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Post childbirth and a few months down the line, carrying pregnancy fat around can be tiresome and not so flattering for new moms. The first option is to exercise. But all that huffing and puffing comes to naught when you realize, the pounds have not budged an inch.

The other alternative option of plastic surgery is an easy and a stress free way of getting a desired shape and look. In New Jersey, Plastic surgery centers offer customized treatment plans for new moms who are looking for a way to slip and not squeeze back into those tight fit denims.

When it comes to pregnancy weight, it’s not just one but many problem areas to tackle. Saggy breasts, bulging tummy, cellulite thighs, shapeless buttocks are just some of the troublesome post pregnancy issues.

And there are a variety of options available for new moms in New Jersey. Plastic surgery treatments like breast augmentation, liposuction, butt lift and body contouring can take care of all your image related issues.

Given the choices that you just read, it can be a daunting task to identify what is right for you or the need of the hour. Therefore, it is imperative that you do your research well and find a certified surgeon who you are comfortable with to discuss your goals and problems on a one on one basis.

Or else you can go for a complete package, a mommy makeover-the latest treatment preference that is the talk among all new moms in New Jersey. Plastic surgery treatments like liposuction and breast augmentation are done in conjunction to get the desired effect.

This package therapy ensures a wholesome result, instead of an unexpected and non proportionate effect on your body. So basically a consultation with the surgeon would pin point what needs work. Often a liposuction would be advised along with a breast augmentation to remove those really stubborn pockets of fat that refuse to thaw out even after following a rigorous routine of diet and exercise. Or a tummy tuck to remove that excess of sagging skin around your waist.

Your surgeon may also suggest some small procedures like laser skin rejuvenation to give you fresh and relaxed look, to diminish all skin imperfections that happen due to the hormonal changes after childbirth. Or go for an eyelid lift to diminish the effects of all those nights when your baby kept you awake.

Pregnancy can take a heavy toll on a woman’s body. It gets stretched and swollen and once the baby is out, the elasticity is all gone and your body refuses to bounce back to its original shape. And more the number of children you have, the harder it is regain your looks.

According to 34-year-old Alice Cooper, a mommy makeover candidate from New Jersey, plastic surgery is a great method to restore your fab pre pregnancy figure in one shot, instead of tackling each problem area individually at a later stage.

But before you jump into any procedure head on, do remember to undertake the precautionary measures of ensuring the safety aspects of a clinic, possible results to be expected, and the board certification of the consulting surgeon.

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By Crystal A. Eikanger

The World Arabian Horse Organization (WAHO) recognizes three separate breeds of the Arabian Horse. In North America, most Arabian aficionados are acquainted with the purebred Arabian and the Half-Arabian breeds. But a large majority of people world-wide are unfamiliar with the third and rarest Arabian Horse that is known as the Shagya-Arabian.

Its origins derive from purebred desert Arabians that were developed more than 200 years ago from selective breeding and performance testing when the Austro-Hungarian monarchy needed a superior cavalry mount back in 1789. The ideal horse had to be pre-potent for its type so that it could be used to improve other native breeds. As a result of an edict from the Emperor, the Babolna stud farm was founded 36 miles west of Budapest.

The conditions for creating a superior breed were perfect at the time, since the stud was managed by Hungary’s talented native horsemen, the Magyars, who had highly developed skills as horse breeders.

By crossing quality cavalry mares of oriental type with imported purebred Arabian Horses from Syria, in particular, with a purebred Arabian stallion named Shagya, a new warhorse was created. The breed was originally known as the Araberrasse (Arab breed) or Arab Fajta Horse. The Magyars kept meticulous records of the breeding program in their studbooks and English Thoroughbred, Anglo-Arabian and Lipizzaner blood was carefully added. The breed was consolidated many generations ago so that it breeds consistently true to type. Shagya turned out to be such an influential stallion that eventually the breed was renamed to Shagya-Araber which was authorized by WAHO at the 1978 convention at Hamburg. It is now known in the United States as the Shagya-Arabian.

