Ever get that burning sensation in the sole of your foot while holding Vraksasana? Are standing balancing poses sometimes debilitating to you?? Maybe you aren?t taking care of your feet.? Although some discomfort is typical when learning new asanas and increasing your challenge, constant pain can be a sign of a chronic condition.? In my yoga paths the feet are considered the doorway to the pose, so little time practicing yoga is spent on the mat compared to our real world practice it makes sense to look at the overall picture of foot health, especially as we don cute flip-flops as the warm weather permits.
Here?s the APMA?s take on keeping flip flops healthy this summer.? In the short video below, the APMA reminds us that with warm weather comes an increase in tendinitis, stress fractures, and other injuries attributed to our favorite footwear, whichever way you call them ? flip flops, slippers (slippahs), flatties, or flippies.? In this clip, they give suggestions on how to stop flip flops from becoming a health hazard.
APMA Video: "Keep Flip Flops from Going Wild This Season"
Here are the top 3 misconceptions when choosing flip flops with corrections provided by Dr. Weil and Phil Vasyli (podiatrist and founder of Orthaheel):
Comfort: Many claim that comfort is a top priority, however that?s often the last thing they are getting with the flattest flip flops and rubber straps.
Correction: Look for shoes with the APMA Seal of Acceptance, which indicates the shoe is considered by experts to promote good foot health and provide proper support to your feet.
Support: Sole flexibility, too, is often overlooked as important, coming across with the misconception that flexibility equals flimsy and unsupportive.? Not sure.
Correction: Choose a flip flop that bends only at the ball of the foot, not completely in half.? This minimal flexibility indicates the proper balance, arch support, and alignment for healthy feet.
Durability: Synthetic materials are less foot friendly than their leather counterparts.
Correction: Avoid synthetic materials, as leather is a higher quality and stands up to wear for a longer period of time.? In addition, rubber in the toe post causes rubbing in hot conditions and leads to painful blistering.
Wear flip flops (that meet the above requirements) at the pool, beach, or al fresco cocktail party.? For anything else, wear the appropriate shoes ? sneakers or athletic shoes for walking/sports and work or garden shoes for yard work.? Weil Integrative Footwear and Orthaheel align with these guidelines.? To find other brand options, please refer to the APMA.org website.
May 30th, 2012 | Tags: Feet, flip flops, foot, Health, pain, shoes | Category: Fitness, Guest Post
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Green. It?s a catchall phrase that?s used and abused, making it nearly impossible for people to distinguish the inventive from the tokenistic. Because most people agree it?s a good thing, it?s molded to fit agendas and sell products. The fact is, it?s easier for companies to talk green than to innovate.
Now I?m not an environmentalist. But I am an engineer and know a little about designing machines. Engineers are very singular. They don?t necessarily start out to make something ?green? but rather to create something that works better. Often, to achieve that goal, they have to do more with less. Rather than green engineering, it?s about efficient engineering.
I am not an environmentalist. But I am an engineer.
It?s not a new concept. Engineering has always been about efficiency. Take a hero of mine: Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Brunel built 25 railway lines, over a hundred bridges, including five suspension bridges, eight pier and dock systems, three ships, and a prefabricated army field hospital. He was a genius and just 53 when he died. On one of his ships, the SS Great Britain, he perfected the screw propeller, making the ship faster than its paddled predecessor and the first iron-hulled vessel (and the largest) to cross the Atlantic. All this was engineered on paper. Even with all of our computer programs and modeling software, today?s propellers are only 5% more efficient.
Then there?s the original Mini. Launched in 1959 during the Suez oil crisis, it was an alternative to gas guzzlers. The designer Alec Issigonis rotated the engine, making the car smaller, lighter, and more economical. It was green before green existed. The United States felt a similar squeeze in 2008?and saw a very quick shift to more fuel-efficient cars. And as gasoline prices rise, it?s likely that electric-, hybrid-, or fuel-cell powered cars will become necessity rather than novelty. But getting the technology right won?t be easy. When it comes to engineering better, longer-lasting products, patience can be in short supply.
It took Boeing over eight years to bring its 787 Dreamliner to market. For the fuselage and wings, its engineers used advanced composite technologies, rather than the standard aluminum. Such materials had never been applied at this scale. The result was fewer parts and a lighter body, allowing the plane to fly farther, burning 20% less fuel?more with less. Yet, rather than being applauded for its engineering excellence, Boeing was chastised for delays resulting from a lengthy research-and-development process?the scapegoat for being first out of the gate.
