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TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Former Tripoli MP Ahmad Hbous, who accidentally shot himself in the head last week while cleaning his gun, died Thursday.
Haykel Hospital pronounced Hbous, 73, dead at 11:30 a.m.
Hbous was taken to Haykel Hospital in the northern region of Koura on July 30 with a severe brain hemorrhage.
"While he was cleaning his handgun in his room, he shot himself accidentally," Hbous' daughter had told police. She said the bullet pierced his nose and went into his brain.
Hbous was first elected to Parliament in 1996, representing the Alawite seat in Tripoli. He had won 123,418 votes, which was the highest percentage in the history of parliamentary elections in the north. The former Tripoli MP was re-elected in 2000, serving in Parliament until 2004.
He was married to Souad Mrash and had four children, Mohammad, Salem and two daughters, Sherine and Gigi.
The former MP, a staunch supporter of Syrian President Bashar Assad, is one of the most prominent figures among the Alawite sect.
Hbous, who ran on former Interior Minister Sleiman Frangieh's electoral list in the 2000 elections, also supported some opposition demands: namely holding parliamentary elections on time and an international probe into former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination.
Hbous lobbied during the 1960s and 1970s for the Alawite sect's right to participate in politics before the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. The offshoot sect of Islam was integrated into Lebanese political life with the formulation of the Taif Accord - the peace deal that ended Lebanon's 15-year Civil War.
Taif stipulated that Alawites be granted two seats in Parliament (representing Akkar and Tripoli), two representatives to head governmental institutions and one diplomatic post.
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WHITEHAVEN will have to do it the hard way in the play-offs after Doncaster staged a dramatic late comeback at the Keepmoat Stadium.
David Seeds' side led 18-10 going into the final 10 minutes of a bruising and pulsating Championship One encounter.
But late scores from Craig Fawcett and Nev Morrison, whose winning try came just three minutes before the hooter, condemned Haven to a gut-wrenching reverse.
The defeat leaves Haven five points adrift of fourth-placed Doncaster with just two games remaining.
Seeds said: "Obviously we're absolutely devastated with the outcome but we put it on a plate for Doncaster.
"We played a lot better than we have done in recent games but mistakes cost us in the end.
"There were a couple of other positives – Paul King and Chris Gerrard came into the side and really looked the part.
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"We'll have to regroup this week and keep our chins up."
Doncaster, who are now now eyeing a top two finish, broke the deadlock on nine minutes.
Mike Coady beat Craig Calvert to Craig Fawcett's high kick to touch down in the corner and give the hosts a four-point advantage, but Scott Spaven dragged his difficult conversion attempt wide of the left hand post.
Haven were struggling to gain the upper hand against a determined Doncaster outfit but midway through the first half they were gifted the chance to cancel out Coady's try.
Lee Doran charged down Fawcett's grubber kick deep inside Haven territory and broke quickly to half way before Loz Hamzat ghosted through the Dons' defensive line.
Lewis Palfrey kicked Whitehaven into a 6-4 lead – and, slightly against the run of play, the visitors extended their lead to eight points just five minutes before the break.
A sweeping move from left to right allowed Hamzat to dive over in the corner for his second score of the game.
Palfrey followed it up with a superb conversion from out wide to give Haven a 12-4 half-time advantage.
But Whitehaven were caught cold after the restart.
Kyle Kesik was allowed to reach for the line and plant the ball down with the second period just two minutes old.
Spaven's simple conversion reduced the deficit to just two points – and only a last-ditch Craig Benson intervention prevented Kesik from latching onto a Spaven kick and scoring what would have been a simple try for the hosts.
Debutant prop Paul King, signed until the end of the season after leaving Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, was then held up by a resolute Doncaster defence at the base of the goalpost as Whitehaven looked to increase their slender lead.
Haven's third try did arrive on 63 minutes when Palfrey played in Luke Isakka and the prop powered over from five yards, with Palfrey again adding the extras.
Winger Hamzat then had to be helped from the field nursing a leg injury as the visitors looked to take the sting out of the Dons.
But Doncaster were not finished yet.
The impressive Fawcett showed good strength to power over the line from close range with nine minutes remaining on the clock and Spaven's kick set up a thrilling finale.
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There was a time when Patriots-Chargers had spice. When players danced on the Chargers logo and mimicked the ridiculous "Lights Out" dance and all of that. That led to a furious LaDainian Tomlinson (right) lashing out and saying "maybe it comes from the head coach."
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Civil, Nautical, & Astronomical - What are the Reasons?[edit]
What is the purpose for the three different "versions" to twilight? The article mentions that nautical twilight is used in military planning; but is that it's origin? If so, what about the other two? Any addition of this info would greatly help both me, and the article in general. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 126.96.36.199 (talk) 19:23, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
- Civil twilight is bright enough that normal daytime activities can be performed without additional lighting. For example, a car can be driven safely without using its headlights. Many jurisdictions have laws that compel drivers to turn their headlights on at civil dusk. Defining the time when this occurs is therefore necessary for the implementation of these laws.
