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The One Percent. Dear Fork. Budget Cuts. Here's a little round up of links from around the Web you may have missed this week:
- "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%" -- Joseph Stiglitz on inequality in America.
- Dear Fork, You have a son.
- Go inside Prague's off-limits baroque library.
- We're not broke. Not even close.
- Our new and improved Daily Digest from Duane Shank is the best round up of relevant news articles out there. Yeah, I said it: It's the BEST.
- Let's thank our members of Congress for joining the hunger fast for a moral budget. (Call your member and ask them to join.)
- Stay updated on the latest news from the hunger fast for a moral budget.
- Michael Gerson on the real-world effects of budget cuts.
- Watch this CNN report on the hunger fast for a moral budget.
I Am Fasting So People Don't Go Hungry
In the tradition of the church, the season of Lent was observed through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
Rediscovering Values for Lent: The Power of Grief
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Why I am Fasting (Again)
In 1993 -- nearly 20 years ago -- I went on a water only fast to protest the lack of conscience of the U.S. Congress towards hungry people.
Why I am Joining the Fast: Global Hunger is Getting Worse
After my teenage granddaughter returned recently from a service experience in Uganda, sponsored by American Jewish World Service, she remarked that she would never again say she's "starving" on her
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Food Prices. Aurora Borealis. Fasting and Prayer. Here's a little round up of links from around the web you may have missed this week:
- Food and gas prices are rising again and anti-hunger activists are calling for financial reform.
- Artist Theo Jansen has created skeletal creatures out of plastic pipes that are able to walk on wind and subsist on their own. Watch the footage. (It's incredible!)
- Don't have time to watch the aurora borealis in Russia for a week? Yeah, me neither.
- Would you dare eat pie in the sky?
- A brief history of movie title design. (How many of these have you seen?)
- Join Jim Wallis and others as we fast and pray for the national budget. (Join here.)
- Lastly, we want to hear from you. What are some issues that are tugging at your heart these days?
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"On a probabilistic analysis, fewer potential innovation
opportunities lowers the chances of success (however defined)."
I was enjoying the read until this sentence. I think I need to go lie down now.
First I briefly review the history and existing academic debates around DRM to consider why they have so overlooked the user-innovation impacts. The next sections examine the law and technology of digital rights management, particularly the interaction of statutory law, technological measures, and the contractual conditions generally attached to them. I focus particularly on the "robustness rules" in licenses at at this inter- section. I then introduce the rich literature on disruptive technology and user innovation, to argue that these copyright-driven constraints significantly harm cultural and technological development and user autonomy. I conclude that the mode-of-development tax is too high a price to pay for imperfect copyright protection.The Imperfect is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation (via JoHo)
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"On a probabilistic analysis, fewer potential innovation
opportunities lowers the chances of success (however defined)."
I was enjoying the read until this sentence. I think I need to go lie down now.
If someone made a website that looked exactly like boingboing, but with a slightly different name, and then copied all your content everyday and posted it on their site and claimed they wrote it, would you support their right to do so, or would you claim infringement of copyright?
I've run across a number of websites that republish all or part of the BB feed under their own banner.
College Humor's games section is called Bleep Bloop. Check out the Bleep Bloop logo in one of their videos.
We're mellow.
I think there are two fundamental issues here. (1) Is DRM good or bad, all things considered? and (2) Do content creators have the right to use DRM if they wish?
I'm not an expert on the consequences of DRM, so I can't comment on (1), except to say that I don't like DRM.
However, the answer to (2) is clearly yes. Not everything that's bad should be prohibited. Let DRM win or lose in the marketplaces of commerce and ideas. I think it will lose on its own without the need for more government. (I'm not suggesting that everyone opposed to DRM is attempting to ban it. Some are, some aren't, and some are implying it.)
I think there are two fundamental issues here. (1) Is DRM good or bad, all things considered? and (2) Do content creators have the right to use DRM if they wish?
I'm not an expert on the consequences of DRM, so I can't comment on (1), except to say that I don't like DRM.
Perhaps if you read the linked article, you might become a little more informed?
However, the answer to (2) is clearly yes. Not everything that's bad should be prohibited.
However, things that are bad should not be mandated or otherwise supported by laws.
