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The Business Websites has made it very easy to manage your MSSQL databases by creating a server wide install of a tool called myLittleAdmin.
You can reach this interface at:
- DFW 1-1: https://mssql.dfw1-1.websitesettings.com/mla/
- DFW 1-2: https://mssql.dfw1-2.websitesettings.com/mla/
- ORD: https://mssql.ord1-1.websitesettings.com/mla/
NOTE: To find out if your account is located in our ORD or DFW datacenter, check the test link for your site. If your testlink includes dfw in the URL, such as www.domain.com.php5-2.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com then your account is in DFW.
When logging into myLittleAdmin, you will need to make sure to select the correct server choice from the drop down menu. You can find the correct value within the control panel on the View Database page.
NOTE: Alternatively, you can use other programs such as Management Studio Express or Enterprise Manager to manage your MSSQL databases as well.
Logging Into MyLittleAdmin
- Login the the control panel, https://websitesettings.com
- Navigate to Website
- Click on the domain name that the database exists under
- Click on the Features tab
- Confirm that the database is active by scrolling to the Databases section; if the database is active it will display a green check mark icon in the status column as shown in the following figure:
To start working with this database, you will need the Hostname, username and password. The details can be viewed by clicking on the hyperlink for the database, which results in a page that will display this information.
- The Server Name is listed as Hostname under the Database Information section.
- The Login is the username.
NOTE: The usernames are listed under the Database Users section; by default there is only one user and this would be the username you would use to login to myLittleAdmin. If there are multiple users listed, you may login with any of them. The number that prefixes the username is the account number for the website owner (yourself or your client) and is important when logging in, so be sure to enter the username exactly as it is listed on this page.
- The password is the password associated with the database user, which would have been chosen when you created the database and database user.
NOTE: Because this user is separate from your control panel account and FTP users, the password may or may not be the same as those users. If you cannot remember your database password you can reset the password by clicking on the user in the list and filling out the password form; however, please be aware that your website code may rely on the existing password, so changing the password for a database user could cause database connection errors on your website! If you are working with a live website and cannot risk this password reset, please contact a web developer for assistance.
With the above information, you're ready to start working with the database.
- To do so, click on the Online Manager link
- A myLittleAdmin interface will display in the browser. Select the correct Server Name--which is the Hostname from the details page, as outlined above--from the drop down list.
- Enter the database name (including the numbered prefix as shown below)
- Enter the login--which is one of the Usernames from the details page, as outline above--(including the numbered prefix as shown below)
- Finally, enter the password for this database user and click Connect
Now that you're logged into myLittleAdmin, you can manage your MSSQL database as necessary.
Backing Up Your MSSQL Database
- After you are logged into the online manager, click on Tools in the bottom of the left frame.
- Then on the Tools menu, click Database Backup and Restore.
This will open the myLittleBackup interface in a new window:
- From myLittleBackup, click on Backup databases from the left menu.
The database backup form will load in the window's right frame.
- In step 1, choose the database you would like to backup from the drop-down menu (which should be the only one listed) and click OK to continue.
- Step 2 is just for information and verification; you will find generic information about your database in this step. Keep in mind that the backup process duration depends on the database size you see in this step. Since you only have one database you can just click OK:.
- Note: If you see the notification (There are too many backup files in your backup folder), it means you all ready have a backup file saved in myLittleBackup.
- Step 3 is optional, but feel free to choose a backup set name and description.
If you don't want choose a backup set name and description or you're not sure what to use, just leave it blank or use the database name as both!
- If everything above looks correct, you're ready to click the Backup button in Step 4.
During this time you will see a loading message on the screen. Please take heed of the warning myLittleBackup gives: You're now ready to backup your database. The process can take several minutes. Be patient and do not click the stop button until done.


text: Here it is! I saw this featurette in the theater this weekend before "Underworld: Awakening". In it, Nic Cage talks about the director and how he's basically a nutjob who risks life and limb to get the most "extreme" action shots possible. I'm going to start chugging Mountain Dew now in anticipation. Sarcasm aside, at a certain point I became excited for "Ghost Rider: Vengeance". It's best to just go with these things, why ruin pure, unadulterated joy? (vid after the jump)

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For the love of the ice
For the love of the ice
With the Winter Olympics in full swing, some of the best ice in the world has frozen over in Sochi, Russia. More than an ocean away from Happy Valley, the golden, silver and bronze dreams of hundreds of world-class athletes rest on the frosty surfaces of the Sochi Games' ice rinks and tracks.
But thanks to the Pegula Ice Arena's high-tech ice making tools, Penn State athletes and local community members have two top-notch ice rinks in their own backyards.
Some fans are even calling it the best, hardest and fastest college ice in America.
For Chris Whittemore, facilities coordinator at the Pegula Ice Arena and Penn State's longtime ice expert, making top-quality ice is a daily endeavor. He and his team are almost always preparing for the next hockey match and spend their up to 12-hour days doing it all: maintaining the ice, fixing equipment and driving the Zamboni. Though Whittemore drinks a lot of coffee, the smile on a child's face as he or she glides across the ice for the first time makes the long hours worth it.
"My goal is to create the best ice possible for our Penn State athletes and the community," Whittemore said, as he arranges pairs of red and blue-lined ice skates in cubbies behind the rental counter. "The technology available to us in this brand new facility is no less than state-of-the-art."
A hub for fans, athletes and the public, the Pegula Ice Arena is home to Penn State's two Division I hockey teams and is open for community figure skating lessons, open skate, broomball and youth hockey practice.
The arena also has amenities many collegiate arenas can only dream of.
There is a set of interactive touchscreens fans can use to "meet" hockey players, a hi-tech synthetic ice training room for athletes, an LED ribbon surrounding the varsity rink, video replay technology for coaches and players, free Wi-Fi, a press room with a direct camera feed to the Big Ten channel and more.
"The Pegula family wanted to create a great environment for our hockey players, but were also insistent that we be a part of the local community," Al Karosas, general manager at Pegula Ice Arena and the Bryce Jordan Center, said. "This imperative is why we're open 360 days a year for up to 18 hours — we have a lot of ice time to fill, and we use it to give back with events like THON Skate."
But all these activities depend on one key element — the ice. And making it involves more than pouring water onto a surface to freeze — it's a science and an art with a bit of IT, chemistry, and intuition mixed in.
To keep the two National Hockey League (NHL) sized rinks frozen year-round, the facility was outfitted with a sophisticated ice system and 26-miles of piping long enough to wrap around the University Park campus 12 times.
Maintaining the 1.5-inch-thick ice sheets relies on an operating system to control an automated refrigerated "ice plant" comprised of pipes, compressors, evaporation condenser towers and pumps.
For Whittemore, this is where the magic happens.
His trick for preserving the ice is not about keeping the floor cold, but taking the heat out of slabs on the ground using two refrigerants, glycol and ammonia, and simultaneously monitoring the ice's water purity and the arena's humidity level.
Gone are the days of manually turning cranks and dials at Greenberg Ice Pavilion, Penn State's former hockey facility. At Pegula, with a click of a computer mouse, Whittemore can use a computer interface to automatically set the amount of water, glycol and ammonia moving through the pipes and control the temperature of the ice, which is measured by infrared sensors in ceiling beams above the rink.
IT also plays a vital role in the arena's water purification and climate control systems.
Filters use reverse osmosis to remove impurities from the water, and three dehumidification units the size of small houses condition oxygen before it enters the building, helping to sustain the arena's internal humidity and air temperature.
"I grew up playing hockey, and I've worked in rinks for most of life, and I think what makes ice rink facilities so unique compared to other sport venues is that we're trying to take a piece of winter and control it," Whittemore explained.
It sounds like an almost impossible task, but the success of the arena depends on it. Keeping people safe and comfortable as they skate, play hockey and sit in the stands is important for athletic performance and fan attendance.
The IT can help monitor quantities, observe trends and discern problems with the ice — like why puddles or snow are forming, a temperature is running high, a pump isn't working or there's not enough glycol in the system.
"Nothing can replace a person looking at a pump or compressor to see if there's an issue, but the IT infrastructure has already helped us isolate problems better and faster than we could at Greenberg. That was 1970s technology and this is the latest, greatest equipment."
-- Chris Whittemore, facilities coordinator at the Pegula Ice Arena
And so far it's making some amazing ice — regardless of whom you ask.
Hockey players typically like harder ice frozen between 18 and 20 degrees Fahrenheit, while figure skaters prefer it to be softer at 22 to 24 degrees for landing jumps.
Anne Kerber, a former competitive figure skater, is getting back into the sport by practicing at Pegula three times a week.
"I skated at Greenberg for about seven years and loved it, but I like that Pegula has two sheets of ice so there are more opportunities for figure skaters to have ice time. The quality of the ice is better — it's harder, and I always get a deep edge with my skates," she said.
According to the rinks' schedules, Whittemore can digitally program the ice plant to automatically raise and lower the community and varsity rinks' ice and air temperatures depending on whether figure skaters or hockey players are practicing. In the future, he'll even be able to adjust the settings from his office and wirelessly with his phone and iPad.
"We have the tools that a top-class NHL facility has in order to train future professional hockey players on NHL ice," Whittemore said. "Nothing beats the excitement in this place on game day when Penn State's hockey teams face off against historic college teams — the emotion is palpable."
For more stories about IT at Penn State, visit Current at http://current.it.psu.edu/.


