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Holy cow, I wrote a book!
In a comment to yesterday's entry, someone asked about the customized icon that appears in the address bar... sometimes.
There's actually method to the madness. I was going to write about it later, but the comment (and misinformed answers) prompted me to move it up the schedule a bit. (The originally-scheduled topic for today - the history of Ctrl+Z - will have to wait.)
Each web site can put a customized icon called favicon.ico into the root of the site, or the page can use a custom LINK tag in the HTML to specify a nondefault location for the favicon, handy if the page author do not have write permission into the root directory of the server.
In order for the favicon.ico to show up in the address bar, (1) the site needs to offer a customized icon, (2) you have to have added the site to your favorites, and (3) the site icon must still be in your IE cache.
IE does not go and hit every site you visit for a favicon.ico file; that would put too much strain on the server. (Heck, some people got hopping mad that IE was probing for favicon.ico files at all. Imagine the apoplectic fits people would have had if IE probed for the file at every hit!) Only when you add the site to your favorites does IE go looking for the favicon and stash it in the cache for future use.
The other night my phone rang just as I discovered that I overheated my pan and the oil was starting to burn. I rushed to the phone, thinking it's the people I had invited to dinner, but no, it was some telemarketer.
"Hello, is this Mr. Chen?"
"Sorry, can't talk now, my kitchen is on fire."
"Oh my God, sorry!" <click>
I'll have to remember to use that again in the future.
(P.S., there were no actual flames and I managed to open enough windows so my smoke detector didn't go off.)
Sometimes you're on the phone with somebody and you suspect that the problem is something as simple as forgetting to plug it in, or that the cable was plugged into the wrong port. This is easy to do with those PS/2 connectors that fit both a keyboard and a mouse plug, or with network cables that can fit both into the upstream and downstream ports on a router.
Here's the trick: Don't ask "Are you sure it's plugged in correctly?"
If you do this, they will get all insulted and say indignantly, "Of course it is! Do I look like an idiot?" without actually checking.
Instead, say "Okay, sometimes the connection gets a little dusty and the connection gets weak. Could you unplug the connector, blow into it to get the dust out, then plug it back in?"
They will then crawl under the desk, find that they forgot to plug it in (or plugged it into the wrong port), blow out the dust, plug it in, and reply, "Um, yeah, that fixed it, thanks."
(Or if the problem was that it was plugged into the wrong port, then the act of unplugging it and blowing into the connector takes their eyes off the port. Then when they go to plug it in, they will look carefully and get it right the second time because they're paying attention.)
Customer saves face, you close a support case, everybody wins.
Corollary: Instead of asking "Are you sure it's turned on?", ask them to turn it off and back on.
I don't speak Dutch, so I went of course to a Dutch search engine, www.vinden.nl. And upon my arrival I was greeted with a pop-up ad offering me a pop-up blocker.
There's something wrong about that.
This past weekend I fell into tickets to a Seattle Thunderbirds game. (The Seattle Thunderbirds belong to the "U.S. Division" of the otherwise-Canadian Western Hockey League, one of the three Major Junior Leagues.)
I hadn't been to a hockey game since my college days. It was quite enjoyable and I may very well do it again.
On the message board, the various groups in attendance were recognized. In addition to the usual things like "Fred's 9th Birthday" and "Company X", there was the curious juxtaposition of "David's Bachelor Party" and "XYZ Church". I hope they weren't seated next to each other.
I was there with a bunch of seventh graders and their parents because the middle school choir performed the Canadian and U.S. national anthems. I had forgotten that to seventh graders, the world is one giant social event, just with different background noise. In this case, it was a big social event with hockey noise in the background. They were chatting away, waving to their friends, changing seats, calling each other on their cell phones, writing notes to each other...
To give you an idea of the tenor of play, I refer you to the game report: Under "Seattle Penalties", observe that in the second period, player number 28 was assessed a two-minute roughing penalty which expired at 3:13. Now look down a little bit more: At 3:23, the same player was assessed a Checking from Behind penalty. I watched this happen. When his penalty expired, the player dashed out of the penalty box straight for an opposing player and walloped him. And then was promptly sent back off the ice.
Ah, minor league hockey. "We may not play very well, but we make up for it with really aggressive tactics."
And yes multiple fights broke out, to my disappointment (but to the delight of the crowd, it appears). As we left, I overheard one seventh grader say to her friend, "It was fun, but there wasn't enough fighting."
If you look at the various functions that return HANDLEs, you'll see that some of them return NULL (like CreateThread) and some of them return INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE (like CreateFile). You have to check the documentation to see what each particular function returns on failure.
Why are the return values so inconsistent?
The reasons, as you may suspect, are historical.
The values were chosen to be compatible with 16-bit Windows. The 16-bit functions OpenFile, _lopen and _lcreat return -1 on failure, so the 32-bit CreateFile function returns INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE in order to facilitate porting code from Win16.
(Armed with this, you can now answer the following trivia question: Why do I call CreateFile when I'm not actually creating a file? Shouldn't it be called OpenFile? Answer: Yes, OpenFile would have been a better name, but that name was already taken.)
On the other hand, there are no Win16 equivalents for CreateThread or CreateMutex, so they return NULL.
