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The summer flurry of mergers and acquisitions now includes a couple of big hostile bids – those by BHP Billiton for PotashCorp of Canada, and by South Korea's national oil company KNOC for Dana Petroleum of the UK.
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The weather hit the Winter Olympics schedule on Monday, with biathlon and snowboard cross events postponed until Tuesday.
The men's 15km mass start was initially due to take place on Sunday night but sudden fog at the Laura Cross Country Skiing and Biathlon Centre forced organisers to move the event until Monday morning at 1000 local time (0600GMT) as a result of the poor visibility.
Conditions were no better, however, and despite again changing the time to the afternoon, it was decided that the event would be postponed until Tuesday.
If there is no improvement in the weather by Monday night, the women's equivalent - the 12.5km mass start - could follow suit.
The men's snowboard cross was due to start at 1100 local time (0700GMT) on Monday, but it too fell foul of the weather and has now been pushed back to Tuesday.
The event will now get under way at 1030 local time (0600GMT) with a shortened format at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.
The competition will begin at the quarter-final stage and athletes will be seeded according to their FIS (International Ski Federation) points.
It was later announced that both runs in the ladies' giant slalom will take place earlier than planned on Tuesday.
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ADA, Ohio (AP) -- Investigators say unattended candles likely caused a fire that destroyed a church in northwest Ohio and forced a day care in the building to evacuate.
The State Fire Marshal's office said Wednesday that investigators found no evidence of criminal intent in the fire at the First United Methodist Church in Ada on Tuesday. No one was injured.
The state says the fire will be ruled undetermined because safety concerns prevented investigators from completing their examination. But investigators say the blaze most likely resulted from candles igniting other materials.
A few homes and a library near the church suffered minor heat damage including burned roofs and melted siding.
The church's website says it was formed in 1852 and moved to the current site in 1899.


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– Ameeth Palla, Technical Account Manager, Adobe
A topic that has come up several times in the recent past is about testing Adobe LiveCycle Workspace. I thought it will be useful to provide some information around this for the benefit of a larger LC community.
If the objective is Load testing, in-house Adobe uses a commercial tool call Silk Performer which can capture and replay the AMF3 interactions between Workspace and the server for scalable load generation. There are other tools that work with AMF3.Some people have asked if QTP can be used for load testing – It is unlikely that QTP is a good fit, since it is not suited to scalable load generation.
Adobe recommends using Silk Performer or Neotys Neload for load testing of Workspace. Check out the links below that may provide more insight into this topic:
If the objective is Functional testing then Workspace is configured for QTP testing out of the box. If you install QTP, restart your computer, then install the Flex plug-in for QTP, restart your computer then you can start automating your Workspace tests. However for QTP automation you should use the Workspace automation URL rather than the default URL. So rather than http://server:port/Workspace/Main.html you would use http://server:port/Workspace/Main-auto.html.
Read the complete post at http://blogs.adobe.com/livecycle/2012/03/testing-livecycle-workspace.html.


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Butler, Francoeur home runs aid Royals' sweep
Davis fires five scoreless innings as KC runs winning streak to four
KANSAS CITY -- Hey, this winning streak thing is getting serious for the Royals.
It reached four straight with a 3-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday night. Billy Butler and Jeff Francoeur banged solo home runs for the first-place Royals, who swept the series and have won six of their last seven games.
Sure beats their predicament at this time last year, when they were in the process of losing 12 straight games, 10 of them at home.
"It beats the heck out of our start last year," Francoeur said. "I said from day one, it all starts with pitching. When you have pitching, you're going to win ballgames. When the other team doesn't score, all you have to do is score one."
They certainly had pitching on this wet, cold, bleak evening -- Wade Davis, Bruce Chen and Kelvin Herrera combined on a shutout.
It was windy, rainy and 45 degrees at Kauffman Stadium, 40 years to the day after the ballpark -- then called Royals Stadium -- opened in 39-degree weather in 1973. The Royals had pitching that day, too, as Paul Splittorff went the distance in a 12-1 victory over the Whitey Herzog-managed Texas Rangers.
Butler celebrated the occasion with a home run in the Royals' first inning, a booming 417-foot shot to dead center field. It came against Liam Hendriks, a Minnesota right-hander who rewarded Butler by plunking him in the left arm his next time up.
"It was tough to score and I didn't think anybody'd be able to hit homers tonight," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "Heavy air, damp air and then Billy crushed his over the center-field fence, and then Frenchy got a pretty good piece of it, too."
Francoeur belted his home run to left field leading off the seventh against right-hander Josh Roenicke. After the first out, left-hander Brian Duensing arrived long enough to give up singles to Chris Getz and Alex Gordon. With the rain intensifying, righty Casey Fien took over and was nailed for an RBI single by Alcides Escobar.
Early on, the teams played a lively game of let's-load-the-bases-and-not-score for the 10,069 fans who braved the elements. Davis pitched out of bases-loaded jams in the first inning and again in the second.
"Our at-bats with runners in scoring position were basically non-existent," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "We had some poor at-bats and failed to get the big hits. We gave ourselves chances all day. The weather was what it was -- they did better in it than we did. A frustrating game for me."
In the bottom of the second, the Royals tried their luck on singles by Salvador Perez and Lorenzo Cain, and an error. But all three runners were stranded as Hendriks pitched out of it.
By the time Davis got through five innings, he had a shutout going but he'd thrown 96 pitches -- six strikeouts and three walks will do that -- and Chen came out of the bullpen.
"I didn't make it too easy on myself, but the biggest goal was to keep it where it was. We had the lead and Bruce did a great job coming in behind me," Davis said.
Chen found himself in a jam in the seventh, when leadoff man Aaron Hicks' pop fly in short center field was missed by Cain in the swirling mist for an error. Hicks sped to second base, but there he stayed as Chen got three straight flyouts, one handled securely by Cain.
Trevor Plouffe tripled with one out in the Twins' eighth. Cain got the ball in the tip of his glove webbing, but it fell free when he rammed into the center-field wall. Chen, however, struck out both Chris Parmelee and Brian Dozier.
"[Chen] was really good, really sharp, commanding his pitches, changing speeds," Yost said. "I don't know if you could ask for a better outing than what Bruce Chen gave us tonight."
Yost had put closer Greg Holland in dry dock after his narrow escape in Tuesday night's muddy victory.
"Yesterday was a very high-intensity inning, 27 pitches, I wanted to give him the day off [Wednesday] with the day off [Thursday] and he'll be ready to close against Toronto on Friday," Yost said.
So Herrera pitched the ninth and gave up a two-out double to Joe Mauer, but ended the game with his third strikeout for his second save.
"I like it," Herrera said. "I just want to do my job, wherever they need me. But I like to close games. It's real fun, closing games."
The Royals haven't had a winning record against the Twins since 2003.
"We're a different team than we've been in the last 10 years," Yost said. "So you can throw all that other stuff out the window."
And don't even bring up that 12-game skid of last April.
"That's in the past, too," Yost said. "That's not in our mind anymore."
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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After I ended up replacing my old smoking unit (My trusty Weber Performer) with a year long wood fired grill project, I needed a new rig. So I looked around and did some homework, finally settling on the 22.5 WSM. She's beautiful and can't wait to get her in service.
