Duo Ducati Optimis

Duo Marlboro Ducati rider Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden, have their own beliefs to be successful on the race this weekend at the German GP, Sachsenring circuit.

Sachsenring is a unique character, some extreme corners and parts of a circuit that requires the motor slows, Stoner and Hayden are not made to feel pessimistic. They sure can conquer the circuit with the character of the famous Ducati motorcycle wild and fast.

Casey Stoner has fond memories at the Sachsenring, by becoming a champion in the 125cc class at the 2003 season. Then in MotoGP, Stoner became the fastest in 2008. Nicky Hayden, who had the character to be careful, never been on the podium four times in 2004 until 2007.

"We had a good record when the race at Sachsenring. I got my first podium here and I always want to repeat it. I have more confidence about the race later. Everything has worked quite well and we should get even higher speeds, "explained Stoner as quoted MotoGP.com, Wednesday (14/07/2010).

"Me and mechanical've tried several ways to get full speed, the results are quite as packed in the race later. You need the right setting for melibas motor angle at Sachsenring, "continued the origin of this Australian drivers.

While Nicky Hayden did admit if the Sachsenring circuit that must be conquered by using the technique of high-class racing. Hayden katakter quite memorized and ready to welcome back the victory.

"Sachsenring is very short. In the first part, requires high technique and patience. When you make a mistake can be fatal. For the beginning racer gears can only menggunalan 1.2, 3 and 4. It's like riding a car in the park! When she walked into the teeth of five, you've seen a sharp corner, "said Hayden.

Despite facing a difficult character, but relatively optimistic Hayden can conquer this circuit in Germany. How to race rider of the famous American management this calculation, the plus points for Hayden.

Logo World Cup 2014

In a launch event in Johannesburg the night local time, Fifa president Sepp Blatter said that the logo reflects the football as part of human life, especially in South American countries like Brazil.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the logo, the president of FIFA said the reason why FIFA pointed this country from South America to host the 2014 World Cup later. "Brazil is a soccer country. They've won the cup five times, but they last hosted in 1950. Football is like a religion in Brazil. Now it's time again to CONMEBOL, and now it is time to return to South America, "Blatter explained at length.

FIFA President added, "Like here, in South Africa, to mingle with the soccer community. As President Lula also said, football is not just kicking the ball alone. It's cultural. This is life. I am delighted the President of Brazil willing to be present at the launch of the logo of this World Cup. "

Germany Did Not Want to Forecast Again Paul

Paul, the octopus forecasters, now has become public enemy number one in Germany. He is considered responsible for the elimination of the German Der Panzer-nickname-from the World Cup in 2010. In fact, before Paul was so flattered and honored residents of Germany. Therefore, predictions about the German trip in South Africa (South Africa) is always true.

He was regarded as a lucky talisman. But, it's also because the majority of Paul's prediction is more pro-German. Paul phenomenon began to rise after the exact prediction of Serbia defeated Germany in the allowance for Group D. Then, Paul continues to predict the forces Joachim Loew as a winner and his prediction proved correct.

Ball for Final World Cup 2010

Aparel famous sports, Adidas, officially released the ball to be used at the top of the World Cup party in 2010: Jo'bulani.

In the final between the Netherlands and Spain at Soccer City, Johannesburg, on Monday (7/12/2010) early morning local time, will be retired with Jo'bulani Jabulani instead.

Jo'bulani is a unique ball with a golden hue that is different from Jabulani. Jo'bulani name itself is a tribute to Johannesburg or Jo'burg who became the 2010 World Cup final.

To match between the Netherlands and Spain the weekend, FIFA gives a personal touch to Jo'bulani and distribute approximately 60 balls to both teams, so as they are contained release of Adidas, Friday (9/7/2010).

De La Furia Roja Oranje and each received 30 balls Jo'bulani that uniquely personalized with engraved names of each country. Pack the ball was delivered directly by the official FIFA number two team training camp, Thursday (07/08/2010) local time.

Meanwhile, for the game itself, available 30 Jo'bulani are ready for use. In addition, there was one particular ball game prepared for launch (kick-off).

Microsoft Office 2010 Certification

For years, Microsoft and other companies like Cisco and Novell, have offered certifications to help validate a technical skill set. It could be servers, routers, or networking as the knowledge base became more sophisticated so did the need to demonstrate proficiency.

