Abby Lockhart in ER

I like watching ER, I like Abby ..
Maura Tierney, a familiar face to television viewers after her four-year role as newswriter Lisa Miller on NBC’s critically acclaimed comedy “NewsRadio,” has shifted to a more dramatic gear on the full-throttle pace of “ER” where she received an Emmy Award nomination for her performance as a former medical student who’s resumed her nursing career in the ER.
Even Abby is not very pretty, but many poeple like to watch her performance in ER.
Born in Boston, Tierney says she prefers living in New York over Los Angeles -- or for that matter, any other city she’s visited.
She has made a habit of travel; she and her husband drive cross-country for fun and adventure and they’ve only missed two states so far.
However, she divides her working time between New York and Los Angeles.
If you like watching ER, I believe you are also a fans of Abby.
Tierney, who has always been interested in the dramatic arts, attended New York University and Circle-in-the-Square Theatre School. Her stage credits include roles in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “The Bald Soprano,” “Baby with Bathwater,” “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea” and “Talking With.”
The young actress had her first starring role on television in Norman Lear’s comedy series “704 Hauser Street.” Tierney’s additional credits include starring in the television films “Out of Darkness,” “Student Exchange” and “Crossing the Mob.” She guest-starred in the series “Growing Pains,” “Family Ties” and NBC’s “Law & Order.”
On the big screen, Tierney starred with Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock in the film “Forces of Nature,” opposite Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr. in “Instinct,” alongside John Travolta and Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols’ “Primary Colors,” and opposite Jim Carrey in “Liar, Liar.” Earlier this year she was seen in “Scotland P.A.,” written and directed by her husband, Billy Morrissette, and also starring Christopher Walken and Tierney’s former “NewsRadio” co-star Andy Dick. Tierney was most recently seen starring opposite Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank in “Insomnia.”
Tierney lives in Los Angeles with her husband. Her birthday is February 3.

a South Korean hostage killed

Taliban insurgents shot a South Korean hostage and dumped his body in the lawless central Afghan desert Wednesday, raising increased fears for the safety of 22 other Koreans seized while traveling through the region last week and sending shudders through the community of foreign aid workers in the country.
Why the Korean hostage is in Afghan?
The Afghan government responded by immediately barring all foreigners from traveling outside Kabul, the capital, without police permission.
the god sent him to die.
The Taliban said it had executed the man to protest a lack of progress in negotiations with the Afghan government over the fate of the kidnapped Koreans. A purported Taliban spokesman told international news agencies that the government had refused to release eight Taliban prisoners in return for the hostages, and warned that the militants would kill more of their victims if their demands weren't met.
dont just blane the Taliban.
Another Taliban deadline passed early today without word on the fate of the other kidnapped Koreans. Reports that at least eight of the Koreans had been freed could not be confirmed. The Taliban denied that it had released anybody.
The South Koreans were taken hostage Thursday while traveling by public bus along a highway between Kabul and the southern city of Kandahar, where they were to work at a nursery school and hospital. The remaining 18 women and four men, most of them in their 20s and 30s, are members of the Saemmul Protestant church in Bundang, just south of Seoul, though both the church and the Korean government insisted that the abductees' visit to Afghanistan had no religious motives.
Even I dont like Taliban, but I also dont like those Koreans.
Afghan police said the slain man had been shot 10 times in the head, chest and stomach. Korean media identified the victim as Bae Hyong-gyu, 42, a pastor and leader of the group.
from another point of view, the korean hostage was just called back by his father ..
not a sad thing...

Harry has broken the record again

Even I dont like harry very much...but I have to tell you ..
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has broken records in the US, selling 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale.
why so many people like harry??
It also sold 2.65 million in the UK, becoming the quickest seller out of the entire series.
2.65 mil just in UK..my god..
The previous high was in 2005 for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which sold 2 million in its first day of release.
The long-awaited finale to JK Rowling's international best-sellers hit shops on Saturday, and it was released simultaneously around the world.
More than a thousand fans queued at the Waterstones' bookshop in the centre of London, where many were dressed as wizards for the midnight launch.
dont tell me u are one of them in the queue...
Another 1,000 waited at Asda's superstore in Pudsey, near Leeds, where the 17.99Pd books were being sold for a mere fiver.

