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Kennedy Bridge may refer to:

 Kennedy Bridge (Austria), across the Wien river in Vienna, Austria
 Kennedy Bridge (Adana), crossing the Seyhan River in Adana, Turkey
 Kennedy Bridge (Bonn), across the Rhine River in Bonn, Germany
 Kennedy Bridge (Bremerhaven), across the Geeste in Bremerhaven, Germany
 Kennedy Bridge, Bundaberg, a heritage-listed bridge across Bundaberg Creek, Queensland, Australia
 Kennedy Bridge (Hamburg), across the Alster in Hamburg, Germany
 Kennedy Bridge (Minnesota), in Mankato, Minnesota, United States
 Kennedy Bridge (Niamey), the main crossing for the Niger River, in Niamey, Niger
 Kennedy Bridge (Kimberton, Pennsylvania), in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States

See also
 John F. Kennedy Bridge (Germany), across the Isar, in Munich, Germany
 John F. Kennedy Boulevard Bridge, across the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania, United States
 John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge across the Ohio River, connecting Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States
 Eastvale Bridge, officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge, across the Beaver River in Pennsylvania, United States

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David Beckham Biography
Full name David Robert Joseph Beckham
Place of birth Leytonstone, London, England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position Midfielder
DAVID BECKHAM PROFILE
1987–1991 Tottenham Hotspur
1991–1993 Manchester United
Senior career
Years Team Apps Goals
1993–2003 Manchester United 265 62
1995 Preston North End (loan) 5 2
2003–2007 Real Madrid 116 13
2007– Los Angeles Galaxy 60 10
2009 Milan (loan) 18 2
1992–1993 England U-18 3 0
1996– England 115 17
I don't think there is one person in the world that does not know who David Beckham is.
His passion for soccer/football came at a very early age considering the fact that he was born in East London and would travel with his parents to watch Manchester United games frequently as profile of David Beckham shows.
This is where his dream of playing professional soccer started and years later the little boy from East London would become one of the most famous footballers/soccer players in the world.
David Beckams profile research I have done prior to writing this article shows that his passion for soccer started with a youth team Ridgeway Rovers, coached by his father and Steve Kirby.
After few short trials with Tottenham Hotspur and Layton Orient, Beckham would come back to his favorite team growing up Manchester United Youth squad in 1991 where he would very quickly make his way into the first team squad.
After one year with the youth team, young David Beckham won the FA Youth Cup with the team and had been given his chance as a first team player shortly after according to David Beckham life story.
David Beckham Biography - First professional contract with Manchester United
David Beckham signed his first professional contract with Manchester United in 1992 after displaying promise as a youth player and winning the FA Youth Cup during his first year with Manchester United.
His first professional appearance came during the League Cup game against Brighton and Hove Albion as David Beckham profile states.
At 19 years old, Beckham was still trying to find his place on the team.
Not making the first squad led to a change in profile of David Beckham as he was loaned to Preston North End where after one year of playing experience, young David came back to Manchester United.
At the end of the 1994/95 season, Manchester United would go through some changes due to many players retiring and leaving the team.
Instead of bringing in new expensive additions, Coach Sir Alex Ferguson decided to form his squad from the young players that were just waiting for the opportunity to shine.
David Beckham biography shows him as being one of the young players that took this chance with both hands and feet securing his first team position and performing better and better season after season which led to a big change in David Beckham life story in the years to come.
After displaying great form at Manchester United and playing better and better season after season, Beckham would reach the Englands squad for the 1998 World Cup adding one more accomplishment to profile of David Beckham.
However, Beckham was criticized by England fans after this World Cup due to his loss of control in the game against Argentina during the Round of 16.
David Beckham biography was tainted when he was sent off with a red card due to loss of control after the Argentine Simeone went in with a hard tackle to which Beckham responded by kicking the Argentine in the calf.
Only one year later David Beckham came back into the headlines, but this time as a hero and a great footballer that helped Manchester United win the Triple title (League Title, Cup and Champions League) during 1999.
Beckam was already one of the most famous soccer players/footballers and after 9 years with Manchester United he made a shocking transfer to Real Madrid.
David Beckham biography continues with a transfer to Real Madrid
David Beckham bio continues in Real Madrid during 2003 transfer window. Signing a 4 year contract Beckham would not have the same great form he did at Manchester but would still win the league title in his last year with the club adding another accomplishment to his already rich profile.
Being in a team that that was stacked with superstars such as Raul, Zidane, Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos etc, Beckham was publicized a lot more which brought his status up as a most famous and highest paid soccer player in the world.
David Beckham biography continues with a lucrative offer from LA Galaxy in 2007
After 4 years with Real Madrid and not being guaranteed the first team spot, Beckham took the opportunity to join the American side LA Galaxy on a contract worth $250 million over the next 5 years. Profile of David Beckham suddenly became 250 million dollars richer and also set the new record transfer fee.
During his time at LA Galaxy, Beckham was loaned to AC Milan in both 2009 and 2010 off season to keep his fitness lever up.
David Beckham is married to Victoria Adams, famously known as "Posh Spice" of the pop music group Spice Girls, one of the world's top pop groups at the time.
This only added to Beckhams public status and the couple would be dubbed "Posh and Becks" in the newspapers around the world.
David Beckham Biography - Achievements
David Beckham Biography - Club Achievements
Premier League (6): 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03
FA Cup (2): 1995–96, 1998–99
UEFA Champions League (1): 1998–99
Intercontinental Cup (1): 1999
FA Community Shield (4): 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997
FA Youth Cup (1): 1992
La Liga (1): 2006–07
Supercopa de España (1): 2003
MLS Western Conference (2): 2009, 2010
MLS Supporters' Shield (1): 2010
David Beckham Biography - International Achievements
Tournoi de France: 1997
FA Summer Tournament: 2004
David Beckham Bio - Individual Achievements
Premier League Player of the Month (1): August 1996
PFA Young Player of the Year (1): 1996–97
Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year (1): 1996–97
UEFA Club Footballer of the Year (1): 1998–99
UEFA Club Midfielder of the Year (1): 1998–99
Premier League 10 Seasons Awards (1992–93 to 2001–02):
Domestic & Overall Team of the Decade
Goal of the Decade (vs. Wimbledon, 17 August 1996)
BBC Sports Personality of the Year (1): 2001
FIFA 100[167]
ESPN Award – Best Male Soccer Player: 2004[168]
ESPN Award – Best MLS Player: 2008[168]
English Football Hall of Fame: 2008
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award (1): 2010 [169]
David Beckham Profile - Special Awards
Officer in the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II: 2003
England Player of the Year: 2003
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador (2005–present)
"Britain's Greatest Ambassador" – 100 Greatest Britons awards[170]
The Celebrity 100, number 15 – Forbes, 2007[171]
Number 1 on the list of the 40 most influential men under the age of 40 in the UK
Gold Blue Peter Badge winner, 2001
Return from David Beckham Biography to Famous Soccer Players
Return from David Beckham Biography to SoccerManiak Home Page
Eric Cantona Biography
Eric Cantona was born in Marseille, France on May 24th, 1966.
Franz Beckenbauer Biography
Franz Anton Beckenbauer is a German Football/Soccer coach, menager and former player nicknamed "Der Kaiser" which means "The Emperor".
Gianluigi Buffon Biography
The fact is that Gianluigi Buffon is perhaps one of the most complete soccer/football goalkeepers to ever play this great game of football/soccer.
Jared Borgetti Biography
Jared Borgetti is a Mexican born striker that still holds the record for the most goals scored for his National Team Mexico.
Roberto Baggio Biography
Mentioning the name Baggio to anyone around the world that follows soccer at all will point to the one and only Roberto Baggio and his famous ponytail.
Michael Ballack Biography
Michel Ballack started his soccer playing days when he was only 7 years old at the local club Chemnitzer FC.
Gabriel Batistuta Biography
Gabriel Omar Batistuta had played most of his career in the Italian league where he earned his nickname "Batigol".
Dennis Bergkamp Biography
Dennis Bergkamp is perhaps one of the most interesting players to watch on the soccer field during his playing days. When I think of Dennis Bergkamp "IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING" comes to mind :)
I dont think there is one person in the world that does not know who David Beckham is.
Adriano Biography
Deadly left foot and big bulky frame is what Adriano brings to the soccer pitch.
Cristiano Ronaldo Biography
Cristiano Ronaldo, short for Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, was born in Santo Antonio, a neighborhood of Funchal, Madeira.
Ronaldinho Gaucho Biography
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira or better known as Ronaldinho or Ronaldinho Gaucho all through out the world is a Brazilian famous soccer player that made headlines many times through his rich career.
Zinedine Zidane Biography
Zinedine Zidane is a retired French soccer player that is regarded as one of the greatest soccer players of all time.
Lionel Messi Biography
Lionel Messi was born in Rosario, Santa Fe to a factory steel worker father Jorge Horacio Messi and a part-time cleaner mother Celia Maria Messi.
Mia Hamm Biography
Mia Hamm is a retired American soccer player that played many times as a Forward for the United States Woman's National Soccer Team.
Pele Biography
Biography of Pele is very rich in many ways. He is widely regarded as one of the best soccer players in the the history of soccer.
Oliver Kahn Biography
Oliver Kahn is one of the most successful German goalkeepers in recent history.
Luis Figo Biography
Luis Figo is a Portuguese soccer player that is without a doubt one of the best soccer players to emerge out of Portugal.
Alessandro Del Piero Biography
Alessandro Del Piero biography shows that he was born on November 9th, 1974 in Conegliano, Veneto, Italy to father Gino, an electrician, and mother Bruna, a houskeeper.