With the release of Office 2010 Microsoft is extending the certification track to applications. This is not the first time as Microsoft has had certifications for its Office 2003 and 2007 suite. The difference now is that in today’s economy expertise is valued and can make the difference in whether one gets a job or even a job interview.I am a technical trainer for New Horizons in Texas, and I have pushed various certifications and certification tracks to the students that enroll in our program. The MCSE (Networking Engineer), MCSA (networking knowledgeable but not at the engineer level), MCITP (specialized in different technical areas), MCTS (specialized exams), MDPD (programming), are certs that have on more than one occasion have led to job interviews, and employment as well. This even though some students come in with a wealth of technical experience; they weren’t even able to get an interview. But the cert changed that.

The MOS (Microsoft Office Specialization) cert that Microsoft is touting gives consumers a knowledge base that many didn’t have before, or only skimmed over. Take Excel for instance; many users of Excel have a basic understanding of the spreadsheet program. Their knowledge comes up short on areas of If Statements, and advanced formula construction.

The MOS certification program is designed to prepare students and professionals for the work force and college. Many high schools are offering MOS training to help students prepare for college or the work force. MOS helps individuals gain mastery of all Microsoft Office applications including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, SharePoint Server, and Project.

The 2010 MOS certification programs provide three levels of certification: Specialist, Expert and Master. Each successive level requires individuals to master a greater number of programs. Testing is conducted by Certiport, a commercial testing service, at more than 10,000 testing sites in schools and businesses around the world.

Carles Puyol Bring Spain to Final

Spain dominated an absorbing first-half chess match but failed to break the deadlock against a Germany side who had their fair share of chances.

Both teams made one change from their regular line-up: Piotr Trochowski replaced the suspended Thomas Mueller for the Germans while out-of-form Fernando Torres was dropped in favour of Pedro Rodriguez in the Spanish side.

Germany kicked off but immediately and happily surrendered possession as they invited Spain to attack. The cagey opening was halted by an intruder streaking onto the pitch, but it was the European champions who carved out the first real chance of the game on six minutes.Pedro slipped in a sublime through ball to David Villa, who just managed to get a touch to it but it wasn’t enough to trouble an alert Manuel Neuer.

La Furia Roja continued to camp out inside the German half as Bastian Schweinsteiger and Mesut Oezil provided glimpses of threat on the counter-attack for Die Mannschaft. But it was the Spaniards again who had the next chance after 13 minutes. From a short corner, Andres Iniesta drilled in a cross from the right flank and Carles Puyol stooped low to send a bullet header just over the bar.

Straight to the other end, an Oezil corner forced Iker Casillas to flap the ball nervously away as Joachim Loew’s side started to enjoy a bit more of composure and possession on the ball. Spain regained control as quickly as they gave it away, although they failed to create any meaningful goalscoring chances.

In fact, the next opportunity didn’t arrive until the half-hour mark and even then, Xabi Alonso’s 25-yard screamer flew wide of Neuer’s left post. Trochowski then showed how it was done when his left-footed pliedriver from a similar distance forced Casillas to make a brilliant sprawling save.

Oezil managed to create more panic in the Spain box when he shimmed past two defenders but hesitated when he prepared to pull the trigger as Puyol pinched the ball off him. Vicente del Bosque’s troops finished the half the stronger with Sergio Ramos, Iniesta and Pedro creating openings, but it was Oezil who had a penalty shout turned down right before the whistle after a challenge from Ramos.
Neither coaches made any changes of personnel at the break, but it was Germany who looked the more adventurous side in the start of the second period. And it was suddenly Spain who were playing on the counter attack. Pedro bombarded 50 yards down the right wing beating a number of German defenders before pulling the ball back to Xabi Alonso, who could only fire wide despite a clean view on goal.

Seconds later, Xabi rattles in another humdinger just outside the box after being teed up by Xavi, but again his effort flashed marginally wide.

La Roja should have taken the lead on 57 minutes when they were presented with a double chance. First, Pedro’s shot on the edge of the box was parried away by Neuer. From the follow up, Iniesta’s pull-back into the middle bounced too far infront of Villa at the backpost. Pedro then dragged his shot wide before Miroslav Klose pummelled an ambitious volley well over at the other end after a poor clearance from Sergio Ramos.

