Benefits of SandBell Games and Exercise Play | Game: Clear the ...

By Hyperwear Master Trainer and Faculty Member, Jake Duhon

Play, games and creative activities are extremely important in a child?s development. Incorporating them into fun and engaging challenges only enhances their affect on children?s physical, mental and emotional well-being. SandBell games are especially great for children?s activities because SandBells can be used without the fear of causing injury.

When creating an environment for games with the SandBell it is important to promote active play as it aids in physical development, coordination and cardiovascular fitness. Games allow children to play with friends helping them to discover skills such as communication, cooperation, negotiation and promotion of attachment, which is a preventative factor in the development of mental health problems later in life. Negotiation, self-reliance, cooperation and communication skills are all developed effectively through peer interactions in a way that doesn?t happen when adults are involved.

Playing games with rules helps children learn to live within boundaries. Children need to learn which rules are flexible and games are a good way of reinforcing the different types of boundaries while also providing confidence and teaching new skills through learning and following directions.

Using your own creativity and open mind, you can begin challenging children through games and promote movement within your community in a variety of different ways.

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Game: Clear the House

Set-up: Create a space large enough for your group with a dividing line down the center. Separate your group into two teams of equal players with and an equal number of SandBells on each side ranging in appropriate weight.

Objective: Within the designated time period, teams must clear the SandBells from their ?house? to their opponents ?house?. The team with the least amount of SandBells in their house at the end of the time period wins.

Programing Variables

Duration: How long is the movement period set for?

The duration of the game will be set based on the desired conditioning goal of the movement session and most importantly the participants involved.

There are three different body systems to keep in mind when considering movement duration:

1. Lactate threshold ? This is the capacity to do high-intensity work for up to 3 minutes. The ESD unit of the training program is a form of interval training in which you alternate between periods of intense exercise with less strenuous periods.
2. Lactate power ? This is the body?s ability to do high-level work for periods of up to 12 seconds.
3. Aerobic system ? the body?s ability to work beyond 3 minutes.

Sets: How many rounds of play will you have?

The total sets will assist in providing training volume; the more sets the greater the volume of work for your participants.

Recommended sets for Kindergarten ? 2^nd grade: 3-5 sets

Load: What will the weight of the SandBells be for the participants?

The weight of the SandBells can vary. It is important to keep in mind the movement ability of the participants involved and most importantly the training goal. Load will have a direct correlation to the duration of movement desired as well as the total volume of work you would like to see performed. When considering load remember it is more important to see quality and not quantity. Motion with the SandBell should be controlled and participants should demonstrate good rhythm & timing throughout each set.

Recommended load for Kindergarten ? 2^nd grade: 2-10lbs

Rest: What length of time will participants recover from the movement duration?

The rest period will also assist in dictating the desired impact of the movement session. The amount of time you choose to have your participants rest between sets can have a major impact on how the movement you?re planning affects the body.

Recommended rest period for kindergarten ? 2^nd grade: 30-90 seconds.

Source: http://www.hyperwear.com/blog/benefits-play-sandbell-games-kids/

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T-Mobile confirms appeal over Austria telecom merger

VIENNA (Reuters) - T-Mobile Austria confirmed it had filed an appeal against the allocation of radio frequencies that will result from Hutchison Whampoa's takeover of Orange Austria, in a move that could derail the 1.3 billion euro ($1.7 billion) deal.

A source familiar with the matter had told Reuters last month that the Deutsche Telekom unit planned the appeal over fears it will be at a disadvantage to rivals who will have a head start of up to a year in building next-generation LTE networks.

The ability to build an LTE network, which will offer data speeds up to 10 times those now available, will be a key competitive advantage in Austria's hard-fought telecoms market.

The country's four operators are engaged in a price war as they fight over a population of just 8.4 million, with all-inclusive, no-strings offers available for as little as 7 euros per month.

T-Mobile said on Wednesday it had lodged an appeal on December 31 with Austria's higher administrative court against the decision of the country's telecom control commission, the TKK, for the transfer of frequencies that will accompany the merger.

It said it had asked for the transfer to be put on hold while its legal case is being heard. It said it expected the court to decide within days on whether to grant an injunction in the case, which it thought could last until March or April.

A court spokesman said the court had not yet received the appeal.

($1 = 0.7585 euros)

(Reporting by Angelika Gruber and Michael Shields; Editing by David Holmes)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/t-mobile-confirms-appeal-over-austria-telecom-merger-123631560--sector.html

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Apple Is Already Testing The iPhone 6, According ... - Business Insider

Apple is already testing the next iPhone, according to developer logs shown to Matt Brian of The Next Web.

Brian reports, "One developer showed us that Apple has been testing hardware relating to a new ?iPhone6,1? identifier, powered by a device running iOS 7, which is expected to be released by Apple in the middle part of this year."

