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www.delawareonline.com A6 THE NEWS JOURNAL SATURDAY, DEC. 12, 2009 Dover: Requiring emergency access, limits on RV spots WHYY: City wants to maintain leverage gion, located off U.S. 113 just south of blue Hen corporate Center at Dover's southern edge. According to its Web site, the post offers $15 parking spaces to race fans who can catch DelDOT shuttles to the race. At the committee meeting, Windows said he had no problem with the proposed fees.

He said, though, that many of his parking spaces were on unimproved grassy land, posing the possibility that the post might have to pay $15,000 or more for a paved emergency access intended to keep emergency vehicles from becoming mired in mud. Former City Councilman Bill Hare said he had been offering race weekend parking for about 10 years, most recently as a subcontractor for spaces on the parking lot of the Big Lots store at North State Street and Lepore Road. Complying with city requirements, he said, is not difficult. The fee schedule would carry no fee for parking one to five RVs. The fee would be $25 for six to 25 RVs, $50 for 26 to 50, $100 for 51 to 100 and $150 for more than 100.

There would be no fee for parking cars only and they would be allowed to park on unimproved land, but they would be barred from storm management areas and other preserved open spaces Contact James Merriweather at 6784273 or jmerriweatherdelawireonline.com. FROM PAGE Al Among other requirements, parties intending to host more than five recreational vehicles would be required to apply for a city permit no fewer than 60 days before a race weekend. The permit application would include a "legible diagram" of the proposed area, showing the location, emergency access, drive aisles, entrances and exits, number of recreational vehicles to be parked and locations of power lines and rest-rooms. The ordinance, scheduled for a first reading on Jan. 11 and a hearing before the Planning Commission on Feb.

16, would bar parking or the flying of flags and other "vertical extensions" within 25 feet of power lines; bar RVs from parking within 10 feet of each other, buildings or other structures, and require "drivable surfaces" designed to bear the weight of RVs, fire equipment and other emergency response equipment "in all types of weather." If parking plans are found to be inadequate, providers could be sent back to the drawing board for revised plans due 30 days before the start of a race event. Failure to bring the parking plans up to snuff could result in a fine. Mike Windows oversees NASCAR parking for Walter L. Fox Post 2 of the American Le The News Journal JENNIFER CORBETT Reebok EasyTones are shown for $99.99 at Dick's in Talleyville. The community marketing manager for regional Dick's says the product has been "extremely popular." The shoes have been featured on TV shows and been touted by celebs.

Shoes: Product flying off shelves for holidays Todd D. Royer, a UD professor, says his study on Reebok's EasyTones was not "statistically significant' yet the company is "running with the results." FROM PAGE Al WHYY canceled its popular 46-year-old "Delaware Tonight" program earlier this year, which Rago said was due to the station's budget problems. WHYY's Ellis, however, said the quality or commitment to news coverage in Wilmington has changed, but not diminished. It has begun a new weekly TV news magazine and increased it's daily news coverage of Delaware events on its Web site and radio station, he said. "We're very committed to doing more Delaware news cov-pmoo qt multimedia basis Ellis said.

Rago said the challenge amounts to Wilmington's maintaining its leverage until WHYY makes a firm commitment to stay in the city, or at least the WHYY first filed to renew its license in 2007, which also is when the public's opportunity to comment on the request expired. Mayor -James M. Baker said the city learned just this year about WHYY's planned changes to decrease Wilmington-based programming and perhaps leave the city as its studio headquarters. Wilmington officials have long been annoyed that WHYY's programming focus has been on Philadelphia events, despite it's FCC licensing agreement that hinges on its Wilmington locations. WHYY has aired TV programming from Wilmington since 1963, when it was awarded the license for Channel 12.