Since the precedent had now been set for inconsistent return values, whenever a new function got added, it was a bit of a toss-up whether the new function returned NULL or INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE.
This inconsistency has multiple consequences.
First, of course, you have to be careful to check the return values properly.
Second, it means that if you write a generic handle-wrapping class, you have to be mindful of two possible "not a handle" values.
Third, if you want to pre-initialize a HANDLE variable, you have to initialize it in a manner compatible with the function you intend to use. For example, the following code is wrong:
HANDLE h = NULL; if (UseLogFile()) { h = CreateFile(...); } DoOtherStuff(); if (h) { Log(h); } DoOtherStuff(); if (h) { CloseHandle(h); }
HANDLE h = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE; if (UseLogFile()) { h = CreateFile(...); } DoOtherStuff(); if (h != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) { Log(h); } DoOtherStuff(); if (h != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) { CloseHandle(h); }
Fourth, you have to be particularly careful with the INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE value: By coincidence, the value INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE happens to be numerically equal to the pseudohandle returned by GetCurrentProcess(). Many kernel functions accept pseudohandles, so if if you mess up and accidentally call, say, WaitForSingleObject on a failed INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE handle, you will actually end up waiting on your own process. This wait will, of course, never complete, because a process is signalled when it exits, so you ended up waiting for yourself.
But that time is not yet here.
You see, folks over in the Setup and Deployment group have gone and visited companies around the world, learned how they use Windows in their businesses, and one thing keeps showing up, as it relates to these compatibility subsystems:
Companies still rely on them. Heavily.
Every company has its own collection of Line of Business (LOB) applications. These are programs that the company uses for its day-to-day business, programs the company simply cannot live without. For example, at Microsoft two of our critical LOB applications are our defect tracking system and our source control system.
And like Microsoft's defect tracking system and source control system, many of the LOB applications at major corporations are not commercial-available software; they are internally-developed software, tailored to the way that company works, and treated as trade secrets. At a financial services company, the trend analysis and prediction software is what makes the company different from all its competitors.
The LOB application is the deal-breaker. If a Windows upgrade breaks a LOB application, it's game over. No upgrade. No company is going to lose a program that is critical to their business.
And it happens that a lot of these LOB applications are 16-bit programs. Some are DOS. Some are 16-bit Windows programs written in some ancient version of Visual Basic.
"Well, tell them to port the programs to Win32."
Easier said than done.
Perhaps with a big enough carrot, these companies could be convinced to undertake the effort (and risk!) of porting (or in the case of lost source code and/or expertise, rewriting from scratch) their LOB applications.
But it'll have to be a really big carrot.
Real example: Just this past weekend I was visiting a friend who lived in a very nice, professionally-managed apartment complex. We had occasion to go to the office, and I caught a glimpse of their computer screen. The operating system was Windows XP. And the program they were running to do their apartment management? It was running in a DOS box.
And if you do it wrong, focus will get all messed up.
If you are finished with a modal dialog, your temptation would be to clean up in the following order:
But if you do that, you'll find that foreground activation doesn't go back to your owner. Instead, it goes to some random other window. Explicitly setting activation to the intended owner "fixes" the problem, but you still have all the flicker, and the Z-order of the interloper window gets all messed up.
What's going on?
When you destroy the modal dialog, you are destroying the window with foreground activation. The window manager now needs to find somebody else to give activation to. It tries to give it to the dialog's owner, but the owner is still disabled, so the window manager skips it and looks for some other window, somebody who is not disabled.
That's why you get the weird interloper window.
The correct order for destroying a modal dialog is
This time, when the modal dialog is destroyed, the window manager looks to the owner and hey this time it's enabled, so it inherits activation.
The NTFS and FAT filesystems store times and dates differently. Note, for example, that FAT records last-write time only to two-second accuracy. So if you copy a file from NTFS to FAT, the last-write time can change by as much as two seconds.
Why is FAT so much lamer than NTFS? Because FAT was invented in 1977, back before people were worried about such piddling things like time zones, much less Unicode. And it was still a major improvement over CP/M, which didn't have timestamps at all.
It is also valuable to read and understand the consequences of FAT storing filetimes in local time, compared to NTFS storing filetimes in UTC. In addition to the Daylight Savings time problems, you also will notice that the timestamp will appear to change if you take a floppy across timezones. Create a file at, say, 9am Pacific time, on a floppy disk. Now move the floppy disk to Mountain time. The file was created at 10am Mountain time, but if you look at the disk it will still say 9am, which corresponds to 8am Pacific time. The file travelled backwards in time one hour. (In other words, the timestamp failed to change when it should.)
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When balloon tips were first developed, there was no ability to embed links. Consequently, programs were free to put insecure text in balloon tips, since there was no risk that they would become "live". So, for example, a virus scanner might say "The document 'XYZ' has been scanned and found to be free of viruses."
Now suppose hotlinks were supported in balloon tips. Look at how this can be exploited: I can write a web page that goes
<TITLE> Party plans</TITLE>
You download the message and since you are a cautious person, you ask your virus scanner to check it out. The balloon appears:
"Oh, how convenient," you say to yourself. "The virus scanner even included a hotlink to the document so I can read it."
