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Medford Chamber of Commerce to hold Health & Fitness Expo
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Medford is looking to combat a growing problem and the Chamber of Commerce is leading the pack with the citys first ever Health and Fitness Expo.
Obesity is a huge problem thats not just citywide, said Andrea McGrath, chairwoman of the committee organizing the expo. Its worldwide. There are a lot of businesses in the city that are in that industry, and the chambers job is to work for the community through the businesses that are in the chamber.
The Sunday expo, which is free and open to the public, will feature at least 30 different vendors and a host of activities for guests to take part in throughout the day, including Pilates, yoga, Zumba and various dancing and fitness classes.
In all the time that Ive been here, its been the best received idea by everybody, said Medford Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jodie Coyne of the event.
Medford High School varsity coaches will also donate their services for the expo, holding sports clinics throughout the day on golf, baseball and crew.
For younger kids, the New England Patriots mascot, Pat Patriot, will be on hand from 12 to 2 p.m. to take pictures.
The goals are to create the excitement for our businesses in the area, for our restaurants to serve healthy food and to see this become an annual event where we eventually take over more space, have more vendors and maybe vendors from more towns will join in, said Medford Chamber of Commerce President Charlotte Scuderi.
Scuderi said the chamber is also joining forces with local restaurants like Carrolls and Salvatores in Medford Square to offer new, healthy menu options.
The most exciting thing is were kicking off the Weight Loss Challenge, which is open to any Medford resident, said Neil Anderson, of Fitness Together, who will also be at the expo offering classes on small group training
One of the first people to sign up for this years Weight Loss Challenge is Fitness Together Medford owner Peter Petrella, who is also a member of Medfords Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.
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Antonio Margarito announces his retirement from boxing
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LAS VEGAS -- Boxer Antonio Margarito, whose career was stained by the 2009 confiscation of plaster inserts inside his hand wraps, announced his retirement Thursday.
"After twenty-two years of full dedication to the profession I love, I have decided to announce my retirement from boxing, Margaritosaid on his Facebook page. After thinking broadly and in detail with my family and my team, we have come to the conclusion that its time to hang my gloves and start a new chapter in my life. Im leave boxing but I will continue within the sport.
Margarito (38-8, 27 knockouts) was working to fight on a card in Tucson, Ariz., in July, but an Achilles' tendon injury was slow to heal, and he was also nagged by questions about his surgically repaired eye, which was originally damaged by Manny Pacquiao and subjected to a harsh review before the New York Athletic Commission cleared him in December.
Margarito lost that fight when the referee stopped the bout before the 10th round because of swelling around the eye.
It was clear that the eye would have to be reexamined, especially if he aimed to fight at a higher weight against someone such as world middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
A former world welterweight champion, Margarito lost the belt to Paul Williams in 2007 at Home Depot Center, then rallied to upset the previously unbeaten Miguel Cotto by an 11th-round technical knockout in 2008.
Cotto questioned Margarito's performance in that boutafter the California State Athletic Commission confiscatedplaster inserts from inside Margarito's hand wraps just before his next fight -- a knockout loss to Shane Mosley at Staples Center in January 2009.
California suspended Margarito and his trainer Javier Capetillo, but Texas gave the "Tijuana Tornado" a license to fight Pacquiao at Cowboys Stadium in November 2010.
"I was grateful we were able to do what we could for him," Margarito promoter Bob Arum said Thursday. "We came through for him and made him financially secure by getting him the Pacquiao fight and the Cottofight."
Arum said he still believes "if anyone was to blame"for the plaster scandal, "it's Capetillo. Antonio had no opportunity to test out those wraps. I just was never going to throw him under the bus on that."
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Growth at Performance Kalona brings new health and fitness services
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Performance Kalona is about to celebrate as it approaches its 1-year anniversary. The addition of Tonya Miller to the team brings new classes, expertise and services. Tonyas education in health and sport studies, coupled with her experience working with seniors at Oaknoll Retirement Communities, gives her the skills to work with people of all ages and abilities. She is a certified personal trainer and will also lead group fitness classes with the goal of developing new classes targeting seniors, moms and children.
Currently, Performance offers Yoga, Heat, Cy-Fit, Zumba and BOSU classes and will be adding Senior Fitness Classes and TNT soon.
