Florida Health Wellness and Lifestyle Coach Dana Brody announced today the launch of her new website, http://www.OriginCoaches.com, targeted at transforming people’s lives through the power of whole food nutrition, dietary supplements and lifestyle changes.

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Florida Health Wellness and Lifestyle Coach Dana Brody announced today the launch of her new website, targeted at transforming people’s lives through the power of whole food nutrition, dietary supplements and lifestyle changes.

“I believe prevention is the foundation of optimizing health, and it’s the key to living life well,” Brody said. “At Origin Coaches we teach all about nourishing the mind, nourishing the body and nourishing the soul,” she added.

“It’s not just about living longer, it’s about living better, living healthier and living happier. The key is to understand how to live a healthy lifestyle through exercise, stress reduction and eating unprocessed nutrient-dense foods with nutritional supplementation. We honor a holistic approach to the health of the mind, body and soul,” Brody added.

Origin health and wellness coaches offer programs which focus on nutrition, physical fitness and mind-body well being. “Origin Coaches provide clear, life-changing steps to help increase energy, slow down the aging process, lose weight, improve performance and simply feel confident about your body,” Brody said. “A signature program helps clients break their goal into manageable steps, track their progress, and identify and overcome personal roadblocks both internal and external, that keep getting in the way of one’s success,” she added.

Origin’s “signature programs” are offered face-to-face, over the phone, or via the internet. Complete programs are offered in 1, 3 or 6 month packages. Those who want more information can visit http://www.origincoaches.com for a complete list of programs, the latest industry news, recipes, nutritional tips, health products, and other health resources.

Dana Brody founded Origin Health and Wellness Coaches in 2011. The company provides people with the tools, techniques, and routines to promote their own longevity and health, and success. Brody is determined to bring integrated nutrition and mind-body programs to the forefront of healthcare discussions in the United States and strives to make preventative health training accessible to all who seek to live better. Dana Brody is a certified wellness and life coach (CWIC, ICF) and has a degree in holistic health coaching (AADP) from New York’s Institute of Integrative Nutrition.

“I understand how hard it is for most everyone to find the time and resources to lead a healthy lifestyle. That is exactly why I founded Origin Coaches. Simply stated, I want to help the world find true health and happiness one very special person at a time." says Dana Brody founder.

Those who visit the website, http://www.OriginCoaches.com will be able to obtain information and seek individual help and guidance from Brody.

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Getting Personal is an email Q&A with a local personality. Here, Melissa Merli chats with M. Cynthia Oliver of Urbana. She is a choreographer, performer, scholar and professor in the University of Illinois Department of Dance. Getting Personal appears first in print, in Sunday editions of The News-Gazette. In the Feb. 19 newspaper, we'll have a chat with Champaign schools Superintendent Judy Wiegand. 

What time do you typically get up? What do you do the first hour of the morning?

6 a.m. I read, look out the window with my son, in quiet. Or just sit and have my coffee. It's my favorite time of day.

What did you have for lunch today? Where? With whom?

Massaman curry at home with my husband and son. Jason (Finkelman, her husband) is a great cook.

Best high school memory.

Sitting under the senior tree — a tree that stood at the end of the parking lot with seating built in — with my best buddies, Brian and Hugh, shooting the breeze — Caribbean speak for talking nonsense.

Tell me about your favorite pair of shoes.

A pair of thigh-high black faux-suede platform boots. I use them as a costume because they are so ridiculous. I bought them over a decade ago in the West Village in NYC at a shop for drag queens. I love them.

What does a perfect Sunday afternoon include?

Hanging out at home with my husband and son. A walk in the park. A good meal. A nap.

Was there one book you read as a child that you still cherish? Own? Read?

Naw, I was into comics early on, all kinds — Archie and the Gang as well as Vampira (or was she Vampirella?), etc. Then as I moved into teenage years, I got heavily into James Baldwin. I still have those books. And the requisite Erica Jong — every girl needs a little something naughty.

Where on earth are you dying to go? Why?

Nowhere really. I did so much going when I was a young dance artist on tour that I'm sorta done. I do love going home to the Virgin Islands. That is a must to stay connected and to keep my young son connected to the culture. But if I had to choose a place, it might be Turkey. I am fascinated by its location, straddling East and West. I love the music, the food and might want to check it out before I die.