Historically, the Shagya-Arabian was bred in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, specifically in the main military stud farms of Bbolna, Radautz and Piber in Hungary. Later on, stud farms in Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria also bred Shagya-Arabians. The Shagya-Arabians not only served as cavalry horses, they were also used as parade horses for European royalty. Every royal guard or officer regarded it a privilege to be able to ride a Shagya. The Imperial guards of the Habsburgs in Vienna were always mounted on elegant Shagya-Arabians, and the Royal Guard of Budapest rode the Shagya-Arabian.

The breed was nearly wiped out during WWII, along with the Lipizzaner, but one can still admire many statues in Hungary commemorating the heroic deeds of these horses and their riders. Currently, all Shagya-Arabian breeding world-wide is overseen by the Internationale Shagya-Araber Gesellschaft e.v. ( ISG) and horse must be approved before being used as breeding stock. In 2000, the total number of Shagya mares was estimated at approximately 1,500 horses world-wide.

In the United States, the Shagya-Arabian faced a dramatic birth by Adele Furby in Montana. In 1984, Ms. Furby rescued a Shagya-Arabian stallion named Bravo from the estate of a Hungarian Countess who had stipulated in her will that 22 of her favorite horses were to be destroyed upon her death so as to not fall into the wrong hands, and Bravo was on that list. His paternal grand sire, GAZAL II, was considered the “Shagya Stallion of the Century” in Europe and his son, GAZAL VII, was pictured on the cover of a studbook. After correspondence with ISG and some pedigree research, the ISG named Bravo as the foundation stallion for the United States Shagya-Arabian breeding program and in 1986, Ms. Furby started the North American Shagya Society (NASS) to help recover the rare Shagya-Arabian breed from near extinction. NASS is recognized by the ISG as the only North American registry for Shagya-Arabians. Its registry is referred to as the Shagya-Arabian Registry of North America (SHARONA) and purebred Shagya-Arabians registered with SHARONA are eligible to be branded with a patented brand showing the letters SH inside a circular 6-pointed sun.

After a visit to Europe, three Shagya-Arabian mares, and two young stallions were purchased by Adele Furby for import to America in 1987 and those horses, along with 8 purebred Arabian mares that she had selected in America became the foundation for the purebred Shagya-Arabian breeding program in the United States on the largest and oldest Shagya-Arabian breeding farm in America.

However, the Shagya-Arabian has been rather slow to establish itself in the U.S. Following several new imports since 2001, the breed is finally producing more quality horses and the Shagya-Arabian is rapidly finding new interest and new breeders. What started out as only a handful is now an amazing number of Shagya-Arabians that are doing well in the sport horse world. In 2002, three Shagya-Arabian stallions were imported from Europe as valuable new genetic material for the American Sport Horse breeder who would prefer not to use the purebred Arabian for crossbreeding. The Shagya breed is still very rare and fewer than 250 horses exist in the U.S. as of 2008 with only 25 of these being approved stallions.

Those people familiar with Arabian horses who see the Shagya-Arabian for the first time are often not prepared to see a large, very robust, oriental-based horse with swinging gaits and a quiet, calm nature. Shagya-Arabians are taller, have a larger rectangular frame, are stronger and possess better riding horse qualities than purebred Arabians. The Shagya-Arabians combine the advantages of the Bedouin Arabian; elegance, hardiness, endurance, and inborn friendliness toward humans, with the requirements of the modern riding horse; sufficient height, excellent movement and enormous jumping ability.

Shagya-Arabians stand 14.3 to 16.1 hands high but are most commonly found in the 15-16 hand range. They have a very harmonious appearance with a wide forehead and concave profile that often gives the head a very oriental look. The small, pointy ears are situated high on top of the head and the eyes are very expressive. The gracefully arched neck is often long with a slight poll. The withers are prominent and reach far into the back. The shoulders are large and sloping and the haunches are short and strong. The croup is melon-shaped, slightly sloping and long, with a high tail attachment. The hooves are small, well-formed and hard. The mane & tail is abundant and silky fine as is the rest of the body hair. They are predominantly gray in color, but can be bay, chestnut or black, although black Shagya-Arabians are rather rare.

