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Thrashing Through Cyberspace picks up on a stunning change in AOL's terms of service for its Instant Messenger:
"Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by AOL using or incorporating this Content. In addition, by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses."
Imagine if FedEx or the US Post Office tried such a gambit.
I wonder if such boilerplate EULA can assign Copyrights (a Federal property right) without a genuine meeting of the minds . . . Any legal geniuses out there, please weigh in.
Will any firm that produces written content be able to continue using AOL IM anymore? I have to seriously doubt it.
UPDATE: March 15, 2005 6:26am
AOL made a minor attempt to "quell the furor" by claiming in eWeek by "insisting the controversial privacy clause does not pertain to user-to-user instant messaging communication." In part, AOL states this is because the offending material is under the heading "Content You Post."
That's somewhat ambiguous. If AOL really wants to resolve this, all they need do is add this paragraph:
"All AIM instant messages are private, and AOL does not monitor or filter instant messages. Any instant message communication betweem registered users remains the copyrighted material of those users."
Simply, easy, direct.
AOL: AIM Conversations Are Safe
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Will Josh Hamilton be shut out on AL Player of the Week honors?
There is no doubt that Josh Hamilton had the hottest week at the plate of any hitter in the American League, but will it earn him Player of the Week honors?
Hamilton hit .462 for 26 at-bats with three homers and 11 RBIs. He reached base at a .516 clip. Really, among position players, the only competition comes from teammate Mike Napoli, who hit .440 in 25 at-bats with an AL-high five homers and 10 RBIs.
They did that, however, merely against the likes of Jon Lester, Josh Becket and Justin Verlander. The group didn't include likely winner Philip Humber. And he's your likely winner. Humber's perfect game on Saturday, even though it was against lowly Seattle, is truly historic. It was the 19th perfect game since 1900. And it wasn't just a fluky start. In his first start of the week, also his first of the season, Humber allowed Baltimore six hits and a run in 5.1 innings. He held hitters to a .122 average for the week.
Nothing overcomes a perfect game for Player of the Week honors. Since 2004, there have been five perfect games. The author of each of the first four – Randy Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Dallas Braden and Roy Halladay – has won his league's Player of the Week honor for the week of the perfect game.

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Nurse refuses to do CPR
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Police on Monday were investigating whether there was criminal wrongdoing in the handling of a health emergency at an independent living facility where a woman died when a nurse refused to provide CPR.
The facility, Glenwood Gardens, defended its nurse, saying she had followed policy in dealing with the 87-year-old woman who fainted in a dining room.
A police dispatcher who fielded the 911 call was told the woman had a heart problem and was barely breathing.
Police immediately routed the call to the Bakersfield Fire Department, where a dispatcher pleaded with a nurse at the facility to perform CPR on the woman.
The nurse refused, saying one of the home's policies prevented her from doing CPR, according to an audio recording of the call.
Michaela Beard, a spokeswoman for Bakersfield police, said she couldn't provide any further information because the investigation was ongoing.
An unidentified woman made the Feb. 26 call, and asked for paramedics to be sent to help the woman. Later, a woman who identified herself as a nurse got on the phone and told dispatcher Tracey Halvorson she was not permitted to do CPR on the woman.
Halvorson urged the nurse to start CPR, warning the consequences could be dire if no one tried to revive the woman, who had been laid out on the floor on her instructions.
"I understand if your boss is telling you, you can't do it," the dispatcher said. "But ... as a human being ... you know, is there anybody that's willing to help this lady and not let her die?"
"Not at this time," the nurse answered.
During the 7-minute, 16-second call, Halvorson assured the nurse that Glenwood couldn't be sued if anything went wrong in attempts to resuscitate the resident, saying the local emergency medical system "takes the liability for this call," the transcript states.
Later in the call, Halvorson asks, "Is there a gardener? Any staff, anyone who doesn't work for you? Anywhere? Can we flag someone down in the street and get them to help this lady?"
Halvorson is an experienced dispatcher and has worked for the county center for at least a decade, Kern County Fire Department Deputy Chief Michael Miller said.
She followed procedures until she ran out of options when the caller refused to perform CPR or identify anyone else who could, Miller said.
"It's not uncommon to have someone refuse to provide CPR if they physically can't do it, or they're so upset they just can't function," Miller said. "What made this one unique was the way the conversation on the phone went. It was just very frustrating to anyone listening to it, like, why wasn't anyone helping this poor woman, since CPR today is much simpler than it was in the past?"
Firefighters and ambulance personnel arrived at the facility seven minutes after the call came in, Miller said. The county does not know who made the call, he added.
The woman had no pulse and wasn't breathing when fire crews reached her, fire Battalion Chief Anthony Galagaza said.
They started CPR and loaded her onto a gurney, and the woman was later declared dead at Mercy Southwest Hospital.
The executive director of Glenwood Gardens, Jeffrey Toomer, defended the nurse, saying she followed policy.
"In the event of a health emergency at this independent living community our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives," Toomer said in a statement.