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Another month, another political compass. We're half-way through the year and the most I can say is… this is one odd quiz. As we'll see this month, it has some substantial failings.
So, I've drifted more economically leftist, and also more socially authoritarian. Never by much, but the drift is there.
It is regrettable that so many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society.
Agree->Strongly Agree
Before, I've "Agree"d because it's regrettable but inevitable. Now, I "Strongly Agree" but despite it being inevitable, I regret it. A slight flip but enough to shove me FAR further to the left than last month, which I don't entirely think is accurate. I do agree with much of the left-wing critique of capitalism, but a large part of it is frankly, too huge and monolithic to be altered in the short to medium term without violent overthrow – which I do not and cannot condone. Simply because I accept parts of the world around me, doesn't mean I like those aspects.
First-generations immigrants can never be fully integrated within their new country.
Strongly Disagree->Disagree
This lost me liberal-points, but for a liberal reason. People are always encumbered by the enculturation of their socialising culture, usually the culture in which they were born or raised. This isn't so much of a problem, but all societies are implicitly the culture of the majority, as Kymlicka has shown – no matter how secular America may formally be, or how secular Britain may in practice be, in the end, we get Christmas day off as a bank holiday, but not Eid or Hannukah. We may allow them, but societies, no matter how open, always reflect in some way the culture of the dominant majority. Making it ever harder for immigrants to integrate. So, I disagree, they can integrate, but the cards are stacked against them. But I still maintain that this is a reasonably liberal interpretation, I never make the claim that such an issue is a good thing.
The Political Compass asks interesting questions and gives an interesting result – but it never bothers to ask why. Despite the fact that why is perhaps the most important question of them all.
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- Political Compass: May (spinelessliberal.wordpress.com)
- Political Compass – April (spinelessliberal.wordpress.com)
- Political Compass – March (spinelessliberal.wordpress.com)
- Political Compass – February (spinelessliberal.wordpress.com)
- Political Compass – January (spinelessliberal.wordpress.com)


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I was pondering City Mom's post about how hard it is to get a toe-hold on a decent lifestyle these days. Let's face it -- even taking a decent vacation and owning your own home can seem woefully out of reach these days. Perhaps that's one reason why more Americans are placing an emphasis on doing, rather than having, as The New York Times reports.
Thinking over this, I recalled two families whose lifestyles I greatly admire -- so much that it occurred to me when visiting them, "I love the way they live." Neither involved a great deal of money.
The first family are friends who live in Seattle, whom I met while working abroad. An extremely well-educated, -read and -traveled couple, the kind of folks with whom talking for hours is an end to itself. Calm. Funny. They were vegetarians to boot, and could make a mean cup of strong coffee with a French press, which you could drink while listening to Ira Glass on the radio of a morning. You get the picture. They shopped at Goodwill; their small Craftsman home had old shag carpeting and a huge compost heap. They shopped at a co-op. Their little girl was bright and talkative, and enjoying lounging on the belly of their friendly big dog. Mount Ranier glimmered in the distance on the rare day it didn't rain. So strong was the pull of this lifestyle that I up and moved to Seattle to try it out for myself. Sadly, it proved hard for a single 20-something from Manhattan to achieve. (It might work now, but The Dude is reluctant to move again.)
The other family lives down south, off of the Intercoastal in Florida. Again, hyper-intelligent and well-read and quirky. Their home is similarly modest, but is equipped with top-notch dive equipment and a big, well-used fishing boat. Family factions take off now and then to kayak in Costa Rica or to visit friends in Hong Kong. Pull up there, and someone will dust off a wine glass (and a seat for you) and check the lobster traps for a catch, which, if you're lucky, will reap a simply prepared, scrumptious feast. There are no formalities; folks drift in and out of the party, sometimes to nap; sometimes just to read the paper. Come as you are. Stay as long as you want.
I'm not saying I didn't deeply desire the life of a couple of my Manhattan friends, who will inherit their folks' classic six. I've often thought, while considering a well-turned-out, older couple leaving a performance at the Met, "This is how I want to spend my golden years." It just seemed like these other modest folks had no interest, or use for, profligate lifestyles. In fact, their homey surroundings just allowed their priceless values to shine more brightly. Just like my friend CityMom.
On the other hand -- both of those families did buy their homes relatively cheaply, way back when. And their excellent educations would cost dearly now. And the stylish couple leaving the opera? One is probably a banker.


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It looks like British Gas customers are in for a nasty shock to their gadget funds. Despite an increase in profits, apparently British Gas is about to shove up its gas prices, which could make an extra £100 dent in your wallets. Damn, that's a quarter of a Galaxy S III. [Evening Standard]
Image credit: Gas from Shutterstock


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In May of 2007, the Library and Archives of Canada (LAC) and The Generations Network signed an agreement in which Ancestry.ca would index the Canadian Passenger Lists (1865-1935) in the future on the Ancestry.ca. Now it looks like they will publish it next year - 2009.
If you cannot wait that long and have a need to know right now, the LAC has the microfilm records in the building on Wellington Street in Ottawa. Go to the Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 in the Canadian Genealogy Centre . They explain that the passenger lists were actually the immigration list for those years. There are no immigration applications or files.
The list from 1865 to 1935 are arranged by port and date of arrival, and if you do not know the name of the ship, you must search the unindexed lists by year.
If you go to Nanaimo Genealogical Society page, certain parts of the passenger list has been indexed by the NGS.
Arrivals at the Quebec ports for the periods of the 29 of May, 1907 to 13 October, 1910 and they are starting a list from 1907, working backward to 1900. They have indexed nearly 500,000 records, so it is worth looking there to see if you can find the people you are looking for who came to Canada.


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"Mr. Buruma's fluency–the ease and erudition with which he mixes anecdote, personal reminiscence and reportage–should not disguise the seriousness of his book–. Readable and intelligent."–The Economist
"[Buruma's] own and his family's story is artfully woven through the various tales of Anglomania, making this both a memoir and a work of intellectual history."–The New York Times Book Review


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February 14: William Stafford Discussion Group #2
Friday, February 14, 1:00 pm at Adult Community Center, Acorn Room, 505 G Avenue. Join in a special Valentine's Day Edition William Stafford Discussion Group! Come share one of your favorite Stafford poems and discuss his life and works with your fellow poetry enthusiasts. In celebration of the holiday feel free to bring in one of his more romantic poems. Of course, that is not a requirement to attend. Stafford was also a photographer and by attending a discussion group you have the rare opportunity to win a small print of one of his photographs


text: Anyone else going out Friday ... OCMD .. looking to meet up and surf with some people if the forecasts hold. Its a 2 hour drive for me cause I work in DC, but I have Friday off and want to hit the water before this crowd starts to show its ugly head. PM if you want to meet up.


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Charlie Batch to speak at Washington and Jefferson College commencement
Steelers' longtime backup quarterback is well known for charitable efforts in Pittsburgh
Charlie Batch's days as a backup quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers may be numbered, but he's still in demand elsewhere in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Washington & Jefferson College says Batch will be the keynote speaker at the school's 214th commencement ceremony on May 18.
Batch is well-known for his charitable efforts in Pittsburgh and Homestead, the neighboring steel mill town where he grew up. The Best of the Batch Foundation was formed in 1999 to provide programs for underprivileged youth.
Batch was drafted by the Detroit Lions, but has played for the Steelers since 2002. That appears likely to change, however, since the Steelers signed free agent Bruce Gradkowski as Ben Roethlisberger's top backup, then picked Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones in last week's NFL draft.
STEELERS FREE AGENT TRACKER: Who's staying and who's leaving?