- Nautical twilight is essentially bright enough to allow a ship to be navigated safely without relying on navigational aids such as lighthouses. In warfare, lighthouses cannot be relied on, so planners must ensure that activities will occur when nautical twilight is present.
- Viewing very faint astronomical objects such as distant galaxies can be done only if the sky is almost perfectly dark. Knowing the times of astronomical dusk and dawn allows astronomers to plan their activities appropriately.
- DOwenWilliams (talk) 20:00, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
- The reference given is a US one. Are these 3definitions US only, or are they recognised internationally? I'vebeen a seaman for 40 years and never heard of them. In the UK lighting-up time is legally defined in terms of minutes after sunset, not solar elevation. The two methods will diverge widely during the year, especially in Shetland -User:Brunnian — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 08:01, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
- Interesting question. As far as I can see from http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/nao/miscellanea/birs2.html, the British government uses the same definitions of the three kinds of twilight as we do here. There is also a period called "Hours of Darkness" which extends from 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise. Laws concerning use of car headlights, etc., are written in terms of hours of darkness. DOwenWilliams (talk) 21:53, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
- The reference given is a US one. Are these 3definitions US only, or are they recognised internationally? I'vebeen a seaman for 40 years and never heard of them. In the UK lighting-up time is legally defined in terms of minutes after sunset, not solar elevation. The two methods will diverge widely during the year, especially in Shetland -User:Brunnian — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 08:01, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Beginning and end of the various twilights[edit]
Quote: "Nautical twilight is defined to begin in the morning, and to end in the evening, when the center of the sun is geometrically 12 degrees below the horizon." It seems like it begins in "the morning", lasts the whole day, and ends in the evening at a specified sun angle. Same with astronomical twilight.
It is not explicitly stated in the main sections for nautical twilight and astronomical twilight when they end in the morning and when the begin in the evening. It is possible for a reader like me to wonder whether nautical twilight in the evening starts at sunset or at civil dusk, etc.
I suggest that these problems can be solved by writing out fully in the sections for nautical and astronomical twilights when they begin and when they end.
Gbwi (talk) 12:22, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
Possible photo[edit]
For possible inclusion in article.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 13:01, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
- Hello Tom. I also am a boomer (read your user page), and made a living as a photographer for the past 35 years. You have some nice photos on your user page, I enjoyed looking at them. In the case of this photo, in my opinion you have a "Dusk" photo. Hard to get because of the lighting. Also, the composition of the photo needs some editing. If you still have the original, balance the photo by coming lower, and showing the base of the garage. There will still be plenty of sky left to see. Also, spin the photo so the objexts sit at 90 degrees to better balance it, by simply making sure the base of the garage is perfectly horizontal. Then, put it in the Dusk discussion page, and we'll have another peek at it. Thanks-Pocketthis (talk) 17:53, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
- Hey thanks Pocketthis. I deleted the original (actually in my computer trash bin but it would take me an hour to search through). Or maybe I'll try to redo the shot when lighting is similar outside. Cool you're a photographer; I'm only an amateur photographer but I carry my camera wherever I go and sometimes get some good shots. Good idea about Dusk page; I'll post on its talk page.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 18:50, 22 December 2013 (UTC) Btw just saw your user page. WOW -- great photos. You're a pro!--Tomwsulcer (talk) 18:52, 22 December 2013 (UTC) Also I'd like to post one of your photos on my user page here that is assuming you have no objections.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 19:07, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
- Post away my friend, I'm flattered you'd like to display a photo of mine. You're not so bad yourself. My photos these days are far from technologically accurate. I sold all my pro equipment when I retired and just take 'point and shoots' with my digital Leica. I still strive for composition, which is just as important as the technical aspects of a photo. In fact, I think composition may be more important. Happy Holidays.-Pocketthis (talk) 23:54, 22 December 2013 (UTC)


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Here are some questions and then explanations why you can't
do anything meaningful with the answer anyway even if you
could get an answer in the first place.
This is an example of "Meaningless due to unavoidable race condition."
This is actually even worse because people who ask this question are
typically interested in secure keyboard access.
But if somebody has a keyboard hook installed,
that means that they have already injected code into your process
(namely, the hook itself).
At which point they could easily patch the imaginary
IsKeyboardHooked() function to always return
Now when your program asks if the keyboard is hooked,
the answer is a happy "no" and you proceed, blithely confident
that there are no hooks. Just because somebody said so.
The system may itself have already been compromised
and all your reasoning therefore can be virtualized away.
Besides, your program could be running inside a virtual PC
environment, in which case the absence of a keyboard hook inside
the virtual PC proves nothing. The keyboard logging could be
happening in the virtual PC host software.
From a UI standpoint, the desktop is the security boundary.