And then you click on it and your hard drive gets reformatted.
"So why don't you add a NIF_PARSELINKS flag, so people who want to enable hotlinks in their balloon tips can do so, and still remain compatible with people who wrote to the old API?"
(I've heard of one person trying to pass a TTF_PARSELINKS flag in the NOTIFYICONDATA.uFlags member and wondering why it wasn't working. I hope it's obvious to everybody why this had no chance of working.)
Because that would just be passing the buck. Anybody who used this proposed flag would then have to be extra-careful not to put untrusted links in their balloon tips. Most people would just say, "Wow! A new flag! That's awesome!" and start using it without considering the serious security implications. Then somebody can trick the program into putting untrusted text into a balloon tip and thereby exploit the security hole.
"Aw, come on, who would be so stupid as to write code without considering all the security implications?"
The best way to make sure things are secure is to make it impossible to be insecure.


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Malala Yousafzai, born in 1997, is a Pakistani activist known for fighting for education rights for girls under the Taliban regime. She was awarded Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize for her cause of education. On October 9, 2012, a Taliban gunman shot Malala in her head and neck in an assassination attempt. Pakistan authorities subsequently offered an US$100,000 bounty on capture of the attacker. She remains in critical condition.
Wounded Malala making progress in British hospital
A 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban is making progress in a British hospital, doctors said on Tuesday, as police turned away visitors claiming to be relatives.
Malala Yousafzai was in a stable condition on her first full day in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham after being flown to the city in central England in an air ambulance.
The hospital's medical director David Rosser said she had had a "comfortable night".
"We are very pleased with the progress she's made so far," he told reporters.
"She is showing every sign of being every bit as strong as we've been led to believe.
"Malala will need reconstructive surgery and we have international experts in that field."
He said doctors at the highly specialised hospital - where British service personnel wounded in Afghanistan are treated - were beginning to plan for the complex procedures but they would not be carried out in the coming days.
Malala has been assessed by clinicians from the neurosurgery, imaging, trauma and therapy departments, though "very specialist teams" who may become involved further down the line are yet to perform detailed assessments on her injuries, Rosser added.
Malala was shot on a school bus in the former Taliban stronghold of the Swat valley last Tuesday as a punishment for campaigning for the right to an education, in an attack which outraged the world.
The teenager had a bullet removed from her skull last week.
Given that she was targeted for assassination by a Taliban gunman, security measures are in place at the hospital.
Rosser said there had been some "irritating incidents" overnight in which people "claiming to be members of Malala's family - which we don't believe to be true" had turned up.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said two "well-wishers" were questioned by officers who took their details and turned them away.
"No arrests were made and at no point was there any threat to Malala," he said.
Rosser added: "We think it's probably people being over-curious. They didn't get very far."
Birmingham has a 100,000-strong ethnic Pakistani community - a tenth of the city's population.
Malala came to prominence with a blog for the BBC highlighting atrocities under the Taliban, the hardline Islamists who terrorised the Swat valley from 2007 until an army offensive in 2009.
The attack has been denounced worldwide, including in Pakistan, which is meeting the costs of her treatment.
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday that the shooting was an attack on all girls in the country - and on civilisation itself.
"The Taliban attack on the 14-year-old girl, who from the age of 11 was involved in the struggle for education for girls, is an attack on all girls in Pakistan, an attack on education, and on all civilised people," Zardari said at an economic summit in the Azerbaijani capital Baku.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the attack was designed to frighten and intimidate any young woman brave enough to follow her example, and to warn parents to keep their daughters out of school.
"But their cowardly act has achieved the opposite effect. There has been a wave of public revulsion in Pakistan and around the world," he wrote in the London Evening Standard newspaper.
"For the attack on Malala has been an attack on Pakistan itself. Her plight symbolises the struggle for the future of Pakistan: between the forces of democracy and those of violent extremism.
"She spoke for girls and women everywhere when she spoke against oppression and against the medieval practices of the Pakistani Taliban."
Pakistan has offered more than US$100,000 for the capture of her attackers. Nearly 200 people have been detained as part of the investigation but most have been released.
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Thanks shroomofdoom, that's pretty much what I was looking for. @emjay - as far as probe placement in the valve goes, would I just be recirculating the mash for the entire 1 hour then to get a constant reading?
ahhh, i didnt really think about losing temperature through the hoses etc; My original plan was to insulate the keg. Just did some reading and I see people are just adding hotter water into keg for pre-heating, letting it cool to strike temp, then adding grain - is that your version of pre-heating?
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Newspaper Association Acknowledges Holocaust Failure
The petition was organized by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and former New York Times reporter Laurence Zuckerman. It was based on new research by Prof. Laurel Leff, of Northeastern University, revealing that U.S. journalism schools refused all requests to take in German Jewish journalists fleeing HItler, and that the American Newspaper Publishers Association (precursor to the Newspaper Association of America) rejected a request by Harvard Prof. Carl Friedrich to discuss the issue for ten minutes at its 1939 convention. Prof. Leff found evidence that some of the refusals to help were motivated at least in part by antisemitism. The petition asked the NAA to acknowledge these failures and permit Prof. Leff to address the organization.
