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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- A federal lawsuit accuses top officials of the Upper Cumberland Development District of illegally hacking into the personal messages of an employee after she refused to go along with the wrongdoing.

The complaint, filed Wednesday on behalf of former UCDD employee Ashley Pealer, alleges that UCDD officials violated the federal Stored Communications Act, the federal Wiretap Act, as well as her rights under the Fourth Amendment.

It names interim director Randy Williams personally, as well as current UCDD chairman Mike Gannon. Read the lawsuit

"This is the first of the lawsuits that we will file," attorney Gary Blackburn told NewsChannel 5 Investigates.

As we recently reported, Pealer and her mother Kathy were fired by Randy Williams in June, less than two weeks after he took over the agency.

Afterwards, Ashley said that she began hearing from inside agency offices that some of her private messages were being passed around.

"On my smartphone, I had my private Hotmail and my private Facebook account -- I've been told that both have been printed off," she said.

She added that she had found evidence of a strange posting that someone made to her personal Facebook page from the agency cell phone she'd been required to turn in.

It was "from my phone," she said, "to appear as if I was the one who had posted it."

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KOLKATA, India, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --ManpowerGroup (MAN), the world leader in innovative workforce solutions, today announced that it has successfully completed its acquisition of the remaining 26 percent stake in Kolkata-based Web Development Company Limited (WDC), a leading IT services and professional resourcing company offering consulting, development and application support services to several large clients in India and across the Asia Pacific region. In March 2011, ManpowerGroup acquired a 74 percent stake in WDC.

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With this acquisition, WDC becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of ManpowerGroup's Experis brand, the global leader in professional resourcing and project-based workforce solutions.

"Experis is adept at attracting the highly-skilled professionals that companies need to grow their business and enhance their competitiveness, and this acquisition further strengthens its unmatched capability to do this throughout the region," said Darryl Green, ManpowerGroup President, Asia Pacific and Middle East. "Our expert recruiters recruit experts with the right blend of IT skills and experience to create enhanced partnerships and achieve accelerated results."

Employers in the region continue to be challenged in their search for qualified IT talent. ManpowerGroup's recent 2012 Talent Shortage Survey revealed that IT roles are the jobs Indian employers have most difficulty filling, and in fifth place across the region as a whole.

"Our selective acquisition of WDC has enhanced and strengthened the position of Experis in response to the demands and needs of clients," said Sanjay Pandit, Managing Director of ManpowerGroup India. "Employers continue to face frustration in their efforts to source highly-skilled professionals in the IT vertical, but Experis has the expertise and experience to give them the edge in the pursuit of talent."

"Since becoming associated with ManpowerGroup, WDC has been able to leverage ManpowerGroup's local expertise, global footprint and experience spanning over 60 years to further expand our capabilities and client base and deliver better, faster results," said Rahul Sharma and Harsh Hada, Executive Directors and Promoters of WDC.

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"I intend to set aside two hours per day for my own personal growth and spiritual development." | Support Dan's Intent

In this race of life, we often leave ourselves behind. Just like Dan, who set this intent, we are too busy trying to chase success to focus on our personal growth and development. What are we working hard for exactly -- comfort? Happiness? Is money the only route to those goals? While no one can deny the power and importance of money in our life and society, we tend to forget that there are other things that should also hold high value in our lives. Nobody wishes on their deathbed that they had more money, they wish for more time with family, more time spent traveling, more love, more laughter, etc.

We have evolved as humans because of our hunger for knowledge and our desire to be a better version of ourselves. If our ancestors were not curious, our world would be a very different place right now. Along with feeding our materialistic needs, we also need to feed our soul. That food can be anything from meditation, music, art or knowledge. There is a great quote from Henry Ford that says: "The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

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Page Unified School District has recently made a move to bring students into the modern world of online education via a proposed partnership with Scottsdale Online Learning.

According to superintendent Jim Walker the addition of the online program would increase the number and variety of elective courses offered to students as well as providing the opportunity for missed credits in core areas to be made up.

The state has increased graduation requirements and some students are required to take additional courses in preparation of the AIMS test; this limits opportunities in a students schedule to take elective and CTE courses. Students can take online courses to create availability in their schedule for these electives, Walker said.

The online courses would include 14 different advanced placement courses, nine of which the district doesnt currently have the means to offer and will also have the option for students to enroll in dual-credit courses from Scottsdale Community College to help them be prepared for life after high school, said Page High principal Paul Gagnon.