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Just as on-site teams need to have regular corporate meetings, also known in some places as business conferences, virtual teams too need gatherings of this kind to update project statuses, train their teams as needed and maintain harmony throughout the team.
Advances in the digital world are increasing considerably, and they now offer very special virtual tools that shorten distances and make communication easier in virtual team gatherings. With this course you will learn:
- Video-conferencing communication platforms, screen sharing, etc.
- Guide script and protocol for conducting corporate meetings in the virtual setting
- Virtual participation dynamics
- Points to highlight in this type of gathering and parts of the session
- Skills the session facilitator needs to have
- Time management
- Material for presentation
Corporate meetings are essential to keeping a team in harmony. There are different ways of organizing gatherings. Sessions can be held addressing each project, the project leaders, and the managers of the company or each area in particular. The objective of this type of meeting in essence is:
- To get together on the current job status
- Exchange relevant information
- Bring together information and its interpretation among everybody
- Strengthen synergy in the company
- Train personnel on appropriate topics
- Review proposals and aspects for improvement


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- 20 to 25 (1/2-inch-thick) slices baguette (2-inch diameter)
- 1 to 2 extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 cup whole milk ricotta cheese
- 1 tablespoon soft goat cheese
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- Finely grated rind of 1 large orange
- Freshly ground pepper
- 1 1/2 cups sliced strawberries
- Set oven rack 4 to 5 inches from the broiling element. Heat broiler.
- Place bread rounds on a rimmed baking sheet. Brush tops lightly with oil. Sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Broil about 90 seconds, watching carefully, until edges turn golden brown. Remove from oven.
- Combine ricotta, goat cheese, heavy cream, ½ teaspoon of the orange zest, salt and pepper in the bowl of a food processor. Process until completely smooth. Scrape into a small bowl. (Alternately, beat with a wooden spoon until as smooth as possible. Mixture may remain a bit grainy, which is fine.)
- To assemble, spread ricotta mixture on toasts. Top with 1 or 2 strawberry slices. Sprinkle with remaining orange zest, black pepper and a drizzle of olive oil. Serve immediately.
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The recipe was originally published as Strawberry Party Bites on Relish.com


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That the 2010 X3 is the oldest model in BMW's lineup becomes apparent before you even turn the key to start it. In fact, it is this very act — turning a key — that reminds us the X3 is a car from a not-too-distant, but entirely different, time. Now in its seventh model year, it's about to be phased out by a thoroughly modern successor that not only promises to bring it up to date with the rest of the family but also address the major critiques of the first generation. The production version of the new X3 (designated F25, if you're keeping tabs on BMW platform codes) won't debut until October at the Paris Motor Show, so when we were offered an opportunity to catch some seat time in a pre-production prototype in the backwoods of Bavaria, we eagerly volunteered for our blindfold and a spot in the back of a cargo van for a little ride in the forest. Much to our relief, we were instead allowed to hop in a 2010 X3 and drive ourselves to a secluded farm in the Bavarian countryside, giving us a chance to assess back-to-back just how much better the second-gen X3 really is.
When the first X3 emerged, its primary goal was to be the most agile 4x4 in the marketplace; as the realization of 2002's X Activity Concept it succeeded in defining the compact, sporty crossover vehicle. However, other more marketable qualities took a back seat to driving dynamics — namely ride comfort, styling, functionality, and overall refinement. Rolling production changes addressed many of these issues, and a mild facelift for the 2007 model year vastly improved the quality of the interior. Even with these improvements, it was always a stiff-riding platform that felt more like a 3-series variant than a real SUV. And it was.
For 2011, the X3 grows up a bit, finally coming into its own as a true compact SUV instead of a jacked-up station wagon. Outright agility — while still very much important to the essence of any BMW — takes a back seat to, well, back seat comfort, cargo space, ride quality and general sophistication. Think of the next X3 as a leaner, lighter, less expensive X5 and you'll get idea.
Open a door and step inside the new X3 — even in pre-production trim — and you'll see it shares none of its predecessor's cheapish materials or designs. All of the surfaces are finished to the same standard as the current 3-series. Gone forever is the pop-up navigation screen, replaced with a high-resolution display on all models controlled by standard fourth-generation iDrive for the entertainment system, Bluetooth phone and vehicle settings. Navigation is still optional, and includes the larger eight-inch display. Either way, the screen is cleanly integrated into the dashboard, sitting top-and-center and without the double-bubble hump on the current 3-series.
An increase in virtually every critical dimension is also partly to credit for taking the new model a couple rungs up on the compact SUV ladder, especially the additional 86 mm of track width that push the wheels further apart for a more planted feel. The greenhouse has been widened as well, adding 40 mm of front shoulder room and 20 mm to the rear, eliminating the tall and narrow feel of the original X3 cockpit. Overall length has grown by 80 mm — to a total of 2810 mm — on a 15 mm longer wheelbase. The growth is modest, but it's in all the right places. Seeing the old model alongside the new, it's hard to spot the dimensional changes; and yet somehow the awkward, Converse-hightop-like proportions seem to be gone.
The longer wheelbase benefits rear passengers the most. Just getting in and out of the rear seat is easier thanks to larger door openings, particularly at foot level. The rear floor is low and flat too, and the back bench is wider than before, reaching all the way to the doors. In the cargo area, the load floor is lower and wider; chassis engineers set out to make the rear suspension as compact as possible to give back some hauling space, and their efforts are obvious as soon as the single-piece liftgate is opened.
Where the new X3 hasn't grown is on the scale. Despite being more accommodating, the new X3 weighs in roughly 45 pounds lighter than its predecessor at just a couple clicks over 4000 pounds when equipped with the same naturally aspirated six-cylinder engine. Use of aluminum suspension components, lighter steel alloys throughout the structure and components like electric power steering have helped shed the weight.
Despite going on a diet, the new X3 is considerably stiffer than the outgoing model. This additional structural rigidity, which was immediately noticeable on our rural backroads drive, gave the chassis engineers greater latitude in tuning the suspension for improved passenger comfort. The setup is essentially the same as the current 3-series wagon with xDrive — MacPherson struts up front, multi-link in the rear — but geometrically optimized and tuned specifically for Sport Activity duty. It's still a firm-riding vehicle, but there's a more supple quality to small, low-speed bumps, and less suspension noise in the cabin as well. Three-mode Dynamic Damper Control (Normal, Sport and Sport+) will be offered as part of the sport package, allowing the driver to dial in an even firmer ride at the push of a button. Unlike the DCC setup on other BMWs, however, there is no Comfort setting on the X3. We wonder if that might change, though, as the Normal setting is far from soft.
In our short time on the rural rain-soaked roads south of Munich, we got a pretty good sense that the new X3 will be every bit a BMW in the driving dynamics department. Brakes, as usual, are large enough for the job, and the boost has been dialed down a little compared to the old version for more direct feedback and modulation. The xDrive system is essentially the same as that used on the current X5, giving sixty percent of the torque to the rear wheels under normal conditions. Sport models will include torque-vectoring on the rear axle, accomplished by braking the inside rear wheel and automatically dialing in a bit of additional throttle during aggressive maneuvers. BMW doesn't expect many owners will take their X3s off-road, but the vehicle is nevertheless capable of fording 22 inches of standing water should the need arise, and hill descent control will once again be standard, just in case.
Two drivetrains will be offered when the X3 launches at the end of this year, and both will include eight-speed automatic transmissions as standard; manual transmissions accounted for such a small percentage that they were cut out of the US plan. The X3 xDrive28i will use the current 3.0-liter naturally aspirated six-cylinder (N52), presumably making 260 horsepower. For performance junkies, the X3 will also be offered with the new twin-scroll, single-turbo 3.0-liter six (N55) as the X3 xDrive35i. Sport package models of the 35i will also get the sport version of the eight-speed automatic, which not only offers more aggressive shifting programs, but also a pair of steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters with dedicated upshift and downshift paddles. We drove the 35i model with the sport 'box, and we have a feeling it will be the setup of choice for driving enthusiasts who need a little more vehicle than a 3-series can provide.
Of perhaps greater interest is a third powertrain option that BMW is said to be considering. While no one will officially confirm or deny any of our speculations, there are a lot of winks and nods when we suggest the X3 could be the right candidate for a four-cylinder turbo engine. Whether that engine burns diesel or gasoline is still up for debate, but we know first-hand how good the 200-horsepower 2.0-liter twin-turbo diesel is in the 320d, and it couldn't hurt BMW's CAFE numbers any. Keep your fingers crossed.
First impressions are important, and even though we drove pre-production mules —complete with black-and-white paisley camo — it's very clear the next X3 is set to take on a full crop of worthy competitors when it starts rolling out of the Spartanburg, South Carolina, plant after the turn of the year. We are definitely looking forward to driving a production model this fall. Pricing remains to be set, but the 2011 X3 should slot perfectly between the just-updated X5 and the compact X1 that will finally arrive in America at the beginning of next year.
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The first trailer for Kevin James' (Paul Blart: Mall Cop) new picture, Here Comes the Boom has gone online. James stars as a high school science teacher who gets mixed up in the violent world of mixed martial arts in order to earn money to save school projects from budget cuts. While James has become known for being part of Adam Sandler's cadre (You Don't Mess with the Zohan, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Grown Ups, Hotel Transylvania and Grown Ups 2), he hasn't exactly stood out for the right reasons in his non-Sandler works (Paul Blart: Mall Cop, The Dilemma and Zookeeper). Will Here Comes the Boom prove any different?
Zookeeper director Frank Coraci's Here Comes the Boom, starring James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Melissa Peterman, Greg Germann, Joe Rogan, Reggie Lee and Bas Rutten, opens October 12th. Hit the jump for the trailer and synopsis.
I'm a fan of James and I hope Here Comes the Boom is a winner for him, but the trailer already highlights some weaknesses. There's zero chemistry between James and Hayek and it's plain to see that James still relies on slapstick gags to elicit easy laughs. However, the story has some heart to it and I think that is James' greatest strength, especially when he interacts with his students. Also, James has always been a big guy but now he's damn near intimidating. If he happens to pick a fight with you, take co-star Bas Rutten's advice, "Grab a chair, create space." Click over to Fandango to watch in HD.
Here's the synopsis for Here Comes the Boom:
In the comedy Here Comes the Boom, former collegiate wrester Scott Voss (Kevin James) is a 42-year-old apathetic biology teacher in a failing high school. When cutbacks threaten to cancel the music program and lay off its teacher (Henry Winkler) Scott begins to raise money by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter. Everyone thinks Scott is crazy – most of all the school nurse, Bella (Salma Hayek) – but in his quest, Scott gains something he never expected as he becomes a sensation that rallies the entire school.