Once you let somebody run on your desktop, you implicitly
trust them. Because now they can send your program random
messages, inject hooks, hack at your window handles,
edit your menus, and generally party all over you.
That's why it is such a horrible mistake to let a service
interact with the desktop.
By joining the interactive desktop,
you have granted trust to a security context you should not be trusting.
Sure, it lets you manipulate objects on that desktop,
but it also lets the objects on that desktop manipulate you.
a Yakov Smirnoff joke
in there somewhere,
but instead I will quote Nietzsche:
Wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst,
blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.)
If you're a service, you don't want to start letting untrusted programs
manipulate you. That opens you up to a
Shatter attack.
Some people are confused by the seemingly random behavior
when you drag a file. Do you get a move or a copy?
And you're right to be confused because it's not obvious
until you learn the secret.
Mind you, this secret hasn't changed since 1989, but an old
secret is still a secret just the same.
(Worse: An old secret is a compatibility constraint.)
This is one of the few places where the fact that there are things
called "drives" makes itself known to the end user in a significant way.
Next time you find yourself debugging in assembly language
(which for some of us is the only way we debug),
here are some machine code tricks you may wish to try out:
It has been pointed out that this works only for functions
that take zero stack parameters; otherwise,
your stack gets corrupted.
More generally, you can use 83 C4 XX 90 90
(ADD ESP, XX; NOP; NOP) where XX is the number of bytes
you need to pop. Personally, I don't remember the machine
code for these instructions so I tend to rewrite the CALL
instruction so it calls the "RETD" at the end of the function.
I prefer these single-byte patches to wholesale erasure with 90
because they are easier to undo if you realize that you want to
restore the code to the way it was before you messed with it.
You may have noticed that if you take a USB device and plug it into your computer, Windows recognizes it and configures it. Then if you unplug it and replug it into a different USB port, Windows gets a bout of amnesia and thinks that it's a completely different device instead of using the settings that applied when you plugged it in last time. Why is that?
The USB device people explained that this happens when the device lacks a USB serial number.
Serial numbers are optional on USB devices. If the device has one, then Windows recognizes the device no matter which USB port you plug it into. But if it doesn't have a serial number, then Windows treats each appearance on a different USB port as if it were a new device.
(I remember that one major manufacturer of USB devices didn't quite understand how serial numbers worked. They gave all of their devices serial numbers, that's great, but they all got the same serial number. Exciting things happened if you plugged two of their devices into a computer at the same time.)
But why does Windows treat it as a different device if it lacks a serial number and shows up on a different port? Why can't it just say, "Oh, there you are, over there on another port."
Because that creates random behavior once you plug in two such devices. Depending on the order in which the devices get enumerated by Plug and Play, the two sets of settings would get assigned seemingly randomly at each boot. Today the settings match up one way, but tomorrow when the devices are enumerated in the other order, the settings are swapped. (You get similarly baffling behavior if you plug in the devices in different order.)
In other words: Things suck because (1) things were already in bad shape—this would not have been a problem if the device had a proper serial number—and (2) once you're in this bad state, the alternative sucks more. The USB stack is just trying to make the best of a bad situation without making it any worse.
On one of our internal discussion mailing lists, someone posted
the following question:
We have some code that was using DragQueryFile to extract file paths.
The prototype for DragQueryFile appears as follows:
UINT DragQueryFile(
HDROP hDrop,
UINT iFile,
LPTSTR lpszFile,
UINT cch
In the code we have, instead of passing an HDROP as the first parameter,
we were passing in a pointer to a DROPFILES structure. This code was
working fine for the last few months until some protocol changes
we made in packet layouts over the weekend.
I know that the bug is that we should be passing an HDROP handle
instead of a pointer, but I am just curious as to why this worked
so flawlessly until now. In other words, what determines the
validity of a handle and how come a pointer can sometimes
be used instead of a handle?
We have some code that was using DragQueryFile to extract file paths.
The prototype for DragQueryFile appears as follows:
UINT DragQueryFile(
HDROP hDrop,
UINT iFile,
LPTSTR lpszFile,
UINT cch
In the code we have, instead of passing an HDROP as the first parameter,
we were passing in a pointer to a DROPFILES structure. This code was
working fine for the last few months until some protocol changes
we made in packet layouts over the weekend.
I know that the bug is that we should be passing an HDROP handle
instead of a pointer, but I am just curious as to why this worked
so flawlessly until now. In other words, what determines the
validity of a handle and how come a pointer can sometimes
be used instead of a handle?
GlobalLock accepts HGLOBALs that refer to either GMEM_MOVEABLE or GMEM_FIXED
memory. The rule for Win32 is that for fixed memory,
the HGLOBAL is itself a pointer to the memory,
whereas for moveable memory, the HGLOBAL is a handle that
needs to be converted to a pointer.
GlobalAlloc works closely with GlobalLock so that GlobalLock can be fast.
