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It was black this morning as I went out onto the silent pre-dawn streets and into me. For me, no spiritual, meditative, philosophical, or even cognitive exercise is as powerful as silence, as experiencing the "joy of stillness," as quiet exploration of your inner self, as just being a sacred, noble, unique "me." In that hour of silence I feel more grounded. No static. No noise. No distraction. No demands. Only presence. In that darkness emerges immeasurable light that carries me on my vision of dedicated service to each student.
As I returned from my two miles of mobile mediation, the dawn had broken. In the growing light, I walked through my flower garden filled with early blooms. That's what happens when there is no winter. I thought of how our fantastic ability to create pulls us out of the dark and into a world of vibrant color, and to imagine the future. Every gardener knows this, and of course you do not necessarily need beds, seeds, or bulbs to be a nurturing gardener. We can be gardeners on our campuses and in our classrooms.
Knowing that we each have that intriguing adventure within reach, I started thinking of an exchange I've been having with a self-denigrating student. I've been encouraging her to seek professional help in finding ways to stop listening to the voices of darkness that she's allowed to weigh her down and to replace them with believing voices of light that will uplift her. My thoughts turned to a poem I had written a long time ago in dedication to a dear, now departed, friend. I had titled it "You Tell Me; You Don't Say." Avoiding the resurgent and voracious mosquitoes that would surely carry me off if I sat by the Koi pond (another sign of our absent winter), I came into the house, got myself a cup of freshly brewed coffee, sat in front of the computer, pulled the poem up, read it several times, and sent it to her. It began and ended with:
You tell me what you know….
You don't say who you are
You tell me what you do….
You don't say who you are
You tell me what you have….
You don't say who you are
How often students define themselves and we define them by assignments, scores, grades, courses, GPAs, sports, sororities and fraternities, selected majors, honors, awards, and recognitions. How often do we define students and ourselves by religion, skin color, ethnic background, political persuasion, social status, nationality, gender, sexual preference, and even being southpaws? How often do we define ourselves by our titles, positions, degrees, grants, publications, and expertise? How often do we define ourselves by whether or not we are tenured? How often do we define ourselves by our award, honors, and recognitions? How often do we define ourselves by our roles as husband or wife, son or daughter, father or mother, boyfriend or girlfriend or just plain friend? How many times do we define ourselves by our cars, houses, clothing, jewelry, charitable acts, investments, income? How many times do we define ourselves by our vocations, advocations, hobbies, or anything we do? Why do we have to supply that information for people to know us? Why do we have to have that information to know ourselves? Maybe "judge" is a better word than "know."
What if we didn't have this information or these descriptions or these labels? Would we realize, then, that this information is often an opaque curtain between us and ourselves, not to mention between us and others, between actuality and appearance? Would we reflect more often on who we are when we're not in these roles, when we're without our resumes, when we're without our status, when we're without our relationships, when we are not doing these things, when the facades are taken down, when the curtain is parted, when the mask is off? Would we be more attentive to who we are when we shed these identities? That is the question the Bard asked when he had Polonius advise Laertes in one breath with the insightful warnings that "the apparel oft proclaims the man," and "to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." Why, then, can't we just be true to ourselves and just be a "me," a sacred, noble, unique human being?
For me, to be a "Louis," and that rhymes with "phooey," to be a "just me," is to have a radical trust in life. No strings attached. No bravado. No status. No conditions. No "what's in it for me." I've found that students will tend to trust me more if I trust myself because they will see me, warts and all, see my authenticity, and come to know me. And that's crucial for a viable classroom.
You know what a classroom is? It's not a history of this or biology of that. It's a bunch of people, human beings, bumping into other human beings, most of whom are awkward, off balance, inexperienced, and fearful. From reading journals, students would love to seen for who they each are. We can give them that. It's tough, but it's the best chance for me and each of them to connect and have a meaningful experience. We have to be gardeners, planting, cultivating, nurturing, growing into, and living three virtues: belief or faith, hope, and love. These virtues are too often hidden in plain view. We can see them if we make way for them through our own loving-kindness. These virtues give to everyone a meaning to be blessed and to bless. They, like gravity, hold you down while soaring to great heights. They're the most liberating teaching force in the classroom. They're forces of renewal and resilience. They place you not only at the head of the class,. but in the heart of the class. They let you revel in playfulness, meaningfulness, joyfulness, purposefulness, light-heartedness, fulfillment, achievement, and significance. They endow you with the power of a question mark: to search, to be aware, to be attentive, to see, to listen, to have an otherness. It is up to us to live them each hour in order to keep alive the vision for what lies behind these virtues. These three virtues are verbs; they are our greatest tools to help us fully live our hours. They always have the power to force us to remember and draw us back to what is true and beautiful at those times we forget and drift off.
You might ask, "Why me? Where were all the adults for these students to keep their innate wonder alive?" You might say, "It's not my job." I say, "No matter, for we are now here." We have to weary of our whining about this void. Instead, we have to step up to the proverbial plate and be that person who is there to help each student help her/himself strive to become the person she or he is capable of becoming, who will be in a student's company to help her or him rediscover the joy and mystery of both her/himself and the world around her or him. Do that and you will help generate miracles in life; do that and in the muddled mess of the classroom somehow and sometime you will spot a glory to celebrate.
I just told that student that there are plenty of obstacles that can stand in her way. She shouldn't be one of them. Her own thoughts, feelings, attitudes, assumptions and fears can hold her back just as surely as a solid prison wall. And yet, just as she created those self-imposed obstacles, she can bust through them. That is, she is her greatest problem, and she is her best solution. The same is true for us. Instead of fighting against ourselves with weapons of resignation, frustration, negativity, anger, disinterest, distraction, and even fear, we can marshall the amazing power of our thoughts and feeling to more fully enable ourselves. To paraphrase the Sufi, if you put the classroom between you and these three virtues, the classroom becomes an obstructive obstacle; if you use the classroom to live these virtues, the classroom becomes your friend, filled with potentials and possibilities, and you'll make joyful efforts. Do that, and exclamation marks will replace dour periods. And, then, what you do in the classroom will have a better chance of having more meaning than merely getting a grade on an exam, going far beyond the physical confines of the classroom, and lasting long after the term is over.