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SubmittedA Heathrow baggage handler caused up to £1million worth of damage to a British Airways plane when a luggage scanning gun got sucked into the engine. The accident happened as the Airbus A320 was being powered up as it prepared to taxi out to the runway. (www.dailymail.co.uk) More...
Brand new Swiss Airlines Airbus A330 damaged in Montreal
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SubmittedBoeing expects its global aircraft demand to double in the next two decades with most of the orders coming from Asia, an executive from the US airplane-maker says. Speaking ahead of Paris Airshow 2013, Randy Tinseth, vice-president of marketing for Boeing, says rising oil prices are forcing carriers to think harder about efficiency, and that means smaller planes that burn less fuel. It also means design changes and streamlined air traffic control. (www.foxnews.com) More...
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were absolutely hog-tied, whipped and left for dead out back of the barn.
Did I miss anything - only that Canaworms and Haywood duct-tapped all their orifices.
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acrossair, a developer based in London, England, says it is waiting for approval on what should be the first augmented reality application for the iPhone. Called Nearest Tube, the app points users in the direction of the closest London Underground subway station. Distinguishing it from titles like Google Maps is the use of a live video mode, on top of which the app overlays graphics indicating which direction to travel.
In this main view, stations are identified by name and distance, as well as which subway lines connect. Holding an iPhone flat switches to a view of all 13 Tube lines, while tilting a phone upwards shows more distant stations in the form of stacked icons. Because the app relies on both compass and video fuctions, it is only compatible with the iPhone 3GS. Planned pricing is so far unknown.


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The New York Times opinion pages for January 5 includes arguments for and against the idea of state tax credits for homeschoolers, which is being promoted as a priority as the the newest Republicans in Congress seek to challenge the federal role in American public education, with an eye toward turning more power over to the states. The collected debates are presented under the banner title Do Homeschoolers Deserve a Tax Break?
HEM political analysts and homeschooling parents Larry and Susan Kaseman have written extensively about this topic, including in the current January-February issue of Home Education Magazine: Beware of Privatization of Education: It Reduces Our Homeschooling Freedoms:
"Homeschoolers can't assume that as long as they as individuals refuse to accept government money or favors, they won't be required to comply with state regulations written for homeschoolers who do accept them. Legislators and state regulators are highly unlikely to develop and expect public officials to enforce two separate sets of regulations for homeschoolers, one for those who accept tax credits or tax deductions or reimbursements for educational expenses or who play on public school sports teams or participate in other public school activities and the other for homeschoolers who don't. If legislation is passed or regulations are developed to hold homeschoolers accountable because some homeschoolers are receiving government money, those statutes or regulations will no doubt apply to all homeschoolers, not just those getting the money."
Further analysis and information can be found in this 1999 article by homeschooling mother and long-time advocate for homeschooling, Peggy Daly-Masternak: So What About That Free Lunch?
"With little strain, we can all think of many examples where the state is attempting to solve the problems presented by a few with far-reaching blanket laws to cover a worst case scenario. Think curfews. Think proficiency tests. Think greater restrictions on parents rights.
"My dear friends in homeschooling, there is no free lunch. If one currently exists, it won't last forever. The piper always gets paid."


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MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA--Europa, one of Jupiter's strange moons, has welts on its icy face. The odd mounds could be a symptom of buoyant ice contaminated with salts or acids, according to a report 2 September at a meeting here of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences. However, a separate analysis of cracks on Europa suggests that the ice--thought to cover a global ocean--is too thin to sustain large salty blobs.
Stunning images of Europa have come from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which will plunge into Jupiter on 21 September after orbiting the planet since 1995. Cracks, domes, and chaotic jumbles point to active motions in the rind of ice that blankets Europa's ocean, planetary scientists believe. Galileo researchers proposed that Jupiter's intense tidal pull would churn the ice and ocean to form warmer blobs of ice. The blobs would rise toward the surface via convection within the crust. But under further scrutiny, it seemed that the convective motions weren't strong enough to lift the 100-meter-high mounds that Galileo sees.
The new study proposes that a pinch of salt or acid would do the trick. Planetary scientists Robert Pappalardo and Amy Barr of the University of Colorado, Boulder, calculated the effects of small proportions of sodium chloride and sulfuric acid within Europa's ice. Those substances exist in patches on the moon's surface, according to a spectrometer on Galileo. The contaminants would lower the melting temperature in blobs of ice deep in Europa's crust, the team found. Such blobs would flow more readily through regions of colder, harder ice, shedding impurities as they ascended. The resulting purer ice, more buoyant than the surrounding crust, would rise to the surface. The force could push up ragged domes 100 meters high, Pappalardo says.
The scenario doesn't sway planetary scientist Richard Greenberg of the University of Arizona, Tucson. Most of the raised regions aren't the size and shape Pappalardo's interpretation would suggest, he maintains. Further, convection requires the ice shell to be at least 20 kilometers thick. That's inconsistent with cracks in the ice--described in detail at the meeting by Greenberg's team--which split open, shift, and close in response to Jupiter's tides. "Everything we've done suggests that the cracks penetrate all the way to liquid water, which is hard to do if the ice is more than a few kilometers thick," he says.
