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Started by Libertine , Dec 12 2012 07:41 AM
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Posted 12 December 2012 - 07:41 AM
I've just started the 30 day shred, just did day three of level one!
I'm starting from below zero fitness due to a complicated pregnancy that meant I couldn't exercise at all.
I've got about 6kg of baby weight I'd like to shift but I'm Breastfeeding so I'm not worrying too much about calories - I'm logging on MFP and seem to be eating 1800-2000 cals a day which 'feels' about right to not compromise my milk supply. The only thing im really doing re food is concentrating on making sure I get my calories from real food, not processed crap.
Wow the shred is hard but I can't believe how good I've been feeling afterwards! I'm sore but in a good way :-)
Anyone else shredding at the moment?
Posted 12 December 2012 - 08:05 AM
Hi! This looks really interesting. Just looking online, there seems to be a few 30 Day Shred DVDs available, mostly a blue one and a black one as well- is one a newer edition or better than the others?
Good luck with it!
Posted 12 December 2012 - 08:25 AM
I'm not sure. The copy I have looks a bit dated, it's a pic of JM with a turquoise background. But I'd assume that it's the same program just repackaged for marketing purposes?
If you google before/after pics it's pretty impressive (but I think you would also need to be pretty hardcore with your diet to get the most benefit)
Posted 13 December 2012 - 05:02 AM
i did the shred back in january. it was actually a ripped in 30/30ds combo.
it didn't get me "shredded" but i used it to condition my body for insanity. that is what got me shredded.
the 30DS is a good program for beginners
Posted 13 December 2012 - 05:38 AM
Hi there,
I completed the 30day shred recently, with great results. I was starting from a base of jogging 3 times a week for 4 months. I had lost a bit of weight (I need to lose about 20kg) with the running.
I did level 1 for 2 days, then went on to level 2. It was fantastic - I don't weigh my self but I lost an entire dress size in the 30 days (I only had 2 days off) and felt amazing I am now continuing with level 2 four times a week and running 3 days a week.
I am going to keep going with this, then work up to other JM DVDs. The 20 minutes is really acheivable each day and in level 2 I am doing things I never thought I would be able to do. Me - walking push ups? Yes, I can do two sets now, starting from not being able to do more than 1 push up at a time 6 weeks ago.
Good luck
Posted 13 December 2012 - 07:46 AM
Great to hear you can get results with this!
I know what you mean thebsan about it being for beginners but unfortunately that's how I have to class myself just now if I'm being realistic!
I like the fact it's only 20mins. It's easy to fit into your day and its easier to keep going when you know it will be over soon.
What I can't get over is how much better its made me feel already. My energy levels have increased (and are more constant through the day) I'm even feeling much better mentally, more positive.
Losing a dress size would be fantastic!
27 days to go!
Posted 13 December 2012 - 10:18 AM
Day4 at level 1 done!
DD2 (3.5) did it with me along with a running commentary that included such insights as:
- don't stop mummy, why are you stopping?
- why aren't you going as fast as that lady mummy ?
- you are not doing it right mummy
Love it!
Posted 13 December 2012 - 08:41 PM
Oh I love Jillian. I started once upon a time with the 30 day shred and graduated to ripped in 30 and then well the obsession started. Ended up with most of her DVD's and then onto Bob Harper. I still love Bob today.
Jillian is a great starting point. Some people have troubles with their knees and her workouts but I loved it and it kick started my love affair with workout DVD's
Posted 13 December 2012 - 10:18 PM
Another who loves the 30DS! I"ve done the 30 days and now just do a level a day. My favourite is level 3 and DH's is level 2 so we usually do one or the other
Definitely helped with my fitness and core strength!
Posted 14 December 2012 - 05:11 AM
My 4 year old DS is my personal trainer. He tells me off if I stop - he says Mumma, how will you get to level 3 if you don't try?
Posted 14 December 2012 - 08:29 AM
Day 5 at level 1 done
I'm going to get some proper weights tomorrow (bye bye beans) and am going to start doing knee push up (been doing wall ones up til now....the shame lol)
I'm resisting the temptation to weight myself as I know I won't have made that much difference yet however my thighs are noticeably less wobbly already and I just feel so much better. My energy levels seem to be more constant through the day now too, I'm no longer getting that crash in the arvo.
Posted 14 December 2012 - 09:29 AM
I've just started again. I did it about a year ago, got through the first two levels okay but I can't really do the third level (and some moves in the first two but they are easier to adapt) because there are so many where your body weight is on your shoulders, and my left arm can't support my weight due to an injury years ago. So this time around, I might just alternate levels 1 and 2 when I get to 3. It's not ideal because I'm sure I won't be getting the best out of the program.
Posted 14 December 2012 - 10:06 AM
Academic, You never know, by the time you get to level 3 this time, you may be able to do a few of the moves. If not, I think you could keep doing 3 but when you have to plank, perhaps swap it for another strength exercise from level 1 or 2?
Libertine, Goodluck with the knee push-ups! I've finished the 30DS and I still do knee pushups!
Posted 18 December 2012 - 08:29 AM
I did it a couple of months ago and then moved on to Ripped in 30, loved it.
I then went on holidays and couldn't do it, so now i am needing the motivation to get back in to it every day again.
Thanks for the push
Posted 18 December 2012 - 09:21 AM
Day 8 of level 1 done!
I missed a day as I thought I was getting the flu but I'm back to it now.
Bad night as DD1 came down with croup so we were all awake for several hours. This, and no breakfast due to the Dr arriving more quickly than expected, made this mornings workout harder than usual and I struggled in several places.
However I did it!
(Btw I'm aware this is a self indulgent thread of little interest to anyone but me lol but it's part of my strategy to keep myself accountable)
Posted 18 December 2012 - 03:24 PM
QUOTE (illyandra @ 18/12/2012, 06:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I did it a couple of months ago and then moved on to Ripped in 30, loved it.
I then went on holidays and couldn't do it, so now i am needing the motivation to get back in to it every day again.
Thanks for the push
I might try Ripped in 30 next! How did it compare to 30DS?
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Modified ORS Solution for Severely Malnourished Children
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International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
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First received: March 27, 2013
Last updated: December 19, 2016
Last verified: January 2006
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Diarrhoea and malnutrition are the common childhood illnesses responsible for higher deaths in developing counties. Physiologically, malnourished children excrete lower amounts of salts and water in diarrhoeal stools, and they also are unable to handle excessive salts and water load. Some times they are found to be hyponatraemic due to the shift of sodium inside the cells (inefficient Na+ /K+ pump), and fluids containing higher amounts of sodium (such as the standard ORS) may lead to further increase in the intracellular sodium, fluid overload and heart failure. They also have depleted in potassium stores in the body. Recently, the WHO recommended a special ORS formulation, known as ReSoMal, for management of diarrhoea in severely malnourished children that contains a lower amount of sodium (45mmol/L) and higher amount of potassium (40 mmol/L) than the standard WHO-ORS. It is felt that an ORS containing lower sodium and higher potassium concentration may be useful in correcting hypokalemia, and in lowering the risks of excess sodium and /or overhydration, in severely malnourished children with diarrhoea. The safety of ReSoMaL is, however, still in question due to the risk of hyponatraemia, including symptomatic hyponatraemia, especially in the treatment of severe watery diarrhoea due to Vibrio cholerae and ETEC where loss of sodium in the stool exceeds than that is contained in ReSoMal. Thus an ORS solution with modest concentration of sodium (75 mmol/L) and higher concentration of potassium (40 mmol/L) have been suggested for the treatment of diarrhoea in these children. To improve the efficacy of oral rehydration, in terms of reducing the severity of purging and diarrhoea duration, different approaches (changing the substrates/ reducing the sodium and glucose concentration and osmolarity) have been tried with limited success. Benefiber (partially hydrolysed guar gum), a soluble fiber if added to a ORS solution is expected to be fermented in the colon liberating short chain fatty acids (SCFAs). SCFAs stimulate sodium and water absorption from the colon, and they have trophic effect, act as a fuel source for the colonocytes, have antibacterial properties and stimulates the production commensal flora, thereby may enhance recovery from acute diarrhoea in severely malnourished children. The aims of our proposed study are to examine whether an ORS solution with a modest concentration of sodium will prevent the occurrence of hyponatraemia including symptomatic hyponatraemia, and also whether addition of benefiber will improve the efficacy of ORS solution. This will be a randomized, double blind, controlled clinical trial in 186 children with severe malnutrition and watery diarrhoea (62 in each of the three treatment groups) to compare the efficacy of (i) the currently recommended ORS with some modofication(Na+ 75 mmol/L and K40 momol/L and minerals-Zinc, copper and magnesium), (ii) ReSoMal (Na+ 45 mmol/L), (iii) Currently recommended ORS (Na+ 75 mmol/L, K 40 momol/L and added minerals) with added Benefiber (25 grams/L), in the treatment of acute watery diarrhoea in children with severe malnutrition
|Malnourished Children With Watery Diarrhoea
|Other: Modified ORS-1 Other: Modified ORS-2 (ReSoMal) Other: Modified ORS-3 (Benefibre)
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Optimisation of Oral Rehydration Solution and Evaluation of the Efficacy of Benefiber(Partially Hydrolyzed Guar Gum) Containing Modified Oral Rehydration Solution in the Treatment of Severely Malnourished Children With Watery Diarrhoea
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MedlinePlus related topics: Diarrhea MalnutritionU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Stool weight [ Time Frame: up to 72 hours ]Collection of stool in cholera cot and measured every 6 hours with a using a electronic scale
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Duration of Diarrhoea [ Time Frame: up to 72 hours ]Time from the onset of randomization upto the stopage of diarrhoea
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|April 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Modified ORS-1
Modified ORS -1 will be assigned to the enrolled particfipants according to the randomization schedule.