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Morocco: government-run agency Masen authorized to buy minority stake in 170 MW NOOR PV I project
A unit of the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen) was allowed to acquire an interest of up to 25% in six special purpose companies owning the project's three photovoltaic plants.
May 30, 2017 Emiliano Bellini
The Ouarzazate Solar Power Station (OSPS) is a 580 MW CSP-PV complex located in the Drâa-Tafilalet region, central Morocco.
Masen Capital, a subsidiary of the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen), was authorized by the Moroccan government to acquire up to a 25% interest in the six special purpose vehicles that own the three PV power plants comprised in the 170 MW NOOR PV I project, according to a document published in Morocco's official journal.
The project consists of three photovoltaic solar facilities: the 70 MW NOOR Ouarzazate IV, the 80 MW NOOR Laayoune, and the 20 MW NOOR Boujdour 20 MW. Saudi Arabia's Acwa Power began work on the first of the three plants in early April. The company was selected after an international tender to develop, build and operate the three plants under a BOOT (Build, Operate, Own and Transfer) scheme. Acwa Power contracted the world's largest EPC company, Sterling and Wilson, to construct the installations in late November.
In November, Masen signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Acwa Power for the development of the three projects. At the time, Masen told pv magazine that "the combined kilowatt hour (kWh) rate of the three projects making up the Noor PV 1 program (with an aggregate capacity of about 170 MW) is 0.46 dirhams (€0.045)."
Masen issued green bonds in the amount of 1.15 billion dirhams ($114.4 million) for the projects, which are being developed in the framework of a three-part Independent Power Production (IPP) plan with Morocco's power utility ONEE. The bonds were underwritten by local financial institutions Al Barid Bank, Attijariwafa Bank, the CMR (Caisse Marocaine de Retraite), and the SCR (Société Centrale de Réassurance).
The NOOR PV I project is the PV portion and the fourth phase of the 580 MW Ouarzazate Solar Power Station (OSPS), a CSP-PV solar power complex located in the Drâa-Tafilalet region, central Morocco.
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The 2013 Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament was held from May 21 through 25.  All eight teams will participate in the double-elimination tournament, which was held at Illinois State's Duffy Bass Field in Normal, Illinois.  The winner of the tournament will earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