Generally, it's not the technology itself that's a problem; that's relatively easy to fix (though it may be tedious). The major part of the problem is the combination with ill-conceived laws and treaties. In some cases, market effects can also be problematic, for instance with the DVD CCA (which has monopoly control over DVD and Blue-ray video players).
It's when disruptive or user-led innovation by law requires permission from incumbents that the harmful effects are the worst.
[i]Let DRM win or lose in the marketplaces of commerce and ideas. I think it will lose on its own without the need for more government. [/i]
The point of DRM is to avoid being subjected to normal market forces through the force of law. Its the government which makes it have any real effect at all (by making circumvention illegal, thus barring most disruption by legitimate parties.)
Re: drm only having power b/c of government intervention, thus creating a distortion in the market –
To be fair, all forms of ip protection (copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret) are both a) government created/enforced and b) create market distortions (by limiting entrance by others).
If you want a truly free market with no government distortions, then drm is not the problem…ip protection is.
Few people (not even creative commons, lessig, et al) advocate for a complete elimination of ip. Sometimes I feel that drm rants are really just anti-ip rants which are too chicken to admit it.
I think there are two fundamental issues here. (1) Is DRM good or bad, all things considered? and (2) Do content creators have the right to use DRM if they wish?
1) DRM is neither good nor bad. There are some markets where it is value adding (medical records?), and some (many more) markets where it is not value adding.
DRM does not add any value to the final customer. Would you pay extra for something that decreases the value you get from a product? Would you pay extra for a bicycle if it came with a lock around the wheels (a lock to which you were not allowed to have the key)? OR would you simply avoid the product in the marketplace and look for alternatives to purchase — a bicycle with no lock or media files with no DRM? This is why DRM will fail in the marketplace, and the only thing keeping it from failing is government legislation.
But would you pay a bit more if your medical records could be kept private and those documents better controlled? Many people would.
There are a few instances where DRM might add value (medical records) and for these reasons the government should neither ban it nor afford it legal protection. But DRM adds no value in the consumer marketplace.
2) The creators do have the right to choose how they want to distribute their work. Should they choose to choose the route of exclusively distributing via wax cylinders, go right ahead. Just as long as they understand that the market for wax cylinders is smaller than the market for other formats.
Anonymous, if you paid for access to a website under terms that only allowed that web site to be viewed with on proprietary browser on one kind of computer, with the threat of legal action against anyone who developed a different browser for you to view the web site you paid for, would you feel that you were being treated fairly as a consumer?
Oh, there's always the rationalization that if you know you're going to get screwed before you buy something then it's ok for you to get screwed.
You mean like Netflix? B/c I can't ever get their online service to work other than on a MS based PC running explorer, and I have a mac.
So…. I stopped being a customer without ever once being self-righteous about how my needs weren't being met by a service I misunderstood when I signed up for it.
caveat emptor.
DRM can also cheat the buyer. There are stuff that's tied down to the device you download it into. You're supposed to be able to "unregister" the stuff from your old machine and transfer it to another (or you simply need to reinstall your OS). The DRMed stuff is sold to you (sold, not rented), but 5 years on, the company goes bust, the authorization server goes down …
too right, ask all those people who bought into "Plays for sure" content…
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moreThe environmental impact of development projects is currently studied and mitigated from two distinct perspectives: before and after project implementation, with environmental impact assessment (EIA) and environmental management systems (EMS) being the main instruments on the respective sides. This double perspective creates a discontinuity in the way environmental impacts are analyzed, an issue that has been noted by both academics and practitioners. This book gathers and presents both theoretical and actual examples to link EIA with EMS and explores ways to overcome difficulties and provide innovative solutions. Academic researchers, advanced students, EIA practitioners and EMS practitioners will find the book essential for the theoretical explorations of how the link might occur and practical examples in which to explore and critique these theories. less
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Almost every business has an international dimension, and companies require an increasingly global approach from their legal advisors. With the European Union being one of the world´s largest markets, it is essential for businesses and firms to have lawyers who truly understand the rules governing international private law transactions within Europe.
The Official Master's Degree in International and European Business Law offers:
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What can I not say about this hotel? I had travelled to Japan since my stay here a year ago and always think of this place here. When I first travelled to Japan, I stayed here. The location is great. It is easy to get around via train and you have so many great restaurants and nice things just a few steps away from your door.
