blog.adriennerose.me: Health and Fitness Apps of Awesomeness.

Do you have a smart phone? If you do, do you realize that you have SO MANY awesome freaking things at your fingertips to better yourself??

If you don't... Go get one, now. Because your life is most definitely not complete.

Alrighty, now that's out of the way... I have to tell you that I am a big fan of using my smartphone (iPhone) to better myself. It's not cheating, it's called using your resources. Duh.?

General Health Apps:

Now, I have an iPhone so I am going to link up with iPhone apps, but, I am sure for those of you with Android that the same, or similar apps can be found.?

MyFitnessPal is a great app and website dedicated mostly to counting calories. It is great to use for beginners, and advanced calorie counting peeps. You can also track your excercise, it gives you approximate calories burned, if you do not have a Heart Rate Monitor or anything. It's pretty amazing.

You do not have to have a SmartPhone to use their great service. MyFitnessPal is a fully integrated website to use on your phone or computer! They have apps for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Phones.?

I am pretty new to Fooducate but I find it pretty nice in the grocery store when I am shopping. It will tell you the "grade" of the food you scanned, what's in it, and why it is or isn't good for you. It will also suggest a 'better' product to purchase instead. I found this really helpful yesterday when I was shopping for flour.

This app also has a great website too! I've learned a lot about foods that I eat with this app. (One of our goals to healthy eating is only eating foods that we KNOW what all the ingredients actually ARE in them, this helps a lot with that).

3) M. Calendar (for those of us who deal with *that* time of the month...)

Though, I see, now that I searched for this one again, that there are loads of other apps for this same purpose. That is pretty neat!?

Fitness Tracking:?

I absolutely adore this app. It is perfect for tracking any activity!

I have used it to track (GPS even!) walking, running, and bicycling! It's awesome because it will tell you the miles, and how long it's taking you! It's wonderful.?

I even use it in the gym to track the time on how long I have been strength training.

It has been one of the most accurate and reliable apps that I use. It even guesses your calorie use! Which is most handy!?

You don't need the fancy Nike shoes, or Nike shoe insert to get great use from this free app! I love it. I use a lot of apps to track my running.

This app, however, ONLY tracks running. It's kind of nice though, it gives you little medals, and encouragement along the way. It integrates nicely with Facebook, making it so friends can "like" or comment on ?your Nike+Running post, and you hear cheers for you to keep moving during your run. That is my most?FAVORITE part about this app. People can encourage you right from the comforts of their own home. lol

Endomondo is another great all around fitness tracking app! It tracks great mileage with walking, running, and (I assume, but haven't tried it yet) cycling!

Endomondo has a great community full of fellow fit people who are ready and willing to give you encouragement along the way! The community also puts out great challenges all the time! Most calories burned, most miles walked/run/cycled. Short challenges, long challenges, whatever you can think of! They're great! People (your friends on Endomondo) can also give you pep-talks that you can hear during your?exercise? It's pretty rad!

The ONLY downfall I find in this app, is when I am running inside on a treadmill and it does not track the time correctly. But, the good thing is, with all my other apps that I am running, I can just monitor, and change it on the Endomondo website. Great!?

This is a fairly new-to-me app as well. And guess what? I AM IN LOVE WITH IT! It's so freaking cool! It assigns a point system to any and all of your exercises! And then you can level up, participate in challenges, and make some really great fitness buddies!

I find that this app makes me excited to work out, and that's a really great thing for an app to have! I really recommend it! It's quite fun!?

This app is absolutely positively amazing. It has gotten me up off the couch, and running for 25minutes straight in 7weeks!! I love this app. It's FREE which is a huge bonus!

This app gives you tiny manageable increments to run, it's a 8/9week program, and is totally AWESOME. Totally doable! It is THE app to have if you want to get off your touch and get running!

It integrates with Facebook and lets all your friends know how freaking awesome you are.?

These are my most used and favorite fitness apps on my iPhone right now! I believe all of these (except Fitocracy -- which will soon be available for Android) are available for the Android phones too!

What apps do you use? What are you favorites? Any that I didn't mention here?? I am always interested in new and fun fitness apps!?