Seeding and format
The league's eight teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage.  The teams will play a two-bracket, double-elimination format tournament, with the winner of each bracket then playing a single-elimination final.

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All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Most Outstanding Player
Wichita State outfielder Garrett Bayliff was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

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Bobcats top Bears in Game One
Brian Stevenson
In a whacky, back and forth opening game of the ECAC first round playoff series between Quinnipiac and Brown, the Bobcats got the last laugh in a 7-6 overtime win at the TD Banknorth Sportscenter Friday night.
David Marshall's controversial goal 4:58 into overtime gave the Bobcats a dramatic win after blowing leads of 5-1 and 6-3 in regulation and surrendering the tying goal with just five seconds remaining in the third.
Marshall picked up a loose puck in the slot and was able to slip a shot past Brown goalie Mark Sibbald. The puck bounced off one post and slid across the goal crease towards the other post. Head referee Pete Feola was on top of the play and signaled goal, setting off an irate Sibbald.
"Eric (Lampe) worked hard and got open in the slot and threw it on net. I got a lucky bounce onto my stick, I was able to get one by Sibbald in net," Marshall said. "I thought it hit the post and went in, and I'll take that."
The Bobcats, who had lost six straight entering the game, found themselves trailing 1-0 after the first period, despite out-shooting the Bears 16-8. Bud Fisher misplayed a dump-in with just under two minutes remaining in the first and a crashing Sean Muncey got the puck past Fisher to give Brown a 1-0 lead.
A dormant Quinnipiac offense, that had scored just nine goals over the six game skid, awoke in a big way early in the second period. Five goals on six shots within the first five minutes of the second period gave the Bobcats a commanding 5-1 lead.
"We were bound to get things going a little bit offensively. We were doing a lot of the little things, getting pucks on net," assistant coach Scott Robson said.
Brandon Wong got the Bobcats on the board when he deflected a Dan Henningson shot past Brown starting goalie Dan Rosen. Just 17 seconds later, Bryan Leitch found Ben Nelson in front of the Bear net and the senior forward lifted the puck past Rosen. A minute later, the same duo found the back of the net as Leitch carried the puck down the left side and found a wide open Nelson to give the Bobcats a 3-1 lead.
The line of Leitch, Nelson and Jamie Bates, who have all scored 100 points in their careers, combined for five goals and six assists on the night.
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"It was definitely an entertaining night. I think the fans enjoyed it. A little nerve wrecking on us, but we had fun tonight and got a win. We just have to refocus for tomorrow (Saturday)," Marshall said."
The teams face off tonight (Saturday) in Game 2 at 7 p.m. at the TD Banknorth Sportscenter. The Bobcats will advance to the quarterfinals at either Harvard or Union with a win. If the Bears win, the teams will meet Sunday night at 7 p.m. for a decisive third game.