Down the tall steps from the B (it's located on a hill) is the Tokyo Broadcasting Station (TBS). You can often wander down the steps and see them filming shows outside in mini sets. They do not allow photography, but it is nice to mosey on down and see something out of the ordinary going on. Across from the B Akasaka is Akasaka Sakas. Great shops, botiques, and plenty of restaurants. Make sure you check out Dozo for dinner. They are a little pricey, but the quality is really good. Also swing by the bakery on the lower level. In the winter, when it is too cold to film outside, they have an iceskating rink set up below the steps. So if you come in the winter, prepare to skate!
When I came here, I was also traveling alone. I was a young woman who didn't speak any Japanese, roaming around here for pleasure. The best part? I felt safe here.
The staff at the B Akasaka is so friendly and they are all about service, service, service. It was raining one of the days I was there and one of the workers grabbed the umbrella for me. Didn't have to, but was just being polite. The staff always smiles when you walk in, greet you, and truly care about your overall happiness.
The next time I come back, I will be staying here. While most people stay in the Shinjuku area (where the main train station is), it's only a few train stops away if you need to get around. I would recommend this hotel to anyone.
I'm not Japanese and I have only been to Japan twice, but I have a sense of "I feel at home" while I am at The B.
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My name is Keith V. Whalen and I am currently looking for work. I work in all mediums, except for vector art. I do both conceptual and illustrative work, as well as some writing.
My name is Keith V. Whalen and I am currently looking for work. I work in all mediums, except for vector art. I do both conceptual and illustrative work, as well as some writing.
Here are a few Carnage concepts I drew up.
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Here are more Carnage pics I did. The first one was actually from a few years ago, so the proportions aren't too pretty, and the black and white portrait is so far unfinished. I'm not sure to paint it or just color it digitally.
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I'm working on some weapon and environment designs at the moment, so here's my first fully colored environment concept, and a picture of Venom I did. I combined a bit of Venom's look in Spider-Man 3 with the classic McFarlin design.
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Hi keith_v!
Very nice sketchbook! I especially like your newest update (venoms muscles and the atmosphere in the environment artwork are really great!) and the creatures in the first post!
Hope to see more from you soon!
Just a couple more updates. The first is a mechanical butterfly sitting on a glass flower, done with colored pencils (though I may go back and clean it up digitally), and the second is an 18x24 oil painting of Eddie Brock I did for school.
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Just an environment concept...
Just a couple of updates...
first pic is just an example of portraits done in different styles, and the second pic is a new monster concept I just finished.
I was really unhappy with how that one environment pic I did came out. It looks too muddy and sloppy. So I decided to rework the image to get the feel I initially wanted. I'm going to leave the old one up in my thread just because I think it serves as an interesting comparitive piece, to see what a week or two of practice can do.
Hey, I haven't updated my sketchbook in a while, so I figured I might toss in some new stuff.
Here's a couple of rough sketches I did. The first design took about an hour and 20 minutes with Painter. The second, I actually don't remember.
Great stuff, the first pic in post 10 and both pictures in post 6, realy show your range.
Post 9 & 11 does not showcase your true skills the attion to the details does not show up in either one of them, near like it does in your colored pencil and traditional works. Try and not sectionalize your skills to just one media, they should flow, what you learn in one will help you in the other. Like in post #10 2nd picture the digital work, the detail in the tounge works great then it gets all blury and out of focus over the rest of the animal, you lose the definition that you have in your traditional works, and it gets kinda soft and squishy, dont do that .
I hope that helps you, good luck and keep posting .
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Video: Cop 'aggravated' when HIV+ suspect fails to disclose status
Officer said he would have liked to have been informed prior to his search, which turned up pills and earrings
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DEARBORN, Mich. — A traffic stop by a Dearborn police officer has prompted concerns of "HIV discrimination," according to a report analyzing the dash cam video.
Officer David Lacey pulled over a truck last month for a burnt out taillight and performed a search of the vehicle and a passenger's purse, becoming "aggravated" when he found HIV medication.
In the video, Lacey uncovers a pill bottle and asks Shalandra Jones about its contents. When she responds that she is HIV positive, he tells her she should disclose that status during police searches, which is not required by law.