The flurry of chances sparked the game to life and on 63 minutes, Xabi Alonso curled in a cross to an over-lapping Ramos, who went down under a challenge from Lukas Podolski right infront of goal but the referee only pointed to a goal-kick. Five minutes later, Villa charged past Marcell Jansen on the right channel but his fierce drive from a tight angle was saved by Neuer.

Germany then came close when Toni Kroos connected with Podolski’s cross but his soft half volley at the far post was blocked by Casillas. The Nationalelf were on the ascendecy but on 72 minutes, they were stung when Spain rocketed into the lead. Xavi swung in a corner and Carles Puyol steamed in unmarked to thump an unstoppable header past Neuer into the top corner.

The Germans immediately started pushing forward and it was Spain’s turn to hit their opponents on the counter. With ten minutes to go, La Roja should have wrapped up the semi-final when Pedro was put clean through on goal but opted to dribble his way past Arne Friedrich instead of going for goal or squaring to an unattended Fernando Torres.

Torres himself then had a chance two minutes from the end but Friedrich robbed the ball off him just as he was about to pull the trigger. Spain were enjoying a nice spell of keep-ball possession inside the German half as the clock ticked down and it was enough for them to hold on for another 1-0 win, but one that secures them a passage into the final of the 2010 World Cup.

German Hummer Argentina

Three months ago Argentina coach Diego Maradona approached a postgame interview podium, eyed this young German already sitting there and immediately dismissed 20-year-old Thomas Mueller as a ball boy. He then refused to share an interview stage with him.

Earlier this week, Maradona responded to criticism of his team’s style of play from Germany’s rising star Bastian Schweinsteiger by peering into a camera and in a mock German accent issuing a famed Argentinean political taunt: “What’s the matter Schweinsteiger? Are you nerrrvoushhh?”

So there was the “nervous” German delivering a crossing free kick in the third minute of Saturday’s quarterfinals game between the two rivals. And there was the “ball boy” heading it home to start what would be Germany’s 4-0 gutting of Argentina. Later, Schweinsteiger again looked rather calm and collected as he deftly dribbled through the confused Argentina defense to set up an embarrassingly easy third goal.

Schweinsteiger would be named man of the match. Mueller would leave to rousing cheers.

And Diego Maradona, he of the mouth that never stops yapping, was left alone, mumbling in misery as he paced in front of the bench during the final minutes of this historic beat down.

This was annihilation. This was humiliation. And this was an epic reversal of fortunes – these two young Germans doing the impossible: turning Diego Maradona completely upside down.

“This is the most disappointing moment in my life,” Maradona said in a humbled press conference. “This is really like a kick in the face. I have no more energy for anything.”

Like a punctured soccer ball, all the air, all the life had been sucked out of the flashy, sassy Argentines. Their star, Lionel Messi, was a mess, reduced to an apologetic, crying postgame dressing room lump, bounced from the tournament without registering a goal.

The nation’s confident fans – bolstered when rival Brazil was upset Friday – had come out by the thousands only to shuffle from the stadium in silence with German victory songs ringing in their ears.

And, mostly, there was Maradona, who had made every move with supreme confidence and unapologetic flair. Mueller and Schweinsteiger were nothing special – the guy gets into fights with everyone, starting with Pele and working his way down. It’s part of his charm. It defines his daring ways.

In these young German stars of this young German team, though, Maradona found his match. They were willing to talk back at him. Mueller, who now has four goals in this World Cup, noted that things had changed from the teams’ March friendly, which Argentina won 1-0. This week, he said he wasn’t afraid of a postgame fight (a la the 2006 World Cup quarterfinal between these two teams) as long as Germany won.

The 25-year-old Schweinsteiger, meanwhile, boldly engaged the Argentine coach, continuing to fill the role of leader on a youthful team whose captain, Michael Ballack, had to miss the World Cup with an ankle injury.

“I love to take on the strongest, to be honest with you,” Schweinsteiger said in admitting he preferred to play Spain in Wednesday’s semifinal but saying so much more. It was, of course, a Maradona kind of line, one that that might fire up Paraguay should it, and not Spain, advance.

“They are fearless,” German coach Joachim Loew said of his team’s many young players. “Not disrespectful, but fearless.”