Tell me about your favorite pet.

His name was Ebby. He was a stray dog in the neighborhood who had gotten hurt. I nursed him back to health and fed him in secret under our house. When we were discovered, my parents let me adopt him, and the family has been dog lovers ever since.

Have you discovered that you are becoming like one of your parents? Which one and how?

I think I have qualities from both pretty equally. My mother's energy, enthusiasm and sense of daring; my father's chill vibe, easy-to-get-along-with-ness (I could be dreaming here — maybe you should ask my partner about this?) and his ability to dance (he is the true master); and mom's charisma, appetite for learning and her determination to get things done.

What would you order for your last meal?

Mashed potatoes and spinach. Both sauteed in lots of garlic and butter. And a glass of good red wine.

What can you not live without?

My hair products. A black girl's absolute necessity.

Who do you have on your iPod?

Lots of reggae. It reminds me of home, keeps me warm in the godforsaken winter. Stuff like Midnite and Groundation and classics like Bob, Bunny, Peter, Gregory, et al.

What's the happiest memory of your life?

Giving birth to my son (Eli) and that whole first year of wonder.

If you could host a dinner party with any three living people in the world, whom would you invite?

Lynn Nottage, playwright; M. Nourbese Philip, Caribbean writer; and bell hooks, feminist/cultural theorist.

What's the best advice you've ever been given?

'Access your anger, then channel it' — from an older actor on a project I was doing in Minneapolis years ago. I didn't think I had anger then. But he told me I would discover it one day, and then I'd know what to do with it. He was right.

What's your best piece of advice?

'Engage brain before opening mouth.'

What was your first job, and how much did you make an hour?

Jobs you mean — I'm a Caribbean girl, after all; we are known for having many. I baby-sat a lot. Got paid something for that. I can't remember what, but I think it was good for the time. I saved it for long stretches and spent it on coveted teenage girl things. I also taught ballet to toddlers when I was 13. I don't think I was paid at all for that. It was an honor to apprentice under my mentor, a renowned Dutch performer. Then I worked for the Virgin Islands Council for the Arts. I was a Girl Friday. I don't remember how much I was paid there either, but I'm sure it wasn't much. I did learn a lot about the field I wanted to enter though.

What was a pivotal decision in your career and how did you arrive at that decision?

There were two critical moments for me in my career. The first was the decision to make dances/performance pieces. Prior to that, I only wanted to be the instrument of other artists, to dance in their works. But I noticed dancers were considered so expendable at the time and that to really be engaged in the discourse of the field, to have serious longevity, one had to be making. So, with the encouragement of a presenter from one of the experimental venues in NYC, I started making work and have enjoyed (and been tormented by) it ever since. The second was to get my Ph.D. I had an interest in further study. I followed my interest and earned a doctorate in performance studies from NYU. I really loved that engagement and another world of ideas it opened up to me. I believe my creative work is stronger because of it. The opportunities both decisions have created for me have been amazing. I am lucky to do what I love and make a living.

Do you have a bad habit? What is it?

Jack-rabbit-itis. It is hard for me to be still. I will make lists of all that needs to be done and feel a compulsion to whittle it down. My persistent goal is to embrace stillness and quietude. That is so hard for me. That's why my mornings are so precious. It seems to be the only time I can make that happen.

How do you handle a stressful situation?

I try to be levelheaded, to breathe, to think things through and respond sensibly and with reason and compassion.

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New Book follows the author’s unpredictable journey and reveals the toolkits to his success.

Simi Valley, CA (PRWEB) February 20, 2012

From the author that brought readers The Tragedy of Darkness, a magnificent novel of love and tragedy, comes another memorable read. This time, Ted Bagley lets them glimpse My Personal War Within: “A Struggle to Find Inner Peace”.

My Personal War Within is a novel primarily set in Birmingham, Alabama, during the 50s and 60s and the turbulent days of the Jim Crow Laws, the Ku Klux Klan, and the John Birch Society. These were difficult times for those growing up black in a country struggling to give identity to a race that played such an important part of its infrastructural growth. The author carries the readers on a ride through his life from the sometimes raciest streets of southern cities like Birmingham to corporate America where he is today. He very skillfully shows how family values, relationships, the military, and education were the tool kits to his success.