|Other: Modified ORS-1
Experimental: Modified ORS-2 (ReSoMal)
Modified ORS -2 (ReSoMal) will be assigned to the enrolled particfipants according to the randomization schedule.
|Other: Modified ORS-2 (ReSoMal)
Experimental: Modified ORS-3 (Benefibre)
Modified ORS -3 (Benefibre) will be assigned to the enrolled particfipants according to the randomization schedule.
|Other: Modified ORS-3 (Benefibre)
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|6 Months to 36 Months (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Some or severe dehydration (assessed by WHO Guidelines).
- Weight for height (W/H) <70% of NCHS median or with bipedal edema.
- Written informed consent from parents/ guardians
Exclusion Criteria:
- Blood or mucus in stools
- Have received antidiarhoeal drugs for their diarrhoea
- Severe diseases (e.g. severe pneumonia with respiratory distress, clinical sepsis, meningitis) requiring intensive care and other ancillary support like O2 inhalation, oropharyngeal suction etc.
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Alam NH, Ashraf H, Kamruzzaman M, Ahmed T, Islam S, Olesen MK, Gyr N, Meier R. Efficacy of partially hydrolyzed guar gum (PHGG) supplemented modified oral rehydration solution in the treatment of severely malnourished children with watery diarrhoea: a randomised double-blind controlled trial. J Health Popul Nutr. 2015 May 1;34:3. doi: 10.1186/s41043-015-0003-3.
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|International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
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|NCT01821586 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|March 27, 2013
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|December 19, 2016
Keywords provided by International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh:
Severe malnutrition;
modified ORS
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Signs and Symptoms, Digestive
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From: "Jen" <>
Subject: Welsh in Kansas (formerly Welsh in America)
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 02:06:18 -0500
Hello Kathy and fellow listers!
I have an interest in this article on Welsh settlers in Kansas. I see you
have mentioned several names below and was wondering if there were any more.
My ancestors (William G. JONES and Jane nee GEORGE) left Cwmdu, Breconshire,
South Wales in 1884 for Liverpool where they boarded the ship Scythia bound
for New York with their three children: William John b. July 13, 1881; twins
Margaret Jane and Rachel Anna, b. May 21, 1883. After arriving April 9, 1884
in New York, the family immediately left for Kansas settling in Arvonia. The
family bought land on at least two occasions in Arvonia, Arvonia Township,
Osage County Kansas. In 1909, they left the farm in Osage County and moved
to 'town' in Lebo, Coffey County, Kansas.
Is there any info on my ancestors in the article you have? Where did you get
the article? Is it a book? If so, when was it printed? Who is the author?
I know of a book called, "Arvonia, the Little Welsh Village" which I am
trying desperately to locate and read. I'm hoping there is something
mentioned about my family in it. If anyone has access to it, please contact
The Kansas towns you have mentioned are all very close in proximity. There
was a very large Welsh population in that area and I know that St. David's
Day is still celebrated in some communities. If anyone has connections with
the area, I would be more than happy to correspond with you as my mother
grew up in that area and still has siblings living there. I have also been
to Arvonia, which is now a ghost town, and taken a few photos. There is
still an old school there which is in good shape. I'm not sure it is being
used for anything in particular, but I did photograph it. There are still a
few residents in the area, but not enough to call it a town. If anyone has
any further questions, I'll do my best to answer them.
I will be near the area this coming weekend for a family reunion on the
other side of my mother's family and might have a chance to do some looking
Thanks for the mention of the Kansas area and if you would please let me
know if my ancestors are mentioned in your article, I'd be most
Thanks again!
Jennifer Ohmes
Dodge City, KS
very hot, sunny and dry
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Subject: Re: WELSH IN AMERICA
> Kansas towns settled by Welsh were mainly Carbondale, Reading, Burlingame,
> Arvonia, Lebo, and Emporia. Settled by Welsh from Llanfynydd, Corwen,
> Cyfarthfa, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil,Anglesey, and Aberystwyth.
> Names mentioned:
> 1856: The Rev. George Lewis and wife Matilda, two sons, William and
> who had first settled in Ohio before moving to Kansas. Lewis was born in
> Carmarthen and held pastorates in Gomer, Ohio, and Old Man's ? Long Creek,
> Iowa, before coming to Emporia.
> 1857: David Morris, a shoemaker, who started a shop in the new town,
> and mending shoes and boots.
> One of first marriages was between David Morris and Mary Lewis.
> Edward Evans - from Wisconsin-born in Mold, Flintshire
> Hugh and David Williams and Widow Williams - from Wisconsin
> William Evans, Robert Morris, Ellis Owens, Peter Bennett
> Later: Gehiel D. Humphrey and wife Evelina, sons, Lucius and Arthur -
> sawmill
> David Jones and wife Margaret, two children Ann and William
> Edward Morris was a miner in Wales..brought wife Anna Williams and
> six children to America in 1854, following the coal mining industry
> Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Illinois. In 1858 he settled south
> Emporia on a creek.....
> 1858; John Hammond
> 1865 Thomas Evans (who was 10 when his family moved there); in 1900
> Blair
> Griffith Pritchard Jones was born in Caernarvonshire, NorthWales, in 1847.
> Came to Remsen, N.Y. wherethere was a large Welsh settlement in 1852...in
> 1869 to Emporia
> 1869 Lewis Lewis went ot St. Paul, Minn first then went to Kansas.
> Married Margaret Williams.
> Griffith Roberts who came to work in the stone quarries..Son Evan Joe
> Evan L. Jones from Llwynfedwen, Llanfynydd
> William Rees emigrated from Glyngwilyn, South Wales to Emporia in 1871.
> son Llewellyn returned to wales in 1886 to marry and bring his wife to
> Kansas, but she missed her native land so they returned to Wales in 1893.
> Richard and Rachel Morgan
> Rev. John Jones..organized a Welsh Presbyterian Church
> Daniel Jones...
> J.D.W. Jones who married Margaret Griffiths in Cincinnati, then moved to
> Emporia...
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The issue was about the tax treaties between Bulgaria / Mexico and US and also about the 4% tax on the dividends distributed to Panama foundation.
I don't see anything in your original question concerning treaties -- nor anything about a 4% tax. The only thing I see is a statement about 51% ownership, which suggested to me that you were interested in dealing with controlled foreign corporation issues. Given our apparent total miscommunication, I will open the question for others to assist you further. Best of luck with your taxing issues.