In a letter to the Wyman Institute dated March 3, 2006, NAA President John Sturm:
* acknowledged, and expressed "regret," for the ANPA's action in 1939;
* invited Prof. Leff, and Prof. Friedrich's son, Paul Friedrich, to address the next NAA Board of DIrectors meeting, to be held in Chicago on April 1, 2006;
* announced that NAA chairman Jay Smith will speak about "the work of Prof. Friedrich, and the issues raised in Prof. Leff's paper," in his address to the NAA annual convention, to be held in Chicago on April 3, 2006;
* asked Prof. Leff to write an article for the May issue of the NAA's flagship publication, Presstime Magazine, about American journalism's response to the plight of German Jewish refugee journalists
Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the Wyman Institute, said: "We strongly commend John Sturm and the NAA for facing up to the failure of U.S. journalists and publishers to aid Jewish refugee journalists, just as other public figures, corporations, and governments have in recent years faced up to their own failures during the Holocaust. Acknowledging and regretting past mistakes is the first step in ensuring that they will never be repeated."
The signatories on the Wyman Institute's petition included Marvin Kalb and Alex Jones of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy; Martin Peretz, editor in chief, and Leon Wieseltier, literary editor, of The New Republic; Victor Navasky, Publisher Emeritus of The Nation; Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism; and numerous other deans of journalism schools, professors of journalism, and prominent journalists.
(For the full text of the petition, and a complete list of the signatories, please visit www.WymanInstitute.org)
Prof. Leff said she is "pleased to have the opportunity to address the NAA Board of DIrectors, and write for the NAA's magazine, about this troubling but important chapter in the history of American journalism."
Prof. Leff, a member of the Wyman Institute's Academic Council, is Associate Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University. Formerly a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Miami Herald, she is author of the critically-acclaimed new book, Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
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Who says no one rides the 248?
Metro's newest route is already popular with the farm set.
And I thought the guy with the rabbit was weird.
Japanese "etiquette police" take on bus foulers
Yokohama transit types, beware the Smile-Manners Squadron!
From a recent BBC article:
…transport authorities in Yokohama – a port city south of Tokyo – have appointed a team of manners enforcers, the Smile-Manner Squadron, to try to curb … bad behaviour.
The team is mostly made up of over-60s, well acquainted with the standards of conduct associated with the "old Japan".
But many of these enforcers will be accompanied by younger bodyguards, should their etiquette advice – diplomatically given, of course – not prove welcome.
(Thanks for the link, Chris!)
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Lady Liberty marries Mr. Transit
Streetfilms has the video.
Thousands of people flocked to the NY International Auto Show at the Javits Center on Saturday. In the midst of it all, Lady Liberty ended her 100 year "spectacularly combustible love affair" with the automobile. Lady Liberty said, "Frankly, this relationship has just gotten to be much more work than it's worth. My health, liberty and freedom have suffered greatly, and now I hope that my new relationships will finally give me security and happiness."
Score another one for the bus nerds.
Eastbound 3, 1:45 PM
An off-duty driver is sitting in the front section, chatting with the on-duty driver. Both are apparently part-timers who work out of the same base (Atlantic).
On-duty driver: "I'm finally getting enough hours to cover everything; it was a struggle for a while."
Off-duty driver: "That's good. It's always good when you can meet your bills."
On-duty driver: "Yeah–for a while there they were calling, talking about they were going to ruin my credit. I said, 'How are you going to ruin something I don't even have?'"
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I encountered this particular parking foul on MLK, somewhere between Judkins and Jackson:
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One of the most common reasons Seattle people give for not getting rid of their cars is that they need to drive to get out of the city*. It's one thing to give up driving to and from work and for the odd errand, but it's hard for Northwesterners to imagine a life without hiking, camping, skiing**, snowshoeing, or just getting closer to some of the beautiful scenery that surrounds us. Fellow transit types, I have good news. I have just been introduced to my new favorite Web site (OK, so it's not my all-time favorite, but I'm prone to …
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The first 20 weeks of busing with Chicklet have worked out pretty well. I love traveling around the city with her, especially now that she's alert enough to take in her surroundings and enjoy the ride. Of course, we've had our share of challenges. One of the biggest is getting ourselves ready to leave the house. This is partly because timing–Chicklet's needs with Metro's schedules–is an issue, and partly because we always get held up figuring out what to wear. Check it:
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Bus Nerd's approach to waiting is a bit (OK, a lot) different from mine. (I wrote about our differences in a recent Real Change column about riding styles.) He'd rather not …
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1) Post-Proposition 1: The Future of Transportation in Seattle
What: A panel discussion sponsored by Friends of Seattle
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UPDATED: Monday, December 27, 2010 - 10:28am
DALLAS - The Associated Press and KIII TV in Dallas report that police may have spotted Simon Lopez overnight. Lopez is Tyler man sought in the death of 1-year-old Jeremy Silva's death.
Police officials say an officer did shoot at Lopez after the 26-year-old tried to grab the offier's gun. He was spotted at a Dallas hotel.