And that was the other part. It’s one thing to take on Maradona in a talk-fest. It’s another to storm his team on the pitch. The game changed forever in that second minute, when Mr.-Are-You-Nervous passed to the Ball Boy who headed it in to give Germany a 1-0 lead. From there the Germans sat back, double-teamed Messi and made dangerous counter attacks.

“We knew they were very dangerous on set pieces,” Maradona said shaking his head. “The first set piece they had … I don’t know. … We gave Germany lots of good ideas. … They had lots of ideas. Ideas they didn’t have before.”

The Germans weren’t much for gloating. Their coach, Loew, said they tend to leave their excitement in the dressing room, what with the stakes so high. But it’s human nature for them to watch the hunched figure of Diego Maradona explain the pain they had just inflicted on him.
Germany's Bastian Schweinsteiger responded to Maradona's taunts by earning the man of the match honor.
(Clive Mason/Getty Images)

“Just complete sad[ness],” he said. “The day I stopped playing football was similar. This sadness is very strong. It’s tough. It’s tough because … we all had this goal, this dream. And we were just thinking of winning over Germany and the opposite happened.

“I lived through this in [the 1982 World Cup] as a player. But I was a boy and I didn’t really realize the importance of things today. Today, I am 50 years old in October, and I am mature.”

Down the hall the Germans, so many still what Maradona would call “boys,” were still reliving Schweinsteiger’s impossible slalom run through the Argentinean defense before passing to Arne Friedrich for an easy knock in.

“The way he set up Friedrich to score a goal was absolute second to none,” Loew said. “You couldn’t play any better. He went through three, four, five players then pretends to play a pass and then passes it back.

“He was fabulous,” Loew added. “He was basically the lynch pin in every attack we had.”

There was nothing to it, Schweinsteiger smiled. It was a team effort he said. “I can only be good if the team is good,” he noted.

Oh, the team is good, eviscerating world powers England and Argentina in two knockout round games by a combined score of 8-1, pushing to the cusp of unexpected history and, of course, sucking the life out of an old soccer icon along the way.

From the ball boy on up, no one’s nervous in Germany. Delivering an emphatic comeuppance tends to foster the precise opposite emotion.

Introduction

In order to use an object, you must be aware of it. A window makes itself known using two types of representations: an icon and/or a frame.

The Icon Representing a Window

An icon is a picture used to identify a program or another type of object on the computer. As such, the small pictures that appear on the computer desktop are called icons. Besides the desktop, there are many other places where you will see icons when using the computer.

There are two entities that mainly need to interact with icons:

* As a person using the computer, icons allow you to familiarize with the various programs that are installed in a computer. Every application or every category of application has its own icon. This is easily possible because every person who creates an application has the possibility of providing a special icon for that particular application.

* The operating system also has an interior mechanism to identify an icon or a type of icon and associate it with a particular application or a series of applications of the same type.

Microsoft Windows ships with various icons for its own use. For example, every version of Microsoft Windows ships with a special icon for the My Computer program. There is also a special icon for Recycle Bin, etc.

The sizes of icons are standardized and they should not have just any random dimensions. For example, the icons on the desktop are 32x32 pixels. Sometimes, the icons display in a 16x16 dimension.

Practical Learning: Using Icons

1. Start the computer

2. To see some icons, on the Taskbar, click Start, position the mouse on (All) Programs

3. Notice that each program is represented by an icon. Notice also that all menu items that have an arrow use the same type of icon used on Accessories. These are called Program Groups

4. Position the mouse on Accessories and click Windows Explorer. If you are using Windows 98 and you don't see Windows Explorer, look for it in the list under Accessories (not in the arrow menu from Accessories)

5. On the left side of the window, click My Computer. Notice that it has a small icon on its left

6. On the main menu of the window, click View -> Icons or View -> Large Icons

7. Notice that the icons on the right side are big:

8. Right-click an empty area on the right side, position the mouse on View and click List or click Small Icons

9. Notice that the icon on the upper-left section of the window, the icons in the left frame, and those in the right frame are the same size

10. To close the window, on the main menu, click File -> Close

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Red Hat unveils three new open-source projects

Red Hat has said its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform will be available later this month and introduced three new open source projects designed to infuse transaction, management and other capabilities into its middleware.