A familiar face to the Kalona and Mid-Prairie Community is physical therapist, Pat Swancutt. Pat has been a member of the Performance staff since 2005. In addition to his work for Performance as a physical therapist, he has also provided athletic training services for Mid-Prairie High School for the past 10 years. Pat was an integral part of Performances expansion into the Kalona area in April of 2011.
Pat will be running the annual PASS speed and agility camp this summer at Mid-Prairie High School beginning June 4 and running for 6 weeks, Monday/Wednesday/Fridays from 8-9:30 a.m. Please refer to http://www.performance4health.com for those interested in participating.
Team Performance will be running in the Kalona Days Fun Run. Register for the race and join Team Performance at 5:30 p.m. at Performance Kalona and receive a gift with a race warm up by Tonya.
On Saturday June 16, there will be a free Sunrise Yoga at 7 a.m. and Zumba at 8 a.m. before you head down to the Parade. Also, in honor of this milestone the first months membership is $1.
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MIT Blackjack Guru Launches Personal Productivity Platform tenXer
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
tenXer, the technology company redefining personal productivity, today announced the launch of the tenXer platform, designed to revolutionize human capital management from the bottom up. Using measurable metrics to power game-like and social motivation systems, tenXer produces dashboards, leader boards and activity streams that are all designed to make employees better at their jobs, regardless of industry.
tenXer CEO and Founder Jeff Ma is the inspiration for both the movie 21 and the book Bringing Down the House by acclaimed author, Ben Mezrich. Ma created the concept for tenXer last fall when he saw a huge opportunity in the human capital management industry. tenXer focuses first and foremost on the everyday individual worker; the employee opposed to upper management. The company built a proprietary, data-driven platform that enables employees to better understand and improve their work performance, allowing them to be more intrinsically motivated and therefore more productive.
Ma has been a pioneer in the use of data in both the gambling and sports industries, and his recent book, The House Advantage, takes these lessons to the business world. After selling his most recent company, Citizen Sports, to Yahoo!, Ma has been fascinated by the concept of how data can be used to motivate people and change their behavior in the work environment. tenXer takes advantage of the shift toward cloud-based services that already collect large amounts of data about what people are doing at work. Accessing this data is becoming increasingly easier and tenXer is the first company to turn this data into motivation.
We are building a platform that allows any employee to easily analyze and understand their daily work habits, said tenXer Chief Executive Officer and Founder Jeff Ma. We believe that this is the backbone to creating a real revolution in human capital management. In our opinion, the feedback loop at work is broken. It is too infrequent, too subjective and too opaque. Our goal is to use measurable metrics to power instantaneous, objective and transparent feedback.
When many executives look at their financial reports, they too often look past one of the largest expenses payroll. Getting smarter productivity out of their workforce is paramount. But often their efforts are ineffective because they are top down and seen as overheard or are too subjective, explained Kevin Compton of Radar Partners, an investor in tenXer. This is exactly what Jeff Ma and his team of tenXers have set out to fix. They are building a powerful tool to help all of us become better at what we do by using objective metrics and intrinsic motivation.
Motivation comes in the form of graphs, charts and activity streams which allow the user to analyze their past performance and see how their current performance is tracking toward their future goals. In addition, the user is able to see how they rank versus their peers in a variety of different lead boards spurring healthy and fun competition.
Currently, tenXer integrates with workforce tools like GitHub, Pivotal Tracker, Jira, Google Mail/Calendar and Phabricator. The company plans to quickly add non-engineering tools like Twitter and Zen Desk.
About tenXer
tenXer is the company redefining personal productivity by building a platform that allows any employee to analyze their daily work habits. tenXer has raised money from investors including Radar Partners, True Ventures, Google Ventures, Webb Investment Network (Maynard Webb), Social and Capital Partnership (Chamath Palihapitiya) and Founders Fund Angel Brian Singerman. tenXer is privately-held and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Investing Success Depends on You
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The investors chief problem -- and even his worst enemy -- is likely to be himself.
Ben Graham
Its not recessions, unscrupulous bankers or even nontransparent business practices what should concern investors the most. The biggest threat to your financial well being, my friend, is no other than yourself.
Fortunately, not only for their mistakes are investors responsible, the same goes for making the right decisions and choosing the best companies to invest in. Contrary to generalized opinion, I believe there has never been a more interesting time to be an investor. For better or for worse, investors have now much more possibilities and flexibility to implement their strategies.
