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How To Prepare For RBI
Reserve Bank of India conducts an examination to recruit candidates for multilevel posts in RBI. You must know that How to Prepare for RBI before appearing in RBI exam this year. If you are going to prepare for this exam so you need to prepare with good strategies. We have provided you the Best Tips & Tricks to Crack RBI Written Exam/ Interview which are given below in this page.
There are multilevel of posts in Reserve Bank of India such as officers of Grade A and B for which exams and interviews are held time by time. Candidates should know about RBI Exam pattern for preparation in right manner.
In India, the Reserve Bank of India is the Central Bank nation. In each country there is an organization which operates as the Central Bank of country. Central Bank does supervise and control the banking and economical system of the country. Reserve Bank of India has been established on 1st April 1935 and it was Nationalised on 1st January 1949. RBI is the key part of development of India.
First of all you need to have the…
RBI Exam Pattern 2015 for Grade B Officers:
This examination conducts in two phases:
Phase I (online exam):
Online examination consists with 200 questions which are objective type questions. There are four sections in RBI Syllabus for Grade B Officers as mentioned below:
- General Awareness
- English Language
- Quantitative Aptitude
- Reasoning
Online examination will be approximate duration of 130 minutes and total number of marks is 200 in Phase I examination. So candidates are advised to prepare all the section for pre-exam.
Online Practice Test For Best Preparation
Phase II (written exam):
Written test for RBI Officer is to be descriptive type. There will be three papers in written test of different topics. Each descriptive paper will be of 180 minutes duration and total number of marks is 100 for every paper:
- Test I – English
- Test II – Economic and Social Issues
- Test III – Finance and Management
10 Powerful Steps to Crack RBI exam 2015?
Candidates can start their preparation as IBPS PO examination Probationary Officer is also the Officer Grade job in banks. We are giving you some best ways to crack RBI Officer Exam 2015 with good strategies and tips.
First Step:
Candidates, first of all you should have complete syllabus to start your preparation in right manner. You should find out best conventional books of General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning and English Language. Consult your teacher to know best preparation material search online current affairs.
Second Step:
Divide your time to prepare for all subjects but you should prepare well your weak portion before appearing in online examination so that you could solve all the questions confidently.
Third Step:
Set your mind for preparation and know How to Prepare for RBI Exam 2015. It may be that some topics are harder for you so join coaching classes to prepare RBI exam 2015. There are expert of every subjects, they can solve your problems in proper manner. Coaching experts have many years' experience of teaching and solving every question.
Fourth Step:
It is the important part to crack this examination that you should solve the previous year question papers of RBI. It may be very helpful to you. You may get an idea of exact exam pattern of Reserve Bank of India.
Fifth Step:
You should make a good strategy to prepare. When you learn any topic so you should examine yourself and practice more and more of that topics. Tic the questions which are typical for you and you could not solve that at one attempt. Find their solution in books or consult your teacher, may be that topic you meet in examination.
Sixth Step:
Keep maintain your speed to solve question papers. You should learn at least thirty square roots, cube roots and tables to solve mathematical questions frequently. In examination you have limited time to solve question paper so you must learn roots to solve entire paper within in limited time. It also helps you in many other examinations.
How To Prepare For Exam In Less Time
Seventh Step:
You should complete your preparation within short time so that you may revise your syllabus before appearing in online test. Because, it has seen that participants read the topic while preparing but not sure to give answer in examination hall.
Eight Step:
You should practice on computer online so that you can be familiar with computer and get good score in exam without any mistake.
Ninth Step:
In the examination hall you should keep and calm and be confident. First of all read all the instructions given in question papers then start your online exam. Because, sometimes candidate leave that questions which can be easily solved. You should attempt easy questions first then other questions.
Tenth Step:
Candidates, don't be exited to start question paper as soon as you get paper your computer screen. Just have a look on entire paper and mark the questions which can be easily solved. Then start to solve your question paper. If you could not solve any question in a single attempt try again to solve it but not to trap in that question for a long time.
Candidates, who will clear online exam of RBI, they will be eligible for written exam. For written exam, candidates should prepare well all the sections which are given above on this page. This examination is to be descriptive type so candidates should practice to write the answers of given questions speedily. These three sections are very important for written examination so candidates should prepare without miss any topic.
I can say certainly if you will follow all above instructions step by step, you will be definitely cracked this examination.
How to crack RBI Interview?
As we said above RBI is the Central bank of Country so you should know all banking terms. You should prepare well for interview general awareness and latest news of economy. First of all you should prepare your introduction very well because every interviewer ask introduction firstly. Interview should not be very lengthy just tell about yourself and your qualification. Be confident in interview don't make silly mistakes in front of interview panel. You should be updated with financial activities of India.
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Iconic Japanese Mayor Katsunobu Sakurai Mourns Stricken City That 'Will Never Be the Same'
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(MINAMISOMA, Japan) — A desperate plea for help put Katsunobu Sakurai on the digital map.
Weeks after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Daichi Power Plant last March, Sakurai sat in an empty conference room at city hall, put on his official beige jacket, looked into a small camcorder and unloaded.
"There are few supplies coming in," he said.
"The lack of information from Tokyo Electric and the government has left us isolated."
"I beg you, as the mayor of Minamisoma city, to help us."
The 11-minute recording posted on YouTube went viral instantly. Calls of support poured in from all over the world, including the U.S. Hundreds of boxes of food and relief supplies followed.
One year later, Sakurai keeps reminders of that goodwill in the same room. A framed photo taken with U.S. Ambassador John Roos sits on the shelf. A mascot doll from a district in Tokyo that lent support stands next to it. Above the entrance, a large banner from a non-profit group in western Japan reads, "Dream, Inspiration, courage and hope. Let's go Minamisoma."
"March 2011 felt like an eternity," Sakurai says. "We had no information, our supplies were cut off, our economy shut down."
