February 16, 2009
FEB. 16:
Kids Fitness classes (after school) for ages 6-18, one-on-one personal training for teens pre-post-season sports training, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Mondays-Wednesdays, Body Sculpting Personal Fitness, 400 Parque Drive, Ormond Beach. $10 per class; $18 week. 386-547-3620; 671-0777.
FEB. 16:
Zumba Gold, for the active senior (62 and older), 10:30-11:15 a.m. Mondays; Zumba Gold, all ages, 9-9:45 a.m. Thursdays and 10:30-11:15 Read the rest of this entry »
Mr. Carey beat two old-guard opponents in 1991 to become president of what was then the nation’s biggest, most-feared and most-corrupt union in its first direct election.
In an era of declining membership and years of setbacks for unions in workplace disputes, he led a 15-day national strike in 1997 against the delivery company UPS over its use of part-time workers.
The victory, which gave the 185,000 workers substantial pay increases, better Read the rest of this entry »
Mary Ann Bevan has been fitness and sports manager at Plymouth Township’s popular Greater Plymouth Community Center for the past nine years. Along the way, she’s overseen hundreds of men, women and children as they’ve stretched, jogged, jumped and pumped their way through GPCC’s myriad workout options. Not surprisingly, Bevan has witnessed lots of “success stories,” but she’s also watched plenty of good intentions go by the wayside.
That said, she Read the rest of this entry »
Local Napa boot camp claims to provide better weight loss results at more affordable personal training rates than the competition.
Napa, CA (
) November 13, 2008 — Jeff Larson, a local Napa fat loss expert and personal trainer, has launched Napa Adventure Boot Camp, a fitness boot camp for all fitness levels. The Napa boot camp program promises better results in less time for a third of the cost of other Napa personal training services.
Jeff Read the rest of this entry »
You’ve made it through the holidays relatively unscathed in the pounds department, but it’s not over yet. New Year’s Eve can easily derail your healthy eating habits.
Fortunately,
magazines can help you navigate the festivities with advice on the best choices to make for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres while ringing in the New Year.
Do you think you know your stuff when it comes to choosing the best food and drink options at your holiday party? Read the rest of this entry »
Informed she was not, the woman said, “Well, even if she’s not, she wouldn’t come back here.”
, a short walk over the Hamburg Street bridge. On game days, many fans cut through the neighborhood, the city’s oldest African-American residential enclave with a heritage that traces to 1790. Today, it is a mix of dilapidated public housing, downtrodden apartment buildings and renovated rowhouses blocks from Federal Hill.
According to court records, Read the rest of this entry »
Published: December 19, 2008
An Opelika man reported being injured Thursday after a man came to his door demanding drugs, according to authorities.
According to the report, a man with a knife knocked on the door of a residence in the 2100 block of South Long Street between 6 and 6:30 p.m. looking for drugs, Opelika police Capt. Allan Elkins said.
After the victim stated that he did not have any drugs, the man cut him on the left wrist with the Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration, hampered by increasing globalization and a rise
in complex products, may not be able to adequately protect the
public’s health, the watchdog arm of Congress said in new
findings released on Thursday.
“As a result, the American consumer may not be adequately
protected from unsafe and ineffective medical products,” the
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in adding the
FDA Read the rest of this entry »
Gum Disease Activates HIV, Study Says
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of
The discovery of filth in a crawl space above a production area has prompted the recall of all products ever shipped from the Peanut Corporation of America’s plant in Plainview, Texas,
reported.
The recall was ordered Thursday by the Texas Department of State Health Services after inspectors discovered dead rodents, Read the rest of this entry »
Phillies’ Romero, Yankees’ Mitre Suspended 50 Games for Drugs
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Philadelphia Phillies pitcher
were suspended
for 50 games each after testing positive for performance-
enhancing drugs.
The Major League Baseball players union called the bans
“unfair” because the relievers took supplements that failed to
list a prohibited substance in its ingredients. A third-party
arbitrator upheld Major League Baseball’s discipline, Read the rest of this entry »