliable identification. Biometrics research and technology continue to mature rapidly, driven by pressing industrial and government needs and supported by industrial and government funding. As the number and types of biometrics architectures and sensors increases, the need to disseminate research results increases as well.


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About the Faustin Brothers Triology
Three brothers. Three brides. No melodramatic undead.
The Faustin brothers are natural vampires, born and raised in Brooklyn. Each receives the name of their soulmate via prophecy, then it's up to them to hunt down their brides and claim them.
The youngest, Alex, is the family romantic. He's always wanted to marry, but his human mate has no interest in marrying a monster. His story is Called by Blood.
The middle brother, irascible, workaholic Gregor, has no intention of marrying, prophecy or no prophecy. Fate has other ideas. His story is Bound by Blood.
The eldest, Mikhail, is a lonely prince. When he learns his destined bride is his arch enemy, he knows he'll be mated or dead within the month. His story is Damned by Blood.
What order do you read them in?
Each book stands alone, so don't worry too much about reading them in order. In fact, there's a little blip in the chronology of the stories as they were released, so that the events in the book released first, Called by Blood, occur after the events of book #2, Bound by Blood.
This doesn't effect the stories at all, but if you're a stickler for chronology, the sequence you should follow is Bound by Blood, Called by Blood and finally, Damned by Blood.
My goal with these stories was to write vampires that I could believe in--and more importantly, that I'd find sexy, because let's face it, vampires are basically giant parasites. The result, I hope, is a series of books that all lovers of erotic romance will enjoy, whether or not they are big vamp fans.
One of my favorite reviews of Called by Blood came from a person who was burnt out on paranormals and didn't like vampire stories in general:
"It's no secret that I took a break from paranormals ages ago....So I'm sure it'll come as a great shock to you that not only did I read a vampire paranormal romance, but I actually enjoyed it. Quite a bit..." --Holly at Book Binge
So I hope you'll give my brothers a try--and let me know what you think!


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TEACH Grant
The U.S. Department of Education's Teach Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Programprovides grant funds to postsecondary students who are completing or planning to complete coursework that is needed to begin a career in teaching, and who agree to serve for at least four years as a full-time, highly qualified teacher in a high-need field, in a school serving low-income students.
For 2016-2017, the rates are as follows:
Current regulations state eligible full-time students who receive the first disbursement of a TEACH Grant on or after October 1, 2015, but before October 1, 2016, may receive $3728 for the year. Aggregate awards for undergraduate students would be $14,912 while graduate students could have aggregate awards of $7456.
New regulations state eligible full-time students who receive the first disbursement of a TEACH Grant on or after October 1, 2016 and before October 1, 2017, may receive $3724 for the year. Therefore, the aggregate awards for undergraduate students would be $14,896 while the aggregate awards for graduate students would be $ 7,448.
TEACH Grants are prorated for less than full-time enrollment.
TEACH Grant Eligibility
To be eligible for the TEACH Grant, you must:
Be a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen.
Complete a FAFSA, although you do not have to demonstrate financial need to be eligible
Complete TEACH Grant entrance counseling and sign a TEACH Grant Agreement to Service (ATS) each year.
Be enrolled in coursework or plan to complete coursework toward a career in teaching in a high-need subject area.
Have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.25 as a high school graduate and maintain that GPA throughout your academic program OR score above the 75th percentile on at least one section (English, math, reading) of a national standardized college admission test (SAT or ACT).
Must be enrolled in one of the appropriate Southern Miss degree programs and maintain at least a 3.25 Cumulative GPA each semester.
Teaching Obligation:
Within eight years of finishing your teacher preparation program, you must serve as a full-time teacher in a high-need field for at least four years in designated schools that serve low-income students. If you receive the TEACH Grant but do not fulfill the requirements of the program, your grant will convert to a direct unsubsidized loan, which you will have to repay with interest calculated back to the date the funds were disbursed. Once it converts to a loan it can never go back to a grant.
TEACH Grant Application Process
- Complete a FAFSA.
- Complete Southern Miss Application for TEACH Grant for 2016-2017 or for 2017-2018.
- Complete TEACH Grant Entrance Counseling.
- Sign and return your Financial Aid Award Letter or accept award on SOAR.
- Complete an Agreement to Serve (ATS) once you have accepted award.


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Lately, it seems like city government has been pushing everything through to a vote. Even King County has created Proposition 1 to let voters decide if they want to save Metro bus service in a first-ever special county election. And the Seattle City Council has decided to ask the public to cast their votes on the proposed Metropolitan Parks Districts this August.
Letting those actually impacted by the decisions make them is a great idea, although it's very costly to pay for elections, especially special elections.
Some would argue, why bother with the middleman? The Seattle political process is not efficient. We like to form committees, conduct studies, hold meetings, but there never quite seems to be a decision that comes out of it.
City leaders work tirelessly and, most of the time, thanklessly. Still, that doesn't mean they couldn't and shouldn't strive to be more efficient.
Allowing citizens to vote is a critical part of the democratic process. So even though local governments are making fewer decisions themselves, we'd rather have the decisions in our hands — we'll certainly get lots of practice.


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- Open File System
- Go to /usr/share/Applications
- Right click on selected Applications
- Select "Copy To" from right click menu.
- Click on Desktop and Voila, your Desktop shortcut is ready!
Make your integrated WebCam work with Ubuntu 15.04
Integrated web cam stopped working when I updated to Ubuntu 15.04, running on Acer Aspire 4720Z(2GB RAM, 160GB HDD). Searched a lot for the solutions, finally Googling paid off.
- You need to download/install the package 'webcam'
- sudo apt-get install webcam
- After installing the package you need to restart your machine and can check with cheese webcam app
- sudo apt-get install cheese
Journey to alien city
After more than 30 months of professional stint at my home location, I chose to work in a different city, far far away from my default sets(Longitude,Latitude). Reason for this decision is still unknown to me but will try to give them words.
1) To be successfully independent, Be it financial, emotional and mental.
2) To explore new Life,Place,Culture,Climate and Food.
3) Heard a lot about the diplomatic climate of Pune, thought to give it a try.
4) To find out my passion, It was not that accessible when I was with my family.
5) To befriend more strangers and accomplish my sole aim of life 🙂
And many, Few important ones are meant to be written in secret diary but not here 😉
Why Can't We Wear Kurta-Pyjama to an Interview?
