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This is your resource to discuss support topics with your peers, and learn from each other.
Starting with yesterday i am unable to log in to my yahoo messenger app: cannot connect to server. I have tried re-sending service books, re-assigning the device to network, rebooting numerous time. I even called AT&T and they said it is a yahoo issue since they are updating their systems. I have no problem logging in from my PC. Please help
I am not a happy camper, like you. I spent 2.5 hours on the phone with Verizon today tier 1 and 2 level tech support and then eventually tech support with BB. Starting last night, 4/21/14, I also have not been able to connect to the Yahoo IM server. I have used this AP for years with no issue until last evening. Something has happened for sure. Obviously it isn't sa Verizon issue if you, being on AT&T also have a problem. Blackberry said it isn't them because all my other aps and internet work fine. They assured me it was a Yahoo issue and to call Yahoo. I then spend 2 hours on HOLD to get a Yahoo person in South Texas to help. She immediately states that the Yahoo IM AP for BB is a custom one made for BB and that BB, NOT Yahoo manages the tech support for their ap. I knew this was going to happen since on the Yahoo site it says this very clearly to all BB users using the YAHOO IM AP. I had told this to BB tech and they told me there was nothing more he could do. Yahoo said she would have to escalate the matter to Yahoo tech support to look into this issue. Interestingly, if you go to your AP World on BB and look at the Reviews for the Yahoo IM AP, you will see hundreds of people stating the same issue. Not sure how new/old those reviews are (I just posted there as well), but clearly we are not alone.
I use this AP daily so I do hope that it is resolved, just wanted you to know that I have made this very clear with Yahoo that there is a MOBILE AP issue with BB (no issues on the PC or laptop) but their cell server obviously is down or problematic. What makes me mad is that no one from Blackberry bothered to look at the AP reviews to see that there is clearly a problem here, rather than telling me mine is an isolated incident.
Keep our fingers crossed this is addressed soon. If you can file an e-mail complaint with Yahoo as well.
Here is what Yahoo posts on their site:
Yahoo Messenger BlackBerry Support
Customers with a BlackBerry device need to determine whether an issue pertains to their device, application, or their Yahoo account in order to get appropriate assistance. This article describes how to make this determination and how to contact the right help team.
For How-To assistance:
The version of Yahoo Messenger that is downloaded from BlackBerry was purchased by BlackBerry from Yahoo. BlackBerry did this so that the program could be customized for their devices.
Because of these customizations, Yahoo is unable to offer support. We recommend that you contact BlackBerry for assistance.
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Ok well now I got the offical contact back from Yahoo tech support officially letting me know they will not offer support to Blackberry customers because BB purchase the AP from Yahoo and customizes it for their devices so it IS a BB issues.
How do we bring this to BB attention to have THEM respond to OUR frustration with this.
Blackberry- we need your help in getting this remedied ASAP!!!
The issue was fixed this morning, i was able to log on... i did absolutely nothing. I had previously tried all the advice offered on yahoo site as well as other forums and that did not fix the problem. I have to say, i am very disappointed with Blackberry support. First of all, i could not even find a number or email where to send my complaint, just links to different issues. I hope the problem is fixed for good. Thank you for everyone's feedback!
You mention that everything else was working prefectly fine but Yahoo Messenger that isn't BlackBerry issue. Trust me


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Part 1- WOW way to go Lily !!
After being betrayed by her fiance and sister Lily is heading off to her honeymoon ALONE. But not before she gets a little lecture from her mother about how cheating should be overlooked and maybe she should do it discretely also...are these people crazy !! Jack cheats on her the night before her wedding with her TWIN SISTER and she should forgive and forget ?? Ya I would be running to Rio as well !!
Once in Rio Lily has to snap out of her daze. She starts going to the spa and ends up having a massage by a man named Marcello , to say he has magic hands is an understatement !! I was quite shocked but then again we all need a little spice in our lives and Lily needs this burst of confidence and fun more than she knows. If Marcello wasn't fabulous enough Lily keeps running into Gustavo , this HOT Brazillian that obviously has money and is very well known. He wants something from Lily but she soon finds out he is married. Does this hinder her decision to make the most of this trip ?? Will Gustavo be what she needs to forget about her troubles back home ??
