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Press Release – 07-07-2014
3rd Annual Fall Uwharrie OHV Jamboree
October 18, 2014
Mission Statement: "Bringing all Uwharrie off-highway vehicle (OHV) users together to aid in recruiting volunteers and to raise awareness to 'TREAD Lightly!' So that the Uwharrie National Forest OHV Trail System can develop and be maintained"
The Uwharrie OHV Jamboree is in its third year. The Jamboree focuses on the off-road: Jeep, 4WD, Dirt Bike, ATV and ROV (Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle)/Side by Side crowd in Central North Carolina. The Jamboree is located in the Eldorado community of Montgomery County, across the street from the Eldorado Outpost on NC Highway 109, 10 miles North of Troy
This event is promoted by Uwharrie Off-Road Training Center, JAARS-Partners in Bible Translation and Southern Four Wheel Drive Asociation.
This year's events will include: Test drive/ride your favorite off-road vehicles on the EXPANDED 'Off-Road Test Track". This is the perfect opportunity to test drive a new ATV/UTV. And much more!
4WD rides provided and sponsored by JAARS "The JAARS 4WD rides are something you do not want to miss!" They will take place on a 200 Acre piece of private property specifically designed for Off-Road Driver Instruction located just a half a mile away. More will be added from JAARS this fall! "UORTC uses this trail system for their 4WD-101 and 202 classes!" 4WD Club Booth's, USFS Booth, TREAD Lightly! Booth and RTI Ramp.
Uwharrie Off-Road Training Center will be bringing back their '4WD Coach & Drive'. 20 minutes of off-road driver coaching for $20. You will also receive a $20 gift certificate to an up-coming 4WD-101 class.
There will be a TREAD Lightly! Presentation, music and lots of food.
This is a family event and no alcohol is allowed. No public ATVs/UTVs allowed on grounds. Admission is FREE. The gates will open at 9 AM. For more information call (336) 906-1644 or e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com


