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Health and Wanderlust Present Wanderlust Yoga in the City Event Series
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NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Health announced an exclusive media partnership with Wanderlust, the nation's largest yoga and music festival, to produce Yoga in the Citya one-day urban retreat held in iconic outdoor venues across the nation. Occurring on September 9 in New York and Los Angeles and on September 23 in San Francisco, Wanderlust Yoga in the City provides a retreat for city dwellers with complimentary classes from the world's top yoga instructors, live music performances, and panel discussions featuring leading wellness experts. The event series is part of the Yoga Aid World Challenge benefitting humanitarian charities around the globe that embrace the healing power of yoga.
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"Health consumers lead active lives, including practicing yoga over three hours each week, which makes Wanderlust a natural fit," said Kevin White, Publisher of Health. "Partnering with the premier yoga organization allows us to create a unique and engaging brand experience for our consumers and advertisers."
The Health Pavilion will host exclusive fitness and nutrition sessions with editors and celebrity guests, personalized cover shoots via photo booth, and offer special gifts for the mind, body, and soul. Exclusive skincare sponsor Elizabeth Arden will provide expert tips and complimentary samples of the new spa-inspired Visible Difference skincare line.
Acclaimedauthor, nutritionistand wellness expert,Cynthia Sass, will answer your nutrition questions, share delicious recipes and offer insider strategies from her latest New York Times best-sellingbook,S.A.S.S! Yourself Slim. Attendees will have the opportunity to take part in an exclusive hybrid yoga series with celebrity yogini Mandy Ingber inspired by her upcoming book, Yogalosophy: 28-day Mind Body Makeover, hitting shelves in 2013. Health's fitness editor and resident yogi, Kristin McGee, will serve as master of ceremonies at Wanderlust in the City in New York and San Francisco. Additionally, within the Health Pavilion, she will showcase yoga, pilates and core strength moves from her latest DVD S3: Strong, Sexy, and Svelte.
The 2012 Wanderlust Yoga in the City series is set to include:
September 9, 2012
September 23, 2012
The U.S. partnership between Wanderlust Festivals and Yoga Aid for The Yoga Aid World Challenge, a 24-hour global yoga relay on September 9, will begin in Sydney, with its first U.S. stop in New York for the Yoga in the City event, and end at sundown in Los Angeles at the Santa Monica Pier.
For more information and to enter for a chance to win an escape for two to the Wanderlust Yoga in the City event in New York, visit Health.com/wanderlust. To register or find more information on Wanderlust Yoga in the City and Yoga Aid, please visit: http://www.wanderlustyitc.com.
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What Does Retirement Really Look Like?
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What does retirement mean to you? When I was in my 20s, this is what I thought a typical day for a retiree would be like.
5 a.m. Wake up to a leisurely breakfast and a cup of coffee. Read the paper and do the crossword puzzle.
7 a.m. Go for a walk or swim in the pool, then take it easy.
9 a.m. Watch some TV and read a magazine or a book.
11 a.m. - Have lunch.
Afternoon Go shopping, walk the dog, work on the house, and catch up with friends.
5 p.m. Have an early bird dinner and kick back the rest of the day.
9 p.m. Time to hit the hay.
This sounds like the easy life, but it also seems quite boring. This vision fits a sedate retirement home more than the current active retirements in which many retirees actually engage. Now that Im older and know more retirees, I know this is not what people do in retirement. Many people stay quite active when they first retire from their careers and put off the relaxed retirement until when they are much older.
Active retirement. My dad retired about five years ago from running a restaurant, but a relaxed retirement isnt for him. He is always restless and hated not working. So he started a new micro business and is working part time. Its a hobby-based business and he is having a lot of fun. My father-in-law retired with a full pension and he is working (ok, volunteering) at a friends liquor store for free. One of my friends is financially independent, but he still actively manages his portfolio every day. I suspect most people would rather continue to be active after they retire from their career than relaxing around the pool all day.
