Ace Hotel and Swim Club to hold 2-day job fair
The new Ace Hotel and Swim Club will have a job fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.

Westboro Tennis and Swim Club holding wellness expo this weekend
Westboro Tennis and Swim Club is hosting its fourth annual Local Business, Health and Wellness Expo Saturday, Jan. 10, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Named for a Quaker
Planning a getaway to Monterey or San Francisco? Think Sonoma Coast and the Russian River region for a serendipitous adventure into relaxation, beauty with great food and wine.

Healthy 2009: Yoga retreat
Harry de Quetteville and Sarah Edworthy find alternative ways to burn off those extra Christmas calories at two very different fitness camps.

Like clockwork, the pursuit of fitness kicks off a new year
It's a time-honored tradition: Gain 10 pounds eating Halloween candy, Thanksgiving turkey and Christmas-New Year's holiday fudge; then, on Jan. 1, resolve to lose 15 pounds. Scores of area residents took advantage of a crisp but dry winter day Sunday to get to work on their "get fit" new year's resolutions. East Sacramento's McKinley Park was bustling with activity. As families with young ...

Rob vs. The Reef: Corner Brook native preparing for epic swim
Corner Brook?s Rob Hutchings is planning to do something that?s never been done ? swim the entire length of the Australia?s Great Barrier Reef, a distance of 2,300 kilometres.

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-Raja and Hatha yoga classes begin today. All levels from gentle to advanced. Cost: $8 to $15 per class; first class is free. Plasha Yoga Studio, 10 E. Fifth St. Call 864-1114 for details or visit www.plashayoga.com for class schedule

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A Pain in the Neck (Masseur)
People always ask where I get my ideas. My wife thought of this one. Then she begged me for months to make it happen. I've rubbed people the wrong way all my life, but never as badly as when I play masseur.

Fido? He's in rehab -- for his knee (or is it his elbow?)
A Santa Monica clinic provides physical therapy for dogs, cats -- even a rabbit. The regimens and treatments look familiar to anyone who's undergone rehabilitation. They come in with arthritis, back pain, sore elbows. Some are recuperating from car accidents or surgery or just bad judgment (a leap off a balcony). Others are coping with the ravages of old age. The most common problem: a tear ...

Unanimous votes show Temecula City Council's harmony
No matter what the issue, Temecula's City Council almost always agrees. And no matter what the issue, Colton's council seldom does.

Detox holidays: New year new you
From running in Crete to detoxing in Devon there are healthy holidays to suit all constitutions. Our writers put six to the test.

Stress and the city
New York is gripped by fear. Are we headed back to the bad old days of the 1970s?

Bond Clinic Patients to Get Chance to Look Better, Relax
WINTER HAVEN | Bond Clinic patients have new opportunities to look better and feel more relaxed.Doctors provide some, but not all, of these transformations.

Business digest for Jan. 3, 2009
Articles on Wayside Racquet and Swim Club, Westboro Tennis and Swim Club, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, S E A Consultants Inc., Boost Fitness, Richards Barry Joyce & Partners, KBS Realty Advisors,  Nagog Park, BJ's Wholesale club, R.W. Holmes Realty Co. and  Olivers Orphans.

6,619 Filipinas work 10- to 14-hour
By William Alzona, Ofw Journalism Consortium Writer WOMEN sailors are riding the waves. And they contend with exploitation, discrimination and sexual harassment at sea.

6,619 Filipinas work 10- to 14-hour  days for less pay than male sailors
WOMEN sailors are riding the waves. And they contend with exploitation, discrimination and sexual harassment at sea. This is the conclusion of a pioneering study on women seafarers made by Professor Lucia Palpal-latoc Tangi of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication.

Gym provides exercise, ?home? for women
CORALVILLE -- Colleen Rhodes says that when Deanna Trumbull opened Body and Balance Women?s Fitness Center in December 2003, Trumbull wanted a place for women to go to devote time to themselves.

Full-body healing from a tool box
Kinesiologist Dr. Art LaBelle would like to see fewer patients. That's an odd goal for an independent businessman, but LaBelle aims to solve

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