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ICIS Unveils Top 40 Power Players for 2012
10 Dec, 2012, 10:00 GMT
NEW YORK and LONDON, December 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
ICIS Chemical Business magazine has revealed the ICIS Top 40 Power Players - the leaders changing the face of the global chemical sector through investments, acquisitions, restructurings and innovative ways to do business.
"It's been an eventful 2012 with major shifts in the global chemical landscape taking place, including impacts from the US shale gas boom," said Joseph Chang, Global Editor of ICIS Chemical Business.
"Headed into an uncertain period in 2013 fraught with political and macroeconomic risks amid slowing growth, these leaders face a great challenge in guiding their businesses through the turmoil," he added.
Taking the top spot in 2012 is Andrew N. Liveris, chairman, president and CEO of US-based Dow Chemical. He was also awarded top billing in 2010. The winner in 2011 was LyondellBasell CEO Jim Gallogly.
"Liveris is placing the big bets in the most cost-advantageous feedstock regions in the world - the Middle East and the US. Its US Gulf Coast expansions along with the Sadara joint venture project in Saudi Arabia with Saudi Aramco should position Dow with a low cost base for its higher-margin chemicals and polymers," said Chang.
"The Dow team is aligned and our priorities are clear," said Andrew N. Liveris. "We moved swiftly in 2012 and took action to protect our growth path and continue to be squarely focused on ensuring an aggressive "offense".
"We are capitalizing on the world-class, integrated portfolio we have built, and key catalysts we already have in place to accelerate near-term value growth. Execution of our strategy is top priority and we remain firmly committed to further strengthening our balance sheet, accelerating prioritized growth, and rewarding shareholders," he added.
The Dow CEO has responded decisively to the global economic slowdown with a restructuring plan aimed at delivering $1bn in cost and cash savings by 2013 and $1.75bn on a run-rate basis by 2014.
This will involve the shutdown of 29 plants and the elimination of around 8% of the workforce, as well as reductions in capital expenditures.
But importantly, its key expansions on the US Gulf Coast and Sadara in Saudi Arabia will remain on track.
The centerpiece in the US will be a world-scale 1.5m tonne/year ethane cracker at Freeport, Texas, to start up in 2017.
In the meantime, it is on track to restart its 380,000 tonne/year cracker in St. Charles, Louisiana, by the end of 2012 and building a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant with 750,000 tonnes/year of propylene capacity in Freeport for start-up in mid-2015.
Dow is also proceeding with the largest petrochemical project in the modern world - the Sadara joint venture with Aramco. The complex will include a worldscale cracker, along with capacity of 3m tonnes/year of polyurethanes, propylene glycol (PG), butyl glycol ethers, amines, polyethylene (PE), polyolefin elastomers and other products.
The first units are expected to be operational in the second half of 2015, with all units expected to be running by 2016.
Coming in at number two in the ICIS Top 40 Power Players ranking is Tom Crotty, CEO of Switzerland-based INEOS Olefins & Polymers, followed by Axel Heitmann, CEO of Germany's LANXESS.
Download the ICIS Top 40 Power Players on ICIS>> (registration required).
About ICIS Chemical Business:
ICIS Chemical Business is part of ICIS, the world's largest information provider for the chemical and energy industries. ICIS aims to help companies in global commodity markets improve their revenues and profits by providing high quality, timely, commercially useful information, business leads and brand positioning across the globe.
About ICIS:
ICIS is the world's largest petrochemical market information provider, and has fast-growing energy and fertilizer divisions. Our aim is to give companies in global commodities markets a competitive advantage by delivering trusted pricing data, high-value news, analysis and independent consulting, enabling them to make better-informed trading and planning decisions.
With a global staff of more than 700, ICIS has people based in Houston, Washington, New York, London, Montpellier, Dusseldorf, Milan, Mumbai, Singapore, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Yantai, Tokyo and Perth. The team covers over 180 commodity markets, and has in-depth knowledge across markets in upstream and downstream.
For media inquiries, contact:
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Sit-down interview with New Holland's leadership reveals the company's strategy for renewal
Standing in front of the original New Holland factory, Abe Hughes makes it crystal-clear that these are new days with new ways for the company. The plainspoken maverick leader is focused on one goal: Get the company back in the game in North America.
To do that, Hughes and his team are tapping New Holland's strong roots and marching through an ambitious rejuvenation plan. In early April, the leadership team sat down with Farm Journal to share an exclusive look at their new strategy.
With his trademark candor, Hughes refers to the 1999 merger of Case IH and New Holland to form CNH as "the big bang that destabilized our brand." And he's not kidding.
"The momentum of CNH did not land on New Holland, and some of our focus and energy was lost," explained Hughes, vice president of New Holland North America. "We had 10 difficult years after that in what is a classic case study of a business losing its footing."
That started to change in the fall of 2009, when the top management of Fiat Industrial decided to bring New Holland back in North America. (CNH is a publicly held division of Fiat Industrial which is the world's third largest capital goods manufacturer.)
"Senior management recognized that New Holland is strong in other regions of the world and that we needed to change things here," Hughes said.
Known for the successful turnaround of both Fiat and Chrysler, top management focused their attention to the blue brand. Hughes was brought in from business development to spearhead a team and the project. For nine months, more than four hours were dedicated exclusively to the plan for New Holland during monthly CNH senior management meetings.
"It was a very intense study of how to restructure New Holland North America and bring it back," Hughes said.
That work gave birth to the current strategy, which Hughes was deployed in July 2010 to implement.
As the seventh leader of the company in six years, the seasoned executive was not only given marching orders but also staying power from the senior Fiat and CNH leadership to re-create the stability New Holland was known for in the industry.
Five points underpin the New Holland game plan: customers; products; leadership; network and dealers; finance and profitability.
|The New Holland leadership team is working hard to make sure the company's products aren't camouflaged in the market. Front row (left to right): Maria Sipler, Sean Dorosz, Ken Snover, Mike Cornman, Brian Falk, Tom Catalano, Julio Garamvolgyi; on the tracks: Dan Valen; back rows: Ron Shaffer, John Elliott, Chun Woytera and Abe Hughes.
"We have to be oriented to our customers. Our products have to be competitive and fierce. Our network and dealers need to be vibrant and high-quality partners. The leadership needed many management changes. And the final scorecard is our finances and profitability," Hughes said.
For starters, the company reoriented its products and marketing toward three customer segments: cash crop; dairy and livestock; and residential, commercial, municipal and utility.
Customer needs in each segment are what drove the company to unveil 14 new products in 2010 and 2011. They also keep New Holland forming new partnerships and expanding its offerings.
"We have switched from just a product focus to a customer focus," said John Elliott, director of marketing for North America. "We have committed leadership and brought together a team of experts within their areas."
Many of the new leaders were brought from other areas of CNH, including parts, finance and service, but Hughes also sought out individuals with a passion for the New Holland brand.
"When we were at our dealer council meeting last February, I could tell the dealers to look around the table and all of the segment directors there were the same ones from the previous year. That was the first time in 15 years I could say that," Hughes said.
Identifying its customer focus areas has set New Holland on a new course.
"Our customer is not monolithic. We are going for the mixed or diversified farmer who produces both cash crops and livestock or dairy," Hughes said. "More than half of our business is cash grain and dairy, and we will transition more to these producers given the growth in this segment."
In its North American dealerships, New Holland now divides its business along customer segments and works with its dealer network based on dealers' market focus.
"We have been New Holland dealers through all of the hardest periods, and I can say that today we have committed leadership and strong products that are better than even our heyday with the Genesis," says Jim Straeter of New Holland Rochester, a five-location dealer in Indiana. "I have three sons in business with me, so I have a vested interest in the future of this company, and it's comforting to know that the leadership is in place to do what it's going to take to move ahead."
The company has listened to its dealers to identify the products needed in the blue line.
"Our dealers told us they needed a utility vehicle, so the Rustler was born," explains Dan Valen, segment leader for residential, commercial, municipal and utility.
The Rustler is a partnership with Club Car and just one example of how New Holland is aligning with other companies to expand its line. Another notable partner is Miller St. Nazianz, which produces the Guardian series of self-propelled sprayers with front-boom and rear-boom models.
"We have an impressive constellation of products today," Hughes said, noting that he is not finished yet. "Crop and soil preparation are areas we are looking to fill through in-house products, new alliances and ventures or innovative marketing partnerships."
Another corporate initiative, with Trimble as a key partner, is integrating more precision technology. By this fall, T8 tractors, T9 tractors and combines can have complete guidance systems before reaching dealers.
"Precision technologies are becoming like the options for power windows and locks in cars. Farmers expect an offering as standard equipment," says Sean Dorosz, segment leader for high-horsepower tractors and precision ag.
As the company plays out its game plan, its leaders look to build on its existing strengths.
"We have the most complete offering in hay and forage," said Mike Cornman, segment leader for dairy and livestock. "And we have opportunities to further serve customers. For example, with self-propelled forage harvesters we will be looking at large operations and custom harvesters differently."
To encourage farmers to give New Holland a new look, the company has a Ready to Roll sales event that lasts through June. The demo program includes a midrange tractor and multiple pieces of hay equipment. Each dealer sets the time frame and the sales incentive for those who participate.
Pre-order programs are common, but New Holland's approach is designed to include high-horsepower tractors and combines as well as hay and forage equipment.
"Now in its second year, the Built My Way program can offer 4% to 6% price difference if customers change the timing of their machinery purchase," Dorosz explained.
Purpose-driven. With its Customer-Driven Product Development program, the customer is at the core of New Holland's combine engineering process.
"With combines that are more than 500 hp, machines are processing more crop than before," said Brian Falk, global product manager for combines and headers. "So we are designing systems that can help maximize harvest."
Currently available systems include the Terrain Tracer, which provides lateral movement for the feeder house, and IntelliCruise, which adjusts speed based on how much material is going through the combine. One technology on the horizon is the Grain Cam, which uses imaging to take a snapshot in the grain elevator and measure grain damage.
With its new offerings, New Holland looks to tap into Fiat resources.
"Fiat has more than 100 years of engineering and design experience in the automotive field," Hughes noted. "When we were designing the Boomer 8N, we worked with our corporate cousins at the Fiat Style Center on its design and look, which is the same group that designs for Maserati and Alfa Romeo."
Hughes described some projects as "zany and stylish," such as a $3,000 option to paint T7 tractors Maserati blue with chrome accents. The company is almost sold out of this option. Last fall, farm show–goers saw combines and tractors with Realtree camo wraps, which will be available soon.
At New Holland headquarters, the company will break ground this fall for a dedicated customer center.
"We already have 3,000 visitors a year," Elliott said. "Almost half of those are customers who just walk in and ask for a factory tour."
Moving ahead, Hughes said, the company is just getting started.
"We've done the work to restructure. Now we're in growth mode," he explained. "Most importantly, we have the backing of management for this long-term leadership and our plans for the future."
After two successful years and a return to profitability, Hughes is confident in how he's changing the game for New Holland.
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UBS Consumption Indicator shows modest decline in March
After a sharp increase in February, the UBS Consumption Indicator pulled back slightly in March. But at 2.29 the indicator confirmed the high level of the previous month, and it is still significantly above its long-term average. As such, it is a sign of continuing solid growth in consumer spending in Switzerland.
The monthly UBS Consumption Indicator stood at 2.29 in March, after 2.32 in February and 2.15 in January. This puts it in the range of last summer's record figures and keeps it above the long-term average of 1.50, which it has exceeded for over two years now.
The UBS Consumption Indicator is calculated from five sub-indicators: new car sales, business activity in the retail sector, the number of overnight hotel stays by Swiss nationals in Switzerland, the consumer sentiment index, and credit card transactions via UBS at points of sale in Switzerland. The decline in March is due particularly to the 9.3% drop in new car registrations compared to a year earlier. The slight deterioration in consumer sentiment also had a negative impact. It should be noted, however, that despite the continuing upheaval in the financial markets the consumer sentiment index is still at a very high level, both in historical comparisons and compared with the US or neighbouring European countries. Factors preventing a steeper decline in the UBS Consumption indicator are the continuing growth in tourism and the improvement in the retail sector, which in March reached its highest level since July 2001.
At its current level, the UBS Consumption Indicator signals that Swiss consumer spending remains healthy. The improved situation in the labour market has led to a sharp rise in employment, and real wages are also likely to rise further this year. Both have a positive impact on disposable household income and should fuel consumer spending in the coming months. Overall, UBS expects real growth in private consumption to reach 2.2% in 2008.
UBS Consumption Indicator and private consumption in Switzerland
(Private consumption: year-on-year change in %, UBS Consumption Indicator: index level)
Calculation of the UBS Consumption Indicator:
The UBS Consumption Indicator signals private consumption trends in Switzerland with a lead of about three months on the official figures. At 61%, private consumption is by far the most important component of Swiss GDP. UBS calculates this leading indicator from five consumer-related parameters: new car sales, the business situation in the retail trade, the number of overnight hotel stays by Swiss nationals in Switzerland, the consumer sentiment index and credit card transactions made via UBS at points of sale in Switzerland. With the exception of the consumer sentiment index, all of these data are available monthly.
Daniel Kalt, Head of Swiss Economic Research
Tel. +41-44-234 25 60
Felix Brill, Economic & Swiss Research
Tel. +41-44-234 35 54
UBS publications and forecasts for Switzerland: www.ubs.com/economicresearch