Recently I came across an article titled "How to dress for an interview". The article was no doubt excellent and very informative but one section of the article rang bells in my ears. Well, it had clearly distinguished shirt and trousers from kurtapajamas calling the former as "formal dress" while the latter as "traditional dress" and thereby declaring it as "not appropriate" for an interview or any formal meeting. Though this has been the norm ever since I was born, I am yet to figure out why the "corporate wardrobe" doesn't include Indian wear. Why is it just a "costume" for specific occasions and not a regular clothing?
Why can't we wear kurta pyjama at interview? Even women have the privilege of wearing saree and salwar kameez at work or while appearing for interviews. In India, the saree is always invoguebut where is Indian wear for men? Men de rigueur wear only shirts and trousers and unfortunately this outfit is not at all Indian but a foreign adaptation just like our car, our mobile phones, our cosmetics so on and so forth.
Look around, staff after staff is bereft of Indian attire. In this contemporary age of industry and entrepreneurship, Indian attire is rarely seen since they botched, or we botched, in making them office wear, formal wear or everyday wear.
We wear Indian attires for festivals, weddings and even at a funeral but in the office or while going to meetings and interview we do not dress in Indian clothes. Even if some office going women in semi-urban or rural areas can be seen wearing sarees or salwar kameez, men are not. The 'unofficial' dress code to attend an interview for a job in big city is always the Western wear. Have you ever spotted a man wearing a kurtapyjama to an interview for a job with any company? Forget the multinationals, men go suited-booted to any interview with any XYZ company.
Poignant demise of kurta pyjama or shall I say Indianess? There was India, with all its exceptional textiles encompassing unique textures and colors. No one in the world was wearing that and now we can't even wear our once so distinctive dress while going for a very important day of our career. Sad!
Not long ago the women and child department of the Haryana government directed its staff to abstain from wearing jeans and T-shirts at work. The subject matter of this circular went like this: "To wear decent clothes in office". That really makes one wonder, "Are jeans and T-shirt indecent?" The circular was mainly addressed to the field staff stating, "It has been observed that some officers/officials come to office in jeans/T-shirts/Western dresses which sometimes not only look odd but are also in contravention of government rules."
Oh! The issue seems to be the "western outfit" then why not ask the employees to wear kurta pyjamas? They are decent enough, right? Covers the entire legs just like a pant and entire arm just like a full sleeve shirt, right? Even then why can't we wear Indian dresses to work? Why don't news anchors, for instance, wear Kurta pajamas instead of suits?
Indian attires seem to be just a costume limited to specific days on news channels. Udayan Mukherjee, the frontage of the share markets, adorns impressive bandhgalas only on mahurat trading and not otherwise. The dresses of the news anchors have an effect on the viewers as much as the news. If a top anchor is seen wearing kurta pyjama while presenting the daily news almost on a regular basis, it will bring in a change in the perception of the masses towards Indian dresses.
Why is kurta pyjama limited to religious ceremonies only? We pull out our traditional Indian dress from the corner of our closets only on Holi, Diwali, Dasshera or other festive occasions. We never 'dare' to wear them to an interview or a formal event. Why can't one wear a kurta pyjama to a board meeting or interview? Why is it not included in the "corporate wardrobe"?
Do you think we look serious and committed wearing shirts and trousers while not so sophisticated in kurta pyjamas? Is it the same India which once boycotted foreign goods and wanted to be independent from outsiders but now feels ashamed to include Indian dress in its corporate dress code.
Souces: adopted.
Event that changed life
"Nothing is working","I am nothing","No one loves me","She doesn't like me","My life is not worthy".. These were the thoughts in his mind that day. He googled "Painless methods to commit suicide" and got million of results, but one link attracted him . He clicked on that link page loads completely, It was from some Suicide prevention control. There was a beautiful quote in that page
"Committing suicide is very daring job. If you had 10% of that dare you would have got what you want"
Damage was already done, he was now very curious to get that 10% of dare to acheive what he wants. So, he emailed them
"Hi Team,
I am going through this this this and I wanted this this this but it came out to be this this this, I need your help
After writing down all the waste, he forgot about what he was trying to do and went outside, played cricket, Gupshup with friends, ate mummy ke hath ka bana hua gajar ka halwa and else.
He completely forgot about the mail he wrote, and of course he was not expecting any reply for the mail he forgot.
After 2 days he got a reply from the NGO.
"Dear XYZ,
Sorry for the delayed response, Are you still there??
If yes, Please elaborate your problems
After reading the mail he was doing LMAO, ROFL and rest. On that day he decided to never take that ultimate step and never ever, ever never write mail to that NGO.
And Guys, right now he is very successful Stand Up Comedian and doing job in MNC.
I don't know what is the moral of this story, if you know please let me know 😀 😀 🙂
It's time to make a difference
Against the rising waves
your boat is helpless and tired
living one gasp at a time…
though the currents are against you
its time to make a difference
hoist the sail with courage
this is all about your pride
shout ahoy and push ahead..
this is all about your pride
conquer and raise the victory flag
its time to do or die
fly and reach for the sun
leave behind the darkness
powerful storms will shake you..
if you surrender to a whirlpool
what good is your might?
let the light in your heart overcome
break away from the night
master the tides…
so that the seas may salute you
living one gasp at a time..
though the currents are against you
its time to make a difference..
10 Signs You've Found Your Soulmate!!
1. You can't imagine any probable scenario in life when they aren't by your side.
2. You can sit quietly, without busting a nerve wondering what they are thinking and contemplating the magnitude of their love for you.
3. They will laugh at your absolutely disgusting, pitiful jokes when noone else does. They will still laugh at those jokes when you stop getting invited to parties and general social gatherings (obviously because of aforementioned pitiful jokes).
4. They will believe in your dream of launching yourself on an oreo, in to space, while wearing a monkey suit. They will believe in all your dreams.
5. They know the most embarrassing details of your life, in all probability they were there when you were doing said deeds, but they will never divulge details to anyone else. They might, however, torture you regularly by threatening to do so. What's life without a little adventure?
6. With them there is nothing like too many hugs or too much affection!
7. You love doing things for them, that you wouldn't otherwise undertake. A swimming lesson, a pottery class, a book reading or a frog dissection class, you'd do anything to see them smile!
8. They will stand behind you despite knowing that your decision is absolute rubbish! The best part? They will also have your back when your masterplan promptly blows up in your pretty little face!
9. You cannot stay mad at them. You feel like you are physically programmed to "un-hate" them as soon as a fight is over!
10. Your loyalty towards them is unwavering, your love for them is unquestioning and you undoubtedly embarrass humanity everytime you guys do your jig but the universe loves you for it!


