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The Exim Bank Team China Porsche duo of Matt Halliday (NZL) and Mike Parisy (FRA) produced a superb drive in challenging wet-dry conditions to secure a narrow victory in the Championship Race at Zolder.
The Porsche pair's win followed their third place in yesterday's Qualifying Race and lifted them to second in the drivers' standings.
The race, declared wet by race control, began on a damp track under threatening skies. Tyre choice, like the previous day, was a lottery with selections varying throughout the grid. The rain arrived as early as the second lap.
In a thrilling contest which saw battles rage right throughout the field for the entire 60 minutes, six different brands were represented in the top six finishing order.
Parisy, who held off a late charge from BMW's Yelmer Buurman in the closing stages to win by less than a second was overjoyed with the result. "It was one of the best days of my life," the Frenchman said. "It was an incredible race. There was a lot of pressure at the end but I just had to keep it tight and not make any mistakes. It's a great result for Exim Bank Team China. We had the right strategy on tyres and it paid off."
Halliday added: "To put the Porsche in P1 against this very competitive field is a great feeling. We had to manage our tyres, stop at the right time and make all the right choices – and that's what we did. We are a young team but this result is a tremendous boost."
The BMW renaissance continued as Michael Bartels (DEU) and Buurman (NLD) followed their win in the Qualifying Race to finish second in the Vita4One Z4.
Vita4One team boss Bartels, declared the team "back in business" in the championship after scoring just one point in the opening round at Nogaro. The No.18 car picked up 18 precious points today and eight for yesterday's Qualifying Race win. He and Buurman move to fourth in the drivers' standings and joined the battle for third in the teams' table.
"We are now heading in the right direction following the disappointment at Nogaro," he said. "We are back in business in the championship but we have a lot of homework to do for the next race. "We have a break now between GT1 events before Navarra and we will concentrate on making less mistakes and improving the set-up of the car. "The relationship with BMW is still young after so many years with Maserati and we are learning together, finding out about each other but we are definitely heading the right way."
Third was the AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia of ToniVilander (FIN) and Filip Salaquarda (CZE) which stormed through the field from 13th on the grid after starting on dry tyres. "I was one of the only guys with slick tyres and I had a pretty hectic 15 minutes with the rain so I had to use my Finnish rally experience a bit," Vilander said. "It's been a difficult weekend with the weather but coming from 13th to third today is an amazing result with this level of drivers. Hopefully we can score some more big points in Navarra."
In fourth was the ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Mercedes SLS AMG No.37 of Nicky Pastorelli (NLD) and Thomas Jager (DEU), who had led the race in the early stages. "I'm happy with the car, and how things went in general but I made a mistake in my stint, with the cold tyres on the damp track, I touched the white line and I went off," Pastorelli said. "We lost some seconds there and without that we could have finished third."We scored points which is important, you have to be consistent throughout the year, and we are improving step-by-step."
The sister Mercedes of Marc Basseng and Markus Winkelhock was ninth.
Hexis Racing McLaren team boss Philippe Dumas was delighted with fifth place for the No.1 MP4-12C of Frederic Makowiecki (FRA) and Stef Dusseldorp (NLD). The No.2 car was seventh. "We have had some very good moments in this Hexis team since 2008, we won a lot of races, and the Championship, but today is the same feeling as a victory," he said. "We worked so hard at the beginning of the year and everybody knows that it is a difficult situation with the McLaren GT. We share a very good relationship with McLaren, we have had a lot of problems in the beginning, but we have fixed it and today is a perfect result for us."We are more determined than ever. Before the weekend my briefing with the team was to finish with both cars in both races and try to get around P5. The next step is to stabilize the reliability and get the car on the podium."
One of the drives of the race came from Maxime Martin in the Valmon Racing Team Russia Aston Martin DBRS9. Starting from ninth on the grid, the Belgian sliced through the field to lead the race by lap 7.
He had held a lead of over 12.6 seconds as the pit window opened but as the dry-shod cars came into their own, notably the Ferrari No.3 of Vilander, the gap had shrunk to three seconds. Martin handed over to Alexej Vasiliev, the Russian finding the going a little tougher with the No.7 car eventually finishing 12th.
The Belgian Audi Club WRT Team chose to start the race on slick tyres but were disadvantaged at the start in the greasy conditions.
Stephane Ortelli (Laurens Vanthoor) in the No.32 had a coming together with Oliver Jarvis in the No.33 R8 LMS with 10 minutes left. Ortelli survived unscathed to finish sixth but the incident cost Jarvis (Frank Stippler) two places at the time and they finished 10th. "It was a gamble today, we gambled a lot better than yesterday, but in the end we know that we were not fast enough in Zolder in the stop-start layout," Stippler said. "I think the choice today was okay, and we might have claimed fourth or fifth, but unfortunately Stephane (Ortelli) crashed into my team-mate, Oliver Jarvis, and that is not the best way to finish the race, but it is part of racing."Perhaps it is not the best idea to try and pass on such a wet and oily part of the track, but in the end we are human and mistakes happen."It was perhaps not the best weekend for WRT, we were the heroes in Nogaro, and here it just has not gone very well. We have some points, but it could have been better."
It was also a tough day at the office for the Reiter Lamborghinis. Tomas Enge (CZE) and Albert von Thurn und Taxis finished eighth while the Peter Kox/Darryl O'Young car was a lowly 13th, a result that did not please Dutchman Kox particularly given the Qualifying performance."In the end of the day we are very disappointed. The car was on the pace in practice and I was quite satisfied, we claimed P3 in Qualifying but then I had a jump start, with the penalty and that throws the whole race away, still managing to finish in eight," he said. "Today was just unfortunate. You can make the right call or the wrong call, and we made all the wrong calls. We had once of those days. We have really managed to go backwards over the weekend."
The Sunred Ford GT No.10 of Milos Pavlovic (SRB) and Matteo Cressoni (ITA) started from the rear of the grid after missing the Qualifying Race yesterday with brake issues. They finished 16th.
Championship Race Result:
1 Matt Halliday/Mike Parisy - Exim Bank Team China - Porsche 911 R - 36 laps in 1:00:32.983
2 Michael Bartels/Yelmer Buurman - Vita4One Racing Team - BMW Z4 +1.030
3 Toni Vilander/Filip Salaquarda - AF Corse - Ferrari 458 Italia +17.256
4 Thomas Jager/Nicky Pastorelli - ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport - Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG +29.070
5 Frederic Makowiecki/Stef Dusseldorp - Hexis Racing - McLaren GT MP4-12C +29.580
6 Laurens Vanthoor/Stephane Ortelli - Belgian Audi Club Team WRT - Audi R8 LMS +29.900
7 Gregoire Demoustier/Alvaro Parente - Hexis Racing - McLaren GT MP4-12c +32.167
8 Albert von Thurn und Taxis/Tomas Enge -Reiter Engineering - Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 +37.156
9 Markus Winkelhock/Marc Basseng - ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport - Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG +38.456
10 Frank Stippler/Oliver Jarvis - Belgian Audi Club Team WRT - Audi R8 LMS +38.885
Data: 23 apr 2012 (15:11)
23 apr : ZOLDER - HALLIDAY E PARISY (PORSCHE) SVETTANO NELLA CHAMPIONSHIP RACE
22 apr : ZOLDER - BARTELS E BUURMAN (BMW) SI AGGIUDICANO LA QUALIFYING RACE
17 apr : ZOLDER PREVIEW
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Ensuring Public Safety – Dam Inspection and Repair
- Insert grout into voids underneath the dam
- Inspect and repair trash rack
- Remove debris over trash rack
- Remove the damaged screen of the trash rack
- Install a new screen
Maintaining Healthy Waterways
- Monitor water quality
o Measure the water temperature
o Collect a water sample from the bottom
o Use a water monitoring kit* to 1. Measure the pH of the water sample 2. Measure the phosphate levels of a water sample
- Determine habitat diversity
o Lift a rock from the bottom
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- Transport and release trout fry
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- Recover the Civil War era cannon
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What follows is a summary of the electrical and fluid power requirements for the SCOUT class. The complete design and building specifications will be included within the competition manual.
NOTE: Watch for new safety requirements and additional, detailed electrical specifications within the competition manuals.
- 12 volts, 15 amps DC. Conversion to lower voltages is permitted topside and on the ROV. Any onboard electrical power source is not permitted
- Manually powered pneumatics and hydraulics are permitted. Pneumatic systems cannot exceed ambient pool pressure and must follow the fluid power specifications included within the competition manual.
- Lasers are NOT permitted.
- Depth requirement varies depending on the regional event.
- Anderson powerpole connectors are required on all vehicles.
- Size limit: none. See below for additional details on size requirements.
All size and weight measurements will include the vehicle, all tools and components, and the tether. The topside control system and 1 meter of tether going into the control system will NOT be included in the length or weight measurement. To receive points for smaller sized vehicles, the two largest dimensions of the vehicle and tether must fit through a round hole of the following dimensions:
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Vehicles above 60 cm in diameter will still be allowed to compete in the product demonstration, but will receive 0 points for size.
NOTE: In addition to the size and/or weight limitations described above, companies must be able to personally transport the vehicle and associated equipment to the product demonstration station and to the technical sales presentation room. The ROV systems must be capable of being safely hand launched.
Teams are permitted to use the materials of their choice provided that they are safe, will not damage or otherwise mar the competition environment, and are within the defined design and building specifications.
Teams are encouraged to focus on engineering a vehicle to complete the product demonstration tasks; when considering design choices, teams should ask themselves which one most efficiently and effectively allows them to solve the problem. Re-using components built by previous team members is permitted provided that the current team members evaluate, understand, and can explain their engineering and operational principles. Using or re-using commercial components is also permitted, provided that team members evaluate, understand, and can explain their engineering and operational principles. Teams will be questioned extensively on their overall design and component selections during their technical sales presentations.
The complete competition manual will be released by December 1st, 2018; teams have from that date until the regional events in the spring of 2019 to construct their vehicles and prepare the engineering and communication components (technical reports, engineering presentations, and poster displays). Visit the MATE website at www.marinetech.org or request to be added to the MATE competition listserve to ensure a timely delivery.