Shagya-Arabians are known for having light, basic gaits and a good jumping disposition and have also proven themselves to be successful in open competitions against warmbloods in dressage, jumping, and 3-day eventing.

Shagya-Arabians are now being used to refine other warmbloods. Following the European method of Warmblood Sport Horse breeding, quality Trakehner, Dutch Warmblood, Thoroughbred, and Arabian mares that have been approved by the American Trakehner Association (ATA), the American Shagya Arabian Verband Inc. (ASAV), the North American Shagya Society (NASS), and the International Sport Horse Registry (ISR) are being bred to purebred Shagya-Arabian stallions. When the Shagya is used, the very first generation shows refinement without the loss of size or bone and the Shagya adds many of the good characteristics from the Arabian. The offspring from these crosses are accepted by most of the Verbands and the genes will modernize the sport horse that is sought after today, but NONE of these crosses may ever be used for purebred Shagya-Arabian breeding.

The Shagya-Arabian stud books have been closed for over 200 years and only purebred Arabian blood has been added. Currently, purebred Shagya-Arabians can have up to 9 purebred Arabian ancestors out of the 16 ancestors listed in the 4th generation. Before 1985, the ISG accepted Shagya-Arabians with up to 12 Arabian ancestors, but now those are registered in the Appendix book as part Shagya-Arabians. Today, some Shagya-Arabians have four or five generations of straight Shagya breeding before you will find a purebred Arabian in the pedigree.

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Second phase G-Cloud supplier framework agreements will create more opportunity for SMEs

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Jason H Walker

The government has announced the introduction of a second initiative based around the SME-friendly G-Cloud framework. The initiative will give more companies an opportunity to supply G-Cloud services through the CloudStore online catalogue. Speaking at a recent press conference, Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, maintained that the government was able to make this announcement because it had already made significant progress in implementing its ICT strategy.

The ICT Strategy to which he referred is part of a wide-ranging programme of reform to make government cheaper, more efficient and provide improved public services: the programme managed to deliver savings of 3.75 billion in 2010/11 and is currently on target to deliver around a further saving of 5 billion in 2011/12. The governments commitment to efficiency and value for money, Mr Maude claimed, is clearly demonstrated by the recent deals signed by the Procurement Service with the major IT suppliers Capgemini and Oracle: these deals will deliver savings of 200m and 75m respectively by 2015.

Mr Maude also stated that the other notable successes of the first year of the new strategy – establishing the CIO Delivery Board which is responsible for driving implementation of the strategy across government, launching the Public Services Network procurements and awarding the PSN Connectivity Framework agreements, and launching the Government Digital Service in an attempt to establish a single government domain, GOV.UK, will lead to further savings and efficiencies over the remainder of the current parliament.

The announcement follows a report published by the Cabinet Office at the end of May which claimed that the creation of CloudStore, the online marketplace for cloud ICT services, was one of the principal achievements of the first year of the implementation of the Governments ICT Strategy, Mr Maude put this success down to the significant advantages offered by the new G-Cloud framework: it introduces a number of features which he believes will promote innovation and make it more accessible to SMEs, such as open procedures with no lengthy pre-qualification questionnaire, less stringent requirements of financial history, simplified mandatory questions and specifications, and the provision of services on standard terms.

The second phase of the G-Cloud framework will be launched because of the overwhelming response generated by the first tender. Over 600 expressions of interest were received: the Government Procurement Service subsequently awarded framework agreements to around 250 suppliers, of which around three-quarters are SMEs. Speaking at the launch of the second phase of the G-Cloud framework, Mr Maude stated:

We are reforming the way the public sector uses ICT so that it is cheaper, more transparent, more innovative and flexible with more opportunities for SMEs to enter the marketplace. Todays report on the first year of implementing the ICT Strategy confirms that we are making significant progress and are prepared to meet the challenges ahead.

Our ICT Strategy is all about the public sector avoiding the expense and inefficiency of developing different systems and duplicating services that cannot be shared. This off-the-shelf, pay-as-you-go approach is a great example, and G-Cloud services typify the cheaper more agile model for government IT that our ICT Strategy is making positive strides towards.

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