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Sammons Retirement Solutions, Inc. Launches LiveWell Asset Allocation ModelsSM Powered by Morningstar Associates
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Sammons Retirement Solutions, Inc.SM, which develops and distributes products focused on IRA rollovers and other retirement assets, today announced the launch of LiveWell ModelsSM, a series of risk-based asset class model portfolios created exclusively for the LiveWell Retirement Series. Developed by Morningstar Associates, LLC, a registered investment advisor and a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc., LiveWell Models are designed to help financial professionals make informed asset allocation1 recommendations to clients to help them meet their investment goals.
The models provide financial professionals with a quick and easy way to create portfolios for clients based on the clients target asset allocations and according to their answers to an optional Morningstar Risk Tolerance Questionnaire. When creating a portfolio, an online Morningstar proposal-builder tool gives financial professionals the flexibility to use a LiveWell Model or to select a LiveWell Asset Class Model as a framework to choose the funds themselves. The tool allows financial professionals to add a hypothetical comparison portfolio to help evaluate the asset allocation, investment style, top holdings, and historical performance. The end result is a set of illustrations at the asset-class or investment option level that financial professionals can present to clients or prospects.
It is becoming increasingly important for financial professionals to give their clients a range of options for investing rollover money from 401(k) and other investment vehicles. The challenge with too many options may be the difficulty in allocating the investment dollars. said William Lowe, President of Sammons Retirement Solutions, Inc. To address the growing demand for allocation assistance, we have responded to financial professionals requests for something beyond traditional asset class allocation strategies. The LiveWell Mutual Fund IRA offers fund-specific models and the LiveWell Variable Annuity provides a similar model at the investment option level.
The models are comprised of portfolios that provide exposure to a broad spectrum of asset classes. Each model suggests the mix of investment options based on a clients time horizon, investment goals, and risk tolerance across different investment categories such as Conservative, Moderate, Moderate Growth, Growth, and Aggressive Growth. The models include investment options from brand name money managers as well as boutique managers.
About Sammons Retirement Solutions, Inc.SM(SRSI SM)
A member of Sammons Financial Group, Sammons Retirement Solutions, Inc.SM specializes in designing straightforward retirement solutions that address the increasingly complex needs of todays investors. The company complements Sammons Financial Groups existing business by expanding the product line with a Mutual Fund IRA platform and a variable annuity available for sale through independent broker-dealers and financial professionals.
Variable annuities are designed for long-term investing such as retirement investing and are subject to market risk including loss of principal.
Investing in mutual funds and variable annuities involves risk, including potential loss of investment. You and your client should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of the mutual fund or variable annuity and its underlying investment options carefully before investing. The prospectus and/or summary prospectus contain this and other information. You or your client can call 866.747.3421 to obtain a current prospectus for the mutual fund or the variable annuity and its underlying investment options. Please read it carefully.
You and your client should consider the expenses of the IRA program before investing. You and your client must receive a fund prospectus and the LiveWell Mutual Fund IRA disclosure form before investing.
Bolt wins 200, Blake sets personal best
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Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates with his compatriot Yohan Blake (left) during the Athletissima Diamond League meeting in Lausanne August 23, 2012. Reuters pic
The effervescent Bolt performed the air guitar as he was presented to the crowd before predictably dominating the race, winning ahead of Dutchman Churandy Martina and as the top three all finished in under 20 seconds.
Other highlights of the meeting included another win for Grenada's teenage Olympic champion Kirani James in the 400 metres and the high jump where Qatar's Moutaz Essa Barshim leapt 2.39 metres to defeat Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov.
Less impressive was the 110 metres hurdles where Olympic champion Aries Merritt was disqualified for a false start.
Bolt, who has said his main aim was to see out the season without injury, seemed as pleased with his latest stunt as he was with his performance.
It's fun, I heard the music and it just came to me, it was spontaneous, he told BBC television.
His fellow Jamaican Blake, Olympic silver medallist in the 100 and 200 metres, beat his previous best by 0.06 seconds as he destroyed a world-class field in the 100, leaving Tyson Gay and Nesta Carter trailing in his wake.
