Just as every run is unique, so every running shoe is designed for a specific type of runner. When selecting a running shoe, take into account the frequency of your training and your performance level. A shoe should fit comfortably and snug, but should not be so tight that your toes press against the front of the shoe or the top of your foot aches from the laces being too tight. If you run a great deal, it might be a good idea to look for a shoe that features the GEL® Cushioning System in the heel and forefoot.

Also, be aware of your gait. The three broad categories that define running shoes — Cushioning, Structured Cushioning, and Maximum Support — enhance gait by working with the natural movement of your foot, providing a more efficient stride. How you pronate plays a great part in a shoe’s ability to enhance your running experience. Pronation is a normal, natural rolling motion that helps to attenuate shock. Some runners find that their foot does not roll all the way in, making the foot work harder to push off properly. This is known as underpronation (or supination). Conversely, a foot that rolls inward too much in known as overpronation. Runners who underpronate (or, supinate) would feel more comfortable with a Cushioning shoe. Overpronators do better with Maximum Support, and those with a more neutral stride would do well with Structured Cushioning.

Products in the Structured Cushioning segment are designed for runners who pronate slightly more than normal and generally have a normal arch. Their foot strike takes place in a neutral to slightly pronated position, using the body’s natural pronation to attenuate shock. Structured Cushioning runners need their shoes to help control a small degree of overpronation, but they don’t need all the shock attenuation attributes of a Cushion segment shoe.
Cushioning
The Cushioning segment is designed to meet the needs of underpronators to mild overpronators and tend to have a high arch. This type of runner needs a great deal of shock attenuation because they don’t absorb shock naturally through pronation. Their foot either does not pronate at all, or pronates such a small amount that the body can’t attenuate shock in its natural manner. Instead of the body’s connective tissue absorbing shock through pronation, bones and joints take the brunt of the shock. It’s vital that shoes in the Cushioning segment attenuate as much initial impact shock as possible. An additional note: runners wearing Cushioning shoes tend have a rigid forefoot, thus requiring that the shoe be very flexible there.
Maximum Support
The Maximum Support category is designed for runners who tend to land in an overtly pronated position with a flat foot. Like the Cushion segment, these runners are not using all their body’s natural shock attenuation mechanisms. What makes them different is that these runners exhibit a large degree of pronation beginning with landing in a pronated state, then continuing past normal. Like the Structured Cushion segment, these runners need help to control the degree of pronation.
Trail
Designed to meet the needs of runners who prefer to take their run off-road. This category offers a range to suit most pronation ranges. Shoes may offer addtional features such as water resistant uppers and special tongue construction to help keep debris out.

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“We just weren’t communicating with her very well,” says John Hoke III, global creative director, Nike Brand. “We needed to extend the brand to that 51% of the population and establish a dialogue with all the female athletes out there.” NIKEgoddess, the new 6,000-sq.-ft. store at The Irvine Co.’s Fashion Island in Newport Beach, Calif., does just that.

Inspired by mid-20th century modern architecture and design — specifically the 1950s-era luxury homes of Palm Springs, Calif. — the store has a residential appeal, using pastel colors, interesting textures, and vignette merchandising to showcase Nike’s collection of athletic apparel and gear for women. “Our research shows that women aren’t as interested in that loud, in-your-face approach as men are,” notes Hoke. “She’s more interested in authenticity, so we created a scaled-down, welcoming place that’s really like a convergence of her home and a store.”

A ceramic-tile “runway” begins just inside the entrance and runs almost the entire depth of the space, drawing shoppers into the site. Flanked by mannequins and tables that hold featured products, the runway ends with a vertical backdrop that curves back toward the front of the store.

On either side of the walkway, the store has positioned two distinct merchandising personalities, says Hoke. The “warehouse” space features volume-driving, high-capacity fixtures. The “boutique” side showcases products in vignette style. “Here you’ll see a pair of yoga pants displayed with a potted orchid, a book on yoga, and a yoga mat,” explains Hoke. “We use display to tell a story about the product.”

