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WILMINGTON, Del. — The earliest that traffic could return to the damaged I-495 bridge over the Christina River is Labor Day, meaning commuters, truckers and other travelers are facing a summer without full access to the critical bypass.
A tentative timeline was announced Tuesday as transportation officials described $20 million plans to temporarily shore up the leaning bridge supports, before tackling permanent repairs to the foundation and replacing two sets of piers.
"This is the experts' best way of trying to thread that needle of how can we quickly and safely restore traffic, but also something that can be part of the permanent solution," Transportation Secretary Shailen Bhatt said.
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If all goes well, motorists would return to the southbound side of the bridge around Labor Day, and to the northbound lanes in mid- to late September. The span has been closed between 12th Street and Terminal Avenue since June 2.
Pressure from shifting soils next to the bridge have deformed steel piles in the bridge's foundation and displaced them sideways, fracturing several concrete footings. Engineers say a likely culprit is a 55,000-ton mountain of dirt stockpiled next to the damaged piers.
The proposed solution is to build a new foundation beneath the weakened section of the bridge, drilling four shafts up to 140-feet deep around each damaged pier. The shafts — filled with reinforced concrete — will form a stable base for crews to jack up the piers and return them to its original alignment.
The Delaware Department of Transportation is limited in part by the materials, equipment and skills available during the height of the road-construction season and by the desire to restore traffic on the bridge as soon as safely possible, Bhatt said. The soft "Jello-like" soils in the area also pose a problem.
That's where New York is generously helping out: This week, contractors reconstructing the 3-mile-long Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River north of New York City decided to divert materials custom made for the Tappan Zee project to Delaware.
This saves DelDOT the six to eight weeks it would take to fabricate steel "cages" that will reinforce 4-foot-wide shafts drilled into the ground, Bhatt said. The cages are en route from Oklahoma and Washington state, said engineer Greg Burkhart of the firm J.D. Eckman Inc.
"They have to replenish what they're giving to us, but they have plenty of it and won't need it for a few months," Burkhart said.
The drills and casings should hopefully arrive at the bridge site by Friday, Bhatt said.
"That's a great relief," he said. "Yes, we could have gone with the bid process. But because we had all the right people in the room, we have the equipment and the expertise on its way here now."
Bhatt noted there's risk that problems could arise during drilling that cause the repair process to be drawn out into the fall.
Another option described by engineers was taking down the affected section of the bridge and rebuilding it. That's not preferred as it would take six months to design and construct, and traffic couldn't be restored until January.
The quickest option — jacking up the southbound lanes —was also ruled out due to soft, "Jello-O"-like soils in the vicinity.
Bhatt said that those assessing the problem a day after the closing made it clear that an experienced contractor with a wide range of resources needed to be part of planning for the solution.
"They said we've got some ideas. We know what could happen, but what we don't want to is get too far down the design path and have a contractor come in and say 'I can't build this,'" Bhatt said.
Consultants said they had a company with experience in emergency bridge repairs across the region, and expertise in structural engineering and in geotechnical work.
"At that time, I didn't know they weren't a Delaware firm," Bhatt said. "I just knew there was a firm out there who could be in the room the next day."
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The company chosen — J.D. Eckman Inc. of Atglen, Pa. — completed emergency repairs for the I-95 bridge over the Brandywine Creek after a jogger spotted a long crack in the span in 2003.
The same company carried out a multiyear jacking up of the entire I-95 viaduct in Wilmington to replace critical support parts, and a 48-hour replacement of a 15-foot-high column that had forced the shutdown of a 3-mile stretch of road.
Burkhart said his company respects the work of Delaware contractors, but brings a wide range of resources and experience to the project, including specialized equipment and eight licensed engineers on staff.
"If there's a jacking plan that needs to be done, I don't need to go out to a consultant," Burkhart said. "We have the guys in-house, and I can tell them to work 24-hours a day. Which has happened."
Bhatt said that he was aware of concerns about the agency's choice of a non-Delaware company, but also aware of the public's needs.
"I want to do everything that is right, but for the 90,000 people a day who are waiting for that road to be opened, they don't care about that," Bhatt said. "They just want that road opened."


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Bucs' resurgence earns Hurdle NL Manager of the Year
Clint Hurdle, always quick to defer credit to his players for his team's success, can't pass the buck on this one.
The Pirates skipper has been selected 2013 National League Manager of the Year, an overwhelming choice in voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Clint Hurdle, always quick to defer credit to his players for his team's success, can't pass the buck on this one.
The Pirates skipper has been selected 2013 National League Manager of the Year, an overwhelming choice in voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Hurdle received 25 first-place votes and was listed second on the other five ballots cast by writers. He was the only manager in either league named on all 30 ballots.
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At the moment of the award's announcement on MLB Network, Hurdle was momentarily speechless, and when he finally spoke, his voice cracked with emotion.
"It's a bit overwhelming," said Hurdle, who a few minutes later had regained his composure to tell reporters assembled in PNC Park, "On behalf of the Pirates, I will accept it ... and break it off into little pieces for everyone to share.
"I'm feeling very humbled to be in this position because of the efforts of so many others. I'm pleased to accept the award on behalf of the organization."
The first Pirates manager chosen for the award since Jim Leyland in 1992, Hurdle finally gets to take the bow for reviving the dormant franchise he was so reluctant to accept during a 94-win season that jolted Pittsburgh back to baseball life.
"I'm humbled to get to represent this organization. There were so many people involved. I'm just the guy in the dugout," Hurdle said.
His bosses joined the chorus congratulating him.
"On behalf of the entire Pirates organization, I would like to congratulate Clint on being named the National League Manager of the Year," said club chairman Bob Nutting. "Clint's passion is infectious. He challenges everyone around him to push forward and improve a little bit every day. He is a great leader, a great citizen of Pittsburgh, and a tremendous family man and human being. I have the deepest respect for Clint. I have seen firsthand the hard work, commitment and passion that Clint brings every day, not only to our team but also to our community. I am proud to have him as our manager."
"I could not be more pleased for Clint on this well-deserved recognition," said Pirates president Frank Coonelly. "He has not only made our players and coaches better, he has made our entire staff better. In addition, Clint has quickly become a true Pittsburgher and our community is better as a result."
General manager Neal Huntington recalled going out of his way to try, unsuccessfully, to find someone to say something negative about Hurdle before settling on him as the Bucs' next manager three years ago, almost to the day.
"We got so much positive information on Clint, and he's met and exceeded every expectation," said Huntington, speaking at the site of the GM Meetings in Orlando, Fla. "Not only on the X's and O's, but as a leader, a communicator, a connector and a developer of players. His connection with the city ... he came in with the idea to rebond this city and ballclub. He's helped us take huge strides to do that."
The BBWAA's Manager of the Year Award dates back to 1983. Billy Meyer and Danny Murtaugh received an earlier version of that honor from The Sporting News, making Hurdle only the fourth different Pirates manager so honored.
Here's a previously overlooked feather in Hurdle's cap: 94-68 in 2013 moved his three-year record at the Pirates' helm over .500 (245-241), a remarkable achievement given the depression into which he had walked in November 2010.
He had, nevertheless, shown up with a vision, for which he had attracted early scorn. Opening his first Spring Training camp, Hurdle invited people to "laugh if you want, but we'll head into season with the goal of winning the NL Central."
"This is why I came here. I envisioned this," Hurdle said on the eve of the Pirates' first playoff appearance in 21 years. "I believed it would happen. I played my part."
He also played his relatively modest hand well. Often cited but still remarkable, the Bucs won only three fewer games than a St. Louis club that out-hit them .330 to .229 with runners in scoring position and scored 149 more runs.