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Fruitcake is for many families the giving and receiving of a favorite, though often ridiculed, traditional food. Fruitcake is considered to be a part of many families' Christmas traditions just as important as having a Christmas tree.
Like many Christmas traditions, the idea of giving fruitcakes as gifts is thought to have originated in ancient times. No one ever recorded who took the first cake and added fruit, honey, nuts, and alcohol to make an edible gift for their family, but records indicate that this tradition was occurring in Rome prior to the birth of Jesus (B.C.).
One of the main reasons fruitcakes were given as gifts in early times is that the ingredients combined in such a way as to greatly reduce the spoiling of this food. This was a huge advantage when the average family had very little control over their food supply, and allowed people to travel longer distances since they could carry a food supply with them that would not spoil.
The fruitcake as we know it today evolved from plum cake recipes in England. It became a natural food to have for holiday celebrations, since it could be made in advance (sometimes many months in advance) and then families could be prepared to give their visitors a treat.
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The wheels are slowly turning again for the RV industry in Elkhart County, Ind., the mainstay of this region's economy.
Sales are beginning to pick up again. RV makers are cautiously hiring back some of the workers they furloughed during the downturn, according to a recent sto What To Say When U Make Up Back With Your Ex Girlfriend ry by MSNBC.com as part of its yearlong "Elkhart Project."
Jayco Inc. in Middlebury, Inc., which was producing about 150 vehicles a day in 2006 with a work force of 2,000, cut production and employment by about half during the downturn. The company recently hired back about 200 workers to keep up with a bump in demand.
"On the one hand it feels really good (to be hiring again)," said Jayco President Derald Bontrager. "But we also recognize that both nationally and globally, economies still have a long way to go to fully recover."
And that's the crux of the issue. It's clear that some regions are seeing some of their industries revive. Our latest Adversity Index shows nearly one in four metro areas beginning to recover, including the Elkhart-Goshen area. But the recovery is faint, uneven, faces many threats and is starting from a point so low that it could take years to get up to cruising speed.
Although RV makers are hiring back workers and shortening planned holiday furloughs, the industry is still operating at its lowest level in some 25 years.
Some 70% of the nation's recreational vehicles are produced in Elkhart County, but the industry hit a major bump when gas prices surged in 2007. Then production all but ground to a halt as the recession took hold and and credit froze up last year.
But as RV makers tentatively begin to ramp up production again, other businesses in Elkhart also are seeing the economy's wheels begin to turn again.
Car dealers have seen a pickup in traffic to once-empty showrooms, partly due to the government's "Cash for Clunkers" program, which lifted sales nationwide over the summer. Harold Zeigler, who owns 10 dealerships in the region including a Ford/Lincoln Mercury outlet in Elkhart, said the program was so successful that some of his dealerships ran out of inventory.
Another factor boosting car sales: Loans are getting approved more easily than they were at the height of the financial crisis a year ago.
"At the worst of it they were pretty tight, but I don't see that as being an issue," Ziegler said. "There seems to be plenty of money for car sales for a good customers with decent credit."
Similarly the real estate market is also getting a lift from government-provided tax credits for home buyers and cheap credit for borrowers. Congress extended tax credits that were set to expire Nov. 30, and 30-year mortgage rates are at a near-record low of 4.83%, accroding to mortgage giant Freddie Mac.
In Elkhart, prices seem to have stabilized, according to Barb Swartley, a real estate agent with Century 21.
"We had a nice little surge in the late spring and in the late summer, and I look for this tax credit to make a difference," she said. "I think that could spur some people to make a move that may have been on the fence."
Sales are still far below levels seen before the recession began, as they are nationwide. And the commercial real estate market remains mired in a deep slump, according to John Letherman, a commercial real estate broker and president of the Elkhart County Council.
"We've got excess capacity, and along with excess capacity and vacancy come some fairly difficult times for our industry," he said. "The few buyers that are there are basically bottom feeders. We've had some sales at $10 and $12 a square foot of buildings that that should have sold for $20 to $30."
Though some businesses are slowly adding workers, unemployment remains stubbornly high —still stuck at 15% as of September, the latest data available. Nationally the rate is much lower but still rising — to 10.2% in October, up from 9.8% in September.
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ROCHESTER — Nute High School volleyball coach Kristin Wilson was one happy camper when she first saw Division III tournament bracket.
Not only was rival Farmington on the other side of the bracket, but so were D-III powers Moultonborough and Winnisquam.
This of course, leads to some conjecture about the two meeting up in the final on Nov. 2. The two last did so in 2009 when Farmington won its first and only title. In 2008, Nute beat Farmington for the crown, its final in a strong of three.
The Tigers (14-2) are seeded second, while the Rams (13-3) are fifth.
Farmington ended on a down note, losing its final two matches at Winnisquam (3-2) and Moultonborough (3-0) last week.
Winnisquam (12-4) is seeded sixth and MA (14-2) is the third seed, which means those two could collide in the quarterfinal round Saturday.
The Tigers, who host No. 15 John Stark (5-11) Thursday at 6 p.m., could see one of those two teams in the semis if they are still alive at that point.
Nute coach Kristin Wilson was ecstatic to see the bracket, which had Farmington, Moultonborough and Winnisquam all on the other side.
Undefeated Campbell (16-0) is No. 1 and Hillsboro-Deering (13-3) is No. 4, but both play a suspect schedule. Nute hosts No. 12 Trinity (8-8) Thursday, also at 6.
"It hasn't changed our ultimate goal," said Farmington coach Jenn Kuehl of the two late-season losses. "It taught us there are things we need to focus and improve on. Our serve receive and hitting weren't good. We had a lot of unforced errors."
In the two losses, senior outside hitter Marissa Peart was sick, battling tonsillitis.
"She had a fever. She lost 18 pounds in four days," Kuehl said.
Kuehl says Peart is now rested and ready to go.
Even battling sickness, Peart collected her 500th career kill at Winnisquam on Oct. 17. Two nights later classmate Kasey Memmolo eclipsed 1,000 assists for her career.
Kuehl said jokingly there are no more milestones to worry about, so the Tigers can proceed without that distraction.
Farmington has seniors making up five of its first seven spots. Peart, Memmolo, Kayla Squires, Kelsey Gregoire and Shannon Cardinal were all on board for last year's championship loss to Moultonborough, and most were around for the 2010 semifinal meltdown against Epping.
"The pressure is off a little bit," Kuehl said. "We need to do the little things. Every player has got to want to take the big swing, serve for the big point and got after the ball. We've got to go 110 percent. We need to go big or go home. There's five seniors on the floor. They've worked hard for this."
Peart leads the team with 185 kills and is second with 230 digs. Other team leaders are libero Jennelle Thompson with 257 digs, Memmolo has 519 assists and Kayla Squires has 58 aces
"We're in a pretty good spot to make a tournament run," said Nute's Wilson. "This is the first time is a few years where we feel like we can go all the way. They're very excited about it."
Nute has just one senior and Wilson knows that expectations will be even higher next season. But going deep in the tournament this year is a priority.
Nute has the players to help make that run.
Junior setter Michelle Guindon (383 assists) is a coach on the court.
"She's not a captain, but she does a fantastic job of leading the team and running the offense," said coach Wilson, who led the Rams to a state title in 2006.
Libero Kelsey Taatjes has been very solid at libero, while offense is really improved behind the hitting of juniors Heidi Cloutier (125 kills, 46 aces) and Ella Gourlay (128 kills, 58 aces).
Sophomore Alisha Flanagan (128 kills, 91 digs) might well be the team's best all-around player.
"She can pass, hit and serve the ball," Wilson said.
Second-round actionm is Saturday at the home of the higher seed.
If Farmingtonw ins, it will host the Portsmouth Christian-Belmont winner. If Nute wins, it will likely travel to No. 4 Hillsboro.
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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).
This is the legacy Bug Tracking System for the POV-Ray project. Bugs listed here are being migrated to our github issue tracker. Please refer to that for new reports or updates to existing ones on this system.
FS#127 - Expandable arrays
Opened by Mike H (SharkD) - Wednesday, 09 June 2010, 23:43 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Friday, 20 January 2017, 15:55 GMT
Currently, arrays are of a fixed size. You can't add or remove items to/from an array. I think it would like arrays to be expandable with no fixed and pre-determined size.
Re-allocation on assignment ?
dimension_size() & dimensions() might suggest that the basic support is already there.
Biggest issue might be that multiple dimensions arrays are so far assumed to be regular in size over indexes.
(a 2D is a rectangle, 3D a box, and so on). Most variable size multi-dimension arrays usually consider that they are just holder of N-1 D arrays...
Removing element from array ? how do you make such thing ?
To resume: why not get extension on assignemnt, but as array are not "empty" structure, it might cost a lot for multiple dimensions. (that's only a few millions cycles...)
Removal, I do not understand.
Note that items can be removed from an array by using "#undef Foo[Bar]".
Ah, didn't realize you could undef them.
You still get a warning if you don't set the array size initially.
A little known detail about POV-Ray's arrays is that they can also contain arrays of different elements. That is, you can do things like this:
#declare foo = array[2];
#declare foo[0] = array[2];
#declare foo[1] = array[7];
#declare foo[0][0] = 2;
#declare foo[1][6] = sphere{1,1}
The idea behind this is that an array can only contain elements of the same type, but a two dimensional array is just an array of arrays. And each of these arrays can be of any type. It is quite possible to build complex structures out of this.
As such, it also is not correct that POV-Ray's arrays need to be the same size in every dimension! What follows is that one can actually build trees out of POV-Ray's arrays, among other structures.
Have you seen macro Resize_Array() in arrays.inc?
While Resize_Array() can get the job done, it takes an awful lot of time as the array grows.
- Field changed: Status (New → Tracked on GitHub)
Now tracked on github as issue #197.