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If you haven't checked this thing out (the AMNPS) I'll say it's a great tool to have around. An inexpensive cold smoking solution that actually works. And works well. You can see the details here if you want: http://www.amazenproducts.com/ProductDe ... e=AMNPS5X8. About the best 40 bucks I've ever spent. Just light the thing, put it in the bottom of the WSM and let it go. It generates low heat smoke so you can do cheese, salt, peanuts or just about anything else you want. It uses a fuse burn pattern that gives you about 7 hours or so when loaded. This morning I took the cheese out and it was a beautiful golden color. I vacuum packed it and put it in the fridge. Looking forward to lot's more with this tool.
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Low Power Server CPU Shoot-outby Jason Clark & Ross Whitehead on 7/17/2007 12:15 AM EST
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mikepers - Friday, July 20, 2007 - linkSo, quick rough calculation. Assuming electricity costs 10 cents per KWH then I believe that with the AMD chip you're saving 80 watts x 24 hrs day x 365 / 1000 x .10 = about $70 per year. (at idle)
One thing not addressed in this article: Assuming a large server farm, what are your infrastructure savings? How much do you save in cooling that infrastructure. How much do you save because you can buy less generating capacity for when you have power outages? Any thoughts?
Last comment, for all the info in the article the most significant statistic for a large server farm is performance per watt. How much work can the farm do given the resources it consumes. In that respect it looks like AMD wins but not by as much as the initial difference in power consumption would have you believe. Reply
bruce24 - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkYou can buy 2GB and 4GB FB-DIMMS, yes they are a bit more expensive, but if you interested in power savings and an intel DP server, they are the way to do.
I've love to see the numbers if you replaced the 8 1GB DIMMs with 4 2GB or even better 2 4GB DIMMs. Reply
Justin Case - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkThen why not compare them to 2GB and 4GB registered (non-FB) DDR2 modules? Micron has been making them since 2004 (well, they announced them, at least). There must be other companies making / selling them these days (I'm pretty sure Infineon and Samsung are).
A quick search turned up Kingston's D51272F51 module (not sure who makes the chips). Not cheap, though (almost $900).
I think I even remember seeing some reference to an 8GB DDR2 DIMM, but it could have been just a kit (4+4).
IIRC, FB-DIMM power consumption is roughly 80% higher than regular registered DIMMs. Reply
jpeyton - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - link
yes they are a bit more expensive
2GB FB-DIMMs are feasible, since they are roughly 2X the price of 1GB modules. 4GB FB-DIMMs are roughly 11.5X more expensive than a 1GB module.
That might lower power consumption by a noticeable amount, but nothing significant enough to erase the huge gap between platforms.
Intel really needs to do more work on platform engineering; their gains in CPU efficiency are entirely erased (and then some) by some foolish choices (like going the FB-DIMM route).
It may not affect the little guys, but companies with server farms or HPC take platform efficiency very seriously (which is why companies like Cray and Sun are adamant about sticking with AMD). Reply
TA152H - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - link"Intel really needs to do more work on platform engineering; their gains in CPU efficiency are entirely erased (and then some) by some foolish choices (like going the FB-DIMM route). "
You're kidding, right? They made a conscious choice to use FB-DIMMS because of the benefits of it, and considered them more important than the negatives. It certainly isn't because they didn't have engineering resources for the platform, because that's exactly what they used to create the FB-DIMM platform. You might not agree with their choice of trade-offs, but using normal DDR2 or DDR3 would be comparitively easy considering they already have chipsets that support it.
I'm mixed on FB-DIMMS. There's a lot of bad, but there's a lot of good too. I'll agree with you in one way, they do need to provide people a choice. So, in that sense, I don't think they've done a great job on their platform. FB-DIMMs are certainly the best choice in some situations, and certainly not in others. People should decide based on their situation.
Alyx - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkI believe intel processors still hold the edge on performance per watt. In these tests the AMD system had higher performance per watt because of the intel ram. I'd be interested in an intel system with standard ram to get a closer comparison of just the processors. Are intel processors with standard ram uncommon?
It is illogical that a faster higher performing processor, that does more clock few clock than AMD, which also runs at lower watts would have less performance per watt than AMD.
Interesting read, I learned a bit from it. Cheers. Reply
TA152H - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkIntel servers currently support FB-DIMMs, so that is the platform that must be tested.
Also keep in mind you can't measure processors alone for power, although most sites do this incorrectly. AMD processors simply do more, they have a memory controller. So, all things being equal, a processor with a memory controller will use more power, but at the same the chipset would use less. Of course, not everything is ever equal, but my point is, even seemingly simple comparisons like CPU to CPU aren't quite so simple.
I have read that Intel may be backing off of FB-DIMMS, but until they do, and these folks are testing servers, it's absolutely valid data because that's what you're getting if you buy an Intel based solution. A lot of people have problems with Intel choosing this type of memory, so they might back off of it, or at least offer both. FB-DIMMS obviously have advantages too, so giving people a choice might make a lot of sense. Reply
BPB - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkIf energy savings is your aim, and your organization is a large one, then check out http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/36...">this article from last month.
http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/36...">http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/36... Reply
brshoemak - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkNormally I'm not an editor but:
quote:[under the Test Setup configurations]
Internal storage once again comes from one WD1600YD hard drive configured in RAID 0 with the OS installed.
i'm assuming it's two hard drives? or am I missing something because it's early Reply
Jason Clark - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkFixed. Reply
DeepThought86 - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkBased on these results, it looks like even though Barcelona will top out at 2.0 GHz but with the same TDP, it should be a killer in performance/watt and a great server processor Reply
LTG - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkNot for long - how hard would it be for Intel to come with a non FB-DIMM solution?
Then they would crush AMD because the CPU's actually have better power consumption.
Hans Maulwurf - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkThe AMD numbers for power consumption of CPUs only seem far to high.
I guess you didnt rearrange the memory modules when you took one CPU off the system. Thus you disabled half the memory modules as well. Reply
Ross Whitehead - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkWe did not rearrange the memory modules as we oly wanted to alter one attribute of the system between measurements so that we could attribute all difference in power to the one change.
If you consider that all of the AMD DIMMs only took 8 Watts total, and that the difference between AMD CPUs and Intel CPUs was 31 Watts total, I am fairly confident in the numbers. Reply
TA152H - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkAre these articles really meant to mislead people, or are there actual performance differences between the low voltage parts and the normal ones. I was under the impression they were the same parts but were picked for their ability to perform at lower voltages, thus their IPC should be completely identical. But the charts do show some difference, which is kind of surprising. This makes no sense to me at all, considering what AMD has been saying, but it is possible. Do you guys know what's going on with this? Are they just cherry picked CPUs that run with lower voltage, or do they differences that would alter IPC (most likely the L2 cache). It might be that the test variances are just statistical scatter, but if this is so, it would make no sense at all to report performance data on both types of processors, so I don't get it.
Also, the reason you don't combine servers is fairly simple, and that last paragraph is mind-boggling it's so uninformed. If you run a server at 3% all day, except for say 30 minutes, and then your servers get pegged out, you might average 7% for the day, but for those moments when your two servers are getting hammered, you can't possibly merge them or you'd potentially suffer degraded performance. It's not the average that matters as much as the maximum, unless you can tolerate the degradation. Most people can not, and the cost of a server doesn't validate a loss of performance during peak times. Reply
Jason Clark - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkTypically low power processors are picked based on yields, you are correct.
