Li Na leads list of coaching changes
Posted: August 17, 2012 at 9:20 am
Li Na, the 2011 French Open champion, has hired Justin Henins former coach. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)
MASON, Ohio Li Na, Sloane Stephens and Laura Robson all have new coaches. Heres the latest from the WTA coaching carousel
Li has hired Carlos Rodriguez on a trial basis. The 2011 French Open has been coached by her husband, Jiang Shan, since parting ways with Michael Mortensen last September.
Rodriguez served as Justine Henins coach for about 15 years, helping her win seven Grand Slam titles and spend 117 weeks at No. 1. He arrived here on Wednesday night and will join with Li for the first time for her third-round match against Johanna Larsson at the Western & Southern Open on Thursday night.
Thats good, because heres the thing: Theyve actually never met.
After Wimbledon, I texted my agent and said I need a new coach, Li said. Two weeks later, my agent said, Oh we have one coach. I said, Perfect, I need him.
Of course I know him. I was so surprised he also wanted to help me.
Rodriguez, who runs a tennis academy in Beijing, is fairly well-known in the Chinese coaching community, and Li reached out to other coaches to get their thoughts. She liked what she heard.
I asked many coaches and they said, Oh, hes a very positive person. He has good communication with the players. I need this right now, Li said.
While her season could be seen as a disappointment so far, especially in light of her breakthrough run last year at Roland Garros, Li has had solid results working with her husband. Other than a subpar patch from the French Open to the Olympics, the 30-year-old has consistently made it deep in tournaments and is not taking bad losses. She has reached three Premier finals (Sydney, Rome and Montreal), the Round of 16 at the Australian Open and the quarterfinals or better at seven of 12 tournaments.
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Fall 4 Fitness returns to Genesee County in October for business-to-business health competition
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FLINT, MI Genesee County will have a chance this fall to improve its rank from lowest in Michigan's health rankings.
The 2012 Fall 4 Fitness campaign that begins in October is a community-wide business-to-business physical activity challenge to encourage healthy, active lifestyles among organizations as well as Genesee County residents.
The objective: 30 minutes of physical activity every day for every participant for one month for a total challenge goal of 900 minutes.
Registration is open now for business and organizations at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F4FChallenge, after which information on how individual participants can track daily minutes will be available.
Individual residents may sign up, too, at http://www.commit-2-fit.org.
The effort is presented by Commit to Fit!, a collaboration between the Greater Flint Health Coalition and HealthPlus of Michigan.
On Sept. 24, a kickoff event will take place in downtown Flint featuring business-to-business fitness competitions such as the Commit to Get Fit games between Citizen Bank and HealthPlus employees in May.
Incentives for progress include cash prize raffles, gym memberships, free weekly fitness classes and trophies and medals for organizations and participants.
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Hot workouts: What to see at the Health & Fitness Expo
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The annual 10TV Health & Fitness Expo is loaded with fitspiration. A kickboxing class? Yes. Free screenings for diabetes and high cholesterol? Yeah, theyve got that, too. A celebrity doctor who has helped many a lost, unhealthy celebrity? Step right up.
The expo, which is free to attend, features more than 100 exhibitor booths full of freebies and information covering a range of wellness topics from mental health to chiropractic care, vitamin supplements to prevention of overeating.
But the big draws are the three demonstration stages. Throughout Saturday and Sunday, local and national experts take the stages to talk about fitness, healthy cooking and weight loss. Here are four we think you should hit up.
Hip-Hop Fitness
Fitness Stage
3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18
Bring your dancing shoes (tennis shoes will work just fine), jump in line and learn how booty shakin can make your booty smokin.
Dr. Drew Pinsky
Donate Life Demonstration Stage
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A chance to have fun and get fit in Vacaville
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A team of Vacaville citizens, led by fitness enthusiasts and instructors, are hosting a free rally on Saturday for residents as part of a countywide effort to encourage the city toward fitness and health.
Starting at 9 a.m., the event kicks off in the center of downtown Vacaville during the Farmers Market, in the parking lot of Gold's Gym. The rally will feature a Zumba workshop with a community of instructors, as well as an expo with more than 20 local fitness and health related businesses.
"Vacaville is a wonderful place to live, work and play," said organizer and Team Vacaville captain, Lisa Holdener. "And there is nothing more important than setting a healthy example for our children, by sharing fitness with our families and the community."
The rally is also an opportunity to register for the SoFitCity (Walk-Run-Party) event, a competition among the seven cities of Solano for the most finishers, and thereby the title and trophy for "most fit."
The race event supports the Solano County Library Foundation and the joint mission with the Solano Mall and SolanoFit Magazine to develop fit minds and fit bodies for a fit future. Residents can register now at http://www.SoFitCity.com/Vacaville.
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Djokovic On Davydenko’s Retirement In Cincinnati – Video
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'Winging' retirement plans
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This post comes from Richard Barrington at partner site MoneyRates.com.
When it comes to retirement savings, many Americans seem to be "winging it" -- or heading for retirement without a realistic plan of how to fund it.