Soothing pastel colors, wood and terrazzo flooring, and furniture-like fixturing reinforce the residential feel. “We tried to strike the word ‘fixture’ from our vocabulary,” says Hoke. “So instead we’ve got credenzas, wardrobers, and other pieces that look and feel like furniture.” Authentic mid-century modern chairs and other pieces are scattered throughout the store.

Nike developed the original architectural design in collaboration with Callison, Seattle. In January 2001, Nike opened a prototype store near its headquarters in Beaverton, Ore. Hoke’s staff then worked with Boora Architects of Portland to develop the Fashion Island store and a third store opening in Los Angeles next spring.

Boora’s role was to bring the NIKE-goddess concept to life while staying true to the original design intent, says Kevin Johnson, Boora principal. “The prototype is a 60-ft. by 60-ft. square with no columns, which is almost impossible to replicate,” he notes. In addition, the Fashion Island store is an exterior application rather than inside a mall. The store at this locale features a curved façade in contrast to the prototype’s straight one and incorporates colonnaded walkways and lower ceiling heights, as opposed to the prototype. With each new store, adds Johnson, “tweaks and adjustments have to be made to communicate the design concept.”

Thanks to Nike’s commitment to sustainability, Boora was also able to specify the most environmentally friendly materials possible, says Johnson. Low-VOC paints, recyclable gypsum board, and wood flooring certified by the Forest Stewardship Council were among the eco-friendly materials chosen. Epoxied-resin flooring originally specified for the runway was changed to a benign glass-mosaic tile. “Ultimately you have to balance aesthetics and cost-effectiveness,” says Johnson. “But in Nike we have a client who is willing to work toward the highest level of sustainability possible.”

While Hoke says the NIKEgoddess concept is still very much in the pilot phase, it was designed for rollout. “Our plan is to go to market with three or four test stores and fine-tune a point of view that lands with female customers,” he adds. “Down the road, we can potentially scale it.” More significant for Nike, he adds, is the new retail approach that is based on being more accessible to customers and more focused on their needs. “It’s a pretty major change in direction for us, and one that is resonating throughout our organization.”

Jared’s friend Bryce (Scott Caan) and his girlfriend Amanda (Ashley Scott) come to visit, as Bryce, a lawyer in New York City, has acquired the use of a luxury vacation house from a client he defended. While snorkeling, Jared comes across artifacts that seem to stem from a ship wreck. The four of them investigate and find several other pieces that turn out to be the remains of a legendary French pirate ship, lost as the pirate made his getaway.

This legendary shipwreck is rumored to contain millions in gold. The foursome, thinking their dreams of discovering buried treasure have finally come true, decide to investigate. While exploring it to try and stake their claim, they come across the remains of a crashed plane carrying a large quantity of cocaine. Bryce and Amanda are advocates of keeping the cocaine, while Jared and Sam oppose it. To avoid attracting attention to the location of their treasure find, Bryce and Amanda agree not to report the crashed plane and its illegal cargo until they have secured their claim on the sunken ship.

Jared and Bryce go to a local boat supplier, in order to make a deal for the equipment needed to retrieve the treasure, with Bryce funding the purchase. However, Jared soon finds out that Bryce, on a trip to Las Vegas, borrowed money from a loan shark and is in heavy debt and therefore is in no position to pay for anything.

Without Jared’s knowledge, Bryce and Amanda come up with a plan to retrieve some of the cocaine from the sunken plane and sell it to local night club owner Primo (Tyson Beckford). Unfortunately, Primo turns out to be an associate of drug lord Reyes (James Frain) to whom the cocaine belonged in the first place. Reyes, wanting his cocaine back, threatens Jared, Amanda and Bryce at gunpoint to bring him his cocaine or die.