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Thanks. But I also can read all this information on the thousands pages of publications and ruse of IRS. And I did. But the problem is with the interpretation. And got lost. That was the reason to send my question here. I am not tax advisor, neither attorney. I do business.
The question is very simple. The US corporations own several companies in Bulgaria and Mexico. They don't have any other activities, only holds the shares. The activities of the companies in Bulgaria and Mexico don't have any connection with US (no US clients, etc.). The minimum % of the shares they hold is 51 in each company. Must they deduct the received dividends from their taxable income in US or not?
And the second question is again very simple: How much US corporations must withhold from the dividends they pay to their only shareholder - a Panama foundation. 4% or 30/35%?
So, can you answer shortly to those 2 questions or not?
Thanks and have a great night!
This is not thousands of pages.This is the applicable law ... less than one page; 26 USC § 245Again, US corporations pay tax on dividends received, REGARDLESS of, as you say, "They don't have any other activities, only holds the shares. The activities of the companies in Bulgaria and Mexico don't have any connection with US (no US clients, etc.). The minimum % of the shares they hold is 51 in each company"
US CORPORATIONS PAY TAX ON DIVIDENDS RECEIVED.When those dividends are received from foreign corporations, then you MAY have deductions, provided by the respective tax treaty IF (1) you elect that treatment and (2) section 1248 does not apply.
See this section from the small section of code above: "(10) Coordination with treatiesIf—
(A) any portion of a dividend received by a corporation from a qualified 10-percent-owned foreign corporation would be treated as from sources in the United States under paragraph (9),
(B) under a treaty obligation of the United States (applied without regard to this subsection), such portion would be treated as arising from sources outside the United States, and
(C) the taxpayer chooses the benefits of this paragraph,"You need to see a good tax attorney,well versed in corporate tax law, international tax law and the respective tax treaties that apply.Short answers?Yes they can deduct, if the treaty is elected, applies and correct forms are filed.Withholding is at 35% UNLESS the tax treaty treatment is elected. The the rate that applies will be one of 2 things (1) AT the rate specified by the treaty or (2) none at all where withholding can be waived as per the treaty.Correct answers?Pay the appropriate amount of professional fees to a tax attorney, well versed in corporate taxation, international taxation and the respective tax treaties as they apply.This is really not the appropriate venue for this question. Further, my apologies, but it appears to me that you are asking questions with flawed assumptions.Further you will have to provide MUCH more information than you have ... OR could here.You need to sit down and pull through this with a competent tax attorney for this. This will be an individual that will charge (depending on region) 250 to 500 per hour.You are probably asking your question in the wrong venue.
If you want to read the respective treaties, and come back here to ask some clarifying questions, that would be more appropriate to this venue. The price you are paying her is FAR underpriced, and even getting close to the correct answer will take some dialogue.
This is NOT a simple question.
OK, thank you. I will follow your advice and I´m going to some good attorney! Now I understand that the question is complicated. But why you didn't tell me that in the beginning and we both had to waste our time? And how do you want me to be satisfied. The people needs to be honest and not to be only focused on how to make money (even only $30).
Good luck!
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Fussy babies need to eat up their greens
If at first you don't succeed, try again — up to ten times. That is the message from scientists to parents who are trying to get toddlers to eat their greens.
A study found that even those who initially turned their noses up at vegetables normally ate a bit more each time they were offered them.
Parents are likely to meet with less resistance the earlier they introduce vegetables, with children becoming more fixed in their preferences after the age of two, according to the research.
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It was a job which required waiting for cultures to grow, for toxins to develop, for antibodies to form, for reagents to react. And while she waited, the bacteriologist would roll her wheelchair to the windows and look down upon the world. The world below was the parking lot of the Cancer Research and Treatment Center, the neighbor of the bacteriologist's Communicable Disease Laboratory on the University of New Mexico North Campus. It was a crowded lot, and a competitive one, and somewhere in the second year of watching it, the bacteriologist found herself familiar with its patterns. She knew when the meter maids made their rounds, and how long it usually took the tow truck to arrive, and what sort of violation provoked this ultimate punishment, and which vehicles tended to park illegally. She even knew of a romance which seemed to have flared between the female owner of a Datsun and the male owner of the blue Mercedes convertible that parked in the space reserved for one of the lofty administrators. Somewhere in that same second year she had started bringing her binoculars to the lab. She had finally left them there. They were in her hands now--focused upon a dirty green pickup truck which was nosing its way hesitatingly into a space guarded by a sign that read:
The bacteriologist had learned long ago that cancer patients tended to be scofflaws. They were dying and they knew it. In the face of that, other considerations became less important. But habits of civilized behavior still generally prevailed. It was rare to see such open defiance as the pickup was now demonstrating.
Thedefiant one was male, an Indian. Through the binoculars he didn't look defiant. He looked stolid and sick. He climbed laboriously from the cab. The bacteriologist noticed a suitcase on the passenger's seat and felt a sudden mild thrill of admiration. He was checking himself in, abandoning his truck forever to the mercies of the law. The nose thumbed at fate. But the Indian left the suitcase behind.
He was a large man, with the heavy torso and slender hips the bacteriologist had learned to identify with Navajos. He wore jeans and--despite the August heat--a denim jacket. He walked slowly toward the patients' entrance--a sick man's walk.
He'll check himself in, the bacteriologist thought, and then he'll come back and get the suitcase, and move the truck.
Now there was another vehicle showing equally blatant illegality. It was a Chevrolet, silver-gray and new, which rolled past the green pickup and came to rest in the space reserved for the CRTC director. The driver's door opened and a slender man emerged, dressed in white, a straw hat pushed back on his head. The man stood for a moment, apparently looking at the pickup truck. Then he walked around his car and opened the door on the passenger's side. He leaned in, apparently working on something on the front seat. Finally he lifted out a grocery sack with its top folded down. He placed it on the bed of the pickup, among the boards and boxes against the cab. That done, he looked around him, studying the parking lot, the sidewalks, staring finally directly toward the bacteriologist. He was very blond, she saw. Almost an albino. Within a minute he was back in the gray Chevy, driving slowly away.
It was almost noon when thebacteriologist determined that the life form that had reproduced itself in her petri dish was not a food-poisoning salmonella but harmless nonpathogenic "Escherichia coli." She made the required notes, completed the report, and pushed her chair back to the window. A tow truck had arrived. The bacteriologist focused her binoculars. The driver's helper was completing the attachment of the towing bar to the rear of the green pickup. He waved his left hand and squatted beside the pickup wheel, watching something. The sound of the tow truck winch was lost to distance and insulated glass. But the bacteriologist could see the rear of the pickup begin to rise.
Abruptly, all vision was lost in a dazzle of light. The sound came a second later--a cannon-shot boom. The glass on the bacteriologist's window was pressed inward to its tolerance and just beyond; it cracked, then flexed violently outward, where its shards joined those of a hundred other windows raining down on the empty sidewalks below.
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The rain converted itself abruptly into a flurry of popcorn snow. It rattled off Jim Chee's uniform hat, bounced down the collar of his uniform jacket, and made him shiver. It was the third day of November by the First National Bank of Grants calendar back on Chee's desk, and the very beginning of the Season When the Thunder Sleeps by the less rigid traditional calendar of the Dinee. By either calendar it was too early for this sort of weather--even at this mile-and-a-half altitude on the slope of Mount Taylor. Howard Morgan had predicted possible snow flurries on his Channel 7 weathercast, but Chee hadn't believed it. He'd left his winter coat back at the police station.
Heglanced at his vehicle--a white Chevrolet with the seal of the Navajo Nation and the legend NAVAJO TRIBAL POLICE blazoned on its door. He could retire to the car and turn on the heater. He could seek shelter at the entryway of the residence of Benjamin J. Vines, and perhaps ring the bell a few more times in the hope of attracting someone. The bell made an odd singing sound which he could hear echoing pleasantly through the heavy door. While it had attracted no response at all, Chee was tempted to ring it again just to hear it. The third alternative was to turn up the collar of his jacket to ward off the sleet and continue satisfying his curiosity about this house.