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What inside Firefox is using my CPU ?
I love Firefox a lot, more than any other browser actually. With my small set of addons, me and Firefox, we conquer the world every day !
That's why I hate it when my buddy Firefox is chewing away too many CPU cycles while not doing anything. It is really frustrating because it heatens my lap(top), flattens my battery and slowens my work. (yeah yeah, I know that is not proper English)
I tried all the usual suspects, Google mail and calendar, the obvious heavy website. I closed many tabs, but I never seem to find the culprit. Whatever I end up closing, 100% of one CPU remains going down the drain. Restarting Firefox is no solution either.
So why is there no simple addon that can tell me which of my 100+ tabs is only taking and never giving ? And why, if it does exist, did nobody notify me of this addon ? :-)
Let's hope Firefox 3.5 fixes the problem and not simply uses 100% CPU more efficiently ;-)
Hint: My favorite addons are: Flashblock, Tab Mix Plus and Uppity. I don't need much more...
have you tried disabling those plugins? or starting firefox with a squeaky clean profile?
as far as javascript is concerned; i use the great noscript plugin to block javascript expect for the sites i put on a whitelist. it's a drag sometimes, but from a security (and indeed maybe performance) point of view a real plus.
I guess it's impossible
Unless you're using FF 3.5, I don't see by what means could an addon tell which tab is using how much of the CPU. They're all in the same process.
Otherwise, Javascript is the #1 idiocy of the IT. (#2 being Java, #3 being .NET and Mono, #4 being Macromedia/Adobe Flash, #5 being Silverlight and Moonlight...)
welcome to the 21st century.
welcome to the 21st century. IT is no longer about fortran et al.
you obviously must find object orientedness suspicious then...
Try the NoScript plugin
You might want to try the NoScript plugin.
It's not exactly what you are after, but by enabling scripts individually you might identify the offender.
Clean your profile
Sometimes it helps to delete the .mozilla folder, and start anew with a clean profile.
Just re-install the addons and Firefox is performing well again.
Remember to backup your bookmarks, if any.
Dag, maybe it's the peril RMS warns us about:
The good news is that the soon-to-come Firefox 3.5 has an entirely new Javascript engine; actually, it's its main new feature...
Best regards,
forum sites
I've noticed the same thing on a few web pages. Many of them tend to be forums (of the vBulletin variety) that seems to have some javascript that runs away. I'm not sure if it's from some bad advertising, or just something that runs in the forums themselves. I suspect it is the forums themselves as I do use noscript and only allow the forum site itself. It's some kind of AJAX problem.
I keep several browser
I keep several browser profiles for this sort of thing and start Firefox with "firefox -ProfileManager" or "firefox -profile myhtmlonly" when I need a specific one. It's pretty handy for all sorts of things. Another similar approach is to run Epiphany or Konqueror at the same time as Firefox but with different settings.
When I use Firebug it happens
When I use Firebug it happens what you refer, but for me is an expected behaviour when debuging the JavaScript.
Check if you have any plugin debugging every JS instruction, usually that is the problem.
It's facebook.
It's facebook. Seriously.
Close all the facebook tabs; you'll see.
Microsoft Plugin
If you look at your Plugins..and you see a Microsoft type plugin..DISABLE IT!. My CPU percentage dropped from 80% usage to 6% - 15%. on the average. I've also known Microsoft fonts be a disaster and other little things they install onto your system (I'm on Mac)
I think options for diabling
I think options for diabling JS should be introduced, by default for background tabs user idle for more than 5 minutes. Pinned apps or an exception list should be allowed as exceptions. A right click option for each tab as an override. But if I havnt used a tab in 5 minues, more than likly (excpet rarely) I dont want it doing anything at all thank you! Exceptionsa re gmail (and other pinned apps)
A monitor on tab cpu usage would be nice.
Microsoft Plugin
If you look at your Plugins..and you see a Microsoft type plugin..DISABLE IT!. My CPU percentage dropped from 80% usage to 6% - 15%. on the average. I've also known Microsoft fonts be a disaster and other little things they install onto your system (I'm on Mac)


