Limited by the mores of the times, Sandra Ryan was a cheerleader in high school. She hasnt been on the sidelines since.

Ryan, 63, has been an instructor in aerobics, low-impact aerobics, stepping, sliding and now yoga. She ran, she biked. In the summer, she swims across the lake in front of her house.

Age is age; it doesnt bother me," says Ryan, who has always" been fit.

When I had my children, I was going to the YMCA, and I took fitness instructing there and I started teaching. It was just when aerobics classes were coming into style. The Y was the place to be in those days. It was just packed."

Later, while working at Dalplex in Halifax as a fitness co-ordinator, Ryan began practising yoga.

It was becoming popular and Madonna was doing it as well, which was a big thing with students, and yoga just took off. When you get into yoga, you think its physical, but it has a 5,000-year history to it and theres much more to it.

Theres eight limbs of yoga, and the eighth limb is enlightenment, where you just let go of your outer self thats worried about things and to-do lists and deadlines and stress. Thats what I like to see happen in a class."

Ryan teaches five or six times a week, which gives her a bit of a workout. She also practises at home. It is a less jarring way to stay fit than what she used to do.

My idea of a good time was to teach a high-impact aerobics class and then go for a run. Or, when I was at Daplex, Id teach and then go for a run on my lunch hour. That kind of went by the wayside as my knees got older.

Toward my 50s, my back started curving; thered always been a slight curve. Like anybody, theres little aches and pains, but whats so good about fitness is that you can kind of sail through them. Theyre not a big deal.

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Brent Kuemmerle was dealt a bad break in life, losing the lower half of his right leg in a car accident.

Instead of fretting about what he couldn't do because of his disability, he was determined to show what he could do despite that disability.

It's now his desire to coach others those who has that same competitive determination.

Kuemmerle, who was an avid rock climber before his accident in 1995, taught himself to become a better climber with his prosthetic leg. He learned to become a snowboarder when there were basically no opportunities to compete in the sport as a disabled athlete.

Based in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., Kuemmerle, a former Rapid City resident, has just created a non-profit organization called Tahoe Adaptive Competition Center.

His mission statement is simple: Train any athlete who wants to compete at any form.

If you want to compete in local competitions, we can do that. If you want to compete in regional competitions, we can do that. If you want to make the U.S. Paralympics team and go to Russia, we can do that, Kuemmerle said.

Kuemmerle is coaching snowboarding, a sport where competitive coaches were few and far between just after his accident. In fact, when he first started snowboarding unlike skiing -- the sport wasn't in the Paralympics Games and it was hardly offered as a recreational lesson.

He spent essentially the last 10 years helping create an educational record and the national standards so there is a complete teaching progression available. The 2014 Paralympics Games in Russia will host the sport for the first time.

The goal of most disabled sports organizations, Kuemmerle said, is to allow people with physical challenges to be able to compete or at least participate in sports that they either used to compete in or are interested in. He said that snowboarding is just another avenue for people to slide down the hill.

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14 October 2012 Last updated at 19:40 ET By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News

Assumptions about fitness in older people should not be used to decide whether patients have surgery, according to a report by the Royal College of Surgeons and Age UK.

It says some older patients miss out on vital treatment because of their age.

Age discrimination in the NHS has been made illegal but the report says it may still happen when budgets are tight.

Doctors should look at the overall health of a patient instead of using cut-off ages for procedures, it said.

The report, Access All Ages, points out that there are valid reasons why an older patient might not be considered for surgery - because they have other health problems that increase the risk of operations, or that they themselves prefer not to go under the knife.

However, the report said: "While there may be legitimate clinical reasons why an older person may not benefit from surgery, it remains the case that some patients may be missing out.

"Decisions may not always be made on the basis of a comprehensive and objective assessment, but on a series of assumptions about fitness in older age."

Too many medical decisions we believe have been made on age alone with informal 'cut-offs' imposed so that people over a certain age were denied treatment

It said some doctors may have "outdated perceptions" and a "lack of awareness" about older patients and their ability to cope with surgery.