"Sometimes you've got to believe in things other people can't see," he had said of having set lofty 2013 goals in Spring Training for a team that hadn't fielded a winner for 20 years.
For his own motivation, and as a carrot for the players, Hurdle compiled a to-do list and the Pirates went about checking off items one by one: winning on the road (44-37), taming the West Coast (9-6), a winning record for the first time within the NL Central (45-31).
Hurdle's optimism was contagious in the clubhouse. He instilled in an overall young club the confidence that they could do it even before they went out and did it. That disposition served the Pirates well whenever they hit a bump in the road, such as a 1-5 start that kept open the wounds of 2012's collapse out of contention.
Besides teaching them to believe, Hurdle taught the Pirates to revel in team, not individual, success.
"We were truly a definition of teamwork," he said. "Nobody was looking for credit, only the collective result."
Hurdle showed up every day ready to battle for his team, sometimes literally. He tied for the most ejections among Major League managers with six, sharing that distinction with Dale Sveum, the former manager of the Cubs.
The Manager of the Year Award is a nice reward. Hurdle's biggest reward, however, came late in the season when, to celebrate the team's appointment with the playoffs, Pittsburgh-area schools held "Pirates Day."
"All the kids showed up wearing Pirates gear," said Hurdle, who saw it firsthand at his kids' schools. "And it wasn't [Willie] Stargell or [Al] Oliver. It was [Neil] Walker, [Andrew] McCutchen, [Jason] Grilli those kids were nuts about."
Yesteryear's idols had given way to a new band of Pirates in whom to take pride. Hurdle had played his part. Tuesday, he was applauded for it.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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There was one big rule for this list, an important cog in the growing Vast Left Wing Conspiracy -- everything discussed was off the record.Well, TNR didn't break the "one big rule." Someone with the privileged access of list membership did. "Betrayed" is an interesting verb to have TNR as its subject. TNR isn't a traitor. Someone on the list is, and I assume Kos is concerned about that betrayal.
That was obviously violated today as the New Republic betrayed, once again, that it seeks to destroy the new people-powered movement...
There is nothing controversial about the email, but Jason Zengerle [of TNR] tried to spin it as evidence that there is a "smoke-filled room" and that I send "dictats" to other bloggers, controlling what they can and cannot write about. In a subsequent post, Zengerle went further, saying that I control the financial fates of much of the progressive blogosphere. My power apparently knows no bounds!Kos usually brags about the power of his blog. Here, he tries -- strains -- to laugh of the suggestion that he could influence bloggers in his sphere. A "diktat" -- let's start spelling it right -- is an "authoritative or dogmatic statement or decree." Kos tries to load on the meaning that it must be able to control what people do and zings Zengerle for asserting what he did not assert. Clearly, Kos aims for power and likes to use it and threaten to use it. Of course, bloggers can do what they want, but there are consequences that they understand.
Ludicrous, all of it, but that's the new rules of the game. TNR and its enablers are feeling the heat of their own irrelevance and this is how they fight it -- by undermining the progressive movement. Zengerle has made common cause with the wingnutosphere, using the laughable "kosola" frame they created and emailing his "scoops" to them for links. This is what the once-proud New Republic has evolved into -- just another cog of the Vast RIGHT Wing Conspiracy.So you must believe there's a wingnutosphere out to destroy the progressive movement, with the evil New Republic at its core. Somehow, that's not laughable. But I am amused at the accusation that it has "rules." Not "one big rule"?
If you still hold a subscription to that magazine, it really is time to call it quits. If you see it in a magazine rack, you might as well move it behind the National Review or even NewsMax, since that's who they want to be associated with these days.Now, that's funny! Here, he openly works in financial pressure. Cancel your subscriptions to the noble old magazine. Is that a diktat?
But I do admit being surprised by the sheer creativity of their invented attacks, such as my supposed "pay for play" scheme. Let me be crystal clear. I deny that charge completely.Let me make one thing perfectly clear. I am not a crook.
I have stated the sources of my income and they do not include money from people asking me to shill for anyone or anything. Problem for these writers, is that the law doesn't protect such defamation. The truth is an absolute defense to libel cases. If they have evidence for those smears, then they have nothing to fear. But if they, say, recklessly invented all manners of illegal or unethical activities by me without bothering to see if they bore any basis in truth, then they'll have plenty to worry about.Here, Kos tries to scare people off with threats of lawsuits. I agree that people shouldn't write "recklessly invented" things about other people and try to smear them. But is Kos following his own standard? And did Zengerle recklessly invent something about him? Zengerle published an email that Kos confirms he wrote, that gives a fascinating view into the operation of a set of bloggers that Kos strenuously portrays as extremely important in politics today. Why, exactly, is that illegitimate? I can certainly understand Kos's opposition to TNR in the political sphere. TNR tries to call Democrats away from the left-wing politics that Kos promotes.
It is now beyond clear that the dying New Republic is mortally wounded and cornered, desperate for relevance. It has lost half its circulation since the blogs arrived on the scene and they no longer (thank heavens!) have a monopoly on progressive punditry. We have hit their bottom line, we are hitting their patron saint hard (Joe Lieberman) and this is how they respond. By going after the entire movement.So, let's see what's really here: an important fight for the Democratic party. I'm on TNR's side in the fight. I'd like to see everyone fight fair. And we should talk about what it means to fight fair. Can we publish leaked emails from a private list with a "big rule" about secrecy? Wouldn't Kos publish an email from a private list of right-wing bloggers? Wouldn't he report and speculate about rumors that are equivalent to the ones about him that people are discussing?


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Blood from donors who snacked on peanuts apparently triggered a life-threatening reaction in a 6-year-old boy with a severe food allergy, researchers report.
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The case study, believed to be the first of its kind, raises questions about whether allergens are transmitted by blood more often than anyone thinks. It's published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
"It is possible that allergens transferred in blood products to other patients have led to reactions that have gone unexplained and unreported," wrote lead author Dr. Joannes F.M. Jacobs of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands.
Currently, allergic reactions caused by blood or its components are believed to be very rare.
The boy, who had leukemia, was receiving a transfusion of pooled platelets at a Netherlands hospital last year when he developed a rash and skin swelling. His blood pressure dropped and he began having trouble breathing. It took an injection of adrenaline to resuscitate him, the report said.
Afterward, puzzled health care workers reviewed every possible cause for the reaction, including allergies to drugs or latex and common transfusion-related problems. Nothing clicked until they talked to the boy's mom, who said her son had had a similar episode after eating peanuts at age 1. Since then, his parents had kept the nuts out of the child's diet.
Doctors then tracked down the five blood donors who contributed platelets. Three of them said they'd eaten handfuls of peanuts the night before donating blood.
Peanut allergen resists digestion
It turns out that the major allergen in peanuts, Ara h2, is extremely resistant to digestion because of a peptide that can show up in blood serum for up to 24 hours after ingestion, researchers wrote. When doctors tested the boy's blood, they found his levels of peanut-specific antibodies and the culprit peptide were far higher than normal.
"The patient proved to be allergic not merely to raw peanuts, but also for the protein that can end up in the blood," Jacobs wrote in an e-mail. "Such a case has never been described in literature before."
That indicates that the peanut-munching donors transmitted the allergen to the child, said the scientists.
The boy's existing allergy was sparked by the tainted blood, but other patients actually have developed new allergies after receiving blood from affected donors.
In 2007, for instance, an 80-year-old woman who'd recently received blood developed an anaphylactic reaction within minutes of eating peanut butter, according to a report in the journal Current Allergy and Asthma Reports. She'd never been allergic before, but two days earlier she'd been transfused with two units of blood from a 19-year-old donor who turned out to have a severe peanut allergy.
