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Yoga workshops target girls for empowerment | The Coast News
Saree Zweifel is a former elementary and middle school teacher who founded Girls on Target, which integrates circuit training and exercise with yoga. ?Every girl deserves to feel beautiful, powerful, capable and confident,? she said. ?My hope is that Girls On Target can help young women along the path to all they deserve.? Courtesy photo
DEL MAR ? Saree Zweifel was a young teacher in Milwaukee, Wisc. when she first became aware of the importance of teaching young women how to make positive lifestyle choices and to encourage one another.?
?Guys will ?high five? each other, but girls don?t know what to do with feelings of envy,? she explained. ?They have a natural sense of jealousy and competitiveness. Even among friend groups, they can be nasty to each other.?
Zweifel started a running club on Friday mornings before school to provide an opportunity to discuss how the girls could become more supportive of each other. The experience evolved into circuit training and yoga. When Zweifel moved to San Diego in 2008 she began teaching in the afterschool program at The Child?s Primary School in Clairemont with a program that connected yoga with writing and the school?s curriculum standards.
Recognizing that girls needed more opportunities in the community to come together, she also set out to make fitness and health a lifestyle change rather than a competitive sport. Zweifel founded Girls On Target (GOT), a program dedicated to empowering young girls through fitness and yoga. At 9 a.m., June 29 she will offer a free yoga workshop at Seagrove Park overlooking the beach for girls in grades four to eight. The workshop will focus on building strength and flexibility while centering the body and mind.
?Workshops are a great opportunity for girls to gain relaxation and positive self-image techniques while meeting friends and becoming empowered through fitness,? Zweifel said. ?All workshops involve music, a focus on female camaraderie and fun.?
Kerstin Pfann has two daughters enrolled in the program.
?Saree is a great role model for the girls in so many ways,? she said. ?The noncompetitive nature of yoga has led them to recognize how good they feel physically, mentally and emotionally when they are active ? and that fitness is not just a means to achievement in sports. In addition, the connection between the body and the mind, which is emphasized in yoga, has led the girls to better understand themselves. They have each developed an inner strength that manifests as both confidence and self-acceptance.?
Pfann added that yoga has also proven to be effective in bringing about stress relief, anxiety reduction and an increased sense of balance and empowerment.
?I believe these benefits are especially important for adolescent girls who often feel overwhelmed with all the changes in themselves, and expectations for behavior and achievement put upon them by parents and society,? she said.
Zweifel completed her yoga teacher training with Corepower Yoga, and is certified as a Group Fitness Instructor by the American Council of Exercise. Additionally, she holds a bachelor?s degree in elementary education and a master?s degree in English education as well as classroom experience as an elementary and secondary teacher. Her unusual combination of qualifications came to the attention of Richard Case, founder of the KP Jois Foundation, who recruited her earlier this year to lead a one-day professional development course for his yoga teachers connecting yoga to curriculum standards as they implemented a yoga program at the Encinitas Unified School District.
This summer Zweifel will continue to teach private lessons as well as weeklong summer camps for girls in grades four to 12. In addition to the circuit workouts, the camps will include meditation (focusing on empowerment) and nutritional education.
?I developed Girls On Target because there are a lot of bad choices to make out there, but when health and fitness are a priority in the life of a young girl, those bad decisions are less likely to be made,? she explained. ?Every girl deserves to feel beautiful, powerful, capable and confident. My hope is that Girls On Target can help young women along the path to all they deserve.?
The next GOT summer camp runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., July 29 to Aug. 2 at Doyle Community Park in UTC-La Jolla For more information, or to register for the free workshop at Seagrove park or the summer camp, visit girlsontarget.com/.
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Source: http://thecoastnews.com/2013/06/yoga-workshops-target-girls-for-empowerment/
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Mac Game Store having a Summer Sizzling Sale, huge number of reductions now on
If you're looking for some new Mac games to get you through the summer months, the Mac Game Store's Summer Sizzling Sale might be able to help. The popular source of games for the Mac has literally stacks and stacks of titles reduced in price, including Borderlands 2 which can be had for just $10.
Other notable reductions include Assassins Creed: Brotherhood which will run you for $14.98 for the regular version and $5 more for the deluxe pack. Batman: Arkham City, a bunch of Civilisation titles and add-ons, as well as a host of the Lego games are also included, and much more besides. There's far to much too mention in one post, so if you're on the hunt for some new games to play, drop into the Mac Game Store and take a look.