More than half of Minamisoma's 75,000 residents fled in the days following March 11, after the government ordered an evacuation of the 12-mile area around the nuclear plant.
On the YouTube recording, Sakurai said just 20,000 people were left behind.
Evacuees have returned as radiation levels dropped and decontamination efforts picked up, but large chunks of the city still resemble a ghost town. The Kodaka district, home to about 13,000 people, remains inside the nuclear exclusion zone. Police cars and red flashing lights act as a nuclear divide in the Haramachi district, where a majority of Minamisoma's residents lived.
Downtown businesses have sprung back. All but four of the city's schools are back open now. But with a third of the city still off limits because of radiation concerns, Sakurai doesn't expect many more to return.
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Staying open has come at a cost. Business is down two thirds. Since Yokota reopened his doors last April, he's taken a $36,000 hit.
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Luring young families back to Minamisoma will be key to its survival. Last summer, Sakurai teamed up with the University of Tokyo's Radioisotope Center for a multimillion dollar decontamination effort that largely relied on city employees to clean up schools and nurseries. They pressure-washed playgrounds and scrubbed classrooms until radiation levels started to drop.
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Along with an increase in complaints from residents, the CHP has noticed an uptick in injury crashes involving solo bikes and motorcyclists during recent unseasonably warm weekends.
"We want people to come to the coast and enjoy themselves, but not at the risk of their safety or the safety of other people," said Sgt. Marcus Bartholomew.
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Oil rose above $109 a barrel on Thursday, rebounding after four days of losses, although a subdued outlook for demand growth and easing supply concerns limited the gains.
U.S. data showing the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, the latest indication of labour market recovery in the top oil consumer, gave oil a lift.
Brent crude for April gained $1.09 to $109.61 by 1307 GMT although Brent for May, which becomes the front-month contract on Friday, was up 55 cents. Brent fell for the last four sessions. U.S. oil fell 8 cents to $92.44.
"The U.S. jobs data is helping, but it looks like a last trading day short-covering move for April Brent," said Tony Machacek, an oil futures broker at Jefferies Bache in London.
Oil has come under pressure this week from a subdued outlook for demand growth in top consumers the United States and China and easing supply concerns. A firm U.S. dollar weighed on prices earlier in Thursday's session.
"It could be related to some buying ahead of the contract expiry," said Carsten Fritsch at Commerzbank of April Brent's gain. "News that South Sudan plans to resume oil production in three weeks' time is weighing on the price of Brent."
Two of the three most closely watched oil forecasters - the International Energy Agency and U.S. government's Energy Information Administration - lowered global oil demand growth forecasts this week. The third, OPEC, flagged downside risks to the outlook.
Comments by China's central bank on stabilising inflation expectations reinforced concern it may drop its pro-growth policy before economic expansion gathers full momentum. The remarks pressured most markets in Asia.
Supply concerns have taken a back seat for now.
South Sudan said on Tuesday it would be ready to restart oil production - shut down for more than a year - within three weeks and on Wednesday a U.S. government report said crude stockpiles rose last week.
OPEC production is expected to trend higher as Saudi Arabia adds to supplies. Saudi cut back its output in the last two months of 2012 because of factors including weaker Asian demand and a lower domestic need for crude in power plants.
"These factors will likely reverse heading into the summer," Morgan Stanley said in a report on Thursday. "Coupled with other sources of demand, both seasonal and exogenous, we anticipate demand for Saudi crude will begin to increase in 2Q13 by up to 500,000-700,000 barrels per day."
Oil's gain was limited by a stronger U.S. dollar, which was near a seven-month high against a basket of currencies on Thursday. A stronger dollar can make oil more expensive for other currency holders. (Additional reporting by Manash Goswami and Ramya Venugopal; Editing by Alison Birrane)


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Need to know: Stars must be able to break Minnesota Wild defenseman Ryan Suter
Minnesota Wild at Dallas Stars
TV/Radio: 7 p.m. today (NBC Sports Network, KTCK-AM 1310)Key matchup:
OK, officially Suter and Goligoski will probably not do battle on too many occasions, but the two big-minute defensemen will both be out there a lot. Suter, who leads the NHL in average time on ice at 29:34, played 32:15 in Minnesota's 3-2 OT win against Dallas on Saturday. Goligoski, who leads the Stars in ice time, played 27:40 in that game.
Key number: 27.0
That's the Wild's average shots on goal per game, ranking 27th in the NHL. They had just 19 Saturday against Dallas.
Stars: D Stephane Robidas (leg) is out.
Minnesota: G Niklas Backstrom (lower body), G Josh Harding (illness), C Mikko Koivu (ankle), LW Zach Parise (foot) and D Jared Spurgeon (foot) are out.
The Stars played in Nashville on Monday and are 2-3-0 on the second night of back-to-back games this season. … The game will be on NBC Sports Network and Daryl Reaugh will provide color commentary. Craig Ludwig will join Ralph Strangis on the radio broadcast. … Darcy Kuemper will be in goal for the Wild. He stopped 33 shots in a 3-2 OT win against the Stars on Saturday. … Minnesota is 7-2-0 in its last nine and has moved to 12th in the NHL in points percentage at .578 (27-19-5). … The Stars are 17-1-0 in their last 18 games against the Wild at AAC. … Minnesota is 4-1-0 in it last five games overall against the Stars.


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Drawing from the work of expert panels that began meeting last April, the new report describes the general health of the state's Latino population and explores such issues as systems of care, access to care, health insurance and "health literacy." Among its major findings are that in North Carolina--which has one of the fastest-growing Latino populations in the country--Latinos are less likely to have health insurance and more likely to experience language barriers than other groups.
Task force members hope their work will lead to some clear-cut changes in state health-care policy, including vigorous efforts to reduce language barriers, extend health insurance and improve services for Spanish-speaking newcomers. Among the report's major recommendations is to make bilingual providers the norm in North Carolina.