Not likely....
Gustavo may just be the cause of more issues. But damn if he is not super HOT and sexy !! Gustavo does a great job at charming Lily but everyone has their breaking point. Lily decides to go back to New York early and at the same time she finds out her father has fallen ill and she is needed home anyways. Her father's health is in question , the family business needs running and Lily is in the midst of her own chaos. Will Lily be able to save everyone and herself before Gustavo strikes again ??
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Lily is home in New York while her father is recovering from his stroke.Read more ›
I was approached by the author asking if I would be interested in reading and reviewing her Gilded Flower series. I replied stating that I was currently swamped with books I wanted to read and as it is winter here in Australia, two of my children had the flu and I didn't know when I would get to read them. Vivian replied understanding about sick children and saying that there wasn't a deadline for the reviews to be done.
I also hadn't done my research on the series as I usually would (my bad!). I didn't realise that they were novellas and not full length novels. I like reading novellas, but I don't always like reviewing them as I feel it's too easy to spoil the story for others as they are so short.
I had just finished a book and decided to jump straight in to Gilded Lily. I am so glad that I did! The last few books that I had read, I had taken my time with. I enjoyed them, but I was reading small amounts at a time. They didn't make me feel like I wanted to sit there and devour them. That was not the case with this gem!
Gilded Lily grabbed my attention from the beginning and didn't let it go. A few chapters in I jumped on Amazon and bought all three installments of the series! Vivian Winslow's writing is descriptive and addictive. The sex scenes were detailed and definitely panty melting HOT! Both Marcelo and Gustavo had a sexual energy that was tangible.
I'm about to jump in to the second book – Calla Lily. I can't wait to find out what's next for Lily Baron.
**** 4 stars!
Calla Lily begins where Gilded Lily, the first book in the series, leaves us. Lily has returned to New York from Rio as her father has had a stroke.Read more ›
Anywho, she goes on her honeymoon alone and ends up finding this passion she never knew existed. Her friend tells her to go ahead and be her new self. So there she is in Rio, about to just let herself be free and enjoy this new chapter in life.
Then Gustavo appears in her life. And this can go really well or really bad. The attraction is there, but he is married and Lily doesn't play that game. Though she is starting a new chapter in her life, maybe she will just give in.
Shift change! We now leave the lovely Rio and read about Lily going home to take care of her dad. Big change for Lily, but she is strong and can do anything. Even if it means taking over the company and staying strong for everyone. Which is not easy for her right now, and she is still getting used to this new version of herself.
Then came the time for Lily and her sister to talk. I know what she did was really wrong in the first book, but hear her out before you decide if you still don't like her. She and Lily talked, though I don't dislike her as much, she still isn't going to be my favorite anytime soon.
So after some time, they family discuss what will happen with the company. Apparently the parents had more strength and views that was told. Then you have lots of HOT LOVE.
Todd, Alejandro, and Gustavo. Lily is having no trouble finding love now, but which one will it be?Read more ›
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Their result for The strangely accurate personality Test ...
You scored 17Introversion, 74 iNtuitiveness, 57 Feelingnessand 63 Judgingness!
Extrovert: You are externally focused
Intuitive: You are Abstract
Feeling: You use feeling to make decisions.
Judging: You primarily use you social imagination to affectthe world
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They scored 17% on Introversion, higher than 0% of your peers.
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Hi I have BackupPC application in CentOS 5.. clients are windows and RHEL machines.. I could take the Fullbackup for the client mahines ..But I can't take the increental backup.. When I took the incremental backup , it start incremental backup, but after completion of the task .. i see that the backup directory contain full back of all the data ... what is the reason? pls help me
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I'd like to point out a small issue i encountered. It's not really a bug, more like a "desired logical outcome" in my case. (Apologies for the long post!)
Imagine the next scenario:
In a certain spot on a theme template i'd like to use a 75 x 75 pixel thumbnail, generated from the "featured image" of a post.