Faced with this choice, Jared agrees to retrieve the cocaine. However, he tells Reyes that he will need $30,000 worth of non-refundable equipment to do so. This is not true, of course, and he uses the unfortunate situation to get to the gear he needs to salvage the Zephyr.

Back on land, the trio breaks the bad news to Sam, who is heartbroken that Jared would violate his principles and work for drug lords. He tries to convince her that it’s okay and that it’s a one-time thing, but she leaves him, saying that ‘they’ are over.

Jared, Bryce and Amanda head to sea. They start the night’s work by uncovering the site of the Zephyr, finding the ship’s bell with the name on it. For Jared, the victory feels hollow, though.

As they are moving the cocaine packs from the plane to their surface boat, Amanda is attacked by a tiger shark. She is brought to the hospital where she dies due to a huge bite out of her left leg. Hearing of the tragedy, Sam comes to the hospital and she and Jared are reunited. While driving back from the hospital, the trio (Jared, Sam and Bryce) are confronted by Primo at an intersection. A short, but intense car chase ends up with Jared leaving their truck and telling Bryce and Sam to meet him later. He surrenders to Primo and tried to get them to back off by offering them and their boss the loot on the Zephyr. Primo still takes him to Reyes’ boat. The boat looks deserted, so Primo tells Jared to lie down on the floor of the state room while he investigates. After some time, when Primo doesn’t return, Jared goes to explore. He finds Primo, Reyes and several others shot dead in one the bedrooms. Out from the toilet comes Bates (Josh Brolin), a local salvager and former employer of Jared’s. He asks Jared where “his cocaine” is and Jared bolts. He escapes from the boat and heads for shore.

Meanwhile, Sam insists on going to the police, so she goes to the private home of one of their friends, a local cop named Roy (Dwayne Adway). Bryce drops her off, but thinking they’ll get busted, heads off to meet Jared. Roy comforts Sam and tells her he knows a guy who can help, but that it has to be kept outside of the official channels, as he’s not sure who he can trust. Roy betrays Sam and takes her to Bates.

Jared and Bryce meet up and Jared calls Sam. Bates answers her cell phone and tells Jared to disclose the location of the cocaine. Jared insists that they meet and Jared show him to the location. Bryce and Jared then make a plan to settle the situation once and for all.

Jared is taken aboard Bates’ boat, the Sea Robin. Here he is shown Sam, who is in the engine room, handcuffed to the body of Roy, who was shot by Bates. The Sea Robin heads for the location where Jared directs them, but as they approach the area, they see a white substance floating on the surface. Jared tells Bates that it’s half of the cocaine, ruined, and that Jared will destroy the rest. He jumps into the water, and Bates and his men, after changing into Scuba gear, go after him.

Below the surface, in the plane, the divers look for Jared. Bryce has switched places with one of the dead pilots, and they use this to mount a surprise attack. An underwater struggle follows, killing all of Bates’ men and wounding Bryce.

Meanwhile, Sam finds a forgotten machete in the engine room and uses it to free herself from Roy’s body by cutting off his arm. She then severs a pipe, which brings one of Bates’ men down into the engine room, where she locks him in. She then goes up to the bridge to call for help. The man escapes from the engine room; a chase around the boat ends in a fight that Sam ultimately wins as they go into the water and the man, wounded by Sam with a boat hook, is attacked by another tiger shark.

Below, Jared and Bates are the only ones left. Jared uses an air tank as a missile by hammering off the valve. Bates escapes it, but as it hits the fuel tank at the back of the plane, it causes the entire plane to explode, killing Bates.

Sam jumps into the water, fearing for Jared’s life.

This segues into a scene six weeks later, where the trio is salvaging the Zephyr. After trying to bring an old cannon atop fails and the cannon sinks back down to the bottom, Sam and Jared call it a night. However, Bryce sees something in the water, uncovered as the cannon hit the wood of the wreck’s deck. He jumps in and dives down. As he comes back up he announces that he found the gold of the Zephyr.