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for someone to kill an innocent baby needs the death penalty it dont matter the color of the person he wasnt the father to that baby he had no right even to dicipline that baby
He's safe as a baby in his mother's arms as long as he confines his movements to any one of Texas's five major metropolitan areas or any of this nation's 135 major metropolitan areas where the 100 million illegal aliens are defined as 30 million by our government.
it is offensive for you to say that this criminal represents all the other honest and hardworking illegal immigrants out there. let me remind you that most of the buildings, roads, and bridges in this great country are built by the hands of those illegals. I think it is about time we start recognizing their contributions to our society and not just focus on the ignorant, and dispicable criminals that just also happen to be in this country illegaly.


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Lawyers vs Real People Problem identified This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way. The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama is a lawyer. Michelle Obama is a lawyer. Hillary Clinton is a lawyer. Bill Clinton is a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate). Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Harry Reid is a lawyer. Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer. The Republican Party is different. President Bush was a businessman. Vice President Cheney was a businessman.. The leaders of the Republican Revolution: Newt Gingrich was a history professor. Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon. Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers. The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich. The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America. And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party, grow. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation (and creating jobs). This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side. Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become "adverse parties" of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers. Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big. When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing. We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.. Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse. The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the world's lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as "spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you" and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association goes to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!
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Rope, tree, politician. Some assembly required.
Simple solution, reached by Virginia in 1645. Law passed by the Virginia General Assembly (the oldest continuous English speaking legislature in the world, by the way). Law basically said Yes- you CAN be a lawyer. Yes, you CAN practice law. NO- you may NOT charge for legal services. Funny- when da money goes away, so do most of the lawyers.
What we have here is... failure- to communicate.
In life, strive to take the high road....It offers a better field of fire. "Robo is right" Fuzzball
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson
Great post, hard to change the laws when changing laws requires lawyers and changing laws would hurt lawyers....sorta like a dog chasing his tale....lol
Robo- THE 1645 law (since repealled) did not permit ANY lawyer to charge for legal work. Members of the General Assembly were, for the most part, businessmen, and/or farmers. And that was the YEAR 1645. We've been here since 1607 (I worked for a police dept that was founded in 1618)


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João Almino's The Book of Emotions is the prototypical Dalkey Archive book. Not that all of Dalkey's books are the same, but there is a certain set of criteria that a lot of their titles have—and which Almino's novel has in spades:
From Mulligan Stew to At Swim-Two-Birds to The Journalist, this is a set-up that runs through a lot of Dalkey's titles. In this case, Cadu, a former photographer is constructing a memoir about his life in Brasília out of some of his old photos. The text alternates from his personal "current moment" experiences (which mostly revolve around trying to set up his goddaughter while sexually crushing on the girl helping him organize his photo files) and the text of his book, entitled "The Book of Emotions."
If you've never read the "Letters to the Editor" from the back of the Review of Contemporary Fiction, you really should. A good number of them are quite hysterical, generally featuring a decrepit old man whose life has unraveled. In the case of The Book of Emotions, the aforementioned photographer is still pining away for Joana, the woman he loved who left him for a corrupt politician. Not that our protagonist doesn't have his share of women—it seems like he's slept with everyone—but that never seems to work out either: the boy he fathered doesn't know him and is in prison, the woman he marries dies tragically young, etc.
This is true of most every book in the world, but in keeping with the sad sack people who write into RCF with their problems, Cadu is blind and pretty much bed ridden. His best days are behind him, and he's trapped with just the memories of his life, loves, and pictures. Which brings up the fourth key aspect to a "typical" Dalkey book . . .
A perfect example of this is Iceland by Jim Krusoe. Or any of the Toussaint books that Dalkey has published. Actually, to be honest, you could throw a dart at a wall of Dalkey titles and whatever you hit will likely feature a quirky narrator whose prose illuminates all the bizarreness of his mind. And The Book of Emotions falls into that general grouping, with the one difference that, although the entire text consists of Cadu's thoughts and reactions to what goes on around him, the book doesn't quite come together with the panache and humor that is evident in the examples above. There is something intriguing about The Book of Emotions, but unfortunately, it's not the narrator's voice.
What I like about this book is its overall structure—the parallel times, the numbered sections each centered around a particular (unseen) photograph—and the fact that it's set in 2022 in Brasília and is part of Almino's "Brasília Quintet." (Five Seasons of Love, which is available from Host Publications features one of the characters from this novel, and the forthcoming Free City is part of this series as well.) There are some moving moments in this book, but on the whole it's a relatively sterile, exacting depiction of a man's life and missed opportunities.
Unfortunately, I feel like Almino's prose in Elizabeth Jackson's translation falls a bit flat. There's something too precise or rote . . . too straightforward in a way that is lacking and fails to really replicate the inner workings of the narrator's mind:
When Joana and I discovered that we couldn't have children, we didn't undergo the tests to determine whose problem it was. That impossibility was a blessing: we didn't want to have children. However, it was unlikely the infertility was mine because many years before in Brasília another woman had conceived my child.
That "another woman had conceived my child" is just so stiff . . . One other example of where I think the voice in this book falls short from one of the sex scenes:
We traded the most crude and vulgar exchanges, I used the foulest profanities I knew and yelled whatever else I could to shock her. Marcela wasn't to be outdone. She dominated that rich vocabulary better than I did and she wasn't intimidated, as if she'd had experience with phone sex.