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LEBANON — Funeral services will be conducted 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, at the Ligon & Bobo Funeral Home for Mrs. Wilkerson, 89, of Lebanon. Born January 31, 1920, in the Saulsbury Community of Wilson County, Mrs. Wilkerson died Sunday, May 10, 2009 at Pavilion Care in Lebanon.
The daughter of the late Willie Franklin and Eliza Jane Corley Stephens, she was a homemaker and a member of Highland Heights Church of Christ.
The family will receive friends Wednesday from 10 a.m. until services. Services will be conducted by Brother Barry Keene and Brother Michael Grooms. Interment will be in the Bethlehem Cemetery.
Survivors include: children Shirley Ann (Jimmy) Davis of Lebanon and Robert Lewis (Debi) Wilkerson of Lady Lake, FL. Also surviving are grandchildren: Gregory Dale Davis, Jackie Lewis Wilkerson, Jeffery Lester Wilkerson, Scotty Allen Wilkerson, Kyla Joy Wilkerson and Kaylee Wilkerson; as well as five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years Lewis Oscar Wilkerson (who died November 24, 1991), siblings Fannie (Jim) Baynes, Will Henry Stephens and Thurman (Isabell) Stephens.
Family and friends will serve as pallbearers.
Ligon & Bobo Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
LEBANON -- Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 12 at the Partlow Funeral Chapel for Mrs. Smith, 98, of Mt. Juliet. The daughter of the late Joe and Maude May, she died Sunday, May 10, 2009 at Lebanon's University Medical Center. Mrs. Smith was a homemaker and a member of the Suggs Creek Presbyterian Church.
Services will be conducted by Brother Larry Kelley. Interment follows at the Wilson County Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include: son Nealand (Martha) Smith; brother Roy May; sisters Robbie Eakes and Earlene (Nick) Nixon; grandchildren Mike (Grace) Smith, Steve (Margaret) Smith, Ricky (Debbie) Smith and Troy (Linda) Smith; as well as eight great grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by husband Robert Cantrell Smith; children Delbert Smith and Elizabeth Ann Smith; great grandson Robert Michael Smith; siblings J. D. May; and Jessie Harkreader.
Active pallbearers: Bill Hicks, Donnie Eakes, Claude Jordan, Silas Dunn, Larry Nixon, Jeff May and Ronnie May. Honorary: Jim Harkreader, Mike Walker, Robert Bland and Jeff Fennessey.
Memorials may be made to the Suggs Creek Presbyterian Church or to the charity of your choice.
Partlow Funeral Chapel was in charge of arrangements.
WATERTOWN – Funeral services have been scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 13 at the Hunter Funeral Home for Mrs. Baines, 91, of the Statesville Community.
A native of Wilson County and former operator of Baines Grocery in Statesville, Mrs. Baines died May 11, 2009 at Lebanon's University Medical Center. The daughter of the late Darse and Era Mullinax Harvey, she was a member of the Statesville United Methodist Church.
The family will receive friends Wednesday from 10 a.m. until the funeral.
Services will be conducted by Rev. Steve Kelley and Rev. Allen Lyon. Burial will follow at the Jennings Cemetery.
Survivors include: sister-in-law Mary Lea Baines and brother-n-law Marvin (Louise) Baines – all of Lebanon as well as many loving nieces, nephews and other relations.
In addition to her parents, Mrs. Baines is preceded in death by her husband Wilford H. Baines, brother Carmack Harvey and brothers-in-law George Baines and J.B. (Nilene) Baines.
Nephews will serve as pallbearers.
Hunter Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Wilson County Community Partnership is trying to make difference in the lives of the inner-city and underprivileged youth in Wilson County.
To that end, they have planned a special day for Saturday, June 13, called CommUnity Fest. It will be held at Head Homes Park, 600 C. L. Manier Street, behind the Lebanon Church of God, from 2-6 p.m.
The CommUnity Fest is planned each year to meet two different needs for the children.
By CONNIE ESH
The Wilson Post
Lebanon Farmer's Market is about to get a facelift.
Commissioner of Public Works Jeff Baines announced Tuesday at the Lebanon City Council meeting that the current site will be closed from Monday, May 11 until early June for construction of the new shed and parking lot paving.
During the construction, farmers will be using the parking lot on the corner of West Main and Maple Streets.
LEBANON -- The fourth annual Sean Putman Memorial Golf Tournament will be held on Monday, June 15 at Five Oaks Country Club. A nine-hole recreational round for golfers 12 & under will tee-off at 8 a.m. followed by a four-man scramble at 1 p.m. All golfers will enjoy a complementary lunch buffet and goody bag.
Each participating junior also receives a special award/prize. Prizes for the main (adult) event are awarded to each golfer in the top three finishing teams for each flight. Prizes will also be awarded for longest drive (male & female) and closest to the pin (male & female).
Main event fees: $125 per player ($500 per team). Junior event fees: $25 per player (12 and under) and $25 per accompanying or playing adult. For more information, call 547-5629 or 548-1387.
Harbrecht memorial / chamber -- The annual Dr. Cary Harbrecht Memorial Golf Tournament is set for Thursday, June 4 at the Pine Creek Golf Course, 1835 Logue Road. A fundraising event for the Lebanon / Wilson County Chamber of Commers, the 4-person, 18-hole scramble will feature both an 8 a.m. tee time and a 1 p.m. tee time. Entry fee is $500 per team, but an early bird special is available for a group wishing to play in the 8 a.m. group. Entry fee will be reduced to $400 per team, if payment is made before Friday, May 29. For more information, call Andrea at 444-5503.
Jr. golf at Hunters Point -- Hunters Point Golf Course will host its annual Coca-Cola Juniors Tournament Wednesday and Thursday, June 10 and 11. Boys and girls ages 11-17 are eligible. For info, call the pro shop at 444-7521.
HP ladies' invitational -- The Hunters Point Golf Course will hold its annual Ladies' Invitational Wednesday, June 24. An 8:30 a.m. shotgun start is planned. Entry fee is $45 per player which includes green fees a practice round and the tournament itself, cart (tournament only), prizes and lunch. For information, call the pro shop at 444-7521.
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Time publishes a magazine called Business 2.0. Circulation: 557,093. Perhaps you've heard of it. By all accounts, this fine publication has done a great job warning their readers about how dangerous it is not to back up their computer files. According to Slashdot, they made the following analogy between backups and flossing back in 2003:
but few devote enough thought or energy to it."
Those words have officially come back to haunt them. Just imagine the horror when they realized that the entire June issue was gone due to a computer system crash. Backup, you ask? Oh they had a backup system. No problemo. This is, after all, Business 2.0 we're talking about here.
Unfortunately, the automated "don't worry about it" backup system failed to back up. As in, completely failed. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm all for automated backups, but please test yours occasionally. Or at least one time. To make sure it works and all.
For those of you who really, really need a happy ending, this is for you. Here in the United States, we live in an INSANELY litigious society. In the corporate world, everything has to get the lawyers' OK. Everything. And in this instance, fear of litigation saved the day (or the June issue of Business 2.0, anyway). Every word of the final text had been sent to the lawyers. Phew! The layouts had to be created again from scratch, of course, but it could have been so. much. worse.
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In the war do grow together.
In the years before the rise of the Great Roman Empire, famine in Rome is causing unrest between the citizens and Rome's leaders. Martius despises the people and draws their anger when he calls them cowards. The people rise up, believing the patricians are hoarding food. This uprising is cut short when war breaks out with the neighboring Volscians, and Martius leads the Roman army to a decisive victory. For his bravery, he is given the new title of Coriolanus, named after the defeated capital of Corioli. The Volscians, however, vow revenge.
The returning war hero is still unable to hide his scorn for the common people. When he must seek their populist support to secure his election to the Senate, his efforts fail. Instead of garnering their support, his arrogance and contempt leads to his banishment from Rome.
