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Friday, June 22, 2007
Kaseya Acquires Versora
Santa Barbara-based migration software provider Versora has been acquired by Kaseya, a provider of managed services software based in St. Helier, in the States of Jersey. Kaseya said Thursday that it has acquired Versora to bolder its managed services automation software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Versora is a provider of desktop migration software used by IT administrators to move PC settings and applications between computers. According to Kaseya, Versora's product line will be integrated into the firm's software, and the current product line retired.


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Kansas City came into town today leading the season series with Baltimore but the Birds tied it up with a 5-3 victory. Alfredo Simon got his first win of the season in his first game back with the team and Joakim Soria took the loss.
Taking the early lead, the Royals got the first two runners on base with back-to-back singles. Jeff Francoeur singled to left field to drive in the first run of the game.
Alex Gordon gave Kansas City an add-on run in the second with a solo shot to the flag court.
More insurance runs came for the visitors in the sixth inning as Francoeur singled up the middle to start it off and then stole second. He came around to score on a single by Billy Butler.
The Orioles got on the board in the sixth with Nick Markakis getting a leadoff single and stealing second base. Matt Wieters followed with an RBI double, just shy of a homer. Wieters got to third on a wild pitch and then scored on a single up the middle off the bat of pinch hitter Luke Scott.
With a late game rally, Baltimore tied it up in the ninth. J.J. Hardy and Felix Pie both doubled down the third base line to even it up at three runs apiece. With two outs, Adam Jones got a walk-off homer to give the team the win, his first in 98 at-bats to straight away center field.
Britton worked 6.0 innings and gave the Orioles at least a chance to win, allowing three runs and nine hits. He struck out and walked two on 101 pitches. The Orioles finally scored with him on the mound after going scoreless for 27.1 innings. It was his eighth quality start in 10 outings. He did not have his best stuff but made the Royals go 2-for-7 with runners in scoring position and strand seven runners, including leaving the bases loaded in the top of the sixth inning.
Jeremy Accardo went scoreless in the seventh, getting out of a bases loaded jam on a fly ball to center. Hey stayed on for two outs in the eighth, retiring the two batters he faced. Clay Rapada took the mound for one batter in the eighth and sat him down. Alfredo Simon made his first appearance of the season in the ninth, going three up and three down.
Danny Duffy went 5.1 innings, giving up two runs on five hits with three walks and six strike outs. Louis Coleman came on to end the inning. Blake Wood made a relief appearance for 1.0 inning, giving up one hit. Aaron Crow also went 1.0 inning, being scoreless and hitless. Kansas City closer Joakim Soria pitched the ninth, blowing his first save against the O's. He surrendered three runs on three hits in his 0.2 inning outing.
The offense for Baltimore strung just enough together to get the win but was not stellar on the night. They got 10 hits but were only 4-for-13 with runners in scoring position, leaving seven runners stranded on base with two in scoring position. Reimold and Snyder were the only Oriole hitters to not get a hit but only J.J. Hardy and Adam Jones had a multi-hit game. On a brighter note, Vladimir Guerrero extended his hitting streak to nine games with a single in the fourth inning. The Birds were sat down only twice on the night.
Brian Roberts is out for at least three more weeks after heeding the advice of a specialist.
Jake Arrieta (5-2) will face Luke Hochevar (3-4) in the middle game tomorrow.

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I think that body image is something that every teen struggles with from time to time. BodiMojo is a site that is dedicated to putting the power in the hands of teens to change how they think about their bodies, teach them how to live healthier, and encourages them to exercise through activities they already love.
What they've done is created a community that teens can turn to for information, support, and health tools. They'll find quizzes, games, videos and more to help them on their road to a healthy life.
I wish I would have had something like this site when I was a teen. Just the idea of having an outlet for my thoughts about my body and how to handle teasing from classmates would have been handy. I was skeleton-thin and had no idea it stemmed from a thyroid issue, and now my weight has swung to the other spectrum. It would have been nice to have gotten a handle on it before it got out of control.
Another aspect of this site that I really love is the HAP*Y Pact. You'll find it under the parents section, and it provides a way for a parent (or sponsor) to setup a pact with a teen, select some health goals, and then reward the teen when they've accomplished it.
This is a very cool site, so check it out today!
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Ah, Venice… The magical sinking city that seems to float on water, where residents still need boats to get around and where visitors unfailingly get lost in its winding maze of alleyways, bridges, and canals.
Venice has always occupied a special place in my heart. In elementary school––and still today––one of my favorite books was The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke, a story of two brothers who run away to Venice and are taken in by a group of street children who live in an abandoned theater. (That description may not do it complete justice, but Cornelia Funke is truly a master in children's literature.)
Julia and I arrived in Venice on Friday afternoon by train at the Santa Lucia station, where one immediately walks out the doors of the station to see the Grand Canal.
Beforehand, I had found out that the cheapest way for us to get a vaporetto pass was through a Rolling Venice card from the tourism office. Tip: If you're under 29, you can purchase a Rolling Venice card for only 4€ to get huge discounts on many attractions in Venice, such as a 3-day vaporetto pass and half-price admissions at the major museums and attractions.
With our vaporetto pass in hand, we boarded the No. 2 vaporetto to take us to the island of Giudecca, where our hostel was located.
After dropping our bags off at the hostel, we took the vaporetto over to San Marco, which was only two stops away by boat.
It was already getting dark, so we wandered around a bit in the rain, winding through alleyways and climbing over bridges. For dinner, we stopped by a tiny restaurant that specialized in cichetteria, little small dishes you can combine to create a meal.
Once back at the hostel, we ordered some hot chocolate from the bar and sat down in the common area. Now, hot chocolate in Italy is completely different from what you experience stateside––instead of a watery mix of chocolate power and sometimes milk, Italian hot chocolate is like a melted chocolate bar: rich, smooth, and thick.
For my first hostel experience, Ostello Venezia was awesome. The building was recently remodeled in October, with a funky common area and cool furnishings.
In the hostel, they were setting up for a "Neon Party" that night, complete with guest DJ performances. Considering that I usually can barely stay up past 11, we were only there for the first hour or so, when there were only two guys swirling around on the dance floor by themselves, so I can't speak much for the event. But the set-up looked impressive!
By hanging out in the common area, we met a bunch of travelers from all over: Belgium, England, Scotland, and Canada, to name a few locales. Julia and I passed around a blow-up ball with a backpacker for a bit, then pulled up a bunch of chairs with a group to meet new people.
Fairly early, we headed back to the dorm room since we planned to head out early the next morning. While the atmosphere in the common area of the hostel was great, the vibe in our dorm room was very… strange. A woman had lost a pouch with a bunch of her cash in it, so she spent over three hours crying during the night and talking loudly to her friend and on the phone in Spanish. At first I felt bad––I couldn't imagine if that happened to me––but by 1:00 a.m. and hour 2 of this, I was wishing she'd leave the room.
Despite all of that, I slept surprisingly well, armed with an eye mask and a pair of earplugs. My top bunk was even more comfortable than my bed back in Florence, and I awoke to discover that the window in the room had a fantastic view of Venice's main island.
After accidentally terrifying a girl on my way to the bathroom (apparently, when I ask someone "Are you done with the shower?" in my pajamas and glasses it is scary enough to warrant a reaction straight out of a horror movie), we headed back to San Marco in the morning to begin our full day of sightseeing.
After a mesmerizing walk through the Basilica of San Marco––perhaps the most beautiful church I've ever seen––we bought tickets for the Secret Itineraries Tour of the Doge's Palace.
Unfortunately, they don't allow cameras on the tour, but it was completely worth the 14€ ticket price. Our tour guide enthusiastically led us through the parts of the palace not open to the general public––old prison cells, torture chambers, and archival rooms––while telling us stories from the past, such as how Casanova managed to escape from prison using a bible, plate of pasta, and a small shovel.
After the tour, we then had time to tour the grand public rooms of Venice, where the huge councils of nobles used to meet to govern the powerful republic. For centuries, Venice was governed by a kind of oligarchical democracy, where 2,000 noble men voted in the Grand Council––pretty impressive for a state that never had a formal written constitution. The Doge himself was elected from one of the leading Venetian families usually around the age of 80, then would serve in the position until his death. However, the position itself didn't have much political power beginning in the 1200s, when the Rialto families controlled the government through various levels of Councils.
Afterwards, we got lunch at an amazing take-out pasta place named Alfredo's then wandered around and got lost––which, truly, is the best way to spend your time in Venice.
On a small side street, we found a beautiful bookstore, where books lay stacked in precariously leaning towers. I bought some postcards to send back home.
We jumped on a vaporetto to take a look at all the palazzos along the Grand Canal by water.
