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It was just like old times Wednesday.
Impresario Rafael Nadal cruised in his 2009 clay-court opener at the Monte Carlo Masters and Roger Federer wasn't much worse.
The two are still favored to meet in the French Open final for a fourth straight year. There's little predictability, meanwhile, among the women.
Here are five burning questions leading into the heart of the clay-court season.
How do you stop Rafa?
The only thing that can stop Nadal on clay is an inspired opponent who is given divine help or injury, or a combination of the two. Otherwise a fifth straight title at Roland Garros is inevitable.
Who, however, really thinks he can top Nadal on dirt? When was the last time we saw him vulnerable?
Seldom would "nervous" and "frightened" be used to describe the bullish Nadal's state of mind during a clay-court tussle -- or any bout, for that matter -- but the Spaniard admittedly got a little anxious at the French Open three years ago when a piece of banana became wedged in his throat.
Nadal was so panicked he breached tennis etiquette by stopping midgame versus French favorite Paul-Henri Mathieu in the midst of a five-hour thriller, drawing jeers from the moody Parisian crowd.
"I was now paying more attention to my throat than to tennis," Nadal said at the time.
David Nalbandian? Maybe. Tellingly, Nadal revealed he had no idea how to play the crusty Argentinean at Indian Wells last month, and only by bypassing five match points did he survive. Nalbandian hasn't surpassed the fourth round of a major since the French Open in 2006 (yes, it's been that long), so getting a shot against Nadal seems unlikely.
Clay certainly isn't Andy Murray's most productive surface, though the Scot rarely suffers from an inferiority complex. In his corner once more for the clay-court season is Nadal's buddy, two-time French Open finalist Alex Corretja.
"The guy who's shown an incredible amount of belief is Murray," said veteran coach David Felgate, who has worked with the likes of Tim Henman, Xavier Malisse and Nicole Vaidisova. "I wouldn't be surprised if deep down he thinks he's got a shot, a way or a plan, because he's a great thinker and strategist."
Does more misery await Mr. Newlywed?
The short answer is yes. In his first clay event of the year, Federer uninspiringly succumbed to Swiss compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka in Monte Carlo. So much for the welcomed dirt season after a long, gloomy run on the hard courts.
This was after Federer swallowed his pride and asked for a wild card into this week's Monte Carlo Masters, surely prompting organizers to pop a bottle of champagne or two. As it turned out, last week's stop in Casablanca might have been a better option: If he and Mirka had pushed up their wedding, an exotic working honeymoon in North Africa would have followed. Imagine dining on those tagines snuggled up to the Atlantic.
Though Federer has slipped to third in the depth charts behind Nadal and Murray on the hard stuff, he's still the second-best clay-courter (right?). And since no one truly expects him to triumph at Roland Garros, the pressure eases. The increasingly emotional Federer gets to recover a tad and probably notch more victories (i.e., get to the finals) heading into Wimbledon, where he's itching to return to the top.
But it remains to be seen if Monte Carlo is a harbinger of things to come, or of the Mighty Fed just wasn't prepared to meet the clay demands.
Not so uplifting are Federer's recent final-set meltdowns against Nadal, Murray and Novak Djokovic, which have been more damaging than 2008's headline-grabbing defeats to Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish in Miami and Indian Wells, respectively.
"I don't think the guys walk on court now thinking they have no chance against him," said former French Open quarterfinalist Jimmy Arias, now a commentator for ESPN International. "That's something he'll have to overcome. Once you get that aura, it wins you some matches on its own, so if he did have a bad day, guys would maybe get tight when they had a chance. He could seemingly get that back if he could turn it around, but at this point it's vulnerable. He makes mistakes at big moments."
Can Serena conquer Paris?
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, or something like that.
The fans at Roland Garros have never particularly warmed to Serena Williams (and countless other big names, as Maria Sharapova can attest to).
Undaunted, Williams recently bought an apartment in lovely Paree and even conversed in francais while participating at Paris' Open GDF SUEZ in February.
Is she gearing up for the winner's speech this June on Court Philippe Chatrier?
The French Open is the lone major Williams hasn't won more than once. Her solitary title came in 2002, the birth of the Serena Slam.
Making Williams hit that extra ball on clay often leads to errors, which was witnessed in an ugly third-round loss to pesky Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik last May. The day got even uglier for the Williams clan when Venus Williams fell to Italian Flavia Pennetta.
Williams dropped her 2009 clay-court opener to a journeywoman in Marbella, Spain, last week.
"Don't read anything into that loss," Felgate said. "Generalization, in the women's game, I think it's less about the run-up to Paris, especially for the Williams sisters. Does Serena come fit and ready to play for Paris? That's important."
The recent slides of Elena Dementieva and new No. 1 Dinara Safina, albeit on hard courts, won't hurt. And Ana Ivanovic still can't find any consistency since claiming an inaugural Grand Slam title at the French Open in 2008.
Jelena Jankovic, though, is due for a revival, and clay is her best surface. Winning in Marbella was a nice start.
Will the dirt be kind to U.S. men?
Who knows, following an interesting week in Houston.
James Blake's downward spell continued: The top seed, he was a first-round loser to wily Argentine Guillermo Canas. Not to be outdone, good pal and second seed Mardy Fish exited to Bjorn Phau. "I've played against plenty of guys, and he gets to balls that nobody else can get to," Fish said of the pint-sized German -- who has never exceeded 59th in the rankings.
Thankfully for organizers, a former No. 1, Lleyton Hewitt, reached the final and faced an American, Wayne Odesnik. Odesnik, born in South Africa, actually likes clay and has spent time training in Spain. His efforts in Texas boosted his ranking to 77th, a career best. John Isner's resurgence persisted with a quarterfinal placing.
Roddick, who is tying the knot with swimsuit-model fiancée Brooklyn Decker this weekend, is shunning the infancy of the European clay-court campaign. He remains the United States' biggest threat on the dirt, though. (Yes, Robby Ginepri, recovering from appendix surgery, got to Round 4 at the French Open in his most recent visit.)
"There are more floater clay-court guys, so obviously Andy's more vulnerable. But with a somewhat favorable draw and a bit of confidence this year that he seems to have, there's no reason why he can't make it to the second week," Arias said.
