Golf: Watney Takes Lead as Woods Heads Home

Charlotte, North Carolina. The Wells Fargo Championship looks like it will be missing Tiger Woods on the weekend for the third straight year.

Woods couldn’t buy a putt in his round of 73 and was at even-par 144, almost certain to miss the cut for the eighth time in his career. Instead, the leaderboard was filled with a couple of players looking to turn their games around.

Nick Watney, who has not had a top 10 in stroke play all year, shot a 64 to take a one-shot lead over Webb Simpson (68) among early starters in the second round. Watney had gone 10 straight rounds without breaking 70 until arriving at Quail Hollow.

Among those two shots behind was Stewart Cink, winless since he captured the British Open at Turnberry in 2009.

Associated Press

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Victory for Stoner and 100th podium for Pedrosa

Today Casey today took his 42nd win in all classes in Grand Prix racing equalling the record of Max Biaggi and Tony Mang. After his win in Estoril today, Casey has now won at every circuit on the current GP calendar. This podium has also been very special for Dani because with this third place finish, he joins an elite club of only six riders with 100 career podiums to their name.

The Australian rider attacked hard from the beginning, setting a first lap of 1'42.369 which put a one second gap between him and Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa. The current World Champion led every lap of the 28-lap race and maintained a high pace for the duration with Jorge and Dani also riding consistently in the 1'37's.

Casey also took the lead in the World Championship standings with 66 points, followed by Lorenzo with 65 and Dani in third with 52 points.

Casey Stoner
"In the end it was another fantastic weekend for us. This morning we were more confident but also a little concerned because yesterday afternoon when we had a very similar setting to FP3 the bike was a little bit worse in the warm conditions. In warm up we didn't have a big problem with chatter but then for the race, under the warmer conditions, we struggled a lot more. This was very difficult to ride with, in the first part of the race I was confident and attacking the track but I closed the front twice due to the chatter. From this point I backed of a little, tried to stay smooth and just wanted to stay in front of Jorge and Dani, but Jorge was coming strong. I had to try and keep my pace and not make too many mistakes, I was changing t he mapping to try and reduce the chatter problem. Towards the end of the race I began to understand how to ride around it, this made things smoother and I found some more pace and was able to bring it home for a great race win."

Dani Pedrosa
"It's been a really tough race from the beginning, the pace was very very high from the first lap to the final one. Casey did a good race, unbelievably strong. I had a big shake in the first braking area, Casey and Jorge overtook me and I lost 1.5 seconds on the first lap. During the race I had some issues in the middle of the corner, I was not fast with corner speed; each lap I tried to get a little better, to try and modify my riding style, the mapping, braking later, I tried everything, I managed to match the lap times but not to close the gap. Three races on the podium is very good overall, but in three races we missed something, so let's try it again in the next one."

Press release courtesy of Repsol Honda Team.

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Vermeulen in for Edwards at Le Mans

Vermeulen, known for his wet weather prowess, has four years previous experience in MotoGP with the Suzuki factory team from 2006 until 2009, during which he achieved three pole positions, and took Suzuki’s only premier-class four-stroke win at Le Mans in 2007.

Edwards, who broke his left collarbone during a crash in Estoril qualifying last weekend, has left the Instituto Unversitario DEXEUS in Barcelona after successful surgery, and is on his way home to the USA. His consulting surgeon Doctor Javier Mir has advised him to not race again until the Catalunya Grad Prix (1st to 3rd June). This is in part due to the American having broken the same bone four times before, meaning that the recovery should not be rushed. He will begin physical therapy in about a week.

Chris Vermeulen

“First of all I would like to wish Colin a speedy recovery. I am grateful to have the opportunity to race back in MotoGP with the NGM Mobile Forward Racing team. I am looking forward to my first time on the bike being at Le Mans, a circuit that holds great memories for me including a Victory in 2007. I am excited to be racing at the top level of motorcycling again and look forward to working with the team.”

Marco Curioni – Managing Director

“In this unfortunate situation that sees Colin Edwards unable to race until the Catalunya GP, we take the opportunity to involve Chris Vermeulen in the team for the Le Mans GP. Several members of the team have previously worked with him and I believe that Chris will immediately find a good feeling with the team. Vermeulen is an expert rider in MotoGP with experience working with the electronics and the correct use of the tires, which are two areas in which we are currently working. Chris has previously won at Le Mans and knows the track well. I would like to wish Chris good luck and send all my best wishes for a quick recovery to Colin, who is on his way back home.”

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Bradl gives LCR renewed optimism

Bradl, who won the 2011 Moto2™ championship, and became the youngest ever German to win a title in the GP class, has so far proved to be an astute investment from LCR team’s CEO Lucio Cecchinello, after beating some established factory riders in all three races so far and establishing himself an impressive seventh in the world championship rankings with 24 points.

The youngster’s record makes for good reading in all three races this season, as he has finished higher than his qualifying position every time. In Qatar, he moved from ninth into eight, in Jerez from eighth to a MotoGP career-best seventh, and in Estoril from 11th to ninth. And considering the line-up on the grid this is no mean feat.

In his maiden race he was already tussling with the three Ducatis of Héctor Barberá, Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi for sixth place. Despite coming off third best in that fight, he had clearly taken some valuable pointers into the next round, as he once again fought with, and this time got the better of Hayden. Estoril may have been the worst positional result so far, but will have done wonders for his confidence, as he was involved in a race long battle with Yamaha Factory Racing’s Ben Spies for eighth place.