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Back in 2009, the New York Times published an article headlined "Recyclers, Scientists Probe Great Pacific Garbage Patch," which noted that a group of scientists had "set sail from San Francisco Bay ... to study the planet's largest known floating garbage dump, about 1,000 miles north of Hawaii."
Fast forward to 2013: Taiwanese nature writer Wu Ming-yi (吳明益) has just released an English translation of his The Man with the Compound Eyes (複眼人) that's aimed at an international readership. The 300-page novel, which has an eye-catching cover for the new British edition, is about that same floating dump.
Wu started writing the novel in 2006 when he read about the floating trash vortex in Chinese-language newspapers. As novelists often do, he concocted a "vision" based on the vortex: An Aboriginal teenager from the imaginary island of Wayo Wayo rides this garbage island and washes up with it one day on the east coast of Taiwan. In the ensuing chaos, the Taiwanese print and TV media have a field day reporting this ecological calamity, and Taiwan — the story is set in the near future of 2020 — is never the same.
In many ways, The Man with the Compound Eyes is a Pacific novel, about a Pacific Islander identity that differs in many ways from the commonplace Han Chinese-centric novels that are published in Taiwan.
The novel stars the boy from Wayo Wayo and a middle-aged Taiwanese college professor named Alice, both of whom are thrown into Taiwan's east coast wilderness in a search for some lost hikers -- and enlightenment. There's a cast of characters that expats will know well from their travels along the east coast, and Wu plots the story in very Taiwanese terms. (The English translation by Canadian expat Darryl Sterk, a professor at National Taiwan University, is superb and sensitively captures the nuances of Taiwan's Aboriginal cultures and languages.)
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Wu's rollercoaster of a story is about wilderness, wildness, wonderment, love. It's also about "massage parlors" along the east coast where tired and drunk soldiers go for rest and relaxation, with mini-lessons thrown in about various aspects of Aboriginal culture and food.
For readers in Taiwan who have been here for a number of years and know the east coast well, Wu's novel is sure to strike a chord. But just how this Pacific novel will do overseas with readers in Europe and North America who know little about Taiwan or the Aboriginal cultures here remains to be seen.
As a longtime expat in Taiwan, I read the novel as a critique of modern society's disregard for our planet's ecology and environment — a wake-up call, in other words, for Taiwan and the rest of the world.
Readers overseas might find Wu's story merely a pleasant diversion from the daily grind. You may not have to know much about Taiwan or insect eye biology to enjoy The Man with the Compound Eyes, and the mid-book chapters about that reveal the mystery behind the man with the compound eyes are perhaps the best writing to ever come out of a Taiwan novel. Some readers have drawn comparisons between the novel and Yann Martel's Life of Pi. Yes, it's that kind of book, and it would make that kind of movie, too.
Wu's work began its literary life as a mostly-neglected, unheralded Chinese-language novel in 2011. Taiwan's Ministry of Culture and the National Museum of Taiwan Literature (國立台灣文學館) used their resources and contacts to help set the book on its way to translation and overseas publication.