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Like pirates, funny things and blowing stuff up? Play Age of Booty
By Justin Towell 03 August 2013
A funny game about pirates where you blow stuff up. Who cares that it's an RTS?
You know how PSN games have that little trailer in the XMB? I still find myself lingering over the icon for Age of Booty, just to hear that wonderful, piratey music loop. I love it. But I almost didn't love the game. Oh, sure, I wanted it to be great--after all, I bought and downloaded it simply because it looked suitably piratey in the screenshots--but when I played it, I was initially disappointed. Ah, but then I gave it a second chance… and it was awesome. That'll learn me.
The game is a real-time strategy offering from Capcom. It's got a piratey theme, with tongue firmly in cheek. For instance, one of the pirates is called 'Ol' Two-Patch', which would obviously be very sad in reality, but is clearly very silly from a comedic point of view. Especially is he has 20/20 vision in both eyes and is just wearing two eye patches as a statement of his extreme pirate badassery. But even he is no match for the Dread Pirate Spork, who has a spork (spoon/fork hybrid) in place of the traditional pirate hook.
The game is very simple. You can move in real-time across the map, with the aim being to become the first to control three ports at the same time. This simplicity is carried over into your ship upgrades and the resource-collecting you require in order to perform them. All the usual dull stuff that puts off non-RTS fans is condensed down to clearly-defined necessities. Wood plus gunpowder builds ships. Tiles with gold coins on them will yield money. Anyone can grasp that.
However, it's the game's real-time nature that makes this so consistently entertaining. You need to think on the fly, to work out whether your ship is fast enough to intercept the enemy or better spent defending the town you've spent loads on upgrading. Or maybe you should wait until the perfect moment to drop a whirlpool on someone, just when they're about to capture a town, instead leaving it wide open for you to finish off, while said foe emerges from the ocean halfway across the map. Priceless.
The single-player is so good, I played through it twice – once on PSN and again on 360 to gather the achievements. The final level is ridiculously hard, but the game's difficulty curve overall is excellently weighted, allowing you to constantly feel challenged as you learn the ropes, without leaving you ever feeling out of your depth. And if you do fail, you can start again and use your initial free stat points differently to give you a better chance at prevailing.
Then there's the multiplayer, which is undoubtedly excellent, but sadly remains a mystery even to me. Why? Because nobody I know wants to play the bloody thing. Why? Who knows! There is undeniably something blocking people from getting into the game and discovering its brilliance. I don't know what it is. Maybe the 'RTS' label that really doesn't convey how exciting it is to play. But it's a crying shame because Backbone Entertainment did everything so well, there's literally nothing here to dislike.
Which is why you--yes, YOU--should play it. And even if the unthinkable happens and you still can't get into it, you'll always have that awesome music right there on your PS3's XMB, for those moments where you wish you drunk nothing but rum and had an arch-enemy in the shape of a bearded man with two eye patches.
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With over 40 events this academic year, the USC chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers has made its mark helping to support Black students majoring in STEM fields at USC.
Thirty members of the USC chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers attended the national convention in Pittsburgh last Wednesday to Sunday. Photo courtesy of Shana Douglass.
And that work was recognized on a national level — the USC chapter was named Best Medium Chapter of the Year at the National Society of Black Engineers Annual Convention in Pittsburgh last week.
The USC chapter had also won Best Large Chapter of the Year in 2015, before they were redesignated to the Medium size category due to NSBE rule changes, according to USC NSBE Vice President Ellah Ipah.
Ipah credits the executive board and USC with helping the chapter reach its success.
To win the award, the chapter submitted documentation of the over 40 events it organized throughout the year in categories like inclusion and academic excellence, Ipah said. The chapter was also considered based on its participation in the national convention. With 30 USC attendees, they were one of the largest chapters in attendance, according to Ipah.
Ipah said that winning the award proves that USC NSBE is doing important work.


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Macron bestowed the prestigious award on Dr Adenuga at the new Alliance Francaise Mike Adenuga Centre in Ikoyi, Lagos
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One fear is that Web surfers will assume the music on the new sites is legal and licensed.
The recording industry is singing the blues over a new online addressing rule that will allow for the creation of a ".music" domain.
The music industry is concerned that the new system could allow online pirates to buy new domain names that help make their websites look more legitimate — encouraging more copyright infringement of digital music.
The change in the Web's domain name system is monumental because it allows businesses, nonprofits and organizations to apply for nearly any domain name they like. ICANN will begin accepting applications for new domain names between January and April of next year. It will cost $185,000 to create a new top-level domain, and all applicants will be subject to in-depth background checks by ICANN.
It's unclear how much of a problem music pirates applying for domain names might pose when the application process gets under way. While there's a possibility that the new system carries a risk of copyright infringement, it also presents an opportunity to create a safe home for digital music on the Web under the .music domain name.
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This isn't the first time members of the recording industry have aired concerns to ICANN.
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Introduced in 2004, the jewellery version of Omega Railmaster 49.2mm chronometer timepiece steals the show with its coloured mother-of-pearl dials, large diamond hour markers and a ruby cabochon on the crown.
A gold disc forms the base for a mother-of-pearl dial – available in black or red – that measures nearly 5 centimetres in diameter. The luxury continues with 20 baguette-cut diamonds (0.76 ct) used for the trapezoid hour markers that mimic the design of the standard model. The ruby cabochon set into the winding crown adds the final touch of luxury.
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Facebook sees shares tumble, but does the future look bright? Special
By Tim Sandle Jul 26, 2018 in Business
This week saw Facebook shares tumbled by more around 20 percent. Despite a rise in profits, the social media network's revenue and new user growth were short of investor expectations. However, the future looks strong, according to a leading analyst.
In mid-July, Facebook's stock was at an all-time high. However, the first set of meaningful results following the Cambridge Analytica scandal (as reported on Digital Journal "Facebook sends Cambridge Analytica warning to users") plus the company revealing a disappointing second-quarter earnings and forecasts, saw shares drop in value significantly.
According to the Financial Times, Facebook shares dropped as much as 24 percent, which had the effect of wiping up to $140 billion off the company's value. This was, the BBC reports, in one of the largest after-market drops eve recorded.
In terms of new user growth, Facebook reported that it had 2.23 billion monthly active users at the end of June, which was an increase of 11 percent on June 2017. This was the slowest growth in more than two years.
To gain an insight into what the data means for Facebook in the shorter-term, Investing.com Senior Analyst Haris Anwar has provided Digital Journal with an insight.
Anwar's first comment is that the future playing field for Facebook will be tricky in terms of data regulations. He tells Digital Journal: "I see some risks to the valuation that could come from increased regulation around the management of its user data. But overall, I remain convinced that Facebook will overcome these challenges and its stock still has a lot of room to run."
Despite this, and adverse publicity for Facebook, advertising remains strong. Anwar states: "So far, there has been no evidence that shows that controversies, such as the spread of fake news, Russian interference in the U.S. elections and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, have prompted advertisers to divert ad dollars."
However, there are risks to Facebook from other social media sites. The first being Instagram, which according to Anwar: "Instagram reached 1 billion monthly active users in June. This platform is attracting new users faster than Facebook's main site and is on track to exceed 2 billion users within the next five years. With a younger audience, Instagram is much more attractive to advertisers."
There is also a challenge from WhatsApp: "In an announcement early this year, WhatsApp said it would begin allowing business accounts for the first time, a step that lays the groundwork for this free service to start making money for its parent."
Despite the challenges and the stock market data, Anwar thinks that Facebook remains a company that has displayed considerable success: "The recent performance of Facebook suggests that the worst is over. There may be some more negative surprises, especially when the company is still in the middle of a major restructuring and many governments are still contemplating ways to strengthen online privacy regulation."
Despite this, he sates: "But that shouldn't discourage long-term investors to hold this tremendous growth stock in their portfolio. Facebook has a lot of firepower to deal with these temporary setbacks."
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package com.harrys.hyppo.worker