Seeking revenge, Coriolanus joins up with his former enemies the Volscians. He is eventually granted leadership of half their army and, despite tensions with his new comrades, leads an invasion into Roman territory. Near Rome, his former friends and even his mother, Volumnia, try to persuade him toward peace. Coriolanus returns to the Volscians with the message that Rome will not be conquered and, while he attains some measure of peace, he is dragged before the senate and stabbed to death.


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Mountain View-based MobileIron, which develops software to manage mobile IT security for enterprises, was up about 18 percent in late afternoon trading after its IPO on Thursday. MobileIron had priced at $9.00 per share last night, and sold 11,111,111 shares of its stock in its IPO. The company priced at the midpoint of its initial estimated IPO range. MobileIron is venture backed by Foundation Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Storm Ventures.


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America's most beloved columnist shares 40 years of advice through letters to her only child, published here for the first time.In this witty, wise, and intensely personal collection of letters to her daughter Margo, Ann Landers delivers her own unintentional memoir. The volume is both a moving portrait of a mother/daughter relationship and a keen social history of America between 1958 and 2001. Peppered with incisive information and gossip, Esther "Eppie" Lederer (Landers' real name) offers insight on everything from marriage and divorce to growing up and growing old. A first-hand account of the myriad changes in attitudes and mores spanning the last half of the last century, readers will delight in Landers' signature practical wisdom and sharp eye for the absurd. As funny and loving as they are stern and acerbic, these letters reveal the real woman behind the Ann Landers moniker--a spectacularly original writer, wife, and mother.


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dal recognized the ship's design and insignia even before the signals came in, and could hardly contain his excitement.
dal will stop with his mother, I suppose, and try to keep her.
"It was too late to change my mind then," dal said desperately.
"You must take it, and contrive to get away from here, dal," said Abel suddenly.
Six months were spent in this wearisome travelling when, at the end of that period, he reached the capital of Sahasra dal.
dal says he asked 'em, and he says they says, 'Well, why not?
dal sat silently, rubbing Fuzzy between the eyes and watching the two Earthmen.
Has dal been having something beyond the common in the way of adventures?
Fuzzy huddled on dal's shoulder as if he could sense his master's excitement.
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New rails member on the block.
Excited to learn this new stuff while building my next app.Question is, tutorials I looked at used sqlite, the default, which I think isn't a recommended choice for app development?
I'm looking at mongodb and even mysql (just because I'm familiar with it).Mongodb doesn't make use of the activerecord (I don't know what its called, a class?). Is using activerecord so called best practice? http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Rails+3+-+Getting+Started
Is there a popular or recommended database that runs well with rails? Just like PHP is like always run with mysql?
Btw, I picked up my PHP skills here. Hopefully I could do the same with rails
SQLite is very convenient during development in Rails. It is small, file-based, and portable.As a bit of a "perfectionist" I tend to spend a whole lot of time in development, on my local machine.
I, too, have far more experience with MySQL and use it for my production database on Rails projects. Remember that you can configure a different db for each Rails environment ("development", "production", "test"). Rails migrations make it really easy to build up a new database once you switch from development to production.
For beginners, I recommend sticking with using MySQL.
Hmm..I think I'll stick to sqlite for now. Seems like using it doesn't make much difference if we're using active record.


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Swindon is to become one of the UK's leading towns for renewable energy, if plans set before the council planning committee soon are passed.
Under the proposal, planning restrictions will be relaxed, allowing solar panels to be installed far more easily than at present. For homes, offices, retailers and hotels in Swindon, it could be a great move.
Industrial units too will benefit further, with garages able to provide hydrogen power conversion without having to seek planning permission outside of permitted development.
On a wider scale, it could see a significant increase in the use of renewables, paving the way for other towns, villages and cities to follow suit.
The proposals also include an option to boost the number of solar farms. Located on greenfield sites in the area, it is a key part of council plans to see 200 Megawatts of renewable power used by the town.
The community will have a big role to play in the success of the initiative, with the council launching its 'Call to Sites' scheme. A drive which allows anyone to nominate a suitable site for solar farm development, businesses, individuals, landowners and community groups can all get involved.
As the car industry takes renewable energy more seriously too, Honda is using its South Marston site for the development of hydrogen cell cars.
With many a hotel in Swindon entertaining engineers involved in the development of the technology, the council is also eager for the town to become a national centre for harnessing hydrogen power.


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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.17655 of 2009 Date of decision: 18th November, 2009 Vishav Manav Ruhani Kendra (Regd.) ... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA Present: Mr. Arun Jain, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Vishal Goel, Advocate for the petitioner. KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA, J. (ORAL)
Vishav Manav Ruhani Kendra (Regd.) has approached this Court praying that allotment of land measuring 2196 square meter at the rate of Rs.3094/- per square meter is not justifiable, as other organizations, namely Haryana Radhasoami Satsang Association, Sector 25, Panchkula; Jangid Brahman Sabha, Sector 20, Panchkula; and Shri Mata Mansa Devi Dal & Dharamarth Bhandara Committee, Sector 26, Panchkula were allotted the land at the rate of Rs.425/- per square meter.
Learned counsel submits that petitioner is a charitable/religious organization, therefore, the respondent Haryana Urban Development Authority ought to have applied the rates, which they have notified vide Annexure P-6 for religious/charitable sites. To fortify this submission, learned counsel has relied upon a communication (Annexure P-3) issued by the Deputy Commissioner, Panchkula.
A perusal of communication (Annexure P-3) shows the helplessness of the authorities to demolish and dispossess the religious bodies like the petitioner. Therefore, out of necessity, land was allotted. Letter of allotment was accepted by the petitioner and 25 per cent of the Civil Writ Petition No. 17655 of 2009 2 amount was also paid. Having accepted the terms and conditions of the allotment and by making first deposit in year 2003, petitioner, after six years cannot approach this Court and say that the rates be revised, especially when earlier writ petition making similar prayer was dismissed as withdrawn from a Division Bench of this Court vide order (Annexure P-14).
Hence, there is no merit in the present writ petition and the same is dismissed.
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Local Plans of Action for children in Serbia
Kragujevac, Sjenica and Pirot: Three Municipalities fit for Children
Belgrade, 15 March 2005: Three Serbian municipalities, Kragujevac, Pirot and Sjenica launch their Plans of Action for children today – the first local Plans of Action for Children in the country's history. Launched by the Council for Child Rights of the Government of the Republic of Serbian City of Kragujevac, the municipalities of Pirot and Sjenica, UNICEF and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) the plans aim to put children at the top of the local development agenda.
The three municipalities have drawn up their local Plans of Action in full consultation with local communities. The plans define policies and priority actions for 2005 to 2010, with a special emphasis on the poorest and most excluded children and families.
"Combating poverty requires real investment in children," says Ann-Lis Svensson, UNICEF Representative in Serbia and Montenegro. "A local Plan of Action is a powerful tool for sustainable, child-centred development and can help to break the inter-generational cycle of poverty. We are confident that the plans launched today will have a real and lasting impact on the lives of children and their families."
The municipalities of Pirot, Sjenica and Kragujevac have examined the situation of local children and families in detail and have drawn up concrete development plans to use local resources for the benefit of children. They have also established systems to monitor progress for children through DevInfo, a software to process integrated data for access by the community. Local DevInfo databases will help Municipalities and communities monitor the impact of policies, multi-sectoral strategies and specific local initiatives.
UNICEF has provided technical support, while CIDA has contributed 1.2 million Canadian Dollars to strengthen the Poverty Reduction Strategy process in Serbia and Montenegro.
The local Plans of Action build on the national Plan of Action for Children in Serbia, adopted in February 2004, and feed into the national Poverty Reduction Strategy, as well as efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and the goals of A World Fit for Children.
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Baseball and Softballs Gloves protect the hand in receiving the ball. However, when a glove has molds, it does not play its purpose anymore.
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There had been hazardous molds found in Mizuno Supreme Series and Ballpark Pro baseball and softball gloves. These molds can cause chronic respiratory infections especially to those who have low immune systems. And, children are the ones who are at risk.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission declared the voluntary recall of these products. It has been made illegal to have these products resold in markets. These gloves were made in Vietnam. And, for everyone's safety, here are the affected models: GSP1251TG, GSP1300T, GSP1401TG, MMX122P, MMX115PWM, and MMX130.
