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BrightPoint Enters Logistic Services Agreement With Fitbit, a Market Leader in Innovative Health and Fitness Devices
Posted: July 13, 2012 at 12:13 am
INDIANAPOLIS, July 12, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brightpoint, Inc. ("BrightPoint") (CELL), a global leader in providing device lifecycle services to the wireless and high-tech industries, today announced that it has entered into a logistic services agreement with Fitbit, Inc. ("Fitbit"), the market leader in the rapidly growing category of wireless fitness and health devices.
Under the terms of the agreement, BrightPoint's regional affiliates will provide a variety of critical logistic services in both North America and Europe, including receiving, warehousing, inventory and order management, kitting, transportation management, order fulfillment and reverse logistics for the Fitbit Ultra Wireless Tracker and Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale. BrightPoint's affiliate in Slovakia will also develop a Webshop on Demand solution for the European market and provide certain distribution services under the agreement, enabling consumers to order Fitbit products online and arrange delivery directly to the customer's doorstep.
The Fitbit Ultra helps users improve their fitness by accurately and easily monitoring daily movement, and providing real-time feedback on steps taken, distance traveled, and calories burned. The tracker also monitors how well and how long users sleep. The data is wirelessly uploaded to their Fitbit account. Whether online or with Fitbit's free Android and iPhone apps, users can monitor their progress on their fitness goals with graphs and charts, log their food and other work-outs, and for additional motivation, earn badges and connect to compete or share with friends and family.
"BrightPoint has an excellent reputation in forward and reverse logistics and they offer our company a great solution for our lean and efficient supply chain," stated Hans Hartmann, Chief Operating Officer at Fitbit. "We look forward to working with BrightPoint, making the availability of our wellness products more efficient through our channels and helping people lead healthier lifestyles."
"We are excited to leverage our more than 20-year history of supply chain expertise, and our physical and technical infrastructure, to support Fitbit and their mission to help people lead healthier lives," stated J. Mark Howell, BrightPoint's President Americas. "This agreement demonstrates BrightPoint's commitment to extending its cross-regional expertise in providing efficient, flexible and scalable device lifecycle services to providers of high-value consumer electronics," added Anurag Gupta, BrightPoint's President Europe, Middle East and Africa.
About Fitbit
Founded in 2008 in San Francisco, CA, Fitbit is the market leader for wireless activity trackers. Fitbit is dedicated to delivering simple, innovative health and fitness products and services that engage people to lead healthier, more active lives by giving them the tools to become more aware, more motivated and more fit every day. Fitbit is funded by the Foundry Group, True Ventures, and SoftTech VC. Fitbit products can be purchased on http://www.fitbit.com or through any one of their many retail partners, like Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Best Buy, Brookstone, Radio Shack, REI, and 24 Hour Fitness. For more information please visit http://www.fitbit.com and connect with them on Facebook or Twitter.
About Brightpoint, Inc.
Brightpoint, Inc. (CELL) is a global leader in providing device lifecycle services to the wireless and high-tech industries. In 2011, BrightPoint handled more than 112 million wireless devices globally. BrightPoint's 5 key service areas -- Plan, Market, Customize, Move, Recover, offer over 110 innovative services, such as distribution channel management, procurement, inventory management, reverse logistics and repair services, software loading, kitting and customized packaging, fulfillment, product customization, eBusiness solutions, and other outsourced services that integrate seamlessly with its customers' IT systems and operations. BrightPoint's effective and efficient platform allows its customers to benefit from rapidly deployed, flexible and cost effective solutions. BrightPoint has more than 4,000 employees, as well as a significant number of temporary staff, and a global footprint covering more than 35 countries, including 13 Latin American countries through its investment in Intcomex, Inc. In 2011, BrightPoint generated revenue of $5.2 billion, from customers in over 75 countries. BrightPoint provides distribution and customized services through over 100,000 points-of-sale and to over 25,000 B2B customers worldwide. Additional information about BrightPoint can be found on its website at http://www.BrightPoint.com, or by calling its toll-free Information and Investor Relations line at 877-IIR-CELL (877-447-2355).
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2012 Saskatoon Consumer Choice Award Winners: Health & Fitness Sector
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SASKATOON, July 12, 2012 /CNW/ - Consumer Choice Award is thrilled to announce the 2012 Top Service Providers in the Health & Fitness Sector for the greater Saskatoon area. We would like to extend heartfelt congratulations to all this year's winners; your dedication to superior service has resonated with the people of the city of Saskatoon.
Each year across Canada, Consumer Choice Award gathers opinions, perceptions and expectations through the responses of thousands of consumers and businesses. All winners have gone through a rigorous selection process conducted by a third party research firm to ensure only the most outstanding service providers are the winners within their respective industry. Find the list of Award-Winners below:
About Consumer Choice Award
Consumer Choice Award (CCA) was established in 1987 and is considered the most distinguished award for business excellence in Canada. This is the only organization in North America to recognize business excellence by conducting third party market research of both the consumer & business community with statistical accuracy. The research method determines all the service providers, ultimately selects the top ranked companies, and establishes the winner within each industry.