Blake's performance added to the feeling that the 22-year-old could be the one to eventually topple Bolt, who is four years his senior and beat him over both sprints at the London Games.
Merritt's disqualification devalued what was billed as one of the highlights of the evening in the hurdles.
His fellow American, London silver medallist Jason Richardson, took advantage as he led from the front to win in 13.08 seconds, ahead of David Oliver and Olympic bronze medallist Hansle Parchment who was third.
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Bolt wins 200, Blake sets personal best in Lausanne Diamond League
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LAUSANNE - Olympic champion Usain Bolt ran 19.58 seconds for victory in the 200 meters at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on Thursday (Friday, PHL time) while Yohan Blake equaled the third fastest time ever to win the 100 in 9.69.
The effervescent Bolt performed the air guitar as he was presented to the crowd before predictably dominating the race, winning ahead of Dutchman Churandy Martina and as the top three all finished in under 20 seconds.
Other highlights of the meeting included another win for Grenada's teenage Olympic champion Kirani James in the 400 meters and the high jump where Qatar's Moutaz Essa Barshim leapt 2.39 meters to defeat Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov.
Less impressive was the 110 meters hurdles where Olympic champion Aries Merritt was disqualified for a false start.
Bolt, who has said his main aim was to see out the season without injury, seemed as pleased with his latest stunt as he was with his performance.
"It's fun, I heard the music and it just came to me, it was spontaneous," he told BBC television.
His fellow Jamaican Blake, Olympic silver medallist in the 100 and 200 meters, beat his previous best by 0.06 seconds as he destroyed a world-class field in the 100, leaving Tyson Gay and Nesta Carter trailing in his wake.
Blake's performance added to the feeling that the 22-year-old could be the one to eventually topple Bolt, who is four years his senior and beat him over both sprints at the London Games.
Merritt's disqualification devalued what was billed as one of the highlights of the evening in the hurdles.
His fellow American, London silver medallist Jason Richardson, took advantage as he led from the front to win in 13.08 seconds, ahead of David Oliver and Olympic bronze medallist Hansle Parchment who was third.
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Bangor company finds success with high-tech mapmaking
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BANGOR, Maine In the summer of 2009, scientists with the Maine Department of Marine Resources were eager to pin down how Maines lobster population might be affected by the number of traps being set to catch the tasty crustaceans. Given the importance of the lobster fishery to the states economy the 2011 catch was worth $345 million the research was driven by concerns about the industrys long-term sustainability.
Getting an accurate buoy count would give the scientists a benchmark for exploring a working hypothesis that an equal number of lobsters might be caught with fewer traps, which would decrease costs and add efficiencies to lobster-fishing operations.
But as researchers began their trap study in a 3.5 square nautical mile section off Tenants Harbor, they faced an obvious challenge: In a constantly moving ocean, how do you count thousands of pot buoys without losing track? Hand-counting from a boat would be prone to miscounting. Relying on lobster licensing records, on the other hand, also is unreliable, since the number of traps can vary widely in relation to the seasonal movement of lobsters. In other words, its not a simple multiplication problem.
DMR researchers turned to Kappa Mapping Inc., a woman-owned business in Bangor with eight employees, to solve the problem. Kappa had revenue of $754,000 in 2011, a 28 percent increase from the year before.
The 2009 project illustrates how advances in technology have revolutionized the mapping industry, providing useful information to researchers, engineers, municipal planners, architects and others that 15 years ago would have cost a small fortune to present visually if at all.
We used traditional technologies in an innovative way, says Claire Kiedrowski, president of the nine-year-old company located in the heart of Bangors downtown. In the 2009 Tenants Harbor study, Kappa contracted with James W. Sewall Co. to take aerial photographs of the harbor once a week for several consecutive weeks in July and August. The specs were exacting: The images were to be taken at low tide, calm seas, early morning and overcast skies to minimize sun glare on the water.
