This will be a great news for all the XML/ XQuery language developers. There is a International DB2 Users Group ~ IDUG contest/ competition especially for the students, professional, hobbyists and anyone who like programming and wish to participate the contest to challenge themselves with others for the great prizes.

The grant prizes for each categories of the contest.

There are three categories of the contest open for public to participate.
1. The video mania contest. This contest is opened to both students and professional developers. You are required to invent a creative use of XML, XQuery or DB2 then record the whole process as a video format file then submit it before 28 February 2009.

2. The query challenge contest. It is a way for you to learn the XML and query language that related to DB2 and make use of your knowledge into practice, you challenge is to apply the knowledge to the real life through witting queries to find the multiple choice answers in an XML version of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) world fact book. you can use the XQuery to find five answers, and the best queries has written will able to win the grant prize.

3. The programming contest, and this contest is only open for students and maximum persons within the team is four members. The most important thing on the programming is the data, while XML is pervasive in the way data in stored, exchanged, analyzed, transferred and also being processed. DB2 9 is the first of its data server to store both relational and XML data side by side. So this is a challenge for those participants to build an application that uses IBM’s breakthrough technology, they need to explain to the judges how to install, run and evaluate their application, and point out the advantages of the pure XML or XML technologies that has been built by themselves.
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Two days ago, I was received an email from Public bank, about the SMS to win contest. Most of the time when I received an email about a contest from any bank or company, I will just ignore it, but this time the contest seems special and easy to participate.

There is no entry forms; no slogans; no purchases for this contest. Just two steps, by using your hand phone key in PB <space> [Your IC No] <space> [Optional Email Address] and send to 36018, then you are successfully registered your entry for this contest. An acknowledgment sms will be replied just within a few seconds after you sent to 36018.

Only one sms you need to send, sending one than one SMS will waste your money because additionally RM0.30 will be charged plus normal telecommunication charges for each sms you sent to 36018.

According to the information from public bank website there are more than 1,133 prizes to be won and also the terms about this contest as listed below.

1. This contest period started at 1st October and close before 31 December 2008.
2. Each participant is entitled to win one prize during the contest.
3. Eligibility
Participant must be aged 18 years old and above and must open and/ or maintain at least one of the following accounts during the contest period.
I. Deposits/ Load account
II. Credit/ Debit card account
III. Structured investment account
IV. PB series unit trust account
V. Bancassurance account
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SportsVids is a website all about the sports videos, high school videos website owned and operated by Marsico sports media. This would be a good place for those who are passion for sports and like to know more about the history and the facts of all kind of sports such like football, golf, hockey, tennis, basketball and more.

This is a website that suitable for all ages of visitors who are enthusiasts on sports because they have favorite highlighted videos, featured, most popular and most recent of the videos from time to time, and it is easy for you to watch these online sports videos with your friends and family at any places.

Beside the movies, currently they also having a contest open for everyone who free register as member and get a chance to win an Xbox 360 grand prize. There are totally three prizes for the contestants to be won, and the rules to win the contest is to drive visitors to their website, the more visitors that you referred to their website you will get the higher chances to win the grand prize.
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There is a beauty contest at http://www.lookoftheyear.com, that allows people from all of the world to participle and stand a chance to win the prize of $10.000.

If you are talented and dream to be a super model, then you could probably participate the beauty contest then post your photo and write up some information about yourself to look of the year website. Your photo and information will be accessible world widely and you are stand a chance to win the prize or spotted by an agency to begin your model life.

There are four categories, and each of the category can have 1 winner. If you want to be a winner, you must have a highest rating from the category you participated. How to get the highest rating is based on the people all over the world to judge and rate. No matter you are young, teenagers, working person or beautiful, you are eligible to join and stand a chance win the prize.

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