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Russell Brand is opening his own yoga studio because he has slept with too many of the ladies in the one he attends.

The 37-year-old star is hoping to buy a place in Beverly Hills, California so he can escape the lovers he has met in yoga classes earlier this year.

A source told the Daily Star newspaper: 'Since he split with Katy Perry, Russell has had sex or flirtations with quite a few of the women he used to meet in yoga classes.

'It's become quite awkward for him because now he has a new girlfriend and doesn't want to be running into former conquests every day.'

The insider continued: 'He decided that buying his own studio would be the perfect solution and has his heart set on buying one on Melrose Avenue. If all goes well the place should be his by the end of the summer.'

Russell split with singer Katy, 27, last year, is now dating 30-year-old Isabella Brewster.

He also met the former talent agent in a yoga class.

Sources said: 'No-one thought Russell would jump into a serious relationship so quickly. But he's surprised himself with Isabella. They've really hit it off. They are already talking about children.'

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There comes a time in every youth sports coachs life when a decision has to be made when to stop coaching.

For some, this decision is made for him or her, possibly due to health or family reasons. For others, the decision is one that must be made exclusively by the coach him/herself, or in some cases, with input from family members.

People start coaching for a lot of reasons: Some for the pure love of the sport and coaching; some because they feel nobody can coach his or her child as well; and others because nobody else will volunteer. But regardless of the reason, once you start coaching like a lot of things in life its hard to stop.

Kids move on

Usually the most common reason many coaches stop is because his or her own child is no longer playing the sport. Its hard to justify spending the time required to coach a youth sport if your kids arent even on the team although, some do. My hat goes off to those folks!

Other coaches quit because its too stressful dealing with parents who all think their child is the best on the team, or players who really dont care enough to make the commitment necessary for the team to be successful and not just in the win column.

Sure signs that its time to quit are: if you dread going to practice; dont look forward to games; come home from practice every night in a foul mood; or come up with lame excuses to cancel practices or other team activities.

If the time commitment of coaching is making things at home suffer your relationship with your spouse and kids, chores, etc. its time to re-evaluate where the free time you have is best spent.

Im not suggesting quitting mid-season, but certainly think long and hard about volunteering to coach again.

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Irvine, CA (PRWEB) August 03, 2012

When two-time Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor decided to earn her master's degree in coaching and athletic administration to prepare for her post-playing career, she chose Concordia Universitys Masters in Coaching and Athletic Administration (MCAA) program.

Coaching has always been a passion of mine, and nowadays you need your masters degree, May-Treanor says. Concordia had everything I was looking for.

May-Treanor is the most successful beach volleyball player in history, with 107 career wins. She and playing partner Kerri Walsh-Jennings are competing in their third Olympic Games this summer in London, hoping to bring home their third straight Olympic gold medal.

Im very happy with my experience at Concordia, May-Treanor says. The professors and everybody in the department give such good guidance. The philosophy of the program, and especially of the University as a whole, helps coaches be better people, to act in a certain manner. Thats one of the reasons I felt this was the program for me. They send good, solid people into the community.

May-Treanors Concordia education has fit perfectly into her busy schedule which often has her traveling to tournaments 24 weeks a year. She recalls logging onto the Concordia website while in Brazil, downloading her homework assignment and writing a paper on the plane.

The professors work with you and understand that career people who have jobs are the ones taking these classes to further their education and get better positions in their place of employment, she says. They make the workload appropriate.

Concordia was one of the first universities in the nation to offer a Masters in Coaching and Athletic Administration, and it remains the only one to offer strong practical training with a foundation in ethics and character-building. In less than seven years, the pioneering program has gone from 12 students to hundreds earning degrees on campus and online.

The regionally accredited, nationally ranked Masters in Coaching and Athletic Administration program features award-winning faculty who have proven experience in their fields. The program takes coaching and athletic administration to the next level with in-depth courses in subjects including ethics, leadership and finance, and a culminating project that results in a professional portfolio.

Ive been so happy with the program that I recommend it highly, especially to a lot of my colleagues who are players, says May-Treanor. I say, You should look into this program, especially if you want to continue playing, because it works with your schedule. And I love the campus.

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Ennis spoke before her competition about her hopes for a hurdles personal best to settle her nerves, though she could not have dreamed that she would shatter her previous best mark of 12.79sec to such devastating effect.

Her time of 12.54sec was 0.02sec inside the UK record of hurdles specialist Tiffany Porter and also the quickest hurdles performance ever recorded in a heptathlon.