This isn't to write off Almino—I think he's one of the most interesting Brazilian writers working today, and I'm looking forward to reading more of his titles. (Especially Where to Spent the End of the World.) I just went into this with high hopes—see list above and my belief that this would be a very Dalkeyish Dalkey book—and came to see the prose as something I had to trudge through, more out of a sense of duty and abstract interest in the plot than because I really enjoyed it.
The last five days of the eleventh-century Icelandic politician, writer of sagas, and famous murder victim Snorri Sturleleson (the Norwegian spelling, Snorre, is preserved in the book) make up Thorvald Steen's most recently translated historical fiction, The Little Horse. Murdered. . .
We all know Paris, or at least we think we know it. The Eiffel Tower. The Latin Quarter. The Champs-Élysées. The touristy stuff. In Dominique Fabre's novel, Guys Like Me, we're shown a different side of Paris: a gray, decaying. . .
One hundred pages into Birth of a Bridge, the prize-winning novel from French writer Maylis de Kerangal, the narrator describes how starting in November, birds come to nest in the wetlands of the fictional city of Coca, California, for three. . .
At 30, the Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli is already gathering her rosebuds. Faces in the Crowd, her poised debut novel, was published by Coffee House Press, along with her Brodsky-infused essay collection, Sidewalks. The essays stand as a theoretical map. . .
Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia (narrated by Julio Cortázar) is, not disappointingly, as wild a book as its title suggests. It is a half-novella half-graphic novel story about . . . what, exactly? A European tribunal, Latin. . .
Marie NDiaye has created a tiny, psychological masterpiece with her Self-Portrait in Green. In it she explores how our private fears and insecurities can distort what we believe to be real and can cause us to sabotage our intimate relationships.. . .
Reading a genre book—whether fantasy, science fiction, crime, thriller, etc.—which begins to seem excessively, stereotypically bad, I have to make sure to ask myself: is this parodying the flaws of the genre? Usually, this questioning takes its time coming. In. . .


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Samsung Galaxy S4 review
Summary: With the Galaxy S4, Samsung has squeezed a superb 5-inch screen and a host of high-end features into a slightly slimmer, thinner and lighter chassis than its S III predecessor. It's an excellent handset, but some will find the S4 overladen with unnecessary features and too expensive.
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- Fabulous 5-inch screen
- Packed with high-end features
- LTE and 802.11ac Wi-Fi support
- HDMI-out via Micro-USB with MHL support
- Surprisingly good battery life
- Expensive
- Many of the proximity- and gesture-based features feel gimmicky
- Limited internal storage (16GB) on review unit
The Samsung Galaxy S III was the hit phone of 2012, and it continues to be one of the most popular handsets of the first half of 2013. Samsung is riding this wave with the Galaxy S4. Physically similar to its predecessor, the S4 builds on the S III's gesture- and motion-based functionality and has an absolutely top-notch technical specification. But has Samsung added any useful extras, or are the new features simply expensive frivolities?
The Galaxy S4 may resemble the S III, but that's no bad thing as far as we're concerned. The thin frame, curved edges and characteristic physical home button are all present and correct, and to us they look as good as they did on the S III. The Galaxy S4's dimensions and weight are almost identical to its predecessor's: 69.8mm wide by 136.6mm deep by 7.9mm thick and 130g versus 70.6mm by 136.6mm by 8.6mm and 133g. The S4 shaves off a tiny amount of width, thickness and weight, yet manages to cram in a slightly larger screen — 5 inches across the diagonal compared to 4.8in. for the S III. It just goes to show what a year of development can do in terms of cramming components into a chassis.
Button design is very similar to that of the S III too. The power button is on the right side of the chassis (see above), the headset jack is on the top, the volume rocker is on the left and power connector is in the correct ergonomic location on the bottom. There are slight differences between the two handsets, with the S4 sporting a longer volume button, but unless you put the S4 and S III side by side, as we did, you'll be unlikely to spot them.
The Galaxy S4's 5in. screen is one of its standout features. The combination of a 1,920-by-1,080-pixel resolution (441ppi) and Super AMOLED technology makes it look absolutely stunning. It is bright, clear, sharp and superbly readable.
Other handsets with large, high-quality screens can be used comfortably even for text-heavy tasks like ebook reading, but the Galaxy S4 is peerless in this respect thanks to its overall size and clarity. It also goes without saying that the S4's screen is ideal for video watching.
Another of our favourite smartphones of 2013, the Sony Xperia Z , also sports a 5in. 1,920-by-1,080-pixel screen, while the Editors' Choice-winning 4.7in. HTC One squeezes this resolution into a 4.7in. display. Somehow the Galaxy S4 has the edge over them both.
Like the Galaxy S III, the S4 accepts a microSIM, which sits under the backplate along with the microSD storage expansion slot. The backplate is the part of the physical design that we find least acceptable: as on the Galaxy S III, it's flimsy (extremely flimsy in fact), and its large size left us in fear of actually snapping it in two. That said, the backplate is rigid enough when clipped into place.
