I've always been curious about Lululemon's free yoga events. Considering they've convinced women to shell out $98 for yoga pants, they've clearly found a way to strike a chord.

I went to the retailer's free yoga course at NYC's Bryant Park Thursday night. When I arrived, they had roped off the entire green space and filled them with mats:

The yoga instructor told me the typical crowd on Thursday nights is 600 people! The crowd was mostly women, with a few disgruntled boyfriends thrown in. There were also some spectators, mostly men, some of whom creepily took pictures of us:

Of course, the mats included the Lululemon logo, the only mention of the company that I saw. Some people brought their own mats but weren't allowed to use them.

A yoga instructor stood at the front and yelled out different poses over a loudspeaker, while other instructors walked around and corrected people. But no one really knew what they were doing, especially me. At one point, I fell over and some of the instructors who were just sitting at the front laughed at me.

At the end, the instructor told us we had exercised our bodies and let go of our negative energy. But all I had done was stand on one leg and tried not to hit the person one foot away from me. People became lazy and started to fall asleep on their mats, causing the teacher to yell at them.

If you're considering going to yoga, it's probably worth shelling out $20 for a class more intimate than 600 people.

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Friends, fellow coaches and former players yesterday remembered Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman Fernie Flaman as epitomizing the term gentleman. A former Bruins [team stats] captain who won a Stanley Cup with Toronto in 1951, Flaman was a longtime coach at Northeastern University, where he spent 19 seasons. He died Friday night at 85.

A native of Dysart, Saskatchewan, Flaman guided Northeastern to all four of its Beanpot title wins (1980, 84, 85 and 88).

Retired Northeastern sports information director Jack Grinold, who attended and chronicled virtually every sporting event for the college for more than 50 years, knew Flaman as well as anyone in the Northeastern community.

As we are all aware, he was one of the toughest defensemen ever to play hockey, Grinold said. But, as a man of winter, he always had summer in his heart. He was one of the warmest, kindest guys you could ever run into.

Boston University coach Jack Parker and his teams crossed sticks with Flaman and Northeastern for 19 straight years at a time when the four Beanpot coaches (Parker, Flaman, Len Ceglarski of Boston College and Billy Cleary of Harvard) were a constant. He recalled his friendly rival warmly.

Ill never forget when I first got to know him when I was an assistant at BU, I was amazed that this is Fernie Flaman the cop of the Bruins, the tough guy defenseman because it couldnt match what a quiet guy, an unassuming guy, he was, Parker said. His pro demeanor on the ice belied his off-the-ice persona. He was an absolutely fabulous guy. The best way to describe Fernie was that he had a heart of gold. I had many, many meetings with Fernie and been to many social gatherings with him and he was just a classy, classy guy.

Current Northeastern coach Jim Madigan had the privilege of both playing for and later serving as an assistant to Flaman.

As a player, he always treated you as a gentleman, Madigan said. Coming from the pros, he treated us like men. He gave us some leeway and latitude, but there was mutual respect there so you knew not to push the envelope or youd be punished. He really created a family environment within the program. He and Don (McKenney, his assistant) were certainly interchangeable. They taught us to become good players as well as be good men, good husbands and good fathers. He wanted us to graduate and be good ambassadors for the university.

Hockey East commissioner Joe Bertagna, whose playing career at Harvard University overlapped Fermans coaching days at Northeastern, got to know Flaman when Bertagna was a youngster.

My father was in the construction business and was asked to do some work on a 60-lane bowling alley in Beverly called Go Go Bowling. The owners were Fernie Flaman and Pete Daley, a former Red Sox [team stats] catcher, Bertagna said. I was really young, but I remember the paintings in the lobby of Fernie in his Bruins uniform.

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22-06-2012 22:20 Hello how are you I am on here to try to help everyone eat better and exercise If you need any help with that email me please do not forget to eat raw organic fruit focusing on the fruit vegetable especially dark leafy greens nuts and seeds and exercise two hours or two miles a day everyday huge hugs remember you are loved huge hugs dedicating all my videos to my mom who passed on to Heaven April 24, 2012 She will be enormously missed.

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23-06-2012 17:51 Hello how are you I am on here to try to help everyone eat better and exercise If you need any help with that email me please do not forget to eat raw organic fruit focusing on the fruit vegetable especially dark leafy greens nuts and seeds and exercise two hours or two miles a day everyday huge hugs remember you are loved huge hugs dedicating all my videos to my mom who passed on to Heaven April 24, 2012 She will be enormously missed.

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VINELAND The Cumberland/Salem Health and Wellness Alliance (CSHWA) is paving the way for a healthier and better-informed community with the addition of a database on its website that tracks a multitude of health trends in both counties for comparison to state and national data. The site, gethealthycumberlandsalem.org, was developed to gather information about a variety of factors that influence public health, said Carolyn Heckman, vice president of government relations for South Jersey Healthcare. Its goal is to improve the health and quality of life for area residents by promoting transparency and sharing of best practices.

"The website has been developed as a one-stop source of data and information about community health and the social and environmental determinants of health, such as socioeconomic status, housing, availability of healthy foods and air quality in our area," Heckman said.

The website database was developed in partnership with Healthy Communities Institute (HCI). The Institute tracks more than 100 health and quality-of-life indicators across the country using local, state and federal data.