An injured Roddick skipped the French in 2008 and hasn't reached the third round since his maiden appearance in 2001. Then there's Sam Querrey, ruled out of Houston due to an ailing hamstring. Querrey memorably advanced to the quarters in Monte Carlo last year and gave Nadal a run for his money, on clay, in September's Davis Cup semifinals.
Who are some of the floaters?
Clay produces dangerous dark-horse specialists like no other surface. Carla Suarez Navarro's stock keeps rising. The delightful 20-year-old Spaniard with the similarly delightful one-handed backhand -- Venus Williams saw plenty of it in Melbourne -- stretched Jankovic to three sets in the Marbella final, less than a year after sprinting to the French Open quarterfinals as a qualifier.
Hard to believe, but Suarez Navarro's compatriot, former world No. 1 and 2003 French Open champ Juan Carlos Ferrero, won his first title in six years on Sunday in Casablanca. Ferrero, still under 30, entered the event ranked outside the top 100 due to an array of injuries.
The list is sure to grow as the season blooms.
Ravi Ubha is a frequent contributor to ESPN.com.


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Hi, Have some few questions that are probably stupid questions.
Am trying to set the rotaxis to All zero so that my BasicCubeSecond Doesnt get a rotation at all. But everytime I try to do it I get some wierd error in the XNA source file, complaining about
> FusionEmpty.exe!XMAssert(const char * pExpression, const char * pFileName, unsigned int LineNumber) Line 1865 C++
And something about the program reaching a breakpoint (__debugbreak()) which I have no idea why.
Is my way to do it wrong?
[source lang="cpp"]void UpdateScene(){rot += .0005f;if(rot > 6.28){ rot = 0.0f;}//Reset Cube rotationBasicCube = XMMatrixIdentity();XMVECTOR rotaxis = XMVectorSet(0.0f,1.0f,0.0f,0.0f);WorldRotation = XMMatrixRotationAxis(rotaxis,rot);WorldTranslation = XMMatrixTranslation(0.0f,0.0f,4.0f);//Set cube1's world space using the transformationsBasicCube = WorldTranslation * WorldRotation;//Reset Cube 2BasicCubeSecond = XMMatrixIdentity();rotaxis = XMVectorSet(0.0f,0,0.0f,0.0f); //<------------------ Trying to set the rotation to 0WorldRotation = XMMatrixRotationAxis(rotaxis, rot);WorldScale = XMMatrixScaling(1.3f,1.3f,1.3f);//Set Cube 2BasicCubeSecond = WorldRotation * WorldScale;}[/source]
XMVECTOR and XMVectorSet
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Are you sure it is XMVectorSet line, not the XMMatrixRotationAxis one? Because if you look at the source of XMMatrixRotationAxis you'll see following code:
Basically it will assert if rotaxis equals to zero vector.
XMINLINE XMMATRIX XMMatrixRotationAxis ( FXMVECTOR Axis, FLOAT Angle ) { #if defined(_XM_NO_INTRINSICS_) XMVECTOR Normal; XMMATRIX M; XMASSERT(!XMVector3Equal(Axis, XMVectorZero())); XMASSERT(!XMVector3IsInfinite(Axis)); Normal = XMVector3Normalize(Axis); M = XMMatrixRotationNormal(Normal, Angle); return M; #elif defined(_XM_SSE_INTRINSICS_) XMASSERT(!XMVector3Equal(Axis, XMVectorZero())); XMASSERT(!XMVector3IsInfinite(Axis)); XMVECTOR Normal = XMVector3Normalize(Axis); XMMATRIX M = XMMatrixRotationNormal(Normal, Angle); return M; #else // _XM_VMX128_INTRINSICS_ #endif // _XM_VMX128_INTRINSICS_ }
Basically it will assert if rotaxis equals to zero vector.
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Yeha thanks, seems like it was stupid of me setting rotaxis to all zero >.< thank you


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LinkedIn Plans Acquisitions to Expand in Mobile, Attract Users
LinkedIn Corp. will use acquisitions to make its professional networking tools more accessible on mobile phones and add features that make the site more relevant to members, Chief Executive Officer Jeff Weiner said.
Weiner wants to make LinkedIn, which helps users hunt for jobs and recruit new employees, a site where white-collar workers can also carry out such tasks as researching companies and prospecting for deals. The company, which boasts more than 70 million members, has yet to make its first acquisition.
"We want you to be great at the job you're already in," Weiner said in an interview.
LinkedIn also plans to boost its staff by half to 900 by year's end, in part to help it cope with rapid growth in India, Brazil and China, Weiner said.
Weiner, 40, joined LinkedIn in December 2008 and became CEO in June 2009. The former executive vice president at Yahoo! Inc. aims to stave off competition from Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. as the place on the Web where professionals communicate with one another -- and where advertisers reach them.
LinkedIn is fielding inquiries from bankers interested in the company, Weiner said, without identifying any of the securities firms or saying if an initial public offering may be coming.
"Many people are interested in what we will be doing," he said. "The better we execute, the more options we have."
For the past two years, Weiner said, LinkedIn has generated positive operating cash flow, which typically means a company has high enough sales to cover operating expenses and capital spending needs. This year will be its most successful year since the company's founding in 2003, he said.
Money in Bank
In 2008, Mountain View, California-based LinkedIn raised $76 million in funding from investors, including Bain Capital Ventures. The sum remains in the bank, Weiner said. "We haven't touched it," he said. "We don't need the capital."
LinkedIn will use deals to help it make information about members' work histories and skills more accessible on mobile devices, and to let other companies more readily add their own tools to make LinkedIn more useful, Weiner said.
He plans to start with smaller acquisitions. That way the company can ensure it's able to blend the talent and technology of potential targets with LinkedIn's, Weiner said.
Twitter Connection
He's also pushing the company to be more relevant. A November 2009 deal lets Twitter users broadcast their short blog posts to LinkedIn and send LinkedIn status updates to Twitter followers, giving the messages more context, Weiner said. "When you tweet on Twitter, it's up in the ether and then it's gone," he said.