Information has never been so abundant and easy to access as it is nowadays, education about personal finance and investing is widely available for those interested in the topic and willing to do the learning effort. You can access financial statements, recommendations and all kind of relevant news about companies in almost no time and no cost.
The technological revolution has also created many companies which have a tremendous potential to reward investors in an extraordinary way over the long term. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) for example is the biggest company in the world, and last quarter the company reported a 88% unit sales increase in iPhone and 151% increase in sales of iPads, which produced a 94% growth in net income versus the same quarter of the previous year. If the Cupertino giant wasnt such an innovative company making the best use of technological advancements, those kinds of growth rates would be impossible for companies of this size.
The other side of the equation regarding the effects of new technologies on our investments would be the danger of investing in companies like Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), but nobody was forced to do so. Those who paid a stratospheric price for shares of a social network only because they knew it was popular made a huge mistake, but it was their own mistake. Who knows, maybe the company will find a more sustainable way to generate profits, and with more than 900 million users this could still be an opportunity in the future, especially if bought at much lower levels.
Its not only about technology, of course, considering our current environment is quite shaky and uncertain regarding global economic conditions. Times have been much better in terms of economic growth in the past, and there are many structural problems in developed countries which need to be fixed. This will probably generate higher levels of volatility and uncertainty in the future, but that also brings opportunity.
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Throwing slider with confidence a key to Matusz's success
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The Orioles will send their hottest pitcher left-hander Brian Matusz to the mound tonight with the opportunity to sweep the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
Yes, Matusz, who entered the season possessing the longest personal losing streak in baseball, seems to have things figured out of late.
Matusz (5-5), who is going for his fifth win in his past six starts, is 4-1 with a 2.78 ERA and hes coming off his best outing of the season, a season-high 7 1/3-inning start at Tampa Bay in which he allowed just two hits and one run while striking out seven. His outing Saturday was his longest in nearly 22 months, when he threw eight innings against the Rangers on Aug. 19, 2010.
The 25-year-old left-hander is also using his pitches effectively. Despite issuing three walks Saturday, he didnt labor deep into counts, allowing his 97 pitches get him into the eighth inning.
Hes using his slider effectively 22 of his 29 sliders were strikes in his last outing -- especially a backdoor slider that starts outside to right-handed hitters then enters the zone at the last minute.
Rays hitters swung at his slider 19 times and missed 10 times for a 52.6 swing-and-miss percentage (compared to a 29 percentage on the season).
Its been really big for me, especially since my change-up has been a little inconsistent, so to be able to have that, its been nice, Matusz said. Its just throwing them in the right count. I dont know how many of those sliders were down out of the zone, that started as strikes and ended up being down. Its just depending on the situation and the count and where I want to go with it.
Orioles pitching coach Rick Adair said Matusz showed a lot of confidence using his backdoor slider as an out pitch. Adair has also been impressed with Matuszs ability to throw the sliders at different speeds, with his slider that starts over the plate and breaks down and in to right-handed batters coming in with more velocity.
Hes done a tremendous job with that, Adair said.
Getting a feel for his breaking pitches has also allowed Matusz to get more ground ball outs. Over his past five starts, he owns an impressive 1.04 groundball-to-flyball ratio.
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Conejo Valley High graduates celebrate success
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The Class of 2012 at Conejo Valley High School celebrated graduation Thursday afternoon with 53 out of the 77 graduating seniors inattendance.
The ceremony was held on the playfields at the continuation school's Kelly Road campus in NewburyPark.
Principal Martin Manzer commended his students for making it through atoughyear.
"You have overcome personal obstacles that most can only imagine," Manzer told them. "You have persevered and you should be very proud of yourselves. Your success isoursuccess."
Top scholar Daisy Rojas said in her speech that Conejo Valley High School is a specialplace.
"CVHS helped me become an independent person by forcing me to challenge myself. So starting with failure came only success and so it has been with all of us," shesaid.
Student speaker Sarah Dixon said she believed she would never have graduated without the help and support she received at theschool.
"I am so honored to be walking with this class and I am so proud of each and every one of you," Dixonsaid.
"Success is not how high our GPA was or how high our salaries will be in 10 years. Success is knowing we have the power to do anything," she said. "We set our mind to it and worked hard to accomplish ourgoals."
Paul and Patricia Herron said they were elated to see their daughter Jamie, 17, graduate. She plans to attend MoorparkCollege.
What Is The Rural Idyll? – Video
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