I am still so shocked at the hurdles time, she said. I knew I was in good shape. My hurdles have been going well and if I had run 12.80 or 12.70-something, I would have been over the moon. But 12.54 I literally cant believe it. Its so crazy.

So crazy, in fact, that it was the same time that American Dawn Harper clocked to win the 100m hurdles gold medal at Beijing. Ennis may now be tempted to try her hand at the individual event, which opens with the first-round heats on Monday morning.

Her name is already on the entry list, but only as a precaution against her failing to complete the heptathlon. With just 36 hours of rest available to her after the final event, taking part would mean avoiding the media onslaught that will inevitably be heading her way if she wins gold.

After such an explosive start, it was a pity that Ennis was unable to get closer to her high jump personal best of 1.95m in the second event of the day, though her clearance of 1.86m was by no means disastrous and was actually 1cm higher than she cleared on her way to breaking Denise Lewiss UK heptathlon record in Gotzis, Austria, in May.

It also caused no damage to her place in the overall standings, with Dobrynska clearing 1.83m and Chernova managing just 1.80m.

The revelation of the high jump was Liverpudlian Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the former world youth heptathlon champion, who soared to a personal best of 1.89m which, following her personal best-equalling 13.48sec in the hurdles, elevated her to the dizzy heights of the bronze medal position after two events.

It was evidence of why, at the age of 19, she is already being touted as the next Jess if she can improve her throws. Even Ennis has conceded that she has the potential to surpass her achievements in years to come.

However, now is Enniss time and she appears to be marching inexorably towards Britains first track and field gold medal of the Olympics if she can sustain her current form.

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AT the base of every company lies an essential ingredient human resources. Without people, no company would be able to function. Implementation of strategies and running of the company would not be possible.

Mazda Motor Corp representative director, president and chief executive officer Takashi Yamanouchi believes that investing in people is important and aims to build a company that employs people who enjoy their work.

In my career, I've spent nine years on human resources development. Throughout that period, I truly felt the company is made of people and we need to ensure they are constantly motivated and their capabilities are developed, he says.

Mazda has implemented training programmes based on the seven Mazda Way principles, which is shared with the entire Mazda group worldwide. In 2008, the company summarised seven basic principles and values that were handed down from its predecessors.

The seven principles integrity, basic and flawless execution, continuous kaizen (improvement), challenger spirit, self initiative, tomoiku (mutual learning) and one Mazda are instilled into employees of Mazda to be sincere, faithful to the basics, to have a challenging spirit, to mutually develop others as well as yourself, among others.

We use the seven Mazda Way principles as guiding principles for general conduct, Yamanouchi says.

Loyal to Mazda

For someone who has been with the company for more than four decades, Yamanouchi clearly has adopted the Mazda Way and is full of energy and excitement for what the future holds for Mazda. Joining the company in April 1967, which was then called Toyo Kogyo Co Ltd, he has been involved in a variety of roles, slowly climbing up the ranks to be where he is right now.

In my 20s I worked for Japan's marketing and sales division. Then in my 30s I was dispatched to several dealerships in Japan to learn the retail side of the business. In my 40s after I completed my business management studies in the United States, I decided to change from the sales division to corporate planning. Then in my 50s, I was appointed as a corporate officer responsible for corporate planning, financial management, purchasing, human resource development and others, he says.

Yamanouchi jokes: I've been here too long.

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LONDON - Britain's Jessica Ennis stared at the scoreboard, waiting for her time to post, and then thrust her arms into the air.

Another personal best. Another crowd-pleasing performance.

Ennis closed out the first day of the Olympic heptathlon by running the 200 metres in a personal-record 22.83 seconds to take a 184-point lead with three events left.

Ennis, who opened the Olympic track meet Friday morning by running the 100-meter hurdles in a heptathlon record of 12.54 seconds, returned for the night session and picked up where she left off.

Competing in front of a capacity crowd at Olympic Stadium, many of them waving British flags, Ennis recorded a shot put of 14.28 metres (46 feet, 10 1/4 inches), then closed the night with another fast time on the track.

She finished with 4,158 points, while Lithuania's Austra Skujyte had 3,974 and Canada's Jessica Zelinka had 3,903.

"I'm absolutely elated with today, to have performed like that with two personal bests and to end it with a PB was a brilliant start to the (heptathlon)," Ennis said.

She had reason to be thrilled.