The assumption about combining servers is just not correct. If you look at an enterprise VM stack like VMware, they can move VM's around based on resource usage. If a VM is using most of the resources it can shuffle the other VM's around as required. Furthermore, VMware can allow for resource scheduling, whereas you can inform the stack that at 3:00AM this VM needs more resources... Just because you spike at 80-100% for 10 minutes by no means that you are now tied to being on one physical host...
Cheers. Reply
TA152H - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkOn the first part, you should remove one of the pairs of processors, either the lower power, and say what you just said. The fact you test both for performance strongly implies a difference where none exists, and in fact is just confusing. Why test both if they are the same? Wouldn't it be better to just say they have the same IPC, and clean up your charts some (except for the cost per watt type), and remove this source of confusion?
OK, with regards to VMWare, where do you get these extra resources from if you have gotten rid of the machine? Software is great, but if you don't have the hardware, how do you allocate these machines? I guess if you have a situation where one piece peaks at one time during the day, and another at another time, you could do something like this, so I'll grant you that it would work in some situations. In my experience, this is not typical though, and most of the time, you have "peak" hours where more people are just on and using all the servers more. And if you don't have the extra capacity sitting around on an underutilized server, there isn't much that will help it. Reply
Alyx - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkIn regards to saving money with servers I'm sure that substantial amounts of cash that would warrant an upgrade of this type would only be called for in a case where there was some type of a server farm or at least enough servers to consolidate one or two. Saving $10-$20 a month on power would only be useful if you were saving it on 20+ servers.
Hell, if you are only swapping out one or two servers then the number of tech hours spent are going to eat up any monetary benefit for at least the first years worth of power. Reply
VooDooAddict - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkIf you can consolidate with VMWare / Xen, ect. You'll get far better raw system power usage out of a couple Dual Socket Quad Core systems running as hosts then running them all on physical with low voltage chips.
Cooling is another issue those as once you get all those 8 Cores working on VMs you'll have quite alot of heat in a concentrated area. Reply
duploxxx - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkWell it will be depending on you're hardware. If you mean current available quadcore offers, for sure they do look interesting prise wise but are not interesting performance wise in a virtual (hypervisor) environment. Even current woodcrest system have a major FSB limit with there dual 1333FSB against current AMD k8 opteron systems, in quad core cpu systems you just add raw cpu power on the same limit.
there are enough benchmarks providing this info and if you have the chanche to play with those systems, you will even notice it.
For real quadcore advantage you'll have to wait for the K10. Even if it is only at 2.0 GHZ with his updated dual mem controller, internal communication, shared cache and most important NPT feature it might even outperform 2.6-3.0 Clovers in virtualization. Reply
sc3252 - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkEven though this is for low power, it is nice to see amd win some benchmarks for a change.
If I was building a small server it looks like the logical choice would be AMD, for now. Of course if I was building a small server it probably would be a x2 3600 or a sempron, unless you are actually running a database you are never going to be at high utilization. Running mythtv, samba and a mail client would never require the amount of power either the core 2 dou have or the amd 64 cpu's. Reply
TA152H - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkI run one server on a K6-III+ running at 250 MHz, and it never gets pegged. A lot of servers are just file servers, and you can get by with an underclocked processor easily, since the main performance characteristics come from I/O devices. So, a lot of it depends on the workload.
I was looking again at some mini-ITX stuff lately, and VIA has some really impressive processors now too. A year or so ago, I bought some 800 MHZ Eden processor that took less than 8 watts, but it proved worthless since the performance was less than a K6-III+ using the same amount of power (although the platform was more stable). So, I wasn't too impressed with it. However, now they have a 1.5 GHz version with the same power use, and an amazing 1 GHz version using only 3.5 watts. With a hard disk (notebook) and some memory, you can get power draw of considerably under 30 watts with a whole system, and the performance is fine for a lot of stuff. It looks like they are finally beating the older technology and offer interesting products for those who do not need a lot of processing power, and are very interested in saving power. The bad thing is though, with 2.5 inch drives, even your I/O performance is not going to be very good, but you can always use these in other cases too if you need I/O performance. How reliable they are is unknown to me, and of course if you have critical data, they are a bad choice because unless you use the slot, you don't have RAID either. But, in limited situations they are worth considering.
They have released a new chipset, the CN896, that looks interesting, but so far I have not seen any motherboards based on it available. It's irritating that they release these things so far in advance of any products, but it looks to be a pretty impressive chipset. The only thing I don't like is that it doesn't support DX10, and I don't know why anyone would settle for DX9 anymore, especially with Vista becoming the standard. So, it's really just for Vista Basic, which kind of sucks. But, I guess this type of compromise is necessary in this power envelope. Reply
Spoelie - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkYour last paragraph doesn't make much sense.
Vista aero only needs a dx9 card, it does not require dx10. The only thing that requires dx10 are dx10 games, and performance in those applications has been utterly abysmal on everything but the highest end cards. Integrated dx10 graphics at this moment would be completely useless.
So it is in fact the other way around, why would anyone pay extra for unusable features at this moment and the foreseeable future. Reply
TA152H - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkWell, Microsoft only validates Vista Basic for that chipset, not Aero.
Abysmal is a subjective term. Sure, you have the dweebs that want the highest settings on everything, and this is true, an IGP wouldn't be a great choice. But, you're obviously ignorant to the fact DirectX is not just for games, so I'm not sure what else to say to you. Learn something, OK? I can help you, here is a nice interview with the a guy from Microsoft that was quite involved with DirectX 10. Maybe you'll believe him when he says it's for more people than just gamers?
DirectX 10 is useful in a lot of ways, not just idiot kids shooting aliens. There are now low cost cards supporting this, and only a fool would buy old technology for the same price, unless they like obsolescence. The problem with the CN896 is it doesn't support DirectX 10, or Aero, and that's just a bad thing for something being released right now. On top of this, it isn't even available in motherboards. Compare this with the 965, which is a lot older, and still has more features. I think most people buying a machine, even a low power one, would prefer to run Aero on their machine, Vista isn't quite Vista without it. But, maybe they couldn't do it with the power envelope, and decided it would have to wait until they could. So, they just support the obsolete and inferior DX9. It's understandable, but I don't really like it. Not for something totally new. I don't think anyone should be releasing DX9 only hardware anymore. The future is clear, and it's DX10 and what succeeds it. Reply
Spoelie - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkThe fact still remains it only is being used in games for the moment, try to find a CAD/CAM solution that utilizes dx10 features, or an announcement for one in the coming year.
If ms doesn't certify aero, then you have a point, but dx10 is a non-issue.
And yes, performance is non-subjectively abysmal. We're not talking about ultra high settings, we're talking about 1024x768 with no AA or AF whatsoever. That is below the standard LCD resolution... You need a high end chip to run it, the mainstream line of both ati and nvidia do not cut it, let alone any hypothetical dx10 integrated graphics.
