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05-07-2012 22:48 Next on, we have double clam with Namaste. What we need to understand is what is clam. So let's lie down. Get your feet together, this is what a clam is. Now let's start the exercise. Get into a clam position, hands in a Namaste overhead. Now, crunch pressing your lower back into the floor, back should not arch. Shoulders come off the mat, simultaneously the clam is pulled into the chest. Contract and slowly release to go back to the starting position. Repeat this move for 30 seconds. It's important to remember that the hands and legs should not go fully down. This could lead to a lower back injury. For Daily Updates and Fun Stuff Subscribe at Join us on Facebook at Follow us at

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05-07-2012 22:48 For Shuffles start with feet together hands to chest. Start jumping side to side keeping feet together. As you jump twist your torso, continue breathing and keep a good rhythm. Knees should be slightly bent at all times. Do this move for 30 seconds. For Daily Updates and Fun Stuff Subscribe at Join us on Facebook at Follow us at

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06-07-2012 16:23 Chef Joey Pesner of Zermatt and Homestead Resort on the Mountain Morning Show.

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05-07-2012 22:54 Getting into the BB Ab drill, the first exercise is Ab Crunch for 30 seconds. Lie on the mat knees bent, hands crossed over the chest. Eyes to the ceiling chin off the chest. Slowly raise yourself so that the shoulders come off the mat, using your abdominal muscle pressing your lower back into the floor. Contract and slowly go back to the starting position. As you contract, exhale. The movement has to be very slow and controlled. What we just did is an Ab Crunch with hands across the chest. Conventionally what people tend do is put their hands behind their head and if done incorrectly can cause injury to your neck. For Daily Updates and Fun Stuff Subscribe at Join us on Facebook at Follow us at

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Coming up, San Diego welcomes yogis to its annual Yoga Journal Conference, while the Reebok CrossFit Games kick off in Carson, California.

Yoga Journal Conference: San Diego July 12-16 San Diego, California, USA

Thousands of yogis will flock to San Diego to stretch, mix, and mingle with some of yoga's top teachers at one of the premier yoga events in the world. More than 100 classes will be taught by more than 35 master and celebrity yoga teachers, including Dharma Mittra, Seane Corn, and Cyndi Lee. A Colorado event happens September 30-October 7. http://www.yjevents.com/ny/index.phpWatch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtj2Vw03w_4

Reebok CrossFit Games 2012 July 13-15 Carson, California, USA

The CrossFit Games event is the final competition in a series in which the world's fittest, who have triumphed in regionals and sectionals around the world, come together to compete for the grand prize. The first place male and female individual winners will each receive $250,000. CrossFit is about metabolic conditioning and combines a series of intense, fast workouts without machines for core strengthening and conditioning including weightlifting, sprinting, and gymnastics. http://games.crossfit.com Facebook

Bliss Beat Festival Piedmont, Italy July 19-22

Devotion, music, and yoga are on tap at this unique international English-language festival in Northern Italy. The program combines hatha yoga, DJs, dancing, and chanting; a sister event happens in London on October 27 and 29. http://www.blissbeatfestival.com/en

World Breastfeeding Week August 1-7 Worldwide

World Breastfeeding Week takes place in over 120 countries to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world. It was begun some 20 years ago by WHO and UNICEF policy-makers to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. Stay tuned to the official site to see what events, from flash mobs to photo contests, are taking place. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/annual/world_breastfeeding_week/en/index.html

Devon Yoga Festival August 10-12 Devon, England

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We asked:

Among the bills that moved through Congress last week is one allowing for phased retirement for federal workers. Would such a program, which would allow employees to work part time after retirement, with their salaries and annuities prorated help or hurt agencies? Would you participate in the program?

You said:

I would consider this option. It seems that it would benefit both the agency and the retiree with the transition. When all you know is to get up and go to work every day, then you do not have that [retirement] focus (unless you are fortunate enough to not be a widow/widower and have plans with your mate in retirement). The finality of retirement would be less.

Plus, knowledge and experience sometimes just cant be written in a continuity book!

I work for the Department of Defense with the Air Force and have for the past 28 years.

Katherine N. Lane

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Moody Air Force Base, Ga.

I think this is a great idea. It is a win-win. The individual can prepare for retirement at his own pace. The agency benefits because they can still tap into the knowledge that the individual has. This will help agencies from making mistakes that they solved years ago but there is nobody left to remember that solution. Additionally, the agency can have the part time retiree mentor the new people coming into the agency. The agency has a vacancy and can hire a person to do those duties while the retiree mentors him.

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As kids, they sat on gas lines in the backs of their parents' cars. As young adults, they saw the stock market crash, and when it finally came time to settle down, they bought a house at the peak of the housing bubble and then were faced with the worst economy since the Great Depression. It's no shock that Generation X - those born from 1965 to 1981 - may get short changed in their golden years.

Though they've watched parents and grandparents nestled with pensions, Social Security and strong economic growth, these are no longer guarantees. On the other hand, longer life spans with more medical bills and greater need for cash are the reality for many.

Gen X is the first generation to deal with the fact that the models of American retirement are changing - and its members are flustered. The generation once called "slackers" has been true to form with retirement planning.

"Gen X is a transition generation," says Carol O'Rourke, a certified financial planner and Executive Director for the Coalition for Debtor Education in New York City. "Gen Xers were young during the tech bubble, and when they came of age, housing was a lot more expensive. With all the talk about whether Social Security is going to survive, there is a sense of not having something to look forward to."

According to a 2012 Insured Retirement Institute , IRI, report, only one-third of Gen Xers are "very confident" about having enough money to live comfortably during retirement, cover their medical expenses, and pay for their children's higher education.