LinkedIn is improving the website's ability to recommend other professionals users may know, and to let people search for others who meet specific criteria, he said.
LinkedIn's audience makes the site attractive to advertisers, yet it's not as popular as Twitter and Facebook.
The average LinkedIn user has a yearly household income of more than $107,000, according to the company, citing Nielsen Co. data. Still, LinkedIn had 45.1 million unique visitors in May, compared with 548.1 million for Facebook and 90.2 million for Twitter, according to market researcher ComScore Inc.
"There's going to be overlap," Weiner said. "We're going to continue to focus on professionals exclusively."
LinkedIn is hiring to bolster sales, product development and overseas operations, Weiner said. The company is growing quickly in Brazil, India, China, Italy and Spain, and it's opened offices in cities such as Mumbai and Sydney. LinkedIn is planning to put an office in Toronto as well.
"We are going to see significant growth overseas," Weiner said. "We hope to see more revenue and profit coming from those markets."


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Greek Stuffed Zucchini (Halal)(Kolokithakia Yemista)(Gluten Free
Total Time
Prep 30 mins
Cook 1 hr
A good five stars with the sauce. This is DH's favorite meal and mine too right now. Modified from The Complete Middle East Cookbook by Tess Mallos (She is Greek). This is well worth the effort. Serve this dish with mashed potatoes or it tastes excellent served with Hashweh ("rice Stuffing") Middle East, Palestine used as a bed of rice for laying the zucchini on. Along with a fresh salad this will be a wonderful meal.
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- 24 medium sized green zucchini
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 lbs ground beef lamb
- 1⁄3 cup white basmati rice
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 4 tablespoons chopped parsley
- 1 teaspoon chopped of fresh mint (don't omit, you may use dry mint if fresh is not available)
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon bahrat mixed spice (Baharat Aka Middle East Mixed Spices - the Real Mix)
- fresh ground black pepper
- salt
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons rice flour (to be gluten free)
- 2 eggs, separated (does not work with egg replacer)
- 1 lemon, juice of
- Wash zucchini and cut off stems and reserve them.
- Scoop out centers of zucchini with a small spoon or zucchini corer. (I use the opposite end of a spoon which may work better depending on the shape of your cutlery).
- Make corks from the reserved ends by trimming each.
- Rinse and set zucchini aside.
- Gently fry the onion in 1 tbs olive oil until soft.
- Mix onion into the meat with the rice, tomato paste, 2 tbs parsley, mint and cinnamon, bahrat, seasoning to taste with salt and pepper.
- Fill each zucchini with the meat mixture and cork closed.
- Place in layers in a pot, add chicken stock, the other 1 tbs olive oil and salt to taste.
- Invert a heavy plate on top of zucchini and cover tightly.
- Simmer gently for 1 1/2 hours.
- When cooked drain off stock carefully into a small pan.
- Reduce to 1 1/2 cups over heat and thicken with flour mixed to a paste with a little cold water.
- Let it boil for 1 minute.
- Beat egg whites in a bowl until stiff, add yolks and beat throughly, gradually beat in lemon juice, then boiling stock.
- Return sauce to the small pan and place over low heat stirring constantly until egg is cooked *** DO NOT BOIL ***.
- Arrange zucchini on warm serving dishes and spoon some sauce over them.
- Garnish with chopped remaining parsley and serve the rest of sauce in a jug.
- Serve this with mashed potatoes or Recipe #322603 used as a bed of rice and a fresh salad.
- Totally enjoy!
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Selicious!!! I made this for a friend whose daughter is gluten free and she loved it
This was SOOO good! I had larger zucchini, so rather than try to hollow them out and cork them back up, I cut them in half the long way, scooped out some of the seeds and pulp. I added the scooped out pulp to the meat/rice mixture. The sauce is amazing! I used about a Tablespoon of bottled lemon juice b/c I didn't have a real lemon. My DH raved about how wonderful they were!


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Have you looked in /usr/share/xfce4/xkb/flags/? I guess changing these files could do the trick.
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Here you can read an essay that Susan Sontag wrote before her death in 2004. The essay essentially argues that the novel is still the leading medium for human expression.
Long ago - it was the 18th century - a great and eccentric defender of literature and the English language - it was Doctor Johnson - wrote, in the preface to his Dictionary: "The chief glory of every people arises from its authors." An unconventional proposition, I suspect, even then. And far more unconventional now, though I think it's still true. Even at the beginning of the 21st century. Of course, I am speaking of the glory that is permanent, not transitory.
Later, Susan Sontag adds that the novel is "an ideal vehicle both of space and of time. The novel shows us time: that is, everything doesn't happen at once. (It is a sequence, it is a line.) It shows us space: that is, what happens doesn't happen to one person only."
How do we read this error, this clear mistake? At the moment death is at her door, Sontag, a novelist, is trying to find something that is "permanent, not transitory." And because she is a novelist, that permanent thing happens to be the novel. But that is not the point. The point is this: The novel was once the leading medium for human expression. It does not lead the 21st century. Nor did it lead the 20th century. The novel had its moment in the 19th century, as "the ideal vehicle" for expressing middle class space and time. Cinema is really the leading narrative art form, and even it is dying. It will be surpassed by another narrative vehicle, in the way it surpassed the novel, and the novel surpassed theater.


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Duke University's Talent Identification Program is sponsoring a series of recognition ceremonies for seventh-grade students who have taken the SAT or ACT and scored in the top five percent of all who took it. This includes students who scored at least 510 for the math or verbal of the SAT, and at least a 20 for the math or verbal on the ACT.
The TIP program identifies seventh-graders in 16 states in the Southeast, Midwest and Southwest who are intellectually gifted, as shown by their scores on standardized tests. Duke TIP program is a nonprofit, educational organization designed to identify and develop academic talent. Since 1980 over one million students from around the world have taken part in the TIP program.