import com.harrys.hyppo.source.api.data.AvroRecordType
import com.harrys.hyppo.source.api.model.{DataIngestionJob, DataIngestionTask, IngestionSource}
import com.harrys.hyppo.source.api.task._
import com.harrys.hyppo.source.api.{ProcessedDataIntegration, ValidationResult}
import com.harrys.hyppo.worker.rt.data.TestRecord
import com.typesafe.scalalogging.Logger
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory

import scala.collection.JavaConversions

/**
 * Created by jpetty on 7/22/15.
 */
class ProcessedDataStub extends ProcessedDataIntegration[TestRecord] {
  private val log = Logger(LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass))

  override def avroType(): AvroRecordType[TestRecord] = AvroRecordType.forClass(classOf[TestRecord])

  override def validateSourceConfiguration(source: IngestionSource): ValidationResult = ValidationResult.valid()

  override def validateJobParameters(job: DataIngestionJob): ValidationResult = ValidationResult.valid()

  override def validateTaskArguments(task: DataIngestionTask): ValidationResult = ValidationResult.valid()

  override def newIngestionTaskCreator(): IngestionTaskCreator = new IngestionTaskCreator {
    override def createIngestionTasks(operation: CreateIngestionTasks): Unit = {
      operation.getTaskBuilder.addTask(JavaConversions.mapAsJavaMap(Map[String, AnyRef]()))
    }
  }

  override def newProcessedDataFetcher(): ProcessedDataFetcher[TestRecord] = new ProcessedDataFetcher[TestRecord] {
    override def fetchProcessedData(operation: FetchProcessedData[TestRecord]): Unit = {
      val record = new TestRecord()
      record.setName("Name Value")
      record.setValueOne(1)
      record.setValueTwo(2L)
      operation.append(record)
    }
  }

  override def newProcessedDataPersister(): ProcessedDataPersister[TestRecord] = new ProcessedDataPersister[TestRecord] {
    override def persistProcessedData(operation: PersistProcessedData[TestRecord]): Unit = {
      JavaConversions.asScalaIterator(operation.openReader()).foreach { record =>
        log.info(s"Recieved record: ${ record.toString }")
      }
    }
  }
}

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import _root_.io.gatling.core.scenario.Simulation
import ch.qos.logback.classic.{Level, LoggerContext}
import io.gatling.core.Predef._
import io.gatling.http.Predef._
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory

import scala.concurrent.duration._

/**
 * Performance test for the RecordPayment entity.
 */
class RecordPaymentGatlingTest extends Simulation {

    val context: LoggerContext = LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory.asInstanceOf[LoggerContext]
    // Log all HTTP requests
    //context.getLogger("io.gatling.http").setLevel(Level.valueOf("TRACE"))
    // Log failed HTTP requests
    //context.getLogger("io.gatling.http").setLevel(Level.valueOf("DEBUG"))

    val baseURL = Option(System.getProperty("baseURL")) getOrElse """http://127.0.0.1:8080"""

    val httpConf = http
        .baseURL(baseURL)
        .inferHtmlResources()
        .acceptHeader("*/*")
        .acceptEncodingHeader("gzip, deflate")
        .acceptLanguageHeader("fr,fr-fr;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3")
        .connection("keep-alive")
        .userAgentHeader("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0")

    val headers_http = Map(
        "Accept" -> """application/json"""
    )

    val headers_http_authentication = Map(
        "Content-Type" -> """application/json""",
        "Accept" -> """application/json"""
    )

    val headers_http_authenticated = Map(
        "Accept" -> """application/json""",
        "Authorization" -> "${access_token}"
    )

    val scn = scenario("Test the RecordPayment entity")
        .exec(http("First unauthenticated request")
        .get("/api/account")
        .headers(headers_http)
        .check(status.is(401))).exitHereIfFailed
        .pause(10)
        .exec(http("Authentication")
        .post("/api/authenticate")
        .headers(headers_http_authentication)
        .body(StringBody("""{"username":"admin", "password":"admin"}""")).asJSON
        .check(header.get("Authorization").saveAs("access_token"))).exitHereIfFailed
        .pause(1)
        .exec(http("Authenticated request")
        .get("/api/account")
        .headers(headers_http_authenticated)
        .check(status.is(200)))
        .pause(10)
        .repeat(2) {
            exec(http("Get all recordPayments")
            .get("/api/record-payments")
            .headers(headers_http_authenticated)
            .check(status.is(200)))
            .pause(10 seconds, 20 seconds)
            .exec(http("Create new recordPayment")
            .post("/api/record-payments")
            .headers(headers_http_authenticated)
            .body(StringBody("""{"id":null, "pay":null, "acceptPayment":null}""")).asJSON
            .check(status.is(201))
            .check(headerRegex("Location", "(.*)").saveAs("new_recordPayment_url"))).exitHereIfFailed
            .pause(10)
            .repeat(5) {
                exec(http("Get created recordPayment")
                .get("${new_recordPayment_url}")
                .headers(headers_http_authenticated))
                .pause(10)
            }
            .exec(http("Delete created recordPayment")
            .delete("${new_recordPayment_url}")
            .headers(headers_http_authenticated))
            .pause(10)
        }

    val users = scenario("Users").exec(scn)

    setUp(
        users.inject(rampUsers(100) over (1 minutes))
    ).protocols(httpConf)
}


