Archive for April, 2012
EVA woos Asean to make Taipei a hub
Posted: April 1, 2012 at 8:24 pm
BAMRUNG AMNATCHAROENRIT The Nation
THE Taipei April 2, 2012 1:00 am
James Jeng, chairman of Taiwan's second-largest airline, said last week that Taipei enjoys a good geographical location for transpacific flights. The transit time at Taoyuan Inter-national Airport is only two to three hours. EVA operates 45 flights per week to those markets.
Passengers come from Singapore, Malaysia, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City and Bangkok. Especially from Vietnam, half of them arrive for flight connections to North America. From Bangkok alone, EVA has 10 flights scheduled per week. It has a code-sharing agreement with Bangkok Airways so its passengers can conveniently continue on to destinations across the Kingdom.
Asean, especially Thailand, is an important market for EVA. Since the Asean Economic Community will materialise in less than three years, the firm would look at this market "carefully".
EVA's ambition is to play a bigger role in the global aviation industry. Its membership application to Star Alliance, the world's largest airline grouping with 26 members, was unanimously accepted after a year-long discussion. Now, EVA will have to spend a year working on the integration process, with strong support from Air China, based in Beijing, as the mentor airline.
Pandit Chanapai, executive vice president for commercial affairs of Thai Airways International, the national carrier, said the entry of EVA into the group would help strengthen THAI's network by adding destinations that it cannot reach. Vancouver is an example. THAI's passengers can fly from Bangkok to Taipei then transfer to an EVA aircraft bound for Vancouver. THAI's passengers will enjoy benefits on both segments, especially mileage points for redemption.
THAI has turned its focus to the Asian market and is looking for major cities to add to its regional network. It flies from Bangkok to Taipei 14 times a week and is planning to increase the frequency to 15 in the future. Its load factor this month is 73 per cent on the morning flight from Bangkok and 82 per cent on the evening flight from Taipei. In October, THAI will add Taipei to its Phuket-Hong Kong route, with seven stopovers per week, as part of its plan to increase load capacity.
Becoming a member of Star Alliance will be a crucial step for EVA. The airline will be able to expand its global network where it has not gone yet, especially South America and Africa. It will be able to reach the European market with cost-saving cooperation, especially with members like Lufthansa and Austrian, amid the controversy over the collection of carbon emission fees by the European Union from airlines flying to the continent. EVA's major market is still China. EVA will enter the world's fastest-moving market via Air China. EVA serves 25 destinations in China from various cities in Taiwan with 105 flights per week, with some operated by its sister airline UNI Air. The airline plans to cash in on mainland China following the relaxation of political tensions between the two economies.
UNI flies mainly domestic routes, especially to remote islands. However, it is studying the feasibility of transforming itself into one of the low-cost airlines in Asia in the future, said Chang Kuo-wei, president of EVA Airways Corp. EVA Air was established in March 1989 and took off on its inaugural flight in July 1991. Last year, it carried 6.7 million passengers to domestic and 62 international destinations. Its fleet consists of 42 passenger aircraft and 17 freighters.
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Cardiac Yoga DVD Released by Heart Fit Clinic
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The Heart Fit Clinic has released its new Cardiac Yoga DVD program to reverse heart disease. Stress management after a heart attack can be a challenge but it is of paramount importance to know stress management techniques for your heart attack treatment and to start a cardiac rehabilitation program as soon as possible. Now everyone can take advantage of the Heart Fit Clinic cardiac yoga program to reverse this deadly disease process.
Calgary, AB (PRWEB) March 30, 2012
Heart disease is frightening and can be reversed but it takes a lot of dedication and correct information from cardiac rehabilitation heart health experts like those with the Heart Fit Clinic. Understanding essential cardiac yoga techniques after a heart attack is essential to the road to recovery.
The Heart Fit Clinic has released its new Cardiac Yoga DVD - to prevent and reverse heart disease. The success of their patients in a clinical setting has been in large part thanks to this program. Hundreds of patients with the clinic have been guided with this program and it is now available to everyone off their website. "Heart disease is frightening but there is something you can do about it and we have your solution to be a success with heart disease". says Diamond Fernandes, clinic director.
Lifestyle modification strategies are important for heart attack treatment to reverse and prevent heart disease. The Cardiac Yoga DVD program comes with a free heart health manual ($47 value). Individuals who have an acute or chronic medical condition (heart disease), are elderly, have limited mobility, or would like to practice a gentle and modified form of yoga will find the cardiac yoga DVD safe, empowering and helpful in optimizing health and healing.
Cardiac yoga to prevent and reverse heart disease lets patients know how to cope after a heart problem. Heart disease is an inflammatory disease. In this program, the Heart Fit Clinic will take you through some guided cardiac yoga sessions to get you on the right track for heart health.