One final word, before you sweep this away with a contemptuous wave off, just know that this isn't just philosophical "clap trap," or New Age fuzziness, or Zen "touchy-feely." This is also the hard, neuro-science and cognitive psychology of giving a care.


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Fisher and Plosser are considered inflation "hawks" - more concerned about the threat of high inflation than about the need to stimulate the economy. They're less inclined to back low interest rates and other steps that might ease high unemployment if the risk of fanning inflation seems too high.
Bernanke pushed for the bond-buying program, announced Nov. 3, because the economy had been growing too slowly to reduce unemployment. He said he also worried that the sluggish economy could lead to deflation - a dangerous drop in prices, wages and values of homes and stocks.
The question is what happens to the Fed's bond-buying program as spring approaches.
"I think by the March or April meeting the Fed will want to give a hint about what to do with the program," said Randy Kroszner, a former Fed governor who served with Bernanke.
Even with the addition of Plosser and Fisher, Bernanke commands enough support on the 11-member Federal Open Market Committee to advance his economic policies. (The two other new voting members this year - Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - have backed the bond-buying plan.)
But Plosser and Fisher could complicate the message Bernanke's Fed sends to the public and Wall Street investors. That's because even if Bernanke has enough votes to endorse his approach, he would want to avoid the appearance of too much dissension within the Fed.
As a result, the chairman might have to compromise on the wording of the statements the Fed issues after its meetings to bring Fisher and Plosser on board, said Vincent Reinhart, who formerly served as an economist for the Fed committee.
Having Fed too many officials speak out publicly against Fed policies, as Fisher, Plosser and others have done, could hurt Bernanke's ability to convey a clear and unified policy stance.
"What's really affected here is the Fed's communications," Reinhart said. "It will complicate Bernanke's job of getting his message out clearly."
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Bobby Womack told the Sun, "The doctor says there are signs of Alzheimer's. It's not bad yet but will get worse. How can I not remember songs I wrote? It's frustrating. I don't feel together yet. Negative things come in my mind and it's hard for me to remember sometimes."
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So you think that we care more about violence than we used to?
Yes. Forms of violence that would once have been off people's radar are now characterised as violence. Capital punishment was just a part of life. Pickpockets would be hanged. Now the most vicious serial murderer is executed painlessly after an appeal process that lasts decades and you've got nuns holding candles.
Also the human mind loves to learn about violence. Blood sells. The media don't report that yesterday in Buenos Aires several hundred people died peacefully in their sleep, but if five of them were blown up, that would be news. More generally, when conflicts peter out it never makes the headlines. Unless you systematically tabulate violent deaths as a proportion of all deaths or as a proportion of population size, you will be misled.
What would you say to someone who doesn't understand how a society capable of fighting the second world war could be less violent than ancient societies?
I would say look at the numbers. In the book I present a table where the second world war only comes in ninth place in the world's atrocities. And one point is not a trend - the second world war, in terms of history, was very much an outlier.
Isn't it simplistic to just compare the numbers of deaths in ancient wars and modern wars? How do you account for the difference in the nature of warfare and the technologies used?
That is part and parcel of the question that I am asking: namely, assuming that being killed is equally bad in all societies and at all times, was the tribal way of warfare more quantitatively destructive of human life than modern forms of warfare? They are qualitatively different, but in a way that is my point: knowing these differences, which was a worse time to be a human being?
What do you want readers to take away from your new book?
To be grateful for some of the institutions we take for granted, such as government and the court system. That, as much as we are irritated by lawyers, cops and government, the alternative is worse. The forces of reason, enlightenment, cosmopolitanism, women's empowerment - we should be grateful for all this and not nostalgic for a time in which everyone's world was far more constricted.
This goes for trade and commerce too. Capitalism is a dirty word for many intellectuals but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war. I would lump all of these things together under "modernity".
So modernity tends to result in less violence?
Yes. There is an enormous current of romantic nostalgia among many sectors of intellectual life - the religious right, the green left. What I hope to remind people is that modernity, for all its problems, has brought us many gifts. Foremost is one that few people appreciate, namely a reduction in overall violence.
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Metro is simulating service on its new Silver Line, with just five days left before it opens to rail commuters.
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With Metro set to open the new Silver Line on July 26, the long awaited trains should improve public transit in Western Fairfax County. But, there's concern it could bring increased crime with it.
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The general manager of Washington's Metrorail subway system says he hopes to announce next week the long-awaited start date for Silver Line service in northern Virginia.
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Metro officials say contractors building the new silver line are behind on some key items, which could lead to further delays for the project.
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And it couldn't go to a better person! ++++ Adrian Peterson called it a blessing in disguise. Strange way to describe a career-threatening major knee surgery. The Minnesota Vikings' star came back better than ever, just missing Eric Dickerson's longstanding rushing record and closing out the season with two of the top NFL awards from The Associated Press: Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year. As sort of an added bonus, he beat Peyton Manning for both of them Saturday night. "My career could have easily been over, just like that," the sensational running back said. "Oh man. The things I've been through throughout my lifetime has made me mentally tough. "I'm kind of speechless. This is amazing," he said in accepting his awards, along with five others at the "2nd Annual NFL Honors" show on CBS saluting the NFL's best players, performances and plays from the 2012 season. The awards are based on balloting from a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the
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Holy cow, I wrote a book!