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This should be interesting. Television/film and voice actor Marc Anthony Samuel has been signed as contract player for ABC's General Hospital in the role of Felix Dubois, an openly gay nursing student. Samuel's character debuted Tuesday and will "play an integral role in helping return the annual Nurse's Ball charity event to General Hospital."
Watch Tuesday's episode of GH at ABC.com. Samuel is first seen at about 5:00.
The handsome actor is a familiar face from roles on NCIS, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and other shows. Marc Anthony Samuel also frequently acts in commercials and does voice-over work. He provides the voice-over in a new national campaign that just debuted. "While I'm not onscreen, I am doing the voice-over announcer for this AT&T spot," he announced on his Facebook fan page.
Felix only debuted two days ago and soap fans are already weighing in. "Can we keep the black gay nurse PLEASE?" begins one thread on SoapCentral.com. "I LOVE him and I think the show needs him!"
Others appreciated the new character ... but were upset that he was introduced by giving a (much-needed) makeover to Sabrina. "Every new character on the show start off as a big caricature, so that Felix guy isn't the only one," said another fan. "I'M not sure how he will bode on the show but its only been one show, we don't know yet the direction his storyline will take so I'M willing to be patient."
There is a different take at 'We Love Soaps". Several gay men took issue with what they perceived as "the sassy sidekick" characterization—"[T]he lipstick and insta-makeover was over-the-top in a character's first scene as way to establish he was gay. If those are the markers for gay, than that's lazy writing." But one fan perhaps hit the nail on the head:
"I know several guys just like Felix and many who are nothing like him. There's room on TV for all types of gay male characters. Daytime tends to play gay men as almost non sexual so I was happy on his first day Felix seemed to have a sex drive and noticed Patrick's hotness. We'll see where it goes from here and if there are plans for Felix beyond being Sabrina's friend. I hope so. ... I personally find it refreshing that a gay character could possibly be flamboyant and open and not a "macho" version of gay the writers think viewers will tolerate."
It's worth noting that Marc Anthony Samuel brings some much-needed diversity to GH. The soap historically had been ABC's powerhouse daytime serial but rarely featured Black faces in leading roles. There have also been very few positive Black openly gay characters on daytime. Some comments at messageboards acknowledged this."They need some flava," said one fan at SoapCentral. Another agreed: "He is black. And gay. And a nurse. ... We desperately need more AA characters on this show."
Marc Anthony Samuel is also the co-star of the upcoming Hot Guys with Guns, which is directed and written by Noah's Arc actor Doug Spearman. HGWG is described as a "gay action/comedy/thriller ... Boys Town meets Chinatown." The film also features R20 fave Darryl Stephens. The Indiegogo page is HERE. So far, about $30,000 has been raised.
Bravo to Marc Anthony Samuel. Here is hoping to seeing more of his character on GH ... as well as his upcoming films. Watch Marc Anthony Samuel's new AT&T spot and a rough cut of HGWG's trailer AFTER THE JUMP ..


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We all know American media is a fickle beast, but a few charts out of Politico today show that fickleness bordering on the worst of attention deficit disorder — it may even cross into a total lack of true substance.
From Dylan Byers of Politico:
This time was supposed to be different. "It is hard to believe this will not be a watershed moment when we start to talk about, deal with and even perhaps legislate on guns," ABC News's Z. Byron Wolf wrote. He was one among many in the media who believed the momentum for gun control legislation was strong enough to turn the tide on a familiar pattern.
No, Santa Claus did not bring 'Gun Control' to America this Christmas. In fact, according to Byers, he may even have contributed to its submergence back into the political and media subconscious.
"Blame it on the fiscal cliff, blame it on Christmas, blame it on our ability to forget," writes Byers, "but the national discussion about gun control has once again ebbed."
The bottom line is: If the issue were really one that media and politicians care about, no holiday or turn-of-the-year celebration would have torn it out of the public eye.
Check out the chart below, it illustrates the mentions of "gun control" via the media search tool Nexis. Oddly enough, the big drop occurred while everyone was busy opening gifts:
Byers also posted a chart out of Bloomberg which showed the use of the phrase on twitter falling off the map.


text: In February 2013 the director of IFLAS gave the opening keynote at the annual conference of Spain's leading business school. The event focused on collaborative innovation, and Professor Bendell focused on disruptive innovation for social change, discussing the role of mobile technology in addressing the recession. The speech led to coverage in 2 of Spain's top 4 newspapers.


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Silver mine hunting.
Eluvial and placer Prospecting in Tasmania
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Silver mine hunting.
Something to look for in hard rock prospecting for silver ore (Galena/Sphalerite) is Faulting. One of the best examples i can think of is Mount Farrell at Tullah. The many visible faults strike east west cutting the mountian like a loaf of bread. and below every one is an old silver mine. Again on Round Mountain near Mt Roland Faulting and Silver mines right through the middle of it. Another apparently is at the magnet mine. but i have not been their yet so cant confirm. Perhaps the vent to the surface in the undersea floor was that fault? hence the straight line
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Journal wording reads Charity Wings (Charitywings.org) had a Live Streaming Event at CHA in Los Angeles at the beginning of 2011. Now, since I am getting excited about being there for a repeat of the fun next week in Chicago; I reviewed some photos of the last CHA and decided that they were definitely worthy of a scrap layout.
Watching Elena as she pulls this production together is great fun. I'm handicapped, so, I cannot offer manpower; but, I can occasionally run an errand on my scooter (and try not to run folk over).
Getting to see all the new "stuff" up close and personal and reviewing the product with the designers and manufacturers is a very special experience. The format of offering this experience to all who contribute to the charity effort, by live streaming the event, is terrific.
I did spend a little time at the Westcott booth where folk made donations and created duck tape fashions. Such creative and fun folk attend CHA. It was great fun to meet them!


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Kor KTR-033-5cm Acrylic Roller-Tropical Beach
5cm (2in) Acrylic Plastic Texture Roller
KTR rollers are slightly smaller than KPcR rollers by 2.5cm.
Kor Tools KTR rollers are small, precisely cut texture tools designed for both metal clays and polymer clays. When rolled (either with your finger or with a small flat piece of wood) they leave a very precise raised pattern that is very clear and very sharp. You can roll them for any distance to create very extended pattern decorations on your medium of choice. If you roll them between thickness cards, you can carefully control the thickness of the clay while leaving a vivid embossed decoration.
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Eugene Su,
I actually had Dr Jordan in Chantilly, so this is my review for him. Really relieved Ive found someone who understands my ailments and will work with me to make things better. He's also very knowledgeable about lyme disease and it made me really happy to hear because I had been struggling to see /someone/ who can help me since my insurance change. I look forward to my future visits with Dr Jordan.


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Serial hacker TinKode rifles through NASA satellite files
Greyhat adds scalp to those of Royal Navy, MySQL, ESA
A serial hacker has broken into NASA systems before posting "proof" of his exploits online.
TinKode – who previously ransacked online system run by the Royal Navy, MySQL.com and the European Space Agency – posted screenshots purporting to come from an FTP server within the NASA's Earth Observation System at Goddard Space Flight Center. The supposed hack by the Romanian into the Earth Observation System – a satellite-based system used for disaster relief – is sure to embarrass space centre chiefs, especially since it comes only weeks after a negative report on NASA's information security strategy.
NASA's Inspector General warned (40-page PDF/1.1MB) in March that security shortcomings at the space agency left it open to defacement, denial of service or information-stealing attacks. NASA bosses promised to tighten up security policies, a process that TinKode's exploit would suggest is far from completion.
It's unclear how TinKode might have busted into the space agency's website. Interviews with the grey-hatted hacker, as well as his general modus operandi, suggest that he is motivated more by intellectual curiosity than mischief. TinKode told Network World that he notified NASA's webmaster straight after carrying out his hack and there's no evidence to suggest anything malign took place. ®