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Thankfully, Joshua Tallent is on the right side of digital trends. Having started as an eBook developer back in '02, Tallent later launched eBook Architects to help authors and publishers navigate this new retail world and get their books onto all the must-have reading devices.
"When the Kindle came out in 2007, I saw the opportunity to help authors format their books as eBooks. At first, it was just a part-time way to make extra money, but about nine months after I started doing it, it turned into a full time job," he says. "I hired my first employee last year. A couple of weeks ago, I hired employee No.11."
Ahead of his appearance at mediabistro.com's Publishing App Expo, Tallent talks jobs in digital publishing, which tablet is his true love, and why there is still no single eBook format.
For authors and publishers thinking about making an eBook, at what phase of a books production do you like to get involved?
It would be great to get involved early on and sometimes that happens, but [for]the majority of projects that we have done we get the files when the book is about to be published or a manuscript is about to be submitted. Typically we get a PDF file from clients, but sometimes we get a Word document or an HTML file.
Once you have the files, how long does it take for you to make an eBook? And what format will this eBook be in?
The biggest issue that we have is the workload, but once your project gets into our system it takes about three weeks to create. We always make an ePub and a Kindleo file; those are the standards. We can also do fixed layouts for iBooks, enhanced eBooks and some special formatted eBooks, but in general our clients just want the ePub and Kindle format so that they can sell in the main eBook retailers.
|"It is not a single format to rule them all."
Book publishers are not always known for the technical savvy. It doesn't help that the main eBook retailers don't all conform to one standard eBook format, and they have to create different files for different bookstores.
It is not a single format to rule them all. Most publishers are starting to figure out that this is a big deal. They want to put out eBooks and have it not be frustrating. A consumer says I want an eBook; I go to Amazon or Barnes & Noble or Apple and then read it that way. Amazon is 70 percent of the eBook market because they are doing it well. They make it easy for consumers. Barnes & Noble holds second place because they focus on the customer experience. That is what is going to sell eBooks. Kindle and ePub will be the main formats because of this. It's only when you get into children's books and enhanced eBooks that other formats come into play.
These special formats read better on tablets. How do tablets change the landscape for the e-reading experience?
There is a lot of hype around tablets, but I still think that a black and white e-reader is the best device to read a book. I don't think there is a comparison between e-readers and tablets. They are different things; I don't equate the two. I have an iPad, but I don't use it for reading that often. Most of the time I use it for other kinds of things like watching videos, surfing the Web and playing video games. Tablets have the benefit of being multimedia devices, but they aren't the best way to read eBooks. Dedicated e-reading devices are a better experience for reading, and they lead to greater consumption of eBooks.
|"I don't think there is a comparison between e-readers and tablets."
What do you think of the new tablets by the eBook sellers?
The Kindle fire is a good idea for Amazon, because they have the ability to sell that content. They have videos and music, so it makes sense for them to build out that ecosystem. Barnes & Noble and Kobo tablets make less sense to me, since neither one are focused on selling movies, videos or music. There are benefits to having an LCD screen for video in a book, but most eBooks don't have video and Barnes & Noble barely has an app store. When Barnes & Noble came out with the Nook Tablet, the whole thing was tied to Netflix and Hulu. In a sense, I don't see the purpose because their experience is so tied to books. However, the only caveat would be magazine content or children's books; the new tablets do create a better reading experience for this kind of content. And there is a lot more content coming out around these areas lately.
I'm sure you have an array of e-readers to run tests at the office, but what is your preferred device to read eBooks on at home?
I like the Kindle. I like the ecosystem. I can read on my Android phone, or my iPad or my Kindle and all of my reading is synced in real time. I'm planning to use the Kindle Fire. I think Amazon has the best customer device experience. Some people like to bash Amazon, but personally I like them. I am pretty sure that I will be able to read the books I buy today in 10 years. Just because you go to Barnes & Noble and buy an eBook doesn't mean that content will live on for decades.
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A Lesotho woman's body has been found in Freedom Park informal settlement, in Rustenburg, North West police said on Friday.
The 30-year-old woman's body, found naked with stab wounds to the chest and right arm, was found on Thursday morning, Captain Amanda Funani said.
Police suspect she was raped before she was murdered.
Three people had been arrested and police were investigating the possibility that they might be linked to two other murders in the area.
On June 3, the body of a 27-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head was found, also in Freedom Park. On May 30, a 30-year-old man was found stabbed to death. – Sapa
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Urban Politics #170: Northgate Legislation
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By City Councilmember Nick Licata.
With assistance from my L.A. Newell Aldrich on this issue.
Urban Politics (UP) blends my insights and information on current public policy developments and personal experiences with the intent of helping citizens shape Seattle's future.
- Council Passes Northgate Legislation
- Key Elements Of Northgate Legislation
Council Passes Northgate Legislation
The City Council today passed legislation that clears the way for new development at Northgate. The legislation reflects agreement between the Council, Mayor, the developer, and neighborhood activists. Disagreements between community activists and developers have hindered development until now, as legal challenges have stopped previous proposals for development.
The success of this legislation reflects the willingness of the Council to work with the developer, Lorig Associates, and the community, as well as the Mayor. It was necessary to bring in all participants in order to be successful.