One of the things that fascinates me is how each country's view
of history is clouded by its own chauvinism.
I was reminded of this when researchers were
able to reconstruct the original recording from a phonautograph
which predated Edison's phonograph,
thereby adding another claim to the mix of who invented
sound recording.
I think the most contentious invention belongs to human flight.
It seems that every country on the planet
has a claim to
being the pioneer in this field.
I'm particularly amused that both France and Brazil claim
Alberto Santos-Dumont as their own.
Failure is an orphan.
When I visited Portugal, I asked one of the professors,
"What is it that students in Portugal are taught is
Portugal's greatest contribution to humanity?"
The professor had to stop and think for a while before
formulating an answer.
"Portugal has not fared very well of late economically.
Our best years were long ago.
I would say that our greatest contribution was our
accomplishments during
the Age of Discoveries."
My question to you, dear reader, is to tell us what students
in your country are taught are your country's greatest achievements,
or alternatively, what students believe them to be.
These beliefs need not be based in fact.
I'm more interested in what it is that people want you to believe
whether or not it's actually true.
For starters, here's my list of what students
are taught (or end up believing)
are the great accomplishments of the United States:
Many of these are contested, and two of them are flat-out wrong:
Elisha Otis did not invent the elevator, but he made them popular
in the United States thanks to safety improvements.
Similarly, Henry Ford did not invent the automobile but he made them
popular and affordable in the United States by using an assembly line.
I developed this
modest proposal
many years ago,
but it looks like
rising gasoline prices have done the job.
But in case they don't, here's my plan.
SUVs are classified as "trucks"
for the purpose of
C.A.F.E. regulations,
and those regulations are more lenient on gasoline efficiency for
As a result,
the auto industry happily built SUVs safe in the knowledge that
high SUV sales wouldn't lower their overall fleet mileage and therefore
not risk violating the CAFE regulations.
On the other hand, most other highway regulations do not consider
SUVs to be trucks.
As a result, SUVs sit in this sweet spot where they
get to pretend they're a truck when it's advantageous to be a truck
(avoiding CAFE regulations)
and pretend that they're a car when it's advantageous to be a car
(highway regulations).
My modest proposal was to get rid of this loophole.
If you're going to let SUVs be classified as trucks for the purpose
of determining whether they are subject to CAFE regulations,
then classify them as trucks for the purpose of highway regulations.
If you're driving an SUV on a highway that has
different speed limits for cars as opposed to trucks,
then you have to adhere to the truck speed limit.
Because you're a truck.
If you're driving an SUV on a highway which bans trucks
from the leftmost lane,
then you are banned from the leftmost lane.
Because you're a truck.
People who are driving a truck because they actually need it
for truck-like activities
(hauling lumber, pulling a boat,
delivering baked goods, whatever)
won't be seriously inconvenienced,
since they're not going to be doing any of those car-like things anyway.
If you really want to take this principle to its conclusion,
you would even have to stop at the weigh stations
to ensure that you're not over weight,
and to check your log book (you keep a log book, right?)
to ensure that you're not violating the
laws regarding the
maximum permitted number of hours behind the wheel of a truck.
Because you're a truck.
Of course, the loophole could be closed the other way, too:
Alter CAFE to classify SUVs as cars.
Either way works for me. Just make the CAFE regulations and highway
regulations agree on who is a car and who is a truck.
As I noted, it looks like
economic forces have solved the problem on their own,
but in case SUVs suffer a new surge in popularity,
you've got my proposal in your back pocket,
ready to spring into action.
Yes, this modest proposal is out of order,
but it seemed more timely than the planned topic
(solving the problem of identity theft),
which I will still get to next time,
if there is a next time.
wonders why the "Install Font" dialog looks so old-school.
Kevin Provance
demonstrates poor reading skills
by not only ignoring the paragraph that explains why the suggestion box
is closed, but also asking a question that's a dup of one already
in the suggestion box!)
Because it's a really old dialog.
That dialog has been around for probably two decades now.
It works just fine,
and since it's not really a high-traffic dialog,
updating it takes lower priority than things that get used more often.
Development and testing resources aren't infinite, after all.
I'm sure that if you look harder, you can find other old dialog boxes.
(My pet ugly old dialog is the Character Map program.
It's hideous.
and I say that even though my boss's boss wrote it.)
Besides, people don't really add fonts that way much any more.
When you install font packs,
such as the Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005,
they just install the fonts as part of their setup process.
It's all taken care of for you.
A colleague of mine related to me this story about uninitialized
floating point variables.
He had a function that went something like this,
simplified for expository purposes.
The infoType parameter specified which piece of
information you're requesting,
and depending on what you're asking for,
one or the other of the output parameters may not contain a
meaningful result.
BOOL GetInfo(int infoType, int *intResult, double *dblResult)
int intValue;
double dblValue;
switch (infoType) {
case NUMBER_OF_GLOBS:
intValue = ...;
case AVERAGE_GLOB_SIZE:
dblValue = ...;
*intResult = intValue;
*dblResult = dblValue;
After the product shipped, they started geting crash reports.
This was in the days before Windows Error Reporting,
so all they had to work from was the faulting address,
which implicated the line
*dblResult = dblValue.
*dblResult = dblValue
My colleague initially suspected that dblResult
was an invalid pointer, but a search of the entire code base
ruled out that possibility.
The problem was the use of an uninitialized floating point
Unlike integers, not all bit patterns are valid for use as
floating point values.
There is a category of values
known as signaling NaNs,
SNaN for short,
which are special "not a number" values.
If you ask the processor to,
it will keep an eye out for these signaling NaNs
and raise an "invalid operand" exception when one
is encountered.
(This, after all, is the whole reason why it's called a signaling
The problem was that, if you are sufficiently unlucky,
the leftover values in the memory assigned to the
dblValue will happen to
have a bit pattern corresponding to a SNaN.