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When looking at the Rockies' lineup on some nights, it brings to mind the movie "Stripes." Remember the scene where Bill Murray's girlfriend breaks up with him? She wants a man who can grow in a relationship, to which Murray replies in so many words, "Who has more potential for growth than me? I am the acorn that becomes the tree."
The Rockies sprouted a few more roots and branches in Thursday's 5-3 win over the Marlins, their fourth straight, one shy of the season-high. Rookie Josh Rutledge, as he has frequently since he was called up, played a big part. Pinch-hitting for the first time in his career, Rutledge tripled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning.
What made this significant was the adjustment he made during the at-bat. He chased a slider away on the first pitch. Then with two strikes he prepared for the pitch again and lifted it to right field. It was going to be a sacrifice fly at worst.
"I was just trying to stay with my approach, hitting the ball up the middle,'' Rutledge said. "I was able to get some backspin on it."
Rutledge has not started three of the past four games because of a sore left quad. He said he might be back in the lineup on Friday. He is hitting .321 with 21 RBIs in 28 games.
He scored on a squeeze bunt moments later by Eric Young Jr. Young has 27 hits in his last 59 at-bats. This bunt didn't happen by accident. Young has worked repeatedly in the batting cage at placing the ball on the right side of the infield. That's where he wanted this bunt with Carlos Lee playing first base.
"It's something in the cage where I exaggerate it and get the bat up by my eyes almost like casting a (fishing) reel. It's helped me get that bunt down better," Young said. "I was also thinking that the squeeze might be on in that situation."
The Rockies' lineup featured eight players with less than three years experience. Like Young, several are taking advantage of extended playing time.
"Winning cures everything," said veteran Michael Cuddyer, who hit his 16th home run. "But you are also seeing guys who are getting more comfortable in their roles and being in the big leagues."
–Carlos Gonzalez has six bunt base hits this season, a team-best and tying a career-high.
–DJ LeMahieu, who scored on Rutledge's triple, has nine multi-hit games this season.
–Miami's Giancarlo Stanton has homered in all four games he has played at Coors Field. He is 6-for-15 in those games.


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Ravens cornerback Cary Williams plays the game with an edge, readily acknowledging he never loses the proverbial chip on his shoulder.
A former Tennessee Titans seventh-round draft pick from Washburn, Williams says he thrives on any perceived slight or disrespect.
A week ago, Williams grew so tired of hearing questions about Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning that he politely but firmly cut off anyone broaching the topic prior to the Ravens' 38-35 double-overtime victory.
Williams has a long memory for a cornerback, without dwelling too much on past encounters other than trying to learn from them or garnering motivation whenever he comes up short.
All of those personal attributes should come into play for Williams in Sunday night's AFC championship game rematch against the New England Patriots.
During a 31-30 win over the Patriots in September at M&T Bank Stadium, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady repeatedly went after Williams. He was targeted a game-high 13 times, allowing nine catches with no touchdowns.
Wide receiver Brandon Lloyd was the primary target for Brady, and he caught nine passes for 108 yards, including a 32-yard reception on Williams early in the game.
"It's a ridiculous question, so I can see why he'd be frustrated by it," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said when asked Friday if Williams has improved since that game. "Great quarterbacks like Tom Brady go after the defense. They go after whatever they feel like the route calls for, what the coverage calls for."
Williams, who finished the regular season with a career-high four interceptions and recorded an interception of rookie quarterback Andrew Luck during the Ravens' AFC wild-card win over the Indianapolis Colts, has a tendency to get even after a rough game.
Dusted on a double-move pattern by Broncos wide receiver Eric Decker for a 51-yard touchdown during the regular season, Williams allowed just six catches for 58 yards and no touchdowns in the Ravens' playoff victory over the Broncos.
Meanwhile, cornerback Corey Graham intercepted Manning twice and returned one for a touchdown while shadowing slot receiver Brandon Stokley.
Graham is expected to match up with Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker this game. And that leaves Williams primed for another shot at Lloyd, who caught 74 passes for 911 yards and four touchdowns during the regular season.
As for Brady, he's bracing for another stiff challenge against the Ravens.
"I think Baltimore has a great football team," he said. "They have had a great team for a long time. They are very good on defense, they are very good on offense, and they have always had good special teams. We've just had a lot of great games against them and I think this one will be another great game."