The Council passed four pieces of Northgate-related legislation:
– A resolution establishing a framework for overall action in Northgate and for community involvement.
– Direction to the Seattle Dept. of Transportation to develop a Northgate Coordinated Transportation Investment Plan, cost sharing and scope.
– Amendments to the Land Use Code for a repeal of the General Development Plan rule on large Northgate-area developments.
– A new development agreement with Simon Properties for the redevelopment of the Northgate Mall.
Key Elements Of Northgate Legislation
The key elements of the legislation passed include:
Northgate Mall Development:
– The new development agreement allows Northgate Mall to demolish the abandoned buildings and build up to 230,000 new square feet, including 63,000 square feet of streetfront development along 5th Avenue NE. Simon will also improve its 5th Avenue NE entryway.
– In designing its new development, Simon will consider ways to use natural drainage methods, sustainable design and green building techniques and the city's new plans for Northgate area pedestrian circulation and open space. Simon will seek input and advice from a new Northgate stakeholders group.
South Lot development:
– Lorig Associates plans to buy 5.9 acres of the south lot from Simon and develop 150,000 square feet of retail or commercial, 300 or more mixed income residential units, and attractive public plazas and walkways.
– Includes provisions for joint planning among Lorig Associates, the City, and King County/METRO on the South Lot.
– The framework resolution lays out a process for work on site plan for the South Lot to configure 2.7 acres of open space and 5.9 acres of development in a manner to preserve the option of day lighting Thornton Creek (in full or in part).
– The agreement gives the City 1-year option to purchase 2.7 acres of South Lot for open space and natural drainage for $375,000, and deletes all provisions relating to a stormwater detention and treatment facility as proposed in the original version.
Update development regulations:
– Repeals the General Development Plan (GDP) rule on large Northgate properties.
– In repealing the GDP, directs the Executive to identify ways to address areawide development impacts and mitigation, including consideration of a SEPA Planned Action as a next step to follow on the Coordinated Transportation Investment Plan (CTIP).
– For the CTIP, a resolution directed the City Dept. of Transportation to bring a scope, schedule, budget and public involvement process to the Council by April 15, 2004.
Future Steps for Northgate:
– Calls for the creation by February 1, 2004 of a stakeholders group to include representatives from existing groups and additional categories of interests to share information and provide advice to the City on:
– An Urban Center plan for open space and pedestrian connections.
– The CTIP.
– Implementation of the 5th Avenue NE Streetscape Design.
– Planning for large lot developments (particularly early input on conceptual site plans).
– Undertake new planning to establish a system of pedestrian and open space connections, stimulate multi-family housing, and economic development.
– Consider applying other planning and environmental tools such as a SEPA Planned Action to aid in the planning and permitting of multiple sites or large areas while addressing area impacts; the legislation also directed the Executive to bring recommendations back to the Council to address area-wide impacts.
– Simon Properties, the South lot owner, commits to coordinating with the City and County on South lot planning, and to developing 150 until of housing, in the event that Lorig doesn't develop.
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Liams Going 5
Review and Interview by
Mary Cavill
So it was with much interest that I tackled another starting point to Joyce's work - the reading of a print fiction; a "traditional" novel, at least in the sense of it being a paper-based portable object. Liam's Going is a book with a seemingly simple story - a story of a mother driving her son to college - the first time he will live away; the boy's father at home; and the relationships between all three being happy and loving. But the story has undercurrents, as the main characters - particularly the parents, Cathleen and Noah - examine events in their pasts, which shape and colour their lives and existence, and their relationships with each other. Liam, on the other hand, is keen to enter his future; to move away and start his adult life.
I mostly read Liam's Going whilst travelling by train to work, dipping in and out of the storylines, and sometimes re-reading from before where I'd left off previously. This seemed appropriate, as the repetition and rewriting and recreating in the book is also a strength - the movement of and between people and places. The stories created by and linking Cathleen and Noah often reappear in different guises - the same event viewed by a different person, or viewed from a different place and time. This linking of times and places (and people) is important in the book, and works well - the undercurrents or events and thoughts surface and submerge with equal clarity.
The setting - the Hudson River Valley - informs and tells the different moods and scenes contained in the book. Noah's encounters with an elderly client of his law practice are steeped in the river's myths and eddies, and these in turn help to describe his memories. So too, Cathleen's reliving of a long-gone love affair almost becomes part of the landscape she drives Liam through. In a potent passage, Joyce describes how Cathleen and Noah attempt to create a pond in their lawn, eventually surrendering to the inevitability of its reclamation by the land itself: "A place has a self". That the people have a sense of self that is reflected in the land(scape) flows throughout the book, and is one of its most effective notions.
It is easy to move into poetical language when talking about Liam's Going, especially when describing the physicality of place; the river(s) of the stories. Joyce is a great wordsmith, and there are many breathtaking moments of prose contained in the book. I wondered sometimes, however, who was speaking - the author or his character? Occasionally I suspected the former; the thoughts and ideas sometimes seem too academic, too poetical, too deep even, for the people described. Occasionally also, the language becomes too much, too flowery; the wordplay - delightfully wrought though it is - overpowers the storyline.