And then when the processor tries to copy it to
dblResult, then exception is raised.
There's another puzzle lurking behind this one:
Why wasn't this problem caught in internal testing?
We'll learn about that next time.
Sometime last year, we got a report from a customer that
whenever he double-clicks an Excel spreadsheet,
Excel starts up, but the document isn't loaded.
Instead, he gets an error message saying that document could not be found.
He has to go to the Open dialog and open the spreadsheet manually.
This report was routed to the shell team, since it
appeared to be an Explorer problem.
We studied the file type registration for Excel documents;
those were fine.
We suggested some breakpoints, but everything looked good there, too.
Even ddespy reported that the "Open" command was being
sent to Excel correctly.
So far as the shell was concerned, it was sending the command that
Excel registered as the "Please send me this command when you want
to open a document," and yet when Explorer sent that very command,
Excel responded with "Huh? What are you talking about?"
This indicated that an investigation of Excel itself was in order,
and an hour later, the problem was identified.
Under Excel Options, Advanced, General, there is an option
called "Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange",
and the customer had enabled this option.
The consequences of enabling this option are described in
Knowledge Base article Q211494:
Since Excel was configured to ignore DDE requests,
it ignored the DDE request that came from Explorer.
A misconfigured copy of Excel resulted in an error message that
by all indications looked like an Explorer bug.
That's pretty much
par for the course in Explorer-ville.
For decades,
the Alt+Tab order was the same as the Z-order,
but that changes in Windows Vista if you use the enhanced
Alt+Tab feature known as Flip, which is on by default on most systems.
There are three types of interactive task switching in Windows Vista:
Classic Alt+Tab continues to show the icons in Z-order order,
but the developer who wrote Flip told me that
Flip changed it up a bit based on feedback from
the design team.
The first several icons are still shown in Z-order order,
but if you have a lot of windows open, the rest of them are
shown in alphabetical order to make it easier to pick
the one you want from the list.
I think it's a good sign that nobody seems to have noticed.
A lot of user interface work tries to be invisible.
I hate management-speak.
Here's an example from an internal Web site.
The purpose of this Web site is two-fold.
Create a reference source (best practices) where individuals
can learn how to plan/facilitate and leverage their X activities
most effectively.
Establish a library of X material teams can utilize.
The purpose of this Web site is two-fold.
Wow, let's look at the first stated purpose.
It goes on for so long and uses blatant management-speak
such as "facilitate" and "leverage" that
by the time it's over, I forget how the sentence started.
Going back and reading it again, it appears that the first
item is identical to the second!
It's just that the first item says it in a more confusing way.
The second item shows evidence of management wordsmithing as well.
"Utilize" instead of "use".
An action verb like "establish" rather than a state verb like "to be".
And those changes actually render the sentence incorrect.
The purpose of the site isn't to "establish" a library;
the purpose of the site is to be that library.
Establishing the library is what you did when you created
the site in the first place!
That purpose has already been completed.
I think the people who built this Web site just copied their
annual review goals into the Web site text,
forgetting that the review goal describes what you
are supposed to do,
not what the thing you created is supposed to do.
Here's how I would have written it:
This Web site is a library of X materials.
On an internal discussion list, somebody asked a question
similar to this:
My program launches a helper program.
This helper program does different things based on the command line
but the way I'm using it,
it just prints its results to the console and exits.
When I launch this program and wait for it to exit,
my wait never completes.
Why isn't the helper program exiting?
Here's the code that I'm using to launch the helper process...
It wasn't long before people chimed in with their suggestions.
Have your main program call exit() at the end.
If you're redirecting stdout, you may be forgetting to drain the pipe.
Otherwise, if the program generates too much output, the pipe fills
and the helper program blocks writing to it.
Alas, that didn't help.
Whether I redirect the output or not, the helper process still hangs.
Eventually I had to step in.
I can't believe I'm reading this discussion.
It's like watching a room full of child psychologists
arguing over why Billy is crying.
They're all expounding on their pet theories,
and none of them bothers to ask Billy, "Why are you crying?"
Connect a debugger to the helper process. See why it's crying.
I can't believe I'm reading this discussion.
It's like watching a room full of child psychologists
arguing over why Billy is crying.
They're all expounding on their pet theories,
and none of them bothers to ask Billy, "Why are you crying?"
Connect a debugger to the helper process. See why it's crying.
You can sit around developing theories all you want,
but since the problem is right there in front of you,
the quickest way to figure out why the helper process isn't
exiting is to connect a debugger and look at it to see why
it's not exiting.
This is like the software version of the
black crayons story.
Humans are distinguished among all animal species by their advanced
development of and heavy reliance on tools.
Don't betray your ancestors.
Use those tools you have.
For example, during the debugging of a thread pool problem,
it looked like somebody did a PostThreadMessage
to a thread pool thread and left the message unprocessed after
the thread pool function returned.
Who could it have been?
Well, one idea was to see if there were any DLLs in the system
which called both QueueUserWorkItem and
I did a little legwork and contributed the following analysis
to the mail thread:
Of all the DLLs loaded into the process,
the following call PostThreadMessage:
SHLWAPI.dll 77D72436 221 PostThreadMessageA
SHELL32.dll 77D78596 222 PostThreadMessageW
ole32.dll 77D78596 222 PostThreadMessageW
... (list trimmed; you get the idea) ...
Of those DLLs, these also call QueueUserWorkItem:
... (list trimmed; you get the idea) ...
Of all the DLLs loaded into the process,
the following call PostThreadMessage:
SHLWAPI.dll 77D72436 221 PostThreadMessageA
SHELL32.dll 77D78596 222 PostThreadMessageW
ole32.dll 77D78596 222 PostThreadMessageW
... (list trimmed; you get the idea) ...