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Champions Red Bull claimed a Formula One first on Sunday by sending a female team member up to the podium to collect their constructors' trophy after Sebastian Vettel won the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Gill Jones, the team's head of trackside electronics with responsibility for all the electronics in the racing cars and garage, joined world champion Vettel for the ceremony at the Sakhir circuit.
"It was great to send an important member of our team up today, Gill Jones, who has done an awful lot," team principal Christian Horner said.
"I think she's probably the first woman to go and collect a constructors' trophy. It was great to see her up there representing the team as well today."
Formula One has no female drivers and the only women on the podium usually are the grid girls and hostesses standing by as the drivers celebrate.
Sauber have a female team principal in Monisha Kaltenborn, but the Swiss team have not won a race in her time in charge. Williams have Claire Williams as deputy team boss to her father Frank.
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Gujarat University Exam Results 2013-14 | ONLINE RESULTS | www.gujaratuniversity.org.in | Gujarat University Exam Results 2013-14 Oct-Nov Exam | gujaratuniversity.org.in
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The Gujarat University is the statewide institution affiliating many reputed colleges across the state of Gujarat, India. It has been given a B++ ranking by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
The Gujarat University was conceived in the nineteen twenties in the minds of public-spirited and learned men like Gandhiji, Sardar Patel, Acharya Anandshankar B. Dhruva, Dada Saheb Mavlankar, and Kasturbhai Lalbhai. The University was set up after independence for India. In 1949, the University was incorporated under the Gujarat University Act of the State Government 'as a teaching and affiliating University.' This was done as a measure of decentralisation and reorganization of University education in the then Province of Bombay. During the course of its life, the University has seen the establishment of more Universities which were carved out of the jurisdiction of the Gujarat University, viz., Sardar Patel University, Saurashtra University, Bhavnagar University, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Gujarat Ayurveda University, Krantiguru Shyamji Krishna Verma Kachchh University, Navsari Agricultural University, Junagadh Agricultural University, Anand Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Dharmsinh Desai University, Nirma University of Science & Technology, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University and Gujarat Technological University, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Ganpat University, Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Ahmedabad University ICFAI University and Navrachana University. . Even then, the Gujarat University is the largest university in the state catering to the educational needs of more than 200,000 students scattered over more than 235 colleges, 15 recognised institutions and 24 approved institutions. There are more than 34 Post-Graduate University departments and 221 P.G. Centres. Gujarat University is an affiliating University at the under-graduate level, while it is a teaching one at the post-graduate level. Indeed, the responsibility for post-graduate instruction has been statutorily given to the University, and accordingly it has evolved a plan of coordinated instruction under the direct control and supervision of the University so as to ensure efficient and diversified instruction. An important feature of this University is the system of external examinations in the Faculties of Arts and Commerce, both and under-graduate and post-graduate levels. The external examinations were introduced with a view to enabling working students and the others who could not afford the high cost of university education to realize their dream. Gujarat University has developed phenomenally since its inception to be recognized as a premier University in the country today. It provides education in one of the widest range of disciplines to more than about 200,000 students.
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United Nations- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Protocol
The aim of the convention is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity.
Countries that join in the Convention engage themselves to develop and carry out policies, laws and administrative measures for securing the rights recognized in the Convention and abolish laws, regulations, customs and practices that constitute discrimination (Article 4). As a change of perceptions is essential to improve the situation of persons with disabilities, ratifying countries are to combat stereotypes and prejudices and promote awareness of the capabilities of persons with disabilities (Article 8).
The United Nations- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Protocol document can be downloaded in:
English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Russian, Catalonian, Croatian, Greek, Hungarian, Maltese, Portuguese, Slovenian, Swedish and Turkish
An accessible and easy read version can be downloaded in English
For more information please visit the United Nations Enable website.


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Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively. He is the subject of the novel Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List.
Schindler was born on 28 April 1908 into an ethnic German family in Svitavy (German: Zwittau), Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic. His parents, Hans Schindler and Franziska Luser, were divorced when Oskar was 27. Oskar was very close to his younger sister, Elfriede. Schindler was brought up in the Catholic faith but was not a religious man. After school he worked as a commercial salesman.
On 6 March 1928, Schindler married Emilie Pelzl (1907–2001), daughter of a wealthy ethnic German farmer from Maletín (German: Alt Moletein), and a pious Catholic, who received most of her education in a nearby Czech-German monastery. In the 1930s he changed jobs several times. He also tried starting various businesses, but soon went bankrupt because of the Great Depression. He joined the separatist Sudeten German Party in 1935. Though officially a citizen of Czechoslovakia, ethnic German nationalist Schindler started to work for German military intelligence (the Abwehr under Wilhelm Canaris). He was exposed and jailed by the Czech government in July 1938, but after the Munich Agreement, he was set free as a political prisoner. In 1939, Schindler joined the Nazi Party. One source (based on Nazi documents and postwar investigation) contends that he also continued to work for the Abwehr, allegedly paving the way for the German invasion of Poland on September 1 1939.


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From sizzle to snow
EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado – Congratulations, you just lived through one of the hottest summers in at least six decades.
That's pretty much over because we're in for chilly fall temperatures and some early snow, says AccuWeather, the national weather tracking service.
While cold air may be slow in coming to areas farther east in the nation, cold shots will have no problem reaching the Rockies, said meteorologist Paul Pastelok.
"I think there will be some early cold outbreaks over the central and northern Rockies, especially. I think that where the winter season is going to start much quicker," Pastelok said.
It could mean an early kick start to the ski season in the Rockies, Pastelok said.
Temperatures are expected to average 1-2 degrees below normal for the northern Rockies this fall.
As the jet stream shifts, the Four Corners region could get snow before anyone, as soon as early- to mid-October, Pastelok said.
The central and southern Rockies may be a hot spot for snow by the middle of the season.
Sizzling summer
Steven Root is a meteorologist and president and CEO of WeatherBank, Inc., and keeps track of things like weather patterns. He has been examining hourly and daily temperatures in 59 hub cities dating back to Jan. 1, 1950.
Root chose 1950 as his starting point because so many reporting stations in the U.S. and southern Canada began recording hourly temperature data that year.
This is where Root starts computing cooling degree days for each of those 59 cities during air conditioning season, May 15-Sept. 15. Cooling degree days are the number of degrees that a day's average temperature is above 65 degrees.
Root estimates that by the middle of this month, we'll have 59,484 cooling degree days. That makes it the third hottest summer since 1950, Root said.
Last year was the hottest summer when those 59 cities had 60,402 cooling degree days, Root said. The second hottest was 1951 with 60,078 cooling degree days.
The coolest summer was 1965 with 43,337 cooling degree days.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 30-year average is 53,933 cooling degree days.
In the U.S., seven out of the last 10 summers have been hotter than the 62-year average. In the 1960s and 1970s, seven of 10 summers were cooler than NOAA's 30-year average.
The 1980s and 1990s were a 50/50 split, half warmer and half cooler.
Pastelok says while it'll likely be cooler in the Rockies in autumn, the rest of the nation could be warmer than normal.
Since the soil is still warm from summer, another heat wave would push 2012 to No. 1 in the heat parade, Pastelok said.
"While cooler and potentially wetter conditions are projected to expand in the West, the most extreme warmth, relative to normal, could be forced out of the Plains and take root in the Great Lakes and Northeast, during September and October," Pastelok said.
Staff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935 or email@example.com.


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... and the little one? Well he has been waited on hand and foot by his big brother all his life due to his generous big brother's nature. He bosses big brother around no end and if he can't find something or his lunch isn't in his school bag, well it's his big brother's fault. We are slowly working on him taking more responsibility and praising the living daylights out of him if he shows 'house jobs initiative'. Big brother is now forbidden to get him ready for school in the mornings... enough is enough!
Well I'm very busy with lots of exciting projects tomorrow. Can't wait to tell you all about them. I will draw the Nautical Compass wall decal winner tomorrow night when I have a breather. Have a great 'tomorrow'!


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Location: Off Winton-Jundah Road, Winton, QLD
About Bladensburg National Park
Bladensburg National Park is a large park protecting Mitchell grass downs and channel country. It is home to a wonderful variety of wildlife, including tiny mammals called dunnarts. Flat-topped mesas and sandstone ranges form a pleasing backdrop to the park's grassland plains and river flats. The park is important to Traditional Owners, the Koa people, and also contains reminders of the area's pastoral history.
At the original homestead complex, learn about the early days of station life and the park's plants and animals. Camping is permitted at Bough Shed Hole beside Surprise Creek, where birdlife is prolific. Camping fees apply. Visit Scrammy Gorge for impressive views. Take the Route of the River Gums drive and visit the stony Top Crossing, once used by horse-drawn wagons. Out there, the night skies are amazing – go stargazing!


