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Its as if the organisers are oblivious to the Gold Mine of stages that are available for them to choose from
Saturday is like the Reus Get Connected Rally Championship rather than the Britains prestigious round of the World Rally Championship
Also if the Showground was indeed available im sure service would be there too, its as if the organisers are trying to purposly choke our round of the World Rally Championship
This Rally could be so much more interesting if the right enthusiasm and determination was present


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Chidambaram to attend ADB meet, to leave for Kazakh on May 2
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The Minister would be accompanied by Finance Secretary Arvind Mayaram and other finance ministry officials.
Chidambaram, according to sources, is likely to return on May 5. ADB is holding 47th annual meeting in Astana in Kazakhstan.
India is a member country of the ADB, which provides soft loans to tackle poverty as well as technical assistance and grants for a range of development activities.
Chidambaram will also participate in a seminar - 'The return of global growth: New economic and institutional drivers' - being organised during the meeting.
The annual meeting will provide opportunities for representatives from member countries to interact with ADB staff, non-government organisations (NGOs), private sector players and others.
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When should I tell my first-born I'm pregnant?
I'm pregnant with my second child and I think my 3-year-old is starting to suspect something. My husband doesn't think we should tell her about the baby until after the amnio. But I'm definitely showing and she's starting to ask questions. I hate lying to her -- but should I avoid telling her the truth until we know things are OK?
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I have about 12 weeks to go and I'm expecting #4. My husband and I didn't really say anything til I started to show. My oldest two will lift up my shirt and look at my belly and say hi to the baby. My 2 yr old, will say hi to the baby and say "Hi, Carley" (What we are naming her. We didn't say anything at first because I'm high risk this time around with heart problems. Also recently had to have a MRI because of a possible mini-stroke a couple of weeks ago. With preg #3 my oldest looked at my belly one day, and I asked her what was in there, she said "baby". I was starting to show. We hadn't said anything yet. I just always figured I'd wait til I was showing to say something.posted 06/04/2007 by acjc4
I think it is best for kids to know. They really watch the grown-ups around them and probably know something is up. If you lose or abort the baby, the kids will know you are upset but will not know why. That can really cause a lot of anxiety and misunderstanding. If you abort, which I suspect you might be considering if you are waiting for amnio results, I don't think you should tell the kids that. I think it would be better to just tell them the baby died.posted 06/01/2007 by a BabyCenter Member
Well I got in your same situation and decided to tell him before we told family, we didnt wanted him finding out by relatives, intead of mommy and daddy telling him....everything was ok with her little sister and he enjoyed watching the ultrasounds....he is so close to his little sister and loves her and helps arround..he is almost 5 and the baby is 8 months. I think you should tell ur kid about his baby brother/sisterposted 05/31/2007 by Edna_Servin
Personally, i relied on external aids and bought few books that seemed nice. and it helped. tremendously. there's one book my son can't get enough of: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IVOMX3O it's funny and cute. i bought it mainly because i loved the fact that the family in the book are black, like us. (didn't see lots of black pregnant books...) regardless, i recommend it. good luck! :)posted 04/09/2014 by oliviabailey081
I am currently pregnant with my 3rd child and we told our boys (3 1/2 & 5) pretty soon after we found out. They are so excited and talk about it all the time. They read my week by week book with me and are always asking questions. I am glad we told them because it is nice to share the waiting with them. We are taking them to the ultrasound with us and they cannot wait to find out if they are having a brother or sister. I would definetly say though that it depends on your child and how they react to things.posted 05/30/2007 by a BabyCenter Member
My daughter was seven when I became pregnant with my second child she was so excited that when I lost the baby I was more worried about she would handle it than having lost the baby. She is now nine years old and I am now pregnant again and instead of telling her I find excuses as to why my tummy is getting bigger such as "mommy needs to work out and stop eating late at nights" but I think it's best to wait as long as possible before telling themposted 02/27/2008 by momtob33
Hi ladies, I am 3 1/2 months pregnant with my second. My oldest will be five this Dec and my partner couldn't wait to tell my daughter she was going to be a big sister. Well I thought we should give it a lil time but we told her anyway, and she was not happy about the idea at all. Bless her lil heart! We found out that I was with a child, at three weeks of being pregnant, via a home pregnancy test. He told all his family and friends the same day, he was extremely excited needless to say! I choose to wait until after the blood work. My daughter has now come around drasticly for she tells everyone we meet that she is going to be a big sister!! So it worked out for the best!! : )posted 05/31/2007 by Babygirl26 (Tonya)
I told my 3 year old once we confirmed it. I actually had a miscarriage (ectopic) at 7 weeks, and she understood as best as she could that the baby was in heaven. It would have been hard on her to not understand why we were so sad, but instead we were sad as a family and she learned a life lesson. Now we're expecting again, and she's very excited to be a big sister. She's gone to ultrasounds, etc and understands why we're putting new furnature in the other room, etc. She even puts her dollies in the crib.posted 05/29/2007 by gogo74
Like so many of the other moms that posted, I think it is best to be honest, and especially if your daughter is asking questions. But I also agree that only you know your child and what she is capable of understanding. We told my son as soon as we found out about our second baby (which was about 2 weeks before his 2nd birthday party). We announced the pregnancy to our family at the party by giving my son a t-shirt that said "I'm the big brother." I'm glad we told him when we did because he did not want a baby at first. It gave us plenty of time to explain to him what that meant and start showing him other babies and telling him we would have one like that. Now he can't wait for the baby to get here (due in 1 week). He helped set up the room and I've let him pick out a few different toys and outfits to buy for the baby. He's also been to almost all of my appointments and looks forward to hearing the "heart beep" (as he calls it). And when we had the ultrasound done, the tech also gave him his own US pic. We framed it and set it on his book case. He gets it down & looks at it a lot and talks about his baby brother. He even tells the baby good night each night. Just wanted to share how it went with us. Good Luck!posted 05/29/2007 by duckie52
I know one main thing you're probably worried about isds what if something goes wrong with the pregnancy. Well, I have such an annecdote. My mother got pregnant again when I was 4 (15 years ago), and she told me right away. She says I was very helpful from the start, wanting to make sure she didn't get too tired and wanting to know all about the baby. But then she had a miscarriage about a month after she told me. She had to have a D&C and a stay in the hospital, during which time I stayed at my grandparents' house. When she got home, she told me that she lost the baby. Obviously, at 4, I thought she had taken the baby to Wal-Mart and set it down and it crawled off, so I wanted to know why she just didn't go find it. It was then that she realized honesty was her best policy and she let me know that the baby died inside her and had to be taken out. She said I understood it as well as any preschooler could and that I was very sweet and loving to her and helped her heal. I think it's best to be honest with your kids from the get-go, or at least the time you atart telling others, because it would be better coming from you than from a slip-up from a family member or friend, and your child may actually be more understanding and helpful than you think.posted 05/28/2007 by gray_hare
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Fritch becomes Speaker in French Polynesia
French Polynesia's politicians have chosen Edouard Fritch as the new Speaker of the House, following the election of pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru as President.
