Good Life: Residents stay health at Micronesia Mall
Posted: June 30, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Join the Pacific Daily News and its community sponsors today for activities focused on health and wellness. The Good Life outreach will be from 1:30 to 4 p.m. today at the Micronesia Mall center court.
The Department of Health and Social Services Division of Senior Citizens and the Guam Diabetes Association will provide free blood-pressure and blood-sugar testing. And those looking for a good workout can participate in several other activities today at the mall:
* 1:30 p.m. Aerobics workout hosted by the Dededo Aerobics Club and Physical Fitness of Tamuning, Tumon and Harmon Aerobics Group. * 2:15 p.m. Zumba with Jocelyn Camacho and the Mangilao Z. Familia. * 3 p.m. Guam Aikikai demonstration.
The event will also feature tabletop displays and presentations by the AARP.
This is part of the Pacific Daily News community project The Good Life. Each week, the Pacific Daily News offers features aimed at helping people ages 55 and above live their best.
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Mom and baby yoga class offers peaceful energy
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Jessica Gallione gives a tender kiss to her 10-week old daughter Coralia during Momma and Baby yoga class.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. Babies can be good yoga partners. Just ask the folks at Pacific Cultural Centers Ashtanga Yoga Institute.
Babies live in the present moment, are flexible and like to stretch. But the Mama & Baby Yoga classes are really for the moms.
One or two volunteers attend, holding and distracting the little ones who have had their fill of a quiet yoga practice, allowing their moms to continue with the asanas, or poses.
Hannah Muse and Treea Clements teach the classes two days a week.
A mother of two, Clements said she started teaching postnatal yoga in 2005 and taught prenatal yoga before that. She said she includes a check-in time for moms to talk about what they might be dealing with as new parents.
The women really bond, she said. We are all coming in to spiritually center and ground ourselves and to bring our bodies back to strength, flexibility and health. It includes some powerful inner stuff.
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Going beyond Yoga
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(Discovered by the west during the hippie era as a way to transcendence, yoga has in recent years become part of the search for the perfect physique. Thanks to new teachers, gadgets and practices, it could again become an entry point for deeper spiritual practice)
The first time I tried yogaI wont say when, but Carlos Santana was still calling himself Devadipit was in someones basement in the suburbs, with plastic mats on the floor. Some guy in sweatpants led us through the Sun Salutations and the obligatory guided relaxation in the Corpse pose. Afterward we all hung around drinking soy coffee.
A couple of months later, I was struggling to stay in the lotus posture in front of an intense, scary-looking Indian guy in orange robes. The scent of sandalwood incense hung in the air, blending with the sampaguita garlands draped around a framed portrait of the guru. After a couple of minutes he told me my mind wasnt pure enough, and that I should chant babanam kevalam some more before coming back.
I had flunked the initiation.
The first wave of interest in yoga came in the aftermath of the hippie era, but the focus was on transcendence. Their minds having been expanded with psychedelic drugs, people looking for enlightenment turned east. In the 70s, ex-hippies chanted Hare Krishna, tried Transcendental Meditation, joined Ananda Marga or devoted themselves to Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh or Satya Sai Baba.
Few people actually practiced the asanas-the yoga poses. Those who did did so perfunctorily, mainly to prepare themselves for meditation and-they hoped-eventual enlightenment.
Then toward the end of the decade, yoga took a turn for the weird. Chess grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi enlisted two monks from Ananda Marga to psych out Anatoli Karpov in their 1978 world championship match in Baguio City. Later that same year, a nun from the same sect set herself on fire in Luneta to protest the continued imprisonment of their guru in India.
Things went quiet in the 80s, but something interesting happened during the 90s. Somehow the practice of yoga merged with the cult of the perfect physique that had emerged during the Yuppie era. Western disciples had taken the teachings of their Indian gurus and democratized it, adding more than a bit of marketing spin. What in India were seen as age-old traditions emerged in the new global marketplace as brands: Iyengar, Ashtanga, Bikram, Jivamukti. The asanas became the focal point of yoga practice.
Today, yoga is a growth industry. Ten years ago, you could count the yoga teachers in Manila on the fingers of one hand (and still have a finger or two left over). Today there are literally dozens of yoga studios offering a plethora of classes in Metro Manila alone, and other metropolitan areas arent far behind.
Beyond Yoga, a studio that opened last October in the Tomas Morato area of Quezon City, exemplifies the modern, Westernized approach to yoga.
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Achieving Dynamik Self-Confidence, Relationships, Physical Health
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Tiger Woods' Fitness Carries Him Through Heat, into Contention at Congressional
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COMMENTARY | Though his health has been in question in recent years, it was the fitness of Tiger Woods that allowed him to overcome a shaky start and put himself back into contention at the AT&T National at Congressional Country Club.
The Southern California native and current Florida resident dealt with a heat index of 107 degrees and managed a 3-under 68 on Friday to move to 2-under for the tournament through two rounds. He was clearly comfortable and undaunted by the severe temperatures, which dominated the tournament talk as much as the difficulty of the course and supreme play of the leaders.
Moving into the weekend, Woods will have confidence and knowledge that some of his competitors may not be as prepared as he is to deal with the extreme heat wave that will continue to plague the Washington D.C. area.
Even though he's had success at this difficult test before, the sports world still needs to see a major championship victory from the current world No. 4 to consider him back to form. Without it, he's just another standout PGA TOUR player.
That's the standard that he set for himself over the stretch of a legendary career that includes 72 professional victories. It's a standard that he'll have to live up to in order to get his most stalwart critics to believe in him once again.
