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Behind the Cal Poly & Saudi Arabian Green Door!

Behind the Cal Poly - Saudi Arabian Green Door
I love getting emails from people. I was forwarded a particularly interesting series of emails allegedly from one of the administrators of the Cal Poly School of Engineering. It makes wonderful reading as the lack of transparency has always been one of the big issues in dealing with Cal Poly on any level.

I have written the Cal Poly administrator directly to ask if he has any comment and I’ll post his response.

It is troubling that Cal Poly is doing all they can to make the deal regardless of obvious ethical concerns (May 20th deadline). They really should be thinking about whether or not they SHOULD DO the deal at all?

Stay Tuned,

Roger Freberg

PS. I have also received an email from North Carolina which is very interesting… especially since the writer also liked my Beef Stroganoff recipe!

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sssshhhh! Saudi Arabia is watching YOU!

shhh... knock, knock...who's there?

Oh, anyone who has had a web site for more than a smidget of time knows the purpose of a ‘hits log’ ( the record of who visits your site leaving — sometimes- a distinctive DNS number). In addition, there are many services that will give you some quick and dirty tracking of your visitors… like sitemeter… so it is always interesting to see that whenever I put ‘Saudi Arabia’ or ‘Cal Poly and Saudi Arabia’… I get some interesting visitors.

Saudi Arabia is clearly one of the biggest ‘internet’ censors…. so you can imagine how fascinating it is for me to see someone on my site from that part of the world. Although they don’t want information coming into the country.. they do want to know what folks are saying in the outside world about them.

By the way, if you don’t know what’s going on between Saudi Arabia and Cal bin Poly… read this blog or do a little google searching.

Have fun!

Roger Freberg

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SC Trojans 86 – UCLA Bruins 77 in the one that counts!

fun at Usc
After 15 long years, the University of Southern California Trojan Women’s Track & Field Team beat the UCLA Bruins on their home track (Drake Stadium). Carol Rodriguez ran superbly throughout the day even setting a record in the women’s 400m… a real tough act given the talent in that event at USC in history!

There were many heroes contributing to the Trojan victory. Hey, where did those great distance runners come from?? Wow!

Young freshman Lauren Guerrieri was second in the discus and third in the hammer totaling 4 points. It was many unsung performances like Lauren’s that helped carry the day fro the Trojans! I know Karen was very proud of the women throwers!

Congratulations Coach Allice and your staff!

Fight On!

Roger Freberg

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A Cal Poly Professor visits Ronald Reagan’s Ranch!

the Ronald Reagan Ranch

This past weekend, we were given an opportunity to visit Ronald Reagan’s California Ranch nestled in the hills above Santa Barbara.

While at the Reagan Ranch Center we had an opportunity to meet some of the people responsible for putting the site together, along with one of the key donors. Five wonderful meals later ( prepared by ‘Stan’ the caterer) we headed back to home in San Luis Obispo.
CLICK here to watch Laura’s Presentation

Interesting, informative, thought provoking and entertaining… it was a great weekend.

Roger Freberg

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Western Women’s Conference 2008

Western Women's Conference 2008Laura and I have enjoyed attending each others functions, although lately, Laura’s level of ‘activities’ has bumped upward significantly.

It’s still fun to see the ‘other half’ in action.

Laura will be speaking at this year’s Western Women’s Summit being held at the Reagan Ranch Center. Although I haven’t seen her presentation, I am sure it will be entertaining.

Part of the appeal to me will be a tour of “Dutch’s” Ranch and that should be fun.

Clare Boothe Luce Policy institute is sponsoring the event. Clare Boothe Luce was certainly interesting in her day, here are a few quotes that amused me:

I don’t have a warm personal enemy left. They’ve all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

Nature abhors a virgin — a frozen asset.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Love is a verb

No good deed goes unpunished

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes”

Roger Freberg