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09-05-2012 09:34 Approximately 2000 soldiers from 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade were in Simcoe County to practise maneuvers essential to succeed on any mision . This is something they have not been able to do in recent years because they were focused on skills specific to the Afghanistan mission .

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Job title: Project Administration Officer Type: Full Time Duty Station: Hanoi with national travel as required Duration of assignment: 1 year with possible extension Direct supervisor: Project Manager

PROJECT BACKGROUND: The Intergenerational Deaf Education Outreach Project (IDEO) is implemented by World Concern Development Organization (WCDO) in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) through four years (2011 2015) in four provinces of Hanoi, Thai Nguyen, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City. The Project is funded by the Japanese Social Development Fund, entrusted to the management of the World Bank.

Project Goal:

To assist young deaf children to integrate into mainstream society, by piloting an innovative joint family and institution-based delivery system comprising screening, family support, and preschool services.

Project Components:

1.Demonstrating joint family-institution pre-school education for deaf children and developing essential knowledge base 2.Developing professional human resources for pre-school deaf education 3.Building capacity and partnerships for the deaf communities and raising awareness for general public 4.Monitoring and evaluation 5.Project management

JOB SUMMARY: The Administration Officer provides administrative support to the operations of the IDEO project, carry out all administrative works and ensuring the smooth functioning of administrative systems under the project consistent with WBs national execution mode and World Concern policies.

REPORTING RESPONSIBILITY

Report to Project Manager

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Manage communication duties as telephone, faxes, emails, mails; - Ensure the project filling system (soft and hard copies) is in order and updated; - Assist in visa procedures for project international consultants/ staff/ visitors as needed. - Provide logistical arrangements for project-related travel (transportation, accommodation etc.) - Maintain an updated inventory of all supplies and equipment and prepares guidelines for the proper use and maintenance of office equipment and properties; - Undertake necessary translation/interpretation tasks; - Assist IDEO project activities and its team to facilitate the implementation of the project, including providing secretariat support to meetings, workshops and trainings, drafting correspondents etc.; - Maintain the website activities, include writing and updating the news on to the website; - Prepare annual and quarterly work plan of administration activities; - Assist in other duties as required by the Project Manager.

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Leslie Glickman doesn't like to call herself the yoga queen of Boca Raton. But after 20 years she's so well known, her master class will be center stage at National Mom's Nite Out at Town Center at Boca Raton. You can also find her in Sanborn Square on Saturday mornings, a new city perk to help generate foot traffic downtown.

That's Glickman looking half her age holding court on the floor, as bloggers relax on mats for a preview of "Zen for the Mom" from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the Nordstrom wing of the mall. Mothers are invited free and without the children for a breather: meditation, music, massage, a Lululemon Athletica fashion show, and gentle exercise before the mad rush of Mother's Day on May 13.

Guess whose picture is in the yoga and running gear store? That's right, Glickman, whose business is called Yoga Journey. A walking ad for yoga, she turned to instructing after co-owning Michael's Body Scene gym in Boca Del Mar. "I still teach there," she said.

The Saturday morning class came through a city worker and her volunteer work with Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, the walk in Mizner Park in October. "This is my community and we should be creating community through yoga," Glickman said, adding that's she up to about 40 devotees every Saturday morning.

At a California Pizza Kitchen food tasting later, founder Maria Bailey said she was relieved not to have to "hop on a plane" to one of 1,100 National Mom's Nite Outs she started five years ago.

She said 133 malls are doing this now. "This started with a tweet that everyone felt like Mother's Day is so much work. Suddenly, there were 800 events across the country."

Now her own brand with the large agency BSM Media in Pompano Beach and clients like Walmart, the author and Mom Talk Radio host said she'll tweet from the event at the mall in Boca. Bailey's event web site is momsniteout.com/.

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WALNUT CREEK -- Although there was a slight chill in the air on a recent overcast Thursday morning, a group of people showed up to stretch.

As yoga mats were arranged in a semicircle at the entrance of the Ruth Bancroft Garden, Pleasant Hill yoga teacher Jan Enderle led the students through a series of gentle, flowing movements.

"Outside yoga is a little different. Instead of closing ourselves from the world, we're going to bring everything in," said Enderle, who guided students to the benefits of each yoga pose and movement.

She explained that her style, called Sugi Yoga, emphasizes gentle movements that encourage participants to be mindful of their bodies to ensure a pose or movement doesn't cause any pain. Enderle said she invites students to "find a place where it's comfortable and stay there." The adage "no pain, no gain," doesn't have a place in her class, she said.

After exploring the parks, trails and open space of Contra Costa County for several years, Enderle received training and certifications in horticulture and natural landscape interpretation. Soon after, she took up yoga teacher training at what was then Sugi Yoga studio in Pleasant Hill in 2004.

Enderle's first introduction to yoga "all started with a book and a TV show," when she was 20 years old.

"I did my yoga off and on for several years as I was hiking but hadn't combined the two," said Enderle, who took up backpacking in high school. "I always hiked

Today, Enderle has blended her two passions -- hiking and yoga -- and is offering them through Yoga Nature Adventures for the public's enjoyment.