An early chapter contains a startling fact that's likely to be overshadowed by some of the more negative news in the report: Although they have less prenatal care and are more likely to be living in poverty, Latinas have the healthiest babies in North Carolina.
The existence of what's known as the Mexican Paradox is one of the little-known positives of the Latino community. If such advantages are to be preserved, task force members say, health-care services must be redesigned so that they acknowledge cultural differences.
For example, the report lists specific beliefs such as respecto (interpersonal respect), familismo (family), machismo (male authority) and fatalismo (fatalism) as traditions that influence the way Latinos view health and interact with health-care providers. It also describes how owners of Latino tiendas in North Carolina have taken on the role that pharmacies play in their home countries, dispensing folk medicines and advice to Spanish-speaking customers.
Efforts to expand access to the existing health-care system will need to acknowledge the role such practices play in the lives of the state's Latino residents, the report states. "When making and implementing health policy for Latinos, we must design strategies to bridge the cultural gap that may exist between patient and providers so that common goals can be achieved," it says. "Health policies should capitalize on the cultural strengths of the Latino community."
For more information on the task force and its report, call The N.C. Institute of Medicine, 401-6599, or El Pueblo, 835-1525.
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The commercial vehicles segment is showing stress. When are you expecting a turnaround Are you becoming more cautious in your lending to the segment
Today, the quality of loans were taking on is the best. The person who takes a loan today has to be sure he has the ability to service the loan for the next 3-4 years. We are not slowing down, but the market has slowed down and our market share has certainly gone up as have the shares of the top five players.
The turnaround was expected this quarter but seems to be deferred in the sense that people are deferring purchase of new vehicles. We do expect a minor uptick in the January-March quarter and substantial a improvement should take place and could take place after the general elections.
Given the macroeconomic environment, what is your outlook on the growth in advances and deposits
Growth in advances surprised everybody in the last three months. You saw highs of 18% growth and that is attributed partly due to the fact that commercial paper (CPs) market dried up and whatever was flowing into the CP market came into the loan growth market.
Last month, loan growth was 14.8%, so I think some of the CPs are back. So I would reckon growth would be around this 14-15% and therefore, our outlook remains in the mid 20s.
Deposit growth is actually faster than loan growth after a long time. And we were up by almost 16% last month, partly due to the FCNR inflows. So as a consequence you also saw C-D ratios have actually fallen, which means there is liquidity, although the cost of liquidity remains high.
What is the kind of demand youre seeing from the corporate side
What has really slowed are the new projects, we are seeing some brown field expansion happening. This is keeping our loan book growing at about 24%. If you look at the credit growth we had in the quarter, the corporate side grew faster than the consumer side. Thats because the vehicle finance slowed down. The book stays diversified and we are not seeing any special growth in any particular area.
What is your outlook in terms of interest rates
I think market was pleasantly surprised by the fact that the repo rate was not hiked at the time of last policy announcement. The subsequent commentary from RBI, that you dont have to react to every small event that happens in the market, is a good sign. I think unless we see a big spike in inflation, which is unlikely, we should see stability in interest rates.


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AT a steamy Saratoga Springs yesterday, 42,000 racing fans braved the heat for the 75th running of the Whitney Handicap – and the belle of the ball was the race's namesake heiress, Marylou Whitney.
The ageless, 70-ish Marylou, considered the grande dame of New York racing, held court in a private viewing box, where she and a group of prominent guests watched Left Bank take the race and the $750,000 prize.
One of the onlookers was daytime-TV diva Susan Lucci, who used a novel way to pick the winner in the big race.
"I hadn't bet all day," she chirped. "But I like the name of the horse [Left Bank] in this one."
The night before the prestigious Handicap, Whitney hosted the party that unofficially kicks off the six-week racing season in Saratoga Springs, a quaint village of Victorian homes and charming shops.
The ball's theme was "A Night in Africa," and Marylou went all out – even hiring a troupe of stage performers to entertain the 200 onlookers who camped in front of the casino for a look at the guests. Whitney got a huge cheer when she entered the casino, escorted by her young husband, John Hendrickson, along with Lucci, Lucci's husband, Helmut Huber.
Inside, the soaring ballroom was decorated in an African theme replete with tents and tiki huts. There were fortunetellers, bamboo plants, palm trees, spears, leopard and zebra prints, animal mannequins, stilt-walkers and a contortionist.
Everything went off without a hitch, unlike last year when a camel named Prissy spat on the crowd during Whitney's "Road to Morocco" fete.
One of the acts, a contortionist, was on the floor swinging back-and-forth with his legs behind his head.
"John would never look at another woman if I could do that," Whitney laughed.


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There is this parameter, CPU_COUNT that you *can* set. Although Oracle doesn't recommend it be changed - does anyone have any practical experience with it ?
Your question is one of laws and licenses, not technology.
Only with "hardware partitioning", a feature that generally appears in only very high-end (and high-price) servers, are you able to (legally) license fewer CPUs than are physically installed in the server. If your server happens to be an IBM P520, for example, you can do what you describe. With most linux hardware, you cannot (yet).
Note: you need to thoroughly understand the difference between "hardware partitioning" and "software partitioning" as Oracle defines it. The dividing line is quite hazy in places.
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Jonathan Smith doesn't have a problem with religion.
He has a problem with religion being pushed in the science classroom.
As one of the founding members of Florida Citizens for Science, Smith helped create new state science education standards passed in 2008.
Everyone from pastors to politicians argued against the new standards, which replaced a 12-year-old curriculum ranked last in the United States.
Opposition the science community faced then and now is disappointing, Smith said, taking a break from work on his 8-acre Lithia farm. There, he has found peace away from the controversy.