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Some gloves were found to contain a variety of molds that could cause respiratory or other infections in individuals with chronic health problems, or in individuals who have impaired immune systems.
The recalled items are leather Mizuno baseball and softball gloves. The gloves have a sewn-in white label on the heel of the glove with the words "Made in Vietnam" and the model number. Supreme Series gloves affected are further identified by the date code imprinted on the heel of the glove near the thumb opening.
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Have you seen the front page of the OttawaJazzScene.ca website this past week? Our original photography continues to be an essential part of our vivid and insightful reporting about the scene – as it has been since we started in 2009.
As I look at the front page of OttawaJazzScene.ca now, I smile, remembering the performances that we recently reported about in both words and pictures: freshly interpreted standards sung by a Juno winner on a prominent NAC stage; improvised music made in a nuclear war bunker; a student's final performance recital responded to with a standing ovation; and a deconstructed accordion, reassembled then played in a bookstore – to mention only a few. Scroll down and see them all for yourself.
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This week the thing most talked about in many of the blogs I encountered was reactions to the news that JimBob Duggar finally approved a young man to court his daughters. So here's a list of some of our Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network bloggers and their thoughts on the news.Makes me sad for the kids how the Duggars make "Announcements" in the media about things that would normally be considered private information in most families, not an opportunities to grab the attention of the media. … [Read more...]
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Some, like "piccadilly" and "Week-End," are merely accomplished character sketches.
Telegraph to me there to my club, the Mars and Neptune, piccadilly.
I do not speak of card-playing about the purlieus of piccadilly.
The complete apparatus, in a very portable form, can be bought at Messrs. Brown's, piccadilly.
They pleaded for the gossip of the clubs in Pall Mall and piccadilly.
By the time piccadilly was reached Maurice was himself again, full of plans for to-morrow's birthday party.
She walked swiftly down to piccadilly, and crossed into the Green Park.
You're going off to Blighty, to piccadilly, to dry boots and clean beds.
That was the folly of youth, Salisbury; my university was piccadilly.
Messrs. Fortnum & Mason, of piccadilly, packed up forty carrier loads of choicest provisions.


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Saitama Stadium 2002 (map it)
500 Nakanoda
Midori-ku Saitama, Japan 336-0972
Year Opened: 2001
Capacity: 63,700
There are no tickets available at this time.
Official Review by Sean MacDonald, Stadium Journey Special Correspondent
When Japan was selected as one of the co-hosts of the 2002 World Cup, there were few venues in the country capable of handling the crowds that would attend. The Japanese Football Association started a building frenzy, creating eight new stadiums that all opened in 2001. Chief among these was Saitama Stadium, located about an hour north of Tokyo. With a capacity exceeding 60,000, it was the biggest new football venue in the nation and held four matches in that World Cup, including Brazil's semi-final win over Turkey. After the tournament, the J League's Urawa Reds took over and have enjoyed great success and fan support in the years since.
The FANFARE scale is our metric device for rating each stadium experience. It covers the following:
Each area is rated from 0 to 5 stars with 5 being the best. The overall composite score is the "FANFARE Score".
It feels strange giving a perfect rating to the culinary options available here, because there is nothing to note inside the stadium itself. Instead, there is a large outdoor plaza at the south end of the facility with several food trucks and an area with tables and chairs where you can sit and enjoy your meal. The food here is reasonably priced with good variety and doubtless far superior to the fare available once you are inside. I heartily recommend arriving here early and partaking in these outdoor options as the selection and cost are unbeatable. As an example, I had some yakitori (chicken on a stick) at 100 yen per stick at one of the trucks. Take your time and check out each option, there are so many here that you will be spoiled for choice.
There are no vendors in the aisles during the game, but you can bring anything you want inside, remembering to pour your canned beverages into paper cups when entering.
Despite the large size of the venue, when it gets full, it is loud. To be fair, the game I saw featured the league leaders playing in the final game of the season, where a victory would clinch their first ever J1 championship. The visiting fans were rabid, but the home fans, despite their team's poor showing on the season, were even more noticeable, naturally helped by far greater numbers. The place was hopping long before kickoff right through the final whistle. With the visiting team having won the championship, there was some celebrating afterwards as well. Japanese fans take their soccer seriously and Saitama Stadium provides a fantastic atmosphere throughout the afternoon.
The stadium is in the middle of nowhere, taking at least 45 minutes from Tokyo and then a 20-minute walk along a footpath. There is nothing in the immediate vicinity and there is no reason to explore before or after the game. The nearest station is Urawa-Misono, at the end of the Saitama Railway, but even this is devoid of anything interesting. There isn't a lot of real estate in Japan, so new stadiums are often pushed to the perimeter of the urban area, and this one is no different. The best idea is to come here early to avoid the crowds and head back to Tokyo immediately afterwards.
This is a football-only venue and having the fans that much closer to the pitch really adds to the excitement. The Urawa supporters are famous for their total commitment to their team, and it shows. The team averages over 40,000 a season and these are vocal fans. When the team president came out to speak after the final game, the booing was intense. The cheering section was perhaps the best I've seen here, with flags waving and everyone wearing red and jumping in unison throughout the match. They take up the entire north end zone and don't stop making noise until after the game is over. Those fans not in the cheering section were just as good, and I was impressed by the knowledge displayed by fans of the visiting team after their victory.
Despite being a somewhat neutral observer, nobody around me paid any attention; they were focused on the game at hand. Great fans of both the visiting and home team make the stadium a pleasure to visit.
I already mentioned just how far away the stadium is, but let me reiterate: it is a pain to get to. You are looking at least an hour from Tokyo if not longer. Furthermore, the trains are crowded both coming and going which makes it more of a hassle. There are 100 yen shuttle buses from Urawa-Misono station but the lineups to board were huge, so I would suggest following most people and walking along the footpath.
Once inside the stadium, the lower concourse is spacious but washrooms are crowded, and the upper level walkways inside the seating bowl are too small for the number of people that it holds. As you leave the stadium, expect large slow-moving crowds as you make your way down the stairs.
When you get back to the station, the trains will be crowded as they depart but they clear out just one station down the line at Higashi Kawaguchi, where there is a JR line. Regardless, those few minutes can be excruciating as people pile in, so you might want to wait for a train where you can board first and get a seat.
Tickets here are reasonably priced, with the best seats going for just 4,500 yen and the unreserved seats 2,000 yen. The stadium is divided into four quadrants (A, B, C, D) that are color-coded, with A and C along the sides and B and D used for the end zones.
You can enter the lower concourse via any gate and walk around, as long as you are not wearing the visiting kit. I recommend you do this as there are a number of displays that recall those heady days of the World Cup. In order to reach the upper deck, you have to enter the specific gate on your ticket and walk up several flights of stairs.
The stadium is one of the most attractive in Japan, which is used to seeing functional but boring arenas. Here, the upper deck seats taper from the center to the end zones and are covered by curving roofs, while the end zones are open. This allows views of the surrounding countryside from the upper deck, although there isn't much to see.
As this is a football-only venue, the seats down below are close to the action and make for a good investment, if you can get them. Even the upper deck seats are good; there is plenty of leg room here, and no problem seeing the field with the upper deck steep enough so that people in front of you don't block your view.
Overall, Saitama Stadium is a great venue to watch soccer. The proximity of the seats allow the supporters to be part of the game, and the unique architecture and souvenirs from 2002 make it a special place for students of the game. The only problem here is the access - it is far from the city, far from the station, and there are not enough walkways or washrooms. Keep that in mind if you ever decide to pay a visit here.
There are many 2002 World Cup memorabilia displays that you should definitely walk around the lower concourse before the game. You are not allowed into certain areas if you are wearing the visiting team's colors, so if you are supporting them, hide your jersey until you reach your seat.
There is a park with several smaller soccer and futsal grounds near the stadium, which can provide a respite from the crowd if you get there early enough.