There are often delays to great engineering projects. That?s because it?s hard to invent something that?s all-round better. And energy efficiency is the hardest nut to crack. It?s fraught with political debate and uncertainty, both environmental and economical. Efficiency?whether that?s material efficiency, energy efficiency, or performance efficiency?is essential to good engineering and genuine advances in sustainable design. You can?t sacrifice one for another. Energy efficiency must be balanced with performance; no one will buy an appliance that does half a job.
For example, to comply with demanding new American efficiency standards, some washing machine manufacturers reduced the quantity of hot water used per wash. In principle, it made perfect sense: less hot water means less energy used. The trouble was that it came at the expense of clean clothes.
If ?green? is what we want, legislation may be part of it. But it?s a doubled-edge sword.
So is it even possible to create big performance from a small input? We think so. But it?s not easy. Our engineers and scientists have spent 15 years developing our digital motor technology. It uses electronic pulses to drive the motor, rather than conventional carbon brushes, and spins incredibly fast?more than 80,000 times a minute, or four times faster than a racecar engine. This motor helps reduce energy use in our Airblade hand dryer, allowing the machine to create 70% less carbon emissions than paper towels and hot- air hand dryers. Less energy means less cost. But it has to work better and faster, too.
That?s where the difficulty comes in. This kind of investment is risky and takes time. We do it to make a better machine, something that works properly?no more wiping your damp hands on your trousers?and because we think it?s a manufacturer?s responsibility to engineer efficiently. The trouble is that it?s easy to sell something based on bigness: big-box stores, supersize drinks, and vast televisions. So that?s what a lot of manufacturers do. It?s harder to get the message across that how something really performs is what counts. It?s easier to say a car has a three-liter engine than it is to say a car has a one-liter engine with three-liter performance.
If ?green? is what we want, legislation may be part of it. But it?s a doubled-edge sword. It should encourage genuine advances in invention?machines that cut energy use without sacrificing performance. But this is not always the case. In the European Union, for example, legislation determined that new cars should use a higher proportion of recycled steel. A noble aim but the result was heavier cars that actually consumed more fuel driving up the carbon footprint.
While green-washing is nothing new, the scale is. As more companies wield green paintbrushes, it?s less likely a coat of paint will woo a potential customer. Instead, companies that lead the charge in creating better technologies, efficient motors, battery and capacitor technology, and more will have a competitive advantage. When it comes to green, people want to make the right choice, but amid a barrage of claims, causes, and issues, it?s almost impossible to distinguish the well meaning from the meaningless. Good marketing means that green can mean anything. But good engineering means efficient engineering. It?s not quick or easy, but it is the right thing to do, and it doesn?t just make sense in terms of sustainability but as a business strategy, too.
via http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669848/dysons-design-chief-green-comes-naturally-from-great-engineering
Along with the rapid development of our country automobile industry and the improvement of people?s living standard,our urban automobile inventory mounts up by speed of 15% each year,and has reached several ten millions at present,which is followed by the serious traffic jam,the dispersive vehicles which is difficult to be managed and the serious phenomenon of robbing and stealing.therefore, it has the significant practical meaning to carry on the research of the automatic vehicle monitoring system based on the technologies of wireless communication,computer network,GPS(Globle Positioning System) and GIS(Geographical Information System).Article investigates the development of the vehicle monitoring system and the application actuality at home and abroad,and combining the research of high-performance network communication technology, Putting forward the overall framework and design of a high performance and lost cost vehicle monitoring system with 4S(GPS/ GPRS/ GIS/ RS) technology and ADAPTIVE Communications Environment.Through the in-depth discussion of the main technique of vehicle monitoring system. It designs GPRS as system?s wireless communication flat roof and established the communication protocol. This project depends on the vehicle monitoring system?s characteristics of the high real-time, the small transmission quantity of data and the excellences of the GPRS network, such as low using charge, short time delay, high fraction of coverage, general sustain TCP/IP agreement and etc.. Article encircles software system?s design and develops, Lay heavy stress on monitoring centre which is core parts of the system in order to introduce its detailed design and exact achievement. And then it gives a collectivity description of the terminal parts. The vehicle monitoring terminal gives software workflow and a optimum design of GPS information?s sampling triggered,in order to reduce data and costs without reducing the missing effective data. Ueser control terminal add a new RS module and developed into a 4S system on base of common 3S system.the RS module of this design is simpleness and meed less dependence and costs, Provides a viable option for future development in this industry.Article?s design adopts C/S(Client/Server) mode, Use SQL Server2000 as system?s database and commended operating system is Windows2003 Server. Visual studio 2005 programming environment as the development tool to tealize monitoring centre, and the development of user control terminal is based on the VC6 programming environment,use MapInfo MapX5.0 ActiveX components realize the integration of GIS function on system,and RS monitoring module on base of Google?s high-resolution remote sensing images and use the API and achieve the third part development of WEB with it?s API. Furthermore,This system is achieved the design requirement through run and test.