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Their web site doesn't tell you much about how the shirts are made. But we did discover from another source that they are produced in the US.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Beginning Monday, January 26, EMBARK will make system enhancements to the bus system including increased frequency, additional stops, later service and minor schedule adjustments to improve schedule adherence.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- It could be days before clean tap water is flowing again to several hundred thousand people in West Virginia following a chemical spill.
State officials met Saturday to discuss plans for flushing a West Virginia American Water system contaminated by Thursday's spill.
West Virginia American Water President Jeff McIntyre said at a news conference that sample test results must consistently show the chemical's presence is at or below a safe level before residents can resume using tap water.
The company issued the order Thursday after a chemical used to process coal spilled from a Freedom Industries plant into the Elk River in Charleston. The order applies to about 300,000 people.
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Fitch Warns of U.S. Rating Downgrade if Fiscal Cliff Isn't Averted
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Here we go again with the rating agencies. The election results are barely 12 hours old but Fitch Ratings has already sent a warning shot across the bow of Obama's second term as president, saying on Wednesday that the U.S. triple-A credit rating is at risk if Washington can't avoid the fiscal cliff and reduce the deficit.
For its part, rival rating agency Moody's Investors Service said Wednesday that it would adopt a wait-and-see approach, putting off any decisions about a possible downgrade until the budget process plays out. Standard & Poor's famously stripped the U.S. of its AAA rating in August of 2011 amid the partisan budget gridlock that was responsible for creating the upcoming fiscal cliff in the first place.
From Fitch:
The newly re-elected US President Barack Obama will need to quickly secure agreement on avoiding the 'fiscal cliff' and raising the debt ceiling following Tuesday's elections, Fitch Ratings says. The economic policy challenge facing the President is to put in place a credible deficit-reduction plan necessary to underpin economic recovery and confidence in the full faith and credit of the US. Resolution of these fiscal policy choices would likely result in the US retaining its 'AAA' status from Fitch. As reflected in the Negative Outlook on the rating, failure to avoid the fiscal cliff and raise the debt ceiling in a timely manner as well as securing agreement on credible deficit reduction would likely result in a rating downgrade in 2013.
The fiscal cliff - some USD600bn of tax increases and spending cuts that come into effect on 1 January 2013 - and an increase in the debt ceiling are pressing issues that the President and Congress must address in the coming weeks if the US is to avoid a fiscal and economic crisis. Fitch estimates that the fiscal cliff would tip the US economy into an unnecessary and avoidable recession and result in an increase in the unemployment rate to above 10% in 2013. In Fitch's opinion, the tax increases and spending cuts implied by the fiscal cliff would not fully address the longer-term drivers of higher public spending and the relatively narrow and volatile tax base. Moreover, the fiscal cliff would likely be at least partially reversed by Congress as the economy slowed and unemployment began to rise, perpetuating the uncertainty over government tax and spending policies that has weighed on the economic recovery. Fitch is currently projecting substantial deficit reduction equivalent to around 1.5% of GDP in 2013 as part of a medium-term deficit reduction strategy.
On current projections, the Treasury Secretary will likely have to implement extraordinary measures by year-end to maintain borrowing capacity under the current debt ceiling of USD16.394trn. Failure yet again to reach agreement on raising the debt ceiling in a timely manner - not Fitch's expectation - would undermine confidence in the United States as a reliable borrower and thus its 'AAA' status, prompting a formal review of the US sovereign rating.
Avoiding the fiscal cliff and a timely increase in the debt ceiling would support the economic recovery and send a positive signal that agreement can be reached on a credible plan to reduce the federal budget deficit and stabilise federal debt over the medium term, consistent with the US retaining its 'AAA' status. Conversely, failure to reach even a temporary arrangement to prevent the full range of tax increases and spending cuts implied by the fiscal cliff and a repeat of the August 2011 debt ceiling episode would mean that the general election had not resolved the political gridlock in Washington and likely result in a sovereign rating downgrade by Fitch.


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Calder Bronze Side Tables
Rodolfo Dordoni design
A series of new finishes contributes a fresh, contemporary appeal to the Calder family that comprises many coffee tables and console tables, available in several sizes.
The slender iron structure now comes in a Light Bronze satin finish. Several new versions of the top are also available: glossy lacquered Sand, Sucupira veneer stained Mink color, and Bardiglio Nuvolato or Calacatta marble. The under shelf is also in satin finish metal painted Light Bronze. Some of the consoles are equipped with drawers in Sucupira stained Mink color.
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Console tables with structure and intermediate shelf in satin-finish metal and light Bronze painted finish.
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236 people arrested in 'Operation Clean Sweep'
60-day sweep nets 18 guns, 3 meth labs
A number of methamphetamine labs were dismantled and more than 230 drug suspects were locked up in Brevard County as part of Operation Clean Sweep.
Police said that some of the people arrested were part of a gang and said that guns, drugs and violence were a common thread in all of the arrests.
"There is no room here for people that want to commit violent crime and want to torment our citizens," said Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey. "That's just unacceptable. If you want to do those things, we'll make a room for you at the jail is what we'll do."
The mug shots of the 236 people arrested in a 60-day sweep filled a whole wall.
Some were members of a gang called the Camo Gang.
"There was a subset that was stealing cars for the group in order for the group to use the cars to facilitate other crimes such as robberies, burglaries and things of that nature," said Brevard County Sheriff spokesman J.J. Woolsey.
In neighborhoods in Titusville, Mims and Scottsmoor, agents arrested one suspect after another.
Agents said they confiscated 18 guns and found three meth labs.
Police said violent crime had been on the rise before the sweep, but now they are seeing it decline in northern Brevard County.
"There was no letting up for the criminals," said Woolsey. "And truly this operation, this is a sad day for criminals in north Brevard."
"Criminals are looking for other places to go," said Ivey.
Deputies said they are still concerned with Camo Gang, saying that the car thefts would then lead to crimes such as robberies and shootings by other members of the gang.


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One Week | One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barn Raising
In July 2010, twelve strangers arrived on the campus of George Mason University for a first-of-its-kind NEH-funded summer institute. Over the course of the next seven days, with the help of their instructors at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM), this diverse group of digital humanists conceived, built, and launched an entirely new software tool for humanities scholarship—Anthologize,a WordPress plugin designed to facilitate the remix and republication of blog posts as books.
During the week of Sunday, July 28 - Saturday, August 3, 2013, CHNM once again brought together a group of twelve digital humanists of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and practical experience to build something useful and usable. A short course of training in principles of open source software development was followed by an intense five days of doing and a year of continued remote engagement, development, testing, dissemination, and evaluation. Comprising designers and developers as well as scholars, project managers, outreach specialists, and other non-technical participants, the group conceived a tool, outlined a roadmap, developed and disseminated an initial prototype, laid the ground work for building an open source community, and made first steps toward securing the project's long-term sustainability.
One Week | One Tool was inspired by both longstanding and cutting-edge models of rapid community development. For centuries rural communities throughout the United States have come together for "barn raisings" when one of their number required the diverse set of skills and enormous effort required to build a barn-- skills and effort no one member of the community alone could possess. In recent years, Internet entrepreneurs have likewise joined forces for crash "startup" or "blitz weekends" that bring diverse groups of developers, designers, marketers, and financiers together to launch a new technology company in the span of just two days. One Week | One Tool built on these old and new traditions of community development and the natural collaborative strengths of the digital humanities community to produce something useful for humanities work and to help balance learning and doing in digital humanities training.
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Performing Martha Graham at Eugene Lang College
In 2006, a group of Lang students were given a remarkable opportunity: to dance under the direction of Yuriko Kikuchi, former soloist and rehearsal director for Martha Graham. In this rehearsal, Yuriko helps students understand the emotions as well as the complex choreography of "Steps in the Street," an excerpt from Martha Graham's work Chronicle, which premiered in 1936. In addition to rehearsing with Yuriko, students studied the Martha Graham technique and influences on Graham's work with Ellen Graff, director of programs at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. "Steps in the Street" was performed in the 2006 Lang Spring Dance Concert.


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This map was adapted from the 1853 Yardley Taylor map of Loudoun County. All properties are shown as little squares, but the only properties named are those whose owners paid a subscription fee.
1. Why would mapmaker Yardley Taylor ask for a subscription fee for farmers who wished to be included on his map?
2. Why might a farmer want his farm included on the map? Why might a farmer not want his farm listed on the map?
3. Notice the number of roads into, and out of, the village. Why would this be important to farmers as well as the miller?
* The map on this screen have a resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi), and therefore will print poorly. You can obtain a larger version of Map 2, but be aware that the file may take as much as 45 seconds to load with a 28.8K modem.


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Governor Rick Scott: President Obama is Failing Floridians With Federal Government Shutdown
Governor Rick Scott released the following statement today, amid the rising concerns of a federal government shutdown over a budget stalemate in Washington, D.C.:
"The impending federal government shutdown represents a failure of leadership. One of the most basic functions of governing is budgeting. At the state level, we compromise and negotiate to create a balanced budget every year. But, President Obama has shown no interest in negotiating or compromising. We have paid down state debt in Florida by $3.5 billion and paid back another $3.5 billion federal loan over the last two and a half years while also cutting taxes.
"President Obama is failing Floridians. President Obama is failing to save Florida families from huge flood insurance rate hikes, while also failing to serve Floridians with the responsible budgeting of their federal tax dollars. The buck ultimately stops with the President. The time for leadership is now."