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I am quite surprised I let this get by me. The top case in the list of top cases for 2012 is one I distributed to my French speaking friends, jokingly. Langevin, 2012 QCCS 613 (CanLII) is great. I am so proud that the top case on CanLII is in francais! For those Anglos in the ROC (Rest of Canada) or elsewhere who want to know what all the fuss is about, here is an extremely unofficial translation from Google translate (I may fix it up sometime int he future, but this brutal rendering should give you a general idea:
February 22, 2012
ALAIN MICHAUD, j.c.s.
SYLVIO LANGEVIN, […] St. Euphemia (Québec) […]
[1] Sylvio Langevin claims ownership of the Earth [1]. In another case initiated on the same day, he claims that the planets Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, and the four large moons of Jupiter. [2]
[2] At the hearing, the applicant wishes to amend the second application to add its claims Neptune and Pluto, as well as the space between each planet across the galaxy. [3]
[3] Although Mr. Langevin demand writing separate judgments for each of its requests, the Court is authorized to make a single judgment against two applications which raise the same arguments in the representation of property of the same nature : this is true in reading both handwritten queries, which is the full transcript in Annexes 1 and 2 of this judgment.
[4] On 27 December 2011, "by chance by causing me to clean up various documents in my closet …" [4], Mr. Langevin find newspaper articles providing some details about the planets Mercury and Jupiter [5] as well as observation missions NASA on several planets in the solar system.
[5] He sees a unique opportunity for these planets, and reports that he "thought of making a collection like others are a collection of hockey cards." As the five planets and four moons are referred wanderers and they are part of the solar system [6], Mr. Langevin is certain that they have no owner.
[6] He is alone, and without even a respondent to his requests, because "if there was a respondent, it would be God, but it is not tangible and not invitable as respondent."
[7] At the hearing, the amendment request permission to also claim ownership of Neptune and Pluto, as well as "all the space that is without oxygen and without gravity for objects between each planet the size of our galaxy … "[7], and this – he said to the audience -" to avoid any misunderstanding. "
[8] He explains this claim on the area, saying he learned that the Chinese were planning to send space stations in space: Mr. Langevin is not it form another city Chinese space above him.
[9] In the related case, the idea of claiming ownership of the planet Earth, came the "07-01-12 around 18:30, I had to lose temperature and by chance I had the idea read some dictionary definitions … "[8], namely those words planet earth.
[10] Like the others, the planet Earth has no owner, "so it is obvious and beyond doubt it is a wandering star belonging to the solar system, certain that I rightfully as owner possession and administration (single) … "[9].
[11] Mr. Langevin said that three requests he would become the owner of nine planets, the Moon and the four satellites of Jupiter, for a total of fourteen planets.
[12] The third issue – it must be clear – is where Mr. Langevin has recently claimed ownership of Mars and the Moon. At our hearing, it is not known whether judgment was rendered in this case, nor has taken cognizance; officers of the civil court would have however stated that judgment had been pronounced against him. [10] He wants to learn at the same time he read the decisions on these two claims, "to challenge" he adds.
[13] Mr. Langevin said he is not a lawyer but a private citizen, he mentions, however, have a good experience in applications since the 2000s, indicating that these refer disputes between other four situations:
a) the fact that he fell into a trap of misinformation, as a breeding boar he had;
b) the fact that his brother [11] has sold his farm without administrator permission;
c) the fact that people in authority, for the Queen had been "six false psychologist" on it and have tried to "get to delusional";
d) the fact that he discovered a coup government of Canada at war in Afghanistan.
[14] Mr. Langevin therefore relates have initiated 51 complaints against the Government of Quebec that led to a judgment declaring quarrelsome litigant in relation to the Attorney General of Quebec [QMP] [12]. After four or five other queries against the Government of Canada, he adds they have been declared vexatious litigant to place the Attorney General of Canada [PGC] [13].
[15] Mr. Langevin said wait for the right moment to set aside two decisions in question, which violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
[16] On the merits of the two claims here undertaken by Sylvio Langevin, it is not necessary to say more than what the judge wrote Étienne Parent December 19, 2011, in the folder to the planet Mars and the Moon "On its face, the request of the applicant has no legal basis and must be rejected" [14].
[17] The claim of the Earth is therefore rejected as to the other planets in the solar system.
III – THE BEHAVIOUR OF quarrelsome SYLVIO LANGEVIN
1 – The history of the applicant
[18] An inventory probably incomplete litigation initiated by the applicant indicates that it has undertaken since 2001 at least 29 action in the Superior Court, at the same time he spoke 12 times in the Court of Appeal, as well as 4 times in the Supreme Court of Canada.
[19] Among these disputes, Mr. Langevin continued QMP 12 times – an injunction or damages – for a total value of $ 74.5 million. He also used these two forms of redress by pursuing the PGC for a total value of $ 4 million original, by amendment, he has taken his claim for damages to more than a billion dollars.
[20] All the actions taken by Mr. Langevin and under six names or names of different presentations [15], were rejected and led to the formation of large bills of costs that have – pretty much – never been recovered by prosecutors and opposing parties.
[21] The two statements querulous – limited scope – imposed by judges Babin and Bélanger in 2008 and 2009, were initially dampened the enthusiasm of the applicant to undertake prosecution repeatedly. Mr. Langevin seems to have understood – as illustrated by the three cases revealed his interest in the planets – that the absence of respondents to its procedures to reduce her risk of being mean again a request for a declaration of querulous .
[22] It is here that the Court should intervene.
2 – The concept of querulous
[23] Justice Yves-Marie Morissette, then a professor at McGill University, became interested in the notion of quarrelsomeness, and reported in 2004 that the main characteristics associated jurisprudence vexatious litigants:
– First, the litigant vexatious demonstrated tenacity and narcissism;
– Second, the litigant vexatious manifests demand rather than defense;
– Third, the quarrelsome litigant vexatious appeals multiplies, including against officers of the court. It is not rare, in fact, that these procedures and complaints are directed against lawyers, court staff or even the judges personally, which are the subject of allegations of bias and ethics complaints;
– Fourth, the repetition of the same questions used by successive ampliatifs and looking for the same results despite the repeated failures of previous requests are frequent;
– Fifth, the legal arguments put forward by the litigant vexatious is reported both by their inventiveness and incongruity. They have a legal form, of course, but the limit of the rational;
– Sixth, the repeated failures and remedies exercised by the party querulous lead to more or less long-term inability to pay court costs and legal fees to which it is bound;
– Seventh, most decisions adverse, if not all, are appealed by the party querulous or requests are subject to revision or withdrawal;
– Finally, eighth, as already noted, the litigant vexatious is representing himself. [16]
[24] The same text mentions that the portrait is the French psychiatrist Mallet Sandrine this syndrome: "the querulous processive […] say that they have been wronged, their property was looted: they multiply the trial, appeal, refuse any conciliation suspect corruption of judges, bad faith or collusion of witnesses ". [17]
[25] In a decision very supported on the matter, the Chief Justice André Wery this study takes the judge Morissette and added:
As you can see, the problem is a querulous based on paranoid thinking that the beliefs of the person are disproportionate to the reality and the constant crusades from a judicial imaginary delirium. [18]
[26] Sections 84 and 85 of the Rules of Civil Procedure of the Superior Court [19] have been adopted to counter the excesses of some citizens who abuse their right to sue:
84. Prohibited except by permission. If a person acts in a quarrelsome manner, that is to say, if it exercises its right to sue for excessive or unreasonable, the court may prohibit a demand for justice without prior authorization.
85. Order. The order is general or limited to one or more districts or against one or more persons. In extreme cases it can even prevent access to a courthouse.
[27] These provisions are in line with Article 4.1 of the Code of Civil Procedure and Articles 6 and 7 of the Civil Code, which expressly provide that a party can not be excessive or unreasonable, and must exercise his civil rights requirements of good faith.
[28] The Canadian judicial system is the envy of many other jurisdictions around the world, but – you might expect – it is expensive. As mentioned Judge Wery:
It should be used by litigants in a reasonable and responsible. You can not only use the judicial system to harass, intimidate or exhausted financially, psychologically or physically opponent. [20]
[29] Given these parameters, we must ask ourselves whether Sylvio Langevin behavior justifies the application of Articles 84 and 85 of the Regulation adopted under the general powers inherent in the exercise of the jurisdiction of the Superior Court [21].
3 – The decision
[30] When the Court declares to have taken cases against 51 QMP, Sylvio Langevin apparent pride that appears difficult to reconcile with the objectives of the Code of Civil Procedure. Thus Judge Babin its decision of 29 January 2008, shows off the many reasons for it to declare the applicant quarrelsome litigant, compared QMP [22]. Justice Bélanger will demonstrate the same querulous next year in light of established claims against the CMP this time [23].
[31] Now it has been declared vexatious litigant in the place of these two adversaries "natural" Mr. Langevin began today a new action sequence, using imagination to claim ownership of the planets in our solar system . Where will it end there?
[32] In reviewing the minutes of the first application of this kind of Mr. Langevin – one to Marc and the Moon – there is only twelve minutes of presentation to the applicant was sufficient to embarrass the judiciary significantly.
[33] The following two queries read – here reproduced as Appendices 1 and 2 – provides a demonstration of continuity in this disorder and contamination by the applicant of the judiciary, which will last until the status of Mr. quarrelsome litigant Langevin has not been widespread.
[34] Similarly, the applicant's statements reported in the first chapter illustrate this judgment is no claim to the test, and that all goods stray or ownerless apparent – material or immaterial – are likely to be a subsequent collection by it.
[35] It is of course unacceptable that Mr. Langevin uses the justice system inappropriately in this way wasting time and energy of the various judicial actors, while all litigants need full access to these valuable resources .
[36] On a more special for its own protection, the Court can not tolerate more than the applicant exhausted his meager resources to pay legal stamps associated with the opening of numerous lawsuits, or bills of costs that are inevitably they close: hundreds of thousands of dollars already owed by Mr. Langevin under this head.
[37] In these circumstances, the Tribunal has no hesitation in concluding that the applicant meets behavior by the main features of the querulous, therefore, the decision is required to expand its quarrelsome litigant status to all remedies it may undertake in the Superior Court of Quebec.
[38] REJECTS two claims taken by the applicant in cases numbered 200-05-019491-120 and 200-05-019492-128;
[39] DECLARES quarrelsome litigant the applicant Sylvio Langevin, Langevin Martin alias, alias Martin Sylvio Langevin, aka Martin Sylvio Langevin, aka Martin (Sylvio) Langevin, aka Sylvio (Martin) Langevin;
[40] NO introduce the applicant or deposit, directly or indirectly, any proceedings – whether to institute proceedings or during the proceedings – the clerk of the Superior Court of all Courts of the Province of Quebec, unless the prior written permission of the Chief Justice, the Associate Chief Justice or Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, or any other judge designated by one of them ;
[41] NO clerks, civil servants and judicial officers of the province of Quebec to receive, stamp, issue, serve, save in the scroll, swear or register on the role of hearing any proceedings which have been instituted, or initiated prepared by the applicant, with the exception of those that have been previously authorized in writing, in accordance with the preceding paragraph;
[42] ORDERS the Clerk of the Superior Court of the District of Quebec to make the meaning of this judgment to the applicant Sylvio Langevin;
[43] AUTHORIZED service of this judgment to the clerks and bailiffs of the Province of Quebec, by fax;
[44] ORDERS the provisional execution of this judgment, notwithstanding appeal;
[45] TOLL given the particular circumstances of the case.
ALAIN MICHAUD, j.c.s.
Sylvio Langevin
[…] St. Euphemia (Quebec)
For himself
Date of Hearing:
January 13, 2012
(Full transcript)
Province of Quebec
District of Quebec
No 200-05-019491-120
1. Hello! Honorable superior court judge
2. The facts
27-12-2011 to by chance by causing me to clean up various documents in my closet, I found two newspaper clippings and Press headline that reads as follows:
A. Mercury reveals:
B. En route to Jupiter;
WOW: I had to get your hands on a real treasure! or details spacial exploration of NASA since the year 1970 ± discover more Italian astronomer Galileo …. you understand!
It's obvious I made an immediate connection to the effect that my previous folder 200-05-019484-117 Judge made the decision on 16-12-11 and I am sure that his judgment promised be made before the end of January 2012 will be favorable to me giving me permission to become owning possession and administration (only) of the planet Mars and my oral amendment to the hearing of the moon (the earth);
I said yes internally Cest Ca present today with my request I just added the other planet and moon the other, and I'll be happy human possessed the complete collection of spacial exploration was achieved and achievable and even their wholes the exploitable surface located accesible loan us the earth;
3. Today with my present application I want the Tribunal's permission to become owning possession and administration (only) of the planets and the moon detail as follows:
A. the planet Mercury;
B. Venus;
C. the planet Jupiter;
D. the planet Saturn;
E. the planet Uranus
F. 4 large moon and Jupiter
4. Law.
A. I heard an applicant alone without respondent;
B. the planets Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and 4 large moons of Jupiter, she ons no owner, so it is obvious and beyond doubt wholes five planets and 4 large moons of Jupiter they all come back to me right to possession as owner and administration (single) following my request legitimate authorization of the Court Article 885 – CpcQ;
C. principals and two law articles for stewardship me 9 properties are sections 1 and 947 of the Civil Code of Québec;
D. I denounce a situation of force majeure in effect: on 12-12-2011 at 11:00 at the Palais de justice de Montmagny, (my district of Montmagny) the clerk Johanne Lamarre and director François Paré ons they refused mouvrir a civil matter of authorization art. 885 C.P.C.Q. either take my previous request for March and the moon, so I called 911 and SQ 2 policemen Gaudrau Choinard and came to his transplant result nothing changed its continued their refusal, that I was obliged to do in Quebec n / a 200-05-019484-117;
So Montmagny refused my previous query, then sure they would refuse my request for this today is similar, so I am required force majeure forced me to assert the right to act in the District Quebec Thank you!
E. I denounce my farm use parental donnation my mother and my father legitimate act notarized 93159 is in crisis since October 28, 2004 there is continuity of refusing to admit my possession administration by Her Majesty the Queen;
Result in my letter box areas and a number of civic door 124 in his prison cell in the basement of the courthouse Montmagny;
So Honorable judge to ensure my present application filed your judgment Quebec Civil Registry or I'll take possession in person at the right time;
F. I have received a gift denounces Thank you! to my previous request n / 200-05-019484-117 the Civil Registry of Quebec 12-12-11 Indeed the Clerk Claudia Bellavance exempt from paying my $ 116.00 and the Director of the Civil Registry Brassard approved acsepter verbal before me and judge my hearing a presentation on the 16-12-11 acsepter also approved by me confirming that free report had no impact on the validity of my request for the future. Thank you!
Tomorrow's energy so I hope (to qualify) has the same free gift at the same $ 116.00 for the opening of my civil record this application;
I'll check has confirmed the appropriate box with an X below dessou:
The Civil Registry me a second gift is exempt from paying me $ 116.00 for the opening of my file this application …. Thank you!
The clerk made me pay the price of $ 116.00 for the opening of my civil record my present application;
5. I included this request to my attached the 2 pieces below dessou;
A. Cutting the paper entitled Mercury Press unfolds;
B. Cutting the newspaper La Presse entitled En route to Jupiter;
6. My present application is well founded in fact and law;
7. For this reason, the Court should present to welcome my request, thanks!
8. order by the Tribunal welcomes this request and give permission to the applicant art. 885 C.P.C.Q. be the owner of possession and administration (only) of the planet Mercury, so Mercury becomes the property legally and legally a kind of extension of the planet earth, then the valid laws of the land they apply to the management of including mercury especially art. 1 and 947 CCQ Whereas the applicant is a current owner Quebec Canada;
… [Paragraphs 9 to 13: findings identical to those of paragraph 8, but this time for Venus (9), Jupiter (10) Saturn (11), Uranus (12) and the four large moons of Jupiter (13)] …
14. The all without charge. Thank you!
St. Euphemia this Jan. 5, 2012
Sylvio Langevin
applicant and lawyer personally
(Full transcript)
Province of Quebec
District of Quebec
No 200-05-019492-128
1. Hello! Superior court Judge
2. The facts:
07-01-2012 to the 18:30, I had to lose temperature and by chance I had the idea to read some dictionary definition that this detail as follows:
A. Planet wandering star, the earth is part of a body system called planet, see attached Exhibit A;
B. Earth belongs to the solar system inhabited by man, see attached Exhibit B;
3. The right:
A. I heard an applicant (only) with no respondent;
B. Planet Earth has no owner, so CEST obvious and beyond doubt its a wandering star belonging to the solar system, certain that I was rightful possession as owner and administration (single) following my request legitimate authorization of the Tribunal art. C.P.C.Q. 885;
Note: cepandant I want to add a safety condition good understanding which will be applied; assumed that I used on the surface of my planet earth is my floor my background, my subsoil, I am required to obtain permission Tribunal art. 885 CPCQ to approve my / me is the project (s) by judgment to make sure that I not violate / law (s) set (s) of human rights ons of various acquired and they lived there have the same temperature has the right to appeal as a respondent;
C. and 2 principals law article for my planet earth stewardship are sections 1 and 947 of the CCQ;
D. I denounced a situation of force majeure in effect: on 12-12-2011 at 11:00 at the Palais de justice de Montmagny, (my district of Montmagny) the clerk Johanne Lamarre and director François Paré ons they refused mouvrir a civil matter of authorization art. 885 CPCQ either take my previous request for March and the moon, so i called 911 and SQ 2 policemen Gaudreau and his Choinard came to his transplant outcome not changed their continued refusal, that I was obliged to do in Quebec n / a 200-05-019484-117;
So Montmagny refused my previous query so sure they would refuse my request today this is a similar, therefore I am obliged force majeure having to prove me right to act in the district of Quebec; Thanks !
E. I denounce my farm use parental donnation my mother and my father legitimate act notarized 93159 is in crisis since October 28, 2004;
there is continuity of refusing to admit my possession and administration by Her Majesty the Queen in my box result rural letter and my door civic number 124 in his prison cell in the basement of the courthouse Montmagny;
So Honorable judge to ensure my present application filed your judgment Quebec Civil Registry or I'll take possession in person at the right time;
F. I denounce me for two cases before 200-05-019484-117 also 200-05-019491-120, I have not paid cétais free to open two files to me Civil Registry of Quebec, so today I ' I hope to have her third gift is free to open my file of my present petition, and I denounce below dessou
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4. I included this request to my attached the 2 pieces below dessou;
A. Dictionary definition of the word planet
B. Dictionary definition of the word earth
5. My present application is well founded in fact and law;
6. For this reason: the Court should welcome to my present application; Thank you!
7. Order by the Tribunal welcomes this request and give permission to the applicant art. 885 CPCQ to be the owner, possession and administration (only) of the planet earth, then the valid laws of the land apply to the management especially the art. 1 and 947 CCQ whereas the current owner requesting its a Quebec Canada; cepandant used for the floor, the bottom and the subsoil of the planet (earth) to do a / project (s) the various takes another request made by owner permission of the court art. 885 CPCQ to have a judgment which has the effect of respected place acquired rights of humans who lived there at the same temperature it is possible to have a / respondents will have the right to speak for or against?; the project;
8. Thank you all free!
St. Euphemia the January 9, 2012
Sylvio Langevin
applicant and
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[1] File 200-05-019492-128.
[2] folder 200-05-019491-120.
[3] Paragraph 3b of the document "Amendment to my request" to file 200-05-019491-120.
[4] Paragraph 2 of the application, the file 200-05-019491-120 (full transcript).
[5] Parts A and B produced 200-05-019491-120 file.
[6] According to the definition of planet, appended to the application on file 200-05-019492-128.
[7] Note 3 (full transcript).
[8] Paragraph 2 of the application, the file 200-05-019492-128 (full transcript).
[9] Section 3 B of the application, the file 200-05-019492-128 (full transcript).
[10] Judgment was delivered on 19 December 2011 by Judge Stephen Parent, dismissing the plaintiff to file 200-05-019484-117.
[11] This brother would bare owner of a farm of which the applicant is a director.
[12] Decision of 29 January 2008 Judge Jacques Babin, folder 300-17-000025-070.
[13] Decision of 11 September 2009 by Judge Dominique Bélanger, folder 300-17-000042-083.
[14] Paragraph 1 of the judgment of 19 December 2011, on file 200-05-019484-117.
[15] The applicant's complaints are taken most often by the name of Martin or the Sylvio, but also by Martin Sylvio, Sylvio Martin, Martin (Sylvio) or Sylvio (Martin).
[16] Yves-Marie Morissette, "Abuse of rights, querulous and unrepresented party", [2004] 49 McGill LJ p. 23, para. 8.
[17] Ibid, para. 9.
[18] v. Barreau du Québec. Srougi, 2007 QCCS 685 (CanLII), 2007 QCCS 685, para. 24, the passage is Charles Meunier, The querulous: The Haunting of our courts, Reporters Associés, p. 2, quoting Dr. Gilbert Pinard.
[19] R.R.Q., 1981, c. C-25, r. 8.
[20] Id by. 15.
[21] Art. 46 and 47 C.p.c.
[22] See in particular the reasons set out in paragraphs 10-29 of the decision (note 12).
[23] See in particular the reasons set out in paragraphs 13-30 of the decision (note 13).