Source: http://blog.adriennerose.me/2012/10/health-and-fitness-apps-of-awesomeness.html

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Unique protein bond enables learning and memory

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2012) ? Two proteins have a unique bond that enables brain receptors essential to learning and memory to not only get and stay where they're needed, but to be hauled off when they aren't, researchers say.

NMDA receptors increase the activity and communication of brain cells and are strategically placed, much like a welcome center, at the receiving end of the communication highway connecting two cells. They also are targets in brain-degenerating conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

In a true cradle-to-grave relationship, researchers have found the scaffolding protein, SAP102, which helps stabilize the receptor on the cell surface, binds with a subunit of the NMDA receptor called GluN2B at two sites, said Dr. Bo-Shiun Chen, neuroscientist at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University.

While one binding site is the norm, these proteins have one that's stronger than the other. When it's time for the normal receptor turnover, the stronger bond releases and the lesser one shuttles the receptor inside the cell for degradation or recycling.

"One binding site is involved in stabilizing the receptor on the cell surface and the other is important in removing the receptor. We think it's a paradigm shift; we've never thought about the same scaffolding protein having two roles," said Chen, corresponding author of the study in the journal Cell Reports.

"We believe by understanding the normal turnover of these receptors, we can learn more about how to prevent the abnormal receptor loss that occurs in debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer's." In Parkinson's, the receptors inexplicably move away from where the synapse, or information highway, connects to the neuron, making them less effective. NMDA receptors are supposed to cluster where the synapse hooks into the receiving neuron; in fact, it's part of what anchors the synapse, Chen said.

Interestingly, this pivotal protein, SAP102, a member of the MAGUK family of scaffolding proteins, is the only family member known to directly contribute to maladies: its mutation causes intellectual disability.

While all cells have a system for managing the number of receptors on their surface, in Alzheimer's, this removal process appears accelerated, with increased engulfing of receptors and less neuron-to-neuron communication. The neurotransmitter glutamate helps establish and maintain the synapse and also binds with GluN2B.

GluN2B-containing NMDA receptors stay open to receive information for a long time, enabling the type of vigorous and sustained communication that enables learning and memory. In fact the number of these receptors naturally decreases with age, which may be one reason young people learn easier. When it's time to remove a receptor, phosphorus gets added to GluN2B, changing its function so it no longer binds to the scaffolding protein.

Chen's research was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and conducted in mice and rat neurons in culture. Collaborators include Dr. Roger A. Nicoll, Professor, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Katherine W. Roche, Senior Investigator, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

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1. Bo-Shiun Chen, John?A. Gray, Antonio Sanz-Clemente, Zhe Wei, Eleanor?V. Thomas, Roger?A. Nicoll, Katherine?W. Roche. SAP102 Mediates Synaptic Clearance of NMDA Receptors. Cell Reports, 2012; DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.09.024

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Call for inquiry into legal advice scandal - The Times

Alex Salmond came under further pressure last night in the on-going row over EU legal advice when Labour demanded the creation of a judge-led inquiry to investigate the First Minister?s behaviour.

Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader, used a set-piece debate on the floor of the parliament chamber to call for a judicial inquiry into the First Minister?s actions in the week-long controversy over Scotland?s position in the EU after independence.

The demand came as opposition politicians derided Mr Salmond for not bothering to even come to the Scottish Parliament to answer the accusations being raised against him yesterday afternoon

Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/article3584769.ece

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Raritania: Of Science Fiction and Futurology

Science fiction writers have often displayed a propensity to downplay the extent to which the genre makes predictions about the future. (To name a recent instance William Gibson did it again in Wired in September.)

There are good reasons for this. A writer's purpose in producing a piece of fiction is much more likely to be the creation of art or the presentation of an entertainment than writing a manual to life at some future date. Serious guess work about, for instance, life in 2050 might be secondary to what they are doing, or even incidental. They may also wish to distance themselves from the opprobrium some have directed at futurology.