If the memory happens to be aligned just right and pass some other
tests, GlobalLock says "Woo-hoo, this is a handle to a GMEM_FIXED
block of memory, so I should just return the pointer back."
The packet layout changes probably altered the alignment,
which in turn caused GlobalLock no longer to recognize (mistakenly) the
invalid parameter as a GMEM_FIXED handle. It then went down
other parts of the validation path and realized that the handle
wasn't valid at all.
This is not, of course, granting permission to pass
bogus pointers to GlobalLock; I'm just explaining why
the problem kicked up all of a sudden even though
it has always been there.
With that lead-in, what's the real story behind GMEM_MOVEABLE
in Win32?
GMEM_MOVEABLE memory allocates a "handle". This handle can be
converted to memory via GlobalLock. You can call GlobalReAlloc()
on an unlocked GMEM_MOVEABLE block (or a locked GMEM_MOVEABLE
block when you pass the GMEM_MOVEABLE flag to GlobalReAlloc
which means "move it even if it's locked") and the memory
will move,
but the handle will continue to refer to it. You
have to re-lock the handle to get the new address it got moved to.
GMEM_MOVEABLE is largely unnecessary; it provides additional
functionality that most people have no use for. Most people
don't mind when Realloc hands back a different value from the
original. GMEM_MOVEABLE is primarily for the case where you
hand out a memory handle, and then you decide to realloc it
behind the handle's back. If you use GMEM_MOVEABLE, the
handle remains valid even though the memory it refers to has moved.
This may sound like a neat feature, but in practice it's much
more trouble than it's worth. If you decide to use moveable memory,
you have to lock it before accessing it, then unlock it when done.
All this lock/unlock overhead becomes a real pain, since you can't
use pointers any more. You have to use handles and convert them
to pointers right before you use them.
(This also means no pointers into the middle of a moveable object.)
Consequently, moveable memory is useless in practice.
Note, however, that GMEM_MOVEABLE still lingers on in various
places for compatibility reasons. For example, clipboard data
must be allocated as moveable.
If you break this rule, some programs will crash
because they made undocumented assumptions about how the
heap manager internally manages handles to moveable memory blocks
instead of calling GlobalLock to convert the handle to a pointer.
A very common error is forgetting to lock global handles before
using them.
If you forget and instead just cast a moveable memory handle to
a pointer, you will get strange results (and will likely corrupt the heap).
Specifically, global handles passed via
the hGlobal member of
the STGMEDIUM structure,
returned via
the GetClipboardData function,
as well as lesser-known places like
the hDevMode and hDevNames members of
the PRINTDLG structure are all potentially moveable.
What's scary is that if you make this mistake, you might actually get away
with it for a long time (if the memory you're looking at happened to
be allocated as GMEM_FIXED), and then suddenly one day it crashes because
all of a sudden somebody gave you memory that was allocated as
Okay, that's enough about the legacy of the 16-bit memory manager for now.
My head is starting to hurt...
Now that you know how the 16-bit memory manager handled the
global heap, it's time to see how this got transitioned to the
new 32-bit world.
The GlobalAlloc function
continued to emulate all its previous moveability rules,
but the return value of GlobalAlloc was no longer a selector since
Win32 used the processor in "flat mode".
This means that the old trick of caching a selector and reallocating the
memory out from under it no longer worked.
Moveability semantics were preserved. Memory blocks still had a lock
count, even though it didn't really accomplish anything since Win32
never compacted memory. (Recall that the purpose of the lock count
was to prevent memory from moving during a compaction.)
Moveable memory and locking could have been eliminated completely,
if it weren't for
the GlobalFlags function. This function returns several
strange bits of information—now entirely
irrelevant—the most troubling of
which is the lock count. Consequently, the charade of locking must
be maintained just in case there's some application
that actually snoops at the lock count,
or a program that expected
the GlobalReAlloc function to fail on a locked block.
Aside from that, moveable memory gets you nothing aside from overhead.
The LocalAlloc function
also carries the moveability overhead, but since local memory was never
passed between DLLs in Win16,
the local heap functions don't carry as much 16-bit compatibility overhead
as the global heap functions.
LocalAlloc is preferred over GlobalAlloc in Win32
for that reason. (Of course, many functions require a specific type of
memory allocation, in which case you don't have any choice.
The clipboard, for example, requires moveable global handles,
and COM requires use of the task allocator.)
Next time, an insight into how locking is implemented
(even though it doesn't do anything).
I think it is a trait common to many people that they are fascinated by how their country is viewed by others. The leftist Die Tageszeitung from Germany reacted to the result of the most recent U.S. presidential election with their list of one hundred things that are still better in the United States.
Those who cannot read German can use a translation provided by a Metafilter reader (which is where I found this article, if you haven't figured it out). But of course it's better to read something in its original language if you can.
