Hula Hoop Your Way To Improved Physical & Mental Health

History repeats itself, even in fitness. Everyone join me in welcoming back the ?Hula Hoop!? Break out your favorite childhood toy, sweat it out and also mellow out. Hula hooping is more than just fun, it can also be a great mental and emotional medicine too, so here?s the scoop on why you should hula hoop.

Join The Revolution

Not sure how to bring back this fitness throwback? Let Hoopdance Revolution be your guide. I had the pleasure of meeting internationally acclaimed and author of Hoopdance Revolution Jan Camp?and couldn?t get a hoop around my waist fast enough. As a chronicled cultural movement toward wellness, this easy read seamlessly illustrates how incorporating dance, aerobic exercise, juggling, and yoga all within the hooping experience can be an energy enhancing addition to your daily life. Make your own hoop (P.S. instructions on ?how to? are in the book), grab a copy of this guide and get your swivel on sistah!

Burn Baby Burn

Hula hooping is naturally aerobic, puts no harmful stress on the body (when performed correctly), and due to the effort required from some of the biggest muscles in the body (glutes, thighs, hips, legs, knees and abdomen) this format can also lead to a serious burn. Plus, your metabolism automatically gets an extra boost and your cardiovascular system will most certainly appreciate the strengthening power of hula hooping too. Convinced?

Back It Up

What?s that you say? The number one region of your body that loves the spirally fitness fun of hula hooping is your core. That repetitive circular motion both strengthens and tones these muscles while simultaneously conditioning your spine. Master your hula hoop skills and keep back problems at bay by increasing your spine?s range of motion and it?s overall flexibility. See sis, I always have your ?back.?

Master Your Mind

Whipping a hoop from your midsection, to your leg and then up to your arm again takes not only some serious coordination but some legitimate focus too. Try it. According to Camp- ?the sharper mental acuity, emotional balance, increased spacial awareness, and overall sense of well-being and connectedness? make this fitness fun beyond worth it when it comes to your mind. So unleash your sense of play and become sharp as a tack all in one fell swoop of a hoop.

About The Author:

Jan Camp is an artist and graphic designer with an active hoopdance practice. She has contributed to three books that inspired Hoopdance Revolution, A Door in the Swamp by Joell Jones and The Fish Arm Collective (Comix Press), and Cay Lang?s Taking the Leap (Chronicle Books). A resident of Berkeley, California, Jan studied art and writing at the College of Santa Fe, San Francisco State University, and University of Chicago. Her critically acclaimed work as a visual artist is represented in art galleries all over the States and gained her a residency at the MacDowell artist colony. Together with her husband, award-winning documentary filmmaker Tom Weidlinger, Jan Camp runs Arclight Books in the SF Bay Area, a grassroots publishing group dedicated bringing local artists and authors together to share resources and participate in events.

Robbie Ann Darby (RAD Experience) is a professional FitGirl, Group Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer in NYC. Follow her sweaty life on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for more fun health and fitness tips!

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The Rush to (News) Judgment ? The Society for News Design ? SND

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July 18th, 2013

By Josh Crutchmer

By now, you know what?s going on.

The Aug. 3 cover of Rolling Stone features Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. It?s a profile, and by my account and those of many others qualified to account, a very good profile.

The August 3 cover of Rolling Stone featuring Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

But the profile itself is not the topic.

Placing Tsarnaev?s image on the cover has, to understate the issue, caused a stir.

In Boston, which should absolutely be the first place sought for reaction, this ran in the Globe. (At its heart, it asserts that Rolling Stone?s use of a ?glamour shot? of Tsarnaev on its cover glorifies the bomber and is insensitive to the city and victims.)

A handful of stores prominent in New England have announced they are dropping the issue from their racks. CVS, Walgreens and Rite-Aid to name a few. (Note that those stores still sell a variety of alcoholic beverages that one could, in theory, purchase, guzzle, and then get behind the wheel of a car and drive onto the sidewalk, so they haven?t gone entirely noble.)