Yet, in the process they sometimes exaggerate the distance between the two endeavors. The truth is that science fiction writers often ask the same questions as futurologists, and often arrive at the same answers. (After all, "extrapolation," labeled by John Campbell but long preceding him, is at the heart of the harder types of science fiction.) In the course of their work they often look at, and draw on, what their counterparts on the other side of the line have done, science fiction writers referencing futurology, futurologists drawing inspiration from science fiction, for a very long time now. (Looking at Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, for instance, the influence of predictions about aerial warfare by the military theorists of his day is very apparent in the book's often-denigrated early chapters.) And many try their hand at both games successfully (science fiction writers from H.G. Wells to Vernor Vinge becoming accomplished futurists).

Given this relationship it would seem natural that if one of these is stagnant, so is the other, and that has indeed been my impression. There is a wide, though apparently not dominant, view that science fiction has fallen short in the ideas department in recent years. (As Charles Stross recently noted, all we have to show for the last three decades in this respect is radical hard science fiction and the Singularity, both rather well-worn at this point.) It seems to me that futurology, too, has been short on ideas for many years now, evident all across the spectrum from optimistic techno-libertarianism, to pessimistic eco-catastrophism. The former shows little sign of innovation, which has tapered off since the boom in Singularitarian thought during the 1990s. (Since then we have tended to see the same names, the same ideas, those of Vinge and Ray Kurzweil and Hans Moravec and company cited over and over and over again rather than the production of original, compelling arguments for this idea ? as demonstrated in Peter Diamndis and Steve Kotler's rather tepid Abundance.) The same goes for the latter. (While ably describing our problems, it has great difficulty describing how the plausible technical solutions might actually be applied.)

These failings, in turn, point to still larger failures in our intellectual life. The technical frontiers appear to be the same one we've been looking at for decades, except that our prospects for conquering them seem more modest than in, say, the years of the tech boom. Meanwhile, there is a distinct lack of imaginative daring among our thinkers on social and political matters. And it is not only readers of science fiction who are noticing. When the hand on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock moved one minute forward this month, Kennette Benedict, the magazine's executive director, cited the lack of "new thinking" as a factor.

In short, this problem is much, much bigger than the doldrums of a single literary genre.

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Salt Lake Tribune Endorses President Obama, Not Mitt Romney

One would figure that the Salt Lake Tribune would know Mitt Romney better than anyone else. I would have thought that there was no way that the Salt Lake Tribute would ever endorse anyone other than Mitt Romney. I would have been wrong. The Salt Lake Tribune takes Romney to the wood shed.

From the Salt Lake Tribune:

Nowhere has Mitt Romney?s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The Republican nominee?s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head for business and the bottom line all inspire admiration and hope in our largely Mormon, Republican, business-friendly state.

But it was Romney?s singular role in rescuing Utah?s organization of the 2002 Olympics from a cesspool of scandal, and his oversight of the most successful Winter Games on record, that make him the Beehive State?s favorite adopted son. After all, Romney managed to save the state from ignominy, turning the extravaganza into a showcase for the matchless landscapes, volunteerism and efficiency that told the world what is best and most beautiful about Utah and its people.

In short, this is the Mitt Romney we knew, or thought we knew, as one of us.

Sadly, it is not the only Romney, as his campaign for the White House has made abundantly clear, first in his servile courtship of the tea party in order to win the nomination, and now as the party?s shape-shifting nominee. From his embrace of the party?s radical right wing, to subsequent portrayals of himself as a moderate champion of the middle class, Romney has raised the most frequently asked question of the campaign: "Who is this guy, really, and what in the world does he truly believe?"

The evidence suggests no clear answer, or at least one that would survive Romney?s next speech or sound bite. Politicians routinely tailor their words to suit an audience. Romney, though, is shameless, lavishing vastly diverse audiences with words, any words, they would trade their votes to hear.

More troubling, Romney has repeatedly refused to share specifics of his radical plan to simultaneously reduce the debt, get rid of Obamacare (or, as he now says, only part of it), make a voucher program of Medicare, slash taxes and spending, and thereby create millions of new jobs. To claim, as Romney does, that he would offset his tax and spending cuts (except for billions more for the military) by doing away with tax deductions and exemptions is utterly meaningless without identifying which and how many would get the ax. Absent those specifics, his promise of a balanced budget simply does not pencil out.

