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14-10-2012 17:03 ATP Health and Fitness Zumba sessions raising money for the RUH Forever Friends Appeal. Big Ted Joins in as well!

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LOCAL man Shaun Davison followed his passion for health and fitness in November last year, establishing Hybrid Fitness Training, a no-fuss, no-gimmick training facility which can deliver astonishing results.

Hailing from a sporting background which includes working as a personal development coach for Country Rugby League, Mr Davison has built on his 10 years' experience in the fitness industry to develop a unique business dedicated to helping Clarence Valley residents improve and maintain their fitness and wellbeing.

"Hybrid Fitness Training is based on the important values of being healthy and having a good quality of life," Mr Davison said.

"It is not about going to the gym just to look good.

"At Hybrid we believe we are in the fitness industry for the right reasons. The staff are passionate about what we do, our reward is our members' achievements and we thrive on seeing people achieve what they initially never thought was even possible."

Mr Davison said Hybrid Fitness Training only implement training programs that will have a positive effect on people's health and fitness.

He added a person's fitness could determine their quality of life.

Mr Davison, along with his fellow directors at Hybrid Fitness Training, said when establishing the business, they searched for a name for their facility that they felt represented their own personal fitness philosophies and supported what they wanted to offer in a fitness centre for the Grafton community.

A facility that had a garage gym feeling but could achieve the best performance results for a mixture of people utilising a mixture of the most effective exercise methods and modalities. From this, Hybrid Fitness Training was born.

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By John Reeves | More Articles October 15, 2012 |

Investing great John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and champion of the index fund, believes our nation's retirement system is headed for a serious train wreck. Anyone who looks objectively at the evidence would have to agree with him.

I recently examined several outstanding research studies on the state of retirement savings in America, and here are some of the alarming facts that I discovered:

These are just some of the facts that are included in the studies referenced above. For more detail, I'd encourage you to read the studies in their entirety.

One big takeaway is that many Americans are saving far too little for their retirement. And many of those individuals who are saving are making costly errors that result in poor investing returns. Bogle believes that our society tends to be wired for short-term thinking when it's long-term strategies that are most needed right now in tackling this retirement crisis.

In order to better understand this crisis, we've put together series of articles that take a deeper look at the important challenges facing our retirement system. In "5 Huge Myths About Social Security," Ilan Moscovitz examines our widely misunderstood Social Security system. In another commentary, Sara Murphy explores the question of whether 401(k) plans are a failed experiment. Finally, in a concluding commentary, I put forward some ideas for possibly improving our overall retirement system. We hope you enjoy the series!

To read all of the articles in this series, click on the following links:

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Check is a personal health device helping professional and recreational athletes to increase their player readiness. The service helps athletes to improve their physical performance by optimizing workouts, reducing injuries and avoiding overtraining syndrome. Players are assessing themselves once a day with the device, which tells them how they should practice that day; pushing hard, doing a normal training or just recovery. It also tells if there's something wrong that needs a professional consultation. Check combines a physical gadget, a mobile app and a cloud service for users to access their data real-time. Check method is unique and based on Finnish scientific sports research and IPR.

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Check includes a novel assessment device, mobile application (Android and iOS) as well as a cloud service for analysis and information management. The solution has been developed together with Finnish sports scientists and is essentially targeted for sports requiring skill, coordination and strength. It also provides significant added value in high-altitude and endurance training.

The beta phase service for professional football clubs was released as part of the international Leaders in Performance conference held in London, Chelsea FC on Oct 10th and 11th.

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Four in ten felt less confident about their performance-related pay compared with 2011.

Over half saw industry bonuses falling in the next three years, the eFinancialCareers survey shows.

Among those expecting an increase, 39% said it would be mainly because of their personal performance.

19% said it was down to the company's performance and 13% said it was due to a change of employer.

"Pay for performance is still ingrained in the culture of financial services in the City," said James Bennett, global managing director at eFinancialCareers.

"If people have performed well they still expect bigger bonuses," he added.

Banks have been under pressure to limit bonuses to end a high-reward, high-risk culture blamed for the financial crisis. A tough UK market environment and public and political pressure were the main reasons given by those expecting bonuses to fall across the industry.

The survey said 18% of respondents did not expect a bonus this year, compared with 11% last year and 7% in 2010.

London's most upbeat finance professionals work for institutional asset management firms, where more than half of respondents expected a rise in their bonus.

The poll of 830 front, middle and back office staff also found workers were more concerned about companies voluntarily cutting pay in the long-term than by regulatory reform of the banking industry.