It's not clear how often blood products trigger allergic reactions, and a leading U.S. blood expert says he can recall only sporadic reports.
"It's got to be quite rare, given that we are transfusing 25 million blood components each year," said Dr. James AuBuchon, president of the AABB, the nonprofit agency that promotes blood donation and transfusion in the U.S. "I'm grateful that this does not appear to be a large problem."
Some critics have called for screening the diets of blood donors for potential triggers. However, that would be both impractical and costly for such a large volume of donors and recipients, said AuBuchon. More than 1 percent of the U.S. population, or 3 million people, are believed to be allergic to peanuts and tree nuts.
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BEIJING — Twelve months of friendly American diplomatic overtures and weeks of private warnings were not enough. Since Washington announced last week a $6.4 billion weapons sale to Taiwan, an island Beijing regards as a renegade province, China has vented its anger just as fiercely as ever.
Deflating United States hopes that this time it would be different, China immediately suspended contacts between the two countries' militaries, just as it did in 2008 reacting to a previous US arms deal with Taipei.
The move disappointed US military planners who had looked forward to better and more stable relations with their Chinese counterparts.
"I'd hoped that in the future we could shield the military-to-military relationship from the political ups and downs," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday. "I think that we have a lot to learn from each other."
Mr. Gates's own planned trip to China this year is now up in the air as a result of the Chinese decision.
So are a range of activities that mostly happen in the shadows, such as study visits by Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers to US universities such as the National Defense University in Washington, reciprocal study tours by US officers at Chinese institutions, and naval exercises. The Pentagon has been building such ties quietly, as it warily pursues engagement with a potential enemy.
Gates said he hoped the suspension would be temporary, because "stability is enhanced by contact between our military and a greater understanding of each others' strategies."
Engagement, however wary
In testimony last month to the House Armed Services Committee, the new head of US Pacific Command, Adm. Robert Willard, warned that China's "stated goals of a defense-oriented military capability … appear incompatible with the extent of sophisticated weaponry China produces today.
"Reconciling these two can only occur through continuous frank conversations and mutual actions within a strong and mature military-to-military relationship," Willard said. Such a relationship, he added, "does not yet exist with the People's Liberation Army."
The Chinese military is also keen to maintain contacts, says Yan Xuetong, head of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. "China wants to know more about American military details," he says, "and the talks have some diplomatic use to give the US more confidence in China."
The public relationship between the Chinese and US military is conducted through a series of joint bodies meeting every six months or so, addressing issues ranging from strategic global matters to the safety of seamen. Four such meetings have been held over the past 11 months; their future is now uncertain.
Last June, for example, at a session of Defense Consultative Talks, Under Secretary of Defense Michèle Flournoy raised US concerns about the way Chinese vessels had harassed US ships earlier in the year in disputed waters off the Chinese coast. In one incident, a Chinese submarine damaged the underwater sonar array towed by a US destroyer.
The Pentagon has also conducted its relationship with the PLA through visits by senior officers. The second most senior Chinese general, Xu Caihou, visited a number of US bases last October, and the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, was due to visit China later this year until China's announcement Saturday.
Friction over the years
Congress, however, has placed limits on military contacts with China, banning "any exchange or contact [that] would create a national security risk due to an inappropriate exposure" of PLA officers to US military assets.
Though Beijing has complained about this constraint, saying it narrows the field for cooperation, Willard told the House Armed Services Committee last month that contacts so far have been too modest to be affected.
"No exchanges today approach the point where the provisions would prohibit the activity," he said, reiterating what Gates had said earlier.
China has also publicly chafed at reports such as the US National Intelligence Strategy, released last September, that branded Beijing one of the greatest threats to US national interests.
"I don't think that China has really got anything out of these military contacts" says Professor Yan. "They have not made the Americans think twice about their arms embargo against China, nor about abandoning their military hostility to China, nor about military intelligence gathering along our sea border, nor about arms sales to Taiwan. So what's the purpose?"
This is not the first time that military-to-military contacts have been suspended. Washington broke them off in 1989, after the Tiananmen Square crackdown, and resumed them only in 1993. US arms sales to China, however, were not resumed and an arms embargo remains in force.
China broke off military relations for eight months in 1999 after US planes bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999, and again in 2008 for five months, when the Bush administration announced an arms sale to Taiwan.
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Stewart M. Patrick of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations says that gun owners' concerns about a United Nations small arms treaty, the so-called Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) being drafted in New York this month, "are not only inflammatory, they are completely unfounded." The CFR pronounces that "Your Guns Are in Safe Hands" with the United Nations.
Stewart, a senior fellow and director at the establishment organization's Program on International Institutions and Global Governance, wrote on the CFR website July 20:
The treaty is limited to the international trade of conventional arms, which pertains to the buying, selling, transshipping, transferring, or loaning across borders. The draft text of the treaty explicitly recognizes "the exclusive right of States to regulate internal transfers of arms and national ownership, including through the constitutional protections on private ownership."
In reality, the actual United Nations Programme of Action adopted in 1999 requires gun control in every nation, despite paper promises today. The Programme of Action requires nations:
To put in place, where they do not exist, adequate laws, regulations and administrative procedures to exercise effective control over the production of small arms and light weapons within their areas of jurisdiction and over the export, import, transit or retransfer of such weapons. [Emphasis added.]
To ensure that comprehensive and accurate records are kept for as long as possible on the manufacture, holding and transfer of small arms and light weapons under their jurisdiction. These records should be organized and maintained in such a way as to ensure that accurate information can be promptly retrieved and collated by competent national authorities. [Emphasis added.]
Not surprisingly, the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that dominate UN conferences on small arms have uniformly backed the outlawing of privately held firearms and repeal of the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. So it should also not be surprising that the United Nations, regarding an armed citizenry, takes a view opposite that of the Second Amendment. The UN Small Arms website claims: "A build-up of small arms alone may not create the conflicts in which they are used, but their excessive accumulation and wide availability aggravates the tension. The violence becomes more lethal and lasts longer, and a sense of insecurity grows, which in turn lead to a greater demand for weapons." Of course, historically, the reverse has been true. Armed citizens are far more secure. Meanwhile, unarmed populations have often proven to be victims of their murderous governments, even fairly poorly armed governments such as Rwanda's in the 1990s. In the case of Rwanda, the UN helped the genocidal government secure an arms deal to accomplish the slaughter of minority Tutsis.
Stewart claims that international gun control under the UN is a moral necessity for the United States:
As the top global supplier of major conventional weapons, accounting for 30 percent of all exports (Russia is a close second with 24 percent), the United States has the special responsibility to marshal its diplomatic energy toward crafting a robust, enforceable, and sustainable treaty that will raise global standards and ultimately save lives. Given the divergent and often competing interests at stake, appeasing domestic constituencies is just one of the many hurdles to overcome in order to reach a consensus on a "bulletproof" treaty.
Stewart is not alone in providing reassurances. Retired Maj. Gen. Roger R. Blunt wrote a similar whitewash of the UN gun-ban agenda in The Hill July 12, claiming, "This treaty would have little to no impact on international weapons transfers by the United States and no impact on Second Amendment freedoms. It would also in no way establish a supranational regulatory agency that could in any way violate U.S. sovereignty."
Of course, if Stewart's desire for an "enforceable" treaty is realized, how could the UN not establish a supranational regulatory agency?
Blunt also claimed, "Opponents have been trying to muddy the waters by raising unfounded and non-specific Second Amendment concerns to scare their members and raise money. They do this knowing full well that the ATT charter explicitly limits the scope of the ATT to prevent it from having any influence over domestic gun laws or sales within countries."