At age 36, his dedication to fitness could be exactly what allows him to remain competitive for many more years to come. Though he has had significant knee issues that stemmed from his rigorous workout regimen, that same commitment to staying in shape could bring his ultimate goal of surpassing jack Nicklaus' 18 professional majors within reach.
Woods is at the forefront of a generation that has placed a premium on athleticism in golf -- gone are the days of the best players in the world looking like they just got done scarfing down a hot dog and a six pack of beer at the local municipal course. Players like Woods and those who grew up watching and emulating his every move are now elite athletes.
Whether or not Woods' fitness translates into a win at Congressional will be worth following through the weekend.
It's a pretty good golf tournament, too.
Michael C. Jones is a Yahoo! Featured Contributor in Sports and covers the PGA TOUR. He has written for Southern California's Press-Enterprise and Examiner.com. For more insight, follow him on Twitter.
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IBT launches Personal Financial Management (PFM) for New Internet Banking Platform
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CEDAR PARK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Innovation. Imagination. Integration. IBT, a leading innovator of best of breed solutions that provide complete enterprise automation for financial institutions, today announced the launch of its Personal Financial Management (PFM) solution from award winning MoneyDesktop. This integrated approach offers additional rich capabilities to an already robust Internet Banking Platform. MoneyDesktop provides users with a complete financial picture and up-to-date transaction information, from all their accounts, in one place, within online banking. Having this information available helps customers understand where their money is really going and raises the level of awareness with payment reminders that readily assist in tracking financial progress and success.
Offering PFM as an integrated solution of Internet Banking is essential in an economy where bank customers seek to have a better handle on their financial future and day to day financial needs. We work toward having our financial institutions and the customers they serve have a distinct advantage from the competition. We offer creative solutions that improve processes and provide a faster return on investment. This is made possible through systems that are easy to navigate, which leads to faster adoption and end with real customer satisfaction. That is The IBT Difference, said Mike Golebiowski, president of IBT.
About MoneyDesktop
MoneyDesktop is a leader in innovative software technologies that drive the financial engagement between account holders and financial institutions and is redefining the way that people interact with their finances. Through its award-winning PFM, MoneyDesktop has established its place as a leader in PFM and has become the fastest-growing provider of its kind. By integrating directly into online banking, core, and payment platforms, MoneyDesktop positions banks, credit unions and payment providers as primary financial institutions and provides tools that dramatically impacts loan volume, user acquisition, and wallet-share.
For more information, visit http://www.moneydesktop.com
About IBT
Headquartered in Cedar Park, Texas, IBT specializes in providing complete enterprise automation for financial institutions with products such as core processing, Check 21 proof automation, mobile banking, internet banking, document imaging and Personal Financial Management applications complete with 24/7 support services. The company focus is to push the innovation envelope to improve process and deliver reliable real time information across all delivery channels. The IBT suite of products delivers robust functionality and flexibility with product creation making the cost of ownership affordable while dramatically improving customer experience.
Discover The IBT Difference, Privately Held, Personal Relationships and Total Commitment to our customers.
For more information, visit http://www.IBTapps.com
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Balotelli: Victory all that matters
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Spain v Italy 1st Goalscorer: Mario Balotelli 7/1
Much has been made of Cristiano Ronaldo's failure to take a penalty during Portugal's shoot-out defeat to Spain on Wednesday amid claims the former Manchester United man wished to take the last kick because it offered more personal glory.
At the start of the tournament, it would have been easy to imagine Balotelli taking a similar stance.
However, throughout Italy's run to Sunday's final against Spain, the 21-year-old has acted with a rare maturity.
And, though he is the only one still involved amongst a group of players level on three goals, Balotelli insists the personal glory is not his overall aim.
"If we win and I score, it will be amazing," he said.
"If I don't score and we win it will still be amazing.
"I am really happy at the moment and on Sunday I hope I will be even happier.
"We are in the final. We are one of the two best teams in the tournament. We have to go there and play to win."
And should the Azzurri triumph at the weekend, he will have winners' medals in a major international tournament, in addition to the Champions League, titles in England and Italy, plus the FA Cup.
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USA Payday Forever Forecasts Delay Of Personal Finance Help Documents For Their Website
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(PRWEB) June 30, 2012
Recently, USA Payday Forever announced that they are developing a new series of personal finance documentation meant to help customers understand how to handle their finances. However, they are now announcing that the development of these documents have to be put on a hold. USA Payday Forever has not released information pertaining to their reasons for the delay of these new documents, but they have assured customers that their regular payday loan services are still available.
Another important detail that USA Payday Forever revealed is that while the documents are being delayed they are putting their resources into the further development of their payday loan website. They have said that progress is slow on the redesign efforts of their website, which they have hired an outside firm to work on for them. They do not have an estimated time of arrival for this payday website redesign as of yet, but they have said they would release that information as soon as it became available.
USA Payday Forever is having their cash advance website redesigned for a few different reasons. They have repeatedly stated that the redesign is a part of a large effort to expand their abilities to better serve their cash advance and personal finance customers. This was agreed upon with their personal finance partner company. The special training they gave to their customer service representatives further enhanced the plan.
Also, as a part of their grand plan, USA Payday Forever and their partner company developed new payday loan services, as well as updated old ones. These new changes are slated to appear when they announce the re-launch of their website.
About USA Payday Forever USA Payday Forever is an online company that helps consumers to find and obtain cash advance and payday loan services. For more information about USA Payday Forever, please visit their website at http://www.usapaydayforever.com.
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