“The Author has created a warm and heartfelt depiction of his life from boyhood through manhood, with memorable quotes worth reading. He takes time to explain to the readers just how important the early foundation and family values are to his eventual career success.”—Sandi Witherspoon, Attorney at Law/EEOC

“Brilliant recounting of the author’s unpredictable climb up America’s corporate ladder! However, Bagley gives us more than a run-of-the-mill autobiography; rather, he shows us how powerful a tool that a belief in your own self-worth can be in overcoming life’s obstacles.”—Rosemarie Rhodes, Judge- EEO Atlanta

My Personal War Within will be featured at the 2012 Bologna Children’s Book Fair Book Exhibit in Bologna, Italy, on March 19-22, 2012.

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Ted Bagley, a vice-president at a large pharmaceutical company on the West Coast, was born in Birmingham, Alabama to Ted and Eddie Mae Bagley both deceased. His brother William Bagley, recently retired, resides in Indianapolis with his wife Larnell and daughter Jennifer. After graduating from high school, Bagley joined Uncle Sam’s Army where he served in the Old Guard, a ceremonial unit in Ft. Myer, Virginia. After serving for several years in that prestigious unit, he was sent to Viet Nam at the height of the conflict. At the end of his military career, he continued his degree at Ohio State and later graduated from Franklin Business Law School in Columbus, Ohio. After college, he joined the General Electric Company’s world-renowned Executive Leadership Program where he served in many capacities of the human resources field. After working his way to the executive ranks, the author left GE to join the Russell Corporation based in Atlanta, Georgia. After several years with Russell, he joined Dell Computer in Nashville, Tennessee. Bagley currently is an executive with Amgen Pharmaceuticals in Thousand Oaks California. His hobbies are bike riding, reading, skating, and minor car repair. He has a wife, Debra, and four children, Marcus, Chantal, Christopher, and Jared. The author’s passions are: public speaking, counseling, working with young people, and exercising. He has written two novels, The Tragedy of Darkness and My Personal War Within.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20 — Lim Guan Eng has decried what he claims are attempts by the mainstream media to “whitewash” MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek’s personal attacks against him during Saturday’s debate.

The DAP secretary-general pointed out that while he had stuck to the topic of debate, Dr Chua had not only launched personal attacks against him but also MCA’s immediate past president, Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat.

“If personal attacks are the criteria for success, then there is no doubt that Chua is the victor,” he said in a statement today.

“However, I had refused to engage in personal attacks as a debate should be a healthy contest of ideas, ideals and principles.”

Lim cited as an example of mainstream “whitewashing” the erroneous report by MCA-owned, The Star, in which he was quoted as saying: “We do not agree the prime minister must always be Malay because we want the people to decide.”

He said that while he respected the right of the English-language daily to present a partisan slant of the event, The Star’s “lies” were patently false and untrue.

The Star today published a correction on page six and apologised for attributing the quote to the Penang chief minister.

Such tactics will not work as the debate was shown live, Lim said, adding that this was the reason why his second debate with Dr Chua next month must also be telecast live to prevent any distortion of facts.

He also slammed The Star’s columnist, Baradan Kuppusamy, for claiming Lim had requested the second debate to repair the damage from his first outing.

Lim also asked that The Star withdraw Baradan’s column and apologise for allowing the latter to repeat the made-up quote in his analysis today despite printing an errata in the same paper.

He added that his second debate with Dr Chua in Malay and English should not be a repeat of the one held at the weekend, in which nearly all of the questions from the floor had been from MCA supporters.

“How can I answer 12 out of 13 questions in 3 minutes especially when most of them were lies?” Lim said.

“For this reason, I chose not to answer these lies as the debate should be about truth and the policies that PR (Pakatan Rakyat) wants to implement to change Malaysia.”

Saturday’s debate between Dr Chua and Lim was organised by the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (ASLI) and MCA’s Institute of Strategic Analysis and Policy Research (INSAP).