"It's frustrating to have to debate something when there is really not a question," he said. "There are not two sides. Science is science. Evolution is fact."
Smith, 60, grew up in England and studied engineering at Wellingborough College of Technology. He came to the United States in 1980 and is now a private consultant. He formed FCFS with five other scientists in 2007.
Since then he has given talks across the United States and appeared on television, including CNN Headline News. We talked to him about the long-time debate.
Why were Florida's science standards so low before?
There was a lack of content. The curriculum didn't include the teaching of evolution. Our priorities were all wrong, and Florida just wasn't progressing in that area.
How did Florida Citizens for Science make a change?
We wrote our own science standards and took them to Tallahassee. The standards were very well-received by the Department of Education. They went before the necessary committees and then were posted online to give members of the public a chance to comment. There were hundreds of thousands of comments. Most were focused on the evolution debate, which is not what any of us wanted.
Were you surprised by the backlash?
Yes and no. Evolution wasn't the biggest issue in the new standards. It was just one topic, but there were town hall meetings about it throughout the state. People were angry.
How did the board respond?
In February 2008, there was a meeting in Tallahassee for the board to approve the standards. It was a two-hour debate, with 10 speakers who were pro-science and 10 who were, I guess you'd say, antiscience. I was one of the speakers.
Was the experience frustrating?
It was extremely frustrating. The science classroom is for science. Teaching creationism in science is like teaching alchemy in chemistry class, or astrology in an astronomy class.
But the board decided to pass the standards?
Yes, but instead of using just the word evolution, everything was changed to say the theory of evolution, so they also had to say the theory of gravity. The creationists didn't know they were actually shooting themselves in the foot because in the science world, theory means an undisputed law.
Can a person have faith and be a scientist?
Yes. In the Florida Citizens for Science, we have atheists, agnostics and some members who are religious. You can have the two, there's no doubt about it. Religion and science just aren't the same thing.
What are your personal beliefs?
I am an atheist. I haven't seen enough evidence to believe in the supernatural. To me, the difference between a believer and a nonbeliever is, if you showed a nonbeliever evidence that there is a God, we would believe. If you showed a believer evidence there is not a God, they would still believe.
You recently discovered creation themes in a science textbook still being used in Florida. What happened?
It was an ocean science textbook. FCFS found some creationism in it. We had it taken out. We have to be vigorous and act as a watchdog committee because people still try to sneak things in from time to time.
You travel a lot speaking to educators and concerned citizens; what do you want to accomplish?
I want to see a set of national science standards put in place for all the schools to use. The problem now is schools don't teach children enough about science, then those children grow up and don't encourage their children to study science. It's a cycle.
What is the result?
When I go speak to adults, some of them don't know the answers to basic questions, like how many days does it take for the Earth to revolve around the sun. The United States has become sort of a laughingstock.
Do you think people are afraid that embracing science means giving up on faith?
I think they may be, but it doesn't have to mean that.
You called European schools more secular. Do you think religion puts us behind other countries in terms of science education?
It's about priorities. Americans don't put enough emphasis on education. We're running around taking our kids to football and cheerleading practice, but if you ask parents when the last time is they had a conference about their child's education, they'll shake their head.
For more information, visit flascience.org or proscience.us.
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Global Tax Alert | 31 October 2013
Malaysia announces 2014 Budget Proposal
Executive summary
On 25 October 2013, Malaysia's Finance Minister1 delivered the 2014 Budget (Budget) Speech. The key Budget announcement was in relation to the implementation of the long-awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST) that will be effective for a transaction occurred on or after 1 April 2015, at the rate of 6%. The GST will replace the current sales and service tax regime. Businesses are given 17 months to prepare for the implementation of GST. The Budget also includes a one percentage point reduction in a corporate tax rate and increases in capital gains tax on gains arising from disposition of real property. This Alert summarizes the key items in the Budget.
GST implementation
GST is charged on any taxable supply of goods and services made by a GST-registered person in Malaysia. The importation of goods and services into Malaysia is also subject to GST but some transactions are zero rated, exempt or excluded from GST. The 17-month transitional period to implement the GST system requires businesses to take into consideration additional costs to implement the system as well as other ancillary matters, such as cash flow management, review of current accounting system capabilities, training of employees and potential legal implications of existing long-term contracts, among others.
Corporate tax rate reduction
The Budget will reduce the current 25% tax rate to 24% applicable to domestic and foreign companies, business trust, a trust body and a limited liability partnership. The concessionary 20% rate will also be reduced by one percentage point to 19% if domestic companies qualify for the concessionary rate on the first RM500,000 (US$160,000) of taxable income,2 because their paid-up ordinary capital is RM2,500,000 (US$800,000) or less at the beginning of a basis period for a year of assessment. The proposal will become effective for taxable years beginning in 2016.
Real property gains tax (RPGT) rate increase
The current RPGT rates are imposed on gains from the disposition of real property and shares in real property companies at a 15% rate on gains arising from dispositions made within a period of two years from the date of acquisition; 10% for a disposition between the third to the fifth year after the acquisition and 0% thereafter. The Budget proposes substantial increases in these rates as well as changes in holding periods as follows3:
- • Disposition within three years of acquisition – 30%
- • Disposition in the fourth year after acquisition – 20%
- • Disposition in the fifth year after acquisition – 15%
- • Disposition thereafter – 5%
The rate changes will become effective for a disposition occurring on or after 1 January 2014.
Extensions of sunset provisions:
- • Tax incentives for new 4 and 5- star hotels to 31 December 2016
The 2014 Budget proposes a three-year extension to the expiring tax incentives to hotel operators undertaking new investments in 4 and 5-star hotels. These incentives offer the hotel operators either a pioneer status with a tax exemption of 70% of statutory income for a period of five years or an investment tax allowance of 60% on qualifying capital expenditure incurred within a period of five years, to be set off against 70% of statutory income. The incentives are provided for approved applications received by the Malaysian Investment Development Authority from 8 October 2011 (30 August 2008 for hotels located in Sabah and Sarawak) until 31 December 2013. To further promote Malaysia as a preferred tourist destination and to ensure an adequate supply of international standard accommodation, the Government has proposed the three-year extension of the application period to 31 December 2016.