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Nechirvan Barzani
Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani
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Iraqi dinar plunges to a new low
Three tents were damaged in a fire in an IDP camp in Duhok
President Barzani calls for "unity and consensus" on the 19th anniversary of the February 1st attack
USD/IQD rate climb in Baghdad, Erbil
Al-Sudani: the dinar's depreciation is temporary
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Shafaq News/ Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani has expressed confidence that Iraq's central bank (CBI) and trade bank (TBI) will manage to harness the prancing exchange rate of the US dollar against the Iraqi dinar.
Since last month, the Iraqi dinar has wavered against the dollar as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York introduced measures to stop the flow of dollars to sanctioned countries.
That has pushed the dinar exchange rate in the black market to more than 1,600 to the dollar, fuelling public anger over soaring goods prices.
In a press conference at the ministry of trade on Monday, al-Sudani said, "we have taken a series of measures against brokering and tampering with the market."
"The rising prices are temporary. We will spare no effort to provide the needs of the Iraqi citizens," he said, "today, we released the food basket for 5,076,649 households enlisted for social welfare."
"The administrations in the central and trade banks are quite competent and will suppress the soaring exchange rate," the prime minister added.
The Iraqi central bank has described the currency fluctuation as a "temporary situation" and the authorities have taken measures seeking to stabilize the exchange rate.
These have included facilitating dollar trade in the private sector through Iraqi banks and opening foreign exchange outlets at state-owned banks for those wishing to travel abroad.
Yesterday, Iraqi security forces raided two of Baghdad's biggest forex markets in an effort to control the soaring exchange rate.
It is still unclear how many traders have been arrested, and there is no official statement yet from the government on the operation.
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PM al-Sudani discusses displacement issue with Plasschaert
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Al-Sudani meets with Masrour Barzani in Baghdad
Source reveals the "unannounced purpose" of al-Sudani's visit to Paris
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Today I'd like to share with you a process that I've been using to sketchnote an entire book.
The process that I'm about to describe is one that I used to help me create the visual summary of the book Essentialism that I shared in last week's video.
The process that I follow has four steps to it.
The first step probably isn't that surprising. You begin by reading the book.
Step 1: Read, underline, and take notes in the margin.
While I'm reading I also underline passages that stand out to me and take some notes in the margins.
The goal here is to be an active reader as opposed to a passive one. That's why I enjoy using a pencil to make marks directly in the book.
But I also seek a balance so that I can stay in the flow of the reading process. I'm not spending too much time going off on my own tangents, but instead stay immersed in the reading experience.
While I'm reading there are really just two things that I'm doing.
I'm underlining the key ideas–the most important ideas from the book, those that might be new to me or feel significant.
I'm also making connections, connections to other books that I've read, other authors, and other ideas. I also make connections to my own personal experiences, often related to some significant event or insight from my past or something related to a current project that I'm working on.
It's via the margin notes that I capture those connections. That's a way for me to personalize the reading experience, to integrate the things that I'm learning about into my own current understanding of the world.
I encourage you to do something similar as you're first reading through a book. Find a way to capture the ideas that stand out to you and make connections to things in your past, your present, and maybe even your future.
To help you narrow down what you capture and decide what types of connections to make, I think it's worth identifying why it is that you're reading this book in the first place.
Here's an example of what my in-the-book notes look like.
It's mostly underlining, occasionally some icons like a star or a book or a magnifying glass, and some short bits of text in the margins to remind myself of things that I want to follow up on or connections that I have made.
So that's is for step one! You get to read the entire book while capturing some notes via underlined passages and the space in the margins.
Let's move to the second step in this process.
It's in this second step that you start sketchnoting, with single-page chapter summaries.
Step 2: Create a rough single-page sketchnote for each chapter.
I grab some cheap copy paper as I flip back through the book one chapter at a time and pull out the ideas that I underlined and the notes that I took in the margins.
It's in this step that I actually take the time to visualize the ideas with three primary categories.
Sometimes it's just a simple icon that I might use alongside some helpful text.
In other cases I might use a scene, often involving a human doing something, interacting with some other objects or on some sort of journey.
I'm also on the lookout for when diagrams might be helpful, when the ideas that I'm capturing might be best expressed in a flow chart or a mind map.
So it's with those three categories of visualizations (as well as helpful text surrounding those visualizations) that I capture the ideas within each chapter, limiting myself to one single page.
That single page constraint helps me avoid the tendency to capture too much. I don't want to rewrite the entire chapter, I simply want to pull out the most engaging ideas.
When creating these single-page chapter summaries, it's important for me to remind myself that I intentionally want them to be rough (as opposed to polished) notes.
These notes are just for you. They're not for anybody else to look at or benefit from. That takes away the pressure of wanting your notes to look artistic and helps you to shift your focus from looks to impact.
Here's an example of what my single-page chapter summary sketchnotes look like.
Often I do end up filling the page, but I'm not afraid to leave a bunch of blank space if in any given chapter there are only a couple ideas that stood out to me, ideas that I want to remember and revisit.
So throughout this entire process it's important to always be personalizing your note-taking and what you choose to capture in a way that emphasizes what you want to get out of the experience.
By completing sketchnote summaries of each chapter what you end up with is a quick reference, a way for you to dive back into the material from any given chapter and quickly see the ideas that stood out to you, those ideas that you might want to do something with.
In this third step we put the pen down and grab a few highlighters for the purpose of identifying actionable ideas, looking through those single-page chapter summaries and identifying what you want to do with the things you find there.
Step 3: Revisit your single-page summaries with a few highlighters to mark the ideas you want to follow up on.
For me, the most appealing thing about sketchnoting is how it can close the gap between ideas and action, and that's what we're getting at in this step.
Since there might be different types of follow-up actions that you'd like to take with the ideas from a book, it can be helpful to create a key.
Think back to your original why for reading the book and use that to identify the specific categories of follow-up actions.
I often use one color to identify good single-idea sketchnotes. That's for the ideas that have really stood out to me and when I enjoy the particular scene or diagram that I created for it, something that I might polish up a little bit and share on Instagram, for example.
I might use a second color to highlight any to-do items. Oftentimes connected to key ideas are some specific follow-up action that I want to take on a current project of mine, and unless I find a way to highlight those specific follow-up actions I might forget to take them. I might not incorporate the ideas that I've just read about as directly as possible, as directly as I intended to.
Finally, I often use a third color to highlight ideas that are related to a current project of mine. I give that highlighter a project-specific filter. Those aren't necessarily specific to-do's related to that project but more ideas that I want to keep in mind whileI continue to develop that project and make progress on it.
Now that you've captured the most important ideas in your single-page chapter summaries, what do you want to do with those ideas?
After you've answered that question, you might want to take it one step further.
This fourth step in the process is one that I consider to be optional: a single page summary of the entire book.
Step 4: Create a single-page sketchnote summary of the entire book!
If you choose to create a single-page summary like this I think there are two important questions to ask yourself.
The first is this: What's the overall structure?
In the case of Essentialism that was pretty easy to identify because the way in which the book was laid out.
After the first section of Essence, the three that followed (Explore, Eliminate, and Execute) made it pretty easy for me to divide the page of my whole-book summary into the three sections that you see.
So in many cases something along the lines of a mind map or a flow chart will work well.
But you could also be on the lookout for a single scene that might be the anchor for your book summary. If there's a single strong visual element that's used throughout the book (like an object or a particular situation) use that as a large container within which you can include the most important details.
And that leads us to the second question to ask yourself: What details are essential?
You only have a single page here (even if it is a large page) so you've got to continue refining down and asking yourself: what are the most important ideas here that I want to remember?
Throughout each step of the process that I've described we've been focusing on fewer and fewer ideas.
You first go from the entire book to just those things that you underlined and noted in the margin. From there you'll probably only pick some of those things that you underlined to include in your single-page chapter summary. And on each of those pages you're probably only going to highlight a couple of things. And it's one final stage of filtering if you choose to create this single-page book summary.
That can be a difficult process–deciding which things to exclude at each stage.
But it's that work and those decisions that will help you to do something meaningful with what you read.
Because the whole purpose behind putting in this effort when reading a book is so that one month later or six months later, rather than not really being able to recall many of the details from the book that you read, instead you have these artifacts of your learning, and specific actions that you took because of them.
So consider using the process I outlined above when you start reading your next book.
As always, feel free to tweak any of the details to better suit your circumstances and your needs as you work toward a book sketchnoting process that you're happy with.
I hope you enjoy whatever book you dive into next and that you also enjoy actively engaging with the ideas that you find in it.