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|June 26, 2012
|At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. King (NY) objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was withdrawn.
|June 26, 2012
|Mr. King (NY) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
|June 26, 2012
|Considered under suspension of the rules.
|June 26, 2012
|DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4005.
|May 30, 2012
|Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 352.
|May 30, 2012
|Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 112-499.
|May 8, 2012
|Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security Discharged.
|May 8, 2012
|Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
|May 8, 2012
|Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
|Feb. 16, 2012
|Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
|Feb. 8, 2012
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WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND—"These girls, when they play me, it's like they're on the ATP tour."
That was the theme of Serena Williams' press conference after her wild and surprising three-set loss to Alizé Cornet here on Saturday.
"I think everyone in general plays the match of their lives against me," Serena went on. "So I'm pretty sure that the next match, it won't be the same. So I just have to always, every time I step on the court, be a hundred times better. If I'm not, then I'm in trouble."
Serena said she felt like she didn't play badly. She thought she was better, certainly, than she had been at the French Open. She didn't know what happened exactly today.
"I thought I was doing pretty decent," she said. "I think I'm going to have to watch this film and see what I can do better and what went wrong."
Serena was definitely pretty decent in the first set, which she won 6-1. But as in other matches recently, her serve wasn't up to its usual standard of intimidating excellence—it wasn't THAT serve, the one she once praised as "mean." Serena hit just three aces against Cornet, was broken five times, and couldn't rely on it to bail her out down the stretch.
Cornet, as Serena said, played well. "Way better from the beginning of the second set," the Frenchwoman said. But she denied that this was the match of her life.
"On the contrary," Cornet said, "I cannot say that I played my best tennis today really. In Dubai I did. It was a perfect match."
Cornet beat Serena in Dubai, and she believes she has always matched up well with her. This would help explain how Cornet could lose to Taylor Townsend, who is ranked 146 places below Serena, at the French Open last month.
"I played against her a lot of times before," Cornet said of Williams, "and it was always pretty tight matches. I think maybe she doesn't like so much the way I'm playing. I'm pretty creative on the court, doing some different things."
Cornet said she decided to "be herself" in this match, which meant mixing in drop shots and letting her creativity flow. Some commentators have suggested in the past that the drop shot could be a good play against the Serena, who will be 33 in September. That was the case today: Cornet yanked Serena up and back, and finished with the same number of winners as her, something you wouldn't expect on grass.
The match reminded me in many ways of the French Open men's final, with Serena in the role of Novak Djokovic. Both won the first set, but when they faced adversity in the next two sets, neither reacted well. Serena and Novak both showed a lot of negative body language, and both waited to gather themselves until the match was virtually over. Down 2-5 in the third, Serena calmed down, quieted down, and started smacking winners with no fuss. But as with Djokovic in Paris, it was too late; her nerves were still there when she tried to break Cornet at 4-5, and she opened the game with two easy errors that helped Cornet relax.
"She's human, too," Cornet said, "and I tried to think of that."
Serena has now lost in the first week at all three majors this year. In one sense, she's right, the three women who beat her—Ana Ivanovic, Garbine Muguruza, and Cornet—played well to do it. But this is a vicious cycle that every aging champion faces: The more the other players see you lose, the more confident they're going to be that they can beat you, too. On court today, Serena seemed to have a hard time handling that fact. She says she needs to play 100 times better to win; I'd say, like Djokovic, she needs to stay calmer and more positive when she starts to lose. There's going to be more adversity where this came from.
Cornet said she knew she could close out this match, because she had already done it once before this year. Serena's problem isn't that her opponents are playing out of their heads. It's that more of them now have the confidence to play their normal, unintimidated games against her, the games they use to beat other players. As Cornet said today, she just tried to be herself out there, to "keep it simple."
And she was herself, both with her game and her personality. Cornet is one of the game's most emotional and expressive players; not surprisingly, she finished the upset of the tournament with the reaction of the tournament. When Serena's last backhand found the net, Cornet jumped, shrieked, danced, pounded her fist on her heart, and kissed the grass. And when she talked to the BBC after she came off court, she sounded a little like Sally Fields accepting an Oscar:
"I can't believe I did it—ME. Wow!"
"It's been an easygoing couple of weeks at Wimbledon so far," Roger Federer said after cruising past Santiago Giraldo, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3, under the Centre Court roof on Saturday. What has there been to worry about? Today Federer hit twice as many winners as errors, faced just two break points, and was an impressive 15 of 23 at the net. In three matches, Federer has yet to have his serve broken or be pushed to a tiebreaker.
By the middle of the third set, Giraldo had given up all hope and was in exhibition mode, trying a hot-dog drop shot-lob combination and losing the final game in about a minute. That was roughly the way the Colombian, who may have had his country's soccer team on his mind today, started the match. Federer, as is his early-round tradition, broke Giraldo in his opening service game and never looked back. There were a lot of quality shots from Federer, but not a lot of competition for him.
This all fit into another, more recent tradition of Federer's. Over the last few years, he has often looked masterly through the first three or four rounds of a Grand Slam, only to fall to earth when the competition gets stiffer later. At the last three Australian Opens, he has had his fans talking like it's 2006 all over again during the first week; all three times, he ended up losing in the semifinals, either to Rafael Nadal or Andy Murray. At the French Open this year, Federer dropped one set in the first three rounds, before losing to Ernests Gulbis in the fourth.
Even at last year's U.S. Open, which is mainly remembered for his disastrous, "shell-shocked" loss to Tommy Robredo in the fourth round, Federer opened with three frictionless straight-set wins. Just like this week, he wasn't pushed to a tiebreaker in any of the nine sets he played in those matches. The same happened at the Open in 2012, before his quarterfinal loss to Tomas Berdych. In the one major he has won in the last four years, Wimbledon in 2012, Federer was two points from defeat to Julien Benneteau in the third round.
Is Federer hurt by how easily he makes his way through the early rounds? Is it counter-productive that in these matches he can still meet players who are in awe of him? Of course, he doesn't want a test that turns into a defeat. And it's not as if Federer is going to forget what a tough match feels like. But I think a player does want to be forced to compete, to lose his serve, to be shown what he needs to improve as the tournament goes on. So far Federer hasn't.
On Tuesday, he'll play Tommy Robredo again. Federer obviously looks ready, and I wouldn't expect him to have the same problems on grass against the Spaniard that he had at Flushing Meadows last year. But I probably thought the same thing at the Open last year. After his three early wins there, Federer might have, too.