The highly anticipated Mandarin debate was broadcast live on Astro, with Malay translation.

Political analysts have criticised the Mandarin debate for veering off-topic and descending into political posturing.

 

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A combination of running, weight training and counting calories enabled Renee Stanfield of Tipton County to lose 68 pounds.

Seeing her church friends post on Facebook about participating in the St. Jude Memphis 5K, Renee Stanfield thought she would give it a try.

Her first time on a treadmill opened her eyes a little bit.

"I could not last a minute," said the 43-year-old Tipton County resident.

Rather than shrinking from the task, Stanfield became more determined.

"I knew I had to figure this out for myself," she said. "I had to reach a point and find my ability, so I kept at it."

She kept at it for two months, and completed her first 5K, the EJ Goldsmith 5K, in November 2009.

"I was happy with my time. I had never done a 5K before," said Stanfield, a banker.

Since then, she has run numerous 5Ks, completed two half-marathons, joined the Memphis Runners Track Club, and worked with with a personal trainer once a month for a monthlong workout schedule.

So far, she has lost 68 pounds, and she has no intention of stopping.

"I would like to eventually be 155 pounds, but at this point I would be happy with 180," she said. "I know as you get closer to your goal, it's harder to lose. I'm going to be happy with whatever number I eventually get to."

When she began her training in September 2009, she also began to change her eating habits, combining her knowledge from Weight Watchers, books she had read and watching "The Biggest Loser."

"I multiplied my weight by seven and then subtracted 200 to find out how many calories I could have a day. I started out eating 2,200 calories a day, and as I would lose weight, I would redo the math," she said.

She says she never deprives herself, occasionally allows a Diet Coke with her new water-only drinking regimen, and religiously studies and adheres to food-label serving suggestions.

"I figured if I'm going to run and exercise, I have to change my eating habits to coincide with what I'm doing," she said.

She tries to make it to the gym for 6 miles of running and walking four or five days a week, and bumps up her training to running 5 miles a day when she has a half-marathon ahead of her.

And since summer of last year, Stanfield has met once a month with personal trainer Corey Klein at his gym, Klein Fitness on South Main, to get her weight training schedule.

"I call it the 'schedule of pain,' " she said. "I've learned that running is good, but you have to have strength training. It's an altogether sort of thing."

Mostly, keeps her eye on her goal.

"I use 5Ks as my goal," she said. "If I keep a goal in front of me, I can continue."

Renee Stanfield

Age: 43.

Home: Tipton County.

What she did: Stanfield began training slowly for her first 5K in September 2009, building up to finally completing a half-marathon by running and walking it. Now, she trains for numerous 5Ks and has completed two half-marathons.

Trainer: Corey Klein, Klein Fitness, 338 S. Main, (901) 264-0348 or (573) 823-8753, kleinfitness.com

Advice: "Figure out what works for you. And it's all baby steps. Look at little chunks of weight instead of thinking you have 150 pounds to lose. That number is too big and scary."

Have you lost weight and kept it off, adopted better eating habits, started exercising or had success living a more healthful lifestyle? E-mail your story to sunyata00@gmail.com.

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19-02-2012 21:33 On Friday, 17 February I launched the new and interactive Harmony Day educational resources at Barnier Public School with Federal Member for Greenway, Michelle Rowland. The resources teach children about diversity, harmony and belonging. The lucky group of students were among the first in Australia to try out the new interactive whiteboard and online resources. Video Transcription Kate: I'm at Barnier Primary School with Michelle Rowland the Member for Greenway, and we've just launched this wonderful resource for schools for Harmony Day 2012, its called "Multicultural match-it". And the kids here have been having a wonderful time using their memories to play this great game. What do you think Michelle? Michelle: I think these are some of the smartest young people we've had in part of our school tours here. They're learning a lot about different costumes from around the world and different customs and I think everyone has done a fantastic job doing the Multicultural Match-it here today. We've had a really great time. Kate: So it's a game that can be played on both computers like this, or on the interactive whiteboards. The idea is you match up a piece of clothing from a different culture, but you've got to use your memory to find out where the other piece of clothing is. The children here have a wonderful time using their memories, using their brains and learning something about our wonderfully diverse culture here in Australia.

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