Oceania Flash reports that Mr Fritch, who is the co-President of the pro-French Tahoeraa Huiraatira party, got the support of 38 of the 57 MPs.
He replaces Mr Temaru, who was the Speaker until his election to the top post on Thursday.
Mr Fritch's election is part of the new coalition agreement that brought Mr Temaru to power this week.
The coalition consists of Mr Temaru's Union for Democracy, former President Gaston Flosse's Tahoeraa Huiraatira and Jean-Christophe Bouissou's Rautahi party.
Mr Fritch has been Speaker of the House on several occasions - most recently last year, under a brief Gaston Flosse led government that was ousted in a motion of no confidence after less than two months in power.
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"WHL players are outstanding students. Many graduate from High School with Honours standing."
The WHL provides the top young hockey talent in the west with the opportunity to develop their skills on the ice at the highest possible level, without compromising their academic goals.
Each WHL Club's Education Advisor, along with the WHL Director of Education Services, tracks the academic progress of all players throughout the season. While playing in the WHL, players receive financial assistance for education expenses such as high school tutoring or fees for post-secondary courses, to ensure players reach their academic potential.
While a player's primary on-ice goal is to win the WHL Championship and compete for the storied Memorial Cup, it is equally important for that player to set his sights on academic success as well. WHL Club's are governed by League-wide Education Standards that ensure players complete their high school in timely fashion and achieve the highest level of academic success possible.
The WHL is committed to recognizing academic excellence. Awards are presented annually to the WHL's Scholastic Player and Scholastic Team of the Year.
"Each year, the WHL awards over 400 scholarships to current and graduate players to attend a post secondary institution of their choice in North America."
The WHL recognizes the paramount importance that parents and players place on education. That is why the WHL and Canada West Universities have teamed up to provide - Western Canada's Premiere Hockey Scholarship.
For every season a player plays in the WHL, they receive a full year guaranteed Scholarship, including tuition, textbooks and compulsory fees, to a post-secondary institution of their choice. For example, players graduating from a four-year WHL career are eligible to receive four years of scholarship funding. The WHL Scholarship, combined with additional financial assistance from Universities in Western Canada, makes the WHL - Canada West Universities joint scholarship equivalent to any other offer available in North America today.
Since 1993, Western Hockey League Clubs have provided close to 5,000 Scholarships representing an investment in excess of $17 million, making the WHL the leading provider of hockey scholarships in Western Canada.
The WHL Scholarship not only encourages its graduates to pursue a post-secondary education, it also affords graduates the opportunity to continue playing hockey at an elite level in the Canadian University or College systems. Each year over 230 WHL graduates receive a WHL Scholarship.
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The NCAA in the United States rules that if a player plays a game in the WHL or signs a Standard Player Agreement, he forfeits his eligibility to participate in hockey.
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Players go to school while playing in the WHL, with their team paying for any expenses incurred. Many older players start their post-secondary programs. When a player joins the WHL, he signs a Standard Player Agreement through which he earns financial aid for every year that he plays in the WHL. Basically, a player receives one year of tuition and books for each year he plays in the WHL.
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In a move to replace conventional learning exercises, the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) has come up with an evaluation system which will allow students to appear in their terminal examinations (summative assessment) as many times as they wish.
According to the officials, the system called Learner Director Evaluation System (LDES) is based on the concept of video games, where the player can play till he wins or is satisfied with his performance.
The officials also informed that LDES has been specifically framed in line with the Central Board of Secondary Educations (CBSE) Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) system.
While CCE primarily aims at evaluating students on the basis of practical assessments, the two summative assessments are still being made with the conventional paper-pencil pattern. Our idea of launching LDES is to make learning fun and to provide students with the ability to test their level, said KVS Assistant Commissioner M S Chauhan.
With the option of reappearing in the tests, the tendency to cheat in the examinations is likely to go down since they will now know that they will get the opportunity to revisit tests, said another KVS official.
LDES will carry question banks for all subjects and the students will be provided with the results immediately after the test.
In the first phase, the project will be launched in all the Kendriya Vidyalayas (KV) in the northern region for students of Class I to VIII. The pilot testing project will be launched for evaluation in mathematics in April, when the new academic session begins.
In the second phase, the system will be launched for all subjects and it will be accessible on the KVS website. LDES has been developed by a team of 25 teachers working across KVs in the northern region. These constitute computer science teachers and subject experts.
As per officials, the concept had initially led to concerns among the teachers. When the idea was coined, a lot of teachers raised concerns over correction of test papers. However, they are now convinced with the fact that corrections will be made automatically. The teachers will only have to maintain final records, said Chauhan.


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One county in the east needs your help in adopting several pets seized in an animal hoarding case.
Nearly 50 animals were taken from the Bertie County Home of Stephen Kyprianides in May.
He's facing 36 misdemeanor animal cruelty charges in Bertie County.
Lawmen say they seized 46 dogs and three cats from the 68-year-old's home in May, when officials found lethal ammonia levels.
Animal control officials only have a few puppy runs where they can keep dogs and they've run out of space.
They have been turning away dogs for several weeks.
Officials with the Roanoke Chowan Humane Society are waiving the adoption fee trying to unload the dogs to loving homes.


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There were plans for Tom Baker to reunite on-screen with Elisabeth Sladen in The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Baker himself revealed that the Fourth Doctor would have appeared in the spin-off before Sladen's untimely passing.