This is one of Japan's best stadiums which sadly is not seen by as many people who could, due to its distance from the center of the city. I still think that visitors should make an effort to get out here, if only for the atmosphere. With only 19 league games a year plus a few cup matches, you'll have to plan well to ensure that you can see a game at Saitama Stadium. When you do so, remember that the trip will be worth it once you get there.
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Adolfo's poems*
Sistas and Brothas United/The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Catholic Campaign for Human Development
By Julie Rattey
Adolfo, 10, stared at the half-written essay in his hands and then threw it down in disgust.
I'm never going to pass English, he groaned inwardly, sinking his head into his hands. Outside the window of the apartment in the Bronx he shared with his mother, a siren wailed empathetically.
|Help from Sistas and Brothas United and the USCCB
SBU aims to develop the leadership of youth in the Northwest Bronx, New York community who are concerned with the conditions in their neighborhood, interested in developing creative ways to address these problems in concrete ways, and believe in their own ability to build people power to hold public officials accountable for their decisions. SBU's leaders fight for educational justice, more jobs for youth and community residents, and for more community-based resources. A project of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, SBU receives support from the United States Conference of Bishops' Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Funded through an annual collection in parishes, the campaign works to break the cycle of poverty by funding empowerment projects and educating Catholics about the root causes of poverty within the context of the Catholic social tradition. For more information about SBU, click here or call 718-584-0515. For more information about CCHD, click here or call 202-541-3000.
"That bad?" Adolfo looked up to see his 14-year-old cousin Wendoly standing in the doorway, a book cradled in her arms.
"I'm failing English, math, and social studies!"
"Your mom was saying," Wendoly said sympathetically. "How come?"
"I just don't get it," Adolfo replied. "Like English class. I don't like anything I read. And none of the characters are anything like me."
"Hmm." Wendoly looked down at the book in her arms, hesitated, then plopped it on his desk. "Try this one. I just finished; couldn't put it down. And oh, by the way," she added with a forced nonchalance that made Adolfo suspicious, "I told your mom I'd sign you up for tutoring and mentoring at Sistas and Brothas United. As a board member, I've gotta recruit people anyway, so, you know…"
Adolfo grimaced. "Thanks a lot."
"Anytime!" Wendoly chirped, making her exit.
Adolfo glanced from his essay to the book. He may as well read a few pages — 10, maybe — to give himself a break. Maybe his brain would subconsciously come up with something good in the meantime…
"Adolfo! Dinner!" his mother called later.
Huh? Adolfo looked up. Had he just spent the past hour reading? Adolfo looked down at the book in surprise. He had to hand it to Wendoly; the book wasn't bad. He marked his place before heading into the kitchen. Maybe if he got his homework done there'd be time to read more before bed….
"I'm José," he said. "But since I'm going to be your all-powerful, all-knowing mentor," he grinned, "you can call me Mr. God."
They shook hands. "Nice to meet you, José."
José was nonplussed. "So." He stuck his hands in his pockets and gazed around the tutoring room. "Let's get out of here."
Adolfo was taken aback. "Um, aren't we going to talk about school?"
"Yeah," said José. "Think you can do that and go for a walk at the same time?"
Adolfo suppressed a grin. "Yeah." Maybe this won't be so bad after all.
As the two boys circled the center, breathing in the fresh fall air, they got to know each other. José talked about the center, and about how being involved in Sistas and Brothas United wasn't just about getting, it was about giving back, too. Lots of kids who started out getting help from SBU ended up getting involved as mentors, board members, community organizers. Members had gone to rallies and helped educate people about racism and classism in the community. SBU even offered classes in things like Spoken Word. Adolfo had to admit it sounded kind of cool.
"Look," said José as the conversation turned to Adolfo's scholastic woes, "I know school is a pain sometimes. But you really need an education to get anywhere. Like to get a job. You want a job, right?"
"Yeah." Adolfo fell into silence as he thought of his mother. She had quit school to go to work and raise Adolfo and was just starting to take classes again. Adolfo's doing well in school meant a lot to her; it meant he could have a better future. He didn't want to let her down.
"You're kind of a quiet kid, aren't you?"
Adolfo blinked up at José.
"Got any friends at school?" José pressed.
Adolfo shrugged. José reached a friendly arm across Adolfo's shoulders. "Stick with me, my man."
"Dude, she's totally looking at you."
Adolfo, 13, blushed and shifted in his seat at the edge of the lunch table, where he had placed himself to secure an unobstructed view of his classmate Janette, with her dark eyes and caramel-colored skin. Adolfo didn't reply to his friend but glanced furtively at Janette. Their eyes met. His stomach lurched into a swift backflip. They both looked away.
"When are you going to ask her out?" his friend wheedled.
"Yeah, right," grunted Adolfo. "Have you seen the way Felipe's moving in on her?" Felipe, with his good looks and outgoing personality, was one of the most popular kids in school. Felipe was nice, too, which made it harder to hate him, even when he and his perfect hair were chatting up Janette at her locker.
Adolfo's thoughts were still full of Janette's warm smile and dark eyes when he got home that afternoon. After finishing his English assignment — homework was becoming less arduous with his tutoring at SBU — he found himself sketching out some of his thoughts and feelings, like trying to describe the backflip his stomach did whenever Janette's eyes met his. Half an hour later, it occurred to him that he was writing a poem. Adolfo laughed out loud. He, the guy who had been failing English, was writing poetry!
Adolfo felt powerful, confident, and excited. His chest swelled with pride, then halted mid-rise. Some of the guys might think writing poems wasn't macho enough. Then another thought — Janette blushing and smiling as he gave her his poem — intervened. Adolfo's heart beat faster as he once more picked up his pen.
As Adolfo's cell phone beeped, he snuck a quick glance to catch the text message from Janette: "Good luck 2day!"
He smiled, replacing the phone in his pocket, and sat up straighter in his seat in the Spoken Word class at SBU. It had been about two years since Adolfo had given Janette his first poem. She had blushed and smiled, just as he'd imagined. Though unfortunately his words were a bit late — she soon began going out with Felipe — Adolfo had continued to make Janette his muse. And at the moment, she was single again. The thought launched Adolfo's stomach into some familiar gymnastics.
"Let's hear what our co-president's written this week."
Jorman, the leader of the Spoken Word class at SBU, grinned at Adolfo, who smiled back nervously. He had been elected president of SBU in February, and had then joined the Spoken Word class. His poetry had really begun to grow over the past couple of years, both from all the practice he'd gotten writing odes to Janette and, more recently, from the class. "If you're going to write a poem," Jorman had always reminded him, "you really have to care." Adolfo knew it was true; his best poems were those in which he really revealed his emotions. But that also meant, well, revealing your emotions. To a room full of people.
Adolfo smiled as he thought back to his 10-year-old self, failing in school and thinking that reading and writing were, for the most part, a waste of time. He thought of how his grades were improving, of how he had overcome his shyness enough to give Janette his poems, of how he had become active in his community through SBU, attending rallies and workshops and helping out at the local church. Of how he had recently decided he wanted to become a writer.
And if I'm going to be one, I better get used to reading my work, he told himself. With Janette's encouragement in his pocket to support him, he stood up, faced the class, and began. CD


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Dear Distinguished Colleagues: I need to add full-text search and somewhat free form queries to my application. Our data is made up of "items" that are stored in a single column family, and we have a bunch of secondary indices for look ups. An item has header fields and data fields, and the structure of the items CF is a super column family with row-key being item's natural ID, super column for header, super column for data. Our application is made up of a several redundant/load balanced servers all pointing at a Cassandra cluster. Our servers run embedded Jetty. I need to be able to find items by a combination of field values. Currently I have an index for items by field value which works reasonably well. I could also add support for data types and index items by fields of appropriate types, so we can do range queries on items. Ultimately, though, what we want is full text search with suggestions and human language sensitivity. We want to search by date ranges, by field values, etc. I did some homework on this topic, and here is what I see as options: 1) Use an SQL database as a helper. This is rather clunky, not sure what it gets us since just about anything that can be done in SQL can be done in Cassandra with proper structures. Then the problem here also is where am I going to get an open source database that can handle the workload ? Probably nowhere, nor do I get natural language support. 2) Each of our servers can index data using Lucene, but again we have to come up with a clunky mechanism where either one of the servers does the indexing and results are replicated, or each server does its own indexing. 3) We can use Solr as is, perhaps with some small modifications it can run within our server JVM -- since we already run embedded Jetty. I like this idea, actually, but I know that Solr indexing doesn't take advantage of Cassandra. 4) Datastax Enterprise with search, presumably, supports Solr indexing of existing column families -- but for the life of me I couldn't figure out how exactly it does that. The Wikipedia example shows that Solr can create column families based on Solr schemas that I can then query using Cassandra itself (which is great) and supposedly I can modify those column families directly and Solr will reindex them (which is even better), but I am not sure how that fits into our server design. The other concern is locking in to a commercial product, something I am very much worried about. So, one possibility I can see is using Solr embedded within our own server solution but storing its indexes in the file system outside of Cassandra. This is not optimal, and maybe over time i can add my own support for storing Solr index in Cassandra w/o relying on the Datastax solution. In any case, what are your thoughts and experiences ? Regards, Oleg
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Durrant feeling bloomin great!
