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Our Crib

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied…but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

~John Berger

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Quantum and Information Technology Convention 2011

Quantum and Information Technology Convention — an annual event initiated by two organizations recognized by Xavier University with the goal of letting schools and colleges all over Visayas and Mindanao gather to share a common interest.

With this year’s theme: “Maximizing the Potential of Information Technology for Economic Development”, QITC aims to provide information on how to significantly improve productivity and the quality of Information Technology economically. It’s about leveraging lessons from splendid keynotes speeches from experts who provide the discussion on the best practices today in the economy through information technology.

Offers a diversified and high quality content, the convention focuses on practical day-to-day best practices for the development of IT in organizations. This year’s Convention emphasizes paying increasing potentials and capacity of all of IT enthusiasts as competitors and innovators in the economic field. This seminar presents real life activities, a more targeted and practical way to help continually improve IT organizations.

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Ultimate Frisbee Tournament

Ultimate Frisbee is a thrilling, non-contact team sport, performed by thousands of people over the world. Its nature and ways of playing it has a lot of similarity with the games like Soccer, Basketball, American Football and Netball into a gracefully simple yet interesting and challenging game.

Frisbee is played between two opposing teams usually made up of seven players on a large rectangular playing field. A line drawn across the playing field at either end creates two “endzones“. The protecting team attempts to stop their opposing team with the disc from making progress up field. The player which has the disc in his possession can only move one foot but cannot run with it. Player must come to a full stop when in a hold of the disc. The player should wait until such time there is another player to be passed on with the disc.

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