"If you ever get pulled out for any reason, you want to tell us, OK?," Lacey said. "Cause I want to make sure I put gloves on and all that stuff, OK?"
The purse also contained earrings, which an HIV expert interviewed by the American Independent said posed a perceived risk for Lacey.
"He has no idea what's inside and who knows what he would come across or injure himself, even using caution," Dr. Paul Benson said. "The earrings themselves were probably of a very low risk, but still an unknown risk."
Lacey said he would have liked to have been informed of the HIV status prior to the search.
"That kind of really aggravated me, you know what I mean?" he said. "You got to tell me right away, 'I've got this. I've got that.'"
Jones, who said she was a medical marijuana patient but carried an expired card, received a ticket for illegal marijuana possession. Driver Mark Scott was cited for driving without a license.
An online petition has been posted asking that Jones' charges be dropped and police provide better training in HIV and disclosure laws, according to the report. It claims Lacey "used his authority to make [Jones] feel like she was obligated to disclose her HIV status."
Jones has filed a complaint against Dearborn police.
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Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is a professor at Harvard and author of The Future of Power.
According to a US State Department official, the concept of "smart power" – the intelligent integration and networking of diplomacy, defence, development, and other tools of so-called "hard" and "soft" power – is at the heart of the Obama administration's foreign policy vision. Currently, however, Obama's smart-power strategy is facing a stiff challenge from events in the Middle East.
If Obama fails to support the governments in Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, or Yemen, he may jeopardise important foreign policy goals such as Middle East peace, a naval base in the Persian gulf, stability in oil markets, and cooperation against al Qaeda terrorists. On the other hand, if he does support such governments, he will antagonize those countries' information-empowered civil society, thus jeopardising longer-term stability.
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Balancing hard-power relations with governments with soft-power support for democracy is like walking a tightrope. The Obama administration has wobbled in this balancing act, but thus far it has not fallen off.
Because the Obama administration has used the term "smart power", some people think that it refers only to the US - and critics complain that it is merely a slogan, like "tough love", used to sugar-coat US foreign policy. But smart power is by no means limited to the US. Combining hard and soft power is a difficult task for many states – but no less necessary for that.
Smart power as key to growth
In fact, some small states have proven highly adept at smart-power strategies. Singapore has invested enough in its military defence to make itself seem as indigestible as "a poisoned shrimp" to neighbours it wishes to deter. At the same time, it has combined this hard-power approach with attractive soft-power activities in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, as well as efforts to use its universities as hubs of regional non-governmental activities.
Likewise, Switzerland long used mandatory military service and mountainous geography as hard-power resources for deterrence, while making itself attractive to others through banking, commercial, and cultural networks. Qatar, a small peninsula jutting out from Saudi Arabia, allowed its territory to be used as the US military headquarters in the invasion of Iraq - while at the same time sponsoring Al Jazeera, the most popular television station in the region, which was highly critical of US actions. Norway joined NATO for defense, but developed forward-looking policies on overseas development assistance and peace mediation to increase its soft power.
Historically, rising states used smart-power strategies to good avail. In the nineteenth century, Bismarck's Prussia employed an aggressive military strategy to defeat Denmark, Austria, and France in three wars that led to the unification of Germany. But once Bismarck had accomplished that goal, he focused German diplomacy on creating alliances with neighbours - and made Berlin the hub of European diplomacy and conflict resolution. One of Kaiser Wilhelm II's great mistakes two decades later was to fire Bismarck, fail to renew his "reinsurance treaty" with Russia, and challenge Britain for naval supremacy on the high seas.
After the Meiji Restoration of 1867-1868, a rising Japan built the military strength that enabled it to defeat Russia in 1905. But it also followed a conciliatory diplomatic policy toward Britain and the US, and spent considerable resources to make itself attractive overseas. After the failure of its imperialist Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity scheme of the 1930s - which had a soft-power component of anti-European propaganda - and its defeat in World War II, Japan turned to a strategy that minimised military power and relied on strategic alliance with the US. Japan's single-minded focus on economic growth achieved its goal, but the country developed only modest military and soft power.
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In its first decades, communist China built its military strength and simultaneously used the soft power of Maoist revolutionary doctrine and Third World solidarity to cultivate allies abroad. But, after the exhaustion of the Maoist strategy in the 1970s, Chinese leaders turned to market mechanisms to foster economic development. Deng Xiaoping warned his compatriots to eschew external adventures that might jeopardise internal development.