He said: "I think it was being mooted at a time when Elisabeth began to be ill. I'd never seen [The Sarah Jane Adventures], you see, but she was so thrilled.
"I had a terrific, tender thing for her. I never met her out of the studio, except by the time she was doing that. But I never got around to doing that. "


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An article looking back on the largest financial events of the year allows you to reflect on how you responded to those events. An article telling you how much the price of food rose in the past year gives you solid information as you plan your 2012 budget. Education articles are the most useful articles because they are based on fact, and the only way you should ever make money choices is when it is based on data.
Along with trees and reindeer, December brings with it all of the "predictions for 2012" articles. Some will be naughty and some will be nice, but should you change your portfolio after reading them? Here are a few points to consider before reading every 2012 financial prediction article.
TUTORIAL: Investing 101
Three Types of Pieces
Financial media pieces come in three varieties:
Prediction Articles
Prediction articles attempt to forecast on a future event. Although these make for an interesting read, they hold very little actionable value for your portfolio. Those making the predictions will have a lot of academic reasons why they are right, but if somebody were able to predict the movement of the stock market with any certainty they wouldn't be offering that information to you free of charge. (For related reading on the subject of predictions, check out 5 Doom And Gloom Wall Street Prophets.)
Action Articles
These are the articles that tell you to do something for the New Year. It's 2012 so you should refinance your home, rebalance your portfolio, buy more bonds or save more. Some of these articles serve as great reminders to address something that you don't normally look at throughout the year, but should you act on anything that puts undue importance on the New Year?
The date on a calendar means nothing when making investment choices. Is a company that was a bad investment in December of 2011 going to suddenly be a good choice in January of 2012? Don't make any financial moves based on the New Year's hype.
Education Articles
Education articles may be the most useful to you. The best investors reflect on what worked and what didn't ... not just after every trade, but over long periods. Any article that provides verifiable facts from a trusted source as it looks back on 2011, can serve as a way for you to reflect on how well you managed your money in the past year.
Other Considerations
Any article that you read is written for the masses. If the article is successful, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people may read it. The only financial information that should result in action from you is information that is tailored to you and your unique situation. Using articles as a stepping off point to more research or as a way to form questions for your financial advisor is smart. Taking action is not. (Looking for a financial advisor? For some insight on choosing one, read 7 Financial Advisor Red Flags.)
Your 2012 Test
Let's see what you have learned. If you were to pick one article to read based on the headline, which of these two would you pick: "Top Investor Predicts Stock Market Crash in 2012" or "Investors Advise Having Long-Term Goals For Maximum Gain in 2012?"
If you said No. 2, you're correct. The first headline sounds important, but holds little actionable value. No. 2 addresses a strategy that successful money managers know. If they're doing their job correctly, there won't be a lot to do other than infrequent maintenance. In his book, "Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing," Charles Ellis reminds us that beating the market does not work and he spends most of the book citing statistics that prove it. (For more, read Can Regular Investors Beat The Market?)
The Bottom Line
In 2012, stay the course if you're a long-term investor, and only make trades that have a lot of research behind them if you're a short-term trader. Use the financial media to gain exposure to new products or ideas, but resist the urge to make any decisions based on the flood of coming 2012 predictions.
An article looking back on the largest financial events of the year allows you to reflect on how you responded to those events. An article telling you how much the price of food rose in the past year gives you solid information as you plan your 2012 budget. Education articles are the most useful articles because they are based on fact, and the only way you should ever make money choices is when it is based on data.


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Walk to Break the Silence on Ovarian Cancer 2010 Campaign To Kick Off In Chicago
The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition (NOCC) today announced its 2010 "Walks to Break the Silence On Ovarian Cancer" schedule. The Walks will be held in more than 20 communities across the U.S.
The 2010 season will kick off May 1 in Chicago, followed by walks in Reston, Va. (May 8) and Des Moines, IA (May 8). Most of the remaining Walks will be held in September, which is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness month.
"We are thrilled to launch the 2010 Walks season," said David Barley, NOCC's Chief Executive Officer. "Last year alone, despite the challenging economy, more than 25,000 participants helped raise over $1.5 million. We expect to welcome even more participants than last year, which means that more people will become informed about ovarian cancer. " Funds from the Walks go toward education and awareness programs nationwide and "we hope that leads to more cases of early detection and more lives saved," Barley said.
Depending on the Chapter, some of the Walks are non-competitive and for all fitness levels, while others are competitive Walk/Run events. In addition to raising awareness, the Walks celebrate ovarian cancer survivors and honor those who have lost their lives to the disease. Walkers are invited to walk "in honor of" or "in memory of" a friend or family member. Some Walks display a "Wall of Courage," where family and friends post photos and notes to remember their loved ones.
Following each Walk, all participants receive a T-shirt and a gift pack from Pureology, the National Sponsor of the events. Several Walks also provide a "Survivor's Tent" with food and gifts for ovarian cancer survivors.
The 2010 NOCC schedule:
May1: Chicago, IL (Illinois Chapter)
May 8: Reston, VA (Northern Virginia Chapter)
May 8: Des Moines, IO (Iowa Chapter)
August 28: Austin, TX (Austin Chapter)
Sept. 11: Philadelphia, PA (Delaware Valley Chapter)
Sept. 11: Cincinnati, OH (Cincinnati/Kentucky Chapter)
Sept. 12: Boston, MA (Massachusetts Chapter)
Sept. 12: Pittsburgh, PA (Pittsburgh Chapter)
Sept. 12: Providence, RI (Rhode Island Chapter)
Sept. 18: San Antonio, TX (San Antonio Chapter)
Sept. 18: Toledo, OH (NW Ohio/Michigan Chapter)
Sept. 18: Omaha, NE (Nebraska Chapter)
Sept. 25: East Meadow, NY (Long Island NY Chapter)
Sept. 25: Grand Rapids, MI (Western Michigan Chapter)
Sept. 25: Madison, CT (Connecticut Chapter)
Sept. 25: Dallas, TX (Dallas Chapter) - tentative date
Sept. 26: Huntington, WV (West Virginia Chapter)
Sept. 26: Nashua, NH (New Hampshire Chapter)
Dec. 5: Phoenix, AZ ( Valley of the Sun Chapter)
Date TBD: Wichita, Kansas
Date TBD: Kansas City/Shawnee, Kansas
NOCC is a nonprofit founded in 1995 that is committed to improving the survival rate and quality of life for women with ovarian cancer. More than 20,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year. Unfortunately, most cases are diagnosed in their later stages when the prognosis is poor. However, if diagnosed and treated early, the five-year survival rate is over 90 percent. That is why the NOCC stresses that the early signs and symptoms of the disease must be recognized, not only by women, but also by their families and the medical community.