Consumer Choice Award conducts its market research strictly with Leger Marketing, the leading Canadian-owned market research firm and memberof the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) of Market Researchers.
Consumer Choice Award lives in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Saskatoon, St. John's, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg.
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Health and Fitness at the Mountbatten Centre, Portsmouth – Video
Posted: July 11, 2012 at 10:19 pm
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Fitness First ordered to pay for stolen items of a member
Posted: at 10:19 pm
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
NOTED wellness center Fitness First may have to change its policy on lack of liability over lost items after the Court of Appeals (CA) ordered it to pay a lawyer whose cellphone, uniform and wallet were allegedly stolen in one of its branches.
In 2006, lawyer Rommel delos Reyes complained to the management of Fitness First-Robinson's Manila about the disappearance of his personal belongings but the management said it cannot be held liable citing the provision in the membership agreement and notices posted on its walls.
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But in a decision penned by Associate Justice Antonio Villar, the CA said the reported loss "constitutes negligence and dereliction of its duties and responsibilities as operator of a health and wellness establishment."
"Fitness First, being a health club establishment is clearly bound to provide not only a comfortable working-out atmosphere for its members but also a security to their persons and belongings," the courts ninth division said on July 2.
Echoing the arguments presented by the Makati City Regional Trial Court which favored delos Reyes complaint, the CA found out that Fitness First failed to conduct an investigation especially that it holds the master key that could open all lockers.
As a result, the appellate court opened the possibility of one of the employees carting away delos Reyes belongings since they have access to the master key.
The CA also slammed the membership agreement that exempts Fitness First from any liability for losses, saying this is illegal under Article 2003 of the Civil Code.
Said provision provides that the hotel keeper cannot free himself from responsibility by posting notices to the effect that he is not liable for the articles brought by the guest, but the CA said like hotels, the operation of health and wellness centers are imbued with public interest.
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Breaking sweat: Best cruises for fitness
Posted: at 10:19 pm
Susan Seubert / Norwegian Cruise Line
Cruise lines offer plenty of heart-pumping activities, including basketball beneath tropical skies on the Norwegian Epic.
By Erica Silverstein, CruiseCritic.com
If your idea of a great vacation involves daily runs in the open air, a leisurely workout in a high-tech gym or a smorgasbord of fitness classes from Pilates to Zumba, a cruise may be the perfect getaway for you.
These days, cruise ships are about more than just eating and lying in the sun, and they're attracting fitness buffs, yogis and health-conscious travelers in droves with active options both onboard and off.
Believe it or not, on a cruise you really can lose weight -- or at least break even. That's because fitness centers are growing in size to accommodate a more youthful and body-conscious passenger base and often feature state-of-the-art equipmentand180-degree sea views. Ships are breaking new ground with cutting-edge workouts like Kinesis Walls, popular TRX Suspension Training and Tour de Spin classes, plus offering trendy sessions in Pilates and tai chi.
Deck games like shuffleboard and skeet shooting have made way for onboard surfing, rock climbing, mini-golf and basketball. In port, active excursion options are plentiful. Cycling is big -- not to mention hiking, kayaking, swimming and diving. If breaking a sweat can be fun, cruise ships have found ways to offer those activities in the middle of the ocean.
Royal Caribbeanis leading the pack as the trendsetter in onboard fitness options. Its ships are the only ones afloat to offer onboard surfing, boxing and ice skating. But it's not the only line to put emphasis on fitness. Others are also expanding their gyms and their top-deck fitness options. Some of the smaller lines --SeaDream,Star Clippers,Windstar,Seabourn-- focus on water sports, with onboard marinas packed with water toys that range from kayaks to water-skis.Crystaland Seabourn are two luxury lines getting creative with gentler, senior-friendly workouts like Kinesis and walking, while river lines store bikes onboard for passengers to use ashore.
Before we list our favorite lines for fitness, here are a few tips for working out onboard.
Best onboard gym
Fit things to do: Free after-work bootcamp
Posted: at 10:19 pm
Starting today, the Boston Health Commission's free fitness on the plaza classes will expand to include a free after-work Fitcorp Bootcamp class.
The classes are free as part of the Boston Moves for Health program, and will be held from 5:30 p..m to 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday on City Hall Plaza at Government Center (July 11 - Aug. 29, except Aug. 15).
According to the public health commission's Boston Moves site, these classes are designed to emphasize endurance and strength using a variety of drills and techniques to hit all the major muscle groups. And, I'm told by their assistant director of communications, Katinka Podmaniczky, they are designed so that people of all fitness levels can participate (so you don't have to be a triathlete to try it out.)
Advanced registration is not required, but participants are asked to arrive 10 minutes prior to the class.
Bootcamp is part of a series of free exercise classes offered on City Hall Plaza as part of Boston Moves for Health. Other classes include morning yoga classes and morning bootcamp.
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Clipboard: Should the FDA have a say in development of health care apps?
Posted: at 10:19 pm
By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff
While writing about health and fitness mobile apps in February, I heard this question from some clinicians who had begun using the programs with patients: When does an app become a medical device? Rob Stein of National Public Radio reported yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration has posed the same question.