Just 41 percent of the group have tried to figure out how much money they will ultimately need to save for retirement, and among those who have saved, half have amassed less than $100,000.

"Even though they have a longer time horizon toward retirement, there has been a tremendous emotional impact on their confidence in the future. What are they going to do to be sure that they have enough?" adds Cathy Weatherford, IRI president and CEO.

Along the same lines, a November 2011 report from the Guardian Life Insurance Company of found 82 percent of Xers believe the economy is headed in the wrong direction.

Skepticism is one of the defining X characteristics, says Robert Wendover, managing director at the Center for Generational Studies in Littleton, Colo.

"Many of the institutions that they were taught as children didn't play out, whether it was political or social or economic. They just kind of unraveled for a variety of reasons," says Wendover.

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Javier, who finished second behind Greene at last summers World Championships in Daegu, has been the form athlete all season and won with a world-leading time of 47.78sec, but Greene will be delighted that he was able to run him so close.

It was after that race that Greene chose to go public with the news that he had undergone knee surgery in the winter and had lost a large chunk of training time during his rehabilitation.

But, after several weeks of tough training at his Bath base, he is now clearly firing on all cylinders as he sliced 0.04sec off his previous personal best and came within just 0.02sec of Kriss Akabusis 20-year-old UK record.

Christine Ohuruogu, the defending Olympic 400m champion, is also enjoying a return to form this season after several years of injuries and her time of 50.59sec was her quickest since 2009.

Her problem is that the womens 400m is one of the deepest and most competitive events in the athletics programme and there were still three runners ahead of her. The winner, Botswanas world champion Amantle Montsho, won in 49.77sec.

In the mens 5,000m, Ethiopian Dejen Gebremeskel displaced Mo Farah at the top of the world rankings with victory in a super-fast 12min 46.81sec that proved he will be a big threat in London.

Countryman Kenenisa Bekele, the Olympic champion, is in danger of not being selected for the event after finishing ninth.

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In anticipation of the release of his debut album, "Channel Orange," R&B dynamo Frank Ocean will make his network television debut with a performance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on Monday night (July 9). Although it is unclear what song Ocean will perform, the singer will be backed by the "Fallon" house band, the Roots.

Following Friday's announcement, Ocean also posted a sensual new "Channel Orange" track, "Sweet Life," on his Tumblr blog. Check it out below.

"Channel Orange," due out July 17 on Def Jam, follows Ocean's acclaimed 2011 mixtape "Nostalgia, Ultra," in which the 24-year-old mixed original tracks with reinterpretations of songs by Coldplay, MGMT and The Eagles, among others. The studio album has been preceded by the nearly-10-minute single "Pyramids" and features guest appearances by Andre 3000, Earl Sweatshirt and John Mayer.

First Listen: Frank Ocean Previews 'Channel Orange' in NYC

The "Fallon" booking follows a revealing personal statement from Ocean on Wednesday: on his Tumblr blog, the singer opened up about his sexuality and described falling in love with a man at the age of 19. Since posting the statement, Ocean has received support from Def Jam president Joie Manda, Def Jam founder Russell Simmons and Odd Future band mate Tyler, The Creator, among others.

Ocean's upcoming "Fallon" performance also comes one year after Odd Future made its network TV debut on the late-night, when Tyler and Hodgy Beats delivered a raucous performance of "Sandwitches" in February 2011. Ocean appears on the controversial group's "The OF Tape Vol. 2" album, which was released last March.

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July 6, 2012

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Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are just a few of the social media networks that have become popular in the past few years. Social media networks allow individuals to share photos, stories, video, and other forms of communication with friends and family. Investigators have studied how social media has become integrated in peoples daily lives. In particular, researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) recently found that social networks can stimulate changes in the health behavior of individuals.

With the project, the team of public health researchers was inspired to study the science behind social influence. They believe that an understanding of online and face-to-face interactions can improve disease prevention and help promote public health issues. The researchers concluded that it is necessary to understand a groups social structure and social dynamics to understand the factors that influence a group members decision making.

If I want to go into a high school and change physical activity or other obesity behaviors, I have to understand there are cliques and subgroups of students that exhibit different risks, explained Thomas W. Valente, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, in a prepared statement. I would design different interventions for the different groups. We constantly are concerned about how ineffective our interventions are this is a big reason why those interventions are not working. We can do a much better job promoting healthy behaviors if we understand the social network contexts and design these interventions with those cues in mind.

In the project, Valente collected a variety of methods that public health advocates utilize to encourage changes in behavior. Through his research, he identified why particular methods are more effective than others for certain situations like quitting smoking or preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

With 24 interventions identified for researchers to utilize, Valente believes that it is important to create a stronger framework that can help choose the tactics that could be most effective. Different methods can have different results based on the social network. For example, word-of-mouth can spread news and create groups of similar friends.

Existing evidence indicates that network interventions are quite effective, Valente, whose research focuses on social networks and influence, commented in the statement. Yet, the science of how networks can be used to accelerate behavior change and improve organizational performance is still in its infancy. Research is clearly needed to compare different network interventions to determine which are optimal under what circumstances.

Valente concludes that, even though behavioral marketing has been used in business, it can be applied in the public health sector. He believes that new media tools like Facebook and Twitter have helped in the collection of data and the spread of information. In particular, Facebook and friends can impact a persons decision making and health behavior. Valentes research project is supported by a National Institutes of Health grant, which was under the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

The findings are highlighted in the July 6 edition of peer-reviewed journal Science.

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