For additional information, visit www.ovarian.org or call 1-888-OVARIAN.


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While it's been the subject of rumor, gossip and misinformation for the last several years, this time it's real: drilling off the north shore of Cuba is scheduled to begin November 1. Six wells are planned to be drilled with this rig by the various international companies who own exploration rights off the north shore of the island. …Spanish energy company Repsol and its partners | Read More »


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Bayley: perhaps some idea of its signification may be found in the following:
I nsolvent debtors, aiming ne'er to pay:
N otorious gamblers risking all at play.
S edtious whigs, who think a man should die,
U nless his sentiments with their' comply.
R evengleful tories, democracy disdain;
G reat Britain, they think ought to rule & reign.
E nlarg'd jail-birds, men with five years pay:--
N ews-men, Court members, servants run away
T the vicious ign'rant herd; for knaves fit tools
S ome may be honest, yet deluded fools.
A crostick is a poem that forms a vertical word from the first letters of each line. In this poem, the word "INSURGENTS" is formed with a verse that has nothing good to say about these men. The Regulators are called vengeful, seditious, jail-birds, and debtors who choose not to pay. The writer says that this word is not explained by Johnson or Bayley (Bailey). The first edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary was published in 1755. Nathan Bailey first published his in 1736. These would have been the most commonly used dictionaries in the 1780's.
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the best thing you could do is invest in a high quality hard surface flooring such as ceramic tile or commercial sheet vinyl....good luck
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Grokking Java Persistence with Kevin Sutter
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Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Kevin Sutter. He is a subject matter expert for WebSphere Application Infrastructure and works as a Senior Software Engineer in the WebSphere Application Server development group. He is currently the lead architect for the Java Persistence API solution for WebSphere Application Server. Kevin is also a committer and a member of the PMC for the Apache OpenJPA open source project. Kevin's past roles include leadership and architecture of WebSphere solutions for J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) and WebSphere eXtreme Scale (caching). It was good to catch up with Kevin for a look at the Java Persistence technology and it's usefulness to java developers.
Kevin, what is JPA in two sentences?
The Java Persistence API (JPA) is the persistence framework standard for both the Java SE and Java EE runtimes. At its core, JPA provides a conduit between the object-oriented data model and the relational database systems -- an object-relational mapper (ORM).
Open source software is a key part of the solution here. How did OpenJPA start and who was responsible for it?
The Apache OpenJPA project was a joint submission between IBM and BEA. BEA seeded the contribution with code based on its popular Kodo project (a recent acquisition). Contributors from IBM, BEA, Sun, and other independent sources worked with this code base through the incubation phase and, eventually, to produce the OpenJPA 1.0 release. Since that time, the OpenJPA team has produced several service releases and, most recently, produced an OpenJPA 2.0 release which supports the latest incarnation of the JPA specification.
The WebSphere JPA solution is based on the Apache OpenJPA project. We do not try to keep that a secret. OpenJPA has been the JPA provider for the EJB3 Feature Pack for WAS v6.1, WAS v7, and the recent JPA Feature Pack for WAS v7. Of course, we additional features and function on top of the Apache OpenJPA deliverable to provide a better, more complete JPA solution for our WebSphere customers. But, the base code is the same. So, if a customer has written an application using the Apache OpenJPA code, it will run successfully using the WebSphere JPA solution. This allows customers to kick the tires and experiment with Apache OpenJPA before they deploy their application into WebSphere.
Why didn't people get involved with existing Apache persistence solutions like Cayenne?
Not sure. We investigated several projects inside and outside of Apache before deciding on the OpenJPA joint submission. OpenJPA has a very clean, flexible architecture, with a defined persistence kernel. This kernel is actually used by multiple persistence "personalities", including JPA and JDO. Since we made the decision to go with OpenJPA, we haven't looked back.
Why does IBM care about JPA and why should java developers care about JPA?
The persistence layer accounts for somewhere in the neighborhood of 75-80% of the processing of customer applications. Thus, the functional and performance features available to make these applications run more efficiently is very important to IBM's customers. This makes it important to IBM as we have the same development priorities.
What is an example of IBM's contribution to OpenJPA? Performance is a key focus, right?
Yes, performance improvements have been a key contribution from IBM. We have introduced several locking and caching improvements into OpenJPA to improve the throughput, scalability, and general performance of OpenJPA. We have also introduced several DB2, Informix, and Derby data dictionary improvements to better support the IBM databases. Fixes related to passing the TCK and CTS compliance tests for the Java SE and Java EE environments have also been contributed. Let's just say that my whole team is very focused on making OpenJPA the best open-source JPA offering.
Let's switch gears and talk about WebSphere, what's new since JPA v1?
We don't have enough room to document everything that is new since the JPA 1.0 specification... But, if I had to choose a couple of highlights, I would start with the Criteria and Metamodel APIs. This feature allows a customer to dynamically create queries via a defined programming model. It's very powerful. Another key feature in JPA 2.0 is the integration with the Bean Validation specification. Bean Validation allows an application to specify constraints on an Entity's fields or properties, which will then be validated later when the Bean Validator is invoked.
How does IBM's JPA solution compare to Hibernate or EclipseLink?
If you want to play in this game, you have to be specification compliant -- both JPA 1.0 and 2.0. So, from that narrow spec perspective, we're all about the same. Note: OpenJPA v2.0.1 was released in August 2010.
However, the WebSphere JPA solution brings many other features to the table over and above the base specification. We've already mentioned the performance aspect. Our SpecJ [tm] performance numbers are fantastic. We take great pride in that achievement.
The WebSphere JPA solution also integrates well with other IBM stack and complementary products, such as DB2 and eXtreme Scale. From a DB2 perspective, the pureQuery feature provides static SQL and performance improvements for the WebSphere JPA solution. And, there is an eXtreme Scale plugin which allows this caching technology to be used with OpenJPA.