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Your world gets turned upside down after giving birth and trying to coordinate a birth announcement can fall down the list of priorities in favor of simple tasks like brushing your teeth, taking a shower, and, ahem, using the ladies' room.
Modern moms seem to be turning away from traditional birth announcements in favor of posting a quick picture of baby on Facebook, but a photo birth announcement does more than just share the details of your baby. It's a memento for loved ones to hold on to.
Plus, who doesn't love getting a picture of a baby in the mail?
Rather than choosing just one way of announcing the birth of my daughter, I did a combination of announcements using our newborn photos.
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3) Send an e-card to colleagues and friends
Newborn photos are usually done in the first 10 days of baby's life and photographers typically need a few weeks to put pictures through post-production before you get your images. While you're waiting, ask your photographer for one image that can be used for an e-announcement. If that option isn't available with your newborn photography package, ask if you can take a picture with your camera phone during your photo session.
While waiting for our official birth announcements to mail to family and close friends, I sent this announcement using a basic Mac e-mail template.
There is also a cool option to send both a photo e-card and postal card birth announcement from celebrations.com. While I haven't personally tested this option, I think it can be a huge timesaver for new moms since it covers both electronic and paper mail options.
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Make it easy on yourself by selecting your birth announcement style a few weeks before your due date so all you have to do is order it after getting your first baby pictures back.
And seriously? Don't stress about getting them out ASAP after baby is born. Your loved ones will appreciate the picture regardless of when they get it. Just try to get the birth announcements out before baby's first birthday, OK?
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How far would you go for acceptance by your fellow beings? How far can you go when you are but a simple and arrogant man who lives in a mountainous terrain of Algeria?
Answers to these can make for reams of philosophical insights. But Lyes Salem had a better idea. He converted it into a movie, which went on to blaze a trail in the international film circuit bringing much glory and a jumpstart to Algerian cinema.
The movie, Masquerades, is now coming to Dubai, after having also contended for the Oscars for Best Foreign Film – the official entry by Algeria.
Produced and directed by Lyes Salem himself, Mascardes to be screened from June 3 to 16, 2010, exclusively at Reel Cinemas in The Dubai Mall will give a taste of accomplished cinema-making for Dubai audiences.
Masquerades premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) 2008 and won the Muhr Arab Award and the FIPRESCI Award under the category of 'Best Film'. Subsequently, it went on to win critical acclaim across several global film festivals.
DIFF Artistic Director Masoud Amralla Al Ali said that the screening of Masquerades in Dubai resonates to the growing demand from discerning movie-goers for internationally acclaimed cinema. "There is a dramatic shift in outlook and demand for good quality films in Dubai, led also by the efforts of DIFF to showcase the best in global film creativity and boost the cinema appreciation culture in the region."
He added: "Masquerades will be a revelation for audiences, as it demonstrates the emergence of powerful filmmaking in the region, further endorsed by its success in the international film circuit."
The film is showcased to the public through a partnership between DIFF and Reel Cinemas as part of an agreement signed last year to screen a selection of critically acclaimed films. Masquerades, for the first time ever, will be screened at The Picturehouse, the dedicated arthouse movie hall of Reel Cinemas, and is distributed by Funoon Film Distribution.
Masquerades narrates the story of Mounir (played by Lyes Salem), who lives with his family in the heart of the Algerian Aures. An arrogant man, he has only one dream: to finally be appreciated by his fellow citizens. He adores his sister Rym, who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. A poignant film with a rich raft of humour, Masquerades underscores the triumph of hope.
Highlighting its critical acclaim globally, Masquerades won the 'Grand Prize' at the Fameca Festival; 'The Grand Prix' at The Arabian Sights Film Festival of Washington DC; 'The Golden Hawk' at the 9th Arab Film Festival Rotterdam; The 'Special Jury Award' at the Beirut International Film Festival; and the 'Grand Festival Prize' for the Best Female Performance (Rym Takoucht) at the Festival Vues d'Afrique Montreal, Canada.
The film also cliniched the Bronze Yenenga at the FESPACO Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; and was nominated under the category of the 'Best First Film' at the CESAR 2009 with Mohamed Bouchaib claiming the title of the 'Most Promising Actor' at the Prix des Lumières.
Winner of the 'Audience Award' at the Festival International de Musique de Besançon Franche-Comté, Masquerades won the 'Grand Prize' at Cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt.' Lyes Salem was honoured under the category of 'Best Actor' in the Official Competition at the Festival of First and Second film of the Island of Reunion.
At the Official Competition of the Carthage Film Festival in Tunis, the film bagged three awards – 'Best First Film,' 'Young Jury Award,' and 'Best Female Newcomer.' The movie was also awarded with the 'Valois Best Film' at Festival d'Angoulême, as well as the 'Junior Jury Prize' and the 'Audience Award' under the first film competition at the Festival Francophone de Namur in Belgium.
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In the startup years at computer networking firm Cisco Systems Inc., employee Brian Christensen moved from the San Francisco home he adored to be closer to the company's San Jose, California, headquarters. Nearly 18 years ago, there wasn't a timely way other than driving to make the almost 50-mile, 90-minute, traffic-clogged commute, and he was working 10-hour days.
Today, Christensen laughs at the irony of that move. As a director of information systems for Cisco, he's now responsible for home and mobile-service offerings for the $43 billion company of 63,000 employees.
Roughly 90 percent of a random sampling of employees he recently surveyed reported working from home at least one day a week. Christensen works from home several days a week and encourages co-workers and clients to also do so.
"The results from Cisco's move toward teleworking has really been about empowerment," Christensen says. "We're making sure employees are empowered to be successful in their job, and that's not measured by the hours they're in the office. It's based more on their results."
Because Cisco is a networking company, it makes perfect sense for it to be at the forefront of a movement promoting the many benefits of teleworking—not just as an employee perk but as a vital way to make business operations more global, attract and retain the highest-quality workers and boost employee productivity.
Cisco is the lead sponsor of National Telework Week, which is slated to begin Monday.
The event's organizer is the Telework Exchange, a Virginia-based public-private partnership that promotes teleworking, especially in the federal government. By pledging to work remotely, each employee can save an average of $60 a week by not commuting, or about $3,000 per year, said Cindy Auten, general manager of the Telework Exchange.
In the years since Auten co-founded her group in 2005, she's worked with scores of federal agencies to identify cost savings through teleworking. One of the best examples was the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which Auten says documented more than $19 million in savings since moving its employees to a telework model more than 14 years ago. The savings came largely from reduced real estate costs and transportation expenses, and reductions in employee turnover, she says.
Telework Exchange leaders say that if all full-time, salaried workers telework just two days per week, they'd save $215 billion and spare the environment 143 million tons of pollutants.
Nearly 20 percent of the U.S. adult working population, or roughly 26.2 million people, teleworked in 2010, meaning they worked from home or another remote location for at least an entire day a month, says WorldatWork, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based advocacy group for human resource issues. That figure has been growing steadily since 2004, when about 7 million workers teleworked, says Rose Stanley, work-life practice leader at WorldatWork.
Still, the number of teleworking employees declined in 2010, from a high of 33.7 million in 2009, Stanley says. She attributes that to recession-induced layoffs and employee fears that telecommuting might jeopardize their standing with their bosses.
Indeed, companies that have shifted to teleworking strategies say it's not easy to get everyone on board. At Ryan LLC, a $233 million global tax-services firm, many middle managers balked at a flexible work policy introduced in 2007, said Delta Emerson, senior vice president and chief organizational development officer at the Dallas-based firm.
"Some managers adapt to it really quickly and easily, but others feel like, 'If I can't see you, you're not working,' " Emerson says. But more managers are on board now that they see the results, she says. For one, voluntary turnover has dramatically improved, from 18 percent to 6.5 percent today.
"My argument has always been, 'These people are adults. They're passionate about what they do. They care about their personal success,' " Emerson says. "What difference does it make how much time they spend in the office?"
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Cognitive Computing's Next Challenge? Creativity & Cooking
by Mahmoud Naghshineh, VP, Industries and Solutions, IBM Reseach
Indian Turmeric Paella. Italian Grilled Lobster. Ecuadorian Strawberry Dessert. You say "yum." I say, "computational creativity." Turns out we're both right.
And if you're at SXSW this year and stop by the food truck that IBM and the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) are running, you can taste the future of food for yourself, in what is IBM's latest effort to expand the scope of cognitive computing systems by exploring if a machine can be creative. IBM's Watson system is being tested to see if a cognitive computing system can make us more creative by coming up with new ideas and solutions.
If the pinnacle of human intelligence is said to be creativity, the promise of computational creativity is that it can assist humans in thinking outside the box and explore new white spaces. A system that can generate new things the world has never seen before is a significant step in cognitive computing.
At SXSW, the ICE chefs will be cooking up new recipes with the help of an unusual partner in the kitchen: a "virtual chef." This cloud-based cognitive cooking system understands why thousands of different recipes are appealing, what tastes people prefer, and how the chemistry of different ingredients interact.
Based on tweets of suggested dishes that guests would like to see on the food truck's menu each day, ICE chefs and IBM researchers will tap into a mobile, cloud-based version of our cognitive cooking system, to turn the top-trending tweeted ideas into one-of-a-kind dishes. Given the quintillions of possible ingredient combinations that might turn out to be a creative recipe, the system will be analyzing large amounts of big data stored in an IBM Cloud.
Why food? There's no better place to explore computational creativity than cooking. Great food can seem so mysterious. We tend to think of it as a product of art, of intuition. Yet, in fact, there's a massive amount of chemical and neural science that helps explain why one dish is sublime and another isn't.
At the same time, given the numerous different combinations of possible ingredients out there, it's impossible for a human to imagine and reason about them all. Because while we humans really are gifted with intuition, we have trouble thinking about large numbers of possibilities. Good chefs can think in pairs of ingredients, and even the very best can only juggle three ingredients successfully.
This is why cognitive computing can spur creativity. Because it's not the kind of computing we're used to today. It's not a search engine that simply sifts through data to spit up a list of already published recipes. It's not programmed to come up with a defined answer to a defined question, an "if, then" query. It understands, learns, and considers not just big data but also human perception.
When it comes to food, that means that for every new combination of flavors the cognitive cooking system suggests, it models the chemistry of all of the seemingly endless matchups of ingredients it has learned, as well as how people perceive different tastes. And it doesn't just toss out a million possible ideas, it selects the top recommendations based on which ones it thinks are the most novel and tasty.
Still, a system can't do this on its own. That's the other thing about cognitive computing: it's about pairing the best of what humans are good at with what computer systems are built to accomplish to enhance human capabilities and produce the best outcomes. Cognitive cooking is a sous-chef working along side seasoned professional chefs.
At our food truck, this data-driven insight into ingredient pairings means that ICE's chefs can develop delicious new recipes faster and with fewer false starts along the way. We'll be able to keep fans of the truck amazed by the outcome of their tweets -- and well fed.
But really what we're trying to show with this fluid, creative teamwork is the broader impact that computational creativity will have in the future. Because it's going to be able to help all kinds of people and organizations create healthier foods, more sustainable foods, or foods that meet dietary restrictions, such as gluten-free or vegan. Add in the cloud and this makes it possible to scale the reach of this technology.
Yet, food is just the first creative field where we think that computational creativity and cognitive computing systems like Watson can have an impact. This new approach of computing can not only help chefs, but also many other industries where design and discovery are key, and offer the opportunity to transform customer experience. Truly superior customer experiences are based on perception -- appealing taste, appearance and design, to name a few -- and represent a major differentiator in a variety of industries, including retail, consumer goods, hospitality and travel.
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Mahmoud Naghshineh, PhD, is Vice President, Industries and Solutions, IBM Research, where he is responsible for IBM's worldwide research efforts in the transformation of business through data. He has held a variety of executive positions within IBM. Naghshineh is a Fellow of the IEEE, was an adjunct professor in the department of electrical engineering, Columbia University, and holds a number of IBM outstanding recognition awards and patents. He received his doctoral degree from Columbia University, New York.