They say your playing style mirrors your personality. If so, I'd say Genie Bouchard's personality, or at least the personality that she puts out to the public, is best represented by her return of serve. It's a shot of vaulting ambition. She launches herself into it and leans as far forward as she can to make contact. This is a young woman who doesn't let things come to her.
We've heard that Bouchard wants it all now; she doesn't want to wait for her Grand Slam titles. On most levels, that's great. It's an attitude that has already established her as a regular in the second week at Grand Slams. Today Bouchard straight-setted Andrea Petkovic, a woman who has been in the Top 15 and who had beaten her in their previous matches, as if it were a routine, run-of-the-mill win. In keeping with her seemingly charmed life, Bouchard then watched as the woman whom she thought would be her next opponent, Serena Williams, was knocked out of the tournament. Who knows, maybe her quarterfinal obstacle, Maria Sharapova, will be moved out of the way for her as well.
But what happens if the Grand Slam titles don't come now, or soon? Bouchard is a solid ball-striker and a composed player—she doesn't usually beat herself. But she also wants to play one way: Full speed, with the flattest, hardest shots possible. When Petkovic blasted today, Bouchard blasted back; there was no second gear or finesse in evidence.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing; women win Grand Slams by hitting winners. But it also would seem to leave Bouchard open to tactical adjustments by her opponents. I can see the other women, once they know her game, adding a slice here, a moonball there, mixing placements and trajectories. And she's been known to overhit herself out of matches in the past.
But there's no denying her meteoric, and seemingly unproblematic, rise thus far. Bouchard has officially launched herself; we'll see where she lands.
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The Cheerful Hearts Foundation team has been working tirelessly to rescue more child laborers from the Gomoa Nyanyano community and Gomoa Fete. Within the last 2 months, the team has rescued additional fifteen (15) children from child labor from the above named fishing communities making a total of thirty (30) rescued children on this project. Out of the additional fifteen children rescued, six (6) were from Gomoa Nyanyano community whilst the remaining nine (9) children were rescued from the new community called Gomoa Fete in the Awutu Senya District of Ghana.
In the months of March and April 2012, the team visited the Nyanyano fishing shore to meet and interact with children who are working with the fishermen. Through the various visits to the shore and several interactions with the children and fishermen working on the shore, the rescue team has identified some children that are involved in child labour voluntarily and just refused to attend school though their parents are willing to send them to school. These groups of children consider fishing as their livelihood and do not want anything to do with education. The rescue team however, organized counseling sessions for these children and talked to them about the benefits of education in the near how they can even benefit as educated fishermen should they choose fishing as their profession. Some prominent people in the community were used as examples and role models to these children to motivate them into choosing the course of education. Some of these children realized a huge need to go to school after being counseled. According to our records in this project, they have been the only children who tried to visit the community project coordinator severally to find out when they can start school. Cheerful Hearts is planning an educational tour for these children and all rescued children to some selected places in the capital city. The purpose of this is to give them some exposure and make them realize what education can help them achieve in future.
Some members of Cheerful Hearts Foundation also arranged a day visit to meet the families of the rescue children to discuss with them our intension to support their children's education and also to find out possible family situations which caused these children to work on the fishing shore. The team realized that most of these children have single parents being mothers and as a result of poverty, the children have no option than to work with the fishermen to make ends meet.
Alice who is one of the rescued females showed very keen interest to go to school when given the support to attend school since her mother has not been able to support her education. She is now in school and she is thankful to Cheerful Hearts Foundation and our sponsors for giving her a hope into her future.
In the month of April and May, the rescue team was very active working in the Gomoa Fete village to rescue children who are being exploited by the fishermen. Fortunately, the team had support from the Chief Fishermen and the entire fishermen group in the community to assist us in our efforts to rescue these children from the shore. Currently, one fishermen from the Fete village called Laryie, has accepted to volunteer as a project coordinator of the Fete village who has been assisting the team greatly in our efforts to rescue the above 9 children at the village. This has given the team a lot of success in our efforts to rescue these children from child labor.
In the First week of May, 2012, Cheerful Hearts Foundation was fortunate to host one of the donors who contributed to this project through Global Giving from London. On the 5th of May 2012, the rescue team and the donor had the opportunity to visit the Fete Village to hold a meeting with the rescued children and their parents and also to see how the project is going. This meeting gave an opportunity to find out more reasons why children are being exploited by the fishermen and possible solutions to help end this problem. The team realized that, financial support (micro-finance) for the single mothers of these children to help them start small businesses can be a great tool assisting to make a living and be able to support their children's education continually in future.
Currently, all the 30 rescued children are in school and the foundation has paid their school fees for the third term 2011/2012 academic year which ends in August 2012.
The Foundation is still working hard to find out opportunities to raise more funds to reach our funding goal on Global Giving to enable us rescue up to 100 children from child labor by December 2012.
The foundation is putting together a documentary on this project on a CD and all donors who are interested in receiving copies of this video can send their address to our email firstname.lastname@example.com with subject "child labour video doc".
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Watch out for the next update on this project soon.
We greatly appreciate your support for Cheerful Hearts Foundation and the rescued Child laborers.