We pondered some modern art at the Guggenheim.
Then we managed to get so completely lost that a kind man asked if we needed help and pointed us in the direction of the old Jewish ghetto in Venice.
For dinner, we sought out a place where we could try the Venetian speciality of spaghetti al nero di seppia, dyed black by squid's ink.
Exhausted from a full day of walking, we finally made it back to the hostel for another round of hot chocolate and where we met a group of American students who were visiting Venice for the weekend. Then, we headed out early the next morning to make our train back home.
All in all, I couldn't have asked for a better way to kick off my birthday week. The Venice of reality was even more charming than the Venice of my dreams.
I can't wait to return some day.


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this is my first post here. Right now i am trying to set some good lightning. Later i'll put some furniture and decorations, I really hope that end result will be nice. Everything was made with 3ds Max and rendered with vray. My goal is to be realistic.


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Nouvelles hebdomadaires de PostgreSQL - 2 mai 2010
PostgreSQL 9.0beta1 bientôt disponible. Préparez vos banc de tests ! http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HowToBetaTest
Les nouveautés des produits dérivés
- Nouveaux LiveCD basés sur PostgreSQL 8.4 et Fedora 12 / CentOS 5.4 : http://www.pglivecd.org/
- PL/Proxy 2.1.0, un système de répartition de charge en écriture pour PostgreSQL : http://pgfoundry.org/projects/plproxy/
La fonctionnalité 9.0 de la semaine
Vous pouvez maintenant appeler des fonctions avec des paramètres nommés, par exemple : foo('value' AS parameter_foo, 'other value' AS parameter_bar)
PostgreSQL Local
- Andreas (ads) Scherbaum enseignera au centre pour adultes de Magdeburg (All.) du 3 au 7 mai 2010 sur le sujet "PostgreSQL for Corporate Use". Détails ci-après : http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/650-PostgreSQL-Schulung-als-Bildungsurlaub-03.-07.05.2010-in-Magdeburg.html
- La PgCon 2010 aura lieu les 20 & 21 mai 2010 à Ottawa avec des tutoriels les 18 et 19 : http://www.pgcon.org/2010/registration.php
- Les inscriptions sont ouvertes pour l'Open Source Bridge et les conférences sont annoncées ! L'événement aura lieu du 1er au 4 juin 2010 à Portland (Oregon) : http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2010/proposals/
- Michael Renner tiendra une conférence au AMOOCON qui aura lieu du 4 au 6 juin 2010 : http://www.amoocon.de/speakers/214
- La "Southeast Linuxfest 2010" aura lieu à Spartanburg (Caroline du Sud, États-Unis) les 12 & 13 juin. Participations/réunions et mécénats encore proposables : http://southeastlinuxfest.org/
- L'OSCON aura lieu à Portland (Oregon) du 19 au 23 juillet 2010 : http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010
PostgreSQL dans les média
- Planet PostgreSQL : http://planet.postgresql.org/
- Planet PostgreSQLFr : http://planete.postgresql.fr/
PostgreSQL Weekly News / les nouvelles hebdomadaires vous sont offertes cette semaine par David Fetter. Traduction par l'équipe PostgreSQLFr sous licence CC BY-NC-SA.
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Correctifs appliqués
Robert Haas a commité :
- When we're restricting who can connect, don't allow new walsenders. Normal superuser processes are allowed to connect even when the database system is shutting down, or when fewer than superuser_reserved_connection slots remain. This is intended to make sure an administrator can log in and troubleshoot, so don't extend these same courtesies to users connecting for replication.
Bruce Momjian a commité :
- In pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c, add comments about why we set LC_CTYPE in WIN32 for time when we don't actually access it, per information from Hiroshi Inoue.
- Reorder pg_stat_activity columns to be more consistent, using layout suggested by Tom Lane. Catalog version bumped due to system view change.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml, document that pgpool can be used with master/slave servers to avoid problems with non-deterministic functions.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml, update 9.0 release notes to current; add major items and introductory text.
- Move alpha release notes into a separate file; re-align sgml tags.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml, doc fix -- last major item should not be a bullet.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml, documentation fix: CREATE TRIGGER 'WHERE' -> 'WHEN'. Selena Deckelmann.
Tom Lane a commité :
- In pgsql/src/backend/tsearch/wparser_def.c, add missing newlines in WPARSER_TRACE output.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml, update documentation to match pg_stat_activity changes.
- Replace the KnownAssignedXids hash table with a sorted-array data structure, and be more tense about the locking requirements for it, to improve performance in Hot Standby mode. In passing fix a few bugs and improve a number of comments in the existing Hot Standby code. Simon Riggs, with some editorialization by Tom Lane.
- In pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c, fix stupid typo in refnameRangeTblEntry() --- mea maxima culpa. Per report from Josh Berkus.
- Modify the built-in text search parser to handle URLs more nearly according to RFC 3986. In particular, these characters now terminate the path part of a URL: '"', '<', '>', '\', '^', '`', '{', '|', '}'. The previous behavior was inconsistent and depended on whether a "?" was present in the path. Per gripe from Donald Fraser and spec research by Kevin Grittner. This is a pre-existing bug, but not back-patching since the risks of breaking existing applications seem to outweigh the benefits.
- Fix contrib/tsearch2 expected results to match recent changes in URL parsing.
- Modify ShmemInitStruct and ShmemInitHash to throw errors internally, rather than returning NULL for some-but-not-all failures as they used to. Remove now-redundant tests for NULL from call sites. We had to do something about this because many call sites were failing to check for NULL; and changing it like this seems a lot more useful and mistake-proof than adding checks to the call sites without them.
- In pgsql/src/bin/pg_controldata/pg_controldata.c, pg_controldata needs #define FRONTEND, same as pg_resetxlog. Per buildfarm results from dawn_bat.
- Minor editorializing on pg_controldata and pg_resetxlog: adjust some message wording, deal explicitly with some fields that were being silently left zero.
- In pgsql/src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql, modify information_schema._pg_keysequal() to avoid search path risk when contrib/intarray is loaded. Per bug #5417 from Kenaniah Cerny. Not forcing initdb since backend doesn't directly depend on this, and few people have run into it.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/perform.sgml, fix typo, per Thom Brown.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/jadetex.cfg, install a workaround for 'TeX capacity exceeded' problem when building PDF output for recent versions of the documentation. There is probably a better answer out there somewhere, but we need something now so we can build beta releases.
- Rename the parameter recovery_connections to hot_standby, to reduce possible confusion with streaming-replication settings. Also, change its default value to "off", because of concern about executing new and poorly-tested code during ordinary non-replicating operation. Per discussion. In passing do some minor editing of related documentation.
- Adjust error checks in pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup to make it possible to perform a backup without archive_mode being enabled. This gives up some user-error protection in order to improve usefulness for streaming-replication scenarios. Per discussion.
- Fix a couple of places where the result of fgets() wasn't checked. This is mostly to suppress compiler warnings, although in principle the cases could result in undesirable behavior. Martin Pitt.
- In pgsql/src/pl/plpython/plpython.c, fix multiple memory leaks in PLy_spi_execute_fetch_result: it would leak memory if the result had zero rows, and also if there was any sort of error while converting the result tuples into Python data. Reported and partially fixed by Andres Freund. Back-patch to all supported versions. Note: I haven't tested the 7.4 fix. 7.4's configure check for python is so obsolete it doesn't work on my current machines :-(. The logic change is pretty straightforward though.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml, improve COPY documentation to clarify that it doesn't copy data to or from child tables. Per gripe from Jaime Casanova.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml, update our information about OS X shared memory configuration: it's now possible to set most of the SHM kernel parameters without a reboot. Also, reorder the paragraph to explain the modern configuration method first. There are probably not too many people who still care about how to do it on OS X 10.3 or older.
- In pgsql/src/pl/plpython/plpython.c, fix leakage of proc-related storage in plpython's inline handler. Per report from Andres Freund.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile, adjust postgres.xml rule so that make will notice a failure exit from osx. The previous coding had it in a pipe, which on most shells won't report the error. Per experimentation with a bug report from Vladimir Kokovic. This doesn't actually fix his problem, but it does explain why make didn't report that there was a problem.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile, install hack workaround for failure of 'make all' in VPATH builds. It appears that gmake gets confused if postgres.sgml is not present in the working directory, and instantiates some default rule or other that would let postgres.sgml be built from postgres.xml. I haven't been able to track down exactly where that's coming from, but the problem can be dodged by specifying srcdir explicitly in the rule for postgres.xml. Per report from Vladimir Kokovic.