With nearly all 80,000 seats filled for the first taste of Olympic track and field, Ennis wowed the home crowd by finishing the 100-meter hurdles in the fastest time ever in the heptathlon's first event.

How fast? It matched Dawn Harper's gold-winning time in the 100-meter hurdles final at the Beijing Games and would've been good enough to take that title at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics.

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Cameron Yadidi Brock is the kind of personal injury attorney in Los Angeles you want on your side when catastrophe strikes. He and his team at The Law Offices of Burg & Brock, Inc. are on your side, with a staggering 97% success rate, and with their proven track record for success, and never-give-up attitude, are the people you want in your corner.

In the face of any high profile misfortune, the media will always pick up on some of the stories of legal proceedings. A suspect will be arraigned, and a trial will often be held. There may eventually be related trials for charges like criminal negligence as the legal system seeks justice like it was designed to do. As imperfect as our legal system is, it will proceed this way for the foreseeable future. In some places where the criminal justice system fails or is inadequate, the civil courts will pick up slack, and try to find justice on a more individual basis. In the process we hope that individuals or entities - even monolithic corporate structures be shown the error of their ways by a personal injury lawyer, even with that word so many Americans dread: lawsuit.

Thus it is only inevitable that citizens who feel victimized or wronged, even in the face of a national tragedy, find their own way of making it right. After a large scale tragic event, injured, and non-injured citizens alike will consult with attorneys and build their cases. While the media may find fault with "blaming" entities outside of an individual or group whose responsibility appears obvious, the truth is much more subtle.

For example: The chaos that ensues in an emergency can sometimes make it obvious that a manager was negligent in the training of his or her employees. Faulty emergency exits or signs can contribute to a chaotic situation. The point is that a party has certain responsibilities full time. The fact that an individual actor triggered the emergency - and certainly may bear full responsibility for their deeds - does not forgive the negligence or impropriety of another entity on the periphery of the situation.

Cameron Yadidi Brock of The Law Offices of Burg & Brock, Inc. wishes for the people of southern California to have faith in the civil courts when the worst happens in their lives. "Institutions like insurance companies and other business entities aren't always your friend, but your lawyer is," he points out. "They'll scramble to protect their money, and try very hard to make you feel powerless, but you're not." A tragedy on a national scale is not the only situation deserving of legal representation. If you've been injured in an auto accident, slipped and fallen outside your home, been attacked by someone else's pet, or any of a litany of possible situations, you should give a personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles at The Law Office of Burg & Brock a call.

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by Cathy Rose A. Garcia, ABS-CBNnews.com

MANILA, Philippines - When it comes to saving money, most Filipinos seem to be content to deposit their hard-earned money in the bank, thinking that interest from the time deposits would be enough to make their money grow. But with the low interest rates, it's no longer enough.

Investing is key to personal financial success, but why don't people invest more? Some say they don't have extra money to invest, others say they don't know where to invest their money. Some are worried about the risks involved in investing, while others are admit they don't know much about investments at all.

"The investment literacy of Filipinos is not that great," BDO Trust & Investments Group senior vice president Ma. Lourdes T. de Vera told ABS-CBNnews.com in a recent interview.

"Ang alam lang natin ay bank deposits, paluwagan. But investing is for everyone, not just the super-rich. But the bottomline is - investing is a need, not a choice,"

De Vera said people need to start saving and investing their money for the future. "We all know that we need to save and invest because we don't want to work forever. One day we want to rest and we don't know until when we can work. Investing provides you with more options," de Vera said.

But the question remains, how do you start saving and where do you invest your hard-earned money? Would-be investors are often concerned about affordability, risks, returns, convenience and flexibility.

De Vera said the Unit Investment Trust Fund (UITF) addresses these concerns. A UITF is a collective investment scheme where money is pooled from various investors into a single fund. The funds are invested in government securities, equities, corporate bonds, and other tradeable securities.

"UITF offers good value for investors. BDO has the lowest fees in the industry. There are no agents' commissions, no backend fees. The performance (of the UITF) is better than benchmark. Liquidity and underlying assets are tied to your objectives, so the underlying investment works for your objective. This is very transparent, regulated by the BSP. Prices are available daily, while reports are available monthly and quarterly," de Vera said.

To make it easier and affordable for Filipinos to invest in UITFs, BDO is offering the Easy Investment Plan (EIP). Under the EIP, once you enroll your account, the bank will debit a certain amount (as low as P1,000) on a regular basis (once or twice month) to be invested in a UITF.

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