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text: Complete Genomics One under-$10 stock that's within range of triggering a major breakout trade is Complete Genomics ( GNOM), a life sciences company that has developed and commercialized a DNA sequencing platform. This stock has traded virtually flat so far in 2012, with shares down around 1.7%. If you take a look at the chart for Complete Genomics, you'll see that this stock hit a near-term bottom in May at around $1.57 a share. After tagging that bottom, shares of GNOM have started to uptrend and make higher lows and higher highs, which is bullish technical price action. Also, during the last week we've seen heavy upside volume hit the chart for GNOM as the stock has risen from around $2 to its recent high of $3.34 a share. That move has now pushed GNOM within range of triggering a major near-term breakout trade. >>4 Biotech Stocks Suring on High Volume Market players should now look for long-biased trades in GNOM if it can manage to trigger a breakout trade above some near-term overhead resistance at $3.34 to $3.50 a share with high volume. Look for a sustained move or close above those levels with volume that hits near or above its three-month average action of 1.95 million shares. If that breakout hits soon, then GNOM has a great chance of re-testing and possibly taking out its next major overhead resistance levels at $4.53 to $5.42 a share. Keep in mind that a high-volume move over $3.34 will mean GNOM has pushed back above its 200-day moving average of $3.23 a share, which is technically bullish. If you like the setup here for GNOM here, then I would look to buy this stock off weakness and anticipate the breakout. I would use a stop near $2.50 a share, or possibly closer to the 50-day moving average of $2.09 if we get a bigger selloff soon. I would prefer to buy off strength once GNOM takes out $3.34 to $3.50 with heavy volume, and then simply use a stop right below the 200-day at $3.23 a share. Keep in mind that the current short interest as a percentage of the float for GNOM is rather high at 8%. This stock also has a ridiculously low tradable float of just 19.35 million shares. Any future breakout could easily trigger a monster short-squeeze, so keep this stock on your trading radar. Prev 1 of 6 Next


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Food Movers
This set of three constructive eating tools includes the "Fork Lift," the "Front Loader" spoon, and a "Bulldozer," but the heaviest lifting they're designed to heave is a heaping bite of mashed potatoes. The Bulldozer pushes what the manufacturer calls "particulate foodstuffs" onto the Front Loader. It keeps kids' hands clean and gives them a sense of accomplishment, not to mention invaluable training for a career operating heavy machinery. About $20, Amazon


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This Mayan cross, created for Evine, took months to find the best combination of beads for the design.
Necklace Bead Features
Two rondell faceted 8 x 6mm black in yellow crystals in strung settings
23 flower cabochons 5mm iridescent glass beads in strung settings
Six rondell faceted 9 x 12mm olive crystals in strung settings
Four rondell faceted 9 x 12mm jet black crystals in strung settings
Six rondell faceted 9 x 12mm blue crystals in strung settings
Four rondell faceted 9 x 12mm black in yellow crystals in strung settings
Two rondell faceted 9 x 12mm red crystals in strung settings
Six coin cabochon 10mm dyed turquoise magnesite stones in strung settings
One round brilliant cut 2mm white crystal in an adhesive setting.
Two square faceted 4mm blue crystals in adhesive settings
Two square faceted 4mm olive crystals in adhesive settings
Background Story
Even before the arrival of Christianity in the Yucatan, the Maya revered the symbol of the cross as their Tree of Life. As the two cultures converged in the 1500s, the Maya retained traditions from their own understanding of the cosmos. Yet, they embraced the cross as a medium through which a person could awaken their spirit, invoke blessings and receive divine inspiration. It has been centuries, but remarkably, almost miraculously, the Maya continue to dwell in the Yucatan and Guatemala. The sculptural, polychrome facades of their ancient buildings and their color-drenched weaving continue to infuse daily life with a sense of the spiritual. My cross design is born of that world. Colors of the earth are expressed in stunning metalwork and colorful crystal beads, each made by hand in the lampworking process. Many artists have put their hands to the creation of your necklace or cuff. May it bring you joy and inspiration.
Complete the look with the matching bracelet J406000.
Please note the length of the necklace extends up to 20"L due to the extender.
Part of the Sweet Romance Collection.
How are created or simulated gemstones different from natural gemstones? Natural gems are created by the forces of nature and must be discovered, usually by digging in the ground or sifting through a riverbed. When these stones are created in a laboratory, they are called created, simulated or synthetic gemstones.
The purpose of creating gemstones in a laboratory isn't necessarily to reduce the cost, but also to produce larger, more perfectly consistent stones. Created or simulated gems can be made of any material. Synthetic gems, however, share virtually all chemical, optical and physical characteristics of their natural mineral counterparts.
Austrian crystals: These are known for their excellent reflective quality and prismatic brilliance. This man-made crystal is created using natural minerals and quartz sand, which are then heated and slowly cooled using a process similar to that of creating hand-blown glass. This process creates an end product that can be fashioned into a beautiful crystal.
A special machine is used to create a highly faceted crystal. The crystals are cut in various directions, which allows for excellent light refraction, exceptional brilliance and unsurpassed color quality at an affordable price.
Today Swarovski® is one of the largest suppliers of high-end crystals. In the late 1800s, Daniel Swarovski invented a machine to cut crystal with extreme precision. He patented his technique and to this day, only select Swarovski family members and employees have unrestricted access to the production facility that creates these crystals. They are used to decorate everything from stilettos and sculptures, to chandeliers, jewelry and clothing.


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Understanding the Gemini Woman
The Gemini woman is always in a hurry. She has a lot to read and to write, a lot of things to discover and to share with others. It's like you don't stand a chance to get into her good graces or into her attention span if you weren't on her priority list.
You can meet the Gemini woman at a conference, at a symposium, in a school's halls, just a few minutes before an exam, in a bookshop or simply talking on the phone. Especially when she notices she is being followed, analysed or admired, she knows how to play the cute little girl or the helpless very well (Mercury, the ruler of Gemini sign, can put on any mask). So, beware of these "mental gestures" which reveal a very agile mind.
Even if she has a date, the Gemini woman can easily decide to keep her partner waiting on the ground that they broadcast some events from the other end of the world on TV. Because she doesn't like apologising, the Gemini woman will enthusiastically tell her date about this event. She will probably exaggerate, adding facts from her own imagination so that the man who was on the verge of cancelling the date (firmly convinced he has no luck with women) to think that her reason for being late makes their destiny change the course of history.
Behaving like an adolescent, the Gemini woman can turn this flaw of her mental stray into a charming ease. Her lack of a prominent femininity can be overlooked thanks to her lack of interest in fashion, cosmetics and others of this kind.
Gemini woman is typically known as a chatterbox. Nevertheless, she can easily play the shy woman to make sure she will manage to seduce. She is not crazy about going out at restaurants but she will do her best to take you somewhere in order to test your manners.
How to Win the Gemini Woman's Love
Nowadays, an invitation to a movie has already become obsolete. A woman pretending her suitor to be educated may also be old fashioned. Therefore, a man could seldom be faced with a dilemma in the presence of this clever, talkative and well-informed Gemini woman because she always lends herself to pranks and especially to all sorts of cranks.