The current iPhone is marked in developer logs as 'iPhone5,1' and ?iPhone 5,2'. Therefore, Apple appears to be testing new hardware.

In last two years Apple has released a new iPhone in the fall. The fact that a new iPhone is showing up in developer logs already suggests its going to pull the release date forward.

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We've already heard a few rumbles about Apple planning to release the next iPhone, which many are calling the iPhone 5S, in June or July.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-is-already-testing-the-iphone-6-according-to-a-developer-2013-1

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GOP Rep. King: ?Anyone from NY & NJ who contributes one penny to [GOP] is out of their mind? (Americablog)

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"Fiscal cliff" tumble looms despite Senate efforts

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States was on track to tumble over the "fiscal cliff" at midnight on Monday, at least for a day, as lawmakers held back from supporting an eleventh-hour plan from Senate leaders to avert severe tax increases and spending cuts.

The U.S. House of Representatives looked unlikely to vote on a Senate "fiscal cliff" plan before midnight, possibly pushing a legislative decision into New Year's Day, when financial markets will be closed.

The plan was heavy on tax increases and light on spending cuts, which was unlikely to appeal to Republicans in the House.

It would raise income taxes on high-income Americans, but leave taxes at current levels for the middle class, a key goal of President Barack Obama.

But there was discontent among Senate Democrats worried that the proposal did not go far enough in taxing the rich. The Democrats asked for a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden to have him explain the talks he was having with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

"The caucus as a whole is not sold" on the plan, said a Senate Democratic aide. "We just don't have the votes for it."

If Congress fails to act, about $600 billion in tax increases - much steeper than those in the Senate plan - and government-wide spending cuts will begin taking effect after midnight, harsh measures that could lead to a recession.

But lawmakers could still vote for a deal on New Year's Day or later and prevent the worst of the fiscal cliff effects.

The House expects to reconvene on Tuesday at noon, Republican Representative Steven LaTourette said. He added that House members had been told to stay close on Monday evening and that they may be called back to continue negotiations.

Under the Senate plan, income above $450,000 per household or $400,000 per individual would be taxed at 39.6 percent, up from 35 percent. Income up to those levels would be taxed at the current, reduced tax rates put in place under former President George W. Bush.

The Senate plan would raise estate taxes on inherited wealth and permanently fix the alternative minimum tax, or AMT, so that it did not threaten each year to sweep in millions of middle-income Americans for whom it was not intended.

The plan also postpones for two months the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts in defense and domestic programs that are part of the fiscal cliff, Senator John McCain said.

SENATE DEMOCRATS UNSURE

Some Senate Democrats did not like the $450,000 threshold for raising taxes on the rich - they wanted $250,000 - or the higher threshold for raising estate taxes. Democrats also are upset there is no agreement yet to put off the first round of $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts.

Republicans already are pushing for switching those across-the-board cuts to savings in the Medicare and Social Security healthcare and retirement programs and threatening to block a debt limit increase in February unless they get their way. But that is a fight that would most likely play out in January and February.

Some Senate Democrats aides were dispirited that Biden, a fellow Democrat, had gone further than they wanted in the fiscal cliff talks, just as he did in December 2010 when all Bush tax cuts were extended for two years.

Shortly after the plan emerged, Obama said agreement was within sight, but he sounded a cautious note.

"There are still issues to resolve, but we're hopeful that Congress can get it done, but it's not done," Obama, a Democrat, said at a White House event.

U.S. stocks rose on the day, with the market closing before the latest news broke about the House not voting. The benchmark Dow Jones industrial average closed up 1.3 percent at 13,104.

Even if the country tumbles over the cliff, legislative action afterward could soften the blow.

Final legislation can be backdated to January 1, for instance, said law firm K&L Gates partner Mary Burke Baker, who spent decades at the Internal Revenue Service.

"The important date is the date in the legislative language ... no matter what day the Senate or House pass the law, or the date the president signs it," she said.

Former Obama administration Treasury Department tax official Michael Mundaca agreed, although he said there would likely be delays in filing for many taxpayers as the IRS gets its computers into gear.

A deal on Tuesday will likely leave unsolved the issue of the "debt ceiling," which caps how much debt the federal government can hold.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a letter to congressional leaders that the government would suspend some investments in pension and health benefit funds for federal workers beginning on Monday in a move that allows it to keep borrowing for the meantime.

(Additional reporting by Mark Felsenthal, Tabassum Zakaria, Kim Dixon, Jeff Mason, Rachelle Younglai and David Morgan, Writing by Kevin Drawbaugh, Editing by Alistair Bell and Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fiscal-deal-stalls-clock-ticks-deadline-000951431--business.html

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Adam Lambert Slams Film ?Les Miserables? Over Pretend Singers!