NBA has to do much more

NBA is such a big business .
Call it cynicism. Call it pessimism. Call it sensationalism. No matter what you call it?
But anyone who thinks ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy -- who allegedly bet on basketball games -- is the league's first official to gamble is crazy.
It is real crazy.
Anyone who thinks he is the first to bet on sports -- or on NBA games, for that matter -- is naive.
Commissioner David Stern appeared shaken and as emotional as you're ever going to see him during Tuesday's news conference in New York concerning the federal investigation involving Donaghy, a gambling ring and organized crime.
But his much-awaited response, however sympathetic, missed the mark as he failed to take any responsibility.
Stern pointed to the league's rigorous system of checking up on its officials, even comparing it to the CIA and FBI, and labeled Donaghy, who resigned July 9, a "rogue ... criminal."

It is a big business ..
The truth is the NBA had enough red flags to eject an entire soccer team.
Donaghy's history of volatility and his alleged involvement in gambling in 2005 were enough to put the microscope on him. What's more, the integrity and ability of today's officials and the NBA's officiating system has been repeatedly questioned -- by coaches such as Phil Jackson, by owners such as Mark Cuban, by former officials such as Joey Crawford and by plenty of players.
Stern was right about one thing: If an official is intent on breaking the rules, he can.
But here are a few ways the league can catch them more quickly, or at least force them to have to work a little harder:
More accountability: As it stands now, officials aren't available to the media, so they don't have to answer for their on-court decisions publicly.
What's more, players and coaches are fined for commenting negatively about officials.
The lack of accountability is magnified because NBA officials have what is considered the toughest job in sports because of the amount of judgment calls they have to make and the impact of their decisions. Yet, they are shielded from public scrutiny, and even their reprimands are done privately.
Well, it's time to put them on the spot.
Let them answer for their questionable calls.
Let's make it public knowledge who is grading out poorly, when someone is chastised and when the league's evaluation shows the wrong call was made in a pivotal situation.

flooding - not just in china

Some 350,000 homes in Gloucestershire will soon be without water because of flooding at a treatment works.
This news reminds me ..when I was young, living in the country..
Tens of thousands of homes are without tap water and supplies in Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury will run dry in hours.
The Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Police Tim Brain said the supply was unlikely to be restored for a week.
Power is being restored to many parts of Gloucester and Cheltenham after a sub-station was switched off earlier.
An overnight operation was carried out overnight at the Walham Switching Station, which supplies half a million homes in Gloucestershire and south Wales.
A number of public health issues have been identified as a result of the flooding.
flooding is not just happened in china, it also happens ...any where ..too bad..

锘縃ow big is Google's database?

In case you were wondering how much information Google stores, here is the answer.
Google search crawler uses 850 TB of information, so that's the amount of raw data from the web.
Google Analytics uses 220 TB stored in two tables: 200 TB for the raw data and 20 TB for the summaries.
Google Earth uses 70.5 TB: 70 TB for the raw imagery and 500 GB for the index data.
The second table "is relatively small (500 GB), but it must serve tens of thousands of queries per second per datacenter with low latency".
Personalized Search doesn't need too much data: only 4 TB.
Personalized Search stores each user's data in Bigtable.
Each user has a unique userid and is assigned a row named by that userid.
All user actions are stored in a table.
Google Base uses 2 TB and Orkut only 9 TB of data.
If we take into account that all this information is compressed. Ffor example, the crawled data has compression rate of 11%, so 800 TB become 88 TB, Google uses for all the services mentioned before 220 TB.
It's also interesting to note that the size of the raw imagery from Google Earth is almost equal to the size of the compressed web pages crawled by Google.

FireFox extension

Mozilla Firefox browser can be improved with additional functions for better browsing experience. Firefox browser supports third party extensions that can be added to enhance its functionality.
Firefox extensions or plugins provide additional features for Mozilla browser, improving the way it works or adding absolutely new functionality to use while serfing the Web.
Firefox extensions can add anything from a toolbar button or menu item to more complex feature as auto login or web search.
Custom Firefox extensions allow to personalize Mozilla Firefox Web browsing experience to create more suitable user interface and build in new specific features to better organize work environment.
Online communities or businesses can provide their customers with such Firefox extensions as customized toolbar or sidebar.
These extensions will let Mozilla Firefox users get direct access to the “remote” website resources and services wherever customers may be online, performing a complex task in few clicks with help of custom buttons, dropdown and right-click menus, boxes, or other specific features. These custom Firefox extensions will serve as “bookmarks” to hot website pages or as “shortcuts” for web services using.
Custom Firefox plugins and extensions allow create convenient user interface, put the brand on the toolbar, add custom buttons and menus, auto login function, RSS reader, website search, Google or other search engines searchbox, quick access to Yellow Pages, news, mail, stocks, weather or other information on Web from within Mozilla Firefox browser, and other individual functions needed to work more convenient and productive while using Firefox browser.