But the UN Small Arms conference's Preparatory Committee (PrepCom), which set up the goals of the treaty negotiation, included national gun registration. And it included not just "imports" and "exports," but all "transfers" of small arms. While the final ATT treaty text is not yet available, national gun registration is neither an unfounded nor a "non-specific" concern for defenders of the Second Amendment.
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Why You Need to Add Jumping To Your Cardio Routine (Rihanna & Katy Perry Did!)
Back in the day, when we played double-dutch on the playground (or some simpler incarnation of that), we hardly cared about the value of the workout. All we cared about was having fun.
It turns out that jumping offers a lot more than a good time: In fact, depending on the type of jumping exercise you choose, you can get a cardio and strength building workout simultaneously.
From jump roping to squat jumps to trampoline classes, for regular gym rats and even Hollywood A-listers, jumping is the new black.
I. Jump Roping
Celebrity trainer Marco Reed -- who authored upcoming book The Get Beyond Fit 3+1 Diet based on his lauded nutrition programs -- integrates jumping into the majority of his personal training and popular outdoor workout classes.
In fact, jumping rope is one of his favorite exercises to incorporate. "It's been around for a long time with athletes, but I think it's become more popular with everyone else lately. I even see jump roping classes popping up." Reed is right, if celebrity fans like Katy Perry are any indicator and classes like Aerojump at NYC's Aerospace.
Here are the top 4 benefits of jump roping, according to Marco Reed:
Jump roping is a cardio exercise that you can do almost anywhere. If you're traveling, you can throw the rope in your suitcase.
When you jump rope, you can integrate and learn a bunch of different patterns: figure 8's (diagonally crossing the body), on one foot, alternating feet, box jumps (hitting four corners -- like drawing a box with your feet), high knees (like running in place) or side-to-side. That gives you a bunch of different agility drills that can translate into improved performance in almost any sport.
Heart Rate:
If you create a really fast rope, where you're jumping every few seconds, you're going to boost your heart rate really high. With a double jump, you can slow it down, which gets the heart rate up, but not as high, so in an ideal fat burning zone.
Upper & Lower Body:
Jump roping works the upper and lower body, because you're turning the rope with your arms. You''ll get a lot of shoulder work done and a bit of forearms and wrists strengtheners, too. Then, the lower body is working during the jumps themselves. Your abs have to fire and be part of the movement as well.
Reed's Tip: Start by doing one minute of jumping and one minute off and alternate that way for 20 minutes total. That way, it becomes like interval training. Get to where you're doing two minutes on and one off and so on, until you can do 20 minutes straight.
II. Squat Jumps
So, what is a jump squat? Well, it's a Plyometric exercise (a.k.a. strength and agility building) that involves jumping up either in the air or onto a bench or platform and then jumping back down into a squat position (as pictured above). Your body must rely on itself to create all the torque and power.
These days, personal trainers often integrate such sequences into their workouts, especially for athletes. Marco Reed is no exception. Here are his top 3 reasons for doing squat jumps:
Burn Notice:
Squat jumps are all about power and strength. Explosive movements really get your heart rate up, so you burn a massive amount of calories and it gets you into great anaerobic shape.
The squat jump is deceleration training. When you land back into the squat, it causes the muscles to strengthen in a different way, reducing your risk of injury during sports/workouts.
These types of exercises build amazing muscles in your core and lower body.
Reed's Tip: Mix this move into a larger workout: Do one push-up type exercise sequence, one pull exercise like a row, one abs exercise like a crunch and then one Plyomteric like a squat jump onto a bench. Cycle through those 3-4 times.
III. Trampoline Jumping
When Jeff Platt and his father Rick first developed the concept for SkyZone Indoor Trampoline Park, where many trampolines are connected to create a large buoyant surface, the idea was to start a new professional team sport played on "a hyper high intensity resilient court." Instead, they ended up creating a place -- well 7 places with 14 in development this year -- that is both party destination (like a bowling alley), activity center and workout spot.
According to Jeff Platt, trampoline fitness is at least 70-years-old. But it's recently re-surged as a widespread trend, attracting the likes of Rihanna and Brooke Burke. As he explains, "People get tremendous fitness benefits from playing. We have another 20 locations set to open next year because trampoline fitness is growing in popularity. We're taking it to the next level."
Here are Jeff Platt's top 3 benefits of trampoline fitness:
Fun Exercise:
People are fooled into getting a great workout at SkyZone, whether playing dodge ball or taking a Skyrobics class that burns up to 1,000 calories. After 30-minutes on a trampoline, many people are dripping sweat. That can also happen on a home trampoline!
Total Body:
The basic movements on a trampoline (especially this size) include running in place, "brouncing" (jumping and bouncing), jumping up and down, working with medicine balls and just touching your toes. It's a tremendous leg and core workout. You're on an uneven surface, so you're using stabilizing muscles in your lower back and core. Your legs propel you up and down, but you can also incorporate total body moves.
Low Impact:
This is a low-impact exercise, which is great for a runner with bum knees, who needs a break from slamming on concrete. You're not going to feel that jarring sensation in your joints.
Platt shares a calorie-busting move that can be done both at home on a regular trampoline and at SkyZone:
Time to jump for joy!
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Mvalerien necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 51 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Montserrat Day hospital
Montserrat Day Hospitals are accredited private facilities providing
personalised professional health care. There are currently three day hosipitals - Gaythorne, Spring Hill and Indooroopilly with a new hosipital opening in North lakes mid 2011. Our patients come to these facilities for procedures and operations, eg. Endoscopies, cosmetic surgery etc. It is important to make patients feel they are being cared for. Furthermore, we want to attract the best specialists in their field to come and work at Montserrat and make them feel they are working in an innovative and supportive environment. We would like our brand to speak to both patients and specialists, not in a clinical way but in a caring, supportive and healthy way.
Montserrat has three main target audiences including:
1. Specialists who perform procedures and operations at Montserrat Day hospitals.
2. The GP's who refer patients to Montserrat Specialists and Brisbane Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy;
3. Patients receiving treatment
1. We need a new "Montserrat Day hosipital" logo. Attached is the current logo. We would like to perhaps keep the sunshine but open to new ideas.
We are open to new colours etc, but need something that can be transferred accross all future marketing ie. website etc
2. We need 4 sub brand logos for each of the hospitals, we are thinking Something like: a) North Lakes Day hospital managed by Montserrat
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February 22, 2004-Palau, Palau
After a few days in the town of Koror, we went for a cruise to Palau's famous Rock Islands. Saving the northern Rock Islands for later, we sailed to the southern part, at the very end of the Palau Lagoon, where we found a place to anchor WINGS and then got into the dingy to go exploring.
WINGS had been in Palau for nearly a month, and this was our second trip into the Rock Islands. We were cruising this year from Australia to Hong Kong, and Palau was just one of the stops, but the beauty and isolation of cruising here was turning it into a highlight.
Around a corner, in a hidden nook, we found that the lowering tide had exposed an underwater cave in the side of the island. We carefully nosed our way in. It was wide enough for the dingy, barely high enough, but the water was plenty deep for our motor. We could see light ahead. It was a tunnel! We inched along in darkness, the sound of our motor echoed on the walls of the tunnel. Oyster shells hung from the ceiling and we ducked to avoid scraping our heads.
Soon we came out the other end, into a hidden, saltwater, lagoon. The jungle hung over our heads around the edges, and fish stirred the surface. White herons flapped from limb to limb in the trees, and we could hear other birds. We wondered who had been here last, and when, but of course there was no way of knowing. No one had left any signs that they had ever been here.
We motored out of the tunnel, and looked back. Was that real?