In 2007, President Hu Jintao proclaimed the importance of investing in China's soft power. Given China's rising economic and military power, this was a smart decision. By accompanying its growing hard power with efforts to make itself more attractive, China aimed to stem its neighbours fears and tendency to balance Chinese power.
In 2009, China was justly proud of its success in emerging from the global recession with a high rate of economic growth. Many Chinese mistakenly concluded that this represented a shift in the balance of global power, and that the US was in decline.
But such narratives can lead to conflict. Indeed, overconfidence in assessing its power led to more assertive Chinese foreign policy behaviour in the latter part of 2009 and 2010. China miscalculated by deviating from the smart strategy of a rising power and violating Deng's dictum that China should proceed cautiously and "skillfully keep a low profile". After Chinese leaders faced international criticism and deteriorating relations with the US, Japan, India, and other countries, they decided to return to Deng's smart-power strategy.
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Bob S. Carter, MD, is a board-certified neurosurgeron who specializes in brain tumors, vascular lesions and complex intracranial surgery, including cerebral bypass and aneurysm surgery. He is one of the nation's top clinical neurosurgeons and a prolific academic teacher and researcher.
Dr. Carter co-leads UC San Diego Health's brain tumor program, which brings together the efforts of over 50 faculty and staff who are focused on brain tumor clinical care, research and education. He is the chair elect of UC San Diego's Health Sciences Faculty Council and a professor of surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
A leader in immunotherapy, Dr. Carter researches how the body's own biologic system can be used to reject cancerous growths. He is also interested in improving outcomes for intracranial surgery, the development of serum RNA-based biomarkers for brain tumors and other neurological disorders, and the development of gene transfer delivery techniques for the central nervous system.
Dr. Carter is extensively published and his work has been cited more than 13,000 times. He lectures both nationally and internationally on neurosurgery topics and is an editorial board member for the Journal of Neurosurgery and Asian Journal of Neurosurgery.
Prior to joining UC San Diego Health, Dr. Carter was at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
He completed his neurosurgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and his post-doctoral fellowship at Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Carter earned his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and his PhD in genetic epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is board-certified in neurological surgery.
Dr. Carter is a fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and a member of numerous medical organizations, including the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Academy of Neurological Surgery and the Society of Neurological Surgeons. He serves on the program committee for the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference and has served on the executive boards of the Joint Cerebrovascular Section, the New England Neurosurgical Society and the California Association of Neurological Surgeons.
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As a result, Medicare patients living in Casper, WY are nearly six times more likely to undergo back surgery than patients living in the Bronx, NY.
?Some of the most important choices in medicine are not the clinician?s alone to make. Patient preference is especially important when facing a test, surgery or treatment that is elective. In order to ensure that patients get the treatment that is right for them, the choice should be a shared decision. When done right, shared decision-making results in a better decision: a personalized choice based on both the best scientific evidence and the patient?s values,? says Michael J. Barry, MD, report co-author and president of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making.
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Nordic Walking And Its Magic
Nordic walking is a full body kind of walking that can be appreciated both by non-competitors as a health promotion activity and by athletes as a game. The walking is done with specially made walking poles.
1.Increase caloric consumption up to 40%.
An essential exercise for smoldering calories and building cardiovascular wellness is cross country skiing. Both substantial abdominal area muscles and lower body muscles are completely occupied with this game. The Nordic Walking procedure will issue you comparable advantages. There can be an increment in oxygen utilization and caloric use of up to 40%.
2. Increases abdominal area strength.
Normal strolling just uses the legs, while arms are utilized for gaining balance. Vigorous arm activity will help build your walking speed and drive your legs. Utilizing Nordic Walking poles, you add imperviousness to the arm activity.
3. Low stress on the joints.
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Every bad tow truck driver has a handful of "you'll never believe this" stories to tell other members of the same profession. A mother changing a baby while the driver's towing her vehicle, a drunk driver who tries to hide from the police—and the field-sobriety test—inside the wrecker, a customer who once drove a sling-style wrecker and keeps up a constant flow of commentary about how much better his vehicle was than the modern flatbed that's conveying his car: All these narratives prove that people don't always display their best behavior when you're towing their cars.