This program extends to our students the opportunity to take courses we dont have the faculty to teach such as Latin, Mandarin Chinese, marine studies and psychology, added Gagnon.

Members of the districts site council spent several months researching three different online learning options for the district including Chandler and Mesa, but eventually decided on Scottsdale because of the rigorous level of instruction the program provides as well as the dedication to student support offered, said Gagnon.

Online learning is really taking of and we want to be sure that our students are able to take classes that involve the type of rigor receiving a PHS degree requires, said Gagnon.

To ensure that the program is effective, each course has a protocol to follow including online discussion session, conference calls and/or video chat that students are required to participate in and tests would have to be taken in person, in an environment overseen by a certified teacher, added Gagnon.

Hopefully this provides an option where students use our online program instead of many other providers serving the state. We believe that Scottsdale on-line had more accountability built into its product than many other options students are currently using, added Walker.

Gagnon went on to say that Scottsdale has been working closely with PUSD in training the staff involved, We will be prepared to meet the difficulty of these courses, the staffing is in place and adequate to facilitate what we have anticipated so far.

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PHOENIX (CBS5) -

Gov. Jan Brewer launched an online education report card on Wednesday that is designed to monitor the state's progress in reaching its educational goals.

Brewer said the Arizona Ready Education Report Card will allow parents and teachers to access and monitor information about the quality of schools and student performance. She said the new online tool would help ensure children are "college- and career-ready after graduation."

The online report card, at ArizonaReady.com,tracks the state's progress in six major areas: pre-kindergarten, elementary education, junior high, high school, post-secondary education, and workforce.

The online report card is part of an education reform plan known as Arizona Ready, which was jointly developed by Brewer, the Arizona Department of Education and other education stakeholders in 2010.

The plan sets specific and measurable goals based on the recommendation of education and business leaders as well as the states Race to the Top grant application.

Before educational improvements could be made, the state needed to know where the schools and students stood, and have a way to track progress and present that information to parents and teachers, Brewer's office said.

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Bernadette Kalyan-Salgado in top form.

Crossfit Bluprint now features The Yoga Room at the Doral Studio, 1662 NW 108 Ave.,the largest Crossfit facility in South Florida,

The new wood floor yoga room is open to the community, said Bernardette Kalyan- Salgado, Founder/Director of Movement Yoga who leads Adult Power and Restosrative Yoga classes Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. The classes are open to all levels with a portion of all proceeds going to Movement Yogas outreach programs throughout South Florida, she said. While studying for her masters degree in Non-Profit administration at the University of Miami, Kalyan-Salgado developed her Movement Yoga program, an outgrowth of experience in ballet, aerial and modern dance, as well as childrens gymnastics and teaching a Reggio Emilia philosophy.

She said a deep understanding of healthy exercise was a natural progression with Movement Yoga the result of that fusion.

We are excited to be offering yoga to the community for only ten dollars, said Kalyan-Salgado. For details, visit

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Re "Yoga teachers inflexible over cellphone use" (Page B3, July 18): Our policy at Practice Yoga is to request that phones be turned off during class. Occasionally, a student will have a pressing need to retain their phone. In any case, the individual typically is sincerely apologetic. The transgression is minimal and soon forgotten. While we realize that phone usage during class can be disruptive or disrespectful to students and instructors, we prefer to rely on the our yogic training and take these minimal disruptions in stride. A gentle good-humored ribbing and the effects of peer pressure usually provide sufficient disincentive for a recurrence. In no case would we terminate an employee for politely enforcing a no-phone rule, nor would we find a ringing phone cause to expel a class member. Both instances seem to be ego-driven overreactions and out of place with the peaceful nature of yoga practice. Much ado about nothing. -- Jim Cahill, Practice Yoga, Sacramento

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When I moved to Boulder, CO from Washington, DC four months ago, I didn't expect to find a for-profit Hanuman Festival supporting non-profit organizations like the Wellness Initiative, Off the Mat, and Give Back Yoga Foundation, or yoga teacher Tabitha Farrar.

Boulder has a lot of yoga. There is a studio on every block, a teacher training happening every week and every style of yoga. There are master yoga teachers here. It's quite a mecca. Named one of the top10 "Fantastically Yoga-Friendly Towns" by Yoga Journal, Boulder boasts over 35 yoga studios (for a population of about 100,160).

Yoga classes complement the healthy, trend-setting activities around the city. Only in Boulder do yoga students bike to class, dismount at red lights to stretch their hamstrings and carry their yoga mat in their backpacks. But not many students and yoga teachers in these nice warm studios get to make contact with women in shelters, or with the homeless recruited for sexual exploitation or other types of human trafficking. Enter Tabitha.