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A 15-cents-per-gallon rebate is available for 60 days after customers register online. Speedpass customer appreciation days are back. To express appreciation to customers, ExxonMobil is repeating a favorite promotion of 15-cents-per-gallon rebate of gas purchased with a registered Speedpass account. Beginning today, customers may register their Speedpass accounts at Speedpass.com/save to earn discounts for a
ExxonMobil To Reward Speedpass Customers
Fuel Rewards Luring Customers
With gas prices rising, loyalty programs are rewarding customers with steep discounts. By Erin Rigik, Associate Editor. With fuel prices approaching record highs in May, customers were thinking carefully about where they stop for gas and are paying more attention to rewards programs that offer cents-off fuel gallons purchased. Convenience store chains are responding with
ExxonMobil Speedpass Customers Awarded Gas Savings
Free promotion available to those who register between May 2 and June 30, 2011. To express appreciation to customers and to give branded wholesalers another way to enhance customer loyalty, ExxonMobil is offering 15 cents off per gallon of fuel purchased with a registered Speedpass account. Starting with registration on May 2, 2011, customers can


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Exploring U.S. Strategy in Iraq
Friday, July 6, 2007; 12:00 PM
Over the last three months, tens of thousands of additional U.S. troops have been deployed to Iraq in what some U.S. officials have called a "last chance" effort to stabilize the country. The shift in strategy has pushed U.S. forces deeper into Baghdad neighborhoods and created more outpost positions, which U.S. troops occupy together with Iraqi soldiers. While violence has decreased in Baghdad and Anbar province, where the bulk of the additional forces are concentrated, it has increased elsewhere in Iraq.
Videos: Baghdad Tour (washingtonpost.com, July 6)
Post military reporter Ann Scott Tyson has been covering the U.S. strategy in Iraq and will be online Friday, July 6, at Noon ET to answer reader questions.
The transcript follows.
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Takoma Park, Md.: Thanks for answering our questions. There have been news reports in the past couple of days about yet another investigation of possible Marine involvement in the deaths of Iraqis, this time eight prisoners. Last year there were at least two cases involving civilian deaths. In all three incidents, the Marines were from Camp Pendleton. My questions is, how can this happen? I have read Nathaniel Fick's "One Bullet Away" and was struck by the rigorous training Marines undergo. If these men are so highly trained, how does the discipline collapse? I know that the Marines are not the only branch of the military involved in such things, but they do take pride in their discipline. Are the Marines accepting marginal recruits because they are under pressure to meet goals, and this is one of the consequences? Or is there something else going on?
washingtonpost.com: Marines face new probe over eight Iraq deaths (Reuters, July 5)
Ann Scott Tyson: In general, I believe U.S. troops show a lot of restraint in combat -- but the age, maturity and experience levels of the forces do play a role. The Marines tend to be a younger force by design, and may be more vulnerable to overreacting in some situations. Having said that, such abuses remain relatively rare.
Wheaton, Md.: Is it safe to assume that if the U.S. troops leave, then the Iraqi terrorists will take over, especially as that is exactly what just happened in the Gaza strip after the Israeli withdrawal?
Ann Scott Tyson: If all U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq rapidly, I do not believe that the Iraqi government or security forces would be able to prevent the outbreak of greater violence, including sectarian violence, and efforts by extremist groups to take control, particularly in certain regions.
Washington, D.C.: President Bush and Vice President Cheney constantly talk about "winning" or being victorious in Iraq. What exactly constitutes a victory in Iraq? Will women hold high public office there in ten years? Will Baghdad experience less violence than New Orleans? Will people of different religious faiths be welcome to live and worship there? What are the precise conditions that constitute a win or a victory? I've never understood it and I invite others to explain it to me.
Ann Scott Tyson: The Bush administration has published a strategy for "victory in Iraq" that you probably can find online, and in general the stated goal is an Iraq that is unified, has a representative government, is a partner against terrorism and can defend its borders.
However, it is interesting recently to see shifts in terminology regarding more immediate goals in Iraq. For example, official statements by U.S. commanders and others have placed less emphasis on political "reconciliation" and more on accommodation, which is a less ambitious goal. So it is important to watch for these nuances.
Boston: Where are the large scale (potentially permanent) U.S. bases located in Iraq (either built or being built)? Is there at least one in each of the three potential zones if some form of partition were to take place? Not to get too far ahead, but how would you distribute a 50,000 troop force across these bases given the various internal (Shia, Sunni, Kurd) and external (al-Qaeda, Syria, Iran, others) long-term threats to the country, assuming that was the number of U.S. troops that were politically acceptable to leave as a stabilizing force?
Ann Scott Tyson: There are several large bases in Iraq, primarily those with airports and long runways, as well as major logistics operations -- such as in Balad and outside Baghdad -- that would be candidates to remain as long-term bases. There are potential bases in each of the three regions that likely would exist in the case of partition. I would imagine that the troop distribution would remain similar to what it is today, with fewer troops in the Shiite south and northern Kurdish areas and more in the central areas that are predominantly Sunni or mixed in terms of sect and ethnicity.
New Brunswick, N.J.: How can the U.S. be asking the current Iraqi government to be non-sectarian at the same time the U.S. has begun to pursue a policy of using Sunnis (including former "enemy combatants") to fight other Iraqis (as reported on June 30 by the New York Times)? What has happened to the U.S. compares less to Vietnam than the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan. We simply do not have the power to occupy Iraq.
Ann Scott Tyson: There are clearly risks to enlisting Sunni tribes and former insurgents to fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq and other fighters, but as far as I know this tends to be Sunni against Sunni, and so is not sectarian in nature. Overall, the U.S. military is more sensitive now than in earlier stages of the war to the sectarian implications of training, arming and deploying certain forces.
Winnipeg, Canada: President Bush has said that the occupying forces cannot lose as long as they stay in Iraq. How realistic is that position? I worry that with increased violence, and with the knowledge that some members of the Iraqi army are also off-duty insurgents, there is a possibility that a large faction of the Iraqi army might turn on the occupying forces. Could President Bush's version of supporting the troops eventually result in them being overrun with devastating casualties?
Ann Scott Tyson: It is probably correct that from strictly a military standpoint, they would not lose. Even the best Iraqi Army units are no match for U.S. forces. But there are risks, for example, for members of the small U.S. military advisory teams that work every day with Iraqi Army and police units. Those troops trust Iraqi forces with their lives on a daily basis. So, I do not think Iraqi forces could take on the current force, but they could in individual situations manage to kill some U.S. troops.