With the advent of the 80286, Windows could take advantage of
that processor's "protected mode".
processor. There was still no virtual memory, but you did have
memory protection. Global handles turned into "descriptors", more
commonly known as "selectors".
Architectural note:
The 80286 did have support for both a "local descriptor table" and a
"global descriptor table", thereby making it possible to
have each process run in something vaguely approximating
a separate address space, but doing so would have broken Windows 1.0
compatibility, where all memory was global.
Addresses on the 80286 in protected mode consisted of a selector and an
offset rather than a segment and an offset. This may seem like a trivial
change, but it actually is important because a selector acts like a
handle table in hardware.
When you created a selector, you specified a whole bunch of attributes,
such as whether it was a code selector or a data selector, whether it
was present or discarded, and where in memory it resided.
(Still no virtual memory, so all memory is physical.)
GlobalAlloc() now returned a selector. If you wanted to, you could just
use it directly as the selector part of an address. When you loaded
a selector, the CPU checked whether the selector was present, discarded,
or invalid.
Since memory accesses were now automatically routed through the descriptor
table by the hardware, it meant that memory could be moved around
with relative impunity. All existing pointers would remain valid
since the selector remains the same; all that changes is the internal
bookkeeping in the descriptor table that specified which section of memory
the descriptor referred to.
For compatibility with Windows 1.0, GlobalAlloc() continued to emulate
all the moveability rules as before. It's just that the numeric value
of the selector never really changed any more.
(And please let's just agree to disagree on whether
backwards compatibility is a good thing or not.)
Next time, transitioning to Win32.
Once upon a time, there was Windows 1.0. This was truly
The Before Time. 640K. Segments. Near and far pointers.
No virtual memory.
Co-operative multitasking.
Since there was no virtual memory, swapping had to be done
with the co-operation of the application. When there was an
attempt to allocate memory (either for code or data) and insufficient
contiguous memory was available, the memory manager had to perform
a process called "compaction" to make the desired amount of
contiguous memory available.
When you allocated memory via GlobalAlloc(), you first had to decide
whether you wanted "moveable" memory (memory which could be shuffled around
by the memory manager) or "fixed" memory (memory which was immune from
motion). Conceptually, a "fixed" memory block was like a moveable block
that was permanently locked.
Applications were strongly discouraged from allocating fixed
memory because it gummed up the memory manager. (Think of it as the
memory equivalent of an immovable disk block faced by a defragmenter.)
The return value of GlobalAlloc() was a
handle to a global memory block, or an HGLOBAL. This value was useless
by itself. You had to call GlobalLock() to convert this HGLOBAL into
a pointer that you could use.
GlobalLock() did a few things:
Applications were encouraged to keep global memory blocks
locked only as long as necessary in order to avoid fragmenting the heap.
Pointers to unlocked moveable memory were forbidden since even the
slightest breath -- like calling a function that happened to have been
discarded -- would cause a compaction and invalidate the pointer.
Okay, so how did this all interact with GlobalReAlloc()?
It depends on how the memory was allocated and what its lock state was.
If the memory was allocated as "moveable" and it wasn't locked,
then the memory manager was allowed to find a new home for the memory
elsewhere in the system and update its bookkeeping so the next time somebody
called GlobalLock(), they got a pointer to the new location.
If the memory was allocated as "moveable" but it was locked,
or if the memory was allocated as "fixed",
then the memory manager could only resize it in place.
It couldn't move the memory either because
(if moveable and locked) there were still outstanding pointers
to it, as evidenced by the nonzero lock count, or
(if fixed) fixed memory was allocated on the
assumption that it would never move.
If the memory was allocated as "moveable" and was locked,
or if it was allocated as "fixed", then you can pass the GMEM_MOVEABLE
flag to
override the "may only resize in place" behavior, in which case
the memory manager would attempt to move the memory if necessary.
Passing the GMEM_MOVEABLE flag meant, "No, really, I know that
according to the rules, you can't move the memory,
but I want you to move it anyway. I promise to take the
responsibility of updating all pointers to the old location to point to
the new location."
(Raymond actually remembers using Windows 1.0.
Fortunately, the therapy sessions have helped tremendously.)
Next time, the advent of selectors.
If you read through old code, you will often find casts
that seem redundant.
SendMessage(hwndListBox, LB_ADDSTRING, 0, (LPARAM)(LPSTR)"string");
Why was "string" cast to LPSTR?
It's already an LPSTR!
These are leftovers from 16-bit Windows.
Recall that in 16-bit Windows, pointers were near by default.
Consequently, "string" was a near pointer to a string.
If the code had been written as
SendMessage(hwndListBox, LB_ADDSTRING, 0, (LPARAM)"string");
then it would have taken the near pointer and cast it to a long.
Since a near pointer is a 16-bit value, the pointer would have been
zero-extended to the 32-bit size of a long.
However, all pointers in window messages must be far pointers
because the window procedure for the window might very well be implemented
in a different module from the sender.