Of those DLLs, these also call QueueUserWorkItem:
... (list trimmed; you get the idea) ...
Astounded, somebody wanted to know how I came up with that list.
Nothing magic.
You have the tools,
you have a brain,
so connect the dots.
The lm debugger command lists all the DLLs loaded into
the process.
Copy the output from the debugger window and paste it into a text
Now write a little script that takes each line of the text file
and does a link /dump /imports on the corresponding DLL.
I happen to prefer perl for this sort of thing, but you can use
a boring batch file if you like.
link /dump /imports
for /f %i in (dlls.txt) do ^
@echo %i & link /dump /imports %i | findstr PostThreadMessage
Scrape the results off the screen, prune out the misses,
and there you have it.
"I tried that, but the result wasn't in the same format as what you posted."
Well, yeah.
There's no law that says that I can't manually reformat the data
before presenting it in an email message.
Since there were only a dozen hits,
it's not worth writing a script
to do that type of data munging.
Typing "backspace, home, up-arrow" twelve times
is a lot faster than writing a script to take the output of
the above batch file and turn it into the output I used in the
email message.
Another boring batch file filters the list to those DLLs that
also call QueueUserWorkItem.
Writing it (or a script in your favorite language) is left
as an exercise.
No rocket science here.
Just taking a bunch of tools and putting them together to solve
a problem.
That's what your brain is for, after all.
If you look at the LOADPARMS32 structure,
you'll find a horrific mishmash.
Double-null-terminated strings,
a null-terminated string,
some WORDs, and
even a Pascal-style string.
What's going on here?
Each of those members comes from a different era in time.
The oldest member is the Pascal-style command line,
which dates back to CP/M.
On CP/M, command lines were stored at a fixed location,
namely 0080h through 00FFh,
in the form of a Pascal string.
The byte at 0080h specified the length of the command line,
and the bytes at 0081h through 00FFh contained the command line itself.
MS-DOS based much of its initial interface on CP/M in order to
make porting to the new operating system easier,
and part of what got carried over was the way command lines were
passed from one program to another.
The MS-DOS function to load a program took two parameters,
a pointer to a null-terminated string (specifying the module to load)
and a pointer to a parameter block which took the following form:
LOADPARMS struc
loadp_environ dw ? ; environment of new process
loadp_cmdline dd ? ; command line of new process
loadp_fcb1 dd ? ; first FCB
loadp_fcb2 dd ? ; second FCB
LOADPARMS ends
To ease the transition,
Windows 1.0 used the same MS-DOS interface for launching
You loaded up the registers and issued an
int 21h instruction.
All the parameters had the same meaning.
Generally speaking, 16-bit Windows used the old MS-DOS interface
for a lot of functionality, especially disk access.
Want to write to a file?
Put the file handle in the BX register,
the number of bytes in the CX register,
a pointer to the buffer in the DS:DX registers,
function code 40h in the AH register,
and issue an
int 21h,
just like in MS-DOS.
int 21h
Why do this?
Well, it saved the Windows team from having to invent a whole
boatload of functions that duplicated what MS-DOS already did,
and it meant that existing MS-DOS programs
didn't need to change a thing in their file I/O code.
If they used a runtime library designed for MS-DOS (C or otherwise),
that library would still write to files by setting registers
and issuing an int 21h.
If you want people to switch to your new platform, you need to make it easy,
and "you don't have to change anything; it all just works" is pretty easy.
(One minor change was that the first FCB was repurposed to contain
the nCmdShow; the magic value of "2" in the first word of
the FCB signals that it's not really an FCB.)
As a minor convenience, the
LoadModule function provided a C-callable version of
the low-level int 21h, but you still had to provide
the parameters in the form of the MS-DOS exec structure.
It wasn't until later versions of Windows that the
WinExec function was added,
thereby providing a much more convenient interface to starting a new
No longer did you have to mess with the crazy MS-DOS exec structure
and its strange way of passing the command line and nCmdShow.
The people who were designing Win32 created their own function
CreateProcess to launch a new process,
but for backward compatiblity, they retained the
old WinExec
and even older LoadModule mechanisms.
The pointers in the crazy 16-bit exec block got converted to 32-bit,
but the craziness of what they pointed to was retained to make
porting old code easier.
The int 21h interface no longer exists, of course.
The craziness is just a leftover from the old MS-DOS days.
The WinExec and LoadModule functions
are now just stub functions that convert their parameters and
call the CreateProcess function to do the real work.


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For those of us who have stepped onto a school campus or into a school cafeteria in the United States, it is hard not to notice the abundance of bad food choices. Greasy pizza, fried snacks
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One of the combative efforts has been the Child Nutrition Act. For some time, first Lady Michelle Obama has championed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. Although this program has been met with opposition President Obama Monday signed the bill that turned the child nutrition bill into law.
The bill will cost $4.5 billion dollars.
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Restaurant chains chomp at the social media spaceFebruary 28, 2011
by Jessica Jimenez
For many, social media is an inescapable facet of personal and professional life. This relatively new medium allows businesses to reach customers instantly and conveniently, while at the same time creating an avenue for immediate feedback. The restaurant industry has been experimenting more with social media and working on establishing a connection with a chain's "fan base" on Facebook.
In the midst of the Taco Bell beef fiasco, the company took to its Facebook page to thank customers for their support and offer "fans" a coupon for a free Crunchy Seasoned Beef Taco. While utilizing social media to quickly "set the record straight," Taco Bell was also able to express its appreciation for consumer loyalty to the group.
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(Lakewood, Colo. – April 6, 2015) Jefferson County Library Foundation (JCLF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Jo Schantz, MNM, CFRE, of Golden, Colo., to the position of executive director, effective April 6, 2015.