Samsung doesn't hold with the rubberised backplates that some handset makers use, so there's a smooth, slippery finish to the back of the device. Given the Galaxy S4's size, people with smaller hands might have some concerns about gripping the device.
One potential disappointment with the Samsung Galaxy S4 is its processor. Not that there's anything wrong with the quad-core 1.9GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600, backed by 2GB of RAM, which is fast and power-efficient. The disappointment is that the UK did not get the eight-core 1.6Hz processor that was originally mooted.
Our review sample had a modest 16GB of internal storage, and not all of that was user accessible: out of the box just 8.5GB was accessible. Handset makers generally specify the total amount of storage rather the amount available, which has sparked something of a public backlash in this case. At least you can augment the S4's internal storage with a relatively inexpensive microSD card — a feature that's not universally available these days.
The Galaxy S4 runs the latest 4.2 version of Android, overlain with Samsung's TouchWiz user interface, which has become more refined with every iteration. The handset supports LTE, HSPA+ and quad-band GPRS/EDGE, along with 802.11a/b/g/n and — like the HTC One — the latest high-speed 802.11ac standard. You also get Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and HDMI output via the MHL-compliant Micro-USB port. Also like the HTC One, the S4 supports infrared, with a sensor above the screen that can be used for remote control of TVs and other consumer equipment via Samsung's WatchON app.
The main rear-facing camera has a 13-megapixel resolution, while the front-facing one is a 2-megapixel unit; both are capable of shooting 1080p HD video. There's a good range of shooting modes, and you can use both cameras at the same time in Samsung's Dual Shot mode, which puts the front camera's image in a small frame inside the main image. We've no idea why Samsung thinks this might be useful. Sound & Shot, which lets you record audio alongside your photos, has more potential.
In fact, you could be forgiven for thinking that Samsung's developers sat in a brainstorming meeting to come up with features they might put into the Galaxy S4 — and decided to throw in every single one. The range and number of features is huge, and for some people it may seem overwhelming. Others, of course, will delight in the variety on offer.
Futile gestures?
The S4 abounds with gesture controls and proximity features, some of which are of dubious utility. Take Smart Scroll, for example: in theory this uses the front camera to 'watch' your eyes and scroll through web pages or email depending on where you're looking. Not for us, it didn't — fingers are fine for scrolling.
There's also Smart Pause, which stops video playing when you turn your gaze away from the screen. This worked for us, and is a much more practical and useful idea. Meanwhile, Smart Rotation is back in the realms of the unnecessary: it uses the front camera to detect the orientation of your face and rotates the screen. We find auto screen rotation just fine, thanks.
We'll mention just one more of the many iterations of this class of feature: Air Gestures. You sweep your hand across the sensor above the screen to do things like scroll web pages, accept incoming calls or page through photos. Individual features can be turned on and off, so you can customise when it's active. This worked well for us, and although it's a bit of a gimmick, we rather liked using it.
There are plenty of preinstalled apps, and one we particularly like is S Translator. It does a nice job of translating the spoken or typed word between a wide range of languages. Foreign restaurant menus need never be a problem again.
Samsung is getting in on the health and fitness boom, and the Galaxy S4 has an app simply called S Health. This is a relatively basic fitness app that incorporates a pedometer, can track calorie intake if you input data manually, and can help you measure your exercise rate. It can link with external devices, and it will be interesting to see whether Samsung can carve itself out a niche in this competitive area. The Galaxy S4 has a built-in barometer, thermometer and humidity sensor, no doubt with an eye on future 'outdoors'-style development.
For all these fancy features, one relatively basic addition sticks out for us. Samsung has taken advantage of the large screen to place a row of number keys above the on-screen QWERTY keyboard. This is a great feature and shows that sometimes the simplest features enhance usability the most.
A common problem with new high-end smartphones is poor battery life. However, we're pleased to report that the Galaxy S4 does pretty well in this respect: we were able to get a day's use out of the 2,600mAh battery on a moderately heavy usage pattern that included plenty of mobile web usage. Having said that, as soon we made serious use of GPS, the battery needed a mid-afternoon power boost.
Some of the Galaxy S4's proximity-based features feel like pure fluff, and will no doubt be switched off by many users. With that in mind, it'll be interesting to see how Samsung's new flagship handset fares in the market. Will the S III continue to be hugely popular and outshine the more expensive S4? The latter undoubtedly has an specification, but also carries a host of features that many people simply won't use. Has Samsung done enough here to justify the S4's high price tag? We're not so sure.