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In preparation for the Fit 4 Life Fall Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, this weekend, Massage School San Diego has created a guide to most popular fitness trends of the season.

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On Saturday, Oct. 14, the Fort Sanders Health and Fitness Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, will host the Fit 4 Life Fall Festival from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The festival was created to increased awareness of health, wellness and physical activity within the community. The event is free and will include activities such as group training, racquetball challenges, a climbing wall, a tennis tournament and other fitness classes. There will also be lectures on health and wellness, as well as on-site vendors of health- and fitness-related items. For children, the festival will feature face painting and balloon animals.

In conjunction with the Fit 4 Life Festival, MassageSchoolSanDiego.com has created a guide to the seasons best fitness trends.

Barre Using a classic ballet barre, isometric movements burn calories and work muscles all over the body. This workout particularly targets the abs, hips, arms and bottom.

Hula Hooping Swiveling the hips, hands and neck improves strength, posture and balance as well as boosts muscle tone.

Rope Training In this workout, moving ropes in varying motions and intensities build lean muscle tissue, tone, and provide a full-body workout.

Aerial Fitness Hanging silks suspended 50 feet in the air are a great workout. Climbing, moving and swaying on silks tones the arms, legs and abs in no time.

Trampoline Doing a workout on a trampoline burns 30 percent more calories than a typical run. Workouts like 3D Dodgeball and Skyrobics, work the core, legs, arms and more all while having a good time.

Kettlebell Training These uniquely shaped weights help to burn up to 20 calories a minute. They combine cardio, agility and strengthening training into one cohesive exercise that works the whole body.

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BERKELEY -- If this was a dress rehearsal for its Big Game assignment, the Cal offensive line got it right in the Bears' 31-17 victory at Washington State.

Now Cal's big men get the chance to repeat it on the big stage of the 115th meeting with Stanford at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.

"It's nice to go in there on a two-game win streak," Cal coach Jeff Tedford said.

The team's most maligned unit much of the season, Cal's offensive line delivered its best performance of the season Saturday night, paving the way for a season-high 318 rushing yards and allowing zero sacks.

"I thought the offensive line really played well," Tedford said after the Bears (3-4, 2-2 Pac-12) won their second straight game and moved within a victory of .500 for the season.

No sacks allowed for a team that had surrendered an NCAA-worst 29 through six games? "That's always nice," Tedford said.

No doubt, No. 22 Stanford (4-2, 2-1) will provide a greater challenge than the Cougars (2-5, 0-4).

The Cardinal ranks seventh nationally defending the run, allowing just 89.5 yards per game, and has sacked opposing quarterbacks 19 times. Stanford held USC to 26 rushing yards in its 21-14 win last month.

For the second straight week, the key to Cal's offensive efficiency was its ability to stay out of third-and-long situations. The Bears faced 11 plays of third-and-7 or longer in their 27-17 loss to Arizona State two weeks ago, an unacceptable number,

In wins over UCLA and WSU, however, the Bears left themselves needing 7 yards or more just four times among their 23 third-down opportunities. They converted 12 of those 23 third downs.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Aqib Talib has avoided league discipline for a possible violation of the personal conduct policy following criminal charges he had faced in his home state of Texas. The National Football League caught up to Talib on Saturday, though, announcing that the fifth-year cornerback had been suspended for four games for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing drugs.

"We are disappointed to learn that Aqib Talib will be suspended for four games, which will begin with our game tomorrow against Kansas City," Buccaneers head coach Greg Schiano said in a statement released by the team. "I have spoken with Aqib, and he knows that he made a poor decision that let our team down. Certainly, other players will have the opportunity to step up while he serves this suspension."

Talib has decided not to file an appeal and will begin his suspension on Sunday. Talib will be eligible to return on Nov. 5, keeping him out of games against the Kansas City Chiefs, New Orleans Saints, Minnesota Vikings and Oakland Raiders. Talib's suspension is without pay, which means he will forfeit $435,882, which is 4/17ths of his $1,852,500 base salary for the 2012 season. Talib is also ineligible for postseason awards, including participation in the Pro Bowl.