Around another corner we came upon a sand spit, also exposed by the low tide, white and curving perhaps a mile across the larger blue lagoon. We stopped the motor and beached the dingy on the edge of the sand spit and walked with bare feet out towards the end. The ocean waves had left ripples in the sand which we crushed with our feet. We saw some strange tracks in the sand and we followed them to a large sea shell. The shell was the house of a Hermit Crab. We picked it up and saw the crab shrink back inside his home. We placed it back upon the sand and walked further. At the end of the sand spit we waded into the water and we looked out to sea. In the distance the SE swell of the Pacific Ocean crashed on the reef, white and rolling. The other direction, an island, Emagong Island, was turning into a silhouette. The sky was filled with a variety of clouds and colors, as the sun got lower and the light began to fade
The next morning, with the outlook of a great day ahead, we decided to swim at one of Palau's premier dive sites: "Big Drop Off". This is where the shallow reef plunges into the Palau Trench, and divers come from all over the world to experience the rich sea life and coral here. Leaving WINGS safely anchored we took the dingy out to the reef. We had no problem finding "Big Drop Off". It was where all the dive boats were congregating. Every day in Palau, the tour operators bring a several boat loads of divers and snorkelers out to "Big Drop Off".
We stopped nearby and surveyed the scene. One tropical island to the West, another to the East, and to the South, nothing but the vast ocean. A swell rolled gently in. The sun shone. The sky was blue. We looked over the side. The water was gin clear and it was deep! We donned our fins and masks and rolled into warm clear water. Since the tide was beginning to run, we drifted with the dingy in tow. There were thousands of fish…and turtles…and sharks! They were all cruising down the wall below us. We saw some scuba divers angling down below us too. The sharks ignored everyone, for now.
We swam for an hour, then we pulled ourselves back into the dingy and motored over to the nearest island. It was pristine. Two herons perched nearby. We took some photos. Then a ranger came along in his boat.
"Can't stay here." he said, " Restricted". Even paradise has rules.
So we left, looking back at a perfect beach, empty except for two herons.
We saw John McCready's Cal 48, ECLIPSE nearby; they'd brought a charter party out to dive at "Big Drop Off",
Coming along side John greeted us warmly, "Our dive party just went in", he said, "Come on aboard."
Aboard ECLIPSE we looked over John's charts and found some other promising spots. We discussed with John where we might be the next day. Then his wife, Charlie, asked us if we'd stay for lunch. She was fixing dumplings, which looked like pot stickers to us. Charlie is Manchurian, and a great cook of Chinese food, but we didn't want to infringe on John's charter party, plus, we wanted to get back and check on WINGS. We said, "No thank you, but it does look delicious."
Charlie said, "Well, at least stay 10 minutes and I'll send you home with some dumplings."
We couldn't say no to that.
Ten minutes later we were heading back to the Northeast in our dingy, portable GPS showing the way, with one zip loc bag of fresh hot pot stickers, and as a bonus, one zip loc bag with fresh Yellow Fin Tuna Sashimi. Lunch on WINGS, an hour later, with the pot stickers, sashimi, some Jasmine rice, wasabi sauce, soy sauce, and ice cold Philippine San Miguel beer, and us remembering a great morning of wonderful snorkeling, could not have been better.
That night the weather forecasts looked worrying. There was a tropical depression up North and we didn't know which way it would go. In the morning we weighed the anchor and started looking for a safe haven. We found it at Mikado Cove.
Mikado Cove was a perfect hideaway. Completely landlocked and surrounded by high cliffs with jungles at their tops, the water inside was absolutely calm, clear, and deep. This was what we needed. We'd bumped the coral the previous day, trying to get into another "bullet proof" anchorage, and so we couldn't stay there, but with the TD up north, we were still looking for some protection and some peace and quiet. We found it at Mikado. Birds dove and swooped between the cliffs inside and high above, others circled.
The wind did build that day. We watched the clouds sweep over us and saw the trees atop the cliffs swaying in the wind, but it did not come down to our level. Later the rain came and it grew from a mist to a downpour. We set up our water collection system and filled all of our tanks. After that we didn't know what to do with all the water we had. We just let it run. During the night the wind grew stronger and gusts began to come over the hillside and down into our cove, but not enough to bother us. We were glad we were anchored in Mikado, not outside in some exposed place.
A couple of days later we motored back to Koror.
Palau cruising was turning out to be pretty good.
Fred & Judy, SV Wings, Palau
Click here to see a few photos we did manage to get in Palau
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Safe for Now
Local residents claim wild horses have roamed the land around the town of Heber, Ariz. and the Mogollon Rim since the 17th century—and due to a temporary restraining order obtained by of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), In Defense of Animals (IDA) and the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Wild Burros, they're safe for the time being. Unfortunately, if the US Forest Service (USFS) has its way, they won't be there much longer.
Approximately 300 to 400 horses, many of whom live in the 14,000-acre Heber Wild Horse Territory (designated as protected public land for wild horses under the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act) of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, are currently at risk of being rounded up and effectively sent to their deaths at a slaughterhouse. Each of these horses—even mares with foals—has been deemed "unauthorized livestock" by the USFS.
Some say the agency has wanted to remove horses from the area for years, and an incident that occurred three years ago has given them an excuse. The USFS claims the animals came to the area from a nearby Apache reservation following the 2002 Rodeo-Chediski fire, so they are not wild horses native to the region. The fire destroyed many acres of land in Fort Apache Indian Reservation and Apache-Sitgreaves and Tonto National Forests, taking with it boundary fencing and possibly allowing more horses than was previously typical to move from adjacent lands. On Aug. 30, the USFS officially announced its plan to remove the horses who currently graze in the burned Rodeo-Chediski area along the Mogollon Rim.
This is a death sentence for the animals. Once these horses are removed as trespassers, they will be impounded and sold at the Valley Livestock Auction in Sun Valley, Ariz. The auction is well known as a hot spot for killer-buyers; the slaughterhouse representatives are typically able to purchase the animals cheaply because of a lack of demand from legitimate buyers. If sold at this auction, it is inevitable that the majority of these horses will go to slaughter.
History of the Region
Meanwhile, the USFS claims it wants to remove the horses because they are causing environmental damage. Considerable amounts of time and funds have gone into refurbishing the land damaged by the 2002 fire, and the agency believes the horses may upset sensitive areas of the environment. However, the USFS seems to forget that wild horses are a historic part of this land, dating back to the time of the early Spanish explorers. Instead of attempting to manage a reasonable number of horses in the area, the agency is taking the easy way out—and destroying a living, breathing part of the environment in the process.
In 1971, the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act proclaimed, "Congress finds and declares that wild free-roaming horses and burros are living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West.... It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment or death; and to accomplish this they are to be considered in the area where presently found, as an integral part of the natural system of the public lands."
The definition stated by the Act implies that the horses the USFS wants to remove are indeed covered as long as they're on protected public land, unless it can prove they are "unauthorized livestock" who have not intermingled with any wild horses. It reads, "Wild free-roaming horses and burros means all unbranded and unclaimed horses and burros on public lands of the United States." The agency says it intends to exclude the horses living in the protected Heber territory from its roundup (thought we believe it has actually tried to zero out these horses for years)—and at the same time, it claims actual wild horse populations have not lived on the land in question for several years. Yet longtime residents beg to differ.
"Prior to the Rodeo-Chediski fires in 2002, I had seen herds of wild horses throughout the Heber/Overgaard area. The size of the herds have [sic] varied but have [sic] included at least a dozen horses at any given time," said Ron Britz, a full-time resident of the area since 1980. "None of the horses… were branded or had any domestic markings, to the best of my knowledge."