Rockville, Md.: Why don't the military strategists put drones (with infrared capability) all over Baghdad to spot people placing bombs? I don't see why this isn't possible (is Baghdad that big?). Also in a similar vein shouldn't we have rooftop outposts every few blocks for a similar purpose? Also, I have heard that Iraqi recruits are untrustworthy and indifferent. Isn't there anything the U.S. military/Iraqi government do to motivate these troops? Also why haven't we attacked Iran yet, we have caught them with their hand in the cookie jar.
Ann Scott Tyson: You asked a lot of questions! There are a lot of drones flying over Baghdad, as well as helicopters and other aircraft that do play a role in looking for bombs. However, there is high demand for all of these military assets to support ongoing operations by ground troops, monitor houses for targets, etc., and it's really just a question of demand and supply.
The motivations of Iraqi recruits vary greatly, and in some cases their loyalties are questionable. Overall, the U.S. military has worked hard to make sure they are paid and have adequate logistical support as a way to motivate them.
Anonymous: In the Haifa Street video, did the one guy have a blanket over his face so Iraqis wouldn't know he was working with/for the Americans?
Ann Scott Tyson: In the Haifa Street video, there was an Iraqi interpreter wearing a blue shirt and hat who was wearing a scarf because he did not want to be identified as working with Americans. Interestingly, one of the American soldiers also was wearing a scarf, because he had worked on Haifa Street for a whole year earlier and felt everyone there knew him and didn't want to be singled out.
Sun Prairie, Wis.: Ms. Tyson: Thanks for doing this chat, first of all, and my compliments also for your story about the Kiowa crash incident earlier in the week. It was a really fine piece of writing.
My question concerns Gen. Petraeus, whose ideas about counterinsurgency I mostly agree with. However, I also think the time for them in Iraq was at least three, probably four years ago; too much water has passed under the bridge for them to be effective now. I thought that Petraeus, who'd had success as a divisional commander in the Mosul area taking an approach different from that adopted by other American generals, was so intent to try his ideas on a countrywide basis that he'd lost sight of how much the passage of time had reduced their chances of working. Am I in the ballpark here? I respect Petraeus, but professional frustration can influence one's perspective, and he had a lot of it.
Ann Scott Tyson: Thank you -- and others -- for your thoughtful questions. I agree that as the years pass it has become far more difficult for U.S. troops to accomplish their goals, for a variety of reasons. Iraqis in many areas are tired of having their homes searched and being asked the same questions by each different U.S. unit that comes through. The number of Iraqi civilians killed in the fighting, in some cases by U.S. troops at checkpoints, etc., continues to grow -- and that stirs resentment. And the increase of sectarian violence has made the conflict far more complex for U.S. troops.
Having said that, the strategy of Gen. Petraeus has had an impact, such as reducing the upward spiral of sectarian killing in Baghdad, but clearly it is too early to know whether overall the strategy will be able to work or not.
West Orange, N.J.: The "surge" is supposedly based on a scheme of "clear, hold and build." The press reports assorted shootouts and sieges, but we don't get a clear picture of just how much the cleared areas grow or (more important) what portion can stay clear under Iraqi supervision and not revert to insurgent control. Is there any regular morgue tally by neighborhood to gauge the real (as opposed to alleged) change in security?
Ann Scott Tyson: On the neighborhoods cleared, in Baghdad the U.S. military now estimates that about half the neighborhoods are under control, while the rest are still more heavily contested or in the process of being cleared. It is taking longer to gain control of Baghdad's neighborhoods -- the focus of the surge -- partly because troops have been dispatched to outlying hot spots such as Diyala, and also because they have had to re-clear some part of the capital where insurgents are more entrenched and fighting hard. The military in Baghdad keeps a weekly count of the neighborhoods in four different phases: disrupt, clear, control, and hold. So far only a few are in the hold phase.
In terms of the morgue tally, I only have seen Baghdad morgue figures and am not aware of local tallies. The U.S. military keeps its track of civilian casualties, but acknowledges that it is incomplete because it is only what U.S. forces report.
Silver Spring, Md.: Dear Ms. Tyson: I am no military expert, but it seems to me that our forces still are fighting and being trained to fight as if every major conflagration were World War II all over again. I thought we would have learned from Vietnam to fight guerilla insurgencies, but it appears not. I would think that the military would better focus a majority of their forces in unconventional warfare rather than leaving those tasks up to relatively small special forces units. It also would be advantageous to train our officers in such rather than have them sitting in a classroom "learning" about how to fight an unconventional war. Just my two cents.
Ann Scott Tyson: There has been a growing emphasis on unconventional warfare by conventional forces in the past few years. While generally less skilled than Special Forces teams, many regular infantry units at the grassroots have developed a good understanding of the basic ideas of unconventional warfare.
West Orange, N.J.: The Sunni AMS and the Shiite Sadrists have refused to discuss or vote on the proposed new oil law. They apparently think that U.S. and U.K. firms should not even be allowed to participate in the industry. Friends indeed. But if this leaves the parliament without a quorum, what is Prime Minister al-Maliki to do? Without this reform, isn't anything done in the surge more or less pointless?
Ann Scott Tyson: Senior U.S. commanders and officials would agree with you that political progress is essential if there ultimately is to be success in Iraq, and that so far that progress has been disappointing. They also agree that Maliki is beholden in many ways to narrow sectarian interests and that his ability to shape events is limited. That is one reason there is more focus lately on working out compromises between local groups.
Chicago: Bottom line: How proactive are we being in Iraq? How much of our effort there is simply to react to events on the ground and to try to contain the damage? In other words, if you could analogize our forces to firefighters battling a blaze, do we have Iraq under control? Is the fire contained? Or are we simply trying to save some of the houses while the forest burns? Thanks.
Ann Scott Tyson: I do not think Iraq is under control, but U.S. forces are containing the damage to a degree. For example, the sectarian "cleansing" of Baghdad virtually ran its course in 2006, but the fault lines between Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods have been fairly stable since the troop surge got underway. Clearly, the situation differs from place to place, with improvements in security in Anbar in the west, while Diyala to the east has deteriorated.
West Orange, N.J.: How many Saudi agencies or charities have significant human or financial presence in Iraq? If any Saudi missionaries or aid workers happen to be found (incidentally, of course) among captured insurgents, do we lock them up or release them to Saudi authorities? Do non-Iraqis constitute a large or tiny share of insurgents captured?