Reporter: Jan Verbruggen
Date online: 21 February 2014
ANGLING: THE Church Gardens open was another cracker, with Chris Durrant winning with his slider and pellet approach - which netted him 24 small carp weighing 31lb 8oz 4drams.
Graham Mitchell (Gilders GTI), meanwhile, caught 30lb of skimmers and roach, using maggot and pole for first place in the silvers' match and second overall.
NO wonder the Tricast Highfield lads keep turning up for the Old Hough Farm opens; they are
dominating them on a regular basis.
James Cantello won the Thursday open match fished on Lucky Dip and Prospect Lakes where he dobbed bread and corn in the nearside margins to catch five carp for 14lb 1oz.
Pete Clements followed up a big win and a second place on Heronbrook with another second in this match, with 6lb 12oz of silvers caught on pole and maggot.
Tricast's Dave Holland took the money in Saturday's open at Old Hough, with his feeder and corn fished tight to an island netting him 32lb 5oz of carp.
Travelling partner Ken Power was second with 27lb 3oz of carp taken on straight lead and method feeder.
Ken Potts took first place in Sunday's open at Old Hough as his open-ended feeder and maggot worked well for a mixed net weighing 33lb 2oz. Dave Holland was second with 31lb 14oz.
ROBERT Rigby (Gilders Tackle) won the Thursday Partridge Lakes open match in which he caught F1s and hybrids on pole-fished pellet and corn at 11 metres to weigh in 43lb 2oz.
Second was Tom Clarke with 40lb 15oz.
FRED Prudham (Medlock Bridge AC) came out on top in the Partridge Lakes open match fished on Covey Canal. His corn down the edge and later maggot at 10 metres approach saw him net 56lb 7oz.
Dave Rigby was a half a dozen fish short, taking second place with 47lb 11oz of carp taken on maggot fished at 10 metres.
CAIRO AC memberships are available with waters at Denshaw and Mossley. For details, call John on 07796 199421.
Venue Guide
Denshaw Vale – Memberships available. Contact John on (0161) 665 1779 for details.
Dowry Reservoir – Day tickets available from Sheddings Angling.
Ogden Reservoir – Day tickets on the bank and at Tight Lines, Shaw. This vast water is still worth a chuck. Pegs behind the cottages always produce a few fish.
Strinesdale Reservoir – Day tickets on the bank. Full of fish and at this time of year you will probably have the water virtually to yourself. Pole and tip for skimmers, chub and roach. Big perch are in here, but not many come out so a chopped worm and feeder approach might tempt one of these.
Cargate Pool – Medlock Bridge AC members-only water. Rochdale Canal – Roach to bread punch on Boat and Horses length, with match catches to 6lb.
Bardsley Canal – Day tickets on the bank.
Alexandra Park Lake – Day tickets on the bank. Worth a cast or two as the weather isn't freezing. Try pegs either side of the footbridge.
Hollingworth Lake – Day ticket water. Another big water where the fish can be anywhere. Pegs by the overflow can produce some decent nets at this time of the year. It's all tip fishing with skimmers, roach and the odd big perch. Pikers can catch some decent fish by spinning, and a roving approach for this style of fishing is best.
Tanners Dam – Diggle AC members only. Fishing well with silvers falling to maggot fished on the pole and tip.
Peak Forest Canal – This relatively shallow canal is fishing hard at the moment, so pick your peg carefully and don't overdo the feed.
Sunday — Todmorden AS members-only match at Croft Fishery. To book, contact Chris on 07818444543.
Every Sunday – open match on Peak Forest and Macclesfield Canals. Draw 9am, fishing 10am to 3pm. Tickets are £11 all in. To book and for further details, call Albert on 0161 792 2684. Sunday's match is on the High Lane length of the Macclesfield Canal.
Thursday, February 27 – Twingates AC annual meeting at Crompton Cricket Club. Starts at 8.15pm.
Sunday — Twingates members-only match on the club water. Draw is at 9am.
Every Sunday – Open matches on Old Hough Farm Fishery. Draw at 8.45am. Turn up on the day, no need to book.
Every Saturday – open matches on local canals. Draw 9am, fishing 10am to 3pm. To book and for further details contact John on 07801 276059.
Every other Sunday — Slaithwaite individual winter league on Sparth Reservoir. For details, contact Neil on 07768 138147.
Every other Sunday, with next match on Sunday, March 6 – open silvers and carp match combined on Church Gardens. Tickets £15 all-in. Contact Dave on 078794 74029.
To report any news or views on the local or national angling scene, contact Jan Verbruggen on 07846 456408 or email me at email@example.com
Hello Jan, Are there still tench in Strinesdale res? (that is the top res isnt it)
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text: Indie darlings, Skipping Girl Vinegar hit pay dirt on their glorious sophomore album 'Keep Calm Carry The Monkey'; rich with sonic landscapes, melodies, and lyrical turns. 'Keep Calm, Carry the Monkey' is a darker, full swing of moods that breaks wide open the hobo pop revelation the band hinted to on their critically acclaimed debut. The album features special guest performance from legendary singer/songwriter Ron Sexsmith.


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I am currently working as a kitchen supervisor and planning on writing my red seal later this year. So this has nothing to do with anything just random gibberish so feel free to read or just move on to the next part. So its 2am on well i guess its Wednesday now I just got home from work and I am pretty damn bored so I am skimming through the people online and cant help wondering whether they are like me and are really just that bored OR if they are completely creepers.. I know that sounds rude but guarantee before you click on "message this person" you wonder whether or not this person is "sane".. Well here is a hit for those that want to message me, first, not entirely sane, I mean I won't kill you with an ax in the middle of the night while you are sleeping but definitely would laugh if I read the headline " Man killed by OKCupid Girl - is the internet really a safe place to meet people" LOL Ok so if u just chuckled at that message me, cause trust me, we'd get along well.. If u think I sound absolutely nuts, you know what, I am, 100%, if I was sane Id probably still be dating my highschool sweetheart. Anyways, its 2:06 am now, and yes I am still bored. Welcome to my life :D
I am down to earth, funny, and quirky
Favorite book - Wicked (currently reading it and I love it)
Favorite movie - He's just not that into you (i know girly, but its just SOOOO true to all girls)
Music- right now I am listening to a lot of Rise Against
Food - I will never have a favorite food, not even of the week, I love it all!!
My cat Pickles
My dog Olive
Wine.. if this world ever runs out of wine and jesus hasnt retuned to make water into wine then please just kill me
Food. And not just for the purpose of survival the day I have to live off canned food please just let me starve.. or kill me and eat me.. either or.
Oh I guess I should mention my friends... they are cool.. some replaceable but for the most part I love them and well a couple of them I have tried to replace but then I just end up with more friends...
2) Where did I put my cell phone?
3) Why did I drink so much last night?
4) When is the next time I can go out?
LOL just kidding... or kind of kidding.. I really do ask myself all those questions every day but you know.. it doesnt consume me.. I also think about why I decided to be a fulltime babysitter when all the kids are playing with knifes..???