SARASOTA, FL, September 02, 2011 (Press-News.org) Darla O'Brien, owner of Designer Fitness, was honored at the 2011 IDEA World Fitness Convention in Los Angeles with a Fitness Challenge Award.
As an IDEA Challenge Award recipient, O'Brien was presented with a medal and special recognition at the convention, which was attended by over 5,000 fitness experts from 52 countries. She was also granted substantial opportunities to meet with the convention's celebrity presenters, including Elaine LaLanne, who was given an award honoring her late husband, Jack; Dr. Daniel Amen, author of "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life"; Apolo Ohno, eight-time Olympic medal winning speed skater; and Louis Van Amstel from "Dancing with the Stars."
O'Brien will appear with other Challenge award winners in "IDEA Fitness Journal."
Darla O'Brien has more than 25 years' experience as a fitness professional. She opened Designer Fitness studio in Sarasota in 1989. O'Brien developed the ME System , a unique and individualized approach to achieving balance and fitness by engaging mind and body to make everyday movement a workout. Designer Fitness clients include professional athletes, physicians, celebrities and fellow trainers.
O'Brien was presented with the 2011 IDEA World Convention Fitness Challenge Award by Zoey Trap during session sponsored by Peak Pilates.
Designer Fitness provides individually customized fitness workout sessions and plans for success. Opened by Darla O'Brien in 1989, in Sarasota, Florida, Designer Fitness focuses on correcting muscular and structural imbalances to improve overall fitness and physical function. It is the first provider of the ME System , an exclusive approach to engaging the mind and body to achieve extraordinary balance and to turn everyday movement into a muscle-building, fat-burning workout.
Website: http://www.designerfitness.com
Designer Fitness Owner Darla O'Brien Receives IDEA World Challenge Award
Darla O'Brien of Designer Fitness, developer of the ME System, was honored with a Fitness Challenge Award at the 2011 IDEA World Fitness Convention attended by over 5,000 fitness professionals from 52 countries.
2011-09-02
ELSE PRESS RELEASES FROM THIS DATE:
DiscountVouchers.co.uk Survey Shines Light on UK Attitudes to Love and Money
2011-09-02
Internet-based retail deals specialist DiscountVouchers.co.uk, the website that gets consumer money off at hundreds of top stores, this week publishes the results of a new poll surveying attitudes on money and relationships. The offers website questioned site visitors and discovered that 40% think that there is "no price on love" when it comes to saving up and spending money on an engagement ring.
The poll results also showed that 11% believe in the old adage of an engagement ring costing at least double what the man buying it earns in a month, while 30% confessed ...
Feeding cows natural plant extracts can reduce dairy farm odors and feed costs
2011-09-02
Contact: Michael Bernstein
m_bernstein@acs.org
303-228-8532 (Aug. 25-Sept. 1)
202-872-6042 (Before Aug. 25)
Michael Woods
m_woods@acs.org
303-228-8532 (Aug. 25-Sept. 1)
202-872-6293 (Before Aug. 25)
American Chemical Society
Feeding cows natural plant extracts can reduce dairy farm odors and feed costs
DENVER, Sept. 1, 2011 — With citizens' groups seeking government regulation of foul-smelling ammonia emissions from large dairy farms, scientists today reported that adding natural plant extracts to cow feed can reduce levels of the gas by one-third while ...
Modelling melanocyte differentiation in zebrafish
2011-09-02
Researchers at the University of Bath have combined genetic data with mathematical modelling to provide insights into cells and how they differentiate. The findings, to be published in open-access journal PLoS Genetics on September 1st, demonstrate the utility of a systems biology approach and could have implications for understanding and treating diseases, including cancers, caused when cells start to function incorrectly.
All cells derive from multipotent precursor cells (stem cells). The mechanisms by which stably differentiated cell-types are generated from stem ...
New HIV vaccine approach targets desirable immune cells
2011-09-02
DURHAM, N.C. – Researchers at Duke University Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have demonstrated an approach to HIV vaccine design that uses an altered form of HIV's outer coating or envelope protein.
The researchers showed that they could design HIV envelopes that could bind better to immature B cell receptors to create an enhanced immune response in an animal model. Immature B cells are the targets of vaccines, and when strongly targeted, they produce strong vaccine responses. The work of the Duke team was to improve ...
Profiler at the cellular level
2011-09-02
Researchers led by ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological "computer" network in human cells. This network recognizes certain cancer cells using logic combinations of five cancer-specific molecular factors, triggering cancer cells destruction.
Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson, Professor of Synthetic Biology at ETH Zurich, has spent a large part of his career developing biological computers that operate in living cells. His goal is to construct biocomputers that detect molecules carrying important information ...