Numerous individuals experience pain of the back, hip, knee and lower leg torment because of a lot of weight on the joints, stacking misaligned joints, absence of spinal stability, and injury, etc. The Nordic Walking posts empower two additional legs, giving the body an advantageous weight conveyance. This gives less weight on the joints. Anybody recovering from an injury ought to abstain from putting all their weight on the injury. Pregnant ladies can likewise profit by Nordic Walking as they gain weight.
4. Reduces neck and shoulder torment.
A 12 week study in Finland demonstrated that the musculoskeletal tension symptoms in the abdominal area reduced in the group that took part Nordic Walking unlike the individuals who did not. Both groups in the study were Finnish female office laborers. Nordic Walking improves muscular endurance in the abdominal area, which appears to have a good effect on muscles used in daily tasks.
5. Increases neck and chest mobility.
Nordic strolling needs torso rotation with each step. This improves movement of the muscles in the thoracic area. A number of posterior and interior upper body muscles come from the thoracic spine and ribcage. These muscle improves mobility as a result of the torso rotation.
6. Reduces risk of falling and improves safety.
Trekkers and hikers who stroll on rough terrain and carry a lot load, have used ski poles for long in adding stability. Any person that has an issue with balance can gain from the stability provided by the Nordic walking poles. The poles can be of use to pregnant women as their centre of gravity changes. It's like walking with two more legs.
7. Gives equal intensity of running without mush stress.
Individuals have given up on running when they learnt they can achieve the equal heart rate from Nordic Walking as they will with running. This is because of the increase in muscle use. The upper body works on Nordic walking. This leads to a higher need for oxygenated blood. As the person becomes more conditioned, they use more challenging terrain to get a higher intensity workout.
8. Improves mood.
One of the first studies on Nordic walking shows it analyzes mood state. Research subjects walking with poles demonstrated a reduce in fatigue, anger, and depression
9. Increased fun!
As Nordic Walkers say they have fun; Nordic Walking gives more fun than regular walking because it gives them higher variety and higher exercise.
Yennah Hurley is a Nordic Walking teacher working with the International Nordic Walking Association. Nordic Walking is her dream and she knows that people can gain from using the poles.
Nordic Walking poles are light and have a unique strap system that enables opening and closing of our hands during walking and pushing off. Real poles are equipped with good fingerless glove-like straps. The specially designed straps on the poles are the key to their success.
Nordic poles are specially invented for this purpose, while trekking poles or adapted ski poles would not provide the benefits and unlike Nordic poles, they are usually switched between the right and left hands. Nordic poles are smaller than those prescribed for cross country skiing. The poles are essentially made of lightweight carbon fibre or aluminium and are retractable for easy storing. These versatile Poles are also made of durable carbide metal tips for your favorite trail, snow and the beach. These Walking poles are usually mistaken for trekking poles or ski poles. These poles are bought from so many manufacturers and are sold at different prices. Nordic poles are available in adjustable length or fixed length, but one piece. These special walking poles are lighter, safer and more durable when compared to twist-locking adjustable/adjustable poles/telescoping. The walking Poles are used at the back of the body and makes use the muscles of the upper body while reducing the impact of the ground force on the joints. Nordic Walking poles are strong and light; relatively light not to strain the shoulders and strong enough to bend and not break. Most Nordic poles are made of one-piece carbon fiber material that makes them very lightweight (under 1lb for each pair) and durable.
Nordic Poles:
The poles from top brands cost about $80 to $200. The poles come with instructions on a DVD.
Rubber tip;
Rubber tips used in cleared surfaces, and underneath is a carbide tip for some other surface. the asphalt pad made of rubber are used for hard asphalt.
Cork Handle:
Cork forms over a long period of time to fit your hands.Both cork and foam absorbs sweat, while rubber and plastic holds can get slippery (and also risky) when wet.
Running with Nordic Walking poles permits you to turn up the force much further.
The aftereffect of utilizing Nordic walking poles is a full body walking workout that can burn out all necessary calories without a change in perceived exertion or needing to walk quicker, because of the incorporation of much large core, and other abdominal area muscles which are more than 90% of the body total muscle mass and do go against resistance with every stride.