Millions of people suffer from heart disease, high blood pressure and high cholesterol and in this program the Heart Fit Clinic covers stress management technique to keep your blood pressure controlled. Seeing a heart health yoga expert can cost hundreds of dollars. The Heart Fit Clinic is able to deliver the best cardiac rehabilitation and heart attack and stroke prevention cardiac yoga DVD program for the fraction of the cost for $37 (limited time offer) . Now this program is also a part of their complete cardiac rehabilitation and heart attack prevention program. Contact their clinic via email or phone to live happier, healthier and longer.
The Heart Fit Clinic is the leader in cardiac rehabilitation and heart attack and stroke prevention program. Whether patients have had a recent heart attack or heart problem, past or trying to prevent heart disease this program will help people reverse heart disease.
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'Yoga can cure every disease, but don't universalise'
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Calcutta News.Net Sunday 1st April, 2012 (IANS)
Yoga therapy can cure every disease and disorder, even cancer, says a Delhi-based yoga therapist but warns against the mass teaching of yoga - including popular pranayams like kapalbhati and anulom vilom - saying they "can cause complications".
"Yoga cannot be universalised...like prescribing a paracetamol tablet," says Subhash Sharma, a yoga therapist who spent 19 years in a gurukul in Rajasthan and is also a post-graduate from the Kasturba Medical College, Manipal.
Sharma told IANS: "People have different physiologies and each person's response to yoga is individualistic. Therefore, there can't be standardisation of yoga for any particular disorder."
Sharma, who describes himself as a pioneering yoga therapist and runs a busy practice in south Delhi, says even a step-by-step book on yoga can be "fatal".
Recounting a particular case, he says one gentleman had come to him with a problem - he had lost the sensation of the nerves to the anus that tell us when to pass faeces.
"He had learnt the steps from a book and started practising 'nauli kriya', or rotating of the intestines. This paralysed the nerves to the anus. He did not know when he was passing stools, he would only make out from the bad smell."
Bhastrika, a popular yogic pranayam that many people do while following an expert on television, can cause asthma, warns Sharma.
"In bhastrika pranayam you pump the lungs. It can hyperventilate the lungs and people can develop asthma."
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Halls baseball field dedicated to Bob Polston
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Bob Polston spent countless hours during the golden years of his life at the Halls High School baseball field.
Polston mowed the grass. Worked the pitcher's mound. Dragged the infield. Critiqued the team and his son, Doug, Halls' baseball coach since 1988, while sitting behind the backstop.
Almost until his death last August at age 77, Bob Polston was a fixture at the field, which was dedicated as Bob Polston Field during a ceremony Friday before the Red Devils' 7-6 victory against Morristown East.
"It's a special day for me and my family and this community," Doug Polston said. "The man dedicated over 50 years of his life to the high school youth in this county. This is something the community wanted to do, and if (Bob) knew about it, he'd scoff at it a little bit, but I'm proud of it."
Bob Polston, a 1952 graduate of Joelton High School in Middle Tennessee, spent 21 years coaching football and baseball at East High School, Austin-East High School, and Rule High School. He was KFL Coach of the Year in 1969, '71, '73, and '76.
After his coaching career, Polston served 27 years as athletic director for the Knox County School System before retiring in 2004.
Even before retiring, Polston spent plenty of time around the Halls baseball program and even more time once he retired.
"It's a good thing it happened with them dedicating the field, but there's never going to be another person like Bob," said Zach Lawson, a 2006 Halls graduate and currently assistant baseball coach at Gibbs. "He just meant so much to everybody that's been through here. He was a great person and this is a good thing they did for him."
Among those attending the ceremony were Bob Polston's wife, Dorothy; his sister, Sarah Anderson of Joelton; and his daughter, Kathy Arnold of Strawberry Plains.
Dorothy spent years working in the Halls concession stand while Bob watched from his spot behind the backstop, where a memorial and plaque with his name stands.
Program Addresses Failure to Launch Syndrome – Released by Forte Strong
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Saint George, UT (PRWEB) March 31, 2012
Forte Strongs failure to launch program for young men reaches new success with its experiential approach to life coaching. Young men are becoming more motivated, active, happy and educated.
Recent studies show that young men are becoming less and less involved in society. They are experiencing a larger substance abuse rate, more mental health issues and a suicide rate 5 times that of young women. They are also trending a lower graduation rate, poorer scholastic performance and lower career acquisition post college. All of these elements may be contributing factors to the failure to launch syndrome so many young men are currently experiencing. Forte Strong, a premier failure to launch program specializing in the life coaching of these young men (18-26) and is taking the issue to heart. They provide a short term residential approach to coach these struggling young men to independence. Some of the key elements of the program involve enrolling into some form of higher education, personalized strength assessments to build confidence and self esteem, and a unique experiential education curriculum where students learn by doing.
Matthew Arrington, co-founder of Forte Strong explains, Young men just learn differently than women. Because they learn differently they need a different approach than the one society has set up for them and thats where Forte Strong comes in. We know how to coach these young men to success. We show them how to develop the confidence, the strength and the life skills they need to be successful in the real world that they can use for the rest of their lives.