Many people suffer from back pain which can be induced by many different factors. A single incident in a persons life can actually lead to long-lasting back pain. Sometimes it is a symptom of an illness that you have. More frequently, however, it comes about as the result of your daily habits, many of which you might not even be aware of. The way you sleep, sit, walk and exercise can all have an impact on your spine and contribute to back pain if something is causing too much strain. One less obvious cause of back pain is wearing footwear that is not suitable. Wearing improper footwear will not give your back the foundation it needs. Uncomfortable shoes can change your posture and the way you walk, which, over time, can contribute to back pain. When women wear shoes with higher heels, their weight is not spread on the shoe in a way that will provide substantial support. Cowboy boots can present a similar problem for both men and women. You will be putting several parts of your body at risk for strain or injury if you opt for inappropriate footwear. When you opt for practical shoes that fit your lifestyle; you will be more able to maintain great posture, while keeping your back in a healthier state. Sleeping on a mattress that doesn?t properly support your back can contribute to back problems, especially lower back pain. When you sleep on a poor quality mattress every night, your spine isn?t kept in alignment and over time this contributes to back pain. There is no ?one perfect mattress? that will work for everyone but, one thing is for sure, an old, misshapen, lumpy mattress isn?t anyone?s solution! If you wake up with back pain every morning, you may want to consider buying a new mattress. You can inadvertently cause back strain ? leading to back pain ? by sleeping with too many pillows under your head. This puts your neck out of line with your spinal column, straining your back. Keeping your head propped up with a stack of pillows takes it out of alignment with your spine. As a result, you may develop back pain. Even though old age is not actually the reason for back pain, there are quite a few folks that will have had previous issues that seem more prevalent as they age. Osteoporosis, usually happening to women, reduces the strength of the bones and fractures are more apt to happen. Osteoarthritis can plague the whole body, but the spine is the most inclined to be affected. Many people develop degenerative disc disease as they get older, due to decreasing bone density. There are also a number of less common ailments that older people are at risk for and which cause back pain. There are answers to these issues; just remember to take on a good exercise regimen and take the necessary vitamins to maintain crucial bone density. Suffering from back pain is very distressing. In fact, it can make it extremely difficult to even rise out of bed each day. You will more easily be able to prevent back pain from returning if you have been able to find out the root cause of your pain. If your back pain is caused by health issues, it?s wise to get those problems taken care of first. If not, simply pay attention to your overall health and fitness, your diet, and any other issues in your life that may lead to back pain. learn more about back pain relief or the similar topic of back pain treatment .
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Zynga's share price plummeted 11.4 percent from $8.09 to $7.19 in the eight minutes after Facebook's IPO went live, and down 13.3 percent since yesterday. Trading has been halted to stem further losses. While we can't know the exact reason why this happened, I'd bet that investors expected Zynga shares to pop alongside Facebook's during the IPO. But when they didn't pop at all and instead stayed flat, those short-term investors sold off the social gaming company's shares. Many tech stocks have traded downward following Facebook's open. Chinese social network?Renren,?professional?network?LinkedIn, and some other related tech stocks are also down.