- • Accelerated capital allowances on information and communication technology (ICT) equipment and software
Under the current provision, ICT equipment and software qualify for an accelerated capital allowance, resulting in a full purchase price deduction in the year of purchase. This incentive that is due to expire in a taxable year beginning in 2013 is proposed to be extended up to taxable year beginning in 2016.
Double deduction on GST related training in accounting and ICT
The Budget proposes to allow a double deduction for taxable years beginning in 2014 and 2015 on expenses related to training of employees in accounting and ICT, in preparation for the implementation of GST.
1 He is also the Prime Minister.
2 The balance is taxed at the regular 25%.
3 Excluding rates applicable to individuals.
For additional information with respect to this Alert, please contact the following:
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- • Yeo Eng Ping
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- • Sockalingam Murugesan
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- • Anil Kumar Puri
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The bulls continue to exert their grip on the bourse as bargain activities outweighed sell pressure significantly for the second session in a row amid improved market breadth while the key market indicator closed above 25,000 psychological lines with market YTD performance currently standing at +21.31%.
More so, the key benchmark indices resumed uptrend, taking supports majorly from Medium CAP stocks led by UACN and GLAXOSMITH while continuous bargain activities witnessed in Financial Services, Industrial Goods and Consumer Goods sectors also contributed to the outlook recorded today.
In the same vein, the market capitalization of 187 first-tier equities appreciated by N98.24 billion as market sentiments remained positive. 98 equities were traded today as against previous 105 with more activities recorded in Financial Services, Industrial Goods, Consumer Goods, Oil & Gas, ICT, Healthcare, Agriculture and Conglomerates sectors.
Today, five NSE sectoral indices closed positive as NSE 30 which basically measures the performance of blue chips maintained uptrend by +1.42%, NSE Food closed with +2.14% gain while NSE Banking also closed with +1.06% gain, NSE Insurance records +1.88% gain while NSE Oil & Gas closed positive with -0.41% loss. The New NSE LII closed positive with +0.61% gain.
At the close of trading session, the NSE All-Share Index inches up by +1.24% to close at 25,148.48 as against an upbeat by +1.10% recorded in the previous session to close at 24,839.87. In the same vein, market capitalization appreciated by N98.24 billion (US$654.73 million) to close at N8.00 trillion (US$53.35 billion) as against appreciation by N86.36 billion (US$575.55 million) recorded in preceding session to close at N7.90 trillion (US$52.69 billion).
The number of gainers at the close of trading session closed higher at 37 as against 34 recorded in the previous session while decliners also closed higher at thirteen (13) as against twelve (12) losers recorded in the previous trading day – suggesting a positive market breadth.
As usual, Financial services sector led the market transaction volume today with 326.31 million units valued at N2.19 billion (US$14.61 million) exchanged in 2,727 deals as against 772.64 million units valued at N2.54 billion (US16.97 million) exchanged in 2,985 deals recorded in previous session.
The volume recorded in the sector was driven by transaction in the shares of ZENITHBANK, RESORTSAL, ACCESS, UBA and SKYEBANK Plc and the total volume of 217.79 million units valued at N1.62 billion traded in five stocks accounted for 48.25% of the entire market volume and their value represented 50.43% of the market's value.
Transaction volume on the exchange moved down by -44.69% to close at 451.35 million units exchanged in 4,960 deals as against an upbeat by +207.06% recorded in the previous trading to close at 816.08 million units exchanged in 4,885 deals.
Also, market value depreciated by -2.69% to close at N3.22 billion (US21.52 million) as against appreciation by +28.70% recorded in the previous trading session to close at N3.31 billion (US$22.11 million).
Sectoral Performance (According to New Market Segmentation)
Financial Services sector led the market sectoral performance with 326.31 million units of shares traded in 2,727 trades within the sector, followed by Industrial Goods sector to come second on the chart with 45.31 million units traded in 420 trades while Consumer Goods sector recorded 34.62 million units in 1,055 trades to close with third position on the chart. See the full table below
Market Outlook by Classification
At the end of today's session, it was observed that Small Cap stocks according to new market segmentation topped today's market activity with 37.29% contribution to market turnover, followed by Medium Cap stocks with 35.24% while Large Cap stocks stake 27.47% to come last on the chart
Among the Large cap stocks, DANGCEM, GUARANTY and NB Plc topped the 9 traded stocks in that class while ETI, UNILEVER and UBA dominated Medium Cap of 23 traded stocks. Similarly, TRANSCORP, MANSARD and UNITYBNK led 66 traded stocks in the Small Cap category in that order. See table below
The Agriculture sector closed two gainers as against two gainers recorded in the previous session.
The Conglomerates sector closed with two gainers to one loser as against one gainer recorded in the previous session.
The Construction/Real Estate sector closed with two gainers to one loser as against one gainer to one loser recorded in the previous session.
The Consumer Goods sector closed with seven gainers to three losers as against eight gainers to two losers recorded in previous session.
The Financial Services sector closed with fourteen gainers to four losers as against thirteen gainers to four losers recorded in the previous session. Access Bank Plc moved up by +4.95% while Zenith Bank Plc moved down by -0.61% loss after today's trading session.
The Healthcare sector closed with three gainers compared to one gainer to two losers recorded in previous session.
The ICT sector closed with no price movement compared with no price movement recorded in previous session.
The Industrial Goods sector closed with three gainers to one loser as against three gainers to one loser recorded in previous session.
The Natural Resources sector closed with no price movement as against any price movement recorded in previous session.