Schantz brings more than 20 years of senior-level experience in management, fundraising and communication to the position. Most recently, she was the development manager for Community Educational Outreach, a Jefferson-County-based nonprofit that assists low-income adults and others in gaining access to education, career and life-training skills. Prior to that, she held leadership positions in a number of nonprofit and other organizations, including the following: executive director, Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance; chief development officer, Veterans Green Jobs; special projects manager, Colorado State University Extension; senior development officer, Griffith Centers for Children, Inc.; vice president of events and educational services, Apartment Association of Metro Denver; director of development, Colorado Humanities; vice president of development, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado, Inc.; and fund development director, Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver.
"This is a dream come true for me," said Schantz. "Throughout my professional career, I have been passionate about nonprofits that are focused on literacy, education and life-long learning. This is an exciting opportunity for me to make a difference in the lives of Jefferson County residents by increasing community support for library services."
"We are thrilled to welcome Jo to the Library Foundation," said Tami Bandimere Shrader, president, JCLF. "She brings a wealth of expertise and experience in fund raising, volunteer management, community outreach and nonprofit leadership – all of which will help us to grow and prosper.
"We have ambitious goals to increase corporate and foundation support of library programs, and to build an endowment to ensure our long-term sustainability and success," Shrader continued. "We look forward to working with Schantz to achieve these goals."
A magna cum laude graduate of Metro State University of Denver with a bachelor's degree in English/journalism, Schantz also earned a master's degree in nonprofit management at Regis University. In addition, she has completed certification programs in marketing and public relations from the University of Colorado at Denver and Red Rocks Community College, respectively. She serves on the Jefferson County Community Services Advisory Board, and is a member of the West Chamber serving Jefferson County, the Leadership Jeffco Alumni Association, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Schantz succeeds Natalie Martinez, who resigned from the foundation in December 2014.
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Face-recognition systems are now pretty good at matching a person to a stored image, but only when the database is relatively small, says Yaser Yacoob, who researches computer vision at the University of Maryland. "As you start having thousands and even millions of faces in a database, they are going to look more and more alike," he says. So systems that compare large databases of faces with even larger numbers of faces in a crowd are likely to make lots of mistakes: more mugshots means more false positives.
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Christina Van Tol is in her second stint as the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Student Services and the Senior Woman Administrator for Boise State Athletics.
She served in the same role for the Broncos from 1998 through 2003.After leaving Boise State she worked as an Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance/Student Services and the Senior Woman Administrator at University of Portland.
In her current position Van Tol oversees all aspects of Student Services and Human Resources. Her duties encompass oversight of the human resources, academic advising, athletic training, and strength and conditioning staffs as well as the BroncoLife program. She also serves as the sport administrator for women's basketball, men's and women's tennis, gymnastics, softball and swimming and diving.
Van Tol began her career in athletics at Gonzaga University where she was the academic coordinator from 1992 through 1996 and was named the Senior Woman Administrator during her final year at the University. Before joining Boise State University in 1998 she was the Director of Athletic Development at Treasure Valley Community College.
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In a performance that bucked the trend, the David MacBrayne Group, Scotland's principal operator of domestic ferry services, has revealed that it paid back £5.8m to Government as a result of efficiency savings in the last financial year and increased its operating profitability by 19% to £3.8m.
The figures were published in the group's annual report which was laid before the Scottish Parliament today (12th October 2012).
The Group's subsidiaries include CalMac Ferries Ltd, NorthLink Ferries Ltd and Argyll Ferries Ltd.
Group Chairman Peter Timms says: 'As recipients of significant amounts of public funding we take our responsibility to provide value for money to the taxpayer very seriously so it was very pleasing to report that our ongoing efforts to improve efficiency both internally and in collaboration with colleagues at Transport Scotland has resulted in just under £6m being returned to the Scottish Government as part of a contractual "clawback" payment.'
Highlights frm the report include:
- The David MacBrayne Group carried 5.2m passengers, 1.1m cars and 1.5 million freight metres – a 5% decrease in passengers and the same for cars, but a 6% increase in freight, on the previous year.
- Grants received from the Scottish Government rose by nearly 20% compared with the previous year to £121.8m, mainly due to increased fuel costs and support for Road Equivalent Tariff (RET) fares on Western Isles routes.
- Clawback paid to Scottish Government as a result of efficiencies increased by 33% to £5.8m
- The group recorded an operating profit for 2011/12 before interest and tax of £3.8m, an increase of 19% on the prior year, increasing the group's retained reserves.
Mr Timms says: '2011/2012 was a year of highs and lows. Among the high points was winning the tender to provide the ferry service between Gourock and Dunoon.
'Losing the Northern Isles services to another operator after serving Orkney and Shetland for nearly 10 years was a major disappointment.
'I wish to take this opportunity of thanking our crew and staff for their commitment and hard work which saw carryings on these routes significantly increase during our period of operation.'
While seeing the drop in passenger and car traffic as disappointing, Mr Timms says: 'These figures reflect carryings across the group and the impact on individual routes will vary enormously, with some doing better than others depending on local circumstances such as major building projects.
'That said, overall our feeling is that a combination of factors have contributed to a general decrease in traffic including fewer people travelling due to the economic downturn, higher fuel costs and poor weather.'
Looking to the future, Mr Timms said he welcomed the interim contract to extend CalMac's current contract to 2016 and said that the company intended to use this period to improve services further.
He points here to the stellar hat trick achieved very recently by Calmac: 'Our commitment to customer service was recognised recently by the award of the 'Best Ferry Company' in the Guardian and Observer Travel Awards for the third year in a row.
'However there are a number of further improvements we would like to make to the customer experience such as updated ticketing systems and improved online booking.
'We will now push ahead and make these improvements as soon as possible and look forward to working with the Scottish Government and Transport Scotland to further develop our services to best meet the needs of island and rural communities.'