If this portrait of a Romney willing to say anything to get elected seems harsh, we need only revisit his branding of 47 percent of Americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, yet feel victimized and entitled to government assistance. His job, he told a group of wealthy donors, "is not to worry about those people. I?ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Where, we ask, is the pragmatic, inclusive Romney, the Massachusetts governor who left the state with a model health care plan in place, the Romney who led Utah to Olympic glory? That Romney skedaddled and is nowhere to be found.

And what of the president Romney would replace? For four years, President Barack Obama has attempted, with varying degrees of success, to pull the nation out of its worst financial meltdown since the Great Depression, a deepening crisis he inherited the day he took office.

In the first months of his presidency, Obama acted decisively to stimulate the economy. His leadership was essential to passage of the badly needed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Though Republicans criticize the stimulus for failing to create jobs, it clearly helped stop the hemorrhaging of public sector jobs. The Utah Legislature used hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to plug holes in the state?s budget. (more...)

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Is HR Social-able? [infographic], Business

Once the domain of techies, edgy marketing professionals using the latest mobile devices and people who described themselves as ?savvy?, social media?s now gone beyond mainstream. Working in the midst of the HR space,?we?re always on the lookout for new ways of engaging and communicating with potential, current and past employees for our clients. When you look at the usage of social across APAC (thanks to socialbakers.com and Ignite Social Media), the statistics are mind-blowing and the opportunity for audience engagement fascinating.

You only have to look at Facebook, where 57% (Hong Kong ),62% (Singapore) and even 67% (Brunei!) of population on Facebook compared to 54% in the US and 55% in Australia. LinkedIn?s penetration is behind but growing at between 200-300% while Twitter is booming in countries like Indonesia and the Philippines.

At its core, HR is a communications business, so let?s take a look at the efforts of HR across APAC in benefiting from this booming world of social media. ?I think it?s fair to say the overall situation is patchy! Certain social channels are very well-utilised; the professional networks such as LinkedIn are naturally popular in the world of recruitment, networking and human resources.

We recently partnered with the Chapman Consulting Group to carry out some research into social media usage trends amongst HR and recruitment teams in Asia Pacific (download the report at www.alexandermannsolutions.com/socialmediareport) , and the findings showed there?s certainly room for improvement in the sector. Corporate usage of LinkedIn sits at around 90%, which shows how important the professional networking part of social media is, but professional Facebook and Twitter usage cross-region sits at 63% and 31% respectively. Yet Facebook and Twitter represent far larger audiences than LinkedIn, and certainly can?t be overlooked as communications channels. And there are still huge channels which remain utterly untapped, especially specialist/niche social media in a particular geography or focussing on a particular demographic (Weibo, RenRen, Google+).

Blended with the statistics in the research was commentary from those in the market working with social media, and it?s pretty apparent from the tone and feedback provided that the biggest concern is there?s a total lack of rigour and consistency in managing social media engagements effectively. A restrictive corporate policy on social media usage might reduce the risk of unnecessary exposure to bad publicity, but it also cuts out a huge section of the audience for recruiters and employer branders. And where there is the flexibility to work within the social media environment, there are few ? if any ? guidelines, and efforts are usually ad-hoc and poorly directed. Very few respondents could articulate an underlying strategy to their social media efforts ? ?and when they could, the strategy was either marketing or IT-aligned.

Our report shows there?s definitely the appetite to grow presence across the region (over 90% firms committing to increase their social usage for recruitment) but corporate recruiters believe that there are some major challenges in front of them specifically insufficient time/resources, governance and expertise.

The resource issue is the same as highlighted by marketing departments in Buddy Media?s 2012 survey on social media usage across APAC.

It?s time to break down those organisational boundaries and combine efforts. Coming back to the point of my last blog post, that for HR to be truly social-able, we need HR to work closer with their marketing colleagues and include these skills in their own teams.

Usage of Social Media in HR and Recruitment in Asia Pacific - Alexander Mann Solutions & The Chapman Consulting Group

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