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Today, the World Trade Organization handed down a ruling on a complaint lodged against Chinese media laws by the US and most of the developed world. The laws require that various forms of imported media, from books to movies, be distributed by a single, state-owned company. It also limits foreign ownership of Chinese media companies and allows content produced by domestic companies to skip the trip to the state censors. A lot of that, according to the WTO, runs afoul of the agreements that China signed when it entered the body. The ruling opens the door for China's trading partners to impose punitive tariffs on its exports, meaning that China may face a choice between exports and control.
To understand the consequences of this ruling, you need to understand a bit about how the WTO works. It's a voluntary group, and its members sign up by agreeing to reduce tariffs and open their domestic markets to foreign competitors. Any actions that go against the documents specifying the details of this agreement allow the other members to request mediation and file formal complaints. If the complaints are upheld, the complainant gains the right to impose trade sanctions on the offender that would normally otherwise be prohibited by WTO rules. In theory, those punitive actions are supposed to be proportional and focused on the markets where the trade violations took place.
The original complaint was filed by the US in 2007 (the WTO has a brief history of it available), or you can go straight to the 469 page monster that details the entire proceedings). Over time, the EU, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan joined as interested parties. The gist of the complaint is that Chinese law discriminates against non-domestic media companies in fields like books and other publications, music, and movies, despite promising to level the playing field in its WTO Accession Protocol.
Basically, China has different rules for domestic companies, domestic companies backed by foreign investors, and foreign companies. So, for example, if a movie is burned to disk and packaged overseas, the only entity allowed to import it is the state-owned CNPIEC. If, in contrast, the movie is brought in digital form and then burned to disk and packaged within China, the process can be handled by a variety of companies, but all of them are also state-owned. Similar rules apply to print and music.
Part of this is old-fashioned protectionism, but China's emphasis on social control is also considered a trade barrier, as this section on the country's content review policies makes clear:
China requires all sound recordings, including sound recordings intended for electronic distribution, to undergo content review. The nature of that review, however, varies substantially depending on whether the sound recording is imported or domestic. China's measures require imported sound recordings to undergo content review and approval by the Chinese Government prior to their electronic distribution. In contrast, domestic sound recordings do not have to receive prior approval from the Chinese Government. Instead, they undergo internal company content review, and they simply are registered with the Ministry of Culture.
It's not so much that the review happens, it's just that domestic companies are presumably more sensitive to the consequences of releasing content that the government disapproves of, so they're trusted to run the review process on their own.
China's response to the complaint, for the most part, is that it's a mix of cultural imperialism and an attempt to undercut the morals of Chinese citizens. "Cultural goods and services have in common the fact of being vectors of cultural identity and values and, as such, of justifying the implementation of specific, yet WTO compliant, regulatory measures," states its formal response, which noted elsewhere that, "It is of vital interest for China to impose a high level of protection of public morals through an appropriate content review mechanism that prohibits any cultural goods with a content that could have a negative impact on public morals."
The actual decision portion of the document is entirely incomprehensible without field guides to Chinese law and its WTO Accession Protocol. (There are nine pages of statements like "The United States has not established that Article 8 of the 1997 Electronic Publications Regulation results in China acting inconsistently with paragraph 5.2 or paragraph 84(b).") Although it's clear that the US failed to make its case on a variety of points, it appears to have succeeded in quite a few of them. The final words on page 469 are "We recommend that the Dispute Settlement Body request China to bring the relevant measures into conformity with its obligations under those agreements."
Although it's clearly a victory for the US, there's obviously little chance that China will ease up on its political censorship or anti-porn crusades. China can appeal the decision and, even if it loses, other nations may struggle to find punitive measures that are proportionate and strike at the equivalent markets. There's also the very real problem that China's written laws and the facts on the ground are often two very different things. Still, trade negotiations are an ongoing affair, and being able to bring a WTO decision to the table will undoubtedly be a useful tool.


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Austin, TX — More states may join Texas in mandating that schoolchildren pass physical fitness tests. After Texas released last month the results of its fitness tests on 2.6 million children in the state, governors in at least 15 states expressed interest in implementing a similar program in their states, according to Dr. Kenneth Cooper, founder of the Cooper Institute, Dallas. The states include South Carolina, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana and Hawaii, Cooper says.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is pledging his support to get additional funding to continue analyzing the results and continue the testing in his state. He also wants to encourage other states to mandate the test.
"He wants me to help prepare a letter to all the governors and tell them what we're doing in Texas," Cooper says.
Texas students become progressively less fit as they age, according to the Fitnessgram test, which was created by The Cooper Institute of Dallas and was given to Texas children in grades 3-12 this spring. The test measured body composition, aerobic capacity, strength, endurance and flexibility. The test was mandated by the Texas legislature but was not funded by the legislature. Instead, the $2.5 million needed for the tests came from private donations gathered by Cooper.
Preliminary results show that about 32 percent of third-grade girls and almost 28 percent of third-grade boys reached the Health Fitness Zone, which means they achieved a certain level on six tests with performance targets tied to a student's age and gender. The tests include activities such as a one-mile run, curl-ups, push-ups, trunk lift, shoulder stretches and a skin-fold test.
By seventh grade, 21 percent of the girls and 17 percent of the boys met this achievement level. By 12th grade, 8 percent of the girls and about 9 percent of the boys met the health standards in all six tests.
The declining fitness levels correspond with the decreasing emphasis on physical education in upper grades, according to Cooper.
"I hope these results shock the state into reality and into action," Cooper says. "We must immunize children against obesity while in elementary schools so that as they age, they are more likely to stay healthy and fit. By the time students graduate, they should be ready mentally and physically to achieve their dreams."
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) recently released district-by-district results from the Fitnessgram tests and compared those results with the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test results, which measure academic performance. The districts that performed the best on the TAKS in 2006-2007 tended to perform the best on the Fitnessgram test, according to the Galveston Daily News. The districts where less than half the students passed the TAKS test in 2006-2007 had higher numbers of students who could not meet the fitness standards, the newspaper reported.
In addition, children in high poverty levels have poorer fitness.
The tests were administered by teachers who completed the required training. Although this was a mandatory test for Texas school districts, nearly one million students did not take the tests, and some school districts did not turn in any results, The Dallas Morning News reported.
Several Dallas-area districts tested a fraction of their 12th-graders, and some students said they were allowed to turn in their own results, the newspaper reported. Other parents said that their children were told to stop at a certain point in some of the tests when they could have gone farther.
TEA officials are working on new training guidelines to ensure more uniform testing procedures, Marissa Rathbone, director of school health for the TEA, told the newspaper. The Cooper Institute will let state officials handle compliance concerns, spokeswoman Amy George told the newspaper.