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HAMILTON, Bermuda, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --In its 150th anniversary yearlong celebration, Bacardi celebrates its tremendous success as the world's largest privately-held spirits Company and the incredible drive and perseverance it took to get there following the illegal confiscation of its assets in Cuba on October 15, 1960 52 years ago. While that event was an extraordinary event in the Company's history after nearly 100 years of being in Cuba, it became a critical turning point to propel the family-owned Company and its namesake BACARDI rum brand to take on a greater international profile. This turned BACARDI into the globally recognized brand it is today. In fact, within 20 years following the loss of the Company's assets in Cuba, BACARDI rum became the number-one premium distilled spirits brand in the United States. Less than a year after that, it was the number-one selling spirit brand in the world.

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"The fact that Bacardi has persevered to become a recognized global brand, as well as a leader in the spirits industry shouldn't be surprising to anyone who understands both the culture and spirit of the Company," said Facundo L. Bacardi, Chairman of Bacardi Limited. "Resilience and perseverance are part of our 150-year DNA, not only as a family, but as a Company. We've survived bankruptcy, rebellions, devastating earthquakes, the U.S. prohibition era, the Cuban Revolution and exile from our homeland, and through it all, we've known that nothing can break the indomitable spirit of the family or the spirit enjoyed the world over. Difficult times may come again, but the lessons of our Company's past are clear to never count us out."

Quick action in face of adversity

The story of Bacardi in Cuba once again demonstrates the Company's ability to adapt, stay relevant and continue to flourish amidst tremendous difficulties. Bacardi proudly proclaims a heritage that is uniquely Cuban, including the honor in 1910 as Cuba's first multinational Company. From humble beginnings in Santiago de Cuba in 1862, Bacardi the family, Company and brand succeeded despite tremendous personal and political upheaval in its first 100 years including war, bankruptcy and prohibition.

In fact, the threats by Fulgencio Batista's government during the 1940s-50s, which included his decision to nationalize Bacardi for one day, propelled Bacardi executives to safeguard the BACARDI rum intellectual property, secret formula and proprietary yeast critical to making BACARDI rum by moving them out of Cuba.

These prescient steps had already been taken when, on October 13, 1960, the new Cuban Revolutionary Government, which had come to power in 1959, approved Law 890 nationalizing all major industries and putting to an end to private property in Cuba. Besides foreign-owned property and entities, nearly 400 Cuban-owned companies, including banks and manufacturing facilities, were also illegally seized.

On October 14, Cuban regime army officers headed to the Bacardi sales office in Havana with a single-page document claiming control of the Cuban Company. But the new Cuban government made a critical error, and the repercussions live on in the world of rum today. The officers went to the wrong building and the wrong city of Havana. The Bacardi headquarters and production facility were in Santiago, on the other side of the country. Those responsible for seizing Bacardi had to catch a flight to get to Santiago. This gave Bacardi a 24-hour heads-up to destroy all of the BACARDI signature yeast which gives BACARDI rum its smooth taste and consistency no matter where in the world you enjoy it thereby preventing anyone else from ever making BACARDI rum in Cuba.

The following day, on October 15, officials of the revolutionary government showed up at the Bacardi headquarters in Santiago and forced Bacardi executives to sign an "Expropriation Document." With the stroke of a pen, the Company's Cuban assets were confiscated and the Bacardi family lost what had taken 98-years to build.

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The ISU womens cross country team finally hit its stride at the Bradley Classic on Friday with the Redbirds picking up their first team title of the 2012 season.

Rachael Brewers time of 20:44 in the 6,000-meter race, good for second place, is the fastest all-time in ISU history and crushed her previous best time by 53 seconds.

Brewer is really starting to learn how to race and run up front, ISU head coach Jeff Bovee said. She has a fast learning [curve] and is soaking up everything from one race to the next.

Senior Elise Sigg placed seventh with a time of 21:27, while sophomore Kelly McShea finished in 12th place with a new personal-best time of 21:36. Kim Christensen crossed the finish line fourth for the Redbirds with a personal-best time of 21:58. Sarah Castel finished the scoring for ISU with a personal-best time of 22:13.

This was their best race of the season, Bovee said. They responded well from a set-back two weeks ago at the Griak Invitational and rose to the challenge. They ran a great team race The team built some great momentum headed into the Valley Championships in two weeks.

ISUs 102 points that earned them first place was 12 less than runner-up St. Louis.

On the mens side of the meet, the team placed 12th overall in the 8,000-meter distance with 296 points. Southern Illinois took the title with 54 points.