Ann Scott Tyson: I have come across Saudi charities in Iraq, so I know they have operated there, and my belief is that any foreigner captured as an insurgent is handled the same way, regardless of what job they were doing in Iraq. According to the U.S. military non-Iraqis are a small share of captured insurgents.
Why would the terrorists win?: Ann: Regarding your comment that our departure would lead to greater violence, why is the only outcome of that (according to the administration and their supporters) that the terrorists would win and take over the country? Al-Qaeda is a Sunni group; Iraq is largely Shia. Also, we're told that the large majority of Iraqis are interested in peace and "on our side." If that's true (and if isn't, why are we there?) then we should be able to at least supply them with enough resources to literally have a fighting chance.
Ann Scott Tyson: I do not think I said that the terrorists would win; I think sectarian violence is the biggest threat now, but I do believe that extremist groups would take advantage of the chaos and the weakness of the Iraqi government and its forces.
Rockville, Md.: Because I think Iraq will be settled as a U.S. political question rather than as a military event, it makes me wonder at some of the political tactics. Why do so many say "that is a good idea but it is too late"? I would expect a good idea to be good, and a bad idea to be bad. How does the timing make a difference?
Ann Scott Tyson: Timing makes a difference because of the cumulative impact of the human, economic and other costs of war.
Rockville, Md.: Why are so many Republican senators staking out positions before the surge is evaluated? Do they give up on the political process, the surge, or do they just want to avoid the stampede?
washingtonpost.com: Key GOP Senator Breaks With Bush (Post, July 6)
Ann Scott Tyson: I don't cover Congress, but in general Americans are an impatient people.
Ann Scott Tyson: Thanks for all the excellent questions. I am signing off now.
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quote:Originally posted by Tom Ogg:
What made Reggies so special?
quote:Originally posted by Sheryl:
Oh wow! What a vacation. It was out first time curising and we loved it. The Sun was great. (Nothing really to compare it too) But we loved the "free style" dining not only do you not have to get dressed up (still did anyway most nights) but you eat whenever you are ready. The food was great. If you have any other specific questions just ask! Also we did the cave tubbing in Belize. Totally book it on your own! The cruise was charging $96 for the same thing and we did it through Reggies: http://www.regtour.com/ hum the site isn't working but here's his email firstname.lastname@example.com
for $55. And the cruise ship canceled thier cave tubbing! Something about high water. So many people were mad. I told another family about Reggies and they did it with us. It was great. It was about 18 total people and we had 3 guides. The water was great, even for "high water levels" I felt totally safe with those guys.
We had Lionel as a guide and he was great. X-strem was also there with thier group and just by looking it seemed they did not have enough guides. They about about 25+ people and two guides. Lionel had to keep helping some of the other's group, But like he said he wasn't going to let anyone drown. On the way home from tubing we went by this Orchard farm (forgot the name) and had great rice, beans, chicken, amd awesome potatoe salad. $6. Some of the best food we had all week. My husband got the best maragarita there too. It was one of the best excusions we did while on the cruise. Definately book through Reggies! If you have any other questions just ask.
quote:Originally posted by katzy2:
Hi Exg, We just got back on 1/22 from the Sun and had a great time! It was our first cruise so we didn't know what to expect, the room was spacious and very nice, the food was great, we didn't eat at the buffet except twice for breakfast, we mostly ate at 7 seas, Jeppanakki, and at Adagio, which were excellent. The ship is extremely clean and every crew member treated us like we were kings and queens, and our children like little princesses. I can't say a negative thing about norweigan sun. Also we did the cave tubing in Belize, we went through Extreme Excursions.com, Thomas and Richard were unbelievable. To go through them, the cost is less, the tubing is longer and the personal care goes unmatched. There is a BBQ place at the end that will sell you a plate of fantastic food for $5 worth about $12 in our opinion. The water is Chrystal clear, the caves are amazing, don't miss this one!
quote:Originally posted by Sheryl:
Sorry for the delay. Super busy. but sure you can meet up with him at the dock, but here are the directions on how to find the REAL Reggies. We did have someone like he says that will try to help us find "reggie". anyway follow the directions excatly and he should be there but even if you don't want to prepay i'd still be in contact with him otherwise he might not be there if no one else already booked.
You are confirmed, here is how to locate us when you get off the ship, and feel free to bring along any others you may meet on ship that wants to join us that day. We will be there waiting for you.
once again here is the info you'll need when you arrive.
don't be concerned about the timing , the ships always change things around so as to confuse folks who do not buy their tours. so just come off ship as soon as possible, we are out there from early and will stay until we see people like your self coming off, we then wait a lot longer then we will leave if you do not show up, If the rest of our group are off and you are still sleeping on ship .......ss..oo..rr..yyy we must then presume that you will not show. this very rarely happens so it will not be a problem.
Be sure to print this one out
and bring it with you for reference::::::::::::
here is the update on how to locate me, Its easy if you know where to find
your right hand & if you know how to walk straight then we have already met,
walk of Boat, straight through the terminal, turn right and walk to our bus or van.
important please read and pass it on to any others you meet on ship who are
in, or who wants to join the group as last minute bookers:
I am no longer in side at the dock. this is how
to find the Real Reggie's cave tubing, when you are sitting on the smaller
boats that brings you passengers on land, always try to sit on the right
side facing the front if possible,as you near the land you will see a light
House & THE RADISSON HOTEL, just pass THE LIGHT HOUSE you will see a white
Bus MARKED A-1 TOURS and or a white Ford van,( if its not marked A-1 its not
the real Reggie's ) both
of them will have a green Flag, you may even see me or my guide waving at
you, your boat will go pass my vehicles letting you off at the cruise
terminal. now as soon get off the boat just go through the building on to
the street,then
turn right and walk back towards the light house, we will be right there
waiting for you, do not be fooled by any one who claims to be me ( there may be
others in side in grey shirt,s who may pretend to
represent me, don't be fooled by them, REMEMBER YOU MUST FIRST GO OUTSIDE TO
YOU GET TO THE LIGHT HOUSE) there will be lots of other
hustlers just turn right on the street and keep walking to the bus or van
its only a hundred yards or so. if you have any problems then go to the
phone booth in the
terminal call me collect ( Reggie ) at 610-1541 if no reply REDIAL.
please print this out and bring it with you , If you
to come in before 6:AM Belize time don't be alarmed if you don't see my vans
or the bus as I usually get there around 6:30 to 7: 00 am BZ time. just go
to wards the light house and enjoy the scenic view I will show up. if its
raining then ( wait under the big shed on the street you will see it ),or
contact any one of the phone # in this message and we will
drive up to the terminal door and pick you up, its a no Parking zone that is
why I can't wait there. here are two other cell Phone # just in case you
don't make contact on the previous ones, (600 -7565 that's my wife "the
boss" - ( 610 4904 ) thats Jahmai our # 1 guide ) ( 609 3691 that's Dave ) let me know that you are reading this.