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More heavy storms on tap for the Midwest; 3 dead
More heavy storms on tap for the Midwest; 3 dead
Y CITY, Ark. -- Flash flooding killed at least two people in Arkansas, including a sheriff who ventured out in bad weather with a game warden to check on residents in a home threatened by high water.
State officials said Friday that the game warden and two people from the home in Y City were missing. Searchers found the boat that Sheriff Cody Carpenter and the warden took onto Mill Creek near the Oklahoma border.
A woman's body was found in a car. Her death was attributed to the flooding but details weren't immediately offered. Her death was the third reported from storms overnight.
Heavy rains over rugged terrain forced creeks and rivers up sharply around Y City.
Forecasters are warning of more bad weather today in much of the Southern Plains and Ozarks.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Forecasters warned that large hail and more tornadoes could strafe parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri on Friday, a day after powerful storms and floods killed at least three people in the storm-weary region.
Up to a dozen tornadoes touched down in mostly rural parts of Arkansas on Thursday, as well as one in Illinois and three in Oklahoma. One twister bounced through the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow, causing some structural damage, but no injuries.
A western Arkansas sheriff who went missing while checking on residents in a flooded area was among the fatalities. Keith Stephens of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said the body of Sheriff Cody Carpenter was recovered in Y City, 125 miles west of Little Rock, Friday morning. Carpenter and a wildlife officer were in a boat checking on a home in the area after the Fourche La Fave River rose sharply. The wildlife officer was still missing.
State police spokesman Bill Sadler said there were "confirmed fatalities" in the area.
Heavy winds caused a tree to topple onto a car in Tull, about 30 miles southwest of Little Rock, late Thursday, killing the driver, the Grant County Sheriff's Office said.
At least nine people were reported injured.
The National Weather Service was sending teams to survey the aftermath of Thursday's storms in Arkansas. Warning coordination meteorologist in Little Rock, John Robinson, said it could take days for the weather service to confirm whether tornadoes struck as flooded highways was hindering access to the storm-hit areas.
And more storms were expected Friday.
The agency's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said large hail and tornadoes are likely Friday in Oklahoma and parts of the Ozarks in Arkansas and Missouri. The areas at greatest risk include Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Joplin, Mo., where the second-deadliest American tornado on record killed at least 158 people in 2011.
Flooding was also a concern in parts of Missouri, Iowa and Illinois through Sunday.
Thursday's tornadoes all appeared to be much less dangerous than the top-of-the-scale EF5 storm that struck Moore, Okla., on May 20 and killed 24 along its 17-mile path. The U.S. averages more than 1,200 tornadoes a year, but EF5 storms like the one in Moore -- with winds over 200 mph -- happen only about once per year. The tornado last week was the nation's first EF5 since 2011.
This spring's tornado season got a late start, with unusually cool weather keeping funnel clouds at bay until mid-May. The season usually starts in March and then ramps up for the next couple of months.
Of the 60 EF5 tornadoes since 1950, Oklahoma and Alabama have been struck the most, seven times each. More than half of these top-of-the-scale twisters have occurred in just five states: Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.


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Kris Jenner has come to the defense of her daughter Kendall Jenner after backlash over the 18-year-old's topless photo shoot with Interview magazine.
The matriarch of the Kardashian-Jenner clan told the Huffington Post in an interview: "Doesn't she look great? Some people are like 'She poses topless.' She's a model. That's really her profession. She's really good at what she does."
"She has like, the perfect body, especially one that wants to be in the modeling business," she said. "I don't know, I got a lot of curves and I couldn't pull that off. But she always looks remarkable."
In the newest issue of Interview, Kendall poses in a couple of provocative black and white shots with her arms or hands covering her topless chest. Kendall admits to being a workaholic as a result of her upbringing by Bruce and Kris Jenner.
"My parents brought up Kylie and me to be workaholics. That's something I really appreciate," she tells the magazine.


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Pierogi are semicircular dumplings made of unleavened dough, stuffed with a variety of fillings.
I've cooked pierogi a couple of times but have never attempted making them from scratch, because honestly, it is a lot of work, and I usually only go for quick and easy recipes.
I've had a box of pierogi sitting in my freezer for a couple of months now and I finally decided to make a meal of it yesterday.
1 box (around 25-30) of frozen Pierogi (I like low fat cheddar and potato.)
2 Tbsp butter
3-4 cloves garlic, crushed1 onion, finely chopped
½ red bell pepper, diced
½ tsp red chilli flakes
A pinch of savory
Salt to taste
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the frozen pierogi and cook for 3-5 minutes. Drain.
Melt the butter in a skillet. Add the garlic, chopped onions, savory, red chilli flakes and sauté till onions are translucent.
Add the diced red bell pepper and cook till tender.
Add the cooked pierogi and mix well into the skillet mixture.
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I bet when you're texting with friends you like to drop a :-) or maybe a ;-). If you're really up on your game, it's possible you toss in a (^_^). And because RIM and Samsung decided to include a quick-access key for these wonderful digital creations on their smartphones, some soulless patent trolls got all >:-O about it and are taking the companies to court.
According to Paid Content, Varia Holdings — the trolls in question — say that BlackBerry handsets, along with the Galaxy Nexus, all infringe on their patent which "results in the display of a list of emoticons for selection by the user".
What next? Trolling for including a display of punctuation marks? Does Apple's emoji key fall under the domain of this patent? PLEASE TELL ME NO. DON'T TAKE MY EMOJI AWAY FROM ME. :'( [Paid Content]