Do your best to be more practical. The Gemini woman, like all Air signs, shows an unexpected sexual interest along with its correspondent shyness to tackle this subject practically, not just in theory. Just tell her you need her help with your diploma paper, that you have a great movie or that you have discovered a worldwide debate around Jupiter's rings on the Internet. It doesn't matter that Jupiter has no rings! Admit you were wrong, but go on telling there's something interesting there, on that site, whose real significance you can't decipher by yourself. Keep in mind though that this little lie must contain a grain of truth, otherwise the Gemini woman will leave you on the spot.
Praise the Gemini woman's mobile phone (if it is one of the latest models), let her know about some electronic Larousse, boast about your personal library and show her your last collection of napkins since you were a child. Try to make the subtle transition from the field of knowledge to the one of love by resorting to delicate, quick foreplays, impregnated with a good sense of humour and common sense. The Gemini woman is extremely smart and will immediately realize what you want. She even may be willing to help you, but - keep this in mind! - on the condition you know how to play.
The Gemini woman doesn't need a brutal, "greedy" and led by instincts lover, the kind of player who plays in the "extra time". She likes polished, funny men who lend themselves to pranks and are experts in the art of love, not as sexual performance, but as "stylistic innovations". If you don't fit this profile, just move on.
The Gemini woman thinks that a relationship, which implies walks, making love and even marriage, can end at the first encounter. Though it looks like she wants you to fill her mind with knowledge, in fact she is just waiting for a Prince Charming to fill her heart with love and her spare time with erotic games (regardless if it is at night or during the day).
Astrologer: Ariana
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Cast: Emilianna, Jenner, Vanessa Videl, Andrea Jaxxx, Talon (I), CJ Sinz, Mikayla (I), Seth Dickens, Troy Halston, Holly Halston
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Fans of the MILF genre will be quite familiar with the MILF Cruiser formula. Older women are "found" wandering the streets, "picked up," taken for a ride and then shot having sex in private. All of the fucking is done by professional or semi-pro dudes, and most of the women genuinely fit into the "older" category.
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I just set up forum on wordpress and set up a lot of plug ins to act as forum abilities including:
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Heres some questions I have:
1.How can I intergrade the User Chat plugin into a box above the main forum area. (I know how to add things above the forum, I just need a code to show "Private message: 5" for eg. and a link to the private message area.)
2.How can I add the Points system (Cube Points plug-in) under the user photo in the forum section. (this would be inside the plug-in and would again be html code to get the amount of points that user has, not just the signed in user but the other users as well.) Also How would I add a link saying"give points" or "donate points" to take them to the donate to user part of the cubepoints plugin in the wordpress dashboard?
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Vt. House to give final approval to aid in dying
MONTPELIER — The Vermont House is expected to give final approval to a bill that would allow Vermont doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients who request it.
The likely final passage of the bill sets up a clash with the state Senate, which passed a different proposal.
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The House version contains several safeguards, including waiting periods totaling 17 days, the requirement that the patient be deemed mentally competent and make the request three times, once in writing, as well as others.
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Yea...nope. A mothership materializing out of nowhere with no sound? I'm sorry, but there's no way to violate the laws of thermodynamics. A vast amount of energy MUST be spent to do something like that.
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Sweet Anim8or
How much of that was CGI?
Aung San Suu Kyi
I love how nerdy the trolling is on this thread.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Nevertheless, given the number of molecules occupying that space, it would be a considerable feat indeed. Thus, the ability to beam a troller into a wall is not going to come anytime soon. Sadly.
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yes, I'm sure it would take a tremendous amount of energy. Something on the order of 1.21 gigawatts.
Well done, Anim8or.
Originally Posted by Boyz in da Park
I like the identical trees.
Other than that, well done. Vue?
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Lol Ani8or, that's some nice ani8ing, but the reaction sounds were far less convicing. And camera work way too good.. but nice cgi work.
Needs more texture work. And you should look into making small animated details even if they're barely visible. That's what makes a good cg artist closer to being a great cg artist. just take a look at the ships from id4. And that was HOW many years ago?
PS: there is a videography forum for this sort of thing.
They must've visited to abduct the GTI and discover the wonder of German Engineering.
The ones I was lucky to spot, were just round gray discs in the sky (no blinking beacons)....one up front and two following at a distance behind.
Earlier, there were others that cruised with Orange lights on (solid, not blinking)...then would disappear.
My guess is they cruise with the lights shut down, when they want to see something or whatever they light up. Were like glowing orange objects that moved up and down.
They weren't planes, weather balloons, helicopters, Chinese lanterns, etc.
Interesting night, others saw them as well. Very surreal, big skeptic here before that.
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GLI Dan, that's pretty damn funny!


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Flex-Plan Services' Name Change: On September 20, Flex-Plan Services, the City's flexible spending account vendor, changed its name to Navia Benefit Solutions. There is no action on your part other than to be aware of the change. Any emails or web site visits to the old flex-plan domain (flex-plan.com) will be automatically re-routed to Navia Benefit (naviabenefits.com). Your user name and password and the phone number - 800-669-3539 - will NOT change. If you have questions about the name change, contact Navia Benefits at firstname.lastname@example.com or Central Benefits at firstname.lastname@example.com.
General Information
By setting up a Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), you can set aside pretax dollars to pay for expenses not otherwise covered. A Day Care FSA can pay for eligible dependent care (day care) expenses for your child, disabled spouse or dependent parent while you and your spouse work. A Health Care FSA can help pay for expenses not covered by your health plans, such as deductibles, copays, coinsurance, and services such as orthodontia that exceed the plan maximum.
The maximum you can contribute to a Health Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) is $2,550 per employee; for a Day Care FSA, it's $5,000 per household. You can enroll in FSAs as a new employee or every year during Open Enrollment.
See a recorded presentation for more general FSA information, or review a copy of the FSA Welcome Kit.