Stein asked it of Dr. Joseph Kvedar, director of the Partners HealthCare Center for Connected Health, in a story published yesterday. He writes:
After all, were not talking about apps that help you find a good restaurant or calculate your mortgage. These apps sometimes help make important decisions sometimes life-and-death decisions.
The ones that worry me are ones for instance where you can take an image of a skin lesion and then map it back to a database in the cloud and be told whether it should be evaluated for a melanoma or not, says Kvedar, a dermato logist by training. It just seems a little scary right now to have software making decisions about moles.
Stein reports that the Food and Drug Administration is considering regulating some apps, though not those that simply track health and lifestyle, helping you to keep count of calories or log miles run.
There are apps today that change a mobile platform into an EKG machine, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, who leads the agencys center for devices, told Stein. When its being used to diagnose patients, its a medical device we believe subject to FDA oversight.
Such statements are getting pushback from app-makers who say the oversight could stall development.
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UVa-Wise to hold health and wellness center groundbreaking
Posted: at 10:19 pm
WISE, Va. --
A new health and wellness center addition at the University of Virginias College at Wise will move forward with a ground-breaking ceremony next week.
The ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. July 19 on the lawn next to Bowers-Sturgill Hall.
The center will include an addition to the Slemp Student Centers existing fitness center and renovate 5,833 square feet of the Fred B. Greear Gymnasium, according to a written statement from the college. The renovation will add 11,000 square feet to the existing facility and house a new exercise area, a multipurpose room for yoga, dance and other classes, two conference rooms for health advising and instruction and locker rooms. The gyms renovation will include a new entryway and refurbished restrooms and locker rooms.
The renovations are thanks to an $8.3 million pledge from Richard and Leslie Gilliam. Richard Gilliam, a native of Wise, graduated from the college in 1974, and his wife Leslie is from Jonesville, Va.
My wife Leslie and I are delighted to help provide UVa-Wise with new facilities for fitness, Richard Gilliam said in the statement. Our goal is to provide for UVa-Wise in a way that will assist the school in attracting and retaining students and to support and encourage a healthy lifestyle for students.
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Sex / Health / Fitness: "He's out of my league." What league?
Posted: July 10, 2012 at 3:24 pm
A few weeks ago I was out clubbing with a friend, Sam, and a very attractive homosexual caught his eye.
Oh My God, hes SO beautiful, Sam said, admiring the boy.
Go and talk to him, I advised.
No, hes out of my league. And just like that Sam gave up. But an hour later the beautiful homosexual was making out with a guy whom one might describe as a hobbit! It got me thinking, if the attractive guy and the Hobbit hooked up, did that mean they were in the same league?
Sam went home that night confused and frustrated. If he had gone up to talk to the hot guy he may have had a chance, but because Sam believed he wasnt good enough for him based on looks, he would never know what could have been.
I told Sam that if he thinks he can only date guys who are the same attractiveness as him, it would really limit the number of people he could date. Who decides these leagues anyway? The actuality is, there are no leagues, just preferences.
If hed gone up to talk to the hot guy he may have had a chance, but Sam believed he wasnt good enough for him.
Sam was attracted to the guy at the club so much that it intimidated him. In fear of rejection and possibly a lack of self-esteem, Sam chose not to make a move. The attractive man however found the Hobbit attractive, so the two of them hooked up. Just because Sam didnt think the hot guy and the Hobbit were in the same league, didnt mean they thought they werent.
No one really knows what other peoples preference for a partner is until they get to know someone. Though with some brutally honest dating profiles out there stating only into fit young guys or not into [insert racial group here] or no one over 30, its easy to see how some people might feel dejected by the gay community and assume they are not many peoples type.
Just because some people dont fit the classically attractive stereotype that fed to us by the media, does not mean they are not in the same league as those who are considered as handsome. No matter who you are or what you look like, someone out there will find you attractive! I can say this confidently as I dont know any gay virgins.
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Network With the Nation's Leading Health & Fitness Experts This Fall in Vail, Colo.
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VAIL, CO--(Marketwire -07/10/12)- Marathon legends, cycling champions, renowned researchers and the nation's leading health and fitness experts will be among the presenters at Living at Your Peak (www.livingatyourpeak.org), the nation's only gathering designed to help health-conscious individuals and influencers discover how to live longer, better and impact the wellbeing of their world. The Vail Symposium today announced the notable lineup of speakers for this inaugural event, to be held September 13-15, 2012, in Vail, Colo.
"Featuring one-on-one interactive sessions with recognized experts in an intimate setting, Living at Your Peak offers attendees the unique opportunity to share an exclusive, life-changing wellness experience," said Jamie Stone, Living at Your Peak event champion and a board member of the Vail Symposium, a non-profit organization responsible for Living at Your Peak.
Tennis legend and health advocate Martina Navratilova will keynote the event. Jenna Wolfe, co-anchor of NBC News' Sunday TODAY show, will emcee. Living at Your Peak's renowned list of presenters includes experts in the areas of fitness, nutrition, cognitive health and well-being, preventive medicine, longevity and stress, sports fitness and personal health.
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