That said, there are also moments in the book of great emotion and clarity - for example when Cathleen recollects her first meeting with her lover Paul. These are more real, and I was at times greatly moved by descriptions of events. Liam's Going is a very human book about very human people - their relationships, their sense(s) of self; the way they weave in and out of each others lives; their lives and the many ways these can be told. This is not surprising in a book by a writer of and about hypertextual work. The author's use of hypertext - like the retelling of events and people mentioned earlier - is very much evident, and its use in the novel is appropriate and well crafted, making for a multi-layered and complex narrative.
As I finished the book, I became aware that the stories do not end, but move on, like the Hudson. Each character is undergoing their own rite of passage, informed and fed by events in their past and present; but also their future. I was glad of this non-ending, not just in relation to my hyperfictional interests, but because it underlines the humanity and complexity of the book. There is much to be enjoyed in Liam's Going, and any criticisms about style are small in a work of great beauty.
Email interview between Mary Cavill and Michael Joyce, conducted over a period of two weeks in late October 2002.
Cavill: Reading your work, there seem to be many threads running through it, and the idea of threads as a(n) emphasised background(s) to events. I'm thinking about the idea of linking; brought about by technology but also between people, time and places - the threads that we as people create through our lives. I wondered if this is something you're aware of, or have consciously described? Do the patterns created by and between the characters in your fictional work interest you?Joyce: I think it is a wonderful question to start from. My immediate inclination is to respond that "the patterns created by and between the characters" are my sole interest, but almost immediately I realize that is too strong a claim. Rather say that what we are to each other, what characters are, is a prismatic pattern of presence, an inevitable and unavoidable interweaving and intermixture of place and other, moment and aspiration. These are threads in the sense that the slipstream threads transparently behind the swimmer. That is, they are as much a part of the medium and the moment and something "we create through our lives."
I suspect these hydraulic images are on my mind partly because Liam's Going is a riverine novel and at least in part contemporaneous with a hypertext work of mine, Twelve Blue, whose compositional method literally involved threads which I very "consciously described" at some length in an essay called "Forms of Future" in Othermindedness:
The title screen contains a drawing of twelve colored threads running horizontally across a field of blue. The drawing came first, its threads creating a kind of score in the sense of John Cage, a continuity of the various parallel narratives. When the threads veer nearer to each other or in at least one instance cross so do their narratives. The twelve lines became months but also characters or pairings of them as well (that is, sometimes a character has her own line and another line she shares with someone paired to her, although not necessarily within the narrative threads). The twelve threads do not start with January at the top but rather November, the year of my year. I then made eight different cuts across the Y axis, though in my mind they were more fabric strips or something like William Burrough's compositional cuts. These cuts are mapped on the opening screen ... creating asuccession of thematic sections.
Within these eight longitudinal strips the various stories take place and intermingle. Obviously however since narrative goes forward horizontally and time here is represented vertically, there is something of a displacement in which events along a single thread in fact violate the larger time of the characters sensibilities. Thus the drowning deaf boy of the story floats across various threads through different seasons until his body surfaces at the end.
This was for me a very formal exercise, an attempt to come to terms with what seemed the constraints of the web but also a quasi-Oulipian generative scheme.
Twelve Blue is something of the gothic counterpart, the dark imagining, to the brighter prospect of Liam's Going, with which it shares other thematic concerns. We live by the river, the Hudson, and that of course brings one to mind of what you call "the idea of linking; brought about by technology but also between people, time and places." It is not an exaggeration to say that the Hudson served as the first network in America, and its technologies, which besides the steamboat included the paintings of the Hudson River School, the literatures of the mountains and valleys, and so on, remain imprinted upon our understanding of the river as an imaginary screen for our consciousness. Surely it seems as much to Cathleen in my novel, who at one point thinks "O the world was a series of stories ... a gap in the wall, windows in windows, everything linked, the whole world strung with unnoticed silk."
Cavill: What you say about the Hudson is very interesting. It does seem a strong motif in Liam's Going; as I read, I felt that the story(ies) didn't end (which I was glad of), they ebb and flow along with the water. Could you say more about your ideas about a/the sense of place?Joyce: First off, I'm of course delighted that you feel the stories do not end, not merely in how that affirms a hypertextuality even in this simple book, but especially since the attempt here was to create a weave of threshold stories, what in her afterword to Moral Tales and Meditations Hélène Cixous so generously called "tales of almost ... the glancing contact of differences brushing against each other." All of the main characters are poised at the edge of such important, and yet not culminatory but rather continuous (flowing), change in their lives. I meant Cathleen and Noah to be happy in their love and marriage and, largely, in the selves, the poet, lawyer, mother, father they are; but they also know that happiness is not enough, that they have to summon themselves to this flow, they have to greet each other anew in "the thin milk light of earliest morning" where the novel (but not the stories) ends. Liam is, of course, most clearly poised at the brink of that kaleidoscopic dive into a spectrum of selves and possibilities with which we all move from adolescent into adulthood. So too, more tranquilly, floating under stairs, napping in her cabin, never quite telling Noah her truest story, Antoinette is poised to see through death just as she has seen through her other, quite literal, passages as a woman.