If you can...............Reggie


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As just announced by Strikeforce executive Scott Coker on today's pre-fight media call, Derek Brunson has been pulled from his bout with Jacare Souza for an inability to pass his pre-fight medical exam.
No other details weere given.
The March 3rd event is set to go down from the Nationwide Arena in Columbus Ohio and with a bantamweight title fight between challenger Ronda Rousey and champion Miesha Tate in the headlining slot.
Jacare is a world renowned submission grappler who at one point held the Strikeforce middleweight title. He last saw action losing his strap to new champ, Luke Rockhold this past September.
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Although U.S. transportation fatalities increased slightly last year, aviation remained one of the safest forms of travel, according to preliminary figures released by the NTSB last month.
The number of people killed in all aviation accidents dropped from 1,171 in 2001 to 618 last year. In 2001 airline fatalities accounted for a total of 531 deaths, a figure that includes the crew and passengers on the four airplanes hijacked on 9/11 (but not ground fatalities) and the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 near New York JFK Airport in November.
There were no fatalities on scheduled passenger carriers last year, but the number of general aviation fatalities increased slightly from 562 in 2001 to 576 in 2002. In addition, there were 33 deaths in on-demand air taxis, versus 60 in 2001, and nine involving non-U.S.-registered aircraft, compared with five in 2001.
More people were killed in recreational boating–750–than in all forms of aviation. Total marine deaths were 793, although fatalities declined in marine cargo transportation, commercial fishing and commercial passenger operations from 91 in 2001 to 43 last year. In 2001, recreational boating accounted for 681 deaths and the total for all marine accidents was 772.
Total rail fatalities increased last year to 861 from 823 in 2001, reflecting a rise in pedestrian fatalities associated with intercity rail operations. Of that total, there were 227 passenger deaths, including 220 on light, heavy and commuter trains and seven intercity passengers. By far the largest number of fatalities occurred on and off the nation's roads, where some form of vehicle caused 42,815 deaths.


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In March the 40-year-old had to abandon her first attempt 400 miles (644km) short of her target and was airlifted off the ice following supply problems.
When Daniels returned to her Whimple home, she said she felt cheated and would try to make another attempt .
The mother-of-four's new bid could begin as early as next March.
Harder terrain
Ms Daniels, who left from Siberia on her previous trek, is now planning a new starting point.
She said: "I am going again, but this time from Canada because of the problems I had last time. I cannot risk it again."
Although the explorer will have to cover fewer miles on her new attempt, she said the terrain will be harder and more physically demanding.
During her previous trip Ms Daniels has two close encounters of the furry kind with polar bears and used a Magnum handgun to scare one off.
She is a veteran of a number of polar expeditions. Ms Daniels and London-based film financier Caroline Hamilton, were the first women to reach both North and South Poles.
The search is now on to find a major sponsor to fund the trip.


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A winless November cost the Arizona Wildcats a top-tier bowl game, a national ranking and countless fans.
But all will be forgiven if the reeling Wildcats can defeat rival Arizona State in tonight's Territorial Cup showdown at Arizona Stadium. A once-promising season can be redeemed as something positive and productive, even though the UA will finish third in the Pac-10 and out of Rose Bowl contention.
"There's a lot of goals we wanted to obtain. Some we didn't," coach Mike Stoops said. "But this has always been a goal of ours, to beat Arizona State. It will always be a goal, regardless of whoever the head coach is here. We understand the significance."
This year's Territorial Cup game comes with a victory bonus. Arizona (7-4 overall, 4-4 Pac-10) would receive a bid to the Dec. 29 Alamo Bowl if it can defeat its rival and Stanford earns a spot in a Bowl Championship Series game.
With a win, the Wildcats can match last season's win total and establish further dominance in a series marked as much by streaks as by hatred. The UA has won its last two Territorial Cup games; a third would mark the program's longest run of success since 1993 to 1995.
Stoops can improve to 4-3 against ASU - a big deal to many even if the fiery coach downplays its meaning.
ASU won 2005 to 2007, keeping UA out of the postseason twice.
"They were kicking our butts for a while," left tackle Adam Grant said. "Now we want to see a three-peat."
Arizona State (5-6, 3-5) comes to Tucson sporting a new starting quarterback (Brock Osweiler), a dominant defensive player (linebacker Vontaze Burfict) and a swagger not seen since coach Dennis Erickson took the team to a Holiday Bowl in 2007. The Sun Devils are desperate and dangerous, a scary combination for a UA team suffering a three-game losing streak.
Osweiler threw for 380 yards and four touchdowns against UCLA on Friday in relief of Steven Threet. Erickson named Osweilier the starter Monday.
"Coming off the bench and starting now is a little different game," Erickson said. "He's stayed on top of things when he was the backup - the old 'one-play-away' trick. He really focused on what he needed to do."
Arizona can slow whatever momentum the Devils have by getting to the 6-foot-8-inch Osweiler, who once committed to play basketball at Gonzaga.
It won't be easy: The UA hasn't registered a sack since defeating UCLA on Oct. 30.
And, like Arizona, ASU has a bowl game - or at least the faint prospect of one - on the line. While the Devils are optimistic, UA remains "frustrated and determined at the same time," Stoops said.
Today, the Wildcats can be redeemed.
"We have to go out there and compete for 60 minutes to win a rivalry game," Stoops said.
• What: Arizona State at Arizona
• When: 6 p.m.
• TV, radio: ESPN, 1290-AM, 107.5-FM, 990-AM (Spanish)
Arizona's pass rush, a key to its 7-1 start, has gone missing:
Arizona's total sacks through its first eight games, including eight by Ricky Elmore (right)
Arizona's sacks in its last three games, all losses (Stanford, USC and Oregon)
Wide receiver Bug Wright took part in scout-team drills this week, ending a two-week suspension for an unspecified violation of team rules.
Whether he'll play tonight against Arizona State remains uncertain.
Coach Mike Stoops said earlier this week that Wright, who was suspended after Arizona's Nov. 13 loss to USC, would be out until coaches changed their minds.