The traditional technology Kappa used in the DMR problem falls under the tongue-twisting tag of photogrammetry and involved stitching together multiple overlapping photos to create a high-definition composite image of the Tenants Harbor study zone. The innovative part, which earned Kappa a prestigious award in 2010 from MAPPS, a national association of photogrammetry, mapping, and geospatial firms, involved matching buoys in adjacent photos and using navigation-grade GPS photo positions to triangulate the imagery.
Kappas mapmaking team in Bangor then meticulously created an accurate map showing the location of each and every buoy in the waters off Tenants Harbor ranging from 9,000 to a high count of 10,450 early in the study period.
Kiedrowski describes that 2009 project as not that big for us, but it clearly opened the eyes of DMRs marine scientists to the value of using photogrammetry as a highly accurate tool for better understanding the lobster fishery. The next fall, DMR hired Kappa to manage a similar study of traps along the entire coast of Maine in this instance, using an advanced large-format digital camera to collect three separate spectrums of visual data true color, color infrared and black-and-white at the same time. That information is being used to evaluate the risk of endangered right whales becoming entangled in lobster trap lines.
Most recently, Woolpert Inc., a prominent aerial photography firm based in Dayton, Ohio, has signed up Kappa Mapping and Shyka, Sheppard & Garster Land Surveyors as subcontractors for a five-year orthoimagery mapping of the entire state. That project, which is being coordinated by the Maine GeoLibrary, eventually will make available high-resolution aerial photographs of Maine towns and cities that can be used for planning, assessing, code enforcement, emergency management, growth projections or management of natural resources and agriculture. The data also can be used as the base map for E-911, roads and other uses requiring high accuracy imaging.
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City of Reno partnership promotes economic development by supporting entrepreneurs
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RENO -- The City of Reno has partnered with Reno-based internet learning provider AthenaOnline to offer a free personal and professional development resource for Reno residents.
The website, http://www.myquickcoachreno.com, promises to help people develop their professional and personal skills to make faster and more informed business decisions, and improve both their professional and personal performance. The site features 1,800 short video advice modules as well as almost 400 articles. All of the material is provided free to Reno residents.
The site is designed to help users find the information they need from within a comprehensive library of topics that include advice on marketing, sales, leadership, communication, people management, creativity, diversity, strategy, customer service, personal finance, and much more.
The Reno City Council has put a priority on economic development, and this free tool is made available to residents to encourage best business practices and promote Reno as a community that supports entrepreneurs.
When users surf to http://www.myquickcoachreno.com, the website checks the users IP address, the network address assigned by their internet service provider, to ensure that the user is from the Reno area*. Once verified, the user has full access to the MyQuickCoachReno site. * Due to the way that AOL issues network addresses to their users the MyQuickCoachReno service is not available to AOL users.
Users can also access the site through the City of Renos webpage, http://www.reno.gov.
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Lubrizol Personal Care Enhances Market Focus
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Lubrizol Personal Care Enhances Market Focus Malte Ruffing promoted to global hair care marketing manager
CLEVELAND, August 23, 2012 - The Lubrizol Corporation announces the promotion of Malte Ruffing to global marketing manager, hair care. Ruffing, who brings more than 10 years of technical, sales, and marketing experience in the business to his new role, joins Marie Ollagnier and Timothy Roach as part of the marketing team responsible for setting long-term growth strategies for the hair care, skin care, and bath and shower markets respectively. These changes will enhance Lubrizol`s ability to focus on end use market trends and unmet needs, accelerate product innovation, and define the long-term strategies that will drive the business.
In his new position, Ruffing will lead strategy development and implementation to drive profitable growth in Lubrizol`s hair care ingredients business, which includes leading global brands such as Carbopol rheology modifiers, MerquatTM and SensomerTM conditioning polymers, and FixateTM styling polymers. Based out of Frankfurt, Germany, he will work closely with the R&D, product platform and sales teams around the world to lead innovative growth programs based on new products, formulated solutions and focused sales development.