By way of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act definition of "wild horses," most of the 300 to 400 horses are covered by its protections. Investigation to date shows that the horses are unclaimed (and almost entirely unbranded) and living on protected public land, and there is no way to distinguish possible stray domestic horses from historic wild horses without a brand. Horses who do have brands should be rounded up responsibly and returned to their rightful owners; the rest should be allowed to run free.
Our Fight
Still, the USFS plans to round up these horses without any type of study, without any opportunity for public comment and without any media exposure. AWI and our aforementioned colleagues plan to fight this action aggressively. We were granted a temporary restraining order on Sept. 9 to stop the agency from removing the horses. This prevents the USFS from acting until Sept. 23, when a preliminary injunction hearing will be held. We are working with the Arizona law firm of Bryan Cave LLP, to seek a preliminary injunction against the gathering of these true wild horses and their sale at auction, and we plan to do whatever is required to preserve their lives.
"We have much historical evidence that shows these horses are the descendants of the Spanish horses brought by the soldiers who accompanied Father Eusebio Kino as he traveled across Arizona after establishing the missions of San Xavier and Tumocacori," said Dr. Pat Haight, southwest regional director of IDA. The available information verifies these horses existed in huge populations across the entire Mogollon Rim and the Heber territory throughout the large ranch eras of the 1800s and 1900s, when ranchers ran their cattle and domestic horses with the wild horses in the Apache-Sitgreaves Forest, she explained. This long history must be preserved.
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Jaxbot over at Windows Phone Hacker as released a new app onto the Windows Phone 8 Store and it's worth the $0.99 for it. The app is called LockWidgets 8 and allows users to add up to three information areas to their lockscreens, including current temperature, tomorrow's temp and battery life. Some detailed information is also included like estimated time left on the charge and if it is clear or rainy out.
Users can select the background image from Bing, NASA or their own images and include "weather effects", which can add rain droplets and presumably other graphical changes to the background image.
The app does have a free trial (and it will stamp "Trial version" on the lockscreen, overlapping with your calendar information) but users are free to use it for as long as they want.[Edit: Watermark for app trial has been removed]. Otherwise, if they enjoy the app they can unlock the full version for $0.99.
We've been playing with it for the last 20 minutes and so far are impressed (we also combined it with the "blur your lockscreen" effect, seen above). The information is supposed to be updated "periodically" though there currently is no way to specify that frequency. Still, we were more than happy to plunk over a buck for the app as it's nicely laid out and seems to work well.
You can pick up LockWidget 8 here in the Windows Phone Store (Windows Phone 8 only).
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Hassan hopeful automatic federal budget cuts will be avoided but fears nothing will stop them
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan is hopeful automatic federal budget cuts will be avoided, but fears nothing will happen this week to stop them from taking effect before Friday's deadline.
Hassan spoke by phone with reporters Monday after attending National Governors Association meetings in Washington. She said New Hampshire won't feel the impact of all the cuts immediately, but 6,000 people could lose their jobs in the coming months. She said that would hurt the state's fragile rebound from the recession.
Hassan said if nothing is done to stop the automatic cuts the New Hampshire National Guard may need to furlough soldiers, some needy children will not have access to daycare and teachers will be laid off.


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Prague Now and Then
Prague Now and Then
Design inspired by the artwork "Prague Now and Then", from the INVERSE LIGHT collection.
A reversible sleeveless dress which can be worn in 2 ways - wear it with a low-cut round neckline, or flip it over for a high-cut racer back design.
The dress is made from a light and flowy material. It is fitted at the top and has a slight flare from the wasit, to create a flattering shape. Perfect to be worn on its own, with leggings or layered under a cardigan.
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As a supporter of the St. Gregory the Great parish and school, I was surprised to learn that the SCDOT decided not to close the median crossover during the widening of Highway 278 or after completion. Apparently "the median crossover will not be closed until the frontage road connecting SGG to Berkeley Hall's entrance is constructed by Beaufort County."
This continues "kicking the can down the road" on a major safety issue. As the parish grew and as the school was in the development, construction and expansion phases, the SGG leaders, the Beaufort County (BC) Government to include the County Council, and the SCDOT had the clear opportunity to make the correct decision to favor safety of entrance/egress as opposed to convenience. That not having been done, it was almost a certainly that this same decision would be continue as the widening of Highway 278 came into discussion.
The continuing safety of parishioners, school children, their parents and the SGG staff should not be ignored. Someone in leadership of SGG, BC and/or SCDOT needs to step forward and make the right recommendation/decision to immediately close the median crossover before there is a tragic accident. Obviously this leader and decision will inherit the wrath of people complaining about the inconvenience of closing the median crossover. But isn't that what good leaders do...assess the situation, listen carefully to all of the pros and cons and make the right decision. In my opinion, this hasn't happened. And the mere fact that there are open median crossovers further down the road (e.g. at Sheridan Park) shouldn't justify a wrong decision at SGG.
Shouldn't safety trump convenience in every case...especially when it involves the vulnerable lives of children?
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The trial for the man charged with raping and killing a 5-year-old Fayetteville girl more than three years ago will be held in February.
A judge denied a request Friday from Mario Andrette McNeil's lawyers to delay the capital murder trial by 60 days. That means jury selection will begin Feb. 18.
Superior Court Judge Jim Ammons also denied a request by McNeil's lawyers to remove the possibility of the death penalty.
The 32-year-old McNeil is charged with raping and killing Shaniya Davis in November 2009. The child's mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, is charged with giving her daughter to McNeil to settle a drug debt.
She also faces charges, including murder.
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Alushta is a small city in the Crimea, in the Russia.
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You can take the famous Crimean over mountain trolley bus which is the longest trolleybus line in the world with a total length of 94km. The trolley system is slow (1.5hrs from Simferopol and 1hr from Yalta) but you get wonderful views of the mountains and it's the cheapest way to get into town (9 UAH from Simferopol).
Buses are an alternative, cheap and regular, but very hot in mid summer.
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Alushta has some fairly nice former boat docks that have been converted into beaches. The town is mostly a big carnival though.
Visit the Genonese fortress and Byzantine defensive tower.
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Alushta offers you a wide selection of clubs and discos. Don't miss the famous Kivi Kivi on Gorkovo Street. It's hard to get a table inside the building, but you can be sure to meet friendly Russians/Ukrainians. This is probably the only establishment in Alushta that knows Western-style drinks (such as Cuba Libre). The entrance fee is UAH 20-25. The dancefloor is rather small, so you have more than a chance to bump into a friendly-looking Kiev/Moscow girl. Every sixth or seventh song is a slow one. Don't miss that chance.
Also, remember to take a walk down the Naberezhnaya. Get yourself a beer or two, sit anywhere you want and good things will happen. You can be sure to meet someone who will take you for a party.
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The dishes tend to be extremely small (this is both for the indigenous and tourists), be sure to order at least two dishes. The "plov" will knock you off your feet.
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6 Tips for Perfect Memorabilia Scans
Preserve your family heritage and summertime stories by including memorabilia on your scrapbook layouts. From tickets to report cards, these little pieces of history have a big impact on the story you're trying to tell with your layout. They add a sense of realism to the story by supporting your photos and journaling. Whether you're scrapbooking little known family stories or your summer vacation, let our six scanning tips help you get your memories into your albums.
Permanent Record by Pattie Knox, as seen in The Best of Digital Scrapbooking from Creating Keepsakes magazine, page 69.