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I have a little secret to share. In the past, when I'd make too much quinoa, the leftovers would sometimes sit in my fridge, cold and unappetizing, taking up valuable refrigerator real estate, until enough time had passed and then I'd throw the whole mess into the compost. And then feel terribly guilty about wasting good food.
But not anymore! Now I find myself intentionally making way too much quinoa so that I can make these truly delicious quinoa cakes the next day.
I've been meaning to try these ever since my review copy of "Super Natural Every Day" by Heidi Swanson arrived and I found myself yearning for Heidi's recipe for little quinoa patties. But what with one thing and another (like having a second child) I kept forgetting about them. That's the thing about having kids, you basically forget everything.
Until my mom-in-law threw together some surprisingly delicious (we all had seconds and some of us went back for thirds) quinoa cakes a few weeks back. Then it was just a matter of waiting until we had leftover quinoa to work with. I finally got my chance last weekend and my whole family was thrilled by the results.
Once you've got the quinoa base, it's as easy and flexible as any fritter. I added sauteed red onions, garlic, spinach, fresh cilantro and parsley, garam masala, ground cumin, sea salt, black pepper, Parmesan and used eggs and bread crumbs as my binder.
I was short on time when I made these for our dinner so mine were fried but you can also bake them with great results. The ones my mom-in-law made were baked and they were very tasty and a little lighter, of course.
You can also add anything else you think would be tasty to these fritters – black beans, red pepper, substitute kale or chard for the spinach, etc.
Serve warm (or cold) with an herby cucumber yogurt sauce for maximum yum factor and enjoy the knowledge that you have a wonderful way to use up leftover quinoa for the rest of your days.
Curried Quinoa Cakes with Spinach
These are also great the next day – gives the flavors more time to develop. Inspired by Martha Rose Shulman's recipe in the New York Times and Heidi Swanson's little Quinoa Patties in "Super Natural Every Day"
Serves 4
For the quinoa cakes:
2 - 2-1/4 cups cooked quinoa or 1 cup organic uncooked quinoa, rinsed and drained and 1-3/4 cups water or stock (cooking it in broth or stock makes it way more flavorful)
3 good-sized garlic cloves, minced
1 small onion, chopped
1 can black beans, rinsed and drained (optional – but if you do add them, use Eden Organic since their cans are BPA-free)
2-3 big handfuls of spinach, chard or kale leaves, washed, dried and roughly chopped (unless you're using baby spinach in which case no chopping is necessary)
3 large eggs, beaten (pasture-raised are the best kind if you can get 'em)
1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 tablespoon garam masala or curry powder
1/2 tablespoon ground cumin
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Olive oil (4-5 tablespoons)
Breadcrumbs or flour, optional (if your mixture is too loose)
For the yogurt sauce:
1 cup whole milk yogurt
1/2 garlic clove, minced
1/2 small-medium cucumber, peeled and diced (optional – but it gives a nice crunch)
1 large handful of fresh cilantro leaves, washed, dried and chopped
1 small handful of fresh parsley leaves, washed, dried and chopped
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1-3 tablespoons milk to thin the sauce, if desired
1. If you don't already have leftover cooked quinoa, your first step is to make some! If you do, skip to No. 2 below. Bring the water or stock to a boil, then stir in the quinoa, lower the heat and reduce to a simmer. Cover for 15-20 minutes until done – you'll know the quinoa is ready when you see the little white "tail" of the germ around the outside edge of each seed. If you're starting to see the little white tails but the quinoa seems too soggy, remove the lid for the last few minutes of cooking. You can also just drain the quinoa if that doesn't do it. And if the water is all gone but the tails are not visible yet, add a little more water and simmer for a few more minutes, covered. Then remove from heat and set aside to cool.
2. In a frying pan, heat a tablespoon of olive oil over medium heat. Sauté the onion for a few minutes, then add the garlic and spinach and cook for 2-3 minutes until the garlic is fragrant and the spinach is wilted. Remove from heat and let it cool for a few minutes.
3. In a mixing bowl, combine the cooked quinoa, eggs, spices, cheese, salt, pepper and the cooled down onion, garlic and spinach mixture. Mix together until combined thoroughly.
4. Using your hands, form small patties, taking care to make them rather chunky so that they'll have enough mass to stick together while you're frying.
5. Heat the peanut, canola or grapeseed oil in a large, heavy skillet (cast iron is ideal) over medium-low heat. Once it is hot but not smoking add as many patties ad you can comfortably fit while still allowing a little room between them so you'll have space to flip them and cook for 4-5 minutes or until the bottoms are deeply browned (cooking time will depend on how hot the pan and oil were when you started.) Carefully flip the patties with a spatula and cook the second sides for another 4-5 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from the skillet and cool on a paper grocery bag while you cook the remaining patties.
6. Combine ingredients for yogurt sauce with a fork. Serve with the quinoa cakes.