Vince Misiti, global business director, personal care says "The addition of Malte to our team not only completes a very strong global marketing team, but also enhances our overall leadership in the personal care business. The team`s broad and complementary skill sets will enable us to provide innovative and valuable solutions to make our customers more successful."
About The Lubrizol Corporation The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is an innovative specialty chemical company that produces and supplies technologies to customers in the global transportation, industrial and consumer markets. These technologies include lubricant additives for engine oils, other transportation-related fluids and industrial lubricants, as well as fuel additives for gasoline and diesel fuel. In addition, Lubrizol makes ingredients and additives for personal care products and pharmaceuticals; specialty materials, including plastics technology and performance coatings in the form of specialty resins and additives. Lubrizol`s industry-leading technologies in additives, ingredients and compounds enhance the quality, performance and value of customers` products, while reducing their environmental impact.
With headquarters in Wickliffe, Ohio, The Lubrizol Corporation owns and operates manufacturing facilities in 17 countries, as well as sales and technical offices around the world. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol has approximately 7,000 employees worldwide. Revenues for 2011 were $6.1billion. For more information, visit http://www.lubrizol.com.
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New Texas College and Career Resource Site Contract Awarded by Texas Education Agency
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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
The Texas Education Agency has announced the selection of Boston-based education technology provider ConnectEDU as their partner in the development and deployment of the Online College and Career Preparation Resource Site. During the 82nd session of the Texas Legislature, lawmakers appropriated funds for the creation of a statewide online college and career readiness portal to provide online college preparation assistance to students, parents, and high school counselors. After an extensive and competitive open bidding process, the Texas Education Agency selected ConnectEDU to build, maintain and promote the portal to nearly 2.5 million middle and high school students throughout Texas.
The Online College and Career Preparation Resource Site, operating as Texas College & Career, will launch on August 29, 2012 and target an increase in the rate of K12 students transitioning to postsecondary education. The college and career planning tools will be available to students and families statewide at no cost and include unique resources designed especially for students who are more at-risk (such as foster care youth and English language learners). ConnectEDU has partnered with San Antonio-based Edvance Research to ensure the Sites alignment with research-based best practices and to grow awareness of the Sites availability through market engagement and training.
In 2010, ConnectEDU was selected by the Agency to develop and manage the states Online College Preparation Assistance Pilot Program. The Pilot targeted increased completion of essential college and career planning tasks throughout the lowest performing high schools. Armed with the Pilot Programs interactive tools and resources, these schools introduced college and career planning best practices to students and families in order to engage them in critical and early planning activities and increase their preparedness for postsecondary success. Texas College & Career will expand the reach of these critical exploration, planning, and portfolio development tools by making them available to all students and families and are available in both English and Spanish.
Were excited to again partner with ConnectEDU in Texas and are pleased to help bring this needed and comprehensive tool for both college and career planning to Texas students and their families, stated Donald Barfield, President of Edvance Research.
About ConnectEDU, Inc., http://www.connectedu.com
ConnectEDU is a technology company, founded and grounded in education, committed to transitioning 21st Century Learners on their pathways from school to college to career, helping them realize their potential, achieve a secure financial future, and ultimately connect to life's possibilities. ConnectEDU was created in 2002, by Craig Powell, an entrepreneur with a passion for ensuring that all students have access to the expertise needed to maximize their educational potential. Today, ConnectEDU is the world's largest education network, with nearly 20 million registered learners, over 4,000 educational institutions, and 130,000 employers.
About Edvance Research, http://www.edvanceresearch.com
Founded in 2005, Edvance Research, Inc. is a mission-driven, women and minority owned business, nationally recognized for innovative and trusted expertise in education. A proven leader, specializing in collaborative research and development, evaluation, project management, assessment, large scale initiatives, marketing, training and building capacity to use research, Edvance is committed to providing exceptional value to clients through outstanding quality and best practices. Edvance Research is headquartered in San Antonio with offices in Austin, Texas.
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