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Indeed, by calling the thumbnail image in php (
the_post_thumbnail('custom-thumbnail'); for instance), i get the following:

So far so good. it effectively shows a 75x75 image, but on a retina display, this image looks pixelated and blurry.
I say, let's use BJ-Lazy Load, and besides it's lazy load behavior, let's activate the"Load hiDPI (retina) images" option to solve this.
It should "update" this standard resolution image on a display with higher pixel density, by loading a higher resolution version (2x it's the usual i suppose), but maintaining it's dimensions, width & heigth.
So, on the admin backend, I activate BJ-Lazy Load plugin, activate hiDPI option and save changes.
Next, I reload the page on the device with retina display. Image still looks blurry and pixelated.
What happened?
the HTML we get (after the plugin's javascript has done it's magic), it's the following:

Notice the following:
- The width & height img attributes are both 75px as expected. Check.
- The value of the "w" parameter passed to the resizing script "
thumb.php" is 150, which corresponds to twice the original dimension of the image (75 * 2), perfect for a "retina-friendly" image. Nice.
- the image passed to the resizing script (as the "src" parameter) is: "
encoded/path/to/image/image-name-75x75.jpg". Here, something is not right...
The image passed to the resizing script as it's working source has a dimension of 75x75 pixels. There are no extra pixels for "
thumb.php" to accurately generate the 150 px required image.
So, we end with a pixelated upscaled 150 px image, that still doesn't look crisp on a retina display. Not exactly the end of the world, we got the img; but, we didn't get the hi-res version that we were expecting.
One possible solution (following the actual logic and JS code) could go along the lines of using the original FULL resolution uploaded image (or at least an uncropped higher res version) as the source for the resizing script (Of course, only do if hiDPI option is active and we are on a hiDPI display):
- Obtain the available image sizes from the
$_wp_additional_image_sizesarray, that holds the
height, and
boolfor "crop" option of registered image sizes. Output this array somewhere for JS to access. "
data-lazy-sizes" attribute as JSON or similar perhaps?
- In the frontend, find which registered size (if any) was used as the source of the image, and determine if at this particular registered size, the image was or wasn't cropped. Obtain the dimensions from the img src string with regex "
/(\d+x\d+)(?!.*(\d+x\d+))" (selects the last ocurrence of NUMBERxNumber which should be what we need) or something like that, and compare with images sizes information for a match
- if cropped, determine the width/height ratio, in order to crop the new 2x res image with the proper dimensions.
- find the most suitable image size source for resizing (i guess at least 2x the largest dimension of the needed image, not cropped)
- output new src and additional parameters to allow "
thumb.php" to provide a suitable retina image to display (or similar logic in new plugin version ;-) ).
I worked the issue I encountered by setting my thumbnail size twice the dimensions i needed, and then setting a CSS rule like "
max-width: required-size-in-px; height:auto;" for the particular img. Just a bypass, not the ideal solution.
Anyway, just an idea. It's not the most common scenario, but if it can be improved, i figured why not do it.
I'd be inclined to think it becomes more of an issue the larger the retina display gets, with images that fulfill the
registered-image-sizes <= screen.width condition being used in the php, as this limits the ability of the plugin to get a proper source to work with.
Tell me what you think.
Again, apologies for the long post.
Have a nice day and happy coding!
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" ... an easy, interesting way of learning new words." -- The Nikkei Weekly
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Historically, native Japanese speakers have been amazed at a foreigner who can manage even a passable sentence or two in their language. Ten years ago, it was not uncommon for Japanese to heap praise on an American visitor to Tokyo for correctly ordering lunch without resorting to English. Americans were even complimented for knowing how to say "konnichiwa" and "ohayoo gozaimasu."
Today, the bar has been raised substantially, and a reasonable comprehension of professional and academic terminology is needed in order to be taken seriously as a foreign speaker of Japanese. This is especially true if you intend to rely on your Japanese skills in a professional context. "How to Sound Intelligent in Japanese" can help the intermediate student to polish her skills to the point where Japanese speakers will regard her as an adult speaker of their language.