Gardai have appealed for the public's help into a burglary at a house in Longford town last week.
The incident happened between 5pm and 5:45pm at a vacant house at Tully, Longford last Thursday.
It's understood thieves gained access to the premises by forcing open a side window.
It's not known at this stage what items were taken but witnesses are asked to contact (043) 3350570.


At 6:20 PM EDT Cory Ruff of nba-draft.com joins me to discuss the draft, Ricky Rubio and his future or lack of that with the Minnesota TimberKitties and Lebron's statements after the win over Boston last night. Cory always brings great information to the show.
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I'm ready for the baseball playoffs now.
Inter-league play is over. The All Star game has been played. Now, I have had enough baseball and am ready for the playoffs. Baseball has only another 3 weeks until football and the NFL steals the spot light and doesn't give it back. Baseball has a following but it is losing ground against other sports particularly football.
Proof of how totally football overshadows baseball can been seen most clearly in the steady decline of the TV ratings for the World Series. It has fallen about 50% in the last 10 years while the ratings for the All Star game have held fairly steady. Why? Because no one plays football in the middle of July.
Baseball has to take maximum advantage of the period when it is the only major league sport in the docket. The schedulers seem dedicated to having all the games between the Boston and the Yankees in the first few weeks of the season. But that is when both the NBA and NHL has its playoffs. A good marketing guy would never put their best games and highest draws on opposite a tough competitor. They should have waited until the MLB was the only show on TV.
Baseball faces another problem as well. The playoffs and World Series have started so late that the kids couldn't watch them to the end. Add that to the fact that kids don't play baseball the way we used to growing up in the 1950s, and you have the makings for a of a marketing disaster in the future.
Baseball has been trying to increase interest among the young by moving the first pitch time of playoff games earlier. It has also begun broadcasting the armature draft on television. The MLB draft will never reach the level of interest of the NFL draft for a couple of reasons. A lot of the early draft picks are high school age which very few fans have seen. Since most people don't watch NCAA baseball except the the college world series they don't even know the college players. So because most people don't know the players, the interest in the draft just isn't going to come close to that of the NBA or NFL.
So let's move baseball of the national sports stage and get ready for the real national pass time—football.


