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  Unified Team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Unified Team was the name used for the sports team of the former Soviet Union at both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games of 1992 (in Albertville and Barcelona, respectively).
The team consisted of athletes of all former Soviet republics except the Baltic states.
The Unified Team finished first in the overall medal tally at Barcelona with 45 golds, 38 silvers, and 29 bronzes (112 medals in total).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unified_Team   (182 words)

  
 SOCT Sports Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unified Sports is a program that combines approximately equal numbers of individuals with (athletes) and without (partners) intellectual disabilities on the same sports teams for training and competition.
Unified Sports was adopted by Special Olympics Inc. in 1989 to expand sports opportunities for athletes seeking new challenges while dramatically increasing their inclusion in the community.
Unified Sports events bring special education and regular education students together on the same playing field, using the athletic arena as a forum to help break barriers on a grassroots level and to mainstream students with intellectual disabilities.
www.soct.org /sports/unified.shtml   (1097 words)

  
 Teams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Team B is composed of four core teachers teaching only 7th graders.
Team C is composed of five core teachers teaching only 8th graders.
Team D is composed of five core teachers teaching 7th graders and 8th graders.
www.wasd.org /curtin/Teams/teams.html   (285 words)

  
 Special Olympics Maryland - Inspire Greatness
Participation in team sports requires an understanding of teamwork, team strategy, and rules as well as the requisite skills to compete successfully in that sport.
Unified Sports™ is a particularly appealing program for schools and service agencies that stress inclusion and may resist traditional Special Olympics programs.
Additionally, Unified Sports™ is a program suited for higher ability athletes, who may have avoided Special Olympics because of a perceived stigma.
www.somd.org /competition/UnifiedSports/TeamSelection.html   (404 words)

  
 GYMNASTICS: Livonia unified in its goals
The Livonia Unified gymnastics team has had many accomplishments this season, but there's one more the team is shooting for.
The team credits Hinderliter, a physical education teacher at Nankin Mills Elementary School in Livonia, and assistant coach Kelly Karalis, a physical education teacher at Churchill who competed in gymnastics for nine years through the Livonia YMCA, for the success.
The top three regional teams and any team that scores 140 points or higher qualifies for the state meet, which is hosted by Canton on March 12.
www.freep.com /sports/cfp/1/lgym4_20040304.htm   (914 words)

  
 Cisco Unity: About Unified Messaging   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The benefits of merging both teams into one are numerous: Their joint expertise enables the effective support of unified messaging as a convergence technology.
Many times, all team members must have IP telephony skills because when IP telephony is part of the deployment, the changes required can fuel changes to the voice-messaging legacy deployment and support team as well.
Another perception issue regarding unified messaging products in general is the expectation that features and functionality found in some legacy voice-messaging systems will transfer to unified messaging without any change in the behavior of those features or alteration of their functionality.
www.informit.com /articles/article.asp?p=337311&seqNum=3   (5937 words)

  
 TEAM XO
Team XO was founded and created by former University of Oregon Track Athletes.
The team is comprised of primarily post collegiate athletes that train in the state of Oregon or graduated from the University of Oregon.
Team XO has been created for elite post collegiate Track and Field / Cross Country athletes looking to continue their athletic career, while competing at the highest possible level.
www.teamxo.com   (271 words)

  
 Unified Front - Special Program Brings Students Together
Helm, 19, is one of the special athletes on Berlin's unified team, which combines players with disabilities ranging from autism to Down syndrome with mainstream students known as special partners.
Unified Sports is a registered program of the Special Olympics that combines roughly equal members of special athletes with special partners.
Teams are co-ed and placed in competitive divisions based on their skill, ranging from training divisions to high level competition.
www.vaccinationnews.com /dailynews/March2002/UnifiedFront.htm   (1153 words)

  
 Cortez Special Olympians take to  softball for day of fun
Awards were presented to all the teams with first place going to the Cortez Special Olympics unified team no. 2, coached by Kevin Shepard.
A unified team is made up of Special Olympic athletes paired with non-disabled partners which helps strengthen the sports.
A unified partner is there to assist with the special needs athlete and to become a friend a to assist in whatever special needs athletes might need help with, and to simply expand sports opportunities for the Special Olympics athletes and partners seeking new challenges.
www.cortezjournal.com /archives/sports733.htm   (801 words)

  
 Sport - Team Handball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In team handball, divisioning is based upon scores from the four Team Handball Skills Assessment Tests, namely the spot shot, speed pass, dribble, and power throw, as well as the results from early round play.
Team handball is played by two teams of 7 players each (1 goalkeeper and 6 court players).
The ball used in women's team handball competitions is 54-56 centimeters in circumference and 325-400 grams in weight.
edweb6.educ.msu.edu /kin866/spteamhandball.htm   (656 words)