The book is laid out in a convenient thematic format, so you can focus on the areas which are most relevant to your own needs and interests (science, law, etc.) There are enough example sentences to give you a sense of the context in which the specialized vocabulary items are used.Read more ›
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If you're a beginner, you can just read the commentary and look at the lists and pick up what you need, not try to memorize everything. If you're more advanced you can read the sample sentences. I definitely don't agree with those who say if you're intermediate or advanced, you can go out and read the books themselves, and don't need a book like this. I don't want to be reading many Japanese science books, but I still want to know how to say chemistry. The easier it is, the better, and this book does make it easier.
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This book will teach you how to sound pedantic and insincere in Japanese. It is basically a list of buzz words that stupid people throw around in the states to sound smart. Read morePublished on Jan. 9 2003 by Juan Ramon
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Ink Dot Formation in Coating Layer of Ink-Jet Paper with Modified Calcium Carbonate
Abstract:Commercial ink-jet papers are made from silica or alumina as a coating pigment, both of which give high image quality, but are expensive. The present work aims at efficient use of calcium carbonate as an alternative of silica for ink receptive coating layers. Commercial calcium carbonate was ground mechanically or dissolved partially with hydrochloric acid to reduce and equalize the aggregates size. Trial ink-jet papers were prepared and some of them were plasma-etched to give a hydrophilic property. The trial ink-jet papers were evaluated in terms of dynamic behavior of ink droplets ejected from a test ink-jet head visualized by a microscopic high-speed video camera system and of ink penetration depth determined by confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM). Particle size reduction of calcium carbonate pigment by mechanical grinding and hydrochloric acid dissolution decreased ink dot area and dot roughness on the papers. This result suggests that particle size reduction improves image quality. Based on the criterion standard that the smaller the dot area, the better the image quality, the efficient processes were mechanical grinding, hydrochloric acid dissolution and plasma-etching in the decreasing order. It is concluded that particle size reduction decreases pore size of the coating structures and consequently ink droplets tend to penetrate deep in coatings rather than spread laterally along surfaces.
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Best African American Fiction
Best African American Fiction
Bantam, Paperback, 9780553385342, 336pp.
Publication Date: January 13, 2009
Introducing the first volume in an exciting new annual anthology featuring the year's most outstanding fiction by some of today's finest African American writers.
From stories that depict black life in times gone by to those that address contemporary issues, this inaugural volume gathers the very best recent African American fiction. Created during a period of electrifying political dialogue and cultural, social, and economic change that is sure to captivate the imaginations of writers and readers for years to come, these short stories and novel excerpts explore a rich variety of subjects. But most of all, they represent exceptional artistry.
Here you'll find work by both established names and up-and-comers, ranging from Walter Dean Myers to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mat Johnson, and Junot Díaz. They write about subjects as diverse as the complexities of black middle-class life and the challenges of interracial relationships, a modern-day lynching in the South and a young musician's coming-of-age during the Harlem Renaissance. What unites these stories, whether set in suburbia, in eighteenth-century New York City, or on a Caribbean island that is supposed to be "brown skin paradise," is their creators' passionate engagement with matters of the human heart.
Masterful and engaging, this first volume of Best African American Fiction features stories you'll want to savor, share, and return to again and again.
Please click the "Behind the Book" link for contributor's bios.
E. Lynn Harris (1955-2009) was a New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author. His twelve novels include Basketball Jones and If This World Were Mine.
"A treasure trove of discovery…Readers across racial lines will find reason for delight in this debut of what is intended as an annual series."—Kirkus
"There hasn't been an anthology of such talented African-American literary figures since Marita Golden's Gumbo, and the result is a masterful bouquet of literary flowers, some grand, some subtle, but none shrinking…With something for every reader's taste, this is a collection not to be missed."—Publishers Weekly
"This engaging collection…shows the incredible range of talent and focus of fiction written by African Americans."—Booklist
"These short stories, excerpts from novels, and thoughtful essays cover a broad range of subjects, experiences and perspectives from many of the best writers working today."—Sacramento Bee