Any person would buy older technology if it provides a better value, and that is what most current low-end to mid-range dx9 solutions provide, better performance for a better price. Maybe in a year or so the situation will have changed, but now and in the near future dx10 is next to useless on anything but the high end. Reply
ButterFlyEffect78 - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkWhat does AMD stand for? Advanced micro systems. If you apply this logic it should be very self-explanatory to this subject or topic. Reply
Gul Westfale - Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - linkit's "than", not "then". also, AMD stands for Advanced Micro Devices, not Systems.
as for the article, it is certainly interesting to learn something about servers, but the actual consumption of a new system is certainly going to be less important than things like future upgradeability, performance, and reliability. in that sense, the rather small differences between AMD and intel do not matter so much, they are not the most important deciding factor when it comes to making a buying decision. also, there are so many different system configurations out there that with a few different components the numbers here would be very different.
so, like i said, interesting read but we should not draw too many conclusions from it. Reply


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Canada have defeated regional rivals Bermuda in convincing fashion today at the ICC World T20 Qualiiers.
Losing the toss and sent into bat, the Canadians amassed a sizeable total of 175-8 from their 20 overs on the back of opening batsmen, Ruvindu Gunasekera's 48 ball 83 run enslaught. Tyson Gordon also made a valuable contribution lower down the order with a quick fire 16 ball 39 run innings that carried the Canadians to what would be a winning total.
The Bermudan response was meek with only the hard hitting veteran Lionel Cann registering a measure of resistance with 33 runs from 21 balls.
Skipper Rizwan Cheema was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 3-16 from his 4 overs and rookie British Columbia seamer Manny Aulakh collecting a pair. Henry Osinde, Junaid Siddiqui, Zahid Hussain, and Jimmy Hansra all snagged one wicket a piece to limit Bermuda well short of the required target at 103.
In registering the 72 run victory, the Canadian record moves to 3-1 and second place in Group A standings behind table toppers Afghanistan.
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Braves' perfect run vs. Nationals comes to an end
Maholm makes few mistakes, but bats blanked by Zimmermann
ATLANTA -- While winning each of their previous nine games against the Nationals, the Braves had the luxury of not having to face Jordan Zimmermann. But they now can consider themselves among the teams that have first-hand knowledge of the young pitcher's ability to dominate a game.
Zimmermann was sensational over eight scoreless innings and Ian Desmond turned one of Paul Maholm's few mistakes into a two-run homer that proved to be too much for the Braves, who ended their perfect run against the Nationals with Wednesday night's 2-0 loss at Turner Field.
"Pauly has been pitching well for us all season," left fielder Justin Upton said. "It stinks when he goes out and pitches so well and we couldn't push anything across."
While Zimmermann allowed just two hits over eight scoreless innings, Maholm's damage over eight innings was limited to two infield singles and Desmond's fourth-inning home run, which allowed the Nationals to beat the Braves for the first time in six tries this year.
"Two infield hits and the home run," Maholm said. "You get over it. You take the positives and move on."
Adding insult to injury, Desmond said his home run was aided by a tip that a certain former third baseman gave him before Monday's series opener.
"Tonight I just wanted to stay balanced and just make sure I stayed on my legs," Desmond said. "Chipper [Jones] actually told me that. I saw him the other day, sitting behind the screen, and I just thought, 'Stay on my legs.' Good things happen."
In their attempt to win a 10th consecutive game against the Nationals, the Braves were limited to two hits for the third time through this year's first 27 games. They were limited to two hits or fewer just twice all of last year.
Zimmermann retired each of the final 17 batters he faced. The 26-year-old right-hander has surrendered three hits while not allowing a run in the 17 innings that have encompassed his past two starts.
"He's pretty good," manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "He's a guy that commands his fastball. He threw a majority of fastballs tonight, with a couple of sliders. He came after us pretty good."
Zimmermann allowed a two-out single to Justin Upton in the first inning, then saw Maholm find fortune in the third with an opposite-field double that fell in shallow right field. That would mark the end of the threats produced by the Braves, who struck out nine times.
"[Zimmermann] had his fastball going, and he mixed everything in a little bit," Upton said. "For the most part, he was just pounding the zone with his fastball, and we were behind it all night."
In their first five matchups against the Nationals this year, the only starters the Braves faced were Stephen Strasburg, Gio Gonzalez and Ross Detwiler. They frustrated Strasburg and Gonzalez in the first two games of this four-game set, then saw Zimmermann's mastery hand them their fifth shutout loss of this year.
Zimmermann is now 5-1 with a 1.86 ERA through six starts. This was just the second start he made against the Braves since the start of the 2012 season.
"I stick to the same game plan," Zimmermann said. "Pound the strike zone, get ahead, and let those guys hit my pitches. That's what I did tonight."
Consecutive two-out infield singles in the third inning accounted for the only damage Maholm incurred before he walked Bryce Harper to begin the fourth. Three pitches later, Desmond sent a 1-1 curveball over the wall in left-center.
"It felt OK," Maholm said of the curveball. "I didn't want to throw it for a strike. I wanted it to be low. I get plenty of ground-ball double plays out of it. That is what I was trying to go for. I don't know where it ended up. It might have been belt-high or thigh-high. I wanted it to be below his knees. That way he could roll over it and the guys could make the play for me."
After issuing a two-out walk to Anthony Rendon in the fourth inning, Maholm retired each of the final 13 batters he faced. But after limiting the Nationals to four baserunners and allowing just one hit to leave the infield, the veteran southpaw had nothing to show but a tough-luck loss.
"I can't say I'm happy, because obviously, we didn't win," Maholm said. "I can look at it and say I pitched well enough to win."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Chipotle's "Farmed and Dangerous" miniseries has come to end, leading to countless farmers and ranchers to go online to speak the real truth behind family farms and agricultural production. Among these voices is Greg Peterson, the oldest brother of the famed Peterson Bros. trio.
Huffington Post recently gave Peterson's blog the spotlight in his opposition to "Farmed and Dangerous," but in a section sponsored by Chipotle and littered with the company's ads, is his voice really being heard?
Peterson doesn't fully disagree with Chipotle – he too believes consumers deserve healthy meat from humanely-raised animals raised by family farmers who consider ethical behavior to be of greater concern than profit. But it's definitions of these standards that he questions.
"While it may seem that Chipotle is on the side of family farmers, the truth is that they are attacking thousands of family farms across America like ours that fit the definition of an 'industrial farm,'" Peterson wrote.
He also jumps to defend his role in spreading the truth about agriculture.
"Why am I, Greg Peterson, asking the people reading this to trust what I have to say on this topic? Well first of all, I am a real farmer, and I have been all of my life. I base my beliefs off of personal experience on a real farm and the real, independent, scientific research that has been done on the topics. The reality of who I am compared to the propaganda (from both sides of the argument) of what you might read on the Internet is what should set me apart.
Read the full blog post on the Huffington Post here.
The posts by Peterson were pulled from the group's newly minted Wordpress blog.
On this blog, Peterson goes into further explanation of why he has a beef with the restaurant chain, including:
"This is where I must encourage you to visit an actual real-life farm of this proportion, whether it is cattle, poultry, or swine. Videos, words, and pictures can too easily be manipulated to fit either side of the agenda."
"Resorting to using mistruths to bash the farmers who are feeding the world is not a solution! We must work together to find new solutions that are not in conflict with the current ones we already have. If we do that, feeding the world AND taking care of the world can coexist."
Click to read parts 2, 3 and 4 of his blog posts.
Peterson's issues with Chipotle don't stop there. He also took to Twitter to call the company out on their approach to "sparking dialog." See the full exchange here.