When healthy and playing, Wright - a 5-9, 175-pound junior from Tatums, Okla. - is a valuable weapon who has 25 catches for 294 yards and two TDs.


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I am new to the area after landing a new job in the wine industry in Rutherglen. Originally from NZ I have been living in sunny Brisbane for the last 7 years. I am also currently pretty busy undertaking a PhD in Wine History and an industry wine qualification in Melbourne - the WSET Diploma. Needless to say I like to end a busy day with a glass of wine. I am a foodie and like to whip up a gourmet meal every now and then. I am quiet but sociable, keep my surroundings clean and tidy, a non-smoker and have no pets relocating with me. Looking for a furnished room in a share house with amazing flatmates.
Like things being neat and tidy very easy going relaxed doesn't mind catch ups every couple of afternoons and barbeques each weekend with a few drinks not a very big drinker enjoy fishing so most likely be out of house most weekends of the month.
I'm Kyle, I'm 21, I'm neat & tidy - work long hours start early & finish late, respectful of others belonging, mindful of space but don't mind a chat, don't mind helping out around the house, clean up after myself and pay bills on time every time, I've got a young pup (6 months) his a friendly kelpie x staffy who would be coming with me, his great with other dogs!
I am a clean person and don't mind cleaning up after myself and keeping the house neat and tidy. I work part time and study full time. I'm quiet and keep to myself but fun to be around if you want to hang out. I have placement for university starting soon for 5 weeks so will hardly be there.
I'm Brazilian, biologist and work at University of Minas Gerais State. Now, I'm in the sabbatical year and I'm using it for study and research in MDCFRC, Albury-Wodonga, for 10 months. I'm friendly with people of all age, independently of the genus. I love pets, garden and a calm places. My English isn't good yet.
Hey, I'm currently looking for a shared house around Albury/Wodonga with easy access to bus stop since I don't drive and I rely on public transport much. I work as teaching assistant at three schools in Wodonga every Tuesday-Friday. I myself is a very tidy and clean person. I like to socialize but also understand the personal space. I like cooking and that would be beneficial if living in a shared house. I prefer the house in Albury since I catch XPT most of the weekends and keen to find the place that is walking distance from the Albury station. If you have the offer please message me
Hey :) my name is Amy,24 and I am a full time shift worker. I am a tidy and easy to get along with person and I will always pay my bills on time. Don't mind cooking and also don't mind a beer or 2 after a long week at work. Love getting out of the house and going on spontaneous adventures. I have a cat named borris who is 5 and will need to come with me, gets along well with other animals (inside/outside cat) So Shoot me a message if your interested :)
I am a hard working single parent who smokes but drinks only occasionally. I am starting a job in Albury in October and am looking for rental/share/accomodation for myself at first and early next year my ten year old daughter who will share a room with me. I have three older daughters who will not be living with me and most weekends will travel home to Narrandera to be with them.
I'm a full time health professional who is quiet, clean and easy going.
Hello, I'm Darcy, I just moved back to Albury for work a few months ago. I'm a self-described quiet, Milo drinking, country dude who likes to make furniture, game, and tinker in my spare time. I watch way to many dodgy DIY Vids for my own good. I'm preferably looking for a share house with off street parking, Close to the Albury CBD, ideally with a lockable garage. I'm looking to live with other young professionals, who don't mind having a few quiet cold ones after a long week.
Currently working at a skin clinic in albury. I like to keep fit and healthy. Like being outside but dont mind just chilling at home. Bit of a neat freak and will only move in with clean people. Petty social person. Recently come out of a long term relationship.
Hey! I'm really interested in renting out your spair room! I just turned 18 last week and currently not working but hopefully will be in the next few weeks!! I am on centerlink so I do have a income for now , Iv had a ruff few months as the passing of my mother. Have been sleeping on a friends couch since, I'm very clean and will always pick up after my self! Would love an opportunity!


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International Health Independent Study 1 (MIPH5004)
This unit gives students the opportunity to undertake a special project (a research project or a field placement) in their area of interest in international public health . Students may research their chosen topic or analyse data already collected, then write a report, usually about 2000 words. Alternatively, students may choose to undertake a placement with an international aid agency or with relevant sections of health services overseas or in Australia and then write a report about it. Students arrange with an international public health academic to be their supervisor on a project and agree to expected deliverables. The supervisor provides guidance and assesses the report.
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Further unit of study information
student under individual supervision
1x 2000word written report (100%)
Faculty/department permission required?
Unit of study rules
MIPH5005 or MIPH5037
Additional Information
The student is required to fill in 2 copies of the International Health Independent Study Registration Form, signed by the student and the supervisor, to give one copy to IPH Office and take the other copy to the Postgraduate Student Administration Unit to enrol. Students cannot enrol in both MIPH5004 and MIPH5005.
Study this unit outside a degree
Non-award/non-degree study
If you wish to undertake one or more units of study (subjects) for your own interest but not towards a degree, you may enrol in single units as a non-award student.
Cross-institutional study
If you are from another Australian tertiary institution you may be permitted to underake cross-institutional study in one or more units of study at the University of Sydney.


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Out of Work? Hire Yourself.
September 20, 2011
Dawn Lennon
Career Strategist and Writer
Job Search
Career Issues
You think you can't. I say you can. Don't over-think it, make it too big, or get in your own way. Just try it.
Plug the gap.
Being out of work, creates a glaring gap on your resume. Your work history has come to a (hopefully temporary) dead end.
This makes job seekers lose sleep at night and I don't blame them.
So the question is: "What can you do about it?"
I say, "Plenty, if you have something of value to offer."
Everyone has some level knowledge and skills needed by someone else. You may know-how to:
- Organize: information, schedules, office space, projects, or events
- Troubleshoot: software, IT tools, work processes
- Consult/coach: on performance, problem solving, change, life skills, regulation
- Create: specialty items, written materials, social media tools, art
- Present: training, speeches, proposals, videos
There are clients/customers who need your know-how. It doesn't matter whether you charge them for your services or not. Each time you serve someone, you are functioning as an entrepreneur.
It's time to reveal this work on your resume.
Hire yourself.
Self-employment is employment. Working for yourself is about providing services to others.
When you do that formally, you are functioning as an entrepreneur.
Working for yourself shows the hiring manager that you:
- Take your capabilities and their value seriously
- Can attract and successfully serve clients/customers
- Are a self-starter, committed to building your career
- Have the courage to put yourself out there
- Are motivated and energetic about taking on new challenges
"Being" your own business showcases what you've been doing since you've been out of work. It maintains your employment continuity, so you're always working up to the present.