"Around the beginning of training camp, I made a mistake by taking an Adderall pill without a prescription," Talib said. "This is especially regrettable because, for the past several months, with Coach Schiano's help, I've worked very hard to improve myself -- professionally and personally -- as a player and a man. I am truly sorry to my teammates, coaches and Buccaneers fans, and I'm disappointed in myself. I will work diligently every day of this suspension to stay in top football shape and be ready to help this team in the second half of the season. I have chosen to be immediately accountable for the situation I put myself in, which is why I will not exercise my appeal rights and will begin serving the suspension immediately."

A 2008 first-round pick out of Kansas, the 6-foot-1, 205-pound Talib has 182 tackles and 18 interceptions in 45 career games. In four games this season, Talib had 21 tackles and an interception while playing in 270 of the team's 272 defensive snaps. E.J. Biggers will replace Talib as the starter opposite Chris Houston for the next four weeks, though there have at least one call in the Tampa media for the team to permanently severe ties to the talented, but too-often-troubled Talib.

Adderall is considered a stimulant (an amphetamine) and is banned by the NFL as a performance-enhancing drug. Players are permitted to take Adderall for therapeutic use, provided they have a valid prescription and obtain a "therapeutic use exemption" from the league office. New York Giants running back Andre Brown had a four-game suspension for Adderall overturned after reportedly failing to disclose his prescription to the league, but Giants safety Tyler Sash wasn't as fortunate and missed the first four weeks of the 2012 season. Another Giants safety, Will Hill, is beginning a four-game suspension for unauthorized use of Adderall this week as Cleveland Browns cornerback Joe Haden returns from his four-game, Adderall-based ban.

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New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- In a ruling that would be music to the ears of babus, the Supreme Court (SC) has held that a government officer's personal details such as income-tax (I-T) returns cannot be divulged in response to a query under the Right to Information Act (RTI) unless a larger public interest was involved. Disclosure of such information would amount to unwarranted invasion of an officer's privacy, it said.

"The performance of an employee or officer in an organisation is primarily a matter between the employee and the employer and normally those aspects are governed by the service rules which fall under the expression 'personal information', the disclosure of which has no relationship to any public activity or public interest," said a bench of Justice KS Radhakrishnan and Justice Dipak Misra.

Under the transparency law, the court observed, information on the officer cannot be made public as his or her performance is a matter between the employee and an employer. Such information cannot be claimed as a right by others, it said.

"The details disclosed by a person in his I-T returns are 'personal information' which stand exempted from disclosure under clause (j) of section 8(1) of the RTI Act, unless a larger public interest is involved and the Central Public Information Officer or State Public Information Officer or the appellate authority is satisfied that a larger public interest justifies the disclosure of such information," the bench noted in its verdict.

Dismissing an appeal against the denial of information regarding a government servant's service matters and also the details of his assets, liabilities and movable and immovable assets, the bench said the particulars sought by the petitioner fell under the expression of an officer's "personal information."

The petitioner, the court observed, could not have claimed disclosure of such information as a matter of right.

The SC agreed with the concurrent findings of the Central Information Commission and the Bombay High Court, stating personal information could be divulged only if the public information officer was satisfied that a larger public interest justified the disclosure.

The petitioner before the SC had approached the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner (Ministry of Labour) on August 27, 2008, seeking various details relating to a person employed as an enforcement officer in the sub-regional office, Akola.

He had also sought the details related to his service record including the copies of all memos, showcause notices or a censure notice, if any, served upon the officer.

The petitioner wanted a list of gifts accepted by the official, his family members and relatives on his son's marriage.

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The NFL is overrun with them. And, no, were not talking about former Patriots now working in the media.

Rather, its young starting quarterbacks.

Sixteen of the leagues 32 teams are guided by passers who have five years of experience or less. They include five sophomores and five rookies.

Indianapolis Andrew Luck, Washingtons Robert Griffin III, Miamis Ryan Tannehill, Clevelands Brandon Weeden and Seattles Russell Wilson, wholl face the Patriots today, are the rookies.