Recall that near pointers are interpreted relative to the default
selector, and the default selector for each module is different.
Sending a near pointer to another module will result in the
pointer being interpreted relative to the recipient's
default selector, which is not the same as the sender's
default selector.
The intermediate cast to LPSTR converts the near
pointer to a far pointer, LP being the Hungarian
prefix for far pointers (also known as "long pointers").
Casting a near pointer to a far pointer inserts the previously-implied
default selector, so that the cast to LPARAM captures
the full 16:16 far pointer.
Aren't you glad you don't have to worry about this any more?


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I snipped some cuttings on some of my roses such as - Spice, Mrs. B. R. Cant and Mlle Franziska Krueger. I put the cuttings in water on my kitchen window sill - no direct sunshine but bright light.
In about 3 days the cuttings developed a blackened and hardened portion at the end(where i snipped them from the bush) and where the lowest leaf sets were. The top sets of leaves are green.
Is this a callous?
Now should I transfer the cuttings to potting medium ?
I find the best bet is to keep the cuttings in a bag until callous develops THEN stick them in the dirt (and cover with a jar.) Callous keeps the black rot (which is what I fear you have) from developing. I have had stuff root after rotting some, but it does NOT HELP I am sure.
I read somewhere that if you root rose cuttings at a very high temperature (+70-80 degrees) that they would have a tendency to develop a callus instead of rooting. Don't hold me to it, because I got this off the internet and don't know myself if it's true or not.


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I have the following class in my controller (codeigniter)
class Books extends CI_Controller {
function index($id = NULL){
I have this link in my view file
<a href="<? echo base_url();">/books/index/<? echo $id ;?> > Book1
when I click on the above link the URL in the address bar looks like >
But I am trying to make the URL look like-
So, after studying this tutorial, in my application/config/routes.php I used the following code.
$route['books/:num'] = "books/index";
And then I changed my link to following code, but when I click on it, the page says
404 Page not found
<a href="<? echo base_url();">/books/<? echo $id ;?> > Book1
Could you please tell how to achieve this?
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Did you forget that Japonica's offer to buy up a huge chunk of the Greek bond market still exists?
It might be easy to. They've just extended the deadline again by another month.
For holders tendering at a 15 percent to 20 percent large block illiquidity discount to observed bid-ask midpoint prices, the Acquirer reserved the right to reimburse up to 50 percent of the cost of independent fairness opinions. These fairness opinions specify the range of the double discount in the current market and are an industry best practice. The double discount includes the discounts for large blocks of fixed income securities and for highly illiquid fixed income securities.
FT Alphaville had expected to report the triumphant acquisition of almost 10 per cent of the Greek bond market by a single, little-known investor on Monday. As per the original July 1 deadline on Japonica Partners' unusual offer to bondholders.
A pleasure denied: Read more
So, a plurality of the Finnish public may just agree with FT Alphaville.
Click to enlarge. That's a Gallup poll by Helsingin Sanomat on the Finnish government's Greek 'collateral'. Read more
And so FT Alphaville comes across "TENDER OFFER MEMORANDUM — INVITATION FOR TENDER IN RESPECT OF BONDS OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC": the official launch of Japonica Partners' eye-catching attempt to buy up to 10 per cent of Greece's restructured bonds, in a kind of Dutch auction.
And there's one very important point here. Read more
The International Monetary Fund's "ex post evaluation" of its involvement in the Greek bailout continues to generate debate over the weaknesses revealed. Gabriel Sterne, a senior economist at Exotix with two decades of public sector experience including at the IMF, argues that the issues for the fund go much deeper.
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Click for the IMF's "ex post evaluation" of its role in the Greek bailout. Its mea culpa.
And if you thought we were being harsh here, parts of the real thing are excoriating.
This is even though the report decides Greece's exceptional access to IMF lending was justified (generally), and it still says much fiscal adjustment could not be avoided. Policies were "broadly correct". But it does strongly suggest that debt restructuring should have come sooner.
Excerpts follow…
So, the International Monetary Fund (effectively) wishes to apologise to all concerned for that little thing where it turned into Dominique Strauss-Kahn's presidential election campaign a few years back.
Sorry if a country got broken along the way: Read more
Just when we thought we'd dreamed Monday's news of this.
The mysterious folks at Japonica Partners have come out with their full "tender offer" to buy up almost 10 per cent (€2.9bn) of Greece's restructured bonds: Read more
Well, the apparent uselessness of Finland's Greek 'collateral' is all very embarrassing, and it's also terribly public by this point. But surely there can't be that much backlash over this rather arcane derivatives transaction.
Ah, hold on. Read more
We are not quite sure what is going on here.
Japonica Partners, a self-styled "entrepreneurial co-investment firm" based in Providence, Rhode Island, has launched a tender offer for almost 10 per cent of all Greek government bonds in circulation.
It's ready to buy paper worth €2.9bn at par, paying a minimum of 45 per cent of face value. Read more
Over 20 of them, actually.