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Isn't soup the best? It warms you up when it's freezing outside, it's easy to make, it's a great way to clean out the fridge (you really can throw any old vegetables sitting in the crisper into your current soup of the day) and you can make a big batch at the beginning of the week and eat it for lunch or dinner (or breakfast if you're into that) for days. Some soups — those spiced with cumin or ginger especially — taste even better after a few days. Bobby Deen's Thai Sweet Potato Soup is one such soup. Make a pot tonight and enjoy a steaming bowl when it's done, then pack some for lunch tomorrow. After the flavors of the curry paste, ginger and garlic have a chance to meld overnight, your soup will taste even more amazing tomorrow — so much so that you might want it for dinner again.
To glam up this Thai soup even more, top it with pan-fried tofu, toasted cashews and coconut, chopped cilantro or a fried egg.
Spicy Thai Sweet Potato-Ginger Soup
2 teaspoons canola oil
3 tablespoons chopped peeled fresh ginger
1 teaspoon red Thai curry paste
4 scallions, thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
4 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed (about 2 1/2 pounds)
Two 32-ounce containers reduced-sodium chicken or vegetable broth (use vegetable to make it truly meatless)
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut milk
Grated zest and juice of 1 lime
Heat the oil in a large nonstick saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the ginger, red curry paste, scallions and garlic. Cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the potatoes, broth, brown sugar and nutmeg and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer, partially covered, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are fork-tender, about 20 minutes.
Transfer the soup, in batches, to a food processor or blender and blend until smooth. Return the soup to the saucepan. Stir in the coconut milk and lime zest and juice and heat through. Serve at once.
Per Serving: 220 Cal; 7 g Protein; 6 g Tot Fat; 3 g Sat Fat; 1 g Mono Fat; 38 g Carb; 4 g Fiber; 15 g Sugar; 68 mg Calcium; 2 mg Iron; 121 mg Sodium; 0 mg Cholesterol
More Meatless Thai Recipes:
Spicy Thai Green Papaya Salad
Plump Udon Noodles in Thai Green Curry With Eggplant
Mushroom Spinach Thai Salad
Black Sticky Rice With Coconut-Lime Whipped Cream
Fried Baby Bananas With Coconut Cream
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Olympic athletes and Strictly Come Dancing stars were the order of the day at the official opening of the Westcroft Leisure Centre.
Team GB swimmers and gymnast Max Whitlock gave demonstrations at the Carshalton based centre on Saturday, January 26.
Around 5,000 people attended the event which also featured face painting, arts and crafts and a dance workshop with Strictly star Kristina Rihanoff.
Tom Brake the MP for Carshalton and Wallington said: "This was an exciting and fun day. I am happy we now have such top-notch facilities to enjoy.
"I hope that many families and individuals will use the centre to stay fit and healthy and have fun. I will certainly be dropping in for a swim or workout soon."
Councillor Jill Whitehead, chair of Sutton's environment and neighbourhoods committee, said: "The day was fantastic and I was so pleased to see so many people turn up to see what we have been developing.
"The stars really made the day complete and I'm sure that everyone who came really enjoy meeting them and taking part in the various activities.
"We now want to see those same faces - and many more - coming back week in, week out to use the centre and take advantage of the wonderful equipment and facilities we have here in Sutton."


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By Shobhana Chandra Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON — Orders placed with U.S. factories rose in May for the first time in three months, easing concern that manufacturing is faltering.
The 0.7 percent increase in bookings followed a revised 0.7 percent drop in the prior month, the Commerce Department said today in Washington. The median forecast of economists in a Bloomberg News survey called for a rise to 0.1 percent.
Europe's debt crisis and a slowdown in Asian markets including China is restraining exports, weighing on the outlook for manufacturers like Joy Global and DuPont. Business investment, a mainstay of growth, will provide less of a boost to the economy as a weakening labor market holds back American consumers from boosting purchases of vehicles and other goods.
"Orders were so weak in prior months that the healthy gain in May is not enough to buck the softening trend," said Ellen Zentner, a senior economist at Nomura Securities International in New York, who projected a gain of 0.9 percent. "Business caution has become more pervasive."
Estimates in the Bloomberg survey of 52 economists ranged from a drop of 1.3 percent to a gain of 1 percent. The Commerce Department revised the April figure from a previously reported drop of 0.6 percent.
Excluding transportation equipment, factory orders increased 0.4 percent in May after falling 0.9 percent the prior month.
Bookings for durable goods, those meant to least at least three years climbed 1.3 percent, also the first gain in three months. They make up just over half of total factory demand. Tuesday's reading was more than the 1.1 percent gain estimated by the government on Thursday. Demand for non-durable goods, including petroleum, increased 0.2 percent.
Orders for capital goods excluding aircraft and military equipment, a measure of future business investment, advanced 2.1 percent, more than the 1.6 percent gain estimated last week, after falling 1.5 percent the prior month.
Shipments of those goods, used in calculating gross domestic product, increased 0.6 percent, more than previously projected, after dropping 1.5 percent in April.
An unemployment rate exceeding 8 percent is restraining household spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of the economy. Cars and light trucks sold at a 13.7 million annual rate in May, the weakest this year and down from April's 14.4 million pace, Ward's Automotive Group data showed.
Factory inventories decreased 0.2 percent in May for a second month, Tuesday's report showed. The draw down in stockpiles may prompt some economists to cut estimates for second-quarter gross domestic product.
Factory shipments climbed 0.5 percent in May, the report also showed. The gain in sales combined with the drop in stocks brought the inventory-to-shipments ratio down to 1.27 months, the lowest reading since September, from 1.28 months in April.
Manufacturing accounts for about 12 percent of the economy and has been at the forefront of the recovery that began June 2009. Cooling business investment means it may offer less support to the expansion in the second quarter.
The Institute for Supply Management's index fell to 49.7 in June, the first contraction in almost three years and worse than the most-pessimistic forecast in a Bloomberg News survey, a report showed Monday.
Regional figures reinforce the slowdown. Manufacturing in the Philadelphia area shrank in June at the fastest pace in almost a year, while New York-region factories expanded at the slowest rate in seven months.
Executives at Wilmington, Del.-based DuPont, the third- largest U.S. chemical maker, said while growth in North America is holding up, they are concerned about a slowdown in China and Germany's dependence on exports.
"My number one worry is what will happen in Europe over the next six to nine months," Diane Gulyas, group vice president of DuPont's performance-materials segment, said on a conference call with analysts on June 14.
Joy Global, the maker of P&H and Joy mining equipment, cut forecasts for full-year earnings and revenue as companies ease capital expenditure amid concern over the slowdown in China. Equipment orders fell 62 percent in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier primarily due to a weak U.S. coal market, the Milwaukee-based company said in May.
The rest of the world is reporting weaker results. Euro-area manufacturing contracted for an 11th straight month in June as Europe's debt crisis sapped demand. A manufacturing purchasing managers' index for China fell to 48.2 last month from 48.4 in May, HSBC Holdings and Markit said Monday.
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Published: Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 6:02 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 6:02 p.m.
TAMPA — Black Friday shoppers are already waiting in line in Tampa.
Rick Hilton arrived Friday night at the same Best Buy store he has shopped at since he was in ninth grade. Now, the 21-year-old is looking for deals on a computer and flat-screen television for his grandmother.
The Tampa Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/T9st3h ) that Hilton and two other shoppers were already in line in anticipation for the long lines on the day after Thanksgiving. By Saturday afternoon, two more shoppers claimed a spot.