Significant features of FSAs:
To understand how FSAs work, see:
Because of the pretax benefit, FSAs are governed by the Internal Revenue Service Code. For details on current rules, see the following documents posted on www.irs.gov:
Requesting Reimbursement
As you incur eligible expenses, submit your Claim Reimbursement Form to Navia Benefit Solutions, the plan administrator. Include a copy of an itemized bill(s) or receipt(s) with the completed reimbursement form. Completed requests for reimbursements may be mailed, faxed or uploaded through the Navia Benefit Solutions website.See next section on "Setting up Your Online Account".
Requests for reimbursement will be processed as they are received by Navia Benefit Solutions. To request that your reimbursements be deposited directly into your bank account, submit the Benefits Card/Direct Deposit Request Form to Navia Benefit Solutions with the requested information. Your final request for reimbursement MUST be received by Navia Benefit Solutions no later than March 31 of the following year.
Contact information for Navia Benefit Solutions:
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Phone: 425-452-3500 or 1-800-669-FLEX
Fax: 425-451-7002 or 1-866-535-9227
Website: www.naviabenefits.com/
Setting up Your Online Account
View your Flexible Spending account balance after setting up your online account through Navia Benefit Solutions web site:
Do not forget to review and accept the Terms and Conditions. Shortly after registering for online access, you will receive an email confirmation with a temporary password.
Phone: 425-452-3500 or 1-800-669-FLEX
Fax: 425-451-7002 or 1-866-535-9227
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Navia Benefit Solutions
The Benefits Card
The health care flexible spending account debit card, or "Benefits Card", enables you to pay for eligible health expenses directly from your health FSA so you don't have to wait for reimbursement. You must still retain your receipts -- in some cases, you will need to provide receipts to substantiate that you have used your card for an eligible expense. Navia Benefit Solutions will notify you if a receipt is required. You can check your claims on your online account (see above) to see if a receipt is needed.
See Benefits Card - Employee Overview. Request a debit card by completing the Benefits Card/Direct Deposit Request Form. Send the form to Navia Benefit Solutions at:
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From bursts of fuchsia on the lips at Giles and Dries Van Noten to indigo, lime and magenta eyes at Altuzarra, Michael Kors and Donna Karan respectively, a vibrant jolt of colour was emphasised even further by an otherwise stark beauty look in each case.
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For electroplated Sn and Sn alloy finishes, one of the reliability concerns remains the risk of whisker growth. Results from recent work have suggested that whiskers are most likely to form in regions of the films where high stress or a stress gradient exists. If strain/stress distribution information can be collected at a grain-by-grain level, correlations between such information and the propensity of whisker growth can be further understood. In this work, we utilized a highly focused X-ray beam from a synchrotron source to perform micro-diffraction on a series of Sn and Sn-containing finishes. The high brightness and small beam size of the X-ray enabled the generation of grain-by-grain orientation map as well as the strain/stress levels in individual grains. The electroplated finishes analyzed included pure Sn, Sn-Cu, and Sn-Cu-Pb finishes with various concentrations of Cu and Pb. Plating current density was also varied for each finish composition and the textures of these finishes were compared. After plating, these finishes were stored at ambient condition and examined regularly for surface defect formation. Once hillock or whisker growth was observed, the areas surrounding the growth were scanned with the X-ray. Additionally, these samples were also analyzed with standard X-ray diffraction and inverse pole figures were generated to compare the texture of the samples. A finite element model was also generated to simulate the texture of the finishes. By implementing the stiffness matrix of the finishes, we were able to explicitly implement the variation of finish texture on a grain-by-grain basis, and thus assess the strain/stress distribution in the finish. The analytical and simulation results from this study suggest that plating process parameters such as current density have a significant impact on the crystallographic texture of the plated finishes. Under similar strain conditions, certain textures would generate higher stresses in the finishes and result i- - n higher levels of whisker growth.
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An increasing number of modern real-time systems and the nowadays ubiquitous multicore architectures demand the application of programming techniques for reliable and efficient concurrent synchronization. Some recently developed Compare-And-Swap (CAS) based nonblocking techniques hold the promise of delivering practical and safer concurrency. The ABA2 problem is a fundamental problem to many CAS-based designs. Its significance has increased with the suggested use of CAS as a core atomic primitive for the implementation of portable lock-free algorithms. The ABA problem's occurrence is due to the intricate and complex interactions of the application's concurrent operations and, if not remedied, ABA can significantly corrupt the semantics of a nonblocking algorithm. The current state of the art leaves the elimination of the ABA hazards to the ingenuity of the software designer. In this work we provide the first systematic and detailed analysis of the ABA problem in lock-free Descriptor-based designs. We study the semantics of Descriptor-based lock-free data structures and propose a classification of their operations that helps us better understand the ABA problem and subsequently derive an effective ABA prevention scheme. We supplement our analysis with a statistical model of the probability for an ABA event in a concurrent system. Our ABA prevention approach outperforms by a large factor the use of the alternative CAS-based ABA prevention schemes. It offers speeds comparable to the use of the architecture-specific CAS2 instruction used for version counting. We demonstrate our ABA prevention scheme by integrating it into an advanced nonblocking data structure, a lock-free dynamically resizable array.
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About Energy Conservation DayWhat is Energy Conservation Day?
Energy Conservation Day is a project my group in my school has started. The project is to carpool, walk, or bike ride to school.
Why make a wiki about this?
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Ron Greenwood, (born Nov. 11, 1921, Worsthorne, Lancashire, Eng.—died Feb. 9, 2006, Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng.) British association football (soccer) manager who , managed West Ham United during 1961–74, a tenure that included a Football Association (FA) Cup title in 1964 and the European Cup Winners' Cup title in 1965. He was credited with developing the talents of Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, and Martin Peters, all of whom played key roles in England's 1966 World Cup championship. Greenwood played for several teams from 1940 until he became a manager, with Eastbourne United (1957–58) and then Arsenal (1958–61) before joining West Ham in 1961. He moved to the front office at West Ham in 1974, but he was named manager of England three years later. At the 1982 World Cup, he guided England to an undefeated performance despite being eliminated in the quarterfinals after two draws. Greenwood was made CBE in 1981 and was inducted into the FA Hall of Fame in 2002.
Alternative title: Ronald Greenwood