Complaints by Netflix's Reed Hastings and a handful of politicians must have rankled Comcast CTO Tony Werner, as he just posted a particularly detailed explanation of why Comcast believes the Xfinity TV app on the Xbox 360 isn't violating net neutrality. We'd previously heard the argument that the Xfinity app's traffic is simply being routed through Comcast's internal network and isn't the same as the Internet data of Netflix, but Werner now contends that the Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) tags that some think are breaking FCC rules by favoring Xfinity video are really just necessary switches. They're not prioritizing traffic, they're setting it aside, the claim goes. Of course, Hastings and others believe that setting Xfinity video aside is prioritizing, and Comcast's point of view sidesteps the practical reality that watching Netflix, Amazon Instant Video or iTunes will lead you closer to that ever-present 250GB cap while Xfinity doesn't. The FCC during its rulemaking warned against special private services being used as end-runs around neutrality concerns; it's up to the agency to decide whether or not that's true here, or whether Comcast is just offering its usual service in a new way.
National initiative launched to change the way biology departments approach undergraduate education Public release date: 15-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Dr. Robert Gropp rgropp@aibs.org 202-628-1500 x250 American Institute of Biological Sciences
PULSE program seeks faculty to help lead systemic change
WASHINGTON, DC A new national initiative promises to improve college biology education by engaging faculty members in an effort to change how post-secondary life sciences departments approach education. PULSE, which stands for Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education, is a collaborative effort funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Program organizers also announced today that they are accepting applications from faculty members interested in becoming Vision and Change Fellows individuals who will lead a national effort to stimulate systemic change in how post-secondary educational institutions approach biology education. The intent of the program is to develop a strategy to implement the findings from a 2011 report.
College students and faculty members have long argued that the approach to undergraduate education in the life sciences should be modernized to reflect what we now understand about how students learn. Twenty-first century science demands that students develop scientific and technical skills, and also the capacity to work beyond traditional academic boundaries. Undergraduate students, regardless of their major, deserve and need a life sciences education that helps then understand biology and how scientific research is conducted. Informed decision-making, whether managing one's health, deciding what food to eat, or understanding how individual actions influence the environment, requires an appreciation of the nature of science.
In 2006, the NSF initiated a multi-year conversation with the scientific community, with support from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. That dialogue, which was co-funded with the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, generated the 2011 report, Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action.
The scientific community actively informed the recommendations in the Vision and Change report. Among these were a recognition that a 21st century education requires changes to how biology is taught, how academic departments support faculty, and how curricular decisions are made.
"There is now broad consensus about the change that is needed," said HHMI's Cynthia Bauerle. The way biology is taught needs to change in order to "spark student interest in science and prepare them for the challenging scientific problems we face in the 21st century."
Prior efforts to reform post-secondary life sciences education have focused on helping individual faculty members improve their teaching methods. These initiatives have created points of excellence at institutions across the country, but have failed to produce the systemic change that is needed to fundamentally improve college-level biology education.
To foster this widespread change, the NSF, NIH, HHMI have partnered to launch the PULSE program. Supporting the effort are Knowinnovation and the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
The PULSE initiative will facilitate the systemic change that was identified as a national priority in the Vision and Change report.
Clifton A. Poodry of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the division of NIH providing funding to PULSE, notes that NIH has a long-standing commitment to training the next generation. "We look forward to furthering this goal through our partnership with NSF and HHMI to implement recommendations of the Vision and Change report for improving undergraduate biology education," said Poodry.
This year PULSE will select 40 Vision and Change Fellows. The selection process will identify individuals experienced in catalyzing undergraduate biology education reform at institutional, departmental, or divisional levels in the nation's colleges and universities. The Vision and Change Fellows will represent research universities, regional or comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges. The Fellows will be engaged in a yearlong effort to develop an implementation strategy for the Vision and Change report.
"What we are trying to achieve is systemic change, transformation of undergraduate biology education in this country," stated Judith Verbeke of the NSF. This is why the PULSE effort is encouraging current or former biology department heads to apply. "The focus is intentional," said Verbeke, "because it's at the level of the department that so many decisions are made. We are looking to the department as the most appropriate unit to make real change."
Ideal applicants will be aware of the history and discourse of reforming undergraduate life sciences education; have undergraduate teaching experience as well as experience mentoring, motivating and evaluating other faculty; and will have experience as current or former chairs or department heads. Applicants should be active in cultivating the mix of scholarship in teaching and life sciences research appropriate to their type of institution. Successful candidates will have a record of working collaboratively and creatively with individuals from different backgrounds.
It is through diversity of perspective that we achieve change, Bauerle said, "We seek not only those who are already members of the choir, but also committed life scientists and educators who question how best to proceed."