At the heart of said stir are various combinations of similar points of outrage:

? The ?I can?t believe Rolling Stone gave a terrorist superstar treatment? assertion and/or leap of logic, depending on your perspective.

? ?Rolling Stone just did this to call attention to itself,? most notably from a former RS intern writing about being a former RS intern.

? ?Rolling Stone is for music and should leave this stuff to trusty news outlets such as [ground quakes, temple curtain rips, angry llamas burst forth, take over world].?

Obviously, I disagree. I suspect if you are reading this, you disagree simply because this is a journalism site. It?s safe to say a majority of journalists can view the cover through a prism of news judgment and are more likely than not to at least understand the decision. This is, however, more complex.

More importantly, for the rest of this piece, understand that a great many people who read Rolling Stone DO feel this way, and we?re probably not going to change anyone?s mind in a matter of minutes.

So, let?s not make this about agreeing or disagreeing with the decision to run this cover in this way. Let?s instead consider only the act of making the decision, and in the interest of brevity spawning discussion, let?s examine two perspectives of Rolling Stone.

ROLLING STONE, AS IT PRESENTS ITSELF TO ITS AUDIENCE

? The cover: On page 1, Rolling Stone battles the journalistically obvious (the first thing your potential readers see) and the culturally obvious (Rolling Stone is the most famous magazine cover in entertainment and possibly anywhere). The result is, Rolling Stone?s basic avenue for communicating its content to its readers also happens to be the most famous piece of glossy newsprint on racks about 90 percent of the time.

? The symbolism: Consequently, the cover has far more power than, say, newspaper front pages (most of the time). At newspapers, your covers often have the power to effect incremental policy change. At a minimum, the pantheon of U.S. newspapers did not cause the Rolling Stone outcry when it ran the exact same photo across the top of its cover. That?s because the cover of the New York Times largely means ?this is what happened? to society. The cover of Rolling Stone is a place for the elite, for superstars, for those society idolizes.

(At this point, take a moment to consider the above in the context of the magazine?s decision making. You?re at a conference table discussing the cover of Rolling Stone. You?re at a conference table discussing who pop culture views as iconic. It?s inseparable when viewed through this prism.)

ROLLING STONE, AS IT MATTERS TO ITS AUDIENCE

? Storytelling: I used the word ?matters? here. It?s key, and in this paragraph, I?m referring to the value the audience takes away from the content. With Rolling Stone, that value is storytelling. It?s a culture magazine. The magazine exists to take us inside the lives of those who are most culturally relevant. Yes, 90 percent of the time, this means entertainers. But there?s an ugly side to culture we?re reminded of several times a day, and on occasion, somebody comes along so evil as to demand society?s attention on a larger scale. Tsarnaev isn?t being written about to glorify the horrible acts he participated in. He?s being written about so that his story may be better understood. Maybe college students can draw parallels. Maybe parents can do the same. Or maybe by understanding evil, we can be better prepared to encounter it. Culture both endures and evolves, even the part of culture that binds us through #neverforget hashtags. Rolling Stone makes a tangible contribution to this through its storytelling.

? The perception of ethics: This outcry is in some manner the result of the premise that Rolling Stone crossed some kind of ethical boundary, mixing its role in pop culture with in-depth journalism. But that oversimplifies all media ?ethics? into basically black-or-white. We all should do this exactly or not do this exactly. But as an institution, Rolling Stone exists to tell stories and tell them accurately. This should correctly be parsed against, say, a newsroom?s role to inform, and inform accurately. Those two aren?t the same, and as a result, standards can?t be created and applied with a broad brush.

What do I mean by that? Well as a friend and former colleague pointed out, Michael Hastings? piece on Stanley McChrystal is a result of a set of standards built around getting an incredible story (i.e. the story depended significantly on nobody in McChrystal?s entourage knowing who Hastings was), rather than, say, covering the resulting press conference (which would depend on proper ID before asking a question, following a set of press guidelines). As a direct result, history literally changed. McChrystal was fired. The entire life of David Patreaus was re-written over the span of about two years. (And maybe coincidentally, Hastings is now dead.)