Can you talk about integration between IBM products and JPA?
I mentioned the stack products above (DB2 and eXtreme Scale). There are several other projects (especially acquisitions) that have migrated from Hibernate to OpenJPA. Even the WebSphere product itself uses JPA to provide the persistence layer for its systems management data.
What are the current hot topics in this technology space?
Caching, or in-memory databases. Having the ability to execute thousands and thousands of transactions to an in-memory cache or store, while ensuring that this data will also get persisted to a "real" database is a very real, hot topic in this space.
Where can we find more information on the web?
Check out my team's blog about WebSphere and Java Persistence and the Apache OpenJPA project site.
Where can people meet you (and the team) at upcoming events?
JPA is always represented at IBM Impact. This year, we had over ten sessions related to JPA! We also try to get to the core Java developers to JavaOne. This year, one of my team members and an OpenJPA committer, Pinaki Poddar, is presenting an OpenJPA topic on distributed persistence. Periodically, we provide white papers, comment lines articles, and presentations via Developer Works.
And for a quick diversion - would you please tell us about your favorite hobby, tech related or not?
I really enjoy working on cars. Anything from changing oil, to changing oxygen sensors, to replacing control arms. As long as I have the tools and the time, it's a good stress reliever. I also have a fun car -- 1989 Mustang 5.0 Convertible, which I thoroughly enjoy in our Minnesota summers.
Thanks to Kevin for providing a look into Java Persistence and WebSphere application infrastructure software. You can also find more information about JPA, OSGi, eXtreme Scale and other emerging technology from the WebSphere Emerge team.
Final question goes to you the reader: What topic would you like to see featured in future application infrastructure SME interviews?
Until next time,
Ryan Boyles
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Juelz Santana has been relatively quiet on the Rap front, promising mixtapes that failed to surface. But after announcing his upcoming mixtape God Will'n, releasing on January 14th, he's setting off the New Year with a bang.
During an interview with Village Voice, the Dipset member said that he has already finished another mixtape to be released following God Will'n that sees him rapping over other artists' beats.
"I'm gonna treat the situations like I'm a new artist. I'm just hungry again," he said. "God Will'n is just gonna be the start of a new chapter. I got a new label situation called Anything's Possible. But it's still Dipset, Skull Gang. I'm still on Def Jam. I already got the second mixtape done after God Will'n where I'll be rapping over other people's beats but we're just going to talk about God Will'n for now. I'm just happy to be back in business. I want to enjoy working and go hard and be where I need to be. Right where some of these niggas ain't supposed to be. I'm still lookin better than a lot of niggas who just dropped albums though. They looking lost out here. It's time to follow the leader again."
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As hard drives get larger and larger we see the prices of less capacity drives going down in price dramatically, and this works out well on the consumer end of things. Now though, WD pulls a rabbit out of their proverbial hat and now we see the arrival of a new WD AV-GP drive that makes it the hot product for storage hungry users who can never get enough storage space. It hits the market at about $250.00 American Dollars, but is now the top dog of storage capacity drives. Being a Green drive means that it is environmentally friendly and contains no materials known to cause harm to the ecosystem at large. Green is the new buzz word being thrown around these days in the PC and electronics industry and as long as it really it's an honest goal it's a cool way to start being Earth smart. The folks at WD have let the beast loose, so les see how well it fails against their own top drives and one of the latest SSD devices to hit the market.


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sunny. before the season started, didi said that both drivers were to be treated EQUALLY. i cannot see how telling one driver not to pass another is treating both equally.
didi is a very quiet person and does not usually get involved, but in this case, he has told horner that team orders are NOT to be used. to me , that sounds as if he was quite upset at what horner did.
yes, horner can make decisions, but if they are contrary to what the owner wants, it is not surprising that didi puts him right.
but the real question is WHY did horner make this odd decision. could it have something to do with it being webbers 200th start, and horner and webber being team partners in f3? a celebration win, perhaps?


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PHOENIX — A Glendale man has pleaded guilty to murder and other charges stemming from the killing of a man whose body was burned and dumped near the White Tank Mountains.
A Maricopa County Superior Court spokeswoman says Daniel Griffith pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder, abandonment or concealment of a body and fraudulent use of a credit card.
Griffith is to be sentenced Oct. 17.
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What's a bank to do when it has to sit on exposures that it doesn't like?
Sell them of course! Especially if those exposures are expensive to hedge and costly in terms of regulatory capital charges. Read more
What's a bank to do when it has to sit on exposures that it doesn't like?
Sell them of course! Especially if those exposures are expensive to hedge and costly in terms of regulatory capital charges. Read more
Click for Goldman's 'living will ' for regulators, listing how it would try to resolve by selling parts of its business under bankruptcy:
The WSJ reported on Thursday that JPMorgan's regulators will conduct a thorough review of the bank's models, according to "people close to the situation".
Thanks to a letter from the the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to Senator Sherrod Brown, we know that one particular model — the VaR model that JPMorgan's Chief Investment Office switched to in January 2012, and which failed to alert management to outsized risks the division was taking — did not require regulatory approval before being used. Read more
As I watched the intricate social ballet that occurred as cars and bikes slowed to enter the circle (pedestrians were meant to cross at crosswalks placed a bit before the intersection) Monderman performed a favorite trick. He walked, backward and with his eyes closed, into the Laweiplein. The traffic made its way around him. No one honked, he wasn't struck .Instead of a binary, mechanistic process – stop, go – the movement of traffic and pedestrians in the circle felt human and organic."
The above quote is from the ever-readable Dylan Grice's latest missive in which he argues that regulation acts much like traffic-lights, in that it lulls market participants into a false sense of security. Read more
It's a commonly-held belief that the bailout of Spain's banks won't be sufficient to solve the country's problems. It will increase the government's borrowing, and may not be large enough anyway.
The real solution is
fiscal banking political some kind of union. See if you can spot one of the barriers to moving forward with that: Read more
The full story of why JPMorgan entered into the trades that cost it so much money may never become public. However, thanks to Jamie Dimon's testimony on Wednesday, we can conjecture a little more about the motivations behind the synthetic credit trades entered into by the bank's Chief Investment Office.