Jan Hurri, a journalist for Taloussanomat, noticed that a number of documents were missing from the Finnish government's recent, court-ordered disclosure about the 'collateral' for its Greek bailout loans… Read more
An upgrade in this environment is apparently stupidly effective. Here's Greece's 10-year bond yield tumbling a full one per cent the day after Fitch upgraded it to to B- from CCC, and said the outlook was stable:
Abuse of official secrecy. It's been one of the more corrosive but — by definition — shadier aspects of the eurozone crisis.
It can take the form of a report on money-laundering in Cyprus. Or the opaque process by which Troika debt sustainability analyses are drawn up. Emergency liquidity assistance to banks, even. Read more
In continental Europe, we are witnessing the rather extreme outcome that results from having the provision of liquidity divorced from an ability to regulate banks…
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Dromeus Capital. The name might ring a bell. It's the fund which did its homework on underpriced Greek assets last year, making a killing.
Pretty striking, then, that they've now gone cautious on Greece. Read more
A couple of years back, when Carmen Reinhart and Belen Sbrancia updated the concept whereby governments might deal with a problematic mountain of debt by confiscating the savings of their subjects, the discussion was all about the subtle, sleight of hand solutions that might be employed.
Artificially cheap rates of interest might be forced on the embattled sovereign's debt, local banks might be obliged to buy mis-priced government paper, exchange controls may be erected, and so on. Ordinary people, it seemed, could be financially repressed without realising they were in fact the victims.
There was no discussion back then of outright expropriation or a "tax", as insured (and uninsured) depositors at Cypriot banks are now being forced to bear. Read more
A "one-off" often isn't. Calling something after "stability" isn't very stable. Saying that something is not a precedent usually makes it one.
Presenting the Cyprus bailout's "upfront one-off stability levy" for depositors in Cypriot banks: Read more
It's Andreas Georgiou, the head of Greece's independent statistics agency, Elstat.
We saw this coming from the IMF all the way back in March 2012 — when Greece's PSI was just over, and vague notions of OSI were already in the air. Read more
Greece may have an ongoing issue or two, but that didn't stop its government debt rallying 274 per cent in the second half of last year. Clearly, the driver was the reduced likelihood of it leaving/being kicked out of the eurozone, rather than the (dismal) economics.
Gabriel Sterne at Exotix says the run was one of the "most astounding sovereign bond rallies of all time", but that the bonds are now over-bought. The declining possibility of a Grexit, he says, is more than fully priced in (his emphasis): Read more
Greece has had a break from the headlines recently, but how long can it last? With a banking system that's soon going to need shoring up again, probably not long. Read more
Greece paid up to 40 cents in the euro for one of the bond in its buyback. Average price: 33.8 cents in the euro.
Or rather wants to pay. It has "advised… official creditors" that it wants another €1.29bn in EFSF notes to purchase all of the bonds tendered, up from the original €10bn.
The results, in table form via this release (click to enlarge): Read more
Yep, this is a Greece post in a series on Argentina and the pari passu saga.
We'll explain. Read more
Click for details. The Greek PSI bond buyback now closes at 12pm London time on December 11.
Now, is this supposed to be a veiled threat if investors choose not to tend their bonds? From the Greek debt office chief, Stelios Papadopoulos: Read more
You're just not cool these days if you aren't operating some sort of circular mechanism to reduce your debt levels in the eyes of the outside world. And it appears that Greece, sick of being bullied by the circular crew, is looking to get in on the act.
We're talking about the Greek debt buyback, which should be completed on Friday if deadline talk is to be believed. Read more
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Much has been made of the buyback announced as part of the latest Greek debt reduction deal. Mainly because more than half of total debt savings agreed are expected to come from the buyback, according to this leaked doc.
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Tuna Flakes/Bonito Flakes for cats
Have any of you bought the Tuna flakes aka Bonito for your cats? Last week I ordered some from Thepaws.com. My cat loved them. They even smelled good to me. I'm trying to find out if any of you purchased them at an Asian grocery store instead of the pet store. I would order more from The Paws since they were on sale but I was hoping to save on the shipping. We have a few Asian grocery stores in town including one that has everything from everywhere called Global Foods Market.
When buying anything which has a dramatically lower price you need to be sure it is not a knock off. Check the packaging carefully for printing errors. There is so much counterfiet stuff out there it is kind of scary. Buyer beware saving a couple of pennies may cost you more in the long run...good luck
Just last week I purchased a small can of sardines, I meant to get anchovies, just hadn't tasted them in a while. Anyway I really didn't like them but my cats got a treats from it for about a week. I kept can in fridge in a sealed container for about one week. Those flakes sound like a good idea. I would never think that they could be "fake" stuff. Thats scary.