Cavill: My connections here: Cathleen's notion about a place having a "self" [the passage about the created pond not surviving because of this struck me very strongly]; the idea of the space between places and people I'm thinking about you describing the "uncertain and increasingly virtual path between the classroom and the library" but also its usefulness. This is perhaps related to physical and/or virtual presence, which you talk about in Othermindedness also
Joyce: This is a lovely proposition for me, a connection I hadn't made so directly. Yes, of course, what's missing in the virtual, at least as it has been present(ed) to us thus far, is its selfhood. You know, oddly enough, in a very early essay in Of Two Minds I wrote a meditation about VR and perspectives, how we create spaces for and of each other, from and through each other's perspectives:
The interdeterminability of points of perception argues against a virtual reality which depends upon successive disclosures of self-generating spaces ... A woman walks toward me and passes, for all I know wordlessly, yet I believe that she too creates the space she walks through and that it is somehow different from mine. (That is, there is no point from which to see, even in 3-space, each new point in its own perspectives.)
This, in turn (ah the endless trace, the link) puts me in mind of Giorgio Agamben's important claim in The Coming Community that:
To appropriate the historic transformations of human nature that capitalism wants to limit to the spectacle, to link together image and body in a space where they can no longer be separated, and to thus forge the whatever body, whose physis is resemblancethis is the good humanity must learn to wrest from commodities in their decline.
That link of "image and body in a space where they can no longer be separated" can only be dynamic, can only be com-memoration, remembering together. For Gabriel Marcel it is the only act we have, the measure of our humanity, the denial of death. It is what a family does with its love, what story means to do, what place does as it comes to have a self, as it becomes.
Your question also brought to mind Jay Bolter's and my original Storyspace interface which called its containers "spaces" and the contained spaces (the boxes within boxes) "places". It was language that from a user interface perspective was unworkable but was, I think, the thinking which propelled us into developing a "writing system" that deconstructed its own systemization, whose hierarchies were blurred and permeated by the flow between space and place. Pure space becomes place by proximity, particularity, presence. The Hudson around here where we live is not its most spectacular; just South of here the highlands which draw in and transform Cathleen and Liam as they travel over Storm King (the latter phrase, by the way, was the novel's working title) begin. Further south the river widens into bays and then the palisades before the city. North are the mountain and valley vistas of the Hudson River School landscape, thinning to a bright thread in the Adirondack headlands. We are at the middle, soft hills, placid and deep water (only just now, in November as I write, coming back to us as the docks of the marina are removed). I think we are fortunate in this. The day-to-dayness of this space make us more attentive over time, of time. It is increasingly commonplace knowledge that the Indians called this the "river that flows both ways" because as an estuary its current is tidally determined. Here that flow is slow surface, like flesh. You come to know a space like this as a self, as you come (however awkwardly and uncertainly) to know yourself. This, too or especially, informs the journeys of Liam's Going.
Cavill: I'm led to thinking about the physicalness of the act of writing quite a leap perhaps! but are there connections? In a basic way, are your sensual surroundings geography, technology, sound perhaps also essential to the writing process? I'm wondering also about the differences in the writing process according to the intended 'product' electronic, print, spoken? (I'm thinking here about the affirmation of hypertextuality in Liam's Going you mentioned)
Joyce: I suppose by the question about intended product you mean an awareness of the book's insistent physicality versus the diffuse physicality of the screen (I promise not, this time at least, to quote myself again but I do have a sort of meditative chant about book and screen, the recto-verso essay in Of Two Minds). I'm not sure whether those difference are as much in mind as are the differences between the elastic surface of the word processor screen even one in a Storyspace window and the immanence and ghosted past of the book's page to page progress.
You may mean another matter entirely, or at least I will respond to another. For years my students have heard me say as a kind of koan, "writing is a physical act", by which I mean not only the tactility and visuality of the page or screen, but the breath and heft, the proprioceptive quality that the poet Charles Olson (whose poetic, projective verse was breath) summoned long before VR began to measure experience so, how the body knows within itself. Even with afternoon I saw the text as physical, erotic, the touch that gives way in the "words that yield", a sense of the link as a drawing apart of fabric, a seeing through layers. For his interactive cinema work, Sonata, Grahame Weinbren devised a lovely a touch screen interface which involves exactly this drawing apart. Grahame may as much have meant to evoke the curtains which used to whisper open before a film rather than the mutuality of the lover's unveiling that I had in mind.
All that said, I do know you also meant to ask a simple question about work habits: CD on? light from the west or south? boxers or briefs? and so on. I used to worry over these things when I was younger, needed a surround, space beyond and behind me, and so on. That's all gone. Twelve Blue I wrote in the garden by the river, Powerbook on my lap; Liam's mostly at the desk in my coffin sized study (but also in hotel rooms here and there while away doing gigs). One thing I can say is that I cannot work with music on, this may be because language is so musical for me, or perhaps it is simply a generational marker (my kids and most of my students cannot by and large work without music).