The story begins with surplus deposits. JPMorgan was perceived as safe thanks to its size and relatively good record during the 2008 crisis, so it attracted significant deposit inflows. Much of this money was lent out, but not all of it was, giving rise to the problem of what to invest it in. With government bonds paying record low rates, the bank decided, understandably, to invest some of the funds in corporate and asset-backed securities. The CIO bought over $380bn of these bonds, a very substantial position. Read more
April 2012 was a pretty big month in Dodd-Frank Act rulemaking; the SEC and CFTC agreed how to define "swap dealer", "major swap participant", et al. under Title VII of the Act, dealing with over-the-counter derivatives.
Still a way to go though. Read more
In Part 1, we discussed the interest Spanish banks, and the likes of JP Morgan, have shown in securitisations that may lower their regulatory capital burdens by bundling up assets and selling the riskiest pieces of the resulting structures to investors.
Here, we look at another worrisome and expensive exposure on bank balance sheets, and discuss how the treatment of these deals has varied from regulator to regulator — something the Basel Committee has recently started to cast a critical eye on. Read more
Regulations set forth by the Basel Committee that govern the amount of capital that banks have to hold are meant to set a level playing field round the world.
Or at least, we thought harmonisation was the point. Read more
For this, our final post covering FT Alphaville's meeting with Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism, we asked her about the regulations that have arisen from the ashes of the financial crisis. Not wanting to leave the series on a depressing note, we (gently) prodded Ms Smith to also share with us something to be optimistic about.
AV: What do you think some of the biggest pitfalls/missteps have been since the crisis in terms of regulation? Read more
In his latest move to support the development of China's capital markets, Guo Shuqing, the newly installed head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, will oversee the creation of a new body to
control facilitate short-selling. The regulator is also going to be the largest shareholder of the new organisation.
FT Alphaville tips our hat to this rather neat piece of controlled capitalism. The venture will likely be a nice little money spinner for the CSRC, once the fees and transaction costs start rolling in. Read more
Fifty money managers ranging from Warren Buffett to Carl Icahn have used exemptions from the SEC to avoid disclosing large investments in companies this year, affecting 154 quarterly filings, the WSJ reports. While the SEC usually requires that managers owning more than $100m disclose acquired stakes in quarterly filings, this can be waived if the disclosure would cause "substantial harm" to their competitiveness. Other investors argue that the SEC is not doing enough to explain why it gives the exemptions. Warren Buffett's recent disclosure of a $10.7bn stake in IBM has reignited debate over the practice.
Agencies who investigated MF Global before its collapse will give different accounts of when they first became concerned about its trades, when they appear before a Congressional hearing later on Thursday, the FT reports. Terry Duffy, chief executive of CME Group, said that MF Global seemed to be in "full compliance" with segregating its customers' funds until the day before its collapse, only for CME and CFTC auditors to be told on 2am on the day the broker filed for bankruptcy that some funds had been transferred. The CBOE said it was receiving data from the broker in August, while Finra said it had been watching MF Global's trades in euro sovereign debt since May. A"turf war" may meanwhile be opening between Chicago and New York prosecutors on bringing criminal charges over the collapse, Reuters says.
President Barack Obama will lend his weight to the nomination fight for Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in advance of a Senate vote this week, Bloomberg reports. Without a full director, the CFPB's ability to regulate non-banks, including pay-day lenders, is limited. The campaign to induce Senate Republicans to accept Cordray, former attorney-general of Ohio, will also bolster the White House's push to present the president as an economic populist ahead of the 2012 election, Reuters says. Newt Gingrich's rise to the top of the Republican presidential race has benefited from his insistence to voters that he will be the "paycheck president" to Obama the "food-stamp president", notes the Economist.
Teams of global regulators will fan out across the world from next year to ensure that new tougher capital and liquidity standards are enforced correctly, the chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said on Wednesday, the FT reports. "The financial crisis resulted in a bold response by the committee," Stefan Ingves told an audience of North and South American banking supervisors in San Francisco. "However, these efforts will have been in vain if they are not globally implemented on a consistent and timely basis." The US notably has not yet fully implemented the 2004 Basel II agreement. However, the country hope to have a draft for the implementation of Basel III by the end of the year, according to an earlier report by the FT.
Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, BNP Paribas, Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC could face the steepest capital surcharges of 2.5 percentage points, in provisional plans drawn up by global regulators, Bloomberg reported. The list has been fleshed out as part of G20 plans to force banks to boost their reserves above minimum levels previously agreed by international regulators in a bid to further reduce systemic risks. Bank of America, Barclays and Deutsche Bank might face surcharges of 2 percentage points, Bloomberg said, citing a confidential draft of the plan. A simplified version of the plan of global systemically important financial institutions, which did not include surcharge plans for individual banks, was published on Friday 4 after the conclusion of the G20 meeting by the Financial Stability Board, FT Alphaville reported.
Nothing surprising here…
The UK's financial regulator has acknowledged for the first time that new European capital rules for insurers are now likely to come into force in January 2014, a year later than expected, the FT says. However, it stopped short of saying UK insurers would avoid running two sets of capital models and reporting standards in parallel during 2013, when the Financial Services Authority runs its triennial capital adequacy test of the industry. European political authorities are expected to delay the full implementation of Solvency II, the new capital regime for insurers, by 12 months to the start of 2014 to give more time for many countries' regulators and local industries to prepare for the rules.
Britain has withdrawn its objections to a key piece of European Union financial regulation after winning a series of last-minute concessions over the rules for derivatives markets, the FT reports. While failing to achieve his most ambitious goals, George Osborne, the UK chancellor of the exchequer, hailed a clutch of "significant steps forward" in talks where he was at one point "outnumbered 26 to one". However, he dropped Britain's most controversial demand – to extend the scope of the regulation package to exchange-traded derivatives. The concession enables EU member states to agree to begin talks with the European parliament on new rules for over-the-counter derivatives.
The committee behind Basel III is set to press on with introducing extra capital requirements for the world's 28 biggest banks, countering heavy lobbying in recent months, the WSJ says. Regulators will meet this week to consider comments on the capital surcharge, which would require banks to hold between 1 and 2.5 per cent more capital against risk-weighted assets in addition to a 7 per cent global minimum. US officials have swung behind the surcharge as it becomes clear that the rule will both remain largely the same and become finalised later this year, despite criticism of the capital regime by JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon.