Earlier this year, U.S. Sen. Ted Kaufman, a former WHYY board member, expressed disappointment with the broadcaster's decision "to essentially abandon Delaware." WHYY has put the costs of its Delaware news operations at $1.6 million a year, a figure that needs to be reduced. After "Delaware Tonight" ended, WHYY closed its Dover bureau and kept only five of 16 Wilmington news employees. Some were moved to the station's Philadelphia studios.

A.J T.l 11A V701 ataylordclautarconiinc.com. "The whole notion that we're not fulfilling our obligation to covering Wilmington news is not true, and they know that full well, so their position is more than a little hard to understand." Chris Satullo, WHYY's executive director of news and civic dialogue 11 iTrrKiJ.tt scheduling 3,000 commercial slots for November and December. As an attractive brunette in one commercial tells of the physiological benefits of Easy-Tones, the camera repeatedly pans away from her face and zooms in on her buttocks. The shoes also have been promoted on "Oprah Winfrey," "Tyra" and "Today" shows. Actresses credit the EasyTones for firming up their legs and they're quick to cite the evidence collected at UD.

"This is an opportunity to kind of work out as you're doing your everyday life," said actress Vanessa Minnillo, a former Miss Teen USA. "I've actually heard this statistic: 28 percent more of your buttocks." "They strengthen your butt and your hamstring muscles by 28 percent, so even though I'm going to the gym in them, I'm getting a double workout," added Stacy Kiebler, an actress and a former wrestler for WWE. The EasyTone isn't the only muscle-activating shoe on the market. Shape-Ups from Skech-ers are designed to improve muscle tone. FitFlop has developed sandals for the same purpose.

Masai Group International of Switzerland sells the MBT, another rocker-type shoe designed to ease arthritis and back pain. Smyrna resident Laura Fis-sette swears by her Shape-Ups, which she has owned for three months. "You can definitely feel the difference in your muscles and even when you're just wearing them from day to day, it improves your balance and posture," she said. "I always make sure I wear them when I go to the grocery store or when I'm going shopping. You put these on and you'll notice a big difference." Contact Hiran Ratnayake at 324-2547 or hratiiayakedeiawareonline.com.

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He and a graduate assistant recruited five women with size 7 or size 9 feet. Each had several sensors strapped to their legs to measure muscle activity as they walked for five minutes on a treadmill at a university lab. In random order, they walked barefoot; while wearing the Reebok EasyTones and while wearing Reebok Express walking shoes. Results showed the Easy-Tones indeed worked the gluteal muscles an average of 28 percent harder and the calves and hamstrings 11 percent harder, exactly what Reebok claims in the advertisements. Reebok said it has collected 15,000 hours' of wear-test data from users who have experienced a difference from the EasyTones.

But the company refused to release the study to The News Journal, citing proprietary information contained in it. Nor did Reebok officials respond to requests for an interview. Royer refused to release the study. "I acknowledge that the five students is a low number," Royer said. "You rarely see that as statistically significant." He did say he was unaware that Reebok would be using his study as part of its marketing campaign.

"It was a technical report that I did with Reebok, and they're obviously running with the results," said Royer, who keeps a box of EasyTones 12th! mm A in his office. "I can't give you the data because it's not mine." Regardless of how reliable the study is, the shoes are selling. "They have been an extremely popular product," said Dave Brown, community marketing manager at Dick's Sporting Goods in the region. "The holidays bring out the fitness enthusiasts as well, so it's obviously a very good season for fitness-type products." Melissa Rhoads, an attorney and mother of a 2-year-old girl, is considering buying them because she has little free time. "I've wondered if it really works," said Rhoads, 29, of Townsend.

"It sounds like you don't have to do anything extra. You just put them on." Exercise physiologist Shane Paulson said he is skeptical that shoes alone can give a woman buns of steel. "Clever thinking and clever marketing will try to appeal to our common sense but physiology doesn't always work by common sense," said Paulson, a board member of the American Society of Exercise Physiologists. Resistance training, Paulson said, is a better way to improve muscle tone and shape. "Light endurance like walking might be a bit off the mark," he said.

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