Cavill: I'm interested particularly in what you say about the relationship between writing and music a connection that isn't made often enough I think the musicality of words (I know you talk about this in other writings also).
Joyce: The musicality of words can't, I think, be divorced from the physicality of writing, which of course was the context in which I addressed it in my last response. I believe we carry language in breath and in depth and in our own sense of our movement in space. I hear words in movement, when I'm walking or my fingers are typing or writing with a pen, other movements as well. Otherwise I think I am largely dumb, in every sense of that word. Language comes at the instant of some motion toward and in myself. I think some of that has been lost, however temporarily, in current electronic arts. Not just the pure musicality, the surface poetry, but the sense of language as embodied action.
Cavill: I need to dive in here and ask an obvious and I hope pertinent rather than impertinent question: I wonder if you'd be willing to talk about why you've moved "back" to print writing? I'm thinking particularly about the way your work is so hypertextual in its musical form; although I know the question is wider than that.Joyce: There is no back here, is there? It's a permeation, a flow, the river that flows two ways, a dance, the lovers' mutual unveiling. As I said earlier I wrote at least part of Liam's while writing hypertexts and vice versa. They participate in each other's economy. In each other's weather, like the swirl of high and low pressure. Whatever decisions I've made about my writing or thinking life are first of all ones so new I as yet hardly understand them, and so it can't be said, I can't myself say, I'm moving this way or that. In any case I do not see myself as returning to the novel in the sense of having left it, but rather returning in the way you return to what has never left you, like the family or the place where you grew up. I never did not write for print, those are facts of life for an artist and academic, an occasional poet. Likewise there was never a claim that hypertext was an enabling technology, rather than it was a representative one. Indeed the musicality of language and despite current intoxicated claims for innovation the visuality, dynamism and kinetics of language as well were concerns of the whole of twentieth century literary arts: Stein and Joyce, Calvino and Cixous, Futurismo, the Surrealists, Oulipo, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. No from and to. Computers arrived as more amiable machines for many of these purposes. Other more amiable machines or modalities may come behind them.
I like that image, futures as a sort of Macy's Parade of amiable machines. Tinguely contraptions but soft as clouds, moving across oceans, white sands, to Potsdamer Platz, Temple Bar, the Renaissance Center, West Edmonton Mall, the Zocalo in Mexico City, downtown Tenochtitlan. No from and to, only the to and fro, the swirl and flow, of clouds.
Cavill: Despite my hesitation to use the word "back", I'm now going to use the "forward", to ask about your time as Professor of English and the Library, which you talk about so beautifully in Othermindedness. I was particularly struck by your description of the institution and library being founded on a "tradition of change". Did/has this role alter/ed your perception(s) of a sense of time, of archiving, of the collected and collectable, in the "electronic age"?
Joyce: Very much so. At Vassar we have a large space in the library, not a lab or a classroom, open to the stacks and reading tables and overlooking our main reading room, which I had the honor of naming the Media Cloisters. In our online descriptions and program literature we describe the cloisters as a public sphere for networked interaction, the gathering place for students, professors, and librarians engaged in planning, evaluating, or reviewing the efforts of research and study utilizing the whole range of technologies of literacy. We go further and describe the task of the cloisters as to "channel flows of research, learning and teaching between the increasingly networked world of the library and the intimacy and engagement of our classrooms and other campus spaces". There we continue to explore the "collectable object", which I tentatively described in Othermindedness in terms of maintaining an archive of "the successive choices, the errors and losses, of our own human community" and suggesting that what constitutes the collectable object is the value which suffuses our choices. It seemed to me then that electronic media are especially suited to tracking such "changing change".
I think it still seems so to me now but I do fear we have lost track of the beauty and nimbleness of new media in representing and preserving the meaning-making quotidian, the ordinary mindfulness which makes human life possible and valuable.
It is interesting, I think, that recounting and rehearsing this notion leaves this interview layered and speckled with (self) quotations, documentations, implicit genealogies, images, and traditions of continuity, change, and difference. Perhaps the most quoted line of afternoon over the years has been the sentence "There is no simple way to say this." The same is true of any attempt to describe the way in which the collectable object participates in (I use this word as a felicitous shorthand for the complex of ideas involved in what I called "representing and preserving the meaning-making quotidian" above) the library as living archive.
Derrida begins his meditation on Freud, Archive Fever, by reminding us of the etymology of archive: "Arkhe," he says, "names at once the commencement and the commandment." What begins, as well as what we are called upon to do by men and gods, he says is an act of consignation, by which "we do not only mean the ordinary sense of the word to put into reserve (to consign, to deposit) in a place but here also the act of con-signing through gathering together signs".
Any archive begins and commands a gathering together of signs, around signs, in signs. One of the glories of new media has been their ability to gather and capture such signs, heartfelt glimpses of commencement and commandment, which is to say of beginning again and holding ourselves to the memory of what matters. The multiplicity of everyday events and voices, whether in hyperfiction or the archive, gives lie to the grand and corrosive deception of the bumper sticker propaganda we are assailed with by warmongering and fear-filled politicians who wrest day-to-day human tragedy to serve a simplistic and jingoistic claims that united we stand. Our archives like our fictions and other arts assure us of what we know and value in our day - to - day lives, how we stand strongest in our multiplicities and in our differences, in the gathering together of the fragments and gestures which are signs of our unique being and our intention to live together and sustain each other in community.