This is the spirit the general public want to hear.
The Scottish Government can be seen to have an equivocal attitude to its own ferry companies. The MacBrayne group's determination to be in the sort of spanking good shape by 2015 to bid powerfully to retain the 2016 contract for its own routes [Ed: yes, we know this timeline is procedurally curious] is the fighting talk that warms the cockles of their wealth of support amongst the traveling public.
A cracking business performance in tough economic times and a 'down to work' determination to see off allcomers leaves little room to manoeuvere for those who might seek to do so.
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As I tucked into dinner I couldn't help but ponder what lay in front of me. It was in effect, more than just a meal. It was a culmination of experiences and tasks. My life's ambitions displayed inanimate on a plate. Sweet aromas taunting me with familiar flavours. I'm comforted by meals like this. They're a creation, my creation. Years have gone into that meal.
There was a time when I'd never grown zucchini, never grown squash, never made paella, never killed a home raised chicken. I've had to learn so much, and excuse the cliche, but I've been on a journey. One that's been niggling at me for years, as far back as I can remember. A dream to have a little shack hidden away from the madness, deep in the bush. A place where I'd be able to put in place the veg growing example my mother had set, to raise my own stock, and to hunt and fish for tucker. Basically, to live simple is my dream, to appreciate the little and to admire the spectacle of nature.
I've had these tendencies since I was a kid. My time on the farm did me in good, real good. I got the bug, the dream was embedded in my soul and I have no hope of shaking it. Instead of having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other, I had a wild man on both. With a face full of beard, a wide brim hat and a checked flannel shirt, this guy has been guiding me for a long time. If you look at photos of me as a kid you can see this man. When I was a kid I embraced him, and I felt like that wild man, wearing my Dads old wide-brim scout masters hat, a flannel shirt, boots and dirty jeans, fishing the small river that bordered our allotment. How then, in my twenties did i get lost in the city? How did I end up in the corporate game, sitting at a desk trying my darndest to outdo the bloke in the cubicle next to me. I was driven to work for wealth, getting lost in that ugly complex game many of us are familiar with. I can answer with what a truth, that I am ashamed by. What was I searching for? Well it was the lure of wanting to feel special. Almost wanting to feel like I was somehow more important than the less affluent, because, well….I'd worked damn hard for it. My twenties were my failing in many ways but also my teaching ground. It's where I learnt who I didn't want to be. As I type this, I feel embarrassed to admit such things, the truth does actually hurt. I'm no longer that person, I've changed. Thankfully embracing change is an innate trait for us beasts. We're programmed to adapt.
And this is why I ended up starring at my meal. A meal that represents change. It also represents resourcefulness, a willingness to work with what is around. To be frugal with food, if you will. I don't understand when people call me a foodie blogger, or categorise me as a 'foodie'. Sure I like food, but there is slightly more to it then just a combination of flavour, aroma and presentation. There is culture, history, tradition and for some people around the world it's far more important than these facets of what we consider food to be. For many people, it's desperation on a plate. It's literally about survival, eating to live another day. So when I have left overs, I treasure them. A leftover bowl of home raised chicken paella, cooked in the sweet broth of summer vegetables represent high value. More value than any of the thousands of dollars I earned in my previous life. It's nourishing for life.
When my garden has food in excess, as it does now in early autumn, I become more aware that the food in glut either needs to be eaten now, and if thats not possible, then it needs to be preserved. In this case, my basket was full of delicious overgrown squash that, lately I've been roasting with lemon and rosemary (that is after I've scooped out the seeds and stored them for next years squash).
My cooking tends to be dictated by what I have at hand. This occasion, my over grown squash and leftover chicken paella had little choice but came together to form dinner. I love this type of food. It's stuff that really does make you happy. It doesn't look amazing, but it tastes pretty rad. And it took me years of effort to make. I suppose it's what makes it taste good.


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The spec says bi-directional usb. How is sending audio back to the guitar utilized?
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The guitar signal is sent to the iOS device or Mac. The audio is then being processed by an app like GarageBand, AmpliTube etc. and send back to the guitar via the same cable that connects the guitar to the device. The audio then goes into the headphone amp and comes out through the 1/8" output. The headphone amp volume can be controlled by one of the control pots on the guitar itself. This means that the headphones can plug right into the guitar to monitor your backing tracks and processed guitar tone. Only one cable goes to the iOS device or Mac.
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You can plug a headphone set into the back of the guitar. I understand that the bi-directional signal permits music played and augmented by, say, Garageband to be heard through the headphones rather than just the plain guitar output.
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I happy you like your 610, and that you can beat 450 and 300 2T bikes on it. Were those dual sport 300 2ts?
Anyway If you think adding 30lbs. when redesigning an alredy heavy bike is good, well I dunno. . . . guess this is adventure rider.
I think it's sad that Husky has reduced the bike that put competition four strokes back on the map to a 330 pound pig. Anyone here remember Jacky Martens, 1993? Of course not this is adventure rider, silly me.
I have a 2000 TE 610 kicker, which was 259lbs. dry as tested by Cycle World in May 2000 and an '05 estart Berg 650 which weighed 251 dry as tested by Dirt Bike. The Berg is a competition machine, the 610 was a competition bike but detuned to trail bike status, but still pretty light, and reliable.
There's no reason a big bore reliable dual sport has to weigh 330 lbs. and dual exhaust is just more weight, but to street guys I guess weight is a plus.
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October 21, 2004 2:36 PM PDT
Red Sox fan? It's time for a postgame playlist
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These, then, are some of the songs that a red-blooded BoSox fan might want to listen to today: "Heroes" by David Bowie. "Meet My Team" by Robert Pollard. "Who's the Greatest Red Sox Fan?" by Phil Coley.
And, of course, Queen's "We Are the Champions."