She started inviting people on yoga hikes and soon developed a following, she said.

"Now, I can't go hiking anywhere without scoping out a great yoga spot," said Enderle, who also teaches at Windbell Wellness Center in Pleasant Hill.

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Tao Porchon-Lynch considers her hundreds of yoga students to be her own children. The 93-year-old has been practicing yoga since she was 8 years old, and was just named the world's oldest yoga teacher by Guinness World Records.

Based in New York, Porchon-Lynch has taught hundreds of students around the globe for over 45 years, and has followers in India, France and the U.S.

Accolades arent anything knew for the famous yogi. Born in a French colony in India, she once won a contest for the best legs in Europe after working as a cabaret dancer in London during World War II. Her win led to a modeling career in Paris and then acting roles in America, followed by a career in script writing and documentaries.

It wasnt until the age of 73 that Porchon-Lynch decided to concentrate on teaching yoga, founding the Westchester Institute of Yoga in New York.

According to her website, Tao is a living advertisement for how to tap into our human potential. She is unique in her ability to overcome the effects of aging to control her body and mind in harmony with yogas principles.

Porchon-Lynch teaches yoga four days a week and also keeps busy ballroom dancing and guiding wine tours in New York State. And she certainly knows how to overcome a challenge. At 87, she had hip surgery but a month later she took to the dance floor, starting lessons.

I believe that we can always reach just a little bit further," said Porchon-Lynch. "Im inspired to bring yoga into others lives along with helping people unearth new talents.

The previous record-holder for oldest yoga teacher was Bernice Bates, 91, of Florida, who was given the title last year.

Oldest bodybuilder When great-grandmother Edith Wilma Connor, 77, began to feel like the time spent behind her desk was making her stagnant she decided to take up fitness. She was in her sixties, and what began as simple gym routine with her son turned into a serious pursuit of bodybuilding.

She has called her discovery of the sport her salvation.

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An Internet weight-loss sensation that involves a new, high-intensity form of yoga has led a once-obese man to drop a 100 pounds.

Arthur Boorman, 47, has managed to lose the weight using DDP, or Diamond Dallas Page, which is a pumped-up form of yoga that forgoes all of the gongs and serenity typically associated with the Hindu physical and spiritual discipline.

"It's a different kind of yoga. We make a joke: 'It ain't your momma's yoga,'" Boorman said.

DDP was invented by Diamond Dallas Page, an extreme former wrestler who thought yoga could use a new intensity. We all know yoga can build strength and flexibility, but it can also be the key to significant weight loss by creating a slow, deep resistance to each movement, getting the body working against itself. Page's program capitalizes on this.

These days it's hard to imagine that not many years ago, Boorman was a Gulf War veteran with some serious back issues. At that time he plunged into some dark days, becoming so obese that at one point, he couldn't walk without leg braces.

Boorman thought yoga could help his back pain, but no studios wanted to work with him because he couldn't stand on his own.

"I was up late, on a search engine just typing different things, and I typed in yoga and broken back, and up popped Dallas' page," he recalls.

Boorman soon got the Page's DVDs, and slowly and surprisingly he saw himself shrinking, tightening and strengthening.

After his weight loss, Boorman has now moved from DDP student to teacher. But he must warn his pupils that there is nothing soothing or meditative about his class.

"It's like the Marines, yoga for the Marines," Claire, one of Boorman's students, said.

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SHERMAN OAKS, Calif., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This Saturday, May 12th, Black Dog Yoga celebrates its tenth anniversary as an inviting, safe and unpretentious yoga studio, centrally located in the San Fernando Valley.

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The original owners, Steve and Shirley O'Connor, first opened the doors of the studio in May, 2002. Peter Barnett took over as owner in 2008, continuing the commitment of the original owners to make a contribution to the local community. Today, Black Dog Yoga offers a varied schedule of 90 weekly classes, including several discount community classes to make yoga more accessible.

As the studio gears up for its anniversary party, congratulations have poured in from past and present students, like Susan Jensen Debonne, who wrote in an email, "Black Dog will forever have the most special place in my heart. Whenever anyone asks me where I recommend for yoga, without hesitation, Black Dog is my answer. What you do at that place is what all yoga studios should strive to do. The energy is beautiful, upbeat and non-threatening. I feel so fortunate to have discovered Black Dog. I look forward to returning again and again for my favorite class - Peter's, of course - and for all the other wonderful classes you offer!"

As part of the studio's commitment to community service, in November, 2011, Black Dog Yoga adopted the Downtown Women's Center as its primary charity. All proceeds from the studio's donation classes now go to the DWC. Once a month, the studio donates groceries for a special dinner prepared by the Black Dog Yoga Cooking Club, a group of volunteer yoga students and staff, spearheaded by Rose Gresch, manager of Black Dog Yoga, and a former chef at Spago.

Black Dog Yoga offers an eclectic mix of Hatha yoga, primarily based on the Ashtanga Vinyasa and Anusara disciplines. With classes for all levels, the studio is dedicated to making yoga accessible and fun in a clean and nurturing environment.