The young German from Bavaria remains coy about his achievements, stating that he knows he is on a steep learning curve, and that there is still heaps of potential to come from both him and the bike. And despite knowing all the tracks from the Moto2 championship, Bradl has explained that he is re-learning them in some respect, as they all "seem shorter" – the jump from around 150hp to over 250hp clearly not going unnoticed!

LCR endured a tough season last year with popular Spaniard and 2010 Moto2 champion Toni Elías failing to get to grips with the Honda-Bridgestone combination. So to put the team’s faith in yet another Moto2 champion may have looked like a big gamble at first, yet Bradl seems well and truly on the path to proving any doubters wrong.

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Jailer 3.6.3

Jailer is a tool for database subsetting, schema browsing, and rendering. It exports consistent, referentially intact row-sets from relational databases. It removes obsolete data without violating integrity. It is DBMS agnostic (by using JDBC), platform independent, and generates DbUnit datasets, hierarchically structured XML, and topologically sorted SQL-DML.

Features:
Exports consistent and referentially intact row-sets from your productive database and imports the data into your development and test environment.
Improves database performance by removing and archiving obsolete data without violating integrity.
Generates hierarchically structured XML, topologically sorted SQL-DML and DbUnit datasets.
Open Source. Entirely written in Java. Platform independent. DBMS agnostic.

System Requirements:
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 or above.
JDBC-driver for your R-DBMS

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McAfee Fake Alert Stinger 10.2.0.190

Fake-Alert software, also called fake AV or rogue anti-virus software, is malware that masquerades as a legitimate security application. These threats employ social engineering tactics to trick users into purchasing and installing malicious products. Once installed, a system scan will run that subsequently claims that the machine is infected. Other nefarious activity is occurring in the background, including the disabling of legitimate security applications.

The Fake Alert Stinger uses “Super Scan” mode for detection and remediation targeted specifically at fake-alert threats.

Super Scan achieves the following:

Terminates malicious processes that hinder anti-virus software from running properly
Restarts the Windows Explorer process to remove any hooks created by malware to prevent re-infections
Fixes file associations and other registry-based policies that are typically altered by fake-alert threats to remain active or to prevent normal use of system tools

In summary, Super Scan brings an infected system to a state that allows anti-virus software to scan and remediate effectively.

What´s New in version 10.2.0.190:

New Detections:
FakeAlert-Kraddare.a
FakeAlert-Kraddare.b
FakeAlert-Kraddare.c
FakeAlert-Rena.v
Generic FakeAlert.cx
Generic FakeAlert.cy
W32/Rimecud.gen.bv

Enhanced Detections:
Bredolab.gen.c
Downloader-BCS
Downloader-CEW.au
Downloader-CEW.bd
Exploit-PDF.i
FakeAlert-AVPSec.l
FakeAlert-HP
FakeAlert-KS
FakeAlert-Rena.p
FakeAlert-Rena.q
FakeAlert-Rena.s
FakeAlert-Rena.u
FakeAlert-SecurityTool
FakeAlert-SecurityTool.bt
FakeAlert-SecurityTool.cp
FakeAlert-SpywareProtect
FakeAlert-SysDef
FakeAlert-SysDef.b
FakeAlert-XPSecCenter
Generic Downloader.gx
Generic Downloader.z
Generic Downloader.z!1516DDBD
Generic FakeAlert
Generic FakeAlert!9F6E4576
Generic FakeAlert.a
Generic FakeAlert.br
Generic FakeAlert.cw
OSX/FakeAlert-MacDefender
VBS/Autorun.worm.k
W32/Autorun.worm.aabq
W32/Autorun.worm.c
W32/Autorun.worm.g
W32/Autorun.worm.g!0BE8F32E
W32/Autorun.worm.h
W32/Nuwar.dam
W32/Rimecud

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IECacheView 1.45

IECacheView is a small utility that reads the cache folder of Internet Explorer, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache.

For each cache file, the following information is displayed: Filename, Content Type, URL, Last Accessed Time, Last Modified Time, Expiration Time, Number Of Hits, File Size, Folder Name, and full path of the cache filename.

You can easily save the cache information into text/html/xml file, or copy the cache table to the clipboard and then paste it to another application, like Excel or OpenOffice Spreadsheet.

Advantages over the ´Temporary Internet Files´ viewer of Windows:

IECacheView displays only the list of cache files, while the cache view of Windows displays a mix of cookies and cache files.
IECacheView allows you to filter the cache files by file type (image, text, video, audio, or application).
IECacheView allows you to view the cache files of another user or from another disk, while with the Windows viewer, you can only watch the cache of the current logged-on user.
IECacheView displays some columns that are not displayed by the cache viewer of Windows: Content Type, Number of hits, Sub-folder name, and the full-path of the cached filename.
With IECacheView, you can easily select the desired cache items, copy the information to the clipboard, and then paste it into Excel or OpenOffice Spreadsheet.

System Requirements:
This utility works with all version of Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Vista, with Internet Explorer version 6.x or 7.x.

What´s New in version 1.45:

Added ‘Double-Click Action’ option, which allows you to choose what to do when you double-click on cache item – Properties Window, Open File In Cache, Open URL In Browser, Open Cache Sub-Folder, or Open With…

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