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Packaged Quantity | 1 |
Resistance | Gorilla Glass 3 (scratch resistant glass) |
Integrated Components | 2nd camera, GLONASS receiver, GPS receiver, Wi-Fi hotspot, digital camera, digital player, voice recorder |
Width | 2.75 in |
Depth | 0.31 in |
Height | 5.38 in |
Weight | 4.6 oz |
Body Color | mist black |
SAR Value | 1.43 W/kg (body) / 0.75 W/kg (head) |
Cellular | |
Technology | CDMA2000 1X / GSM / WCDMA (UMTS) |
Mobile Broadband Generation | 4G |
Service Provider | Not specified, T-Mobile, T- Mobile, not specified |
Operating System | Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) |
Application Software | Google Places, Google Plus, S Health, S Planner, S Translator, S Travel, S Voice Drive, Samsung KNOX, Samsung Optical Reader, Samsung WatchON, Story Album |
Input Device(s) | Multi-touch |
Messaging & Internet | |
Cellular Messaging Services | MMS, SMS |
Instant Messaging Services | Google Talk |
Supported Social Networks and Blogs | |
Mobile Services | Gmail, Google Latitude, Google Play, Google Search, Google Search by Voice, Samsung ChatON, Samsung Hub, Video Call, YouTube |
Communications | |
Data Transmission | EDGE, EV-DO, GPRS, HSDPA, LTE |
LTE Band | LTE Band 13, LTE Band 4 |
Wireless Interface | Bluetooth 4.0, IEEE 802.11a/ac/b/g/n, NFC |
Communication Features | Internet browser, mobile Email client |
Phone Features | |
Phone Functions | call timer, conference call, flight mode, speakerphone, vibrating alert, voice control, voice dialing |
Sensors | accelerometer, ambient light sensor, barometer, gesture, gyro sensor, humidity, magnetometer, proximity sensor, thermometer |
Additional Features | Air View/Air Gesture, Dual Camera function, Group Play function, MHL 2.0 support, Samsung Adapt Display, Samsung Adapt Sound, Samsung Smart Pause/Smart Scroll, Text-to-Speech (text recognition), infrared remote control |
Organizer | |
Personal Information Management | alarm clock, calculator, calendar, reminder, synchronization with PC |
Media Player | |
Supported Digital Audio Standards | AAC, AAC +, AC-3, AMR, FLAC, MP3, OGG, WMA, apt-X |
Supported Digital Video Standards | DivX, H.263, H.264, HEVC, MPEG-4, VC-1, WMV |
Processor | |
Type | QUALCOMM Snapdragon 600 |
Clock Speed | 1.9 GHz |
Processor Core Qty | quad-core |
Graphics System | |
Graphics Accelerator | Qualcomm ADRENO 320 |
Memory | |
Bult-in Memory | 16 GB |
User Memory | 16 GB |
Supported Flash Memory Cards | microSDHC - up to 64 GB |
Digital Camera | |
Sensor Resolution | 13 pixels |
Focus Adjustment | automatic |
Special Effects | HDR |
Camera Light Source | flash |
Video Recorder Resolutions | 1920 x 1080 (1080p) |
Features | Beauty face, Best face function, Best photo function, Drama Shot, Geo-tagging, Multi-shots, Sound & Shot, Zero Shutter Lag, video recording |
Navigation System | |
Navigation | A-GPS/GLONASS receiver |
Navigation Software & Services | Google Maps, Google Maps Navigation |
Display | |
Technology | Full HD Super AMOLED |
Diagonal Size | 5 in |
Display Resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
Battery | |
Capacity | 2600 mAh |


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Targa Resources Partners LP And Targa Resources Corp. Report Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2012 Financial Results
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The increase in depreciation and amortization expenses is attributable to the impact of new assets placed in service as well as assets associated with business acquisitions.
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Other operating (income) expense reflects a $15.4 million loss due to a write-off of the Partnership's investment in the Yscloskey joint venture processing plant in Southeastern Louisiana. Following Hurricane Isaac, the joint venture owners elected not to restart the plant. Additionally, other operating (income) expense includes $3.6 million in costs associated with the clean-up and repairs necessitated by Hurricane Isaac at the Partnership's Coastal Straddle plants.
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17-year-old Mohammed Labeeb was killed when the car that he was driving his friends to Kuttikattoor from Kozhikode rammed a lorry parked by the roadside near Velliparamba.
Thirst for adventure drove seven schoolchildren into a nightmare that six of them will want to forget.
The seventh one, 17-year-old Mohammed Labeeb, was killed when the car that he was driving his friends to Kuttikattoor from Kozhikode rammed a lorry parked by the roadside near Velliparamba in the early hours of Thursday.
The boys had sneaked out of their homes after midnight without the knowledge of their parents. According to the police, the accident occurred around 3.45 a.m. when the speeding car lost control while crossing a hump and hit the lorry.
The injured student have been identified as Amal Vinod, 16, of Edakkad, Anakh Thejas, 17, of Malaparamba, Roopan Jackson, 17, of Civil Station, Vineeth Kiran, 17, of Paroppadi, P. Akshay, 16, of Govindapuram and K. Wasim, 14, of Civil Station.
"The deceased Mohammed Labeeb is the son of Mujeeb, from Cherapuram near Kakkattil in the district. Labeeb was a Plus One student of Chinmaya Vidyalaya at Pottammal and was behind the wheel when the accident occurred," the police said.
Two of the injured students have been admitted to the Kozhikode Government Medical College Hospital and the remaining are in private hospitals in the city. All of them have been injured on the head and are undergoing treatment in intensive care units.
Amal, Anakh, Roopan, and Vineeth are Plus One students of Chinmaya Vidyalaya while Akshay and Wasim are students of Ramakrishna Mission School, Kannanchery, and Presentation Higher Secondary School, Chevayur, respectively.
The traffic police have registered a case in connection with the incident.
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