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Calling all runners and walkers from across the Commonwealth! Please consider running a calendar listing or news brief inviting area residents to join family and friends of the late Boston City Councilor Brian Honan for the 9th Annual Brian J. Hona...

Calling all runners and walkers from across the Co...

Improving your balance can help prevent injuries, improve strength, agility and quickness. Balance is something that we often take for granted. If you have ever had a fall, you know that it can happen without warning and with serious consequences. S...

Improving your balance can help prevent injuries, ...

Many body weight exercises become too easy too quick. Your answer, add a weight vest to your workouts. The weight vest adds a new level of intensity to your workouts. You’ll still be able to be versatile within your workout, limitless in what you can...

Many body weight exercises become too easy too qui...

If you are doing the same workouts, exercises or sport movements too frequently without enough variation - you can actually hurt your performance and yourself! Overtraining otherwise referred to, as overuse is one of the leading causes of injuries to...

If you are doing the same workouts, exercises or s...

Part II of your athletic evaluation will be another agility test, “The L-Cone Shuttle or 3 Cone Shuttle”. Remember, agility is the ability to successfully perform multiple changes of directions at high velocities. During game situations, an athlete i...

Part II of your athletic evaluation will be anothe...

This past weekend I spent some time watching the NFL Combine. Every year I am more and more amazed at the athleticism. I’m not just talking about the LB’s DB’s, RB’s or QB’s either. Watching the TE’s and linemen run, move so fluid, change direction a...

This past weekend I spent some time watching the N...

Last year I reached out to each of you with the exciting announcement that I was to run the 2012 Boston Marathon as a member of the Project Hope Team. I spoke to you about raising my level of fitness and proving that I could do it. I was lofty enough...

Last year I reached out to each of you with the ex...

Part 3 of the athletic evaluation is testing linear speed. Again, if you watched the NFL combine last week you probably witnessed some amazing 40 yard dash times. A 306lb lineman ran a 4.65, and the fastest time recorded was a 4.27. Amazing if you as...

Part 3 of the athletic evaluation is testing linea...

The ankle is the last joint connecting your entire body to your foot. And the foot is the final link between the forces your body exerts and the ground it attempts to exert those forces upon. If the ankle is injured, has poor range of motion, pronate...

The ankle is the last joint connecting your entire...

If I told you to foam roll before every workout, would you have any idea what I was talking about? Even though almost every gym you walk into these days has foam rollers, most people have no idea what they are used for or how to use them properly. ...

If I told you to foam roll before every workout, w...

There is a lot of hype out there about fitness and health supplements. Many claim near magical benefits such as eliminating joint pain, preventing cancer, or rapid weight loss. So before I begin this nutrition tip I want to make sure you know the rea...

There is a lot of hype out there about fitness and...

Definition A high-fiber diet is a diet in which the individual consumes foods that meet or exceed the dietary reference intake (DRI) for dietary fiber set by the United States Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. Origins N...

Definition A high-fiber diet is a diet in which th...

2059. It is recommended for a business man to learn the rules of daily transactions. In fact, if due to ignorance, he may necessarily contradict the laws of Shariah, then it is obligatory upon him to learn. Imam Ja'far Sadiq (A.S.) is reported to hav...

2059. It is recommended for a business man to lear...

2226. Ju'ala means that a person promises that if a particular work is completed for him, he will give a specified amount for it. For example, he declares that if anyone recovers his lost property, he will give him $10. One who makes such a declarati...

2226. Ju'ala means that a person promises that if ...

2201. The property which the lessor gives on lease should be identified. Hence if it is one of the things whose transaction is made by weight (e.g. wheat), its weight should be specified. And if it is one of those things whose transaction is made by ...

2201. The property which the lessor gives on lease...

2353. Ariyat means that a person gives his property to another person for use without asking anything in exchange.2354. It is not necessary in the case of Ariyat that a formal formula be pronounced. So, for example, a person gives a dress to someone ...

2353. Ariyat means that a person gives his propert...

2336. When a person gives his property to another person, and tells him that it is deposited in trust, and the latter accepts it, or, without uttering a word, by a simple conduct, the depositor and the receiver both understand and accept the intentio...

2336. When a person gives his property to another ...

2331. Personal surety or security means that a person takes the responsibility for the appearance of a debtor, as and when the creditor asks for him. A person who accepts such a responsibility is called Kafil (guarantor).2332. A personal surety will ...

2331. Personal surety or security means that a per...

2319. If a person wishes to stand surety for the repayment of the debts of another person, his act in this behalf will be in order, only when he makes the creditor understand by his words in any language, or by conduct, that he undertakes the respons...

2319. If a person wishes to stand surety for the r...

2309. Mortgage means that a person effects a conveyance of property to another person as security for money debt, or property held under responsibility, with a proviso that if that debt is not paid, the creditor may pay himself out of the proceeds of...

2309. Mortgage means that a person effects a conve...

2298. If a debtor directs his creditor to collect his debt from the third person, and the creditor accepts the arrangement, the third person will, on completion of all the conditions to be explained later, become the debtor. Thereafter, the creditor ...

2298. If a debtor directs his creditor to collect ...