The point is, sometimes journalistic standards can be complex.

Is it ethical to present Tsarnaev as a superstar? Is it ethical to tell his story through incredible reporting and then announce to your audience that you are doing so via your primary means of communicating that information (your cover)? What do you do when those two answers are polar opposites? You apply your judgment based on who you are as an entity. That?s what Rolling Stone did.

We?ll stop there. We could do this all day, though, and the point would be the same: Rolling Stone exists in society?s collective psyche. That?s the version that?s sung about, the cover every musician the world over aspires to grace, the approval every artist seeks. Meanwhile, Rolling Stone exists on the pages of the magazine, and on the website, a product of vision, sweat, and toil on the part of some of the best journalists in the world, the cover reflecting a vision of some of the best visual minds in the world.

It?s virtually universal that you accept this when you become a member of the media. You work at a publication. You watch the publication striving for objectivity. You then see reader comments about bias and how your publication is a joke, and so it goes. This does not stop just because you happen to work for one of the industry?s most revered and powerful names. To the contrary, when that relationship rears its head, it?s relentless, as the last 24 hours have shown.

And all of that. Every word of the above, is what Rolling Stone must consider with every cover it publishes. There are tenets of journalism competing with tenets of capitalism, and when they collide, well, you sometimes get to ingest them via a giant 72-ounce social media steak, free if eaten in one hour.

It?s a back-and-forth:

?We have an obligation to present these stories to our readers. It?s who we are.?

?Our readers might take offense to it. Are we willing to take the risk??

What you see in this cover is the willingness to take that risk, in the name of journalism.

We saw that risk realized. The adverse reaction to and the boycotts of the Rolling Stone that exists in society?s psyche.

And then, very new and powerful information released by journalists came about in direct response to the reaction and boycotts of the Rolling Stone that exists on the pages of the magazine.

The above is a link to a new Boston Magazine piece titled The Real Face of Terror, showing haunting new photographs taken by a tactical photographer with the Massachusetts State Police that show the final standoff and capture of Tsarnaev (and holy wow, read the first comment!). The pictures are gripping, chilling and by all definitions insightful. We all now know more about what took place, for better or for worse, because of the outcry over the cover.

Painful stories are still stories. Painful information is still information. Rolling Stone reminded us of the former, and provided us avenues to the latter, and that?s the Rolling Stone that graces newsprint and bandwidth, and that is built upon journalism still capable of enlightening the world, even if enlightenment is measured in retweets.

Those are the very real and tangible consequences of Rolling Stone?s judgment. One could state with confidence that we as a collective audience are slightly better off and more informed as a result.

Without the cover, we never reach that point.

(Josh Crutchmer is news design director at the Minneapolis Star Tribune.)

This post was tagged: Boston, Cover design, journalism, magazine design, Rolling Stone

Source: http://www.snd.org/2013/07/the-rush-to-news-judgment/

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Top Picks: National Geographic's 'Inside the American Mob,' a caf? soundtrack for your computer, and more

Leon Fleisher's birthday is celebrated with a 23-CD box set, Chicago restaurant Hot Doug's gets its own book, and more.

By Staff / July 19, 2013

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If you know Chicago, you know it loves its hot dogs (pickle spear, no ketchup!). Hot Doug?s is a hot-dog restaurant with an hour-long line; Hot Doug?s: The Book tells how it all (including the game-meat dogs and duck-fat fries) came to be ? complete with photos, favorite anecdotes, and fan mail. The owner, Doug Sohn, adds as much to the experience as the perfect ?snap? of the hot dogs. You?ll devour every word.