Cavill: I see the quotations self and other also as threads through your work, reference points and anchors, like the physicality of the river(s). Going back, was there anyone/thing that originally inspired you to write? And now could you say who are your influences and inspiration? (I say "thing" as well as "one", thinking about the influence of and relationship with technology, which you write about particularly in Moral Tales and Meditations.)Joyce: You are right to frame this question around Moral Tales and Meditations because it accounts the inspirations of place and home, which I have also written about elsewhere, especially in my first print novel, The War Outside Ireland, an exploration of how we are formed by stories. In the American-Irish-Catholic ghetto of South Buffalo that I wrote about there stories are shaped by the flow of the "family mind" which authors our stories for and of us and over which the mother presides, apportioning lots and roles alike. There were eight of us kids, four each from the then-available genders, and thus there were many stories and the family mind was quadraphonic, if not schizo (or octo) phrenic. All my brothers and sisters became story tellers, some professionally as teachers, writers, actors, comics, ministers. The earliest writings I recall were childhood stories which I bound up like little novels, complete with illustrations: a boy with magic pills, a cowboy who in retrospect seems to anticipate Don Quixote. When I made the first one I was probably not much older than five and my audience was, like most American-Irish kids, my mother.
In other settings I've also said that I discovered the power of family stories both literally and figuratively lingering under the table in the kitchen among the aunts and listening to how they held the world together with stories and laughter and whispered complaints my young ears couldn't pick out from the din. It was both an idyllic and a chaotic time of the kind the Pogues sing about in their raucous elegy "Body of an American". The men were elsewhere, drinking whiskey and beer and telling their own stories. The other kids were still farther away, heading toward twilight, shouting in the streets, filching discount soda pop from the spanking new garbage cans which served as ice filled summer coolers. I was mesmerized by the women's stories, and especially how they told them again and again and again.
My influences when I came to write were largely figures from Paris in the 20s and before, which I think now I must have considered a grand literary and artistic family, ranging from Pound to Joyce to Stein especially. Stein has proved a sustaining influence with her layering voices, her origami prose style, her insistence on the beauties of ordinary language and life. The next major set of influences were French new wave filmmakers and writers, Godard, Truffaut, Varda, Robbe-Grillet, Duras and the poetics of Charles Olson. These days I am sustained by Cixous' constant attention to language and life, I revisit Calvino for the clarity of his multiple fictional and philosophical visions, I find Giorgio Agamben a prophet, I listen to Thomas Merton.
There is one other major influence, another wave in the rhythm of family, Paris, Black Mountain in my life, and that is the classroom. Teaching for me provides the necessary action within the world that provides the context and occasion for how to think. Teaching and learning for me involve a profound conversation wherein the mind is formed by and in community. I spent much of last year away on leave as something of a pilgrim, walking hours on end through an Italian countryside and a German city in successive seasons. During that time I was most often a silent witness to conversations which I by and large understood but, beyond the basics of day - to - day existence, could not generate in return. As a writer, theorist, and teacher sometimes almost too glibly able to express myself and invite and instigate others to do so, I felt privileged to have this lesson in knowing silence and what it says about learning and the stories that form us alike.
Lastly and ever there is Carolyn Guyer, who is less an influence than the measure of my being, the wind through the trees as Pound's last Canto has it. Her early hypertext work was important to me and to many others in the way it led us to see the artfulness of daily life and the possibilities of attentive presence. The way she has turned her vision to building communities among disparate others humbles and energizes my life and art alike.
Cavill: My last question is related to the previous one in some ways; perhaps all previous questions. I'd like to ask a kind of "what next for you" question: can you say something about what are you working on now, which tides and eddies you are currently following?
Joyce: I wish I could say, quite literally wish that. In fact I spend a good deal of time in such wishing (recall that afternoon has an often-quoted one line screen which begins, "I want to say ..." where for me wanting is always a double of desire and lack). At the moment I am in something of a process of discernment, a difficult thing for someone used to making a racket or at least finding himself in the midst of buffeting potentialities. It happens that you ask me this question literally on the eve of my birthday, a time when, years ago and for years on end, I used to consider my life as if the eve itself were a set of auspices, a word which has its roots in how the auspex, the Roman augur, would study birds, whether the patterns in flight or the patterns in an array of bones. I'd rather flight than bones just now but it is probably not my lot to choose.
Michael Joyce Is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Electronic Learning and Teaching at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. He lives in New Hamburg, New York.
Mary Cavill is an information professional managing a government intranet site in London, UK. She has a special interest in the 'reading' of hypertext and hyperfiction, and has been involved with trAce since 2001, including the creation of the Incubation 2000 conference archive.
Joyce, Michael. "Liam's Going." McPherson & Company, 2002. 0‑929701‑66‑6:http://www.mcphersonco.com/fiction/liam.html
Twelve Blue:http://www.eastgate