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/*
 * This code is released under the MIT license.
 * For conditions of distribution and use, see the LICENSE or hit the web.
 */
#pragma once
#include "ControlFramer.h"

namespace ws {

/*! Once the TCP-HTTP connection has been initialized and upgraded to WS, get the rid of the initializer object and build one of those.
It is a full, real websocket peer end, it is a stream of messages. */
class Connection : public ControlFramer {
public:
	const static asizei GetMaxInboundMessageSize() { return 4 * 1024 * 1024; } // so I don't need a .cpp for static
	Connection(NetworkInterface::ConnectedSocketInterface &pipe, bool maskedPayloadRequired) : ControlFramer(pipe, maskedPayloadRequired) { }
	typedef std::vector<aubyte> Message;

	//! Returns true if at least a Message is now available to caller.
	bool Read(std::vector<Message> &data) {
		bool first = true;
		const asizei initially = data.size();
		while(true) {
			aubyte *raw = first? ControlFramer::Read() : Next();
			if(!raw) break;
			first = false;
			aulong count = GetPayloadLen();
			asizei used = message.size();
			if(count + used > GetMaxInboundMessageSize()) throw std::exception("Message is way too big!");
			message.resize(message.size() + asizei(count));
			memcpy_s(message.data() + used, message.size() - used, raw, asizei(count));
			if(IsFinalFrame()) data.push_back(std::move(message));
		}
		return data.size() != initially;
	}

private:
	std::vector<aubyte> message;
};

}


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Home Developer Microsoft's Novell Investment Tops $340M
Microsoft's Novell Investment Tops $340M
By Sean Michael Kerner | August 20, 2008
The Linux business is looking better than ever for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). It's been so good that Microsoft has decided to buy up to $100 million more worth of Novell's Linux offerings in order to help satisfy customer demands.
The new incremental investment is on top of the $240 million of Novell Linux that Microsoft committed to in November of 2006.
The latest extension of the deal involves Microsoft reselling Novell Linux subscriptions, from which Microsoft appears to be generating some margin of profit.
"We have purchased the Novell certificates, which enables customers to gain direct support from Novell for Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise and we take those certificates and sell them to customers," Susan Hauser, general manager for strategic partnerships and licensing at Microsoft, told InternetNews.com.
"We keep the pricing confidential since customer size and opportunity pricing varies. We do resell and redistribute the certificates as part of our engagement."
The engagement itself so far has exceeded everyone's expectations.
"The original commitment that we made has been super successful and we have distributed more than 50 percent of it at this point," Hauser added. "The agreement expires in January 2012 so we looked at our track record of success and we felt really conformable that we could make an incremental investment of up to $100 million."
The deal between Microsoft and Novell involves joint sales opportunities for the two vendors. Hauser noted that while Microsoft is able to resell the Novell subscriptions to Microsoft customers and sales opportunities, Novell also can leverage the investment as well. The deal also involves the two partners continuing to work on interoperability initiatives between Linux and Windows.
"There are joint sales opportunities but there are also cases where Novell's sales force goes into an account and is involved in a bake off against Red Hat," Justin Steinman, director of marketing for open platforms at Novell, told InternetNews.com. "A point of differentiation for us is our interoperability with Microsoft."
In addition to the joint work on interoperability, the Microsoft Novell deal also includes a patent covenant. The patent protection extends to Novell's Linux users and covers any potential infringement of Microsoft's intellectual property that allegedly exists in Linux.
Microsoft has alleged that open source software infringes on its intellectual property and that vendors like Red Hat should pay up. To date, Red Hat has not entered into any kind of patent protection deal with Microsoft.
A Red Hat spokesperson told InternetNews.com that Red Hat has no comment on the new extension of the Novell Microsoft deal.
"Customers have told us that they don't want to be experts in the area of intellectual property and they are just pleased that our two companies have built this bridge and taken the issue off the table," Hauser said. "Customers just like to hear it's not an issue and they want to roll up their sleeves around the technical collaboration."
The original Microsoft Novell deal and the issue of patent protection has been a hot button in the tech industry. With the extension of the deal, however, the negativity appears to have waned.
"It is clear that customers want Linux. We're pleased to see Novell's Linux business grow as well as the overall market for Linux expand," said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation, in an statement e-mailed to InternetNews.com. "We think this industry growth and the demand from Microsoft's customers represents customers' desire to have more Linux in their data centers."
Interoperability is one of the items that data center managers always need to deal with and a challenge still facing Microsoft and Novell. For example, Microsoft's NAP (network access protection) access control technology, which is a key part of Windows Server 2008, did not exist when the original interoperability agreement was signed.
"To this point NAP has not been on the table," Novell's Steinman admitted. But as part of the agreement Novell and Microsoft have regular update meetings to discuss areas that should addressed.
Microsoft's Hauser commented that new project have been added to the interoperability road map since the original deal was signed. Also slated to be added is Moonlight, which is a Linux port of Microsoft's Silverlight framework.
"We've learned a lot over the last 18 months about what it takes for customers to integrate and actually leverage interoperability," Hauser said. "Over the next couple of months we'll be fine tuning our tools, support and workshops that will continue to make it easier for customers. I don't see any road blocks to adoption we're just trying to help customers reduce complexity."