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New Links Found Between Bacteria and Cancer
It's been a while since "Human Infectious Diseases"; but my understanding is that the inflammatory response is a component of the 'Innate immune system', a very, very, old, comparatively rudimentary; but fast-responding complement to the more recent immune system with pathogen-specific antibodies and killer T cells and things.
The inflammation itself is partially a cause of the changes that tissues undergo to do damage control and partially serves to increase supply of particular chemicals and cell types [wikipedia.org] at the site of the issue(leading to the redness and swelling that are most obvious.
As for it being associated with a laundry list of unpleasant diseases, I'm told that it's a combination of:
1. Inflammation is (when it's working correctly) a stress response/damage control mechanism, that kicks in in response to certain environmental stresses and pathogens, so people who are inflamed a lot are also unpleasantly likely to be people who are being exposed to something that isn't doing them any good.
2. Like scarring, inflammation is one of those 'unpleasant; but it beat dying for most of evolutionary history' arrangements that wreaks a lot of havoc in the process of saving you from infection or tissue damage; which was a much better trade-off before we had access to modern medicine to deal with our acute illnesses and injuries; but also wanted to live to be 90.
3. The immune system, innate and acquired, is sort of your own personal military-industrial complex, and has a nasty tendency to sometimes go off the rails and start killing civilians in an increasingly paranoid response to minimal or nonexistent security threats, giving us autoimmune disorders.
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Suicide bombings kill 5 people in Syrian capital
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? Suicide bombers targeted security compounds in the Syrian capital on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding several others, the latest in an uptick of violence in Damascus as the regime tries to defend its seat of power.
A car bomb also killed 12 regime soldiers in the northern city of Aleppo, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists in Syria for information. It had no other details, and the government did not immediately confirm the attack.
The state-run news agency SANA said three suicide bombers blew themselves up while trying to break into the Rukneddine police station in northern Damascus, killing five people and wounding several others. It said three would-be suicide bombers also bombers tried to break into the Criminal Security Branch in the southern Bab Mousalla area but were caught by security forces before they could detonate their explosives.
Activists confirmed the death toll.
Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the Damascus explosions, but they bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida linked groups that have joined forces with rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Assad.
The attacks in Syria's two largest cities came as Assad's forces press an offensive in the outskirts of the capital and a day after an 11-nation group that includes the U.S. met in the Qatari capital of Doha to coordinate military aid and other forms of assistance to the rebels.
SANA carried a statement by the Interior Ministry saying that the Damascus attacks amount to a "new escalation by terrorist groups," a term used by the government to refer to the rebels.
In neighboring Lebanon, meanwhile, three soldiers were killed in street clashes with supporters of hard-line Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir, in the latest spillover of the Syrian conflict over the border.
The fighting broke out in the predominantly Sunni southern port city of Sidon after al-Assier's supporters opened fire on an army checkpoint.
The military issued a statement saying three soldiers, including two officers, were killed in the shooting, which it said was unprovoked.
Heavy fighting with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades caused panic in the heavily populated city, which until recently had been largely spared the fighting in other areas. Many people who had been spending the day on the beach hurried back home, while others living on high floors came down to lower floors and shelters.
The clashes largely centered around the Bilal bin Rabbah Mosque where al-Assir preaches. The cleric, a virulent critic of the Shiite militant Hezbollah group, is believed to have hundreds of armed supporters in Sidon. Dozens of al-Assir's gunmen also partially shut down the main highway linking south Lebanon with the capital.
The cleric and his followers support Sunni rebels in the conflict next door and he has threatened to clear apartments in Sidon occupied by Hezbollah supporters.
Meanwhile, Syria's al-Thawra newspaper, the mouthpiece of the government, assailed the Friends of Syria meeting for providing aid to the rebels.
"It's clear that the enemies of Syria are rushing to arm the terrorists to kill the chances for holding the Geneva conference," the newspaper said, referring to a gathering planned to bring Assad's government to negotiate an end to the crisis with the fighting rebels.
It pledged that the Syrian army would "continue the showdown to eliminate terrorism and restore security and stability."
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Associated Press writer Jamal Halaby in Amman, Jordan contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/suicide-bombings-kill-5-people-syrian-capital-151914907.html
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High court sends back Texas race-based plan
People wait outside the Supreme Court in Washington as key decisions are expected to be announced Monday, June 24, 2013. At the end of the court's term, several major cases are still outstanding that could have widespread political impact on same-sex marriage, voting rights, and affirmative action. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
People wait outside the Supreme Court in Washington as key decisions are expected to be announced Monday, June 24, 2013. At the end of the court's term, several major cases are still outstanding that could have widespread political impact on same-sex marriage, voting rights, and affirmative action. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
People wait outside the Supreme Court in Washington as key decisions are expected to be announced Monday, June 24, 2013. At the end of the court's term, several major cases are still outstanding that could have widespread political impact on same-sex marriage, voting rights, and affirmative action. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
People line up in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2013, before it opened for its last scheduled session. The Supreme Court has 11 cases, including the term's highest profile matters, to resolve before the justices take off for summer vacations, teaching assignments and international travel. The court is meeting Monday for its last scheduled session, but will add days until all the cases are disposed of. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court has sent a Texas case on race-based college admissions back to a lower court for another look.