The Oil & Gas sector closed with one gainer to three losers as against two gainers to two losers recorded in previous session.
The Services sector closed with two gainers to three losers as against three gainers recorded in the previous session.
Further analysis on Acquiring Banks since transaction date showed that the share price of Access Bank Plc has recorded +92.93% gains with FCMB recording -23.08% losses while Union Bank Plc leads the chart with +227.27% gains. However, Sterling Bank Plc recorded +3.94% gains while ETI closed negative with -4.03% loss recorded. See the tracking table below.
Acquiring Banks
Stocks That Made Headlines Today
Earnings Report for Banks
Top Trades
Sectoral Index
Market Outlook by Capitalisation
Top Ten Gainers of the day.
Top Ten Losers of the day.
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I think it may be more of a texture thing too. I'm a 3B, and it takes a lot of work to get my hair straight in a decent looking way. I can't even do it myself, so I get it done at a salon if I want it. The next day you can tell that I'm a curly incognito. But, I have a coarser texture, which I think plays into it more than my curl pattern. I think I could pull off straightening better if my hair was more fine and silky.
I'm not offended by the race qustions. As pale as I am, I get race questions because of my hair. My guess is that so many white women straighten that sometimes we forget that white people can have a tighter curl pattern too.
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Intel on Tuesday said it would launch its next-generation Centrino 2 mobile platform July 14 and at the same time begin initial shipments of some of its supporting chipsets.
Centrino 2, which is expected to offer faster performance and longer battery life than previous mobile products, is the first platform to offer an integrated Wi-Fi and WiMax wireless access option, Intel said. In addition, the processor and other components are about 40% smaller, making them an option for mini- and sub-notebooks.
On the graphics side, the platform offers native hardware support for high-definition entertainment from DVDs in the Blu-ray format.
In an e-mail, an Intel spokesman said there had been a "ton of speculation about our Centrino 2 platform launch date."
In putting the matter to rest, Intel said it would launch the Centrino 2 platform July 14 by introducing Core and Extreme mobile processors. The latter would be high-end processors more suitable for gaming.
The platform would initially ship with some chipsets, with the complete line of chipsets and wireless chips available in high volume in the first week of August, the spokesman said. "We're doing our best to make sure we meet the critical back-to-school buying time and also have a high state of readiness of all of our products to best meet demand."
The Centrino 2 platform will be built using Intel's new manufacturing process that shrinks the size of transistors on a chip to 45 nanometers, thereby increasing the number of the components on each processor. With more transistors than Intel's previous 65-nm chips, the newest processors are able to deliver more processing power at the same level of energy consumption.
Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices is also readying a new notebook platform. The company is scheduled to make an announcement next week.
Notebook sales are the key drivers behind the PC market. In 2009, shipments are expected to surpass desktop sales for the first time. This year, shipments are expected to reach 136 million units, up 25.8% from 2007, according to analyst Alex Yang of Lehman Brothers. By contrast, desktop shipments will decline about 1.3% from 2007 to reach 143 million units.


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Preliminary hearing for couple charged with killing Loretta Saunders begins
The preliminary inquiry Blake Leggette,26 and his girlfriend, Victoria Henneberry, 28, got underway Monday in Halifax Provincial Court.
Legette and Henneberry are both charged with the first-degree murder of Loretta Saunders.
Saunders disappeared from her Cowie Hill apartment in February 2014. Her remains were found off a New Brunswick highway nearly two weeks later.
Judge Ann Derrick issued a publication ban on evidence presented at the hearing.
Many members of Saunders' family were in the gallery, some even donned t-shirts with her face on them.
Saunders was an Inuit woman from Labrador. She had been living in Halifax and was a student at Saint
Mary's University. She had recently done her thesis on missing and murdered aboriginal women.
At the time of her death, Saunders was pregnant.
Four days have been set aside for the preliminary hearing.
The crown plans to call 15 witnesses. They say if the case does make it to trial, it likely wouldn't take place until late 2015.
"We have a realistic prospect of conviction and we intend on prosecuting these individuals with the evidence that we have. If at any point defence has anything they want to bring and talk to us about then we're always open to discussing things with them" says Christine Driscoll, senior crown attorney on the case.
"Our job is always to seek justice, and if at any point we're able to do that in a way other then having a 4 to 6 week trial then we would do that."
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Get an overview of this hotelLuxury hotel with full-service spa and free breakfast
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Situated in the suburbs, this luxury hotel is 1.9 mi (3 km) from Nieto Senetiner Winery and within 6 mi (10 km) of Caggiati Hnos Y Cia Winery and Chacras de Coria Town Square. Lagarde Winery and Emiliano Guinazu Museum of Fine Arts are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
This hotel features a full-service spa, a restaurant, and an outdoor pool. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a snack bar/deli, and a steam room are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 15 individually decorated rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and pillowtop beds. Comforts include premium bedding and pillow menus, and guests will also appreciate thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Entre Cielos features an outdoor pool and a steam room. The hotel offers a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access.
This 4.5-star property offers access to a business center, limo/town car service, and a meeting room. Event facilities measure 538 square feet (50 square meters). This Beaux Arts hotel also offers spa services, a library, and a terrace. Guests can use the outdoor pool at a partner property. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and an area shuttle. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Entre Cielos has designated areas for smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Number of floors - 1
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Concierge services
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Casino shuttle (surcharge)
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Designated smoking areas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Total number of rooms - 15
- Library
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Multilingual staff
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Terrace
- Picnic area
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 2011
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Conference space size (feet) - 538
- Free self parking
- Spa services on site
- Steam room
- Outdoor pool
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Business center
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Wedding services
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Fireplace in lobby
- Full-service spa
- Pool umbrellas
- One meeting room
- Garden
- Snack bar/deli
- Conference space size (meters) - 50
- Shopping on site
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Free self parking, Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Premium TV channels
- Minibar
- DVD player
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Bathrobes
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Furnished balcony
- Free bottled water
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Rainfall showerhead
- In-room massage available
- Slippers
- Free toiletries
- Room service (limited hours)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Pillow menu
- Down comforter
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- iPod docking station
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Flat-panel TV
- Pillowtop mattress
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary buffet breakfast.