Or so suggests a recent survey (.pdf file) by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. The survey indicates that "retirement planning" is a very loose concept among Americans. In many cases, the approach could be better described as wishful thinking.
The following are some points of concern raised by the study:
Savings rates remain very low.
The median contribution level for workers in 401kor similar plans is 7%. This is up from 6% in 2011, but still too low a savings rate to fund a comfortable retirement. Think about it: Retirement is likely to last roughly half as many years as a career. How can you expect to replace most or all of your income if you are settingaside only 7% of that income each year? With diminished expectations for the stock market, and bond yields and savings account interest rates approaching zero, most people are not going to be able to grow their way to adequate funding. Saving more is the only way to make it work. (Post continues below.)
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AppSense Labs Advances People-Centric Computing with New Edition of StrataApps
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
AppSense, the leader in people-centric computing, today announced the second release of StrataApps, an application management solution enabling users to manage personal productivity applications across multiple desktops and devices. Since the initial release of StrataApps, ongoing development of new features and enhancements have been built into solution based on existing users providing feedback on their experiences installing over 8,000 applications via StrataApps. The latest version provides an even greater user experience and delivers improved application compatibility. StrataApps bridges the gap between user demand and IT application service delivery. StrataApps enables IT to control and focus on the delivery of core business applications while enabling users to manage their own personal applications.
Enterprise users require access to their personal productivity applications across a wide range of the desktop sessions and devices they use, said Keith Turnbull, Vice President of Global Development at AppSense. As IT services face ever increasing pressures to deliver more and more applications, to more users, on multiple accessing devices, failure to provide users with the applications they require on any device, in any location, reduces their effectiveness as employees and impacts their productivity for the business. StrataApps delivers on enabling IT to implement people-centric computing.
The new application import and export features empowers users to export their StrataApps application DataStore to a wide variety of external locations such as removable USB drives, Network Shares, File Servers and even cloud based storage infrastructures such as DropBox, SkyDrive, Sharefile and Box.net. By providing the option to export your StrataApps application DataStore to a multitude of locations, users can create libraries and centrally store logically grouped applications and simply import them into any new desktop session or onto any new device with just a few clicks. StrataApps streamlines IT management and ensures users benefit from the addition of automatic update notification options as new features and enhancements are released from AppSense Labs. StrataApps is available today via afree download.
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Community Farm-based training project receives help from Manx Telecom
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by Charles Horton
Manx Telecom has donated equipment to Corporate Personal Development (CPD) based at The Childrens Centres Community Farm. CPD is a professional learning and development consutancy run by The Childrens Centre which offers leadership and management programmes to corporate, public and charitable organisations across the Island.
CPD uses physical and mental challenges and scenarios to simulate business environments and bring learning to life and utilises various types of outdoor projects to put teams to the test. One of these challenges involves one team member building a tower out of beer crates while on a rope supported by their colleagues. Mark Payne, CPD Trainer and Learning Consultant, said the challenge is used as a practical example to promote discussion on the role of trust in teams, leadership, and how delegates deal with anxiety in the workplace. He thanked Manx Telecom for its support and added that the companys contribution had helped to create a valuable addition to the facilities offered by CPD.
Since CPD was established eight years ago it has developed a reputation for offering a unique on-Island opportunity for organisations from all sectors to access high-quality, bespoke, experiential learning and development for a wide range of clients. John McChesney, Human Resources Director at Manx Telecom, said: CPD offers tremendous benefits to the Island and were delighted to support the project by enhancing the facilities it has at the Community Farm.
The Community Farm, where CPD is based, is a project run by The Childrens Centre at Wallberry Farm on the Carnane Estate just off the Old Castletown Road in Douglas. The farm was opened in January 2011 with the aim of creating a community facility offering children, young people and other community groups from across the Island a chance to learn, from practical experience, the skills needed to care for animals and to grow crops.
Photo caption - Equipment donated by Manx Telecom to CPD which is based at The Childrens Centres Community Farm.
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Roseland Recreation Department — Have fun, get fit, in Roseland this fall
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Programs from aerobics to yoga are offered by the Roseland Recreation Department this fall.
Following is the listing of offerings:
Multi-Impact Aerobics
The Roseland Recreation Department is once again co-sponsoring an adult multi-impact aerobics class in conjunction with Olympias Fitness Training, Inc. for adults 18 years and older.
This program will consist of 29 classes held from 7 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and five specific Thursday nights.
The Monday and Wednesday classes will begin on Monday, Sept. 10 and end on Wednesday Nov. 28.
The Thursday classes will be held on Sept. 13 and 27; Oct. 11; Nov. 8, and Dec. 13.
There will be no classes on Monday, Oct. 8 and Nov. 12 or Thursday, Nov. 22.
All classes will be held in the Borough Hall All-Purpose Room.
The class size is limited to the first 35 participants. The fee for the program is $145 for three days a week and $120 for Monday and Wednesday. Registration forms are available outside the recreation office
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