Since the late ’60s she has appeared frequently on television. She, along with friend Toni Basil, began as go-go dancers on several musical variety shows such as Shindig! and Hullabaloo. In 1967 Garr did two cameo appearances on Batman and a role on The Andy Griffith Show. In 1968 she was in two episodes of It Takes a Thief and a part in the Star Trek episode “Assignment: Earth”. This was a backdoor pilot for a proposed series in which she would have co-starred, but which didn’t sell.

In the early ’70s she was a regular cast member on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour dancing and acting in comedy sketches. She also had a recurring role as a ditzy policewoman on McCloud, and appeared on M*A*S*H, The Bob Newhart Show, and Barnaby Jones, among others. She hosted Saturday Night Live in 1980, 1983, and 1985 and was a frequent visitor on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. As a recurring guest on Late Night with David Letterman, she was renowned for her unscripted banter with personal friend David Letterman, who once goaded her into showering in his office while the camera rolled. She landed a role as recurring character Phoebe Buffay Sr. in Friends, playing the estranged birth mother of Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), to whom she bears a striking resembalence.

For over four decades, she has appeared in a variety of television commercials, including a 1970 Safeguard ad with then-unknowns Penny Marshall and Tom Selleck. Often complaining on talk shows about being typecast in housewife roles, she nonetheless used her image to promote many household products (coffee, Band-Aid, Glade air-fresheners, etc.) in countless commercials over the years. In the 1990s she did a series of TV and print ads for Fruit of the Loom underwear and New York radio station WTLW 106.7 Lite FM.
Garr said that in 1990 a woman called her at around 4:30 A.M. telling Garr that she slept with Garr’s boyfriend. An enraged Garr drove to her ex-boyfriend’s house and smashed the windows. The ex-boyfriend called the police, who left after Garr talked to them. Police never filed charges against Garr.

In October 2002, Garr made it public that she has multiple sclerosis.After years of uncertainty and secrecy surrounding her diagnosis, Garr explained her reasons for deciding to go public: “I’m telling my story for the first time, so I can help people. I can help people know they aren’t alone, and tell them there are reasons to be optimistic because today treatment options are available”. It is unclear exactly how long she has had the condition; in 2002, she told Larry King that she’d had it for 19 years, but in 2005, while promoting her book, she said she’s had it for 25 years. That sets the date of onset to sometime between 1980 and 1983. In more recent interviews, she has clarified that she first started noticing symptoms while in New York filming Tootsie, but she didn’t know what caused her symptoms. For the next few years, as acting jobs brought her to various locations around the world, she continued to see different doctors in different cities, until she finally found a doctor that correctly diagnosed her as having MS. Today, she uses an Amigo POV/scooter when necessary.

Since Garr announced that she has MS, she has become a leading advocate in raising awareness for the condition and the latest treatments for it. She is a National Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and National Chair for the Society’s Women Against MS program (WAMS).WAMS is a nationwide education and fundraising program that helps to increase the public’s awareness of MS and the National MS Society while acknowledging and encouraging the advancement of women philanthropists. In November 2005, Garr was honored as the society’s Ambassador of the Year. This honor had been given only four times since the society was founded.

She is the mother of an adopted daughter and resides in Los Angeles. On December 21, 2006, she suffered a brain aneurysm in her Los Angeles area home; her 13-year-old daughter called for help when she couldn’t get her to wake up. Following surgery, her publicist Heidi Schaeffer said she expected Garr to make a full recovery. She appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on June 19, 2008, clearly suffering the physical effects of her MS and aneurysm, but still as sharp and funny as ever. She was on the show to promote Expired, a movie in which she plays twins.

Garr sold her Los Angeles-area house in June 2008.

Americans “are looking to us for leadership, and we must not let them down,” the President vowed in a prime-time press conference.

“We will pass reform that lowers cost, promotes choice, and provides coverage that every American can count on. And we will do it this year.”