Restaurante Katharina - This fine-dining restaurant overlooks the pool and garden. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available. Reservations are required.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool and a steam room.
Children under 4 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool without adult supervision.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Rafting nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Playground on site
Spa Services
Entre Cielos Hamam Spa has 4 treatment rooms including rooms for couples and outdoor treatment areas. Services include massages, facials, body scrubs, and body treatments. The spa is equipped with a mud bath and Turkish bath/hammam. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and hydrotherapy.
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Body scrubs
- Body treatments
- Couples treatment rooms
- Facial treatments
- Manicures and pedicures
- Massages
- Mud bath in spa
- Number of treatment rooms 4
- Outdoor treatment areas
- Hydrotherapy treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children 12 and younger are not allowed at this property. All guests older than 12 are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for ARS 1100.00 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Shuttle transfer per adult: ARS 2250 (roundtrip)
- All citizens of Argentina will be charged the national value-added tax (21%) upon check-out. Foreigners on a tourist visa are exempt from this tax. To qualify for a tax exemption, tourists must present a valid passport and pay for the services rendered with a non-Argentine credit card or via bank transfer from another country. This tax exemption does not apply for stays over 90 days. In the case of cancelled bookings, the cancellation penalties paid by the traveler will also be subject to the national VAT (21%).
- Resort fee
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: ARS 2.250 per vehicle (roundtrip)
- Rollaway bed fee: ARS 1100.00 per night
Hotel Name
- Entre Cielos
- Entre Cielos Hotel
- Entre Cielos Hotel Lujan de Cuyo
- Entre Cielos Lujan de Cuyo
- Entre Cielos Mendoza/Lujan De Cuyo, Argentina
We should mention
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. Children 12 years old and younger are not permitted at this property. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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The Agency is seeking private sector partners to help develop cutting-edge technology that will enable crime scene investigators to identify quickly whether forensic evidence contains human DNA. This will enable forces to decide whether to send the sample to an approved forensic laboratory to produce a DNA profile that can be searched against the National DNA Database The aim is to have the new technology operational in spring 2012.
Currently, forces spend millions of pounds sending crime scene samples to laboratories for screening only to learn that no human DNA is present.
More details about the NPIA project will be unveiled at a supplier event on the 15 December at the agency's CSI training centre (right) at Harperley Hall, in Durham. The NPIA is urging interested companies to attend the event.
Simon Bramble, Head of Police Science and Forensics at the NPIA, said: "This represents a great opportunity for private sector expertise to be involved in developing a major technical innovation that will help the police service dramatically save time and money in analysing crime scene evidence.
"One of the most important aspects of any crime scene investigation is to determine whether human DNA is present in forensic evidence collected at crime scenes so that it can then be searched against the National DNA Database if needed. This can provide a crucial lead in a crime investigation.
"The challenge for would-be suppliers will be to produce easy-to-use, portable technology that can produce results in less than an hour."
Companies interested in attending the meeting on 15 December or who would like more information about the project should contact NPIA project team (firstname.lastname@example.com) or 0203 113 7177.
Biomedical sciences have become data and computationally intensive disciplines. In Finland CSC is expanding its capacity to deliver cluster computing through a cloud interface to a total of 2880 cores dedicated for cloud computing pilots in the biomedical sector.
The concept for the service is being able to encapsulate complex software environments built by individual laboratories and run the entire environment seamlessly in a remote compute cluster at CSC.
In practice, maintenance staff can add or remove remote virtual nodes in the local cluster that appear to the computer end users similar as the physical nodes.
The new nodes are Intel Xeon based scale-out servers with 10GE interconnect and up to 96GB of memory per node. The installation of the new capacity is part of the emerging Finnish European Life Science I nfrastructure for biological information (ELIXIR) node.
CSC's biomedical cloud service pilot is facilitating next-generation biomedical data analysis needs with high-performance computing. "The expansion will help us to meet the resource demands of the existing pilots as well as enabling us to grow the user base. Furthermore the technical design has been further developed in order to satisfy the users' requirements and to bring us one step closer to a production cloud computing service", says Danny Sternkopf, Systems specialist at CSC.
The cloud pilot demonstrates a distributed infrastructure solution targeted for biomedical community. Sampsa Hautaniemi, Academy Research Fellow,(right) is one of the researchers at the University of Helsinki whose group is piloting the CSC cloud cluster.
"Modern biomedical research is data intensive, which requires large memory and storage resources, in addition to pure computing power. CSC cloud pilot is a significant leap to harness CSC's resources to analyze massive amounts of medical data. The cloud pilot helps us to develop and analyze hundreds of next-generation sequencing samples, which would have been impossible without this pilot."
Kristoffer Rapacki, (left) Head of System Administration of the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark is a service provider who has participated in the service pilot.
"The emerging Danish ELIXIR node will provide infrastructure for integration and interoperability of computational tools in life sciences, assisting both the users and the providers of tools in making them easier to discover, use and combine. Specifically, many popular and/or computationally demanding tools are likely to need resources extending beyond the capacity of the original tool provider.
"Therefore, it is important that mechanisms for on-demand network access to shared pools of configurable computing resources are put in place. Our collaboration with CSC in Finland aims at providing a fast-to-implement and easy-to-manage solution to this problem and constitutes an important part of our tool integration effort."