Daily Vidette Archive Photo: Rachael Brewer placed second at the Bradley Classic to help the ISU womens cross country team capture its first team title of the season. Brewers time of 20:44 is a new ISU record for a 6,000-meter race.

Sophomore Ryan Rutherford was ISUs top finisher, completing the race with a time of 24:27, the second fastest of his career, to finish in 12th place.

Ryan gave the team a big boost with his solid performance after taking the last few weeks off, Bovee said.

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Posted by Brian Lynn Published: October 15, 2012

When: 2-3 p.m. on Tuesday, October 17 AND 2-3 p.m. on Wednesday, October 18.

Where: EWU Learning Commons, main level of JFK Library

Why: Come tour the EWU Learning Commons, a newly designed space in the library. Established as a single location to access multiple academic services (research, writing, tutoring, technology, and personal development), the Learning Commons is already a buzz of activity. Discover tools conducive to active learning: white board tables, rolling white boards, collaborative furniture, media:scape stations for group e-sharing, and so much more.

Light refreshments will be served at the Open House. Learning Commons partners currently include Libraries, Multimedia Commons (formerly MARS Lab), PLUS, and Writers Center. Interim Dean of Libraries, Ted Otto, will be on hand to answer questions, as well as other partners and students in the Learning Commons.

Come see the latest environment provided for our students to help enrich their learning experience in multiple ways!

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Widely used by the Agile and Kanban practitioners around the world, uTrack is a multi-platform mobile application that helps both individuals and groups to improve overall productivity and agility in both their business and personal lives.

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uTrack is being used globally by a diverse group of people for helping them organize both their business and personal lives. uTrack users include Agile and Kanban practitioners, projects managers, individuals, group administrators, teachers, business owners and students.

The uTrack mobile app is available as both a free app with limited features called uTrack Lite, and as a paid app with full features, called uTrack Pro. The Lite version allows users to get organized with their daily personal and work-related tasks with to-do / post-it virtual walls, allowing users to define and manage tasks through a user-friendly interface.

uTrack comes with a number of productivity features providing task organization, scheduling and assignment. The App is available for the following platforms: Apple iOS (iPad and iPhone), Android (tablets and smart phones), Blackberry (Playbook), Windows Phone, and Symbian (Nokia). It also has a collaborate module (in iOS versions) for sharing and retrieving tasks, walls and projects with other uTrack users.

TenPearls mobile app, uTrack, stood out as clear leaders in terms of its effectiveness as an infrastructure tool that can help enterprises tremendously, its overall usability and intelligent integration with smart devices, said Jehan Ara, President of P@SHA. The panel of judges were of the opinion that the best apps were not only the most technically advanced, but also provided the best user experience. The top app in each category is also nominated for APICTA (Asia Pacific ICT Awards) each year. Our nominated apps have always done well in APICTA and we hope the trend continues this year as well, said Jehan.

TenPearls is very proud to be a winner at P@SHA Awards, an excellent platform that fosters business innovation.This win proves that uTrack is indeed a very useful tool that enterprises can use to instill lean management principles and optimize productivity, said Zeeshan Aftab, COO of TenPearls. P@SHA ICT award is an exciting event in the wake of explosive development in technology and mobile. TenPearls is focused on helping enterprises mobilize, and leverage mobile tablets for both their internal and external interactions, processes and transactions.

More information about the PASHA ICT awards is available at http://www.pashaictawards.com

About P@SHA ICT Awards

The P@SHA ICT Awards aims to provide recognition to the software applications developing companies of Pakistan by providing them an opportunity to gain local, regional and international exposure through on-going promotional activities. It acknowledges creativity, innovation and excellence in Pakistan's Information and Communications Technologies sector. P@SHA ICT award is being held every year and has successfully completed nine consecutive years.

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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

The Guatemalan beauty and personal care sector grew at a moderate pace in 2011. However, the launch of several new products catering to all socioeconomic levels in the country invigorated the beauty and personal care landscape. Guatemala is now witnessing buoyancy of its economy, resulting in increased disposable income, which in turn has helped consumer spending in the country to rise at its most rapid rate.

New market research report Beauty and Personal Care in Guatemala developed by Euromonitor International provides true and unprejudiced insights into the size and shape of the beauty and personal care market in Guatemala. Its scope comprises:

Products covered include: baby and child-specific products, bath and shower, colour cosmetics, deodorants, depilatories, fragrances, hair care, mass cosmetics, men's grooming, oral care, oral care excl power toothbrushes, premium cosmetics, sets/kits, skin care, sun care.

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Title: Beauty and Personal Care in Guatemala

Published: October, 2012

Pages: 103

Price: US$ 2,400.00

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