The flakes are produced in Japan not China. The only thing that are in them is dried tuna. I'd like to find the ones that are dried mackerel. I'm careful what I feed my cats. I will not even feeding them any cat food that is beef flavored or tuna. If Congress would ever pass the law to prohibit beef by products in cat food, then I would buy them again. I wrote to Purina to beg them to stop put our cat at risk.
There are many great canned cat foods that have no by-products or anything from China. They do not come from Purina, however. Most of them need to be purchased at pet stores or natural food stores.
I am afraid Congress has bigger problems than cat food. And Purina doesn't care, despite their advertisements. It is up to pet parents to find the good foods.
I bought some of those better canned foods and I was told they were poop. My lonely guy smells it and then tried to cover it like it is poop. It goes in to the trash the next day. So back to Purina for canned food since the others are poop so says my guy. His favorite flavor of Wilderness is duck. Last month is was salmon. This the same cat when we had a boil water order I gave him bottled water. He refused to drink it.
@nhardy -- Cats try to cover their food instinctively - it has nothing to do with being "poop". Its a natural instinct cats have in the wild to save it for another day, or to cover the smell so as not to attract predators. Your cat probably just wasn't hungry.


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Your experiences with roses from Harkness
I am so far not impressed with these roses.
Tower Bridge is a puny grower so far. Jacqueline des Pres is a BS magnet, the only roses in my yard with more BS were two older Tantau yellows and Joseph's Coat.
I saw a Radox Bouquet in a zone 5b Ohio garden and a miserable specimin it was.
I am wondering if the Harkness ouevre is best planted in the warmer zones.
I have Harverag, aka 'Samaritan', marketed under many different names, and 'Easy Does It'. They are both rather dainty growers that bloom like mad--haven't been able to cut back EDI because there are still so many flowers. Big clusters of them all winter!
I can see the daintiness being a problem in a cold zone, but here where roses can get unmanageably large, it is a virtue.
There is a rose for every climate, but not every rose is for every climate...
I do know that, HoovB. I bought my two Harknesses from Heirloom and I believe the HR website indicated both could be grown in zone 5.
It is early years , so I am not giving up just yet. JdP did grow well, and the blooms are quite lovely, but oh my the BS. I intend to try serenade this year. If one is supposed to wait as much as a decade for hybrid rugosas and explorers to attain full glory, I can pamper English shrubs for 2-3 years at least.
I've had similar problems with them Nastarana. My Jac du Pre is getting pulled this year because of BS and lack of growth too. As a whole, I'm not overly impressed in our east coast environment either. It seems they do wonderful in other areas, just not here. Ones I'm giving some more time, but appear to also have BS: Irish Hope, Lady Jane Grey, and Ginger Syllabub.
My sister-in-law grows Livin Easy no-spray, and its beautiful, and my Easy Does It is a wonderful rose as well.
My Radox took a while to get settled. The first years he was a runt but then became a tall robust rose, outgrowing my Queen Elizabeth. I don't know if he would do that in a colder zone. Rebloom and scent have been very good.
Lady Jane Grey is my smallest Harkness rose and the color is very changeable. It's a yellowy apricot most of the year until cool temps arrive when it gets the pretty pink blends that you see on the Heirloom description page. When it's at its best its luminous.
I wouldn't hold out too much with the Serenade - it is specifically targeted at botrytis cinerea and has been fairly useless for blackspot.
Having said that, Harkness roses do get better year on year (my Cardinal Hume took 4 years to become a respectable rose) as they seem to possess a fair bit of adaptability but, they really don't do terribly well in areas of high heat and aridity, nor are they as hardy as may be claimed - I think Z5 is a tiny bit hopeful.
Moreover, the earlier Harkness oeuvre seems better than later varieties - anything from 60s - 80s and even then, BS is often an issue. But, by and large, although many of them defoliate completely, they do grow back very rapidly and overall, there seems no loss to the general health of the rose.
Harkness are based 15 miles down the road from me so I am a little biased since they are probably the only floribundas (and a couple of Legrice roses) I have.
I only have three Harkness roses and the results are mixed, though none of them were particularly vulnerable to blackspot. (I do spray a bit with organic sulpher or copper-based sprays, but some roses still languish with BS). Caroline Victoria was a disapointment--I purchased it mainly as it was a white rose with the highest fragrance rating from Rogue Valley, but the fragrance turned out to be not that strong and the rose was otherwise unremarkable. The miniature Letchworth Centenary was pretty good, a nice ornate blossom that was present most of the summer--I liked it enough it was one of only two roses to survive my purge of grafted roses. (I gave them away--too squeamish to actually kill a rose deliberately). Judy Garland, however, was wonderful. It bloomed almost continiously all thru the very hot summer, in full sun no less, and had no blackspot to speak of. I had it placed in a large pot near the main parking lot at my jobsite, and everyone there was amazed and commented on the profound color changes each blossom would go thru as it progressed. It starts a bright yellow and becomes a dark red, appearing bicolored thru much of the cycle.