- In pgsql/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c, add code to InternalIpcMemoryCreate() to handle the case where shmget() returns EINVAL for an existing shared memory segment. Although it's not terribly sensible, that behavior does meet the POSIX spec because EINVAL is the appropriate error code when the existing segment is smaller than the requested size, and the spec explicitly disclaims any particular ordering of error checks. Moreover, it does in fact happen on OS X and probably other BSD-derived kernels. (We were able to talk NetBSD into changing their code, but purging that behavior from the wild completely seems unlikely to happen.) We need to distinguish collision with a pre-existing segment from invalid size request in order to behave sensibly, so it's worth some extra code here to get it right. Per report from Gavin Kistner and subsequent investigation. Back-patch to all supported versions, since any of them could get used with a kernel having the debatable behavior.
- Clean up some awkward, inaccurate, and inefficient processing around MaxStandbyDelay. Use the GUC units mechanism for the value, and choose more appropriate timestamp functions for performing tests with it. Make the ps_activity manipulation in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs have behavior similar to ps_activity code elsewhere, notably not updating the display when update_process_title is off and not truncating the display contents at an arbitrarily-chosen length. Improve the docs to be explicit about what MaxStandbyDelay actually measures, viz the difference between primary and standby servers' clocks, and the possible hazards if their clocks aren't in sync.
- In pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c, fix replay of XLOG_HEAP_NEWPAGE WAL records to pay attention to the forknum field of the WAL record. The previous coding always wrote to the main fork, resulting in data corruption if the page was meant to go into a non-default fork. At present, the only operation that can produce such WAL records is ALTER TABLE/INDEX SET TABLESPACE when executed with archive_mode = on. Data corruption would be observed on standby slaves, and could occur on the master as well if a database crash and recovery occurred after committing the ALTER and before the next checkpoint. Per report from Gordon Shannon. Back-patch to 8.4; the problem doesn't exist in earlier branches because we didn't have a concept of multiple relation forks then.
- In pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c, improve printing of XLOG_HEAP_NEWPAGE records to include the forknum.
Heikki Linnakangas a commité :
- In pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c, if a base backup is cancelled by server shutdown or crash, throw an error in WAL recovery when it sees the shutdown checkpoint record. It's more user-friendly to find out about it at that point than at the end of recovery, and you're not left wondering why your hot standby server never opens up for read-only connections.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/recovery-config.sgml, add recovery.conf parameters to the documentation index, per suggestion by Fujii Masao.
- Introduce wal_level GUC to explicitly control if information needed for archival or hot standby should be WAL-logged, instead of deducing that from other options like archive_mode. This replaces recovery_connections GUC in the primary, where it now has no effect, but it's still used in the standby to enable/disable hot standby. Remove the WAL-logging of "unlogged operations", like creating an index without WAL-logging and fsyncing it at the end. Instead, we keep a copy of the wal_mode setting and the settings that affect how much shared memory a hot standby server needs to track master transactions (max_connections, max_prepared_xacts, max_locks_per_xact) in pg_control. Whenever the settings change, at server restart, write a WAL record noting the new settings and update pg_control. This allows us to notice the change in those settings in the standby at the right moment, they used to be included in checkpoint records, but that meant that a changed value was not reflected in the standby until the first checkpoint after the change. Bump PG_CONTROL_VERSION and XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. Whack XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC back to the sequence it used to follow, before hot standby and subsequent patches changed it to 0x9003.
- In pgsql/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtxlog.c, fix handling of b-tree reuse WAL records when hot standby is disabled, and add missing code in btree_desc for them. This fixes the bug with "tree_redo: unknown op code 208" error reported by Jaime Casanova.
Alvaro Herrera a commité :
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml, reformat code examples in plpgsql docs for better readability in PDF output. Erik Rijkers
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/perform.sgml, make pg_stats example query result a bit less wide, and add comment about pg_stats.inherited
ITAGAKI Takahiro a commité :
- In pgsql/src/port/chklocale.c, add CP949 as an alias for UHC encoding. pg_get_encoding_from_locale() with kor locale on Windows can use the path. Reported by Hiroshi Inoue.
Magnus Hagander a commité :
- In pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-protocol3.c, fix typo that had the code check the same thing twice. Fujii Masao.
Marc Fournier a commité :
- Tag for 9.0beta1.
Simon Riggs a commité :
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml, mention that max_standby_delay has units of milliseconds. Units are mentioned for all other parameters where the default is expressed in a different unit.
- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml, docs for standbycheck regression tests.
- Update standbycheck test output with new ERROR message changes. No changes to tests and no changes in accepted server behaviour.
Correctifs rejetés (à ce jour)
- Pas de déception cette semaine :-)
Correctifs en attente
- Marko (johto) Tiikkaja sent in a patch to throw a more informative warning when people use extra parentheses in INSERT statements.
- Simon Riggs sent in another revision of the patch to fix the issue where queries on the Hot Standby slave ran much slower than the same queries on the master.
- Heikki Linnakangas sent in a patch to relax the checks in pg_start/stop_backup() so they can be used as long as wal_level >= 'archive', even when archiving is disabled.
- Simon Riggs sent in a patch intended to improve the performance of btree_xlog_vacuum().
- Zoltan Boszormenyi sent in two revisions of a patch intended for 9.1 which adds synchronous replication atop Hot Standby/Streaming Replication.
- Aftab Hussain sent in a patch to add PKST (Pakstan Summer Time) to the time zone list.
- Robert Haas sent in a patch to implement CINE (Create If Not Exists) for tables.
- Greg Sabino Mullane sent in a patch to show the schema along with the table involved in a COPY error.


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Jonny Lee Miller's Sherlock Holmes was left devastated in last week's "Elementary" by the revelation that the woman he has been grieving, and whose death lead him spiraling down the path of addiction -- Irene Adler -- is actually alive.
And Natalie Dormer, who continues her arc as Irene in the two-hour Season 1 finale tonight, can actually credit her duties as a member of the "Game of Thrones" cast for helping introduce her to the CBS drama -- something that happened at the perfect time.
"It was like serendipity because I'd seen the show on the transatlantic flight. ... I was skimming through all the different TV shows when I was flying over to do 'Game of Thrones' Season 3 press, " Natalie explained to AccessHollywood.com about how she first became familiar with the "Elementary" take on Sherlock Holmes, shortly before being asked to meet with the show's Executive Producer, Robert Doherty.
PHOTOS: 'Elementary': Scenes Between Sherlock, Watson & Irene In The Season 1 Finale
"It was really peculiar because less than a week later, I had a phone call going, 'Rob Doherty would really like to meet you,'" Natalie continued. "There was kind of like a big secret as to why. They didn't want to go into detail. So I was like, 'This is weird because I just watched the show for the first time on the plane on the way over."
Just like she helped sculpt her role on Showtime series "The Tudors" (where she played Anne Boleyn), Natalie helped craft the "Elementary" version of Irene, and she shared details of her input, with Access , as well as hinted at what's ahead in the show's season finale, which airs tonight at 9 PM on CBS. Natalie also addressed whether she thinks her "Game of Thrones" character, Margaery Tyrell is on par with Varys and Littlefinger, or just plain sincere (or maybe both!).
PHOTOS: The Gorgeous Gals Of 'Game Of Thrones'
AccessHollywood.com: You were involved in the decision to make Irene an American like she is in the novels. How did that come about?
Natalie Dormer: I talked to Rob about it and I was like, 'Why not?' (Laughs). Originally, she was. Irene Adler was a Jersey girl. ... I was like, 'Well, let me just play her American.'... The cool thing about Irene Adler is you don't really know who she is or where she comes from. ... If you look into the novels or the incarnations of her -- she's a bit of a con woman, a bit of a wily one herself, so she has an accent, but you can't quite place it, so I [thought], if I can do some kind of general American accent that is like, 'What is that? Where is she from?' -- I was really curious [about] the idea of doing that, especially as it's a British Sherlock in the show.
Access: There is something fascinating about this Renaissance woman, con woman, who is American, who is the one who captured the heart of this [genius] British man...
Natalie: I was in New York even before I went to do 'Elementary' because I was there with the 'Game of Thrones' press tour and I'm so impressed with like East Coast women. London women, we're emancipated... we're waving the flag and we know what we want and we're ambitious, but I don't know, there's almost something always slightly apologetic about us British women, even when we do it. ... Like an emancipated, ambitious, professional East Coast woman is very impressive and she can have a flare and a charisma in your characterization of her that is just sort of innate to coming from that part of the world so I was struck by the idea of doing that.
WATCH IT NOW: Natalie Dormer (Margaery), Lena Headey (Cersei) & More Talk 'Game Of Thrones' Season 3
Access: Speaking about the artistry of Irene in the show, Sherlock starts flipping out the second he walks in the room and he sees the paintings. Are we going to find out what they represent or is that left to our imagination?