Hilton and some other shoppers reunite once a year for this event, pitching tents to sleep in at night and playing football in the parking lot when the store closes.
Tina Jones set up camp early Saturday morning as she waited for her family to show up.
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G4S said it was looking at oil and gas based prospects in countries like Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria and South Sudan, where a huge oil pipeline could be built through Kenya to a port there in order to bypass bitter disputes with neighbouring Sudan.
High potential mining opportunities are also in countries such as Botswana, Ghana, Namibia and Tanzania.
The company expects to move into Ethiopia, Libya, Somaliland and South Sudan in the next year…-Interview
…To reduce its reliance on Khartoum, the South Sudanese government has announced a 2,000 km pipeline, at a cost of $3bn, through Kenya to its port of Lamu. G4S is one of the companies vying to help secure this vital source of South Sudanese revenue… -separate source–see below
I had picked up on this project through some stories I was reading in regards to the future of this industry. That the companies are looking for business in resource rich Africa, and much of that business revolves around energy related projects.
This particular project grabbed my attention, just because of how ambitious it is and how involved the security for it would be. Because once this is up and running, all aspects of LAPSSET will be a big target for criminals and terrorists. Especially the 2000 km of pipeline they plan on building.
So this should require the services of multiple PMSC's to help in all aspects of securing this thing. I also imagine that some kind of oil police apparatus will have to be established, which will then require training facilities with instructors. We will see how it goes, and if any readers have any other details about this massive project, feel free to comment below. –Matt
Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor
The Lamu Port and Lamu Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) aka The Lamu corridor is a transport and infrastructure project in Kenya that when complete will be the country's second transport corridor. Kenya's other transport corridor is the Mombasa port and Mombasa – Uganda transport corridor that passes through Nairobi and much of the Northern Rift.
The project will involve the following components:
-A port at Manda Bay
-Standard gauge railway line to Juba (capital of South Sudan)
-Road network
-Oil pipelines (Southern Sudan and Ethiopia)
-Oil refinery at Bargoni
-Three Airports
-Three resort cities (Lamu, Isiolo and Lake Turkana shores)
The project was initially conceived in 1975 but never took off due to various reasons. The project was later revived and included in Kenya's Vision 2030. LAPSSET cost was estimated to cost $ 16 Billion in 2009. Recent estimates arrived after studies now put the cost of the project at between US $ 22 Billion and US $ 23 Billion.
The timeline of the project is not clear including when it started and when it should be finished. Some projects like the Isiolo-Merille projects began in 2007. At the peak of the project, between 2013 and 2018, it is expected that the Kenyan government will be spending about 6% of the country's Gross Domestic Product or 16% of its annual budget on the project. The project is in turn expected to contribute an additional 3% increase in Kenya's GDP by 2020.
Key towns in the project are Lamu & Isiolo in Kenya, Juba in Southern Sudan and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
Wikipedia for LAPSSET here.
Lamu port project launched for South Sudan and Ethiopia
March 02, 2012
There have been protests against the port by some environmentalists and residents of Lamu island
Construction has begun on a $23bn (£14.5bn) port project and oil refinery in south-eastern Kenya's coastal Lamu region near war-torn Somalia's border.
An oil pipeline, railway and motorway will also be built linking Lamu to South Sudan and Ethiopia.
Newly independent South Sudan plans to use Lamu as its main oil export outlet.
A BBC reporter says security concerns for the project may explain the presence of Ethiopian and Kenyan troops in Somalia aiming to pacify the region.
'Biggest African project'
Kenya's leader Mwai Kibaki launched the project along with his South Sudanese and Ethiopian counterparts, Salva Kiir and Meles Zenawi respectively.
"I have no doubt that this day will go down in history as one of the defining moments – when we made a major stride to connect our people to the many socio-economic opportunities that lie ahead," AFP news agency quotes Mr Kibaki as saying at the inauguration ceremony.
Known as Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor (Lapsset), it is expected to be completed within four years with initial costs coming from the three governments and plans to attract international investment.
Steven Ikuwa, the administrator in charge of Lapsset, told the BBC the scale of the plans was huge.
"I am proud to say this is one of the biggest projects that we are carrying out in Africa."
The BBC's Noel Mwakugu in Lamu says there are worries about the impact of the project on Lamu district, which is one of East Africa's most beautiful and relatively unspoiled environments along the Indian Ocean and includes a cultural heritage site on Lamu Island.
"Lamu is a living heritage. Already Unesco has declared Lamu a World Heritage Site – as an endangered site," Mualimu Badi from the Save Lamu group told the BBC.
"If 500,000 people come to work as workers, we stand to lose that status."
Mr Badi also said local residents fear they would be made homeless by the project as most people in the area are unable to prove their right to live in their homes.
In response to these complaints, Mr Kibaki has announced that residents will be issued with land title deeds and his administration will provide training for 1,000 young people to prepare for future opportunities presented by the port.
Oil export alternatives
Our correspondent says Lamu's 32-berth port will be five times larger than Kenya's only other Indian Ocean port, Mombasa – which has been struggling to serve the needs of landlocked countries to the south and west of Kenya.


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Walt Disney dropped the most in 15 months after reporting fiscal fourth-quarter sales that missed analysts' estimates amid an ad-sales decline at the ABC network and weakening trends at cable-sports powerhouse ESPN.
The shares slid 6 per cent to $US47.06 at the close in New York following yesterday's results. The drop, the greatest since August 2011, reduced Disney's year-to-date gain to 25 per cent. Sales at the world's largest entertainment company rose 3.4 per cent to $US10.8 billion, trailing projections of $US10.9 billion, the average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
Investors were spooked by comments from yesterday's conference call that advertising trends at ESPN, Disney's biggest profit driver, were weakening, said Martin Pyykkonen, senior equity analyst at Wedge Partners in Greenwood Village, Colorado. That's created a cloud of uncertainty, he said.
"Ad sales didn't really rebound after the Olympics ended," Pyykkonen said. "ESPN is still an incredibly powerful brand, but maybe it's kind of peaked."
ESPN, the leading cable-sports network, is responsible for 75 per cent of the operating income generated by Disney's cable networks, Pyykkonen estimates. Profit at the unit gained 9.4 per cent to $US1.38 billion in the period ended Sept. 29, Disney said yesterday in a statement. ESPN's advertising was little changed, while programming costs for sports are rising, company executives said on a conference call. The network faces rising competition from sports channels including NFL Network.
ABC, Hulu
Elswhere, Disney's film unit saw declines in revenue and operating income, driven by lower ticket sales and writedowns, while lower ratings at ABC hurt ad sales. Programming and marketing costs at Hulu.com, co-owned with News Corp and Comcast, led to a 4.5 per cent decline in broadcast profit, to $US192 million.
The advertising slowdown and Disney's investments in parks will limit profit growth in the near term, Tony Wible, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia, said in a research note today. He lowered his rating on Disney to neutral from buy.
"A multitude of items will hamper Disney's fiscal first quarter results such that we lower our near-term estimates," Anthony DiClemente, an analyst at Barclays, said in a research note. While some of the items are temporary, "some items may be 'trending,' such as higher NFL and college football rights costs."
Net income increased 14 per cent to $US1.24 billion, or 68 cents a share, in the quarter that ended Sept. 29, Disney said yesterday in a statement. That matched predictions.