The emerging Finnish ELIXIR node is an integrated part of the national Biomedinfra consortium with bio-banking and translational research. Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland funds Biomedinfra http://www.biomedinfra.fi/ via Academy of Finland research infrastructure grant to participate in the building of the European research infrastructures for biomedical research.
The one-time Beijing Genome Institute BGI China, the world's largest genomics research institute, with 167 DNA sequencers producing the equivalent of 2,000 human genomes daily, reports the New York Times, to show DNA sequencing being deluged by data, so that genome, meta-genomics and the micro-biome analysis projects are turning to cloud computing and sophisticated analytical software for data analysis solutions as they abandon
BGI actually has so much data it often cannot transmit its results to clients or collaborators over the Internet or other communications lines because it would take weeks. Instead, it has to resort to sending computer disks containing the data, via FedEx " an analog solution in a digital age," agreed BGI's head of cloud computing Sifei He, formerly known as the Beijing Genomics Institute.
DNA sequencing is becoming faster and cheaper so the ability to determine DNA sequences is starting to outrunthe researcher ability to store, transmit and especially to analyse the data.
"Data handling is now the bottleneck," David Haussler, (left) director of the center for biomolecular science and engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz is quoted saying "It costs more to analyze a genome than to sequence [it]."
The cost of determining a person's complete DNA blueprint is expected to fall below $1,000 in two years, but excludes the price of making sense of data, a bigger part of the total cost, as sequencing costs drop.
The data challenge does create new manufacturing opportunities as with the UK's need for a forensic field tool. Demand for people trained in bioinformatics, and biology-computing convergence can be seen in numerous bioinformatics companies, Eagle Genomics, Alere Technologies Gmbh, SoftGenetics, DNAStar, DNAnexus and NextBio offering software and services to help analyze data, not to overlook the data storage equipment business, and new publisher for data-heavy life scient papers.
The cost of sequencing a human genome — all three billion bases of DNA in a set of human chromosomes — plunged to $10,500 last July from $8.9m in July 2007, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute.
The corresponding data explosion has threatened the survival of a federal online archive of raw sequencing data which has more than tripled just since the beginning of the year, reaching 300 trillion DNA bases and taking up nearly 700 trillion bytes of computer memory. Talk of closure did not come into effect, but certain big sequencing project will have to pay to store data there
Compounding the problem is the meta-genomics field, sequencing the DNA found in an environment, soil sample or the human gut taking a census of what microbial species are present. The Human Microbiome Project, sequencing the microbial populations in the human digestive tract, has generated about a million times as much sequence data as a single human genome, said (left) C. Titus Brown, bioinformatics specialist at Michigan State University notes, "Doing a comprehensive analysis of it is essentially impossible at the moment."
Researchers are increasingly turning to cloud computing so they do not have to buy so many of their own computers and disk drives. Researchers are trying to apply Google techniques to genomics data
Google's venture capital arm recently invested in DNAnexus, a bioinformatics company and together plan to host their own copy of the federal sequence archive that had once looked as if it might be closed.
There is now so much raw data it is non-feasible to re-analyze it. Increasingly only the final results will be stored, and perhaps even less, as the difference between a particular genome and some reference genome.`
Professor Claudius Gros (right), Gregor Kaczor, Dimitrije Markovic of Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany researched signs of the Weber-Fichner law in the size distribution of files on the internet and examined the factors underlying human information production on a global level studying some 252-633m publicly available data files on the Internet corresponding to an overall storage volume of 284-675 Terabytes.
Analyzing the file size distribution for several distinct data types they foundindications that the neuropsychological capacity of the human brain to process and record information may constitute the dominant limiting factor for the overall growth of globally stored information, with real-world economic constraints having only a negligible influence.
This supposition draws support from the observation that the files size distributions follow a power law for data without a time component, like images, and a log-normal distribution for multimedia files, for which time is a defining qualia.
Global information it appears, cannot grow any faster than our ability to absorb or monitor it. It raises some interesting avenues, notes Technology Review for future research too. For example, it will be interesting to see how machine intelligence might change this equation. It may be machines can be designed to distort this relationship with information.
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Patriotic Parade attracts participants, spectators
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May 27, 2012 at 11 p.m.
The sounds of engines revving up filled the air in Longview on Sunday, but it wasn't from broadcasts of the Indianapolis 500; it was 195 motorcyclists associated with Party in the Pines getting ready to participate in the annual Patriotic Parade through Longview.
"Things went very well," said Officer Steve Burnette with the Longview Police Department. "It was a slightly smaller group than in the past couple of years, which made everything a bit simpler, and both participants and spectators along the route seemed to enjoy it."
The parade, which began and ended at the Longview Fairgrounds, took about 40 minutes, he said.
Matt Seyer and his 12-year-old son, Skyler, were among the riders in the parade.
"We do it every year," the senior Seyer said. "I like the patriotism it evokes and the positive response we get from people as we ride by."
While many of the parade participants are veterans, Seyer said he was never in the military, but that his father was and he wants to show his support for those who serve their county in the armed forces.
J.R. Canaguier is a Vietnam veteran and member of the Patriot Guard Riders who said he rides in order to honor those who serve.
"When we came back from Vietnam, our reception wasn't the greatest," Canaguier said. "We're trying to change that situation for the younger generation of returning veterans."
Kathleen and Harry Riggs of Groesbeck were new vendors to the Party in the Pines this year with their H&K's Signs and Gifts offering everything from customized signs to jewelry and T-shirts.
"This is a really well-organized festival and people have been very nice," she said. "We've done festivals from Alaska to Florida and are really enjoying this one."
The parade was part of a three-day event which began Friday and included music, a joker run and a Texas Hold'em Tournament.


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Nov 9, 2012
Research soil scientist Paul White of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Sugar Cane Research Unit in Houma, LA, participated on a team that studied whether adding the compost would provide the carbon needed to support healthy plant cover at damaged postmining sites where there is limited organic soil carbon.
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