text: Dubbed 'the art heart of the South Burnett', the Wondai Gallery is sure to surprise and impress. Prominently situated on the roundabout, behind the eye-catching dingo sculptures and rock pool, the building now housing the gallery was the original Stationmaster's residence, dating back to the early 1900s. It has been lowered and tastefully renovated, while retaining its old world charm, including the original timber flooring. A new Exhibition opens the first Friday of the month (except January), with artists attracted from throughout the State. A light supper is served and a local cellar door offers wine tasting. Usually, the exhibiting artists are on hand to discuss their works. As well, a 'Kids Korner' features art work from local schools. Works of pottery, silversmithing, ceramics and other arts and crafts are also displayed for sale. The recent addition of a workroom has allowed for the scheduling of children's art classes and various workshops for adults.


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Ferrari Store: participant in Vogue Fashion's Night Out 2011 – Milan, Rome, London and New York -
Milan, September 2011 – Ferrari Store will be one of the protagonists of the unmissable forthcoming editions of Vogue Fashion's Night Out.
On September 8th, Ferrari stores in Milan, London and New York will be simultaneously involved in this initiative, which will continue on September 15th with the participation to the first edition of the VFNO in Rome.
Ferrari flagship stores are getting ready to welcome all Cavallino fans by organising exclusive cocktails – from 7.30 pm onwards – where clients will discover the new Men's, Women's and Children's 2011 Fall/Winter collections.
One-of-a-kind collections inspired to the automotive world, and drawing from Ferrari's heritage and history, telling it through a new interpretation of style.
Exclusively for the VFNO evenings, Ferrari Store has produced limited editions of 150 numbered men's and women's T-shirts in soft washed and vintage-effect jersey, with a special tag on the back recalling the one positioned on the engines of the famous cars. Even the colour recalls the "Italy white" of the new Ferrari FF.
Ferrari VFNO T-shirts will be sold for 65 euro along with customized Ferrari shoppers carrying the logos of the event and of the famous Ferrari prancing horse.


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I have RMI call
I pass a structure and the RMI method process it and access DB and fills the result in the same type of sturcture and returns. (code shown below)
when deserialization (readObject) i get a java.outofmemory: heap space..exception.
Hashmap object is big. I understand the the RMI does the objectOutputSteam.reset() automatically..
When the is bigger object involved how to handle the outofmemory excpetion.
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I have non-official info about the Microsoft event, and the only event, TechUpdate Prishtina, in Kosova. The event will be held on 09/06/2010 (dd/mm/yyyy), as always in Grand Hotel in Prishtina. I don't know the exact agenda, but I will publish it later.
The event will be all the day, with lot of the sessions and with the nice possibility to make a social and professional connection, it is great meeting of all IT people in Kosova.
Tech events are absent in my country, so if somebody is interested to organize any event or any workshop about SQL Server or other technology, don't hesitate to contact me via email email@example.com. I think that the IT community in Kosova are very interested and very enthusiastic to attend in Tech events.


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1984: Born February 5 in Buenos Aires.
2001: Makes first-team debut for Boca Juniors.
2003: Wins two Argentinian titles, two Copa Libertadores titles and the World Club Championship with Boca.
2004: Joins Brazilian side Corinthians in an 18 million US dollar deal, a record between South American clubs. The deal is financed by Media Sports Investments, a group of investors headed by Kia Joorabchian who also own a controlling stake in Corinthians.
2005: Helps Corinthians to the Brazilian title and named the competition's best player.
2006: August - Joins West Ham along with Corinthians team-mate Javier Mascherano.
2007: March - West Ham are charged by the Premier League for breaching their rules in relation to the signings of Tevez and Mascherano.
April 27 - West Ham are fined £5.5million but spared a points deduction after pleading guilty. The verdict also rules "the registration of Carlos Tevez can be terminated by the FA Premier League", but Tevez is later cleared to play on for the Hammers.
May 13 - Scores the winning goal in 1-0 victory at Manchester United which ensures West Ham avoid relegation.
July 24 - FIFA recommend the Tevez case to be referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after deciding not to become involved. However, Joorabchian opts to issue High Court proceedings against West Ham.
August 3 - West Ham confirm they have reached a £2million settlement with Tevez's representatives which will allow the Argentinian to leave the club for Manchester United.
August 10 - Transfer to Old Trafford is confirmed.
2008: Wins the Barclays Premier League for the first time with United.
May 21 - Scores opening spot-kick in United's 6-5 penalty shoot-out victory against Chelsea in the final of the Champions League in Moscow.
2009 - Wins second Barclays Premier League title with United.
May 17 - Accuses United of showing him a lack of respect and states his desire to leave Old Trafford.
July 13 - Manchester City confirm they have agreed a deal with Tevez.
2010: April 13 - Questions the training methods of Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini in a newspaper interview.
April 30 - Mancini publicly tells Tevez he can leave in the summer if he is not happy at the club.
December 7 - Claims he is happy at City despite missing his children.
December 11 - Reports Tevez has handed in a written transfer request are confirmed.
December 12 - City reveal they have rejected a written transfer request from Tevez.
December 20 - City announce Tevez has withdrawn his transfer request after clear-the-air talks and expressed his "absolute commitment" to the club.
2011: February 20 - Scores in the FA Cup fourth-round replay against Notts County to move to 50 goals for City in 73 games, the second-fastest City player to reach the milestone.
April 16 - Not present at Wembley for City's FA Cup semi-final victory over Manchester United, having been ruled out of the match with a hamstring injury. City's preparations for the game were overshadowed by speculation the striker was using a trip to Milan to seek a move.
May 14 - Returns to captain City as they beat Stoke 1-0 to lift the FA Cup and end a 35-year spell without a major trophy.
May 16 - Issues a statement saying he would remain at City if his family situation could be resolved, but insists his daughters must come first.
July - Confirms his intention to leave City - but a move to Corinthians collapses.
August 3 - City announce Tevez to take extended break, meaning he will miss the Community Shield clash with former club United.
September 3 - Announces he is ready to play for City after desired move away from the club fails to happen.
September 21 - Fined for speeding.
September 27 - Mancini says Tevez refuses to play as a substitute for City in Champions League game against Bayern Munich. Mancini says he will never play for the club again.
September 28 - Issues a statement denying he refused to play. Suspended by the club for a maximum of two weeks, pending an investigation.
October 12 - City inform Tevez he will face disciplinary proceedings, claiming the player has a case to answer of alleged breaches of contract in relation to his conduct during the match against Bayern.
October 13 - Tevez reports back to City after his suspension but is ordered to train alone and is kept out of the first team squad.
October 25 - Is found guilty of five breaches of contract and fined four weeks' wages.
October 27 - Man City cut his fine down to two weeks wages due to intervention by the PFA.
November - Fails to report for training and returns to Argentina without permission. City stop paying Tevez's wages.
December 22 - Charged with gross misconduct for his actions the previous month, and fined six weeks' wages.
2012: January 12 - City reject a bid for Tevez from AC Milan.
February 14 - Makes his return to Man City, a day after he told an Argentinian broadcaster that Roberto Mancini treated him "like a dog".
February 21 - Apologises "sincerely and unreservedly" for his conduct in recent months.
Mar 21 - Makes first appearance for City in six months as a second-half substitute in 2-1 win over Chelsea.
May 13 - Helps Man City be crowned champions for first time in 44 years with dramatic 3-2 win over QPR on final day.
May 15 - Tevez pokes fun at former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson after holding up a sign which read 'RIP Fergie' during City's title-winning parade. City subsequently apologise.
August 12 - Scores in Man City's 3-2 win over Chelsea in Community Shield.
2013: March 3 - Scores hat-trick in City's 5-0 win over Barnsley in FA Cup quarter-finals.
April 3 - Sentenced to 250 hours of community service, a six-month driving ban and a £1,145 fine after pleading guilty at Macclesfield Magistrates' Court to driving while disqualified and without insurance.
June 25 - City agree a deal to sell Tevez to Juventus, Press Association Sport understands.