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The principle
Pickling achieves an intensive cleaning and activation of metal surfaces, through the removal of a thin layer of the material processed. The result is a metallically pure surface, free of oxides and contamination of other metals. Pickling attacks primarily the grain boundary of the metal structure and gives the surface a matt to satin gloss appearance.
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Several methods are available for the pickling process:
- Immersion pickling for immersing, sprinkling or through-pumping
- Spray pickling involves spraying on an adhesive pickling paste onto free-standing areas
- Brush pickling for local treatment by painting the chemicals e.g. onto welding seams
Non-rusting steels, nickel-based alloys and titanium are usually pickled following processing, in order to create a good starting point for the further processing or creating an intact passive layer as a precondition for corrosion resistance.
Normal steel, copper materials and aluminium are pickled for cleaning purposes or pre-treatment before electropolishing, chemical deburring, polishing, anodizing or galvanizing.
Rinsing water and used pickling chemicals must be treated and disposed of in accordance with the legal regulations.
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Titanium and titanium alloys (immersion pickling)
Carbon steel (immersion pickling)
- POLINOX BESTA (pickling inhibitor)
- POLINOX BESTA S (without hydrochloric acid, no hydrogen embrittlement)
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Hillsboro track mixes youth, experience
Staff writer
Hillsboro head track and field coach Dennis Boldt says the main difference between track and field and other sports is that everyone competes on the same level right away.
He said the team is more of a young group this year, but the athletes have a great attitude and work ethic.
"Sometimes when those young kids come out, we have to remind them that they are freshmen competing against some of the state's best athletes," Boldt said. "We don't want them to get disappointed. We want them to be encouraged and we want them to compete."
The team does bring back three state qualifiers from 2013, two of whom will anchor the girls' team.
Junior distance runner Emily Sechrist returns the most experience on the team as a two-time state qualifier. In the 3,200-meter run, Sechrist won the state title as a freshman in 2012 and placed third in 2013. She finished ninth in the 800 and fourth in the 1,600 last year as well.
Sophomore Marah Franz is the only other returner that competed at the state meet last year, placing 12th in the pole vault.
Senior jumper Avery Franz is the only athlete on the boys' team returning after a state appearance last year in which he placed 12th in the triple jump.
Boldt also said he expected junior distance runner Grant Knoll to be a factor in the 1,600 and 3,200.
Seniors Morganne Hamm and Taylor Vogt will look to improve in the shot put and discus throws for the girls, while sophomore Franklin Jost will attempt to make a name for himself throwing on the boys' team.
Jumps may be one of the team's stronger events this season. Besides Marah and Avery Franz, Boldt said seniors like Jesse Brown and Addie Lackey would provide a good base for jumpers. Brown will compete in the high and long jumps for the boys while Lackey will high jump and run sprints for the girls.
Many of the younger athletes on the team may run sprints this year. Boldt said the team may struggle getting 4x100 and 4x400 teams, and probably will not have a 4x800 team this season.
"They may not tear it up right away, but they came out Monday and everybody had a great attitude and was working hard," he said.
Boldt said the team would send certain athletes to Wichita State University's KT Woodman track meet at the beginning of the season, while others will go to Central Kansas Track League and Hesston meets. He was happy to get some of the more experienced athletes participating in a "high-level" meet early in the season.
"Our biggest goal is we want to create that competitive nature in all our athletes," Boldt said.
He also mentioned he could not coach the athletes as well without the help of assistants Len Coryea, Jeff Haslett, Mike Jilka, Don Ratzlaff, and Malinda Just.
"I'm very blessed to have such experience," Boldt said. "These are track athletes. These are multi-sport athletes — people who understand their events and understand coaching, and it's a great advantage for these young people to have these coaches."


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Why meditate in a cave?
During my three months of travel in India and Indonesia, I've visited and meditated in a few caves that renowned yogis or ascetics have meditated in.
Why would anyone meditate in a cave?
Teachers say that because the temperatures are moderated in a cave–it's cool in the summer and warm in the winter, it's a comfortable way to meditate in nature. Sounds from the outside world are shut out. And you are inescapably alone in one. I mean, check out the ones below from Indonesia. They are really just for one person. So you can be in comfortable solitude in nature, protected from the elements.
Sounds great in theory, right? But meditators have reported online that meditating in a purely natural cave isn't so pleasant, since you'll be sharing it with critters and dirt, if you can find a vacant cave during high season in the Himalayas at all.
So there must be other, non-practical reasons for meditating in a cave. One spiritual reason is that when you meditate in a cave where others have meditated, they say that you can still feel their energies.
Totally hippie-dippie fairytale or is it for realz? You'll have to visit a meditation cave for yourself to decide.
As for me, I meditated in a few caves in India and visited a few meditation caves in Java. To be frank, the reason why I am even writing about meditation caves is that I had one of my deepest and complete meditations in one of two famous meditation caves in Tiruvannamalai.
Maybe it was because the night before I had spent it on top of the mountain or maybe it was because of the time of year, since I was visiting during the ten days' celebration period after the Karthigai Deepam, the biggest festival in Tiruvannamalai for the year. But once I sat in the cave, I was still.
Keep reading to find out my number one practical reason for meditating in a cave in India.
Meditation caves on Arunachala Mountain in Tamil Nadu, India
The two well-known meditation caves are known as Virupaksha and Skandashram on the Arunachala holy mountain the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
The Sri Ramana ashram maintains both of them, because Sri Ramana Maharishi–an acknowledged enlightened being–spent many years meditating in both of these caves as well as in other caves on the same Arunachala mountain.
Both Skandashram and Virupaksha are natural caves that have been added onto: they are both enclosed compounds now, so current meditators don't have to worry about leaks or critters.
In fact, around Skandashram, there is even a natural mountain source for spring water behind the cave compound under a huge tree. Usually, the source is covered by a flat stone, which you can easily remove (see below). This is not from a natural spring but from rain runoff that passes through the interior of the volcanic rock mountain. Outside of the cave compound, the water gathered in a small pool.
Further down from the Skandashram cave compound an ascetic showed me another mountain water source. He was washing his hands, not drinking from it, I noted. You can kinda see it behind him in this photograph below.
Since the biggest holy festival day for Karthigai Deepam had just passed when I was there, I had personally seen the evidence of many pilgrims peeing on the mountain. I was pretty sure the urine went the same way as rain does, so when I tasted the water, it could have just been my imagination, but it faintly smelled of urine. So even though I wanted to fill up my water bottle like the other pilgrim meditators, I refrained.
If you continue hiking from the Ramana Ashram beyond the Skandashram, you'll find your way to the Virupaksha cave a bit lower on Arunachala.
The Virupaksha Cave is said to be in the shape of the word 'om', but it felt just like a round cave to me. In the middle of the cave stands a pile of sacred ash–vibhuti–from the body of the first ascetic who meditated here in the 13th century, after whom the cave is named, Virupaksha Deva. Later on, Sri Ramana Maharishi meditated here for 16 to 17 years.
If you get a chance, try meditating in Virupaksha cave. It's a cave with history that left a deep impression on me.
Meditation Caves on the Dieng Plateau in Central Java, Indonesia
On the Dieng plateau in Central Java were a few caves around the Warna Lake / Telaga Warna where ascetics / rishis used to meditate. Over 2000 meters above sea level in volcanic mountains, the name of the plateau in Old Javanese means "Abode of the Gods." Along with meditation caves, scattered around the plateau are eight small 8th to 9th-century temples dedicated to Shiva, now sitting among rice and potato fields. According to scholars, as many as 400 temples were excavated at Dieng Plateau and records show that it was an important sacred center for quite some time.
When I visited Dieng Plateau I had assumed that these caves were contemporaries with the Hindu temples, but now that I've read up on these caves, I found out that these caves are used even today. The ex-President Suharto came by helicopter from Jakarta to meditate at the Ratu cave by the Warna Lake and had met the then Australian Prime Minister in one of Dieng's limestone caves in the 1970s.
Outside of the caves are statues of the rishis / ascetics in miniature.
Actually, I had assumed at the time that the statues were of the rishis, since one of them (see photo above) is sitting in lotus posture–a classic meditation posture–but they could have been guardians of the caves as well.
The caves are behind bars, which I now have found out that you can ask the caretakers to open. I didn't see anyone around when I was there, but I suppose you can ask the ticket sellers to open the gates for you. Below you'll see how small and narrow these natural meditation caves are.
In this Semar Cave / Gua Semar above, the Javanese deity Semar, who although is a clown figure is said to be more powerful than all the other gods, is said to appear to seekers who fast and meditate here for days.
Since I did not meditate in these caves, I can neither confirm nor deny this. If you go, sit in these caves for a while, and tell me what you experienced.
So, really, why would you meditate in a cave?
In my own practical experience there are no mosquitoes or flies in caves, which makes a critical difference in India and Indonesia. I can't tell you how many times I've been irritated and distracted by mosquito bites while meditating; I find it easier to meditate on a bus with loud music and smokers, bouncing over potholes on a dirt road, than with a mosquito in my meditation corner.
Have you ever meditated in a cave? What was your experience? Please share them.
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as the leader for Tennessee Tech University Monday, shooting a
three-over par 75, as the Golden Eagle men's golf team is in fifth
place following the first 18 holes of the 54-hole Ohio Valley
Conference Championships.
Tech was paced Monday by a trio of golfers from the Upper Cumberland, including Cassetty from Whitleyville, senior Greyson Painter from Carthage and junior Wes Korth of Cookeville.
The nine-team field continues play with 18 holes Tuesday at The Shoals on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Muscle Shoals, Ala., with the final round scheduled for Wednesday.
Cassetty posted a 75 to place him in a tie for 12th place, and was followed closely on the individual leaderboard by Painter and Korth. Painter finished play Monday at four-over 76 and is tied for 15th place, while Korth is at five-over 77 and tied for 20th place.
Senior Jared Dunn, another Cookeville product, is tied for 33rd place after shooting an 81 Monday. Jake Heatherly, a senior from Jacksboro, Tenn,. rounds out the Tech lineup in a tie for 40th place after carding an first-round 84.
Murray State jumped out to a big lead Monday, shooting one-over 289 to give the Racers a nine-shot edge over Austin Peay (298). Host Jacksonville State (299) is third and Eastern Kentucky (304) in fourth. The Golden Eagles shot a 309 team total, putting Tech two shots ahead of UT Martin (311). Tennessee State (313), Morehead State (314) and Eastern Illinois (320) round out the standings.