Natalie: I don't think it's so much to do with what the paintings are. I think it's to do with him being able to recognize her work and then it's just like creeping up that she's alive and there she is around the corner. ... The love of your life, who you think has been dead for the last 18 months, and you could have sworn that you stood like, next to a puddle of her blood, is suddenly there in front of your eyes. Jonny played it so well. ... Obviously the whole spiraling decent into addiction was due to the loss of Irene, so it's that wonderful humanizing thing of -- even someone who is on such a high level, higher echelons than the rest of humanity, such as Sherlock, has a vulnerability and a fragility because of being in love or because of who he cares for, which is a very human thing. It's something we can all identify with. Love, it can be our greatest strength and it can make us vulnerable and weak as well... So her turning up is going to show the audience and Watson a side of Sherlock that you haven't seen for 21 episodes
Access: How much are we going to see of the torture Irene went through, of being a captive of someone?
Natalie: That's the cool thing about the show -- it doesn't waste too much time in the past. It's a really fast moving two hours in the present. The interesting thing is the trauma that both Sherlock and Irene have been through. They've obviously both been through the most incredible trauma within the last 18 months and been incarcerated in different ways. ... It's that interesting idea of -- you're as close to another human being as you can possibly be -- they're your lover, they're your soul mate... and then you get separated and you both go through trauma and then you meet up and you're strangers. And then, it's that interesting idea of how much of that person that you knew and that was such a big part of your identity is now a stranger in front of you, so it's [a] very fraught, interesting, psychologically explorative finale as well. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of cool action at the end as well, but Rob balances so well the psychological with the physical in this finale. It's a very intense, surreal situation for all three of them to be in. It's kind of just this triangle of Watson, Irene and Sherlock.
Access: Rob was asked recently if Irene will appear in the Season 2 premiere, which is being shot in London. He said he didn't know yet because they are still writing it. Are you open to returning?
Natalie: Well (laughs), all I can say is I am this side of the Atlantic. I have to be because of 'Thrones.' Shooting on 'Thrones' begins in July, but it's serendipity that I'm on the right side of the Atlantic in case Rob wanted to use me again. So, who knows? I can't say enough positive things about how much I enjoyed being a part of the 'Elementary' family for the time that I was. So, I would always be open to the idea of working with that fantastic cast and with Rob again, definitely.
Access: Speaking of 'Game of Thrones,' do you think your character, Margaery Tyrell, is as smart or as conniving or as manipulative as Littlefinger or Varys? She definitely makes you think she's a very clever power player.
Natalie: Yeah, she's an intelligent woman, but she's a pragmatist. You can't survive, operating around the likes of Cersei and the rest of the Small Council if you haven't got your wits about you. People ask me frequently about the sincerity of Margaery and I don't think to be an intelligent political player, and to be a nice person need to be mutually exclusive. She's just trying to be a shrewd and political. But is she a sincere, genuine human being as well? Yes, of course she is. The Tyrell's are not the Lannisters (laughs). And Sophie [Turner, who plays Sansa Stark] and I have had this conversation before that in another circumstance, it would be highly likely that Sansa and Margaery would be just straight, pure, no agenda friends. It's only because Margaery is put in a very particular situation by her family that she needs to operate the way she does.
PHOTOS: Natalie Dormer -- From 'The Tudors' To 'Game Of Thrones' & Everywhere Inbetween
Access: George R.R. Martin's book series is not yet complete. With the future unwritten, have you thought about where Margaery might end up?
Natalie: No, genuinely, in so far as I don't have time to speculate so far in the future. What I find very interesting, having met George and spoken to George, is that he is writing the last two books now very much aware in his head who the characters on the show are and it's kind of this cross pollination [that] must be happening now in his head because he knows who his leads are on the show, and obviously he's a producer on the show and he writes for the show as well. ... I just find it fascinating what must be going on in George R.R. Martin's head now because... how can he not be informed by all the cast members, not just me, but by everyone that now exists in 3-D real flesh. So I'm as curious as the fans of the books are as to what sort of difference that might make, or maybe it will make no difference at all. It will be interesting to see.
The "Elementary" two-hour Season 1 finale airs tonight at 9 PM on CBS. "Game of Thrones" continues its third season on Sunday at 9 PM on HBO.
-- Jolie Lash
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Using Bluetooth in Sony® VAIO F series
How to enable and disable Bluetooth in Sony VAIO F Series Laptop?
Bluetooth is a radio technology that allows the wireless connection of different devices like laptops, mobile phones, and gadgets. Using the Bluetooth you can connect more computers in a network, and you can access different services dedicated to Bluetooth. There are two options to turn on and off Bluetooth in your Sony VAIO F series. You can do it manually, or you can use Wireless manager. To be sure that the Bluetooth can be turned on make sure that the system on which you want to connect it, allows this type of connection. Another important thing is the fact that simultaneous searching cannot be performed in Bluetooth.
The following points will provide a better understanding of using Bluetooth in Sony VAIO F series:
- How to turn off the Bluetooth
- How to switch on the Bluetooth
- Tips for using Bluetooth
How to turn off the Bluetooth
First of all, you must look for the Bluetooth icon in the taskbar. If you deleted it to create space, try to locate it. Click twice on the icon and open "Wireless Switch Settings." If the icon of the Wireless Switch is not in the taskbar, then you must open Sony VAIO F series central utility. You can access it by going in Start menu or in the applications of Sony VAIO F series Support Central, accessing System Information. Click on "Network Connections" and then on "+ /-" button to display the available options. Click on "Wireless Switch Settings" (this option usually has a square colored blue-green symbol besides it).
Verify the box from the dialog box of Wireless Device Switch that displays "Enable Bluetooth Device." You must change the Wireless LAN values. You must change 2.4 GHz into 5 GHz. If you use Bluetooth and wireless LAN with 2.4 GHz the connection will become unstable. The Bluetooth radio can be activated by clicking on "Apply". After you are closing the dialog box you will see another box that announces you that the icon of Wireless Switch Settings is displayed in the taskbar. Using this icon you will be able to turn on or off the Bluetooth.
How to switch on the Bluetooth
You can turn on your Bluetooth option following the steps explained above. The icon of Wireless Switch Settings will allow you to turn your Bluetooth on, as well off. Another option is to set the connection options from the computer control panel. Right click on the Start section and in Settings click on "Control Panel". Click twice on Network Connection and highlight it. In the left, you will find "Enabling This Network Device" and click on it. Now the system will set the Bluetooth connection. The status will show "Connected" instead of "Disabled".
Tips for using Bluetooth
Your Sony VAIO F series laptop also has a key combination or a switch to turn on and off Bluetooth. Consult the laptop's documentation or go on the Sony website to find out what is the key command. But you must take into account that if you use a keyboard command to power on the Bluetooth, it is possible to switch off the adapter of the wireless adapter.


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CANADA STOCKS-Natural resources pull TSX lower; Tim Hortons jumps
TORONTO, May 1 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index opened lower on Wednesday as weak economic data from China and falling commodity prices weighed on materials and energy stocks, but shares of Tim Hortons Inc rose after a large investor called for changes. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index was down 88.17 points, or 0.71 percent, at 12,368.33 shortly after the open.
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Okay, I don't mean to be sarcastic but when I looked at so many web designs here (wordpress & site templates), they're all almost the same in layouts (though I should say some of them are really stunning). The only differences between them are just the pictures (photos/images) and colors they use in the template, not the layout. Only a few designers made a big or completely different layout/design though (sadly) some of them are not good enough in features or supports. Don't you think that designers should be more creative? (I know it's a bit idealist) or it's just a matter of market demand/trends?
babeh said
or it's just a matter of market demand/trends?
OriginalEXE said
babeh saidThis
or it's just a matter of market demand/trends?
^ Yeah.
Also it's quite risky to put a lot of time and effort into something extra unique when you know (or don't know) it is not gonna sell like regular stuff.
Uniqueness is more of a custom design thing.
Also, it's not easy to be creative when you have no limitations.
I would put an example of themeforest.net marketplace as a bowl of frootloops , same shapes different colors. only to satisfy the popular demand.
doru saidYup, just look at the top selling themes and you will understand. Also, it's quite hard to come up with so many unique layouts, considering how many items we have here in TF.
OriginalEXE saidyep
babeh saidThis
or it's just a matter of market demand/trends?
Is art for art's sake,
Or is art for Purchasers' sake…
There lies the answer
Creative templates are not the best sellers. Find there the answer.