"This grew out of thinking, 'What are the things that exemplify hope, and heartbreak and love, and then sheer elation?'" said Cappello, who later sent her RealNetworks Rhapsody playlist to other fans. "It was a way of expressing the feeling. You can't really get up on your desk and dance and sing, so you might as well put on your headphones and rock out to your own little Red Sox world."
Cappello is hardly alone. Digital-music playlists have replaced mixed-album cassette tapes as instant snapshots of the music zeitgeist, with the advantage that they can be compiled on the fly and sent to dozens of people online at once. Events like the Red Sox win or the presidential elections now routinely inspire fans to create song lists that serve as their interpretation--or simply celebration--of the news.
Indeed, most of the online digital music services have latched on to the idea of the free-form playlist as one of their most potentially powerful marketing tools, although they're just beginning to experiment with how the idea can be used.
Rhapsody has a feature to let subscribers share playlists with one another, and even to post them on blogs to be downloaded by others. Because Rhapsody is a subscription service, any subscriber who downloads someone else's playlist has immediate access to all the songs listed. Subscribers to Yahoo-owned Musicmatch have a similar capability.
A small but growing subculture of playlist blogging has developed around the feature, with people sharing themed lists ranging from "Flu Vaccine Blues" to "Rock and Roll Jesus." A number of political-themed lists are circulating as well.
Robert Burke, a South Carolina software tester, has run an extensive playlist blog for the last five months featuring lists from both the Rhapsody and Musicmatch services. He said he sees the playlists as a way to notice connections between songs that might otherwise be missed.
"You can really learn something--like in a list of songs produced by Brian Eno, you can hear how that producer works," Burke said. "You can really expand your knowledge that way."
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The Swift Current Colts are hoping that week three in the Moose Jaw High School Football League will bring more positive results than Friday's season opener did. The Colts faced a veteran Moose Jaw Vanier Vikings squad and came out on the wrong end of a 46-1 final score at Colts Field on Friday.
"We knew that it was going to be a tough test. They're a very good football team with veterans all over the field," conceded Colts coach Derek Murdoch. "Although the score sounds terrible, I'm proud of our guys for hanging in with the best team in our league. Most of our guys were starting their first high school football game, so we know that as we go on this season, they'll get more and more comfortable with their roles on the field."
The Colts will be right back in action this Saturday when they travel to Moose Jaw to face the AE Peacock Tornadoes at 3:15 p.m. at Guthridge Field.
"We will need to do a better job of protecting our QB this week, as Josh (Siemens) was under pressure the whole game. We can do this by getting a running game going, which we weren't able to do this week," explained Murdoch.
The Tornadoes were shutout 22-0 by the Vikings to open the season, but responded with an 8-6 win over Estevan last week.
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The official announcement has been made by Baker University Director of Athletics Theresa Yetmar that Pete Di Pol will be the new head wrestling coach, taking over for the former head coach Jimmy May.
Di Pol had been coaching at Gloucester County College in Sewell New Jersey, where he was twice named Garden State Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. GCC finished fourth in the country for 2012 and 5th in the NJCAA Non-Scholarship division.
"Throughout the search process we were overwhelmed by the interest in our wrestling program, and had a very impressive candidate pool," said Yetmar. "The passion exhibited for our program is truly a credit to the work ethic of our student-athletes and coaches who have established our program in the last five years.
"In the search for our new head coach, Pete set himself apart with his outstanding credentials and his ability to communicate a vision for Baker wrestling moving forward. He believes in our mission of developing champions for life, which rests on finding success on the mat and in the classroom. We look forward to Pete joining our team and carrying on our winning tradition."
"I'm ecstatic," said Di Pol. "It's been a life long dream of mine to coach at the four-year collegiate level. I respect what Coach May has done starting the wrestling program at Baker and I am very impressed in the program he has created. I am excited to come in and help carry on that tradition.
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By jaredmoshe | Jared Moshé's Blog April 16, 2010 at 6:39AM
The SEC's civil suit against Goldman Sachs is all over the news today. And for good reason. Of all the big banks it was Goldman that made it through the financial meltdown with the littlest difficulty... Unless of course you count making a permanent enemy out of Matt Taibbi, who has gone after Goldman hard (again for good reason). However, I think the most insightful thing I've read about the whole SEC suit comes from Heidi Heidi Moore in the Big Money
But wait. By focusing on Goldman, the SEC completely buried the lede: Paulson & Co. was the giant hedge fund that allegedly created and shorted the toxic mortgage bundles.
If the SEC's complaint holds up, that's even bigger news than Goldman's problems. You'll remember Paulson & Co. from absolutely everywhere on TV, in newspapers, and the media, in which the fund has been referred to exclusively in heroic terms for being among the first to see and bet against the subprime crash. The fund, run by John Paulson, made more money than anyone else on the subprime housing crash—the funds were up about $15 billion in 2007, the Wall Street Journal reported at the time. Paulson himself profited richly, with around $3.7 billion in personal profit. Paulson & Co. has grown to $29 billion under management and a Canadian firm even created a special product allowing regular investors like you and me to make the same bets Paulson makes.
Financial regulatory reform is supposed to hit the floor of the Senate on Monday (though that might change with a just released letter signed by all 41 Republican Senators opposing the regulations - bad timing guys?). I hope that reform is not just focused on a few bad banks. Americans love villains. They are easy to pinpoint and easy to hate. Bernie Madoff was (and probably still is) a scumbag who screwed a lot of people out of their money. A lot of banks did worse though, and because it is easier to hit (both figuratively and literally), understand, and blame a human being than it is a company, a lot of rage generated by banks was focused on Bernie. Now that the American Government is focused on the banks. I hope they take off their blinders. Because - as everyone who watches House knows - you can replace a liver or a heart, but if the system is infected that's only going to buy you until the next commercial break.


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