Up from the depths: How bacteria capture carbon in the 'twilight zone'
2011-09-02
WALNUT CREEK, Calif.—Understanding the flow and processing of carbon in the world's oceans, which cover 70 percent of Earth's surface, is central to understanding global climate cycles, with many questions remaining unanswered. Between 200 and 1,000 meters below the ocean surface exists a "twilight zone" where insufficient sunlight penetrates for microorganisms to perform photosynthesis. Despite this, it is known that microbes resident at these depths capture carbon dioxide that they then use to form cellular structures and carry out necessary metabolic reactions so that ...
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County announces discovery of important woolly rhino fossil
2011-09-02
August 28, 2011 –A paper to be published on September 2, 2011 in the authoritative magazine Science reveals the discovery of a primitive woolly rhino fossil in the Himalayas, which suggests some giant mammals first evolved in present-day Tibet before the beginning of the Ice Age. The extinction of Ice Age giants such as woolly mammoths and rhinos, giant sloths, and saber-tooth cats has been widely studied, but much less is known about where these giants came from, and how they acquired their adaptations for living in a cold environment.
A team of geologists and paleontologists ...
Scientists observe smallest atomic displacements ever
2011-09-02
An international team of scientists has developed a novel X-ray technique for imaging atomic displacements in materials with unprecedented accuracy. They have applied their technique to determine how a recently discovered class of exotic materials – multiferroics – can be simultaneously both magnetically and electrically ordered. Multiferroics are also candidate materials for new classes of electronic devices. The discovery, a major breakthrough in understanding multiferroics, is published in Science dated 2 September 2011.
The authors comprise scientists from the European ...
Carlton International Exclusive - France Claims First Place & Dominates List of Top 10 Non-Urban Locations
2011-09-02
A survey also reveals that of the non-urban property hotspots around the world, Saint Jean Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera - where Carlton International have a number of luxury properties for sale - is the most expensive.
Based on the report released by the International Residential Index that watches the value of luxury properties around the world, there are specific non-urban pockets in the South of France where prices are substantially more expensive than those commanded in London, Paris and Tokyo.
France nets four of the top ten positions, with real estate South ...
Joining the dots: mutation-mechanism-disease
2011-09-02
Individuals with an autoinflammatory syndrome experience episodes of prolonged fever and inflammation in the absence of infection. There are several different autoinflammatory syndromes identified by distinct symptoms and underlying genetic mutations. A team of researchers, led by Koji Yasutomo, at the University of Tokushima Graduate School, Japan, has now determined that a mutation of the PSMB8 gene causes Japanese autoinflammatory syndrome with lipodystrophy (JASL), a recently identified condition. The team performed a detailed analysis of how the PSMB8 mutation causes ...
LAST 30 PRESS RELEASES:
3D printing breakthrough: Scientists create functional human islets for type 1 diabetes treatment
Malnutrition in children rises when economy drops
New model enables the study of how protein complex influences mitochondrial function
Device study offers hopes for spinal cord injuries
How urea forms spontaneously
Mayo Clinic’s AI tool identifies 9 dementia types, including Alzheimer’s, with one scan
Gene therapy improves blood flow in the brain in patients with sickle cell disease
Building breast tissue in the lab to better understand lactation
How gut bacteria change after exposure to pesticides
Timepoint at which developing B-cells become cancerous impacts leukemia treatment
Roberto Morandotti wins prestigious IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award
New urine-based tumor DNA test may help personalize bladder cancer treatment
How a faulty transport protein in the brain can trigger severe epilepsy
Study reveals uneven land sinking across New Orleans, raising flood-risk concerns
Researchers uncover novel mechanism for regulating ribosome biogenesis during brain development
RNA codon expansion via programmable pseudouridine editing and decoding
Post-diagnosis emergency department presentation and demographic factors in malignant skin cancers
A new genetic tuner for embryo development
Insurance churn and the COVID-19 pandemic
Postpartum Medicaid use in birthing parents and access to financed care
Manufacturing chemicals via orthogonal strategy, making full use of waste plastic resources in real life
Study overturns long-held belief about shape of fish schools
Precision oncology Organ Chip platform accurately and actionably predicts chemotherapy responses of patients suffering from esophageal adenocarcinoma
Verify the therapeutic effect of effective components of lycium barbarum on hepatocellular carcinoma based on molecular docking
Early intervention changes trajectory for depressed preschoolers
HonorHealth Research Institute presents ‘monumental’ increase in survivability for patients suffering ultra-low blood pressure
Mitochondrial dynamics in breast cancer metastasis: From metabolic drivers to therapeutic targets
Removing out-of-pocket fee improves access to 3D mammography
Does reducing exposure to image and video content on messaging apps reduce the impact of misinformation? Yes and no
A global microbiome preservation effort enters its growth phase
[Press-News.org] Designer Fitness Owner Darla O'Brien Receives IDEA World Challenge AwardDarla O'Brien of Designer Fitness, developer of the ME System, was honored with a Fitness Challenge Award at the 2011 IDEA World Fitness Convention attended by over 5,000 fitness professionals from 52 countries.