Balkan brass

Brasslands is an award-winning documentary film and CD soundtrack about a yearly trumpet competition that, with its more than a half-million fans, takes over Gu?a, a tiny Serbian village. The film is in limited release in the United States (check www.brasslands.com), but the raucous CD that is a celebration of the human spirit amid adversity is available through Evergreene Music.

Dance masters

The documentary Dancing at Jacob?s Pillow: Never Stand Still is a love letter about an iconic institution and dance ? ballet, modern, and jazz. Nestled deep in the Massachusetts Berkshires, Jacob?s Pillow was founded in the 1930s by modern-dance pioneer Ted Shawn. With interviews of such masters as Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, Judith Jamison, and Suzanne Farrell, as well as a slew of up-and-coming talent, this award-winning film is an encyclopedia of American dance. It airs on PBS?s ?Great Performances? July 26.

Mob mentality

This seems to be the summer of the mob, with the James ?Whitey? Bulger trial under way in Boston and HBO offering old episodes of The Sopranos. National Geographic Channel connects all the dots with its comprehensive-if-chilling Inside the American Mob, premi?ring July 28 at 9 p.m. It?s a history lesson on the modern Mafia, told by FBI agents, informants, and police who helped take down La Cosa Nostra. Each hour examines a pivotal time frame, beginning with 1970 and leading up to the present.

Desktop coffee shop

It?s a website (soon to be an app) with a premise so simple that we were skeptical: The ambient sounds of a cafe provide a measure of white noise that may actually ease the creative process. Coffitivity (coffitivity.com) delivers to your desktop a low-level clink-and-chatter audio track that?s seamlessly looped ? and rather relaxing. Other sites provide other ambient sounds. But we?ll take this one, with a decaf latte, and save the trouble of finding a spot at Starbucks.

A career on 88 keys

To celebrate Leon Fleisher?s 85th birthday, Columbia/Epic and Sony Classical are releasing a 23-CD deluxe box set spanning this great American pianist?s 55-year career. Two discs capture Fleisher at the peak of his reemergence after his right hand was disabled in 1965, plus a third disc of ?Piano Concertos for the Left Hand? with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The last disc of three Mozart piano concertos was released in 2009, his first two-hand concerto recording in more than 40 years.

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Perry signs Texas abortion restrictions into law

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed sweeping new abortion restrictions that sparked weeks of protests at the state Capitol into law.

Perry signed the legislation at a ceremony Thursday morning. The bill will require abortion clinic doctors to have hospital admitting privileges, restrict abortions to surgical centers, dictate when abortion-inducing drugs can be taken and ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.

During prepared remarks, Perry spoke about the bill's intent to "support life."

"In signing House Bill 2 today, we celebrate and further cement the foundation on which the culture of life in Texas is built," Perry said.

"It is our responsibility and duty to give voice to the unborn, the individuals whose very survival is at stake. This bill lives up to that responsibility," Perry continued.

Only five of Texas' 42 abortion clinics currently meet the new requirements.

Evangelicals including First Baptist Dallas' Robert Jeffress were present for the signing of the bill while opponents of the restrictions shouted "shame" from outside the chamber.

The signing signifed the end of the prolonged battle over abortion restrictions in the state. Early in the 83rd legislative session, House committees were already discussing restrictions on abortions after 20 weeks and abortion-inducing drugs. But the battle reached a flashpoint when Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth staged a filibuster in front of a mass of protestors on the last day of a special legislative session.

The Texas Legislature's Republican majority passed the restrictions last week after Perry called another session for that reason.

After today's signing, Sen. Wendy Davis issued the following statement:

"When Governor Perry signed the bill, he signaled a clear break with Texas families. Governor Perry and other state leaders have now taken sides and chosen narrow partisan special interests over mothers, daughters, sisters and every Texan who puts the health of their family, the well-being of their neighbors, and the future of Texas ahead of politics and personal ambitions."