Well, I have to admit it that demand/trend over the arts (beauty, aesthetics, uniqueness, etc.). As I've found in the top 10 sales (wordpress) templates, only one that has a significant difference in layout (it's king size if I can say) with good rating. Sad but true.. it's too mainstream, but thanks a lot for your opinion.


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Sinopec Ready for Massive Shakeup
Sinopec Corp (NYSE: SNP, SHA: 600028, HKG: 0386), China's biggest oil refiner, told Yicai.com that it will restructure its oilfield service and refinery divisions, involving tens of thousands of employees and dozens of subsidiaries. No details were disclosed.
Baidu Steps into Southeast Asia
Baidu.com Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU), China's most used search engine, will work with Singaporean labs and institutions to develop search engines backed by Southeast Asian languages as part of its global strategy, vice president Wang Meng said.
Qihoo 360 to Offer Video Search Services
Qihoo 360 Technology Co (NYSE: QIHU), a leading Chinese computer security software developer, plans to launch a video search engine and make it the best of its kind in China, chairman Zhou Hongyi said, adding that the company will consider developing other search services should the video search engine be successful.
Logistics Fees Drag Dangdang Down to Huge Losses
E Commerce China Dangdang Inc (NYSE: DANG), a Chinese online B2C retailer, posted ¥1.23 billion in revenues and ¥129.8 million in net losses for Q4 2011. The revenue was up 73% and net losses stood in stark contrast to a net profit of ¥14.8 million during Q4 2010. For the whole of 2011, it posted ¥3.62 billion in revenues, up 59% from 2010, and ¥229 million in net losses, compared with ¥30.8 million in the black in 2010. Significantly increased logistics expenses were blamed for the losses.
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China Vanke Co (SHE: 000002), the nation's biggest property developer, will focus on its core business rather than diversify operations to help double revenue to ¥200 billion by 2014, chairman Wang Shi said.
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When FEMA finally released new working versions of its proposed flood maps for the New Jersey coast last month, many property owners on the barrier islands and bay shores were relieved. Along the shoreline, thousands of properties had been moved from the high-hazard V Zone to the less-severe A Zone. And in many cases, Base Flood Elevation (BFE) levels had also dropped.
Great news for many homeowners — but not for all, reports Phildadelphia TV station NBC10 ("Shore Home Gets Short End of Stick on New Flood Map," by Tracey Samuelson/NewsWorks.org). Attorney Ken Wilbur was "stunned" to find that his Manasquan vacation home had moved the other way. "His vacation home in Manasquan moved from an A-zone, where it's recommended he jack up his home ten feet above sea level, to a V-zone, where he's deemed to be at risk for flooding plus damage from three-foot-high waves," the station reports. "FEMA now recommends that his home should be elevated 14 feet above sea level and placed atop expensive pilings. Not complying with these recommendations means his annual flood insurance bill could climb to tens of thousands of dollars."
The reason? "In very rare cases along the coast, the V-zones did grow, largely because the December maps didn't include modeling of how waves move over land, or information on coastline and dune erosion. 'That erosion of those primary frontal dunes, after it was analyzed, increased certain areas,' said FEMA official Bill McDonnell. 'So it was showing that the existing dunes were not showing as much protection as we estimated [in December].' FEMA estimates this affects less than one percent of New Jersey's coastal flood plain area — meaning Ken Wilbur is truly a special case."
Wilbur has already invested big dollars into repairing and upgrading his house, based on the assumption that the house would stay in the A Zone. Now he regrets the choice, saying: "I don't know that I would have put $100,000 into this house the way it is now, if I had known that I was going to have to lift it up to a V-zone."


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Re: Usage of SymbolLabel option in MultipleListPlot
It seems to me that you should have written Table[klist[[i]],{i,1,10}]
in the first line of your code. But, anyway, if it runs as it is, just
{"m=0", "m=1", "m=2", "m=3", "m=4",
"m=5", "m=6", "m=7", "m=8", "m=9"}
in a double bracket, thus
SymbolLabel ->{{"m=0", "m=1", "m=2", "m=3", "m=4",
"m=5", "m=6", "m=7", "m=8", "m=9"}}
This should correct the problem. I would also suggest some
embellishments, like for example using Frame->{True, True, False, False}
instead of just Frame->True. You might also use better fonts for your
labels, etc.
Tomas Garza
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Pedro Serrao <pserrao at dem.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> It's my intention to plot 10 points in x-y coordinates specifying a
> different label for each point. For instance Point 1 should be labeled
> m=0, Point 2 should be labeled m=1 and so on.
> However when I evaluate the following instruction all points are
> with the same string m=0.
> MultipleListPlot[Table[klist[i], {i, 10}], PlotRange -> All,
> SymbolShape -> {PlotSymbol[Box], Label},
> SymbolLabel -> {"m=0", "m=1", "m=2", "m=3", "m=4",
> "m=5", "m=6", "m=7", "m=8", "m=9"}, Frame -> True,
FrameLabel ->
> {"Re(k)", "Im(k)"}];
> What is the proper way to specify differenf labels for each point?


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Rostislav Alexeyev
Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeyev (Russian: Ростисла́в Евге́ньевич Алексе́ев; born December 18, 1916 in Novozybkov, Chernigov Governorate (now Bryansk Oblast), Russian Empire; died February 9, 1980 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), USSR) was a designer of highspeed shipbuilding who invented and designed the world's first ekranoplan vehicles. His work has been compared to that of A.N. Tupolev in aviation and S.P. Korolev in space flight.
Hydrofoil ships[edit]
Alexeyev was responsible for putting into practice high speed ships on the so-called low submerged underwater wings, the most popular ones being passenger ships Raketa, Volga, Meteor, Kometa, and Burevestnik, with passenger capacity up to 150 persons and cruising speed up to 100 km/h (62 mph; 54 kn).
Alexeyev revolutionised the shipbuilding industry (though in secrecy) by inventing crafts that use ground effect, whereby a wing traveling close to the ground is provided with a better lift-drag ratio - thereby enabling a combination of greater aircraft weight for less power and/or enhanced fuel economy.
In his career working for the military he created a ten engine ekranoplan referred to at the time by American intelligence as "the Caspian sea monster". The KM or "korabl-maket", the largest ekranoplan ever built, was one of the first very successful vehicles designed by Alexeyev and built by his Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau. The KM was intended as a test platform to examine the possibilities of the "Wing In Ground" (WIG) effect.
The KM, powered by eight Dobrynin VD-7 turbojets on the front of the fuselage, and two on the tail for extra thrust during take-off, first took to the air in October 1966. During its extensive test career, it was continually modified. The wingspan was altered to between 32m and 40m, and the length varied from 92m to 106m.[1]
The KM crashed in 1980, apparently due to the pilot ill-advisedly attempting to take off without giving it full throttle. An attempt to recover the leviathan from the depths was thwarted by its vast weight. While the KM programme was ongoing, Alexeyev began work on a medium-sized ekranoplan suitable for military transportation duties. Dubbed A-90 "Orlyonok" ("Eaglet"), the 140 tonne, 58 metre long aircraft had its maiden flight in 1972. The A-90 boasted two turbojets and one turboprop engine which propelled it to a speed of 400 km/h for 1,500 km at a cruise altitude of 5–10 m.
Death & legacy[edit]
Following the crash of one A-90 Orlyonok during testing, Soviet military heads used the incident as an excuse to remove Alexeyev as chief designer. He spent the rest of his life away from scientific work, concentrating mostly on sports. He died in 1980.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the details of Alexeyev's work became known to the public and generated a lot of interest from around the world. He is now generally considered as the father of ground effect vehicle design.


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Title: Melting Under Blue Skies
Author: Bimosexual
Rating: R-ish (End is NC-17)
Warnings: Schmoopy sundae with a touch of angst and sprinkled with UST
Word Count: 23,733 (Yeah…it was like…NO I don't want to be short)
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Summary: College!AU. In which Jensen tries hard not to fall for Jared, and is generally sort of an idiot, and Jared hugs a lot.
Disclaimer: Not for profit but fun
and spastic twitching when it failed to cooperate. No Harm. No Foul.
A/N: This is for the spn_j2_xmas for acquiescence_ who wanted a J2 college AU where Jared is a floppy haired good looking happy new kid and Jensen is a loner
Before I got my assignment I copied down prompts that inspired me, for future ficcing, and this was actually one of them that I wrote down! I hope you like it!
Title taken from Counting Crows "Accidentally in Love"
Title taken from Counting Crows "Accidentally in Love"
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Epilogue
The library was Jensen's favorite part about Jackson College. It was refurbished from an old barn and tucked away in the corner of the small campus. It was always quiet, especially late at night or on Sunday afternoons when most students would rather be anywhere else than stuck inside studying.