'Heated' competition'
Ad sales at ABC fell because of lower summer ratings and the Olympics, while advertising on Disney's cable channels was "relatively OK," Chief Executive Officer Robert Iger said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. While ESPN benefits from long-term programing contracts with sports leagues, rival TV networks have bid up the prices, Iger said.
"The competition has probably been a little more heated than we have seen in the last couple of years," he said.
Disney joins companies including Time Warner in reporting disappointing advertising for last quarter, said Paul Sweeney, an analyst with Bloomberg Industries.
"Revenue came in light due to weaker-than-expected advertising revenue on both broadcast and cable-TV networks," Sweeney said.
Disney agreed to buy "Star Wars" owner Lucasfilm for $US4.05 billion on Oct. 30, a deal that furthers Iger's pursuit of marquee content in an era marked by technology changes.
Marvel, Pixar
Services such as $US8-a-month video streaming and free game downloads have disrupted Hollywood's traditional revenue sources. Iger, who paid a combined $US11.2 billion for Pixar and Marvel, has said memorable characters will be valuable no matter what medium they appear in.
Disney paid $US7 billion for animation studio Pixar in 2006 and bought Marvel Entertainment in 2009 for $US4.2 billion, adding the creators of "Toy Story" and "The Avengers" to the company's ranks.
Net income in the year-earlier quarter was $US1.09 billion, or 58 cents a share. Disney's net profit for the full fiscal year increased 18 per cent to $US5.68 billion, while sales climbed 3.4 per cent to $US42.3 billion.
Sports rights costs for cable TV will be $US170 million higher in the current first quarter of fiscal 2013, the company's Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo said in the conference call yesterday. Operating income at the film studio will decline by more than $US150 million in the quarter, he also said, due to the strong performance of "Cars 2" and "The Lion King" in 3-D in the same period last year.
Revenue of $US500 million will be generated by a new cruise ship, attractions at the company's California Adventure resort in Anaheim and other park enhancements. These will be offset by investments in theme parks in Orlando, Florida, and Shanghai this fiscal year, Rasulo said.


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The Mars Science Laboratory rover will sport the biggest, toughest robotic arm the red planet's ever seen! This super-limb must lift 34 kilograms (almost 75 pounds) of instruments to reach out and test martian rocks and soil, which may hold clues about whether Mars could have supported life. Longer than most people are tall, the arm also provides heavy-duty support for the sampling drill. The drill requires a lot of "muscle" to hold it still on the rock. But, the arm isn't all brawn - it must delicately deposit the precious drill samples inside the rover for further testing.
So, how does the rover train to do all this heavy-lifting? Team members build two identical arms. They just completed the one that will stay here on Earth. They will use it for practice, in preparation for the one that will go to Mars on the rover. One strong arm down, and one to go!
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Volume 6 Issue 1, August 2017 Complete Issue: [Lilt-6-1-August-2017 (PDF)] LiLT Editor's Note and About LiLT (2-3) [ from-the-editors-and-about-6-1 (PDF)] Contents: Volume 6, Issue 1, 2017 (4) [ content-6-1 (PDF)] Special Issue: Empirical Studies of Creative Writing in the Second Language Classroom Empirical Studies of Creative Writing in the Second Language Classroom: Challenging the Oxymoron an editorial for the special issue by…
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JESLA is the Journal of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA). It publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed open-access articles in the field of second language research. Its aim is to promote the understanding of second language learning and use, and to stimulate the debate on the bilingual and multilingual individual and society. JESLA publishes one issue per year comprising the best papers from the EUROSLA annual conference.
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Eleven articles from first issue now online - open access
Letter to the editors by Vivian Cook, reply by Noam Chomsky.
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From www
Diversity and social cohesion in a globalized world: moving towards more engaged language studies Diversité et cohésion sociale dans un monde globalisé : vers des sciences du langage plus engagées
Le projet SPIRAL a pour objectif de renforcer la qualité des programmes de formation des futurs professeurs du premier degré en y intégrant notamment une période de mobilité en Europe. Dans cette newsletter, vous trouverez les dernières informations sur les actualités du projet, ses résultats et ses prochains rendez-vous.
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Also CFP for conference in Caen 23-4 November 2017
30th August until 2nd September, 2017
Keynotes Holger Hopp (University of Braunschweig): L2 sentence processing: Building structure from words
Norbert Schmitt (University of Nottingham): After 25 years of researching vocabulary: A personal reflection on where vocabulary research needs to go next
Nuria Sebastian-Galles (University Pompeu Fabra): Dividing seas of words: How bilingual input shapes early language acquisition
Stefanie Wulff (University of Florida): What corpus-linguistics can contribute to second language acquisition research
Language Learning Roundtable The theme of the Language Learning Roundtable will be: Nativelike Attainment in Second Language Acquisition: How and When?
Presentations by
Leah Roberts (University of York)
Holger Hopp (University of Braunschweig)
Darren Tanner (University of Illinois)
Gigi Luk (Harvard University)
Invited colloquium Eurosla 27 will have an invited colloquium entitled "Incomplete language acquisition and attrition: Input-related challenges for early and late immigrants and returnees" organised by Ayşe Gürel (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul).
The colloquium is sponsored by the ESRC, as part of the "First Language Attrition Seminar Series", grant number ES/M001776/1 (PI: Monika Schmid).
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Submission Due Date 12/31/2017
Guest Editors Professor Christina Gitsaki
Introduction The International Association of Applied Linguistics is organizing its 18th World Congress on July 23-28, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The theme of the World Congress is "Innovation and Epistemological Challenges in Applied Linguistics" and covers a range of topics including the use of technology in language teaching and learning. Objective This special issue of IJCALLT (http://www.igi-global.com/ijcallt) would like to invite those AILA 2017 World Congress delegates who are presenting a paper on the use of technology for language teaching and learning to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal.
Recommended Topics
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: CALL and language teaching Gamification in language learning and teaching Corpus Studies Digital courseware design Distance/Online language education Evaluation of CALL programs Language testing in CALL environments Mobile learning and teaching Monitoring and assessment in online collaborative learning Multimedia language learning and teaching Social networking in language learning and teaching Teacher education
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Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on AILA 2017 on or before December 31st, 2017. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.
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In honour of Dr. Vandergrift's important and long - standing contributions to second language re search and teaching, the CJAL announces a call for papers for a special issue in his memory. Eligible manuscripts will include theoretical and/or empirical research with clear pedagogical applications in the following areas:
● L1 and L2 listening comprehension , auditory discrimination and memory in L2;
● metacognition in language learning and teaching;
● s econd language assessment and curriculum development;
● French as a second language learning and teaching;
● Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR ) and Diplômes d'études en langue française (DELF) in Canada. The CJAL welcomes articles in English or French presenting original research and scholarship on the specified topic.