With that stark declaration, Mr. Obama threw down a gauntlet to his Republican opponents and to nervous Democrats worried about what reform might cost.

With opposition growing and Mr. Obama’s popularity slipping, hopes that legislation could be passed before Congress rises for its August vacation at the end of next week are fading.

By nonetheless imposing an end-of-year deadline for final passage of a bill, the President is gambling all of his political capital on success. If the year passes without his signature on a bill, the political costs of such failure will be enormous.

Negotiations to craft a reform bill have been complicated by so-called Blue Dog Democrats in the House of Representatives. They are alarmed at projections from the Congressional Budget Office that the current plan would increase the deficit by $239-billion (U.S) over 10 years, the very opposite of the administration’s goal of expanding coverage while reining in spiralling expenses.

Conservative Democrats in the House energy and commerce committee are holding up passage of the bill until their cost concerns are met.

Representatives and senators, especially those in the Senate finance committee, are negotiating non-stop in an effort to craft legislation that extends benefits without increasing costs.

Dick Durbin, Senate Majority Whip, predicted Wednesday that the Senate would fail to pass legislation before the August break. “We’re going to take a little longer to get it right,” he told The Hill newspaper.

By nonetheless imposing an end-of-year deadline, Mr. Obama is warning Congress that it can talk, but it must also ultimately act.

“If you don’t set deadlines in this town, things don’t happen,” he told reporters. “The default position is inertia, because doing something always creates some people who are unhappy.” But he maintained, “The stars are aligned and we need to take advantage of that.”

At the heart of Mr. Obama’s proposal is a public health-insurance program that would compete with private insurers and that would, in theory, drive down costs over time.

The Republican opposition in Congress has warned that people would be forced out of their existing plans and into some statist monstrosity (the word “Canadian” is often invoked) in which faceless bureaucrats decide what treatments patients would receive.

“If they try to fix our health-care system like they’ve tried to rescue our economy, I think we’re in really, really big trouble,” House Minority Leader John Boehner told reporters Wednesday.

The GOP attacks are working. The President’s approval rating has dropped to 55 per cent, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll, down from 64 per cent in late May and early June.

Although half of those polled approve of Mr. Obama’s handling of health care, 43 per cent disapprove, a number that has risen sharply since April.

In response, the president reminded his critics of the 47 million Americans who have no coverage at all, of the millions more whose coverage is inadequate.

“This is about every family, every business and every taxpayer who continues to shoulder the burden of a problem that Washington has failed to solve for decades,” he said.

Beyond the question of the legislation itself is the question of Mr. Obama’s political skills. By imposing a no-excuses deadline, the President has gambled that he can manage congressional opposition from Republicans and from members within his own party.

If he fails, and health-care legislation does go down in defeat, the President’s agenda on the environment, immigration and education will lie in shambles.

Earlier this week and again Wednesday night, Mr. Obama quoted Republican Senator Jim DeMint, who said, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”

But though some conservative commentators are predicting that Congress will never pass a bill Mr. Obama can sign – William Kristol of the Weekly Standard urged Republicans this week to “go for the kill,” as Mr. Obama noted – it would be risky to bet that Mr. Obama will fail.

Those conservative Democratic representatives holding up the legislation will have to compromise at some point. Otherwise, they will have to explain to voters in their district during midterm elections next year why they torpedoed the most important priority of their own party leader and of most Americans as well.

The White House, similarly, will be prepared to make trades to ensure that legislation of some kind or other sees the light of day.

One significant breakthrough came Wednesday, when the Blue Dogs and House energy-and-commerce-committee chairman Henry Waxman agreed that an independent panel should be given the power to set fees and make cuts.

Also in Mr. Obama’s corner are industry associations, such as the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association, who have opposed previous reforms. Business groups are also onside, as corporations struggle to meet the ever-escalating costs of insuring workers.

And reasonable legislators of both parties know that government simply must reform a health-care system that costs almost twice as much as that provided by other industrial countries, and that is expected to soon envelop one-fifth of the American economy.