Your resume will need to name your business and include the outcomes you've achieved for your clients—problems solved, installations completed, savings achieved, or negative impacts avoided. That's what you include in your bullets.
You may decide to keep your "business" active while you're working or only between jobs. Either way you'll want to address that on the resume or in your cover letter.
Getting started
Becoming a business entity isn't complicated, for these purposes. Just:
- Create a business name as a sole proprietorship. To keep things simple, consider using all or part of your own name.
- Get business cards.
- Write a simple statement about what service(s) you're offering, so you can tell people when they ask.
- Decide on a fee-for-service when you need/want to charge
- Get the word out (social media makes this easy, networking too)
- Consider a blog that can double as a simple website where you write about what you do and post about what you know (This adds credibility for clients/customers and a credential for a future hiring manager to consider.)
Find a few clients/customers (non-profits are often a good source) where you can work on a pro bono (free) basis, in exchange for a testimonial that you can use if they're satisfied. This is also how you'll get those outcome statements for resume bullets.
Ask for referrals and see where your efforts take you. Remember, you're not trying to turn this into an all-consuming business, (although it could grow into something significant).
You're still in the job search. So balance your time. Pick your spots.
I once worked with a client who'd been out of work for over two years. He was looking for an executive position in sales but couldn't get a look. So, he set up solo sales training consultancy with himself as the president. He had no paying clients, but that didn't matter. He suddenly was at the table with the people he needed to meet with.
Surprise yourself.
Your career is in your hands. Being out of work is an empty feeling. It can drag you down. Staying in the game is important for your psyche and your resume.
You don't need a job to do valued work. You just need an outlet. That you can create for yourself by staying business fit.
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Julian Ludowici is not upset at the thought of his 154-year-old family company falling into foreign hands. He says it was almost inevitable given the lack of support for the mining technology sector from the federal government and investors.
Mr Ludowici, 56, is poised to become the latest entrepreneur to make a fortune from the mining boom after Danish engineering group FLSmidth yesterday made a $212 million takeover bid for manufacturer
Founded by Mr Ludowici's great- grandfather in 1858, the company began as a tannery in Sydney, producing, among other things, leather springs for Cobb & Co coaches and the boots Douglas Mawson wore on his journey to Antarctica. It listed in 1971 and moved into manufacturing mineral processing equipment in the 1990s from a Brisbane head office.
As major shareholders in Ludowici Investments, which controls about 30 per cent of the company, Mr Ludowici, his sister and his cousin stand to share in about $70 million if the deal is approved by shareholders.
It is clear that he didn't let sentiment get in the way of his decision to endorse the proposal.
"I think the business will be going into good hands; to people that quite frankly are going to be able to make more of it than the Australians have," he told The Australian Financial Review. "Australia's strength is the mining industry and mining technology and you'd imagine that the government and the people there would play to that, but they don't."
Mr Ludowici said the company, which has manufacturing facilities in Queensland and overseas, had never received financial assistance from the government. Nor had it received much support from local institutional investors.
He said he had been approached by Australian companies looking to buy the business, but they had never been prepared to pay enough for him to seriously consider an offer.
FLSmidth, on the other hand, has seen sufficient potential to justify the thought of paying more than double its market value. (Before trading in Ludowici shares was halted last Thursday, they were $3.50, giving the company a market capitalisation of $103 million).
The stock soared $3.20, or 91.4 per cent, to $6.70 yesterday after the $7.20 a share proposal from FLSmidth was revealed.
In a statement to the market, the Danish company said the acquisition of Ludowici fitted with its strategy to become "a market leader in every major minerals processing segment".
"[It] will allow FLSmidth to complete its coal processing flow sheet and improve its copper and iron ore offerings with leading technologies and brands," it said.
Ludowici makes centrifuges used in drying or dewatering coal. It also supplies vibrating screens, feeders and complementary wear-resistant products used in processing other minerals.
The future of Australian manufacturing has been fiercely debated in recent weeks after the Gillard government announced further assistance for the car industry.
However, some executives ranging from former BHP Billiton chairman Don Argus to the Australian born chief of Dow Chemical, Andrew Liveris, have argued that governments should not be in the business of propping up unprofitable industries indefinitely.
Many senior business leaders believe there should be a shift towards high-value products that cannot be undercut by cheap imports from countries such as China and India. It is a sentiment echoed by Mr Ludowici.
"The government has got no interest in helping businesses like ours," he said. "They talk a lot about it, but it would lead the cynic to believe that they are just talking about votes. It's a shame."
RBS Morgans analyst Roger Leaning said Ludowici's branding was very strong within the coal industry in Queensland. In recent years it had increased its efforts to develop its overseas business in order to mitigate the effects of currency fluctuations.
Last financial year the company reported revenue of $211.9 million and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of $25.5 million.
Chief executive Patrick Largier said yesterday that the company had done a good job of increasing sales and profits over the past few years as it had developed its global business.
"We've been active offshore for probably about 10 years but really it's only the past three or four where that has grown quite strongly and those businesses have become pretty profitable in their own right," he said.
"We are a supplier into a global niche, equipment for mineral processing plants, so we've essentially gone wherever there's mining around the world."
Based on publicly available information, FLSmidth said it was expecting Ludowici to have generated pro forma EBITDA of $28 million for the 12 months to December.
Using this figure, it said the proposal price represented a premium of 106 per cent over Ludowici's last traded share price of $3.50 and an enterprise value-to-EBITDA multiple of 9.5 times.
Mr Leaning said the FLSmidth proposal represented "a healthy premium for control" and was fair considering the growth options available to Ludowici.
"We held the view that it was most certainly undervalued," he said. "We had a value approaching $5. If you derisked that further, you could probably get it to between $6 and $7.
"It's a pretty good price that we think is reflective of our view that mining and mineral capex spend is well and truly still there at this point in time," he said.
FLSmidth has been granted access for due diligence on an exclusive basis for seven weeks, while Ludowici has agreed not to solicit alternative proposals and will be liable to pay a break fee depending on the circumstances.
Although the offer is yet to be formalised, the Ludowici directors, who speak for 22 per cent of the stock, have given their unanimous recommendation in the absence of a superior proposal.
Mr Leaning said one of the probable reasons the stock was undervalued by the market was its lack of liquidity. The company only has 29.5 million shares on issue.
The Australian Financial Review