But Jensen loved it, always had felt a certain peace in the solitude when he could just be by himself to think, or do his homework, or read; especially to read.
The lower floors of the school's library were bright with natural light spilling in from the plate glass windows lining every wall.
It was cold in the lower parts, windows old and not well sealed. But Jensen's favorite spot was the loft, at the very top of the building. It was warm and cozy, especially at night during the winter when he could watch the snow piling up on the one sky light, with only a small table lamp beside him to read by, curled up in an armchair. Most nights he would end up falling asleep until close when the last student employee came to rouse him.
It was the first Friday of Jensen's junior year and he was holed up in the basement, sitting cross-legged on the floor with an old issue of Aperture open in his lap.
It was early evening and the sun was just beginning to sink slowly towards the horizon, jets of bright orange light filtering in through the grimy windows, blocked by the tall shelves towering over Jensen on either side of him.
He sneezed, allergies getting to him down in the basement where everything was coated in a thick layer of dust, oversized books and back logged magazines that no one had touched since the late 60s. Jensen was skimming through an article on Duane Michaels and his effect on the queer visual culture, and nearly jumped out of his skin when his cell phone started vibrating against his thigh, tucked tight in his front pocket.
His heart skipped a beat and he smirked at himself, glad the empty darkness was his only witness. He slid it out of his pocket and looked down at the ID—Chris— before flipping it open and continuing to flick through the magazine absentmindedly.
"Hey," he greeted closing the magazine and sliding it back into the empty spot between v.110 and v.112.
"Hey Jenny, sup?" He could hear the grin in Chris's voice and he rolled his eyes at the nickname Chris only ever used when not within punching distance.
"What do you want?" Jensen went for serious annoyance, but it got lost in the affection he could never manage to keep out of his voice where Chris was concerned.
"Your ass, always Ackles." Chris supplied without missing a beat and Jensen grinned again, uncurled his legs, stretching them out in front him, bones cracking in ways he was pretty sure they really shouldn't be for a twenty-one year old.
"Yeah, yeah so you say but then you go and freak out when I try to give you a friendly hand job in the shower." Jensen bit at his lip to stifle the laughter at the scoffing coming from the other end of the phone.
"Images Jensen," Chris shivered voice low and loud in the receiver. "But really, I was calling to see if you wanted to go into town to grab a pizza."
"Time is it?" Jensen asked nonchalantly collapsing back against the shelf behind him.
"Almost six," Chris replied, his voice lost some of the humor, like he knew what Jensen was thinking, what Jensen was doing.
"Wh-who's going?" He asked.
"Just me, Jason, Steve, couple of Steve's buddies and this new girl he thinks he has a chance with, poor fucker."
"C'mon Jen. It'll be for like an hour…" Chris's voice was heavy with obvious disappointment.
"I dunno I ha-"
"You have nothing Jensen, I know for a fact that the whole hour of homework you got this week you finished barely a half an hour after it was assigned, so get your perfectly pert and perky ass over here now because we are going out for pizza and you are going to enjoy it!" Jensen flushed at the comment and nodded before realizing he was an idiot and quite possibly too stupid for college and he replied with a quiet,
"Yea sure, just wait for me, kay? I don't wanna be stuck in a car with people I don't know…again…so just—"
"I know Jenny," Chris's grin was back and before Jensen could tell him how much he hated him Chris hung up. Jensen scowled and grabbed his backpack, pulling himself up off of the floor using the shelf for leverage.
He took his time walking the short distance back to his building, half hoping if it took long enough they'd get sick of waiting and leave without him. No such luck though because he saw as he turned the corner that Chris was waiting for him on the stoop, cigarette butt hanging out of his mouth; he grinned around it and waved at Jensen.
Jensen smiled softly back and collapsed down next to him.
Chris shoved against him with his shoulder and Jensen smiled light and real before standing up. "Gotta drop my bag off, be out in a minute."
"Better be." Chris said with his head tipped upside down to watch as Jensen disappeared into the building. It wouldn't be the first time he flaked out, found some lame excuse to get out of hanging out.
Too much homework, or really tired tonight man, sorry, rain check? There's a show on I've been waiting all week to watch dude, maybe next time. It wasn't like Jensen hated his friends; it wasn't even like he hated people really.
He was fine when he hung out with Chris and more than a few times he was told he was being too loud and annoying for his own good and to please shut the hell up. But when he was around a lot of people, or people he didn't know very well, it was like someone fed him stupid juice and all he could manage to do was smile and nod and not even that half the time.
He always tripped over his words on the simplest of questions like, what's your major? This girl he kinda sorta had a crush on his freshman year, who was always really nice to him during class, he found out later only ever gave him the time of day because she thought he was special needs.
But it wasn't like this…whatever, debilitating shyness was his fault. So what if most people would rather get a root canal than stay on campus on the weekends? Jensen just wasn't the party guy. Sure he partook in his share of deviant activities it came with the whole college thing.
His friends were loud and obnoxious and they cared enough about him to drag him off to parties despite his kicking and screaming. But Jensen just figured he had more important things he could be doing than hanging around a bunch of drunken guys who could have deep conversations with potted plants.
And although Jensen was mostly okay with who he was (he had friends, it wasn't like he was that kid in that single in Best who smelled like cheese and talked to stuffed animals, he might be a loner, but he wasn't a loser) he did sometimes wish he could be different, be comfortable and loose and take down the walls he'd managed to encase himself behind after years of being the nice guy everyone managed to take advantage of, but he figured nobody was really happy all the time, right?


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Braekhus vs. Mathis showdown on Nordic Fight Night set for March 17 in Denmark: Team Sauerland is delighted to announce that the Nordic Fight Night will hit Frederikshavn on March 17, featuring the very best of Danish boxing as well the biggest fight in women's boxing. At the Arena Nord, highly-rated WBA & WBC & WBO Female Welterweight Champion Cecilia Braekhus (19-0, 5 KOs) and top-ranked contender Anne-Sophie Mathis (26-1, 22 KOs) will determine the undisputed pound-for-pound queen. A full Danish card as well as a Danish main event will be announced shortly. "We are thrilled to come to Frederikshavn," promoter Nisse Sauerland said. "We will present an unforgettable night of exciting, high-class and dramatic boxing action." Credit: Viasat Norway In one of the main fights of the night, Braekhus, the 30-year-old "First Lady" from Norway, and Mathis, the famed and feared French power-puncher with a KO record of over 80 percent, will battle out supremacy in wo...
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Wonderboard over drywall?
I am new to this site and thought I would give it a try.
I am renovating our bathroom and tiling over the tub. We live in a mobile home that is not going to be moved as it is on a foundation.
( I keep saying...I'm never moving again and I really mean it as we have been here now for 9 years and the bathroom is the only room we haven't renovated yet) I put new shut offs behind the shower and am now in the mist of removing the tub and surround. We are picking up a fiberglass tub this week and I want to do a ceramic surround.
My question is... Can I put wonderboard right over the drywall that is behind the current plastic surround? If so...should I put a vapor barrier between the wonderboard and the drywall?
Thanks for all the advice and I look forward to using this site throughout my project!
Probably not a very good idea. You should remove the sheetrock before applying the wonderboard. That wonderboard needs to be secured right to the studs.
You can install a moisture barrier behind the wonderboard if you like. I usually use 15# felt, overlapped horizontally.
Thanks, I got screws that are long enough to go through the cement board and the drywall into the stud. My handy dandy stud finder is a wonder and will save me alot of time. I will be putting up some poly I think it is 50mil between the two. I am planning demo tomorrow and hope to get the new tub and walls up. I would like to get the tape and thincoat on as well....but time will tell.
So much for listening to thekctermite's advice.
Keep in mind, you are going to have to cut the bottom of the sheetrock away to secure the tub to the studs (you can't nail it through the sheet rock). The Code calls for that sheet rock to be moisture-resistant, and all manufacturers prohibit cut edges where the sheet abuts the tub deck. It has to be a factory edge.
Additionally, the fiberglass tub deck isn't going to be deep enough to accommodate a layer of sheet rock, a layer of wonderboard, thin set and tile.
Mkeith, I would strongly consider taking Thekctermite & Macroadie"s advice.
Is there a reason why you are not gutting the drywall from the walls? People come to this site looking for professional advice but decided to do it otherwise.
Please forgive me if I misunderstood your Post .
I did not reply to this to bash you, Just believe in doing things the correct way if your going to be redoing the bathroom anyway. Sounds like your going to have a double vapor barrier Behind the existing drywall and then behind the wonder board??? Good luck!
Look at the bright side. He'll have something to do next year. I hear mold remediation is very relaxing...cheap, too.