Tabitha's journey into yoga did not start with falling in love with a yoga studio. It began with too much exercise, which is as dangerous as eating disorders. In fact, there's a name for it: Exercise Bulimia. Tabitha's eight-year exercise disorder almost killed her.

One day a client asked me to work with her daughter who had an eating disorder. The girl had been hospitalized three times already and had just come out of the clinic again but was deteriorating. Her mother tried everything, and for some reason she had this notion that I would be able to help her daughter. I couldn't exactly refuse. I had zero training and only instinct to go on. I just seemed to know what to say to her, she trusted me, and she recovered. After that I went into working with girls with eating and exercise disorders. As I got more into yoga and did a lot of yoga in my year that I was awaiting my green card in the U.S., I knew I wanted to teach people who could not get to yoga, as those were generally the people that needed it most.

Tabitha founded Angel Organic, a non-profit that offers therapeutic yoga, mindfulness and meditation instruction free of charge to foundations and organizations that work to better the lives of those in their community. She has yoga classes going at the Safehouse for victims of domestic violence, Bridge House, a day shelter for the homeless, and soon at Imagine, serving people with developmental, cognitive and physical challenges. Her goal is to expand the number of free yoga classes in these centers facilitated by Angel Organic. "Yoga should be seen as something accessible to all; as free as going to church," says Tabitha.

More class offerings in these centers would be good for Boulder, where it's difficult for current and aspiring yoga instructors to teach to anyone other than those fortunate enough to afford a studio membership. And with so many registered yoga teachers around town, some teachers get knocked off balance trying to find teaching opportunities.

Teaching a person who has never experienced yoga before is both challenging and exciting.

Tabitha represents what I believe to be yoga's next self-transformation, alongside the celebrity-driven culture of yoga, doggedly trying to introduce yoga to unserved places and communities. Stay tuned for more stories of these yoga activists.

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The benefits of yoga are well-known: increased strength and flexibility, decreased pain and stress to name a few.

Those who might want to give it a try are sometimes stymied by two things time and money. Drop-in sessions cost anywhere from $10-$16, and class schedules are not always convenient.

That why Scott Feinberg opened Kula Yoga Shala two years ago. The studio is based on a unique business model. Its a cooperative of more than 30 yoga teachers who offer about 40 classes every week, all by donation.

The goal, Feinberg says, is to open a diversity of yoga practice to people of all income brackets.

Instead of putting their credit cards on file or having to pay a weekly or monthly fee, attendees are encouraged to donate an amount based on their financial means and on what they thought the class was worth.

The website reads, In the spirit of Karma Yoga, detaching from the fruits of our actions, we lovingly place the survival of the studio in the hands of our students, and ask that you simply give what you think is a fair and appropriate donation based on the value you place on your practice.

Unlike a nonprofit that is eligible for state money, grants or private donations, Kula Yoga Shala works just like a traditional business. Only here, the customer sets the price for services rendered.

Our teachers came together and invested their money in the space in order to make this happen for the community, Feinberg said.

Heres how theyre compensated: The co-op offers about 20 different types of classes. If a class is at a prime time and well-attended, the teacher contributes more for that class back to the co-op. This model fosters community (kula), not competition, Feinberg said.

Its a good platform for teachers to put themselves in front of new students and to promote their own studios, Feinberg said.

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Anthony Griffin started NRL coaching life as a fill-in while the Broncos waited for Wayne Bennett but he has since become one of their best bets, with the club re-signing Griffin to an extended deal in the top job.

Brisbane chief executive Paul White formally announced a two-year extension to his contract, which finished at the end of 2013, at a press conference at Red Hill this morning. He will coach the club until the end of 2015 now and likely beyond.

The 46-year-old has been an instant hit at the Broncos, not only for winning 31 out of 44 games with a young squad and taking them back to the NRL finals.

His management skills and ability to ease the club into the post-Lockyer era have been a hallmark of his short tenure and its highly likely his services would have been sought by rivals.

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He has also shown that he is able to make tough decisions on playing talent. Griffin showed the door to one of the clubs brightest backline talents, Dane Gagai, when his discipline wasnt up to level demanded by the club.

Griffin began life as an Under 20s coach before becoming an assistant to Bennett then filling in after the dramatic axing of Ivan Henjak, which unfolded just weeks before the start of the 2011 season.

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