Scheduled for Tuesday actually:
Two pertinent ones, via London Banker:
Liquidity means you can generate cash from a physical asset or paper claim. Read more
Federal officials are probing Oracle's software sales to governments in Africa for possible violations of bribery laws, the WSJ says. The Justice Department has led a criminal investigation for at least a year while the SEC is conducting a civil inquiry. The probes focus on whether Oracle or its agents made improper payments to officials in order to secure sales. Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has markedly stepped up in recent years, with $2bn of fines collected in 2009 and 2010 versus $11m in 2004.
Google has reached a $500m settlement with US prosecutors over advertising for Canadian pharmacies selling drugs into the United States, Reuters reports. The forfeiture represents Google AdWords revenue from the pharmacies, and pharmacies' sales of drugs in US markets. Google was aware as long ago as 2003 that it was illegal in most cases for pharmacies based in Canada to ship prescription drugs into the US, according to an agreement between prosecutors and the company that was made public on Wednesday. Google had set aside $500m in unspecified legal charges in May.
The SEC's internal watchdog has opened an inquiry into whether the agency knew about the destruction of documents related to probes of financial firms, despite telling the government otherwise, reports the WSJ. The agency's Inspector General has already been looking at the disposal of so-called "matters under inquiry" documents, which were part of preliminary investigations into securities law violations which never became full cases. The move follows a whistle-blower's claims in a Rolling Stone story that thousands of documents were improperly destroyed. Senator Chuck Grassley asked the SEC to explain its record-keeping policies earlier this month.
Yesterday the Merkozy plan for a Financial Transaction Tax caused some hefty damage for London-listed exchanges and brokers.
Not a surprise really. The analysts at Adam Smith Institute were hopping mad on Thursday: Read more
Why, it's an investigation.
RTRS-DANISH FSA SAYS TO REPORT NORDEA BANK DENMARK TO POLICE IN CONNECTION WITH INVESTMENT ANALYSIS ON PANDORA Read more
Regulators investigating alleged manipulation of the London interbank offered rate have turned their focus to yen rates set in London and the Tokyo interbank offered rate, the FT reports. UBS has confirmed the investigation's widened scope by disclosing in its results that it had received "conditional leniency and conditional immunity" from the Department of Justice for turning over information on the setting of the two rates. Regulators are probing whether traders used derivatives to place bets on future yen and dollar rates and then colluded with bank treasury departments to move the rates in their direction, people familiar with the matter said.


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Speaking of editing, what in god's name was up with the framing structure? Stanton was doggedly opposed, from the beginning, to simplifying or streamlining the source material, up to the point of paying homage to Rice Burroughs' appearances in his own novels, but what do these scenes actually lend to the finished movie? The integrity of the structure is undermined by starting things off on Barsoom anyway, but soon we're treated to scenes of a miscast Spy Kid reading things. In his TED talk, Stanton points to this scene "as making a promise to you that this story will lead somewhere that's worth your time." In other words, it's there to pay off the ending, where Carter turns out to have faked his death, in order to throw off the Therns, and to return to Mars. But all this stuff is only loosely connected to the events on Barsoom, and that ending is hugely frustrating anyway: Carter's returned to Earth, goes through a half-assed fake-out, and then goes back to Mars. Either leave him victorious on Barsoom with Dejah, or have him tragically plucked from triumph and separated from his lady-love, stranded far from her (as "Thor" did with some success, and by Odin's raven, we never thought we'd be holding that movie up as a paridigm of successful storytelling). Don't try and do both in the last ten minutes of the film.
But then, much of that ending is setting up for a sequel, something that's plagued Hollywood tentpoles of late -- think of "Robin Hood" or "Iron Man 2," films that seem to exist only in order to set up future installments. And "John Carter" suffers from the same problem, particularly when it comes to its villain. For all the many antagonists thrown at him in the first 90 minutes, John Carter finds out in the last third of the movie, it's actually Matai Shang (played by Mark Strong) who's the villain. Pulling the strings behind Sab Than's quest for power, he spends most of the movie keeping an eye on John Carter before they finally meet head to head late in the game, although he doesn't simply kill Carter, because he's a cliched movie bad guy. So with this stakes-raising element now in play, what do the screenwriters do? They let Matai Shang escape, and even worse, he pops up in the film's coda to ensure that a setup to a sequel is in place. In the context of a movie, it's a suckerpunch to the audience. Allowing Matai Shang to survive for the sequel that will probably never get made allows for two things: 1) it essentially reduces "John Carter" to the status of a prologue, rendering much of what happens in the movie as meaningless 2) it fundamentally changes what "John Carter" is actually about. Is this about a Civil War hero turned Martian hero? Nope. It's essentially "Wedding Crashers: Mars Edition" turning John Carter not into someone who changed the course of Barsoom's history forever by removing the man behind the curtain, but as a guy who momentarily brings peace by stopping a wedding and breaking a goblet full of water. Enthralling.
Just as defences of the "Star Wars" prequels of "It's a kid movie!" were nullified by plot elements involving senatorial elections and trade embargoes, "John Carter" can't really be excused by its Disney label and tween-targeting. That first twenty minutes or so are aggressively humorless, with little of the playfulness of Stanton's earlier work (the escape jump-cuts as Bryan Cranston interrogates Carter are a nice idea, but only half-work in execution). From then on, we get some humor aimed at the kids (Woola for instance), but the palace politics of the Barsoomians is dry and dull. The broad adventuring is the stuff of pulp fiction, but the violence is surprisingly brutal -- from that grim action sequence against the Tharks, intersposed with flashbacks of the murder of Carter's family, to decapitations and Carter cutting his way through the body of a white ape, emerging covered in blue blood. We're not saying that it's inappropriate (if you think kids don't like seeing gore, you don't know kids), or that genre-hopping can't work. But Stanton needed to pick a side.


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A Beverly man was arrested last night for allegedly "looking for love in all the wrong places" by propositioning an undercover MBTA Transit Police officer for sex at a T station.
According to Transit Police, 33-year-old Handell Liburd took a seat on a bench next to a woman at Chinatown T Station around 6 p.m. last night. He began chatting her up, and the topic of making money came up. He "bluntly" asked the woman whether she was interested in earning $40 by performing a "sexual act" on him, according to Transit Police.