  
 Town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
The unified team is part of Special Olympics, Central District, and is preparing for a tournament at UMass-Amherst, Friday, Aug. 15 through Sunday, Aug. 17.
Unified teams pair people with Special Needs with partners who are not challenged.
Cole said that the country club has been supportive of the unified team, with golf pro Tim Bishop donating his time to help the team, and the owners waiving fees for golf balls and practice areas.
www.shrewsbury-ma.gov /CommunityAdv/Articles/5021.asp   (552 words)

  
 Unified Incident Command
Unified Command is a team effort process, allowing all agencies with responsibility for an incident, either geographical or functional, to establish a common set of incident objectives and strategies that all can subscribe to.
In ICS Unified Command, resources are the personnel and equipment supplied by the jurisdictions and agencies that have functional or jurisdictional responsibility.
Unified Command represents an important element in increasing the effectiveness of multijurisdictional or multi-agency incidents.
www.femf.org /education/dis99syllabus/gillespie.htm   (2421 words)

  
 Anchorage Daily News - Team unified despite motley uniforms
Team coaches and athletes hardly speak English, and have used McDonnell, a military translator stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base, as their communication lifeline.
The team is considered a "unified" team, meaning athletes play alongside "partners" who are not mentally retarded.
For the last few days, teams have competed in "divisioning" rounds where they are placed in categories based on performance capabilities.
www.adn.com /specialolympics/pstory/0,3463,245715,00.html   (833 words)

  
 Falcon 4 Unified Team Agreement
A development team will be formed and managed by the F4UT management team – only those people who directly contribute to development (either Source Code or data) will be a member of this team.
Furthermore, in so far as no other requirements and priorities of this agreement are overlooked, the F4UT management team has the full right to determine how to implement the currently existing features and the full right to fix bugs to any of those features as needed.
During the finite life span of the newly formed “Falcon4 Unified Team”, F4UT has the right to also continue development on all tools that may require the use of F4 source code in their development (such as TacEdit and F4Browse as examples).
www.combatsim.com /dtest/f5/SuperPAK_Proposal_Final.htm   (2008 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unified team building equates to a number of people having a well-defined specific cause and well-defined purpose.
Unified team building is a process that when achieved offers incredible synergy amongst ranks.
Unified Team Building is a process that will align the needs of individuals with the specific needs of the team leader or head of management.
home.pacific.net.au /~web_design/unifiedteam.htm   (108 words)

  
 NewStandard: 7/11/96
The Soviet Union is gone and its successor, the Unified Team, is a thing of the past after one Olympics.
Now countries that once were part of the Soviet gymnastics machine have their own teams, making rivals out of former teammates and giving squads that once were also-rans a shot at being the best.
The American men, whose last team medal was a gold in 1984, have an outside chance at a medal.
www.s-t.com /daily/07-96/07-11-96/d04sp135.htm   (987 words)

  
 ►► Unified Team Video Program
A group of people focused on the same goal, working in harmony and sharing their success is an ideal shared by managers and employees alike.
Teams are often plagued, instead, by conflicting agendas, personality conflicts and disenchanted members.
Team unity occurs when members are provided with three basic human needs: the need to achieve, the need to belong and the need to contribute.
www.crmlearning.com /unified-team-video-program   (219 words)

  
 The Unified Team - Training Video Program
Conflict...while it's often blamed for the breakdown of a team's unity, it's usually just a symptom of a larger problem.
This new program is designed to teach managers and team leaders how to deal with the symptoms and the cure.
In addition to learning how to solve the 3 most common types of team conflicts; blaming, belittling and feuding, team leaders will learn how to promote the positive feelings of unity within their team in this popular management and leadership training video.
www.customerserviceuniversity.com /unifiedteam.html   (100 words)

  
 kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Albertville 1992
Five former republics of the Soviet Union competed under the name of the Unified Team, using the flag and anthem of the Olympics.
Unified Team teammates Yelena Valbe and Lyubov Egorova teamed to win ten medals, but it was Egorova who was the brighter of the two stars, winning three golds and two silvers, to Valbe's four bronzes and a gold.
Once again Bonnie Blair carried the spirits of the U.S. speed skating team, defending her Olympic gold in the 500m and taking a gold in the 1,000m.
www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w16albertville.html   (394 words)

  
 USA Basketball: Womens Olympic History -- 1992
Dixon tallied a USA Olympic team single game scoring record 28 points in the win, and the USA's 114 points reset the U.S. Olympic scoring record, breaking the mark the '92 team had just set four days earlier.
Advancing to the semifinals, a match with a strong and very experienced Unified Team was ahead for the USA and a trip to the gold medal game was the reward for the victor.
The game continued to see-saw back and forth and was tied 67-67 with 5:25 remaining, but a 6-0 scoring spurt earned the Unified Team a 73-67 advantage and eventually the 79-73 victory.
www.usabasketball.com /history/woly_1992.html   (636 words)