Adam Lambert Slams Film “Les Miserables” Over Pretend Singers!

“Les Miserables” may be a critically-acclaimed movie that is already receiving Oscar buzz, but Adam Lambert claims the film “suffered miserably” due to the singing of the actors. The 30-year-old “American Idol”, who was the runner-up in Season 8 of the show, took to Twitter to give his two cents on the hit movie. Lambert ...

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Vintage African Art: Nigerian Pulp Fiction | Okayafrica.

Before Heinemann?s African Writer?s Series?and Macmillan?s Pacesetter Series, there was Nigerian pulp fiction, or, as it?s more commonly known, Onitsha market literature. The sensational stories, paper-bound in Hollywood-inspired covers, grew in popularity in the decade before Nigerian independence, and the years immediately following it. Their appeal wasn?t limited to Onitsha, the city where they were written and printed. Before the demise of Onitsha?s printing presses in the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-70), the group of independent publishers concentrated there churned out thousands of pamphlets which were distributed across the Nigeria and Anglophone West Africa.

Much like today?s self-appointed self-help gurus, many of these writers saw it as their duty to dispense moral advice on topics ranging from casual sex (avoid) to business success (pursue). The weight and optimism of Independence is everywhere in the pamphlets, which grapple with the contradictions of becoming moderns or ?new Africans? (who Nkrumah memorably conjured in his 1957 Midnight Speech), without sacrificing too many of the old ways in the process. They contain a palpable?enthusiasm for city life, moneymaking, self-creation and self-improvement.

Like many of his Onitsha contemporaries, author Cyril Ummunah promises to make his readers intimates of the rules of modern love. As the title suggests, ?They Died in the Game of Love? is a cautionary tale: lovers Thony and Cathy heap tragedy on their own (and everyone else?s) heads by engaging in pre-marital sex. Cathy dies, Thony finds another lover who also dies, and the whole thing ends in the type of bloodbath more readily associated with a Tarantino film. But there?s hope ? Ummunah promises his male readers that they?ll find love, ?regardless how ugly you are?.

Here as elsewhere, the figure of wayward youth, and the wayward woman (ashewo, harlot, schemer, manipulator), features strongly. She recurs as a stock character onto which anxieties about money, poverty and the hardship of city life, are routinely projected. Across the genre, worried men warn other, presumably equally worried, men away from the jeweled arms and made-up face of the gold-digger (??la Yeezy). Naturally, the minute we meet Mabel of ?Mabel the Sweet Honey that Poured Away? we know the terrible truth about her: ?It took her seven minutes to take her bath?, she uses ?two different pomades? and ?pencilled her eyebrows and eyelashes?. Powerless to warn our young hero, we brace ourselves for the havoc she?ll inevitably wreak.?Onitsha author C.N.O Money-Hard puts it best: ?You know women are pests and they are bent on sucking the man until he becomes tired??

But this archetype is not just a product of 1950s pulp fiction. She also appears in many of the revered ?village to city novels? that Heinemann went on to publish (Cyprian Ekwensi?s ?People of the City? is a classic example, while Buchi Emecheta?s ?The Joys of Motherhood? complicates the second-wife ?golddigger? figure considerably). What is clear though, is that women were considered parasites of the new wage economy, schemers who given the chance, would exploit love for material gain.

If the stories display the suspicion with which she was once regarded, it?s worth noting how deeply ?this wayward woman?s manicured nails are embedded in the Nigerian popular imagination. She continues to show up today, even as the country?embraces and contributes to?global consumer culture. Nollywood is often hostile terrain for the single women and narratives that purport to tell her story often mock or punish her for her consumption (?Glamour Girls?, ?Blackberry Babes?, perhaps the more oldschool Domzilla is an exception?).

The continued existence of this archetype in representations of Nigerians by Nigerians (both Onitsha market literature and Nollywood films are pioneers in that regard) suggests is that Nigeria?s fixation on wealth accumulation, and rightful anger over economic inequality have thickened in the years since independence. That some of this anger is expressed through strong popular protest?is exciting; that it also continues to be projected onto women, who are held up as examples of everything that?s wrong with consumer culture, is more troubling.

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That?s the end of our series! We hope the trip through the archives has been yielded some food for thought. Does the term post-Africa pass muster? Or should it go the way of African post-feminism and post-black? In the coming year we?ll be interested to see how the meanings of ?Africa? continue to morph, both in how its understood and artistically rendered.

Read Vintage ?Africa? Part I: Representations of the Motherland and Otherlands?here.
Read Vintage ?Africa? Part II: Postcolonial African Films?here.
Read Vintage ?Africa? Part III: Pan African Songs here

Source: http://www.okayafrica.com/2012/12/31/vintage-africa-nigerian-pulp-fiction/

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