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Given the fact Apple is notoriously oblivious to so much other wrong-doing on its App Store, it's always amusing when the company stumbles upon something it actually thinks is important and needs fixing, only to quickly find it does not.
Case in point: iOS tower defence game Childhood's End, which despite Apple originally clearing for release, was later the subject of a review by the company when someone thought the game's name and use of teddy bear characters "might be a recruiting tool for paedophiles".
In order to get their game back on the App Store, developers Pixel Brain had to edit the appearance of the character to appear less similar to the notorious internet mascot Pedobear. Even though the original design, as you can see above, looked nothing like Pedobear.
What's hilarious isn't even the misplaced sense of similarity; it's the editorialising going on in their clearance criteria. How is an Apple employee dealing with patch content qualified to be an expert on how paedophile networks operate?
Chances are, they aren't. If by some chance they are, though, that's a business card I'd like to see.
Richard Chandler, Apple, iOS Patch Operations & Paedophile Recruitment Tool Specialist
Cute iOS app Childhood's End back online after Pedobear mix-up [Eurogamer]


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BROCKTON, Mass. – In perhaps their biggest test of the Little East Conference season, the Beacons bats were silenced for almost the entire day as the Eastern Connecticut State University bullpen was absolutely dominant recording a combined 23 strikeouts to lead the Warriors to their first conference sweep of the year as they defeated baseball by the finals of 2-0 and 4-0 Saturday afternoon at Campanelli Stadium in a conference doubleheader.
The Beacons, who had a very tough week, saw their overall record drop to 10-13, while their conference mark fell to 4-2. Despite the losses the Beacons still sit in sole possession of second place in the conference standings, with the Huskies of Southern Maine the only remaining undefeated team in conference play. The Warriors improved to 16-8-1 on the season, and 3-3 in the Little East to move into a three-way tie for third.
Fueling the Warriors bullpen were starters Evan Chamberlain and Tom Darby. Both pitchers recorded their fifth wins of the year with a pair 10 strikeout performances. Each of the three relievers that made an appearance in Saturday's contests walked away with a strikeout as well. On the day, the five pitchers allowed just six Beacons hits and one walk. All six hits allowed were singles.
In the opener, Chamberlain faced off against the Beacons ace Kyle Szatrowski (Agawam, Mass.). The two would battle back and forth all afternoon, with Szatrowski going all nine innings, allowing just the two runs, one earned, on six Warrior hits. The lefty fanned four batters and walked just two before getting handed his first loss of the year.
Eastern Connecticut's first run of the day came in the top of the third when they took advantage of a Beacons error. Mike Vaccarelli, who went 3-for-4 in the opener, drove in the go-ahead run on a RBI double to left field. ECSU would put their second run on the board in the fifth when Joe Balowski plated Nik Ververis on a sacrifice fly to right.
After that run neither team would really threaten until the ninth when the Beacons led off the inning with back-to-back singles to put runners at first a second. The Warriors would get the lead runner out at third on a fielder's choice bunt to put one out on the scoreboard. From there ECSU would get the next Beacons batter to fly out before picking up the final out via strikeout. The Beacons would total five hits in the contest, with only of their three errors coming back to the hurt them in the end. Jamill Moquette (Boston, Mass.) was the only Beacon to record multiple hits as the junior outfielder went 2-for-3 with a pair of stolen bases.
The nightcap would see Darby dominate the UMB line-up as he held the Beacons to just one hit through nine innings. The lone hit would belong to Bryan Failla (Torrington, Conn.), which he recorded in the bottom of the third. Patrick Austin (Torrington, Conn.) was handed the loss, his first of the year, after going 5.2 in which he surrendered four runs, three earned, on seven hits. The lefty struckout three and walked just one batter.
It was in the top of third inning that ECSU did a majority of their damage as they scored three of their four runs on three hits to give Darby all the room he needed to carry the Warriors to the victory. They would tack on their fourth run of the game in the top of the fourth on a RBI double by Ververis. From there the Beacons bullpen managed to keep the Warriors bats silent for the most part, but it was Darby who could not be touched as he cruised through the next four innings, before letting Matt Purnell close out the victory.
Baseball returns to action on Tuesday when they host Southern Maine at 6:15 p.m. at Campanelli Stadium in a Little East Conference single game.


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DMC Competencies
DMC Competencies reviews the four domains - key elements - that every DMC needs to know:
- Client
- Sales
- Operations
- DMC Business
Principles are defined for each domain and the knowledge base needed for each principle is described.
A field of action, thought, influence, etc.: the domain of DMCs - the four parts of the DMC industry
A fundamental, primary, or general law or truth from which others are derived: the principles of destination management - overall topics vital within each pillar of destination management
Familiarity or expertise, as with a particular subject or branch of learning: a knowledge of destination management was necessary for the job - skills displayed by professional DMCs


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Prof. Mona Bhan Publishes Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India
September 14, 2013
Mona Bhan, associate professor of anthropology, is the author of Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India: From Warfare to Welfare?. The book has just been issued by Routledge as part of its Contemporary South Asia Series.
"The rhetoric of armed social welfare has become prominent in military and counterinsurgency circuits with profound consequences for the meanings of democracy, citizenship, and humanitarianism in conflict zones," begins a description of the new release. "By focusing on the border district of Kargil, the site of India and Pakistan's fourth war in 1999, this book analyses how humanitarian policies of healing and heart warfare infused the logic of democracy and militarism in the post-war period.
"Compassion became a strategy to contain political dissension, regulate citizenship, and normalize the extensive militarization of Kargil's social and political order. The book uses the power of ethnography to foreground people's complex subjectivities and the violence of compassion, healing, and sacrifice in India's disputed frontier state. Based on extensive research in several sites across the region, from border villages in Kargil to military bases and state offices in Ladakh and Kashmir, this engaging book presents new material on military-civil relations, the securitization of democracy and development, and the extensive militarization of everyday life and politics. It is of interest to scholars working in diverse fields including political anthropology, development, and Asian Studies."
Learn more at the publisher's website or at Amazon.com.
In the spring, Dr. Bhan and Françoise Coulont-Henderson, professor of modern languages, were announced as 2013 recipients of the Exemplary Teaching Award. Presented by the General Board of Higher Education of the United Methodist Church through a gift from 1942 DePauw graduates George and Virginia Crane, the award recognizes faculty members who "exemplify excellence in teaching; civility and concern for students and colleagues; commitment to value-centered education; and service to students, the institution and the community."
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