Steered by owner Peter Barnett, and a growing roster of more than 30 gifted instructors, Black Dog Yoga has become the premier yoga facility in the San Fernando Valley. Withthree practice rooms and a retail area, totaling 4,500 square feet, it is the largest, independently-owned yoga studio in the Valley area of Los Angeles. For more information, visit http://www.blackdogyoga.com.

Peter Barnett peter@blackdogyoga.com Rose Gresch rose@blackdogyoga.com 818-380-0331

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09-05-2012 11:47 - Bonnie Bell, Principal Director, Career & Life Coaching at Bell Investment Advisors, explains what a typical career and life coaching session at Bell is like, and why a career and life coach is essential to success. http

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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Welcome back, From the End of the Bench loyalists. It's been awhile since we last met on the first Monday night in April, or should I say the early morning hours after Kentucky finished off its a fate accompli by hoisting the national championship.

Since then, the Wildcats' starting five entered the NBA draft in one press conference - the main draw of a collegiate exodus that included the likes of North Carolina's Kendall Marshall and Harrison Barnes, Connecticut's Jeremy Lamb just in time for the Huskies' one-year NCAA Tournament suspension and Baylor's Perry Jones and Quincy Miller after one underwhelming season apiece.

Seth Greenberg was hosting a recruit when he heard of a hastily called news conference to announce his termination at Virginia Tech. Larry Eustachy parlayed his second life and subsequent success at Southern Mississippi into a better gig at Colorado State. His predecessor, Tim Miles, took his halftime Twitter prowess to Nebraska. Johnny Jones packed his bags for LSU after former head coach Trent Johnson departed for TCU.

And all of those moving places came into place before we could even reflect back on the 2011 season. College basketball's transition period is so brief, allowing just enough time for Kentucky to clean up its streamers before jumping into a barrage of early entries and coaching changes.

Luther Vandross provides three minutes for reflection, then it's full steam ahead on the same plane as David Axelrod and the President's re-election campaign: FORWARD.

Yet the game's biggest leap forward to date was a step back to the past. The op-ed below isn't to wax poetic about Larry Brown's many accomplishments, of which there are many. My Sports Network colleague Phil Neuffer already laid about Brown's collegiate and professional feats in a column last week.

The point of this exercise is to look deeper, at the historical significance of the hire, the monkey in the room on the recruiting trail (Brown's age), and a nomad's (inability to maintain his interest in a game that has evolved greatly since he was last part of it.

SMU's journey to the Big East was a piece of opportunistic desperation that stemmed from power players' mass exodus from a once-proud league, and that very league's necessary search west of the Mississippi River to find teams eager to jump at the lore of major conference money, television appearances and a seat at the grown-ups' table. What SMU had going for it was its proximity to a major media market (Dallas), its football history and its willingness to say yes. The jump from Conference USA to the Big East had nothing to do with basketball; it just so happened that Brown came along for the ride in a move made for headlines.

The Mustangs haven't made the NCAA Tournament since 1992-1993, yet they have shown recent interest in improving their program, beginning with the hire of former North Carolina head coach (and one-time Brown assistant) Matt Doherty followed by the building of a new multi-million dollar basketball facility and, now, the increased exposure of playing in the Big East.

The Doherty plan failed, but in its wake still lays a sparkling recruiting showcase to the best the Lone Star State has to offer. Currently nine Mustangs hail from Texas, and Brown's first priority is not only going after a typical SMU recruit, but aiming at the state's upper-echelon talent normally reserved for Rick Barnes in Austin, Bill Self in Lawrence or Coach K out east in Durham.

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Rugby semi-final preview: First meeting of BYU, Life

By BYU Rugby

May 8th, 2012 @ 9:55am

PROVO After beating the UCLA Bruins 103-24 in front of a capacity South Field crowd last weekend, the Brigham Young University Cougars advance to take on Mid-South champ Life in Marietta, Ga., in the collegiate D1-A semifinals this weekend.

The matchup against the Running Eagles of Life will be the first for BYU as Life makes its first semi-final appearance in the history of its program, while the Cougars will be involved in their eighth straight semi-final appearance.

BYU will be somewhat familiar with the surroundings and coaching staff of Life, as the Cougars have been involved with both during the Cougars 2009 national championship run. The 2009 regional qualifier and quarterfinal for BYU were both played at the Marietta schools rugby complex, and the Cougars emerged victorious to advance to the semi-finals against an up-start San Diego State University led at the time by current Life head coach Dan Payne.

In 2009, BYU beat SDSU coming from behind to make a similar feat against Cal Berkeley and win their first national championship.

Despite a number of players who were young in 2009 and are still on the Cougars roster today, BYU head coach David Smyth knows traveling to Life and going up against a strong team will be a tall order.

There are a few similarities from 2009, Smyth said, But as you look at it closely, this will be a very different experience. Dan [Payne] has done a great job building their team, and they are the envy of many aspiring collegiate programs with the amount of support their school provides. We expect nothing but a hard-fought game.

The Running Eagles of Life currently sit 9-0 on the season having run rough-shod through their competition, combining to score 546 points and only allow 55 points in eight conference games.

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