For more digital scanning tips and techniques, check out The Best of Digital Scrapbooking. And for more ideas for preserving your family and summertime stories, check out the July/August 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
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Bed and Breakfast L'en Vert du Decor (Lincent Liege)
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Bed and Breakfast Kamerijck B And B (Gingelom Limburg)
Environ 10 km de Abolens
Kamerijck is situated just outside the village of Gingelom, in a very peaceful and rural environment. Its the perfect place for pleasant walks in hollow ways along the orchards. The farm is ... Read more
Bed and Breakfast La Reverie (Orp jauche Walloon brabant)
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Come and live your dreams at La Rêverie.Welcome in our home on the countryside of Hesbaye brabançonne where you'll like the natural surroundings as well as our garden and natural swimming ... Read more
Bed and Breakfast Les Augustins (Huy Liege)
Environ 18 km de Abolens
Bed & Breakfast in the attic of a former convent of the 18th century, in the heart of the old town of Huy. Nest of greenery and calm.
Bed and Breakfast Lisas Weelde (Tongres Limburg)
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Lisa's Weelde is situated in a centuries-old square farm (1715 A.C.) in a village called Rutten. The owners affinity for the South of France is very strong which is projected in ... Read more
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Western Illinois University offers post-baccalaureate certificates in several disciplines. The certificate programs are administered by the various academic departments as indicated. Please refer to departmental information for specific course descriptions.
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Applicants for admission to post-baccalaureate certificate programs must hold a bachelor's degree from an institution that is accredited by the appropriate regional accrediting agency. Some certificate programs have additional admission requirements or prerequisites. Application for admission must be made upon forms obtained from the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must request the Registrar of the college or university granting their highest degree to send a statement of degree or official transcript showing the degree and date it was conferred. Verification of degree must be sent by the Registrar directly to the School of Graduate Studies. Transcripts on file in the Registrar's Office at WIU will be obtained by Graduate Office personnel.
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Students must have a cumulative 3.0 GPA for all course work required for completion of the certificate. A post-baccalaureate certificate will not be awarded to a student who earns more than three semester hours of C, D, or F grades in the graduate level courses required for the completion of the certificate. Transfer work or course substitutions are not allowed in certificate programs.
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86 HASKINS & SELLS April Milling ACCOUNTANCY practice becomes more complex as education and experience provide with a widening interest and enlarged fund of knowledge relating to accounting, those outside of the profession who have to deal with business and finance and legal matters pertaining thereto. The group outside of the profession is an ever-increasing group. At present it includes, at least, public utilitists, industrialists, commercial bankers, investment bankers, economists, statisticians, teachers, government officials, legislators, engineers, appraisers, lawyers, risk-bearers, and the judiciary. That these classes of individuals should have an interest in accounting is but natural, inasmuch as they have a common interest in capital and income, which are the controlling factors in the accountant's consideration of business affairs. But each class is influenced by his own concepts, by the concepts of his group, and by the coloring which is given to him by his particular point of view and his problems. The business man, having been forced by modern conditions, tax problems, and the tendencies of the times to consider financial data as a basis for judgment, is buffeted about in the tempestuous sea of conflicting opinion. He derives certain views from reading the daily papers, and, perhaps, the business magazines. His bankers and lawyers may advise him along other lines. The appraisal companies give him ideas which contain an element of conviction, but which are not accepted by the world at large. His accountants truss him up, so he sometimes appears to think, with an assortment of doctrines which would be dogma if there were authority to enforce them. The accountant engaged in public practice is in much the same position as the business man, with respect to the principles which govern the accounting for capital and income. There is no supreme authority to which he can turn for guidance Around and support. No two representatives of other vocations agree with the accountant or with each other. Even governmental bodies which attempt to set up rational standards are drawn into endless arguments because of the possibilities of argument offered by different points of view. Something of the eternal problem is seen in a letter reproduced below. The letter is from an eminent lawyer; one who has had no small experience in drafting legislation governing corporations. Although appearing in spots to be somewhat caustic, the letter is in no sense intended to be unfriendly. It is merely a cold-blooded statement of the situation as a lawyer sees it. "When we talk about the capital stock, or capital, or stated capital of a corporation we are talking about two things: "1. The fund that must be contributed and maintained as a trading fund to take the place of individual liability, and "2. The capital, stated capital, or capital stock which operates to measure, determine, or limit the assets available for distribution by way of dividends or otherwise than by way of reduction of capital, capital stock, or stated capital. "There was a time when statutes generally required the fund for the protction of the public to be provided in cash, but nowadays that fund may be provided in money or in property, and property may be taken and considered at its fair value to the corporation. "If, so far as the public is concerned, a corporation may start in business either with money or property at its fair value to the corporation, it ought to be agreed by everyone that the company is required only to maintain a fund equal to so many dollars in value of property to the corporation so that so far as the public is concerned, I can see no reason why assets should not be written up to their true or fair value to the corporation. "If the Star Manufacturing Company
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UD in DC
University of Delaware research focus of event on Capitol Hill
8:13 a.m., March 16, 2011----A group of University of Delaware faculty, administrators and students packed their prototypes, their posters, their interactive displays and their UDairy ice cream and brought them all on a quick trip down Interstate 95.
The people and their displays became a showcase of UD's federally funded research projects on Capitol Hill at UD Day in Washington, D.C., on March 8. Invited guests included alumni, staffers representing several congressional offices and federal program officials representing the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense, as well as Delaware's congressional delegation. Delaware's U.S. senators, Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and congressman, John Carney, all commented on UD's research prowess.
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"Our University does terrific work these days," Carper said.
Scattered around the Kennedy Caucus room in the Russell Senate Office Building were 25 displays. They represented the broad range of research conducted at UD with emphasis on four core areas: defense, health, energy and the environment. In addition, partnerships, outreach and commercialization efforts were featured to show the broad impact of UD research.
"The University of Delaware really is a world-class research university," Coons said. "I am a big believer in the power of innovation and invention to solve the problems that face not just America but the entire world."
With federal lawmakers working to cut spending in the nation's budget, research could suffer funding reductions. UD sought to display the value of federal funding in projects happening across campus. Last year, UD conducted $120 million of sponsored research, more than $90 million of which was funded by federal agencies.
Carney said he sees the value in funding research.
"You can't cut the things that are going to provide the economic opportunities of the future and that's the sciences and technology," he said.
UD President Patrick Harker echoed that sentiment. "Research yields new discoveries that generate significant societal benefit, including robust economic development," Harker said.
Delaware's congressional delegation along with others in the room pledged to be a partner with the University and fight for the programs that will create the innovations of the future.
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Unique Amongst VC's I've Met in the Uk
Fund: Ariadne Capital
Posted by Anonymous on 2013-06-20
Ariadne have multiple approaches to helping Entrepreneurs and as such are not so much purely a venture fund (although they do have funds to help entrepreneurs): rather they offer a range of services to Entrepreneurs from helping fund raise, M&A, networking and seeding startups.
I am amazed by some of the comments on this forum - I went to the "Follow the entrepreneur" forum early this year - you only have to look at the website and the packed list of speakers for that forum, to see that Ariadne have a serious and credible network.
Ariadne have been extremely helpful in helping my company find a new NED. They certainly were not aggressive about fees for this and so again, I can't understand some of the other comments.
They've also proposed to my company some services for helping us to raise cash at nothing like the fees mentioned by a poster some 5-6 years ago.
My advice would be:
*If you are a start-up they could make a really good source of seed capital.
*If you have time - then try and go to one of their "entrepreneurcountry" events or at least the website - it's what they are all about.
*They are not a VC with the ability to invest millions - I'd certainly say that if your business requires that you may be better off talking to some of the tier 1 VCs.
This is a fund that tries very hard to respect entrepreneurs for what their vision is: unlike most funds I've pitched to they haven't tried to mold my company into their view of the world.PRIVATE: Members Only


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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he called a Georgetown law student who was labeled a 'slut' by radio host Rush Limbaugh because he doesn't want people who speak their mind about policy issues to be discouraged or attacked.