Wow, its as though I never even replied. :huh::no:
A poly vapor barrier behind the wonderboard and over the existing drywall is a bad idea. You will be trapping moisture. :no: Like previously stated MOLD ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!:wallbash:
I wouldn't be surprised if they don't come back... they didn't get the answer they wanted to hear!
Besides, why would you want to have the cement board OVER the drywall... where the tile will end is going to be 1/2 thicker than the drywall, how the heck would you transition that?
kctermite I took your advice...(that is why it took so long to reply) Its interesting to see the difference in the construction of a mobile home vs a conventional home. Demo took me longer then expected. The plumbing didn't line up. It took an extra day just to get that fixed. I needed to put a strip on the stud to bring it level with the lip of the tub. So after three days of demo and plumbing I am finally ready to put the wonderboard up.
I am sorry if you didn't think I listened...I did...I am getting too much advice from family and friends on this end and I just need to concentrate on what is going to give me a long lasting and less labor intensive result in the long run!
Thanks to everyone that respnded.:)
Glad to hear you did it right! :thumbsup:
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Sometimes people scare me. Burying and overlaying potential problems when there is no savings, the material is still there, the labor is still there, the only savings is MAYBE time, but it never seems to work out that way. I just saw this post and commend you for doing it right.
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After four years of checking the web pages it indexes for malware that could infect customers and 3 million warnings per day to users about to click on search results that might net them a dose of malware as well as information, Google has learned a few lessons about how hard it is to spot malware.
It issued a report explaining how hard it is to identify malware embedded in a malicious site, and what it has done about it.
Usually the problem with tech-industry surveys is that the number of respondents or volume of data aren't high enough to offer a statistically valid sample.
Not this time. Google's analysis covers 160 million web pages on 8 million sites, focusing on both the social and technical engineering malware distributors use to get their bits of nasty to launch on your hard drive.
The most frequent use of social engineering is to have malware pose as an anti-virus product or browser plugin, but only 2 percent of the sites went the social route.
Most are drive-by downloads – which exploit a weakness in the browser to keep it from blocking malware from downloading and installing automatically.
Drive-bys are where the malware and anti-malware are most directly at odds. Antivirus and operating-system vendors update their recognition tables and plug vulnerabilities so quickly that malware writers have to keep switching from one exploit to another to keep from being flagged and blocked.
The freakiest technique is "IP cloaking" – a way to hide a malware-download site in plain sight by setting it up to it will show legitimate content to anything it identifies as a malware scanner and malicious content to everyone else.
In their blog about the report, Google's security team makes a point of saying they run their scans in different ways to make it harder for IP-cloaked sites to identify them as a scanner rather than a browser.
Judging by the steep increase in use of cloaking for individual sites and entire domains, Google's emulation isn't all that effective.
Cloaking based on IP addresses is simple and dirt cheap, requiring only a few tweaks to the web server so it knows what content to serve to whom.
The number of malware sites that hide behind IP cloaks went up from about 7 percent in 2008 to 49 percent in 2010, Google report said.
Cloaking can also be used to increase traffic by offering more than one type of content or keywords to spiders.
That's why, according to Optimization-Nation, you can do a keyword search, click on a good result and end up on a page with no content related to the keyword.
The Google team talk a lot about what they do to get around the blocks malware writers put up and four methods of malware search they use so they can compare results that will highlight as malicious sites whose results from the different approaches don't match.
They don't say much about any long-term or highly successful countermeasure to IP cloaking, which makes me think – along with the impressive variety of really well informedpeople who are really enthusiastic about cloaking and do not have the best interests of the rest of us in mind – we're going to see a lot more trouble with cloaked sites in the future than we have until now.
If there's one thing malware distributors have gotten good at, it's hitting the users where the malware scanners ain't. From a malware perspective, cloaking seems like a perfect answer.


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Once outside the borders of the USA you are no longer covered by our constitution,that's one reason I have no desire to see any more of the world
This is a discussion on REALLY?-Briton arrested in Dubai for speck of weed weighing less than grain of sugar within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Briton jailed for four years in Dubai after customs find cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar under his shoe | Mail Online A ...
Briton jailed for four years in Dubai after customs find cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar under his shoe | Mail OnlineThis seems to me like they're out to prove something with these arrests. The poppy-seed one especially wreaks of lack of common-sense. These are instances any of us can find ourselves in going through an airport. With how many millions of people passing through their walls, it's impossible to determine where the speck came from.A father-of-three who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes has been sentenced to four years in a Dubai prison.
Keith Brown, a council youth development officer, was travelling through the United Arab Emirates on his way back to England when he was stopped as he walked through Dubai's main airport.
A search by customs officials uncovered a speck of cannabis weighing just 0.003g - so small it would be invisible to the naked eye and weighing less than a grain of sugar - on the tread of one of his shoes.
Dubai International Airport is a major hub for the Middle East and thousands of Britons pass through it every year to holiday in the glamorous beach and shopping haven.
But many of those tourists and business travellers are likely to be unaware of the strict zero-tolerance drugs policy in the UAE.
One man has even been jailed for possession of three poppy seeds left over from a bread roll he ate at Heathrow Airport. Painkiller codeine is also banned.
If suspicious of a traveller, customs officials can use high-tech equipment to uncover even the slightest trace of drugs.
Mr Brown was detained and arrested in September last year and has been held in a cell with three other men in the city prison ever since.
This week the youth worker, who has two young children and a partner at home in Smethwick, West Midlands, was sentenced to four years in prison.
A 25-year-old Briton who was found with a similar speck in one pocket as he arrived on holiday has been awaiting sentence since November.
Meanwhile a Big Brother TV executive has so far been held without charge for five days after being arrested for possessing the health supplement melatonin.
The authorities claim to have discovered 0.01g of hashish in his luggage.
Last night Mr Brown's brother Lee said his case "defied belief".
"For that sort of amount common sense should prevail, from where it was found it was obviously something that had been crushed on the floor - it could have come from anywhere."
Rastafarian Mr Brown had been returning from a short trip to Ethiopia, where one of his children lives and where he owns property.
He was travelling with his partner Imani, who was also stopped and detained for more than a week.
Normally he flew direct to and from the UK, but decided to stop off in Dubai.
"He was incensed when he called me," said driving instructor Lee, 57. "It would be funny if the circumstances weren't so unpleasant.
"Bugs are crawling out of his mattress when he's sleeping. His family are frantic with worry and can't call him."
Last night campaign group Fair Trials International advised visitors to Dubai and Abu Dhabi to "take extreme caution".
Chief Executive Catherine Wolthuizen said: "We have seen a steep increase in such cases over the last 18 months.
"Customs authorities are using highly sensitive new equipment to conduct extremely thorough searches on travellers and if they find any amount - no matter how minute - it will be enough to attract a mandatory four-year prison sentence."
Mrs Wolthuizen added: "We even have reports of the imprisonment of a Swiss man for 'possession' of three poppy seeds on his clothing after he ate a bread roll at Heathrow.
Held: A campaign is underway to secure the release of Cat Le-Huy from a Dubai jail
"What many travellers may not realise is that they can be deemed to be in possession of such banned substances if they can be detected in their urine or bloodstream, or even in tiny, trace amounts on their person."
Only two months after Mr Brown was stopped economics graduate Robert Dalton was detained in almost identical circumstances.
Mr Dalton, from Gravesend, on Kent was with two friends when he was stopped and asked to empty his pockets.
Officials found 0.03g of cannabis in a small amount of fluff. He is currently on trial and if convicted, is likely receive a four-year prison sentence.
Last night his brother Peter, 26, told how it took 24 hours to find out why he had been stopped.
"As we understand, the amount of cannabis was barely visible to the human eye and was at the bottom of the pocket of an old pair of jeans.
"He's not a drug user, but he goes clubbing and the speck was so small."
Last week Cat Le-Huy, a London-based German national, was arrested on arrival at the airport.
Mr Le-Huy, 31, head of technology with Big Brother production company Endemol, was arrested on suspicion of possessing illegal drugs after customs officers found melatonin, a health supplement used for jet lag available over the counter both in Dubai and in the US.
Authorities also claim they discovered fragments in one of his bags which they believe to be hashish. Fair Trials International said the amount was 0.01g.
Read more: Briton jailed for four years in Dubai after customs find cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar under his shoe | Mail Online
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Once outside the borders of the USA you are no longer covered by our constitution,that's one reason I have no desire to see any more of the world
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You are taking your life in your hands by traveling to some places.
That's why when I hear "American hikers in Iraq accidentally strayed across the Iran border", I think............yep, spies or idiots.
interesting that they can find a speck of weed, but didn't find the BVD-IED........