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Applications for the Vision and Change Fellows program will be accepted through July 9, 2012. Information about the PULSE program, including application guidelines, is available at www.pulsecommunity.org. The Vision and Change report is available at http://visionandchange.org/finalreport.
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National initiative launched to change the way biology departments approach undergraduate education Public release date: 15-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Dr. Robert Gropp rgropp@aibs.org 202-628-1500 x250 American Institute of Biological Sciences
PULSE program seeks faculty to help lead systemic change
WASHINGTON, DC A new national initiative promises to improve college biology education by engaging faculty members in an effort to change how post-secondary life sciences departments approach education. PULSE, which stands for Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education, is a collaborative effort funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Program organizers also announced today that they are accepting applications from faculty members interested in becoming Vision and Change Fellows individuals who will lead a national effort to stimulate systemic change in how post-secondary educational institutions approach biology education. The intent of the program is to develop a strategy to implement the findings from a 2011 report.
College students and faculty members have long argued that the approach to undergraduate education in the life sciences should be modernized to reflect what we now understand about how students learn. Twenty-first century science demands that students develop scientific and technical skills, and also the capacity to work beyond traditional academic boundaries. Undergraduate students, regardless of their major, deserve and need a life sciences education that helps then understand biology and how scientific research is conducted. Informed decision-making, whether managing one's health, deciding what food to eat, or understanding how individual actions influence the environment, requires an appreciation of the nature of science.
In 2006, the NSF initiated a multi-year conversation with the scientific community, with support from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. That dialogue, which was co-funded with the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, generated the 2011 report, Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action.
The scientific community actively informed the recommendations in the Vision and Change report. Among these were a recognition that a 21st century education requires changes to how biology is taught, how academic departments support faculty, and how curricular decisions are made.
"There is now broad consensus about the change that is needed," said HHMI's Cynthia Bauerle. The way biology is taught needs to change in order to "spark student interest in science and prepare them for the challenging scientific problems we face in the 21st century."
Prior efforts to reform post-secondary life sciences education have focused on helping individual faculty members improve their teaching methods. These initiatives have created points of excellence at institutions across the country, but have failed to produce the systemic change that is needed to fundamentally improve college-level biology education.
To foster this widespread change, the NSF, NIH, HHMI have partnered to launch the PULSE program. Supporting the effort are Knowinnovation and the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
The PULSE initiative will facilitate the systemic change that was identified as a national priority in the Vision and Change report.
Clifton A. Poodry of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the division of NIH providing funding to PULSE, notes that NIH has a long-standing commitment to training the next generation. "We look forward to furthering this goal through our partnership with NSF and HHMI to implement recommendations of the Vision and Change report for improving undergraduate biology education," said Poodry.
This year PULSE will select 40 Vision and Change Fellows. The selection process will identify individuals experienced in catalyzing undergraduate biology education reform at institutional, departmental, or divisional levels in the nation's colleges and universities. The Vision and Change Fellows will represent research universities, regional or comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges. The Fellows will be engaged in a yearlong effort to develop an implementation strategy for the Vision and Change report.
"What we are trying to achieve is systemic change, transformation of undergraduate biology education in this country," stated Judith Verbeke of the NSF. This is why the PULSE effort is encouraging current or former biology department heads to apply. "The focus is intentional," said Verbeke, "because it's at the level of the department that so many decisions are made. We are looking to the department as the most appropriate unit to make real change."
Ideal applicants will be aware of the history and discourse of reforming undergraduate life sciences education; have undergraduate teaching experience as well as experience mentoring, motivating and evaluating other faculty; and will have experience as current or former chairs or department heads. Applicants should be active in cultivating the mix of scholarship in teaching and life sciences research appropriate to their type of institution. Successful candidates will have a record of working collaboratively and creatively with individuals from different backgrounds.
It is through diversity of perspective that we achieve change, Bauerle said, "We seek not only those who are already members of the choir, but also committed life scientists and educators who question how best to proceed."
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Applications for the Vision and Change Fellows program will be accepted through July 9, 2012. Information about the PULSE program, including application guidelines, is available at www.pulsecommunity.org. The Vision and Change report is available at http://visionandchange.org/finalreport.
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At a very fundamental level, the venture capital business is being reshaped. Speaking to a crowd at the Grind work space in New York last week, Fred Wilson 