Asked to comment on Limbaugh's apology, Obama says he doesn't know 'what's in Rush Limbaugh's heart.'
Limbaugh apologized to student Sandra Fluke, saying he shouldn't have used the language he did and it was wrong.
Obama said the incident made him think of his two daughters and his hopes that they can engage in issues they care about in the future.
Obama says he doesn't want his daughters 'attacked or called horrible names' for speaking their minds and being good citizens.
Obama says the remarks 'don't have any place' in public discourse.


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KevPartner necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 89 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
GreetingCardMaker is a forthcoming website which will offer users the opportunity to design their own greeting card and print it on their home printer.
This product is aimed primarily at a female audience. Typically, they will be aged 35-65, creative and interested in crafts.
We require a logo to be used on both a website and printed stationery. The website has not yet been designed.
The logo needs to be capable of being resized (within reason). We would like a graphical element as well as for it to incorporate the words "GreetingCardMaker.co.uk". We would expect the design to include a "greeting card" graphical element and, perhaps, something that suggests printing. However, we are open to more abstract ideas.
The design must be modern and we would anticipate it incorporating only 2-3 colours although we're open to ideas on that.
The colours need to be appropriate to the audience. Popular colours in magazines aimed at this audience include fuchsia, magenta, purple and lime green but please feel free to be creative with this: our colour scheme has not yet been set.
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Optical Measurement and Modeling of Interactions between Two Hole Spins or Two Electron Spins in Coupled InAs Quantum Dots. Physical Review Letters. 110(11) e117402.pdf (853.13 KB). 2013.
Optical control of one and two hole spins in interacting quantum dots. Nature Photonics. 5(11):703-709. 11-1226-3607.pdf (247.3 KB). 2011.
Ultrafast optical control of entanglement between two quantum dot spins. Nature Physics. 7:223-229. 10-1226-4276.pdf (436.28 KB). 2010.
Optical spin spin initialization and nondestructive measurement in a quantum dot molecule. Physical Review Letters. 101 08-1226-3576.pdf (1.08 MB). 2008.


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Lacie (Age 27)
Parrott, VA
About LACIE :
"I am straight forward and not into games. I love receiving and giving oral..
I'm a true lady in the streets but a freak under the sheets.
I am not into messaging all day long with sum guy or getting all kinds of comments on my pics.. safe them for the attentionwhores..
if you like what you see and I like what I see then we will take it from there.
I keep my personal life seperate from this casual sex thing..
So don't be asking me about my all kinds of stuff about my personal life.. I am here only for sex………."
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About JOSPHINE :
"I love fun and sex and im merely looking for some adult online fun right now……
Have been out of the adult dating scene for awhile and def not ready for nething serious like a relationship.. Just casual encounters; quick fix with great sex
Send me a message and I might consider you"
Janette (Age 28)
Fredericksburg, VA
About JANETTE :
"Which one of you all sxy fuckers on here wants to get in this tight little asshole of mine?
im totally ready for a big hard cock up my ass and took a pic to prove it for ya!
can you see ur cock getting up in my tight hole?? you can blow you load now and make a pic for me ;0
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About SHERLYN :
"Idiotic comments, suggestions or remarks will result in u findin ur place on my blocked list! Lemme simplify this coz it seems a lot of u r struggling ta understand :- * NO – im not interested if your in a relationship (i aint like that) * NO – i dont wanna be a part of ur 3sum * NO – KIDS (They scare me, seriously, i cant tolerate em, so i wont be playin 'mummy' to urs) * NO – i dont want your money (you wanna buy sommat? Go to the shop) * NO – i dont want to go on holiday with you * and NO NO NO NO NO! – dont continue to message me if i dont reply to you, if i dont respond then its pretty obvious i aint interested (and tellin me im 'the one', you 'love me' n other such gibberish will get you nowhere, so dont even try)"
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About KATHERN :
"need a man to join my friend in fuckin me senseless.
As you can see my other hole feels really neglected so i decided to use a couple of fingers and stretch it up for you a bit..
I would really prefer a bit long cock just my my bf has for my other tight little hole..
Would you look to fuck my asshole while my friend fucks my pussy and takes some pics for our private stash?"


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Slat-Back Great Chair
Boston or Salem, MA, 1650-1700
Maple, ash
Collection of Concord Museum
Bequest of Edna H. Howe (1953), F2139
Only a few New England households had more than one or two chairs in them when this example was made in Boston. Odd as it seems now to consider, most people got by without them. This well-made example is one of several closely related chairs that survive with histories in eastern Massachusetts, including the famous Philip English chair esteemed by minister William Bentley of Salem for its association with the witch trials of 1692. If this chair was fitted with a cushion when new, as it almost certainly was, the cushion would have cost far more than the frame.


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Is your car stuck in the snow? Do you need to know how to push it out? Whatever you do, don't be like this guy.
As you can see in the video, both people in the car get out to help push. The car gets away from them, and there's nothing they can do about it.
So remember, if you're pushing a car, make sure there's someone in it to brake/steer/whatever.


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Disney will be transforming its California Adventure theme park, located right next to Disneyland, into a Tron-themed festival of lights with ElecTRONica, the digital dance party scheduled to launch this October.
It's not a ride, it's an "electrifying' experience for the entire family" and "the greatest night-time dance party to ever rock Disney California Adventure," according to Disney's official theme park blog. It's a stage show, as previously foretold. Based on the newly released concept art for the Tron-themed shindig, ElecTRONica will borrow visually more from the upcoming Tron: Legacy than the original Tron.
Disney's detailed recreation of Flynn's Arcade, which has been installed at Comic-Cons past and recent, will set up shop at ElecTRONica for some "radical gaming". Disney's also hauling playable demos of Tron Evolution, the console video game, to the event.
ElecTRONica will bring the Tron aesthetic to California Adventure on the weekends later this year, featuring "live entertainers, complete with lasers, glow accessories and the hottest music ever to rock the grid". Yeah. You read that right. Lasers.
All this video game-themed partying kicks off October 8. Anyone going?
First Look at ElecTRONica [Disney Parks Blog via SuperPunch]


text: Arts, Culture & Media Fado's Rising Star: Carminho PRI's The World November 22, 2011 Fado is the music of Portugal and the center of the scene is the capital - Lisbon. One of the rising stars on the fado scene Portugal's capital is 27-year-old singer Carminho. Marco Werman tells us more.


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In 2007, Index Holdings, which owns movie company Nikkatsu and anime studio Madhouse, bought up the majority of Altus stock. Atlus is being merged, and the Atlus name will cease to exist as a registered corporation.
Index Holdings will be merging Index, its mobile content developer, into Atlus. This move looks to streamline the corporate organisation.
"Atlus" as a brand can continue; however, Atlus will no longer be registered on the Japanese stock exchange. According to a spokesperson, the Atlus name will continue for both game development and retail sales.
Back in February when it was revealed that Atlus will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Index Holdings, there was concern that new Atlus games will differ from old Atlus ones.
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I have increasingly worsening pain in my lower back and buttocks, to the point where I really don't want to get out of bed, sitting just kills me, really starting to push me to the edge.
Had an Xray and MRI of the lower back.
Apparently I get to have a test run where they do 6 injections to my lower back with steroid/or/and/lidocaine, if this is shown to relieve any pain they'll continue with the RFA !
Injections to either side of L3/4, L4/5, and L5/S1
"Radiofrequency ablation catheter to Facet joints"
also have moderate arthritis !
Wondering if a tilt table would help?