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Can we say, "profiling"?
You know, those nasty drug dealing Britions trying to get into Dubai and corrupt the morals of faithful Islamic people. The horror.
Glad that I live in the United States of America. No other place would suffice.
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I read that nearly every £20 note has traces of cocaine on it; I think something similar was found on US bank notes too.
How bad would you feel doing 2 to 4 years because they "found" coke on your green backs????
Think your right...Don't go there!!!!
On the other hand, part of me admires their zero tolerance policy, might clean the scum off our streets if the Police did the same
They also locked down on a couple for touching each other/having sex while not being married.
British couple arrested in Dubai over 'sex on the beach'
Two Britons are facing possible jail sentences in Dubai after being caught having sex on a beach.
By John Bingham and Laura Clout
Published: 3:03PM BST 09 Jul 2008
"...Friends claimed the couple have since gone through a hasty civil marriage ceremony to reduce any possible sentence they might face as sex outside of marriage is illegal in Dubai.
She is also said to be facing possible charges of indecent behaviour in public, being drunk in public, and assaulting a police officer."
British couple arrested in Dubai over sex on the beach - Telegraph
When in foreign countries you've got to be aware of their rules and regs, kooky as they might be...to us.
Here in the US we do not support certain practices with animals for purposes of feeding their family and/or religious ceremony that visitors from other foreign countries deem normal and average as to their world experience.
Same thing occurs including even felony (!) charges.
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Sounds like another good reason to keep my tourism dollars in my own country. Plenty of places to see here.
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WOW this poor guy could have stepped on that anywhere even in the airport
Any person could pick up this much simply by walking across a carpet that had been the trash can for a druggie that had earlier walked by.... who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes has been sentenced to four years in a Dubai prison.
Good example of the stupidity and hateful nature of "zero tolerance" policies, which can help a civilized society become barbaric one case at a time.
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Did he get off, or is still in the lockup?
What I find amazing is that this seems to go directly against their plans to be a major European->Asian gateway airport.
Rastafarians aside, if you make the trip THAT potentially risky for your average traveller (example: coke on the greenbacks), you are negatively impacting your plans to be both a tourist destination and a major gateway. A bit short sighted, if you ask me.
BTW, according to this URL, the german guy with Melatonin and the .003gram speck of what they claimed was cannabis was freed a month later...
OpEdNews - Diary: Victory in Dubai - Cat Le-Huy Freed
Why the sudden turn-around? Normally, if something's dodgy in a drugs case, Dubai puts the accused on trial anyway, finds them guilty, sentences them to four years and then quietly deports them in the middle of the night after a few weeks or months. That way, they save face by looking merciful and benevolent by arranging an early release rather than looking stupid by admitting their overeagerness. In this case, I think it was the massive press attention and protest actions that may have tipped the balance. Dubai as a rule abhors bad publicity, and the louder it gets the more likely they are to try and sweep something under the rug as quietly - or at least as quickly - as possible.
But this was an amusing comment:
The BBC went to Dubai to cover this story, and interviewed key officials in the case. The reporter and our attorney are saying that damage control is underway: many prisoners are about to be released, and they're promising reforms which could reduce these sorts of arrests happening to future travelers.
The article I'm quoting was written on March 3rd, 2008. It's nearly two years later, the same stuff is still happening. Why don't they just turn their detection machines down from "11"?


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Brian Mulroney says sorry for accepting cash
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney apologized publicly on Thursday for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from a German arms dealer, but he rejected suggestions he had taken kickbacks.
Mulroney, a mentor to current Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, had for years declined to answer why exactly he took the money from Karlheinz Schreiber after leaving office in 1993. Schreiber says he handed over a total of C$300,000 ($295,000). Mulroney said he received C$225,000.
The affair is one of the great mysteries of Canadian politics and efforts to uncover what happened have generated allegations of skullduggery and influence-peddling that involve senior officials and politicians.
Schreiber, awaiting extradition to Germany to face charges of fraud, bribery and tax evasion, says he paid Mulroney to help German firm Thyssen AG build a plant in Canada to assemble light-armored vehicles.
Mulroney told legislators on Thursday that the money -- cash-filled envelopes handed over in a series of hotel meetings -- was in fact a retainer to promote use of the vehicles abroad in peacekeeping operations.
He said that while the deal had been legal, and while he had accepted no money while in office, he recognized he had made a serious error in judgment by agreeing to take cash.
"I apologize and I accept full responsibility for it," he told a parliamentary committee, saying he should instead have insisted on a check. The apology did not impress Pat Martin of the minority New Democrats.
"People use cash in business deals of that size when they're either trying to hide any record of something that they know to be wrong or if they're trying to avoid taxes ... neither look very good for a former prime minister, let me say," he told Mulroney. Continued...


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And what makes this work especially well now is the vastly improved graphics made possible by the move to the Xbox 360. Frankly, I haven't seen a flight sim look this good on any platform, with detailed, beautifully modelled planes and a landscape that combines aerial and satellite photography, overlaid architecture, rugged topography and gorgeous atmospheric haze and lighting effects. It all looks effortlessly cinematic - as you'll see when you enjoy the racing-game style replays you get after you're shot down or when you complete a mission.
If you loved Top Gun - and not in the ironic, gay subtext way that everybody seems to do these days - you'll spend hours just flicking from one camera angle to another to watch your plane skim the trees or things blow up before you. True, the ground looks a little like Google Earth when you get too close to the surface - though the lighting and water effects mean it looks an awful lot better - but 99 per cent of the time Ace Combat 6 does for the combat flight games what G.R.A.W. did for the military shooter.
Any complaints? Well, it can get a bit repetitive, particularly when the game focuses heavily on supporting ground-based operations for a while. I'd also like to see more in the way of mid-mission checkpoints. The old 'crash and burn' routine is always heartbreaking, but it's especially so when you know you'll have to repeat the last twenty minutes of the mission for the third time running. Finally, it's not the most newbie-friendly online experience. The various deathmatch and team-based battle modes work brilliantly, and the dogfights seem fluid and lag-free, but your chances of surviving in skies dominated by Japanese and US hotshots long enough to get to grips with the game are pretty minimal - or maybe that's just me.
Overall, though, Ace Combat 6 is a bit of a winner. After months of playing racing games, 3D shooters, platformers and RTS games - even when so many of them have been so great - it's sometimes good to get your mitts on something different and be reminded of how enthralling a great flying ace game can be. There's a good chance you might not connect with it in the same way, but if you miss the likes of Falcon 3 or Strike Commander or have just steered clear of the series before now, Ace Combat 6 could be a revelation.
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- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 1-1/4 teaspoons olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
- 2 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (4 ounces each)
- 1/2 cup frozen corn, thawed
- 1/2 medium tomato, chopped
- 1/2 serrano pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1/2 green onion, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 slice Monterey Jack or pepper Jack cheese, halved
- In a small bowl, combine the lime juice, oil, garlic salt and pepper. Set aside 3 tablespoons. Pour remaining lime juice mixture into a resealable plastic bag; add chicken. Seal and turn to coat; let stand at room temperature for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the corn, tomato, pepper, green onion, cumin and 2 tablespoons reserved lime juice mixture. Cover and refrigerate.
- Drain and discard marinade from chicken. Using long-handled tongs, moisten a paper towel with cooking oil and lightly coat the grill rack. Grill, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from heat for 5-6 minutes on each side or until a meat thermometer reads 170°, basting twice with remaining lime juice mixture.
- Top with cheese; grill or broil 1-2 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. Serve with salsa. Yield: 2 servings.
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Yes, IT jobs are plentiful and recruiters are contacting you at late-'90s levels. However, employers will think twice about offering you a job if your social media profiles scream "unprofessional."
Career Savvy offers up a series of must-dos if you want to ensure your online persona is attractive and professional.
1. Google yourself and find your own dirt.
2. Make friends with the Delete key and eliminate as much of it (questionable photos - especially others in which you're tagged - profane or revealing status updates, etc.) as possible. Yes, we know nothing truly goes away on the Internet, but you can at least make it harder to find.
3. Check your privacy settings across your social media accounts and, as much as possible, keep your private life private. We're looking at you, Facebook users.
Career Savvy says 1 in 3 employers have rejected candidates based on something they discovered online.
- 76% check Facebook.
- 53% check Twitter.
- 48% check LinkedIn. (That sounds quite low, but what salacious details would one post there, anyway?)
What are employers looking for?
- 65% - a gauge of a candidate's "professionalism in terms of social conduct."
- 51% - an evaluation of how a candidate would fit into the corporate culture.
- 45% - more about a candidate's qualifications.
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