Part of Forte Strongs experiential education approach involves participating in internships, job shadowing, community involvement, service projects, personal safety courses (CPR & first aid), higher education, international leadership treks, and much more. In an uncertain world Forte Strong gives young men the ability to rise to the challenge by developing their character, both internally and externally. They also provide free coaching for life even after their students have graduated the program which is unheard of in this industry.
Forte Strong is a failure to launch program specializing in the life coaching of young adult men. Forte Strong is also a national leader in providing skill development, leadership training, and life coaching for young adults ages 18-26. Their unique strength based coaching allows their students to accelerate their lives to independence in a shorter amount of time than most programs.
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Weigh in #6 My Path to Health and Happiness — Bikini Challenge Part 1 – Video
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Polish workers protest plan to hike retirement age
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) Thousands of people from across Poland demonstrated noisily Friday outside Parliament to protest government plans to raise the retirement age to 67.
The law currently allows women to retire at age 60 and men at 65, but Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to raise the retirement age to 67 for all Poles, saying it will increase pensions while reducing state debt.
The plan, supported by many economists, has angered the public. The unions are deeply unsatisfied by a new agreement the ruling coalition parties reached Thursday that would allow people to go into partial retirement earlier but with lowered monthly payments for the rest of their lives.
Piotr Duda, head of the Solidarity trade union, said the plan gives Poles the choice of "either working until death or quickly dying of hunger."
The protesters, blowing horns and carrying Solidarity white-and-red banners, were equally vocal.
"People are not strong enough to work as long as machines, 48 years, it is physically impossible," said Arkadiusz Maziar, a 40-year-old coal miner from Zory, in southern Poland.
"Tusk is an office clerk and he will never understand this. I am here to defend the people," he said.
Danuta Nowaczek, a 50-year-old cook from Zabrze, in the South, does not believe that longer work would markedly improve her pension, or that she will live to benefit from it.
"This is a joke, this plan and I don't want to work longer," Nowaczek said. "My father did not even live to get his retirement" at 65.
The crowd showed their anger as the lawmakers were debating a motion signed by some 1.4 million Solidarity supporters to hold a referendum on the matter.
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Building Retirement Confidence
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The Great Recession of 2008-09 blew up many a retirement plan, and now we have the data to prove it and finally understand just how damaging the boom and bust cycle has been. The Employment Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) Retirement Confidence Survey was published this month and the news is grim.
How could it not be? For the last 15 years, far too many Americans jumped from one asset bubble (rising stocks in the late 1990s into early 2000) to another (real estate from 2000-06), hoping that the increasing value of the asset would do the work to fund retirement, instead of relying on boring old savings. I can recount dozens of conversations with former clients who said some variation of, "Why do I need to save so much if I keep earning 12 percent a year on my retirement funds?" or "I'll just sell my house and use the equity for retirement." It was a hard sell to convince these folks that saving was a more reliable way to reach their retirement goals.
The problem was that the two asset bubbles made many people lazy. Americans went from a personal savings rate of about 8 percent in 1985, down to 1.5 percent in 2005, back to 4.6 percent today. The combination of a falling savings rate and two bubbles bursting has put many in a precarious state as they approach retirement.
According to EBRI, Americans' confidence in their ability to retire comfortably is at historically low levels. Just 14 percent are very confident they will have enough money to live comfortably in retirement. Part of the reason why confidence plunged is because the Great Recession decimated asset values so severely. Household net worth still remains seven percent below where it was in July 2006, the peak of the nation's housing bubble. But an equally significant impediment to a healthy retirement is the weak labor market. Forty-two percent of those surveyed said job uncertainty is the most pressing financial issue facing most Americans today.
Without income from a job, retirement account values remain stagnant, and households are forced to spend savings, which have been depleted over the past five years. In fact, 60 percent of workers report that the total value of their household's savings and investments, excluding the value of their primary home and any defined benefit plans, is less than $25,000.
With such a low level of savings, 25 percent of workers have changed their expectations about when they might stop working. In 1991, 11 percent of workers said they expected to retire after age 65; and now in 2012 that number has grown to 37 percent. Most experts believe that the number of people who will continue to work throughout their 60s will increase dramatically.
There is one major risk that arises with the "I'll just keep working" retirement plan: What if you can't keep working, either because your job doesn't exist or because you physically aren't able to? Half of the current retirees surveyed say they left the workforce unexpectedly due to health problems, disability or changes at their employer, such as downsizing or closure.
These statistics point to an obvious solution: save more as quickly as you can. How much more? That depends on your specific circumstances. As I noted in a recent article ("What's your retirement number?"), EBRI has a terrific calculator called the "Choose to Save Ballpark E$timate," which should help the 56 percent of workers who have not tried to calculate how much money they will need to have saved by the time they retire in order to live comfortably in retirement.
There aren't a lot of easy answers, but I have seen great progress when retirees and near-retirees focus on the parts of their financial lives over which they exert control -- their expenses. For many, this may mean downsizing, while for others, it may mean reducing spending on everyday discretionary items or accelerating debt pay-down. It's never too late to start building your retirement confidence.
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