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Today the most of the Gn0folkers met up at the Bure Valley Railway for the second annual new years outing. A good time was had by all, thanks to Ralph and Janet who despite not being able to come had us round for lunch afterwards.
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Nvidia's been holding AMD slightly under the water lately, but if AMD's newest Radeon beast performs as well as it looks like it could, the tables are turned. Is this the best possible GPU you can buy?
The GHz Edition lives up to its name, delivering a GPU clock speed of 1,000 MHz with the company's latest "Graphics Core Next" architecture, plus 3GB of GDDR5 memory running at 1.5 GHz. Those are stunning numbers, but the GHz Edition's real tricks are more clever than that. A new PowerTune Boost feature allows the card to juice itself with extra electricity (when there's spare juice in the system), delivering performance boosts on demand. This should translate not only into smoother framerates under pressure, but allow the card to crush GPU-accelerated non-gaming software.
In Tom's Hardware's super-thorough benchmarking, the GHz mostly lives up to expectations, either tying or beating Nvidia's comparable GTX 680 in games like Skyrim and Battlefield 3—the only thing consistently upping the GHz is Nvidia's GTXX 690, which costs £900.
The HD 7970 GHz Edition, by comparison, will only run about £500 at most, making it somewhat reasonable for determined games with disposable income. Look for it on internet shelves "as early as next week" from companies like ASUS, Gigabyte, HIS, MSI, Sapphire, TUL and XFX. [AMD]


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Legal Clinic - PAHO partnered with Legal Aid Scheme to present to a community issues regarding marriage and inheritance laws which can be confusing. After the presentations given by PAHO, LAS had a table where any legal questions could be asked privately. A PAHO volunteer at LAS took notes for each case. Two PAHO volunteers are working with LAS to follow-up with these queries. The volunteers are being trained in mediation so that next month PAHO can go to the communities and hold a day for mediations.