The announcements come a day after the company laid out its seven-year goal to own 50% of middleware deployments using JBoss to anchor platforms for portals, SOA, and application servers and services. Red Hat said its open source SOA platform would incorporate innovation derived from an array of open source projects offered on JBoss.org, three of which have just been introduced.

The three projects are Black Tie, which will create a transaction engine to integrate or replace legacy transaction monitors, specifically Tuxedo, with the JBoss.org Transactions project, JBoss DNA, a registry for network services and RHQ, an SOA management platform that will eventually support both JBoss and Fedora platforms.

The SOA Platform already incorporates components that started out as open source projects, including JBoss ESB, JBoss jBPM and JBoss Rules.

ESB provides application and service integration, mediation, transformation and registry technology; jBPM adds service orchestration and workflow; while Rules includes management and integration of business policy and rules, as well as, content-based routing that relies on rules.

Red Hat is following the same model it has for its Linux OS development. Court innovation among the vast Fedora open source project community and then tap the results for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux where it can be stabilised and supported.

"We want to be disruptive with our innovation, but not disruptive in production" environments, said Sacha Labourey, vice president of engineering middleware at Red Hat.

The SOA platform is designed to provide infrastructure to support SOAs, and application and business-process integration. The platform combines enterprise application integration, business process and rule management and event-driven architecture technologies. Red Hat officials say the platform is architected to support users involved in small-scale integration projects to full-blown SOA infrastructure deployments.

Red Hat has taken on a number of partners to complement its efforts, including Active Endpoints, Amberpoint, SeeWhy, SOA Software, Vitria Technology, Information Builders and iWay Software.

Red Hat said its Black Tie project would kick off in 60 days. The JBoss DNA project, the first in a series of SOA governance projects, is slated to begin in 30 days with more projects to be announced in 60 days.The RHQ project is already up and running.

Craig Muzilla, vice president of the middleware business unit, said it was hard to say when commercial products would spring from the projects, but he said users could look for results by year-end.

BlackTie will add C, C++ and mainframe compatible transaction capabilities to the JBoss.org Transactions project. The project will focus on emulating transaction-processing monitor application programming interfaces, and providing open source based legacy services that include security, naming, clustering and transactions.
Red Hat said the project would support the ATMI programming interface to ease migrations. The Black Tie project is derived from technology from Ajuna, which JBoss acquired in 2005 before being bought by Red Hat.

With its governance project, Red Hat hopes to set the tone for open source SOA management. JBoss DNA, a metadata repository and UDDI registry, is the kick-off project for what will be a number of management components, according to Muzilla. The project is based on technology Red Hat acquired when it bought MetaMetrix in April 2007.

Red Hat also unveiled it RHQ management project, which it said would serve as the code base for the JBoss Operations Network v2.0, which is due to ship in the first half of this year. The Operations Network is the management foundation for Red Hat's middleware strategy. The RHQ project aims to develop a common services management platform

Acer to launch low-cost PCs this year-paper

Acer, the world's No. 3 computer vendor, plans to start selling low-cost laptop PCs this year, following a recent strong reception for similar models from competitors, media reported on Wednesday.

Acer, which previously said it had not planned to sell cheap notebook computers, has changed course to develop PCs to target a new customer base, the Chinese-language Commercial Times quoted company Chairman J.T. Wang as saying.

"The company planned to launch the PCs in the second or third quarter of this year, the report said.

It said that Acer was still developing the new model, which could be 7-9 inches wide, and could cost around $470.

Acer declined to comment on the report.

On Wednesday, shares of Acer had risen 2.39 percent to T$49.25 by 0256 GMT, outperforming the benchmark TAIEX index which advanced 0.72 percent.

Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc, a competitor to Acer, launched its line of low-cost Eee PC laptops last year, with a price tag of as little as $200.

Acer said the new computers would not cannibalise its current business, as such models were aimed at low penetration markets such as PCs for children and developing markets, according to the report, echoing similar previous comments from Asustek.

Asustek has so far been successful in marketing and selling its child-friendly Linux-based notebook globally, although profit margins for the products are thin, analysts have said.

Acer competes closely with China's Lenovo and larger rivals Hewlett-Packard and Dell.

The firm posted a 77 percent surge in its fourth quarter net profit earlier in the week and said it expects to ship 40 percent more notebook PCs this year from 2007, while its overall PC shipments would rise by 30 to 35 percent.

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