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Government of India has earmarked special benefits and concessions for Senior Citizens. Here is a brief compilation of same for your ready reference :
1. Court cases involving senior citizens
The Chief Justice of India has advised Chief Justices of all High Courts to accord priority to cases involving older persons and ensure their expeditious disposal. [vide letter of Government of India, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment (SD Section), New Delhi, F. No. 20-76/99-SD dated 03.11.1999]
2. RTI Act (Right to Information Act)
Second appeals filed by senior citizens and differently abled persons under the Right to Information Act (RTI) are taken on a high priority basis, according to a directive of the Central Information Commission (CIC).
For, senior citizens and physically challenged if appeals are already pending with the CIC/SCIC, they should write to the CIC/SCIC about their status.
3. Health Care
(a) There is provision for separate queues for senior citizens at hospitals and health care centres when they visit for any health related concerns or clinical examinations. In Central Government Hospitals located in Delhi, namely, Safdarjung, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College & associated Hospitals, separate registration counters/windows/rows are provided for senior citizens in OPDs to avoid standing in long queue.
(b) Assistance like wheelchairs/trolleys are also provided for senior citizens in OPDs of Dr. RML Hospital and Safdarjung Hospital, where they are attended on a priority basis.
(c) The Delhi Government runs special clinics for Senior Citizens in most of its hospitals in Delhi.
(d) There is a weekly geriatric OPD in Dr. RML Hospital and Safdarjung Hospital. At All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), preference is given to Senior citizens with regard to OPD consultation, emergency management as well as hospitalization.
(e) At Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi 104 beds are reserved for senior citizens. In other Hospitals including AIIMS, although there is no special reservation of beds for senior citizens, preference is given to them in admission and bed is allowed to them on priority.
4. Finance & Taxation
(a) You are advised to refer to the Indian Income Tax Department for the current slabs of Income Tax including rebate admissible to senior citizens. As per recent finance budget 2014-15 (presented on 10th July, 2014) the threshold income when you start paying tax stands at Rs. 3 lakh per annum for senior citizens below 80 years age. For senior citizens who are 80 years and above the threshold income is Rs. 5 lakh per annum.
(b) The benefit of Section 80C of the Income Tax Act, 1961 has been extended to the investments made under 5-Year Post Office Time Deposits Account and Senior Citizens Savings Scheme, with effect from 01.04.2007.
(c) Tax benefit for medical insurance under Section 80D: Payment made by a senior citizen towards health insurance premium is tax exempt under section 80D of Income Tax Act 1961. Tax deduction of Rs. 30,000 can be availed from assessment year 2016-17. A combined tax deduction of Rs. 60,000 can be availed by senior citizens who are also paying medical insurance premium for their parents.
5. Banking
(a) Government also gives a higher rate of interest to senior citizens on certain Savings schemes which it runs through its large network of Post Offices (Senior Citizens Savings Scheme) and Public sector Banks. For further details you are advised to contact your nearest Bank or local Post Office.
(b) Some banks like State Bank of India charge only 50% of the applicable prescribed charges in respect of following services:
i) Issue of duplicate passbook/statement of account
ii) Issue of cheque books,
iii) Noting of standing instructions,
iv) Stop payment instructions,
v) Charges of non maintenance of minimum balance,
vi) Issue of balance certificate,
vii) Signature verification,
viii) Ledger folio charges
ix) Minimum balance requirement is also 50% for these class of customers.
Please check with your nearest Bank on what special facilities exist for Senior Citizens and Pensioners.
6. Telecommunications
(a) Department of Telecommunications has made special provisions for senior citizens who apply for a new telephone connection. The department has earmarked separate priority category for senior citizens wherein they can apply for registration.
(b) In case of any complaint or fault with the telephone a senior citizen's complaint is redressed on a priority basis.
(c) MTNL (Delhi) gives 25% discount in rentals (Tariff Plan-250 only) and installation to Senior Citizens who are 65 years or above in age. Please submit proof of age when applying to MTNL for availing this concession. Application form for a new connection (MTNL Delhi) in senior citizen category is available here.
(d) MTNL (Mumbai) has a Non-OYT-Special category for Senior Citizens aged 65 years or above. To apply for a new connection in Mumbai, senior citizens can fill this application form. Whereas to avail senior citizen concession on an already existing telephone connection (MTNL Mumbai) this application form needs to be filled in.
Kindly note that these filled in forms are to be submitted to the MTNL offices in your city or sanchar haat. In case of any specific query you may call MTNL Help line 1500 from any MTNL number.
(e) BSNL: I did not find any scheme with BSNL where concessions were admissible to senior citizens. I hope BSNL would consider such rebates soon.
7. Travel by Indian Railways
(a) Travel by Indian Railways is 40% cheaper for all male Senior Citizens who are 60 years in age or above, while women aged 58 years or above are entitled to 50% concession in fare. Indian Railways provides this fare concession to elderlies in all its trains including Shatabdi, Rajdhani and Jan Shatabdi trains. Kindly note that while travelling all Senior Citizens need to carry proof of their Date of Birth / Age with a Photo ID Card.
(b) There are separate Counters / Queues for Senior Citizens at all Railway Stations for purchase, booking or cancellation of tickets.
(c) Lower Berths: In trains having reserved accommodation, a combined quota of two lower berths per coach has been earmarked in Sleeper, AC 3 tier and AC 2 tier classes for Senior Citizens, Female passenger who is 45 years of age and above and Pregnant women.
(d) In the Computerized Passenger Reservation System (PRS), there is a provision to allot lower berths automatically to male passengers of 60 years and above and female passengers of 45 years and above subject to the availability of lower berths at the time of booking of tickets.
(e) After departure of the train, if there are vacant lower berths available in the train, and if any senior citizen who has been allotted upper/middle berth, approaches for allotment of vacant lower berths, the Conductor/Train Ticket Examiner (TTE) has been authorized to allot the vacant lower berth to them after making necessary entries in the chart.
(f) Special arrangements are available for those who find it difficult to walk or move on their own. Wheel Chairs are available at all major junctions, District Headquarters and other important Railway stations for the convenience of Senior citizens and also for those who are in need.
(g) Indian Railways have recently introduced specially designed coaches which have provisions for hand rails and specially designed toilets for handicapped persons. These coaches also have space for wheel chairs.
8. Travel by Airlines
(a) Senior Citizens are entitled to 50% discount on Economy Class fares on all flights of Indian Airlines subject to certain conditions.
(b) Air India gives 45% discount in economy class on domestic sectors to senior citizens (women aged 63+ and men aged 65+).
(c) Other Airlines operating in India also offer discounts to senior citizens. It is advisable to check with them before you plan your travel.
9. Travel by Roadways (state transport)
(a) State Road Transport Undertakings have made provision for senior citizens for reservation of 2 seats in the front row of all buses.
(b) Some state governments also give concessions (in fare) to senior citizens, while some also have specially modelled buses for the elderlies.
10. Law (Legislations)
(a) Maintenance & Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens
Indian Government has enacted a law for welfare of senior citizens and parents. This law creates provisions for maintenance, protection and security of elders.
(b) Maintenance Tribunals for Parents and Senior Citizens in Delhi
11. Old Age Homes and Recreation Centres for Senior Citizens
(b) Recreation Centres for Senior Citizens in India
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