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Adjusting her hard hat, the graying TORC'er looked over the last bit of construction of the main banquet hall of The White Tree Inn. Magnus, the lead Dwarf on the project, had minor trouble with the artistic renderings of the Elven forests that Aragorn wanted. He claimed it would remind him of his younger years in Rivendell, but Magnus thought it looked like a bunch of fluffy stuff. "Get the Elves to do this while you take on the last of the guest rooms." She suggested as she handed the plans back to the dark haired Dwarf. "We have to be up and running by the first of October. Our guests and contestants will start to arrive then for the games that will begin on the 3rd."
Magnus nodded as he rolled the blue prints then called for his crew to follow him.
"Cuting it close, aren't you?" Archie asked as he approached. "It looks good so far."
"Thanks." Calma smiled. "It took awhile to get all the paper work approved by all the bureaucrats then we had to find an architect and then the builders...." She rolled her eyes. "We were lucky to get Magnus on such short notice."
"Will you open on time?"
"We should." She replied with a slight shrug. "If not, we'll have to have everyone camp out someplace."
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Paulson, Henry Merritt, Jr.
Henry Merritt Paulson, Jr., 1946–, U.S. investment banker and government official, b. Palm Beach, Fla., grad. Harvard (M.B.A., 1970). After working as an assistant to the comptroller at the Pentagon (1970–72) and in the White House (1972–73), he joined (1974) the investment banking firm of Goldman Sachs, rising to co-head of investment banking (1990), president and chief operating officer (1994), and chairman and chief executive officer (1999). An advocate of government balanced budgets, Paulson was appointed secretary of the treasury (2006–9) by President George W. Bush. In the credit crisis that began in 2007, Paulson, along with Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, played a central role in the government's efforts to limit its economic effects and prevent a major recession. He details his work during those fateful months in his On the Brink (2010). Paulson is also an avid conservationist and served (2004–6) as board chairman for the Nature Conservancy.


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Thanks to a goal by Argentine forward Franco Caraccio, the Houston Dynamo finished their participation in the Texas Pro Soccer Festival as unbeaten tournament winners today at Steele High School, tying D.C. United 1-1.
Houston started the game on the offensive and almost tallied its first goal in the sixth minute, when Chris Wondolowski crossed a ball from the left to Richard Mulrooney in the box. Mulrooney blasted the ball with his first touch, only to see former Dynamo goalkeeper Zach Wells block the shot.
Wondolowski had yet another scoring opportunity for the Orange in the 25th minute with a hard, low shot from inside the penalty area that went just wide of Wells' right post. Both clubs spent the remaining minutes of the first half battling at midfield, partly due to strong winds in the Cibolo area throughout the game.
For the second straight game, Houston made nine substitutions at halftime, something that paid off in the second half. In the 53rd minute, John Michael Hayden took a free kick into the penalty area that D.C. United goalkeeper Jose Carvallo punched away. Caraccio collected the loose ball and pushed it into the back of the net for his first goal with the Dynamo.
D.C. United had its first chance to score in the 71st minute when Guy-Roland Kpene broke into the penalty area with only Dynamo goalkeeper Pat Onstad to beat. The Canadian international was able to block Kpene's shot to keep Houston in front.
D.C. United did tie the match in the 78th minute on a header by Cezar, who connected on a pass from the right by Jamil Walker. Although the game ended in a 1-1 tie, Houston won the tournament title over D.C. United on the third tiebreaker (goals scored), 6-4.
Houston's next game is this Wednesday at Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City against CSD Municipal as part of the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. Kickoff is set for 9 p.m. CT.
D.C. United (2-0-1) vs. Houston Dynamo (2-0-1)
March 09, 2008 – Steele High School, Cibolo TX
2008 Texas Pro Soccer Festival
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Franco Caraccio (unassisted) 53
DC -- Cezar (Jamil Walker) 78
Chivas USA -- Zach Wells (Jose Carvallo 46), Bryan Namoff (Pat Carroll 46), Gonzalo Peralta (Jason Thompson 46), Domenic Mediate (Jamil Walker 46), Marc Burch, Fred (Ryan Cordeiro 46), Devon McTavish (Justin Moose 46), Rod Dyachenko (Santino Quaranta 72), Clyde Simms (Dane Murphy 46), Luciano Emilio (Cezar 46), Jaime Moreno (Guy-Roland Kpene 46).
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Craig Waibel (Brian Mullan 67), Eddie Robinson (Steve Wondolowski 46), Bobby Boswell (Geoff Cameron 46), Wade Barrett (Johnny Alcaraz 46), Richard Mulroney (John Michael Hayden 46), Ricardo Clark (Nick Hatzke 46), Dwayne De Rosario (Erik Ustruck 46), Corey Ashe (Kieran Hall 46), Chris WOndolowski (Franco Caraccio 46), Brian Ching (Kyle Brown 46).
Attendance: 800
Weather: Windy-and-65 degrees
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Houston police: Email, phone scam may cost you $1,000
Police are warning people about a popular scam being used recently to dupe victims out of money to help relatives who are supposedly in serious trouble.
Dubbed the "relative in distress" hoax, the scam begins when a victim receives an e-mail or telephone call purportedly from relatives or friends who are visiting the area from another country or state and claim to be in trouble, according to the Houston Police Department. The people supposedly in distress say they need money.
Also, victims may receive telephone calls from people posing as representatives of the federal Border Patrol. The phony caller says the victims' relatives are being detained for trying to illegally enter the country or for trying to possibly smuggle a large amount cash into the country. The victim is told to pay a fine or bond by wire transfer to get the relative released from custody.
In the past several weeks, eight people have come forward to say the hoax was pulled on them, said HPD Officer Gilbert Brillon.
Brillon said the ploy usually nets the scammers between about $1,000 and $2,000 if they dupe a victim. Prosecuting the scam artists can be hard, Brillon added, because when the victims' wire transfers are traced, they usually led to locations outside the country.
Police caution people who receive such phone calls and requests to confirm who is calling them. Also, they should try to contact the relative purportedly in distress or the agency that supposedly contacted them by using the agency's valid telephone number.
Police also said that fines are not typically paid with a wire transfer of funds.
People who feel they may have been victimized by this scam are urged to report it to the HPD Major Offenders Division at 713-308-3100.


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Six new clips from The Three Stooges have gone online. Yes, the movie looks terrible, but it also looks like it's staying true to the source material. The problem is that staying true to the source material and then trying to transport it into a modern setting doesn't look like it will work. There's also the argument that the movie is for kids, who will enjoy the slapstick and goofy sound effects. Unfortunately, there probably aren't a lot of kids who are die-hard fans of a 1930s comedy trio. It all comes back to "Who is this movie for?" and I don't have a good answer. But I will say this: Fox is screening the movie for critics, and despite the cringe-worthy trailers and clips, I'll do my best to give the movie a fair shake when I see it in its entirety.
Hit the jump to check out the clips. The film stars Sean Hayes, Will Sasso, Chris Diamantopoulos, Jane Lynch, Jennifer Hudson, Sofia Vergara, Craig Bierko, Stephen Collins, and Larry David. The Three Stooges opens April 13th.


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Here's the 5 steps to get a fully functional web server running against APEX.
1) Download Here : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex-listener/downloads/index.html
2) unzip
3) type: java –jar apex.war
4) Then just follow command line prompts.
- You'll be asked for the images location , admin and manager for the listener
5) When the browser pops open fill in the database connect information
Here's a couple of the command line options.
-Dapex.home=/path/to/apex : Path to the folder used to store the web container runtime,
defaults to: ${user.home}/.apex/nnnn, where nnnn is the HTTP listen port
-Dapex.port=nnnn : HTTP listen port,
defaults to 8080
-Dapex.images=/images/location : Path to the folder containing static images
In the doc see the "Using the Embedded Web Container" for more details
For the curious, what we did was embed Grizzly from the glassfish project , https://grizzly.dev.java.net . This is a project designed for this use. Embedding a webserver and servlet container for specialized purpose.
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Copyright protection is of the utmost importance to Google and YouTube. That's why our team works diligently to develop and improve the copyright protection tool for your videos called Content ID. Today we have updated features of Content ID to share with you, but first, a refresher on how Content ID works.
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