Perry has long been in support of limiting abortions, but developed a nuanced stance on the issue during his run in the GOP presidental race. During a 2011 campaign stop, Perry said he opposes abortion rights in cases of rape and incest, but would allow the legal procedure if the pregnancy threatened the mother's life.

The new legislative restrictions on abortion come at a time when other states have passed similar bills. Arkansas and several other states have recently passed bans after 20 weeks, but also have faced legal challenges.

Legal analysts expect the new Texas restrictions will face a lawsuit.

Planned Parenthood response to the signing of the bill focused on the beginning of a court battle.

?The fight over this law will move to the courts, while the bigger fight for women?s access to health care in Texas gains steam. People are enraged by this law, and it has created a whole new generation of activists who are in it for the long run.?

NBC 5's Omar Villafranca is at the signing. Find his Tweets from the event below.

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Things You Need To Know About Home Security | Homes Products

Home security may be a major concern for you if you?re a female that lives alone. Instead of living in fear, you can follow many simple procedures to make your feel safer. Read all of these home security tips.

Have your home always look occupied. Timers can be used to turn lights and televisions on and off when required. This makes it look as though people are home no matter what. This is an effective deterrent against burglars.

Have your dog protect the spare key. However, this method is only effective if your dog is large, scary, and stays outdoors. Just hide a spare house key on the inside of your dog?s collar. Then when you need an extra key, you will be able to access this one.

Providing a key to the person cleaning your home can be acceptable, but you must be sure they are honest and worthy of your confidence. Before you give a cleaner full access to your home for extended periods of time, you have to be certain that they?re trustworthy and reliable. Be sure to make sure their references check out. If the person is an employee of a firm, call your local BBB to check their reputation.

Always take time to compare and research before investing in an expensive security system for your home. Several different firms may offer similar protection for wildly divergent prices. Get quotes from several companies before making a decision.

Never allow a stranger to enter your home. While their story may seem legit, that doesn?t mean it is true. This person might just be casing the joint to see if there is home security equipment.

Check with your local law enforcement agency about home protection plans. There are lots of different programs, like home inspections, that will help you take the proper steps to make sure your home adequately protected. If your police department does not offer these programs, find a private security company.

Making your home into a safe retreat does not require a lot of costly security equipment that a stranger has to install. There are more cost effective methods of deterring criminals. Keep this advice in mind as you strive to increase security around the home.

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Britney Spears to Announce "Cool, Hip" Las Vegas Show

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Audiodraft, The Crowdsourcing Platform For Sound And Music, Raises $400K From 500 Startups, Promus

Audiodraft, a platform where brands or anybody else can commissions custom music or sounds, just closed $400,000 in a funding round led by 500 Startups and Promus Ventures. The best analogy for what the startup does is 99Designs for sound. Founded three years ago, the company has grown a community of about 20,000 sound designers and music composers who are available to create music or sounds for different advertising agencies and clients on commission. There’s also a library on-hand tracks so that customers can drop by and buy licenses for music for anywhere from $400 to $2,000. Then there’s also a way to host contests. (Here’s an example one from “Four Hour Work Week” author Tim Ferriss, who was looking for music to pair with a teaser video for the “Four Hour Chef.”) Audiodraft charges 10 percent of the prize money and a $99 listing fee. With the round, the company is also bringing on a few advisors including Trulia co-founder Sami Inkinen and TaskRabbit vice president of engineering Yee Lee. They’ll use the funding to make a few additional hires in San Francisco and Helsinki and build out a new Agency Studios service. That product is really built for brand and advertising agencies globally that want to have more control over managing current productions and who they work with on the platform. That product will eventually cost $99 per month. The company has grown to about 1,000 registered customers and the average amount they end up charging clientele is about $1,200 with $1,000 going toward the sound designer and the rest going to Audiodraft. CEO Teemu Yli-Hollo, who is also a Finnish rapper, says that there are artists on the platform who are making enough money to pay for their living costs. The company’s now looking for a product manager, business manager and community manager in San Francisco and a product engineer in Helsinki.

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