You have second-year pros in Carolinas Cam Newton, Tennessees Jake Locker, Minnesotas Christian Ponder, Cincinnatis Andy Dalton and Jacksonvilles Blaine Gabbert.

St. Louis Sam Bradford is in his third year; Detroits Matthew Stafford, Tampa Bays Josh Freeman and the Jets Mark Sanchez are in their fourth season; and the graybeards of the group, Atlantas Matt Ryan and Baltimores Joe Flacco, are in their fifth year.

Of that group, only Locker sat for his first season. The clipboard-carrying apprenticeship that used to be mandatory for the position is as outdated as the iPhone 3GS.

There are two generally held beliefs for this. First, its easier to succeed in todays NFL with its passer-friendly rules. Second, quarterbacks increasingly have become professionals before they actually turn pro.

I think the biggest reason why and I deal with this more than anyone else in the country at the younger age groups is theyre just so much more advanced in their learning curve, said Trent Dilfer, an ESPN analyst and Elite 11 coach, which is a program for exceptional high school passing prospects.

In Texas, from the time youre 10 years old, youre in passing camps and seven-on-seven tournaments, and teams are throwing the ball (in games). In Southern California, its the same way. Its even got into Ohio and Pennsylvania and places where they never used to throw it. Florida is loaded with seven-on-seven tournaments and teams going to pass-driven offenses.

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SEWELL, N.J., Oct. 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eulo Chiropractic Center demonstrates to personal injury patients who are suffering from back and neck pain how they may benefit from chiropractic care. Sewell chiropractor Dr. Chris Eulo recommends non-invasive pain management, including spinal adjustments, for a drug-free alternative to treating car accident injuries. Dr. Eulo, who has been treating patients since 1993, says that he has had substantial success using chiropractic care to relieve pain and treat injuries sustained in an accident, like whiplash.

Eulo Chiropractic Center in Sewell, NJ announced that the practice has had substantial success treating patients for personal injuries using chiropractic care. Sewell chiropractor Dr. Chris Eulo recommends that accident victims seek treatment for their injury as soon as possible after a car accident.

According to Dr. Eulo, a car accident injury can strain the soft tissue muscles in the neck and cause misalignment in the cervical spine. A whiplash injury occurs when the force of a rear impact abruptly whips the neck forward and backward causing such strain. According to Dr. Eulo, the most effective treatment is to correct this misalignment to alleviate pressure on the nerves, which relieves pain. He advocates prompt care to help reduce the buildup of scar tissue and increase chances of a more efficient recovery.

"Without proper treatment, a car accident injury can lead to chronic pain and delay in healing," said Dr. Eulo. "When patients experience injury such as whiplash, they often suffer from neck pain, headaches and migraines."

The Sewell chiropractor also notes that following a car accident, patients often experience back pain, neck pain, and headaches. He reports some patients may even experience radiating pain into their arms, shoulders and legs. Therapeutic treatments such as massage are designed to help relieve trapped tension that is causing this pain, while also promoting internal healing for personal injuries.

Dr. Eulo goes on to say that following initial spinal adjustments, he will prescribe an exercise regimen to help strengthen weakened areas of the spine. He also incorporates spinal rehabilitative exercises and various physiotherapy modalities for increased pain relief and increased function. He reports these treatments improve flexibility and mobility to fixated areas resulting from personal injuries.

"Chiropractic adjustments provide lasting pain relief by increasing joint mobility, decreasing muscle spasms; thereby, reducing any nerve pressure," said Dr. Eulo. "By treating the root cause for an injury, I am able to help patients heal safely and quickly after an injury. Prompt treatment and follow-up rehabilitative care can truly optimize a patient's recovery," said Dr. Eulo.

Eulo Chiropractic Center provides natural pain management and injury rehabilitation for personal injury patients in Turnersville, Williamstown, Blackwood, Clayton, Sicklerville, Pitman, Franklinville, and Washington Township.

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