Jorge Lorenzo’s Championship lead was stretched to 72 points at Laguna Seca as the Fiat Yamaha rider won the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix ahead of Casey Stoner and Valentino Rossi, in a round nine race that saw Dani Pedrosa crash out when leading. A trademark lightning start from Pedrosa saw him lead into turn one of the first lap and the Spaniard appeared to be making a similar break for victory as he had done in the previous round, as he led for the early part of the race …

The start of the 2010/11 EPL seson is just a week away and the Premier league has still not done an eye catching move so far, even though there has been no dearth in speculations.Its Manchester City who is doing all the spending. They have spend nearly 80 million already. Manchester United and Liverpool have done a bit of business while the London clubs Chelsea,Arsenal and Tottenham have so far not made any big signings.
City’s biggest signing so far has been David Silva from Valencia. Cash-strapped Valencia finally had to …

The code below explains how to get the value of a particular node from an XML. Dont forget to take a look into the imports in the class as the XMLToDOMParser and ApacheXMLToolsFactory are two very important packages you can’t forget for this code to work. “xPath” gives the node we have to find. The string variable “xPath” is defined in a particular way. The path in the eg: file(testParsingXML.java) will lead you to the node named “category“. Here is another example to know how to write the xPath:=  /root/son[@name=\"firstchild\"]/grandson[@name=\"gs1\"]
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Dani Pedrosa won a shortened 21-lap eni Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland ahead of Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner, who beat the returning Valentino Rossi to the final podium spot with an overtake on the last corner of the race. The original race was red flagged after a crash for Randy de Puniet, which resulted in a broken left leg for the Frenchman. This was Dani’s second win of the season. Randy de Puniet’s crash at turn four brought down both Álvaro Bautista (Rizla Suzuki) and Aleix Espargaró (Pramac Racing), neither …

The objective of the article is not just to create a taste towards hiking but also to make awareness on the various aspects. Of course the word itself creates some interest but it requires some prep and knowledge as well. It is always the back packer’s responsibility to acquire the necessary info about the terrain, distance, directions etc. Hiking simply refers to an outdoor activity in natural environments on foot. Hiking in its height will be always in touch with a thick vegetation say mountains, forest, hilly areas etc. And …