The court's 7-1 decision Monday leaves unsettled many of the basic questions about the continued use of race as a factor in college admissions.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said a federal appeals court needs to subject the University of Texas admission plan to the highest level of judicial scrutiny.
The compromise ruling throws out the decision by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the Texas admission plan.
Kennedy said the appeals court did not test the Texas plan under the most exacting level of judicial review.
He said such a test is required by the court's 2003 decision upholding affirmative action in higher education.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the lone dissenter.
Justice Clarence Thomas, alone on the court, said he would have overturned the high court's 2003 ruling.
Justice Elena Kagan stayed out of the case, presumably because she had some contact with it at an earlier stage when she worked in the Justice Department.
Abigail Fisher, a white Texan, sued the university after she was denied a spot in 2008. She has since received her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University.
The challenge to the Texas plan gained traction in part because the makeup of the court has changed since the last time the justices ruled on affirmative action in higher education in 2003. Then, Justice Sandra O'Connor wrote the majority opinion that held that colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies.
O'Connor retired in 2006, and her replacement, Justice Samuel Alito, has shown himself to be more skeptical of considerations of race in education.
Another factor fueling Fisher's lawsuit was that the university has produced significant diversity by automatically offering about three-quarters of its spots to graduates in the top 10 percent of their Texas high schools, under a 1990s state law signed by then-Gov. George W. Bush. The admissions program has been changed so that now only the top 8 percent gain automatic admission.
More than 8 in 10 African-American and Latino students who enrolled at the flagship campus in Austin in 2011 were automatically admitted, according to university statistics. Even among the rest, both sides acknowledge that the use of race is modest.
In all, black and Hispanic students made up more than a quarter of the incoming freshmen class. White students constituted less than half the entering class when students with Asian backgrounds and other minorities were added in.
The university said the extra measure of diversity it gets from the slots outside automatic admission is crucial because too many of its classrooms have only token minority representation, at best. At the same time, Texas argued that race is one of many factors considered and that whether race played the key role in any applicant's case was impossible to tell.
The Obama administration, 57 of the Fortune 100 companies and large numbers of public and private colleges that feared a broad ruling against affirmative action backed the Texas program. Among the benefits of affirmative action, the administration said, is that it creates a pipeline for a diverse officer corps that it called "essential to the military's operational readiness." In 2003, the court cited the importance of a similar message from military leaders.
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Hillary Clinton would like to see a woman U.S. president
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton has fed speculation that she might run for the White House in 2016 by telling an audience in Canada that she would like to see a woman president in the United States in her lifetime.
"Let me say this, hypothetically speaking, I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime," Clinton told a private audience in Toronto. "And whether it's next time or the next time after that, it really depends on women stepping up and subjecting themselves to the political process, which is very difficult."
Clinton, a Democrat who was secretary of state under President Barack Obama, a former senator from New York and is the wife of former President Bill Clinton, is said to be undecided whether to seek the presidency in 2016.
Many Democrats and Republicans in the United States are expecting her to run, although the 65-year-old Clinton has said she needed to rest after four years as a globe-trotting secretary of state.
Polls have indicated she is far and away the most popular potential Democratic candidate for 2016, and that most Americans would prefer her to several possible Republican contenders.
Clinton picked up an endorsement on Tuesday from Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, who announced she is supporting a group encouraging Clinton to run for the White House.
McCaskill, who backed Obama over Clinton in the Democratic primaries in 2008, became the first member of Congress to announce her support for Clinton.
She praised the political action committee called Ready for Hillary for using the Internet to build support in the hope that Clinton will run.
Last week Clinton started her official Twitter account, describing herself as, among other things, a "wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate." She alluded to her future as "TBD" - to be determined.
In her speech in Toronto, delivered on Thursday and posted on YouTube on Friday, Clinton said electing a woman president would "would send exactly the right historic signal to girls, women as well as boys and men. And I will certainly vote for the right woman to be president."
(Reporting By Steve Holland; editing by Christopher Wilson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-see-woman-u-president-205335237.html
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