  
 BOYS SWIMMING: Southfield coach shapes novice swimmers
Lukacs is the team's distance freestyler and Shull is the sprinter.
The host team finished seventh out of nine teams, but Raines said his new swimmers got a lot out of the experience, even if they didn't come away with bragging rights.
John Turner, 15, of the Southfield Unified team swims the butterfly portion of the 200-yard medley relay during the Southfield Relays.
www.freep.com /sports/cfp/8/xswim13x_20050113.htm   (764 words)

  
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Unified Team's Scherbo Sets Mark With 6 Men's Gymnastic Golds..........37 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: Huijie Source: DJ 08/02 Valery Scherbo of the Unified Team Sunday established himself as the top male gymnast in Olympic history.
Grigory Misiutin of the Unified Team won the silver medal and Yoo Ok-Ruyl of South Korea took the bronze in the vault.
Grigory Misiutin of the Unified Team and Yukio Iketani of Japan tied for the silver medal in the floor exercise and no bronze medal was awarded.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/packages/ccic/cnd/InfoBase/Olympics/92-olympics.7   (1341 words)

  
 MassWrestling.com: Article / Hoosiers: Considering an All-State Team Title
For many years, the Indiana basketball state championship has been one of the most meaningful scholastic titles, both because of the region's fervor and passion for the sport, and because it is a unified state championship, one that schools can compete for regardless of their size or location.
That season, I wrestled for a Weston team that was largely regarded as a the top dual meet (beating #2 Hingham and #3 Wayland) and tournament team (winning sectionals, states and the highest scoring team at All-States).
He coached a team with an enrollment of 183 boys that season to the spiritual equivalent of a unified state championship.
www.masswrestling.com /cms/content.php?article.51   (728 words)

  
 Unified Team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This film follows the stories of three team leaders as they attempt to promote, protect and restore their teams sense of unity.
Unfortunately, in the real world, a truly unified team is all too rare.
The image of people working with a unified purpose is a powerful ideal that appeals to both management and employees.
www.employeeuniversity.com /interpersonalcommunication/catalog/unified_team_2946178.htm   (353 words)

  
 News - Unified, Multidiscipline Team Approach To Wound Care May Reduce Amputations Among Diabetics
A unified, multidiscipline team approach to wound care may reduce the lower limb amputation rate among diabetics.
Lower-extremity amputation rates among diabetics is high and the wound failure rate at the time of amputation is as high as 28 percent.
They found the amputation rate was significantly lower after the unified care approach was implemented compared with the previous rate.
www.docguide.com /news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256C3A001F551C   (437 words)

  
 St. Clair Shores team prospers - 01/21/05
Unified club is No. 8 in Division 1, has a 12-2-0 record and is first in the MAC Red.
Now, with the city's three high schools forming one team, St. Clair Shores Unified is No. 8 in Division 1 and one of the best teams in Metro Detroit..
None of the team's success would have been possible without the help and dedication of several former St. Clair Shores high school graduates.
www.detnews.com /2005/highschools/0501/21/H08-66014.htm   (387 words)

  
 King Philip-North Unified Arts Team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unified Arts provides all the students at King Philip-North with a schedule of exploratory classes.
Combining the fun of learning with academic challenge, each unified arts class meets for one quarter.
Physical Education is required of all seventh and eighth grade students.
www.kingphilip.org /kpnorth/unified-arts   (422 words)

  
 Koreas aiming for unified team at 2008 Games - Athens Olympics 2004 - ABC Sport.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
North and South Korea hope to send a fully unified team to the 2008 Beijing Olympics after marching together side-by-side at Friday's Athens Games opening ceremony, officials said overnight.
Shin Bark-Jae, chef de mission of South Korea's Olympic team, told reporters that the two Koreas were in talks aimed at strengthening sporting ties between the two bitter rivals.
But although they will compete in Athens as separate teams, talks are underway to send a joint team to Beijing in four years time, Mr Shin said.
www.abc.net.au /sport/content/200408/s1174492.htm   (383 words)

  
 Special Olympics Maryland - Inspire Greatness
Most importantly, emphasize “Meaningful Involvement” and “Team Selection.” Emphasize the need for their team’s members to fully understand the philosophy and principles of Unified Sports™ by conducting an orientation for all team members before they become involved with the team.
The information is placed on the Team Roster and Ability Assessment Form and submitted with the Unified Sports™ team’s entry to the competition.
In order to group teams (appropriately) in their proper ability division at competitions, it is important to conduct a divisioning round prior to the start of any event to the start of any event.
www.somd.org /competition/UnifiedSports/GuidelinesForCompetition.html   (333 words)

  
 kiat.net: Olympic Games Barcelona 1992
The break-up of the Soviet Union, the dismantling of the Berlin wall and the end of apartheid in South Africa, all combined to assure the appearance of many new faces.
Basketball was the chief beneficiary as America's popular "Dream Team" of NBA All-Stars easily captured the gold, defeating Croatia 117-85.
He won the 200m and 400m freestyle, and was part of the 4x100m freestyle relay team.
www.kiat.net /olympics/history/25barcelona.html   (1259 words)

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