Transit Police officers descended on Liburd, and arrested him for solicitation of sexual conduct for a fee. He's expected in court sometime today.


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Little bits and bobs of freelance work I was getting over the last few
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The image I am
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Brazilian act [maua] has released a video clip of the band performing the song "The Awake in the Beginning of the End," which was recorded on January 14th, 2012. Check out the clip in the player below. To hear more music from the band, head over to the [maua] Facebook profile here.


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Isn't funny how all celebrities seem to say that whenever they get involved with a charity or a fundraiser it's never to support their own cause or career? Scarlett Johansson claims that her work with the global AIDS campaign Red, that she is not doing it for self promotion or to help ticket sales for her movie "The Black Dahlia." The Red campaign is a charity organized to help raise money for women and children in Africa.
While Scarlett is doing well for her cause, she believes that some celebrities are guilty of supporting a cause for the wrong reasons and without proper research. The young starlet goes on to say that many celebrities jump on the bandwagon just because something is trendy at the time. I am pretty sure we have all jumped on the bandwagon a time or two Scarlett. I wouldn't really worry about it though you seem to grab enough attention by flaunting your huge boobs around!
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Currently, the Nasdaq has been relatively flat, the S&P 500 has climbed 0.1% and the Dow has increased 0.2%.
The biggest movers in the Consumer/Non-Cyclical sector (XLP) (+0.1%) are:
|Market Cap
|Percentage Change
|Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO)
|$3.06 billion
|Inter Parfums (Nasdaq:IPAR)
|$545 million
|Herbalife (NYSE:HLF)
|$5.1 billion
|Deluxe (NYSE:DLX)
|$1.53 billion
|Nu Skin Enterprises (NYSE:NUS)
|$2.54 billion
|Sanderson Farms (Nasdaq:SAFM)
|$1.11 billion
|Andersons (Nasdaq:ANDE)
|$773.6 million
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Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) is up 4.9% to reach a current price of $23.19 per share. So far today, the company's volume is 1.1 million shares, 0.8 times the average volume over the last three months.
Inter Parfums (Nasdaq:IPAR) has risen 3.5% and is currently trading at $18.45 per share. So far today, the company's volume is 16,963 shares.
Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) has risen 3% to hit a current price of $48.69 per share. So far today, the company's volume is 540,431 shares, 0.4 times the average daily volume.
Falling 2.9%, Deluxe (NYSE:DLX) is currently at a share price of $29.11. The company's volume for the day so far is 117,565 shares. At this rate, trading activity will likely be down from yesterday when 575,589 shares changed hands.
Nu Skin Enterprises (NYSE:NUS) is currently trading at $44.08 per share, a 1.9% increase. The company's volume for the day so far is 203,465 shares, 0.3 times its average over the past three months.
Sanderson Farms (Nasdaq:SAFM) is currently trading at a share price of $47.63, a 1.8% decline. The company is currently trading a volume of 26,672 shares.
Andersons (Nasdaq:ANDE) has moved up 1.6% and is currently trading at $42.24 per share. So far today, the company's volume is 35,135 shares, 0.3 times the average daily volume.
The Bottom Line No matter the economic climate, Wall Street will always have stocks that make major moves each week. Paying close attention to the previous ratios will help you identify key times to adjust your strategy. Tools like valuation ratios and profit margins, however, are only as useful as the context you put them in; remember to take historical data and competitor performance into account.


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Water workout
BY Damien Kelly
Summer is almost here and things are heating up, so we've got the perfect workout for cooling off while getting fit.
If hot days make you droop at the thought of hitting the gym, here's the perfect solution: a fun and exciting workout in the water.
The resistance provided by the water means you'll get an effective workout, and aqua exercise is low impact, so this routine is great if you're coming back from an injury or have regular joint pain.
1. Planks
Why? A plank, no matter where you do it, is a primary core move. You have to hold your body horizontal trying to fight the downward drop. The main postural focus is hip position and a strong lower back.
How? You'll need a pool noodle for this one (or, for an easier version, hold onto the side of the pool). The basic idea is to hold your body horizontal and straight for as long as you can. To ensure your hips and lower back stay in position, you need to engage your core. Make sure you breathe throughout.
Reps: 3-5. Hold for as long as you can each time.
2. Cranes
Why? This move works your abs, hamstrings and glutes.
How? Stand on one leg, holding a pool noodle on the surface with your arms outstretched. Push the noodle under water and lower your torso. At the same time, lift one leg back and up, so it and your torso are horizontal. Pause, then return to the starting position. Do all reps on one leg, then switch.
Sets and reps: 3 sets of 10-15 each side.
3. Hip extensions
Why? These work your glutes and hamstrings.
How? Hold onto the pool edge or ladder, elbows bent. Place a pool noodle under your bellybutton to help you keep your hips close to the water's surface. Start with your hips slightly below the surface of the water and legs straight and vertical. Keeping the rest of your body still, pull through your glutes and hamstrings and lift your legs back until they are close to the surface. Lower, using your hip flexors, back to vertical.
Sets and reps: 3 sets of 8-15.
4. Knee drives
Why? Do this after one set of each of the other moves for some cardio, or between the other exercises to give your workout more cardio focus.
How? Wrap the noodle around your back. Start at one end of the pool and run until the water is too deep. Pull your knees up and drive your feet off the ground. You can try to bound off the ground as high as you can or focus on faster feet.
Sets and reps: 10-20 high bounds or 20-50 steps of the fast feet (about 30 seconds' worth).
5. Knee raises
Why? If done correctly, this is a great six-pack exercise. You need to engage your abs so they do most of the work. They should burn midway through the reps if you're getting it right.
How? Curve the noodle around you so it supports you as you hang vertically. Once you're balanced, draw your knees up towards your chest. To get the best abs engagement you'll need to rotate your hips forward at the top to get a little extra squeeze. Slowly lower back to vertical (this should take 3-4 seconds) and then repeat.
Sets and reps: 3-5 sets of as many reps as you can do.
Water resistance
Water offers four times the resistance of air. So, while some of these moves would present little challenge on land, they do in the water. Water can also add some instability, meaning your core gets a different, and arguably better, workout.
For more of Damien Kelly's water workouts, see Five ways to work out at the beach.
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