Mr. Obama took pains to remind viewers of those truths Wednesday night.

“If we do not control these costs, we will not be able to control our deficit,” he maintained. “If we do not reform health care, your premiums and out-of-pocket costs will continue to skyrocket. If we do not act, 14,000 Americans will continue to lose their health insurance every single day.

“These are the consequences of inaction. These are the stakes of the debate we’re having right now.”

His success or failure as a president is at stake as well

Obama acknowledged to questioner Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times that Gates “is a friend, so I may be a little biased.” The President stepped lightly regarding any role race may have played in the situation, saying that he was not there so could not be certain, however he did note that racial profiling has “a long history in this country.” Obama argued that the “Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.”

Well, I should say at the outset that Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little bias ed here. I don’t know all the facts. What’s been reported, though, is that the guy forgot his keys. He jimmied his way to get into the house. There was a report called into the police station that there might be a burglary taking place. so far so good. Right? I mean, if I was trying to jigger in — well, I guess this is my house now so it probably wouldn’t happen. Let’s say my old house in Chicago. here I’d get shot. But so far so good. They’re reporting, the police are doing what they should. There’s a call. They go investigate what happens. My understanding is at that point Professor Gates is already in his house. The police officer comes in. I’m sure there’s some exchange of words but my understanding is that Professor Gates then shows his I.D. to show that this is his house. And at that point he gets arrested for disorderly conduct, charges which are later dropped. Now, I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. And that’s just a fact.

As you know, Lynn, when I was in the state legislature in Illinois we worked on a racial profiling bill because there was indisputable evidence that blacks and hispanics were being stopped disproportionately. And that is a sign, an example of how, you know, race remains a factor in this society. That doesn’t lessen the incredible progress that has been made. I am standing here as testimony to the progress that’s been made. And yet, the fact of the matter is that, you know, this still haunts us. And even when there are honest misunderstandings, the fact that blacks and hispanics are picked up more frequently and often time for no cause cast suspicion even when there is good cause, and that’s why I think the more that we’re working with local law enforcement to improve policing techniques so that we’re eliminating potential bias, the safer everybody’s going to be.

Obama acknowledged to questioner Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times that Gates “is a friend, so I may be a little biased.” The President stepped lightly regarding any role race may have played in the situation, saying that he was not there so could not be certain, however he did note that racial profiling has “a long history in this country.” Obama argued that the “Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.”

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But he moved the six feet to a waiting car, turned slightly and lowered himself into the passenger’s side for the ride home. Hammer folded the walker and the wheelchair and set them in the back.

On the drive home, his car approached an intersection, and Meyer acknowledged that he feels nervous now when a semitrailer comes at him from the other direction.

After the car pulled into his driveway, Meyer used the walker to get through the door of his garage and stepped onto a hydraulic handicap lift that was built in his home. He worked out for an hour — leg lifts on a table in the living room — talking about his team, fretting that the Wolves must start playing better.

There is work to be done, with his team, with his body.

Later Sunday night, he lay in his bed and directed his eyes at the ceiling, and rested the stump of his left leg on a towel — a dark towel, which Carmen uses because of the blood. His wife pulled off the sleeve covering his left leg. The triangular-shaped wound, with the flap of calf muscle and skin pulled over the front, hasn’t healed, and may not heal for months. Meyer can’t be fitted for a prosthetic leg until the wound heals and the swelling goes down.

Carmen makes note of a small white spot inside the triangle for a visitor.

“There’s the bone,” she said.

She sprayed the wound with antiseptic and used a Q-tip to clean a fold of skin.

“There’s no blood here,” she reported to her husband, a good sign.

But Meyer didn’t want to look. He pinched the bridge of his nose with his fingers and squinted. He had basketball practice in eight hours, and on Tuesday night the first game of the regular season, against Mount Marty College.

He is healing, day by day, and there is work to be done.

It’s the next best action.