Community Dashboard: Allows users to explore reports on a variety of health and quality-of-life indicators

Disparities Dashboard: Can be used to view data broken out by racial, ethnic, age and gender groups to identify disparities within the population

Demographics: Provides profiles which explore demographic elements within the population

Healthy People 2020 Tracker: Compares local data with the national Healthy People 2020 goals

Reporting Tools: The Report Assistant allows users to integrate quickly site content into reports that can be shared or saved, and the Indicator Comparison Report can be used to view multiple indicators across available locations.

Promising Practices: A database of promising practices and strategies from communities across the country to identify potential programs and interventions to improve health and quality-of-life indicators

Report Center: Allows users to view reports and documents related to health and wellness in Cumberland and Salem counties

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ByEvan Drellich/MLB.com|06/23/12 10:33 PM ET

BOSTON -- Mike Boyle, the Red Sox's strength and conditioning consultant, was out at Fenway Park early on Saturday, with some ballplayers who were a little younger than you might expect.

Boyle, Adrian Gonzalez, Darnell McDonald and Felix Doubront helped a group of about 65 youths from Covidien and the Red Sox Foundation's Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities teams learn how to better take care of their bodies through both nutrition and exercise.

"It was good seeing them move around and just be happy to enjoy a good Saturday day," Gonzalez said after standing in the sun for an hour with his nephew Enrique in tow. "Just seeing their smiles when they ask questions or you take a picture with them."

The kids were on the field in right-center from 11 a.m. until about noon, when they moved indoors for a talk from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center physical therapist Kathy Shillue on calorie intake. Fenway Park's senior executive chef, Ron Abell, also participated in the workshop titled "Double Play: Health and Fitness."

"The message you're trying to deliver to the kids basically is that you only get one body," Boyle said. "That's what we talked to them about: the fact that you don't get to do it over. You have to take care of yourself, you got to learn how to take care of yourself, even at this age. ... It's important now."

Covidien, which sponsors the largest sign on the face of the Green Monster, is a healthcare products company.

"What Covidien is doing is putting a fair amount of their financial and philanthropy efforts around health and wellness, trying to help kids understand that it can be fun to exercise," said Teresa Hacunda, vice president for civic affairs at Covidien. "If I tell them, they're not so apt to listen to me, but if they hear it from their sports heroes, that's really important."

Evan Drellich is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @EvanDrellich. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Robert Pera's Ubiquiti Networks had humble beginnings, as evidenced by this photo of the company's original headquarters in San Jose, Calif.

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Ubiquiti Networks, founded by Pera, has grown and is now headquartered in a two-story building near the San Jose airport.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Robert Pera's fast climb to amass the cash to buy the Memphis Grizzlies began here, in Silicon Valley, in a run-down, two-story office building across from the county courthouse.

It was 2005, and the Grizzlies were ending their second consecutive trip to the NBA playoffs. The scrappy electrical engineer, then 27 and renting a tiny apartment, left Apple to launch a lean little electronics firm. His timing was perfect -- precisely when villagers in Paraguay, urban dwellers in Mumbai and the new industrial hordes of Shenzhen were craving cheap and reliable wireless Internet access.

From that tired office on a street dotted with bail bondsmen, Pera birthed a money machine. Ubiquiti Networks Inc., which has since moved into a tony San Jose office park across the parking lot from electronics giant Toshiba, designs inexpensive gear for wirelessly accessing the Internet.

Sales neared $200 million last year, when the company went public and Pera's shares put his net worth near $1 billion.

Earlier this year, the young basketball enthusiast sought out Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley. On June 11, he entered into a purchasing agreement to buy the team. The NBA is evaluating whether to approve the sale, a process that should be complete by the end of the summer.

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Whether it is a crack of the bat, the swish of the net or a spiraling football caught in a players grip, Bill Brumsey is on the sidelines helping Currituck youth gain and maintain an appreciation for sports.

For the past four years Brumsey has served as a Currituck County Parks and Recreation coach and team sponsor.

The Parks and Recreation is very important to the county, said Brumsey, who is currently coaching a T-ball team. The number of sports that are offered has greatly expanded.

As the seasons change, Brumsey is also a dedicated football and basketball coach. He began coaching when his children, who are 9, 7 and 6 years old, became involved in sports.

The Currituck native said he grew up participating in sports sponsored by the Currituck Athletic Association, and he also played sports in junior and high school. Sports help promote sportsmanship and teamwork, according to Brumsey.

Brumsey said all of his coaches including his father set standards that he continues to follow as a coach today.

You will have fun, said Brumsey, if you play hard and listen to what your coaches are telling you.

We are going to give 100 percent, Brumsey tells his players.

Brumsey keeps his players involved and engaged on the T-ball field by giving them an opportunity to play all the positions. Observing the growth of skill level by the end of the season is one of the best aspects of being a coach, said Brumsey.

Try and do your very best, the coach emphasizes to his players.

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22-06-2012 08:09 On June 21st, PEAC Health & Fitness held an Israeli Krav Maga demo. PEAC members, staff, and guests learned some basic techniques of the street-proven self-defense that focuses on relying on a person's natural instincts and reflexes for self-defense. Starting June 28th, PEAC will be hosting Israeli Krav Maga classes, for more information, prices and to sign up please call 609-883-2000.

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