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15 October for full articles 10K
We welcome proposals for talks on any aspect of research methodology in second language acquisition, and encourage proposals from all of the diverse methodological standpoints represented in SLA (e.g., classroom-based research, experimental approaches, learner corpora, ecologically-valid approaches, etc.). Proposals may, for example, focus on one or more aspects of research design (i.e., participants, data collection, choice of task, data coding, data analysis), or may address broad questions concerning research methodology. We particularly encourage talks whose aim is to create a dialogue between different methodological traditions within the perspective of a complex approach (see Morin, 1990) which would allow researchers to embrace a variety of relevant parameters. Other potential topics include, but are not limited to: choice of theoretical tools and models reflections on the analysis of variability in interlanguage contributions of (recent) developments in linguistics to research methodology in SLA (e.g., corpus linguistics, neuro/psycholinguistics, etc.) proficiency assessment native-speaker norm qualitative and quantitative approaches reflections on the validity of the results and the potential biases (e.g., observer's paradox) use of statistics methodological challenges associated with studying multilingual participants
Instructed second language acquisition (ISLA): geopolitics, methodological issues, and some major research questions
Michael H. Long
Definitions are proposed for instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) and ISLA research. The quantity of research is partly driven by external geopolitical forces, its quality improved by such methodological developments as the growing deployment of statistical meta-analyses, new technology, especially eyetracking, and new instrumentation, e.g. Hi-Lab, a measure of aptitudes for both explicit and implicit language learning. Three major constraints on the design of L2 instruction are that: (1) the learning task is too large for either explicit or implicit learning alone; (2) direct effects of instruction are limited to manipulations of the linguistic environment, with intended cognitive processes ultimately under learner control; and (3) development of implicit knowledge is the priority. Three learning conditions that speak to what can best be achieved through incidental and intentional language learning are illustrated by recent studies of (1) resetting L1 parameters and dealing with blocking, and (2) instance learning of lexical items and collocations. Comparisons of L2 learning under the three conditions can help resolve long-standing disagreements over the merits of codefocused and meaning-focused instructional approaches.
Situating instructed language acquisition: facts about second language acquisition
Bill VanPatten
What is the relationship between instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) and more general second language acquisition? To what extent is the former informed by the latter? In this essay, I review five facts about second language acquisition involving the nature of mental representation, the slow and ordered acquisition over time, the nature of internal constraints and mechanisms, the role of input, and the observation that most acquisition results in some kind of non-nativeness. I use these facts to ponder underlying assumptions and unasked questions in the research on ISLA. I conclude with some queries regarding the scope and purpose of ISLA.
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First issue of new open access journal with articles by Michael Long and Bill VanPatten
A la suite du colloque 2016 sur la présence par écran, le colloque IMPEC 2018 se centre sur les relations entre corps et écrans. Les innovations constantes dans le domaine du numérique amènent en effet à configurer les relations corps et écrans de façon nouvelle qu'il s'agisse de situations de jeux, de travail, de communication.
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Edge Hill University, June 10th 2017
Corpora is an international, peer-reviewed journal of corpus linguistics focusing on the many and varied uses of corpora both in linguistics and beyond. The journal accepts articles presenting research findings based on the exploitation of corpora as well as accounts of corpus building, corpus tool construction and corpus annotation schemes.
- Interdisciplinarity: the journal will actively seek to promote a cross fertilization of ideas and techniques across a range of areas (applied linguistics, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics) and disciplines (e.g. cultural studies, historical studies, literary studies) in the belief that these areas have something to offer to each other through their common focus on corpus data.
- Multilinguality: the journal will engage with the full range of human languages, not just the English language or major European languages.


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I have 2 tables one table named as projects and project details, projects is the master table of project details and i am getting records by subquery as:
SELECT id, (select project_name from project_details where id=project.projectID) as property_master_project, filed2,field3 FROM projects WHERE ORDER BY property_master_project asc
id=354, property_master_project=Arabian Ranchesid=355, property_master_project=Arabian Ranchesid=361, property_master_project=Arabian Ranchesid=459, property_master_project=Arabian Ranchesid=467, property_master_project=Arabian Ranches
I want to know how order by is working when project names are same (ORDER BY property_master_project asc ) as i want all projects sequence by ids so that it should show as:
id=354, property_master_project=Arabian Ranchesid=355, property_master_project=Arabian Ranchesid=359, property_master_project=Arabian Ranchesid=461, property_master_project=Arabian Ranchesid=467, property_master_project=Arabian Ranches
I have tried asORDER BY property_master_project, id ascORDER BY property_master_project asc, id asc
The query you posted is full of errors, so I'm sure it's not the one that is giving you those results.And the results you posted are already ordered by id.
Both ORDER BY statements are ok, but there is actually no need to define ASC at all, because that is the default order.
I am not sure why you do not JOIN the tables as follows:
SELECT p.id, project_name, p.field2, p.field3
FROM projects p
INNER JOIN project_details pd ON (p.id = pd.projectID)
ORDER BY project_name, p.id;
with a subquery in the SELECT clause, it's actually like a LEFT OUTER JOIN
Tables i have used now: property and master_project
SELECT p.id, p.property_master_project, project, property_address FROM property p INNER JOIN master_project pd ON (p.property_master_project=pd.id) WHERE p.listing_status!='Deleted' AND p.property_ref!='' AND p.property_manager1 IN(1)ORDER BY project, p.property_master_project
Results i got:459 1 Arabian Ranches Al Reem 1, FR8888, 0909090 361 1 Arabian Ranches Al Reem 1, 222, V34 354 1 Arabian Ranches Al Reem 1, 43545, V45435 467 1 Arabian Ranches Al Reem 1, 333, 34343 355 1 Arabian Ranches Alvorada 1, 4545, 4545
Still not the results i want. How can i get as:
354 1 Arabian Ranches Al Reem 1, 43545, V45435 355 1 Arabian Ranches Alvorada 1, 4545, 4545361 1 Arabian Ranches Al Reem 1, 222, V34459 1 Arabian Ranches Al Reem 1, FR8888, 0909090467 1 Arabian Ranches Al Reem 1, 333, 34343
If you want to order on the first column, put that column first in the ORDER BY clause
No i want ORDER BY project but projects should be by id: p.property_master_project
I want as:
354 1 Arabian Ranches355 1 Arabian Ranches361 1 Arabian Ranches459 1 Arabian Ranches467 1 Arabian Ranches
Here you can see all projects are Arabian Ranches where as i want all Arabian Ranches order by id.
I love it how your test data keeps changing every time you post.
Anyway, I assume those three columns are the first three of the SELECT of your query. You want the results ordered by the 3rd column, and then by the 1st?
, p.id
Excellent done
I have made finally full query now having 2 INNER JOIN and one sub query which works quite fine but it takes longer than normal:
SELECT p.id, mp.project as property_master_project, pp.project as property_project, p.property_address, p.property_type, p.property_bedrooms, p.property_asking_price, (select employee_code from users where id=p.property_manager1) as property_manager1, p.market_appraisal_ref, p.property_ref, p.exclusive_listing, p.which_type FROM property p INNER JOIN master_project mp ON (p.property_master_project=mp.id) INNER JOIN project pp ON (p.property_project=pp.id) WHERE property_manager1 IN(1) AND listing_status!='Deleted' AND property_ref!='' ORDER BY mp.project, p.id
explain query returns me:
id select_type table type possible_keys key key_len ref rows Extra1 PRIMARY p ref cmbd,arrow arrow 4 const 121 Using where; Using temporary; Using filesort 1 PRIMARY mp eq_ref PRIMARY PRIMARY 4 crm.p.property_master_project 11 PRIMARY pp eq_ref PRIMARY PRIMARY 4 crm.p.property_project 12 DEPENDENT SUBQUERY users eq_ref PRIMARY PRIMARY 4 crm.p.property_manager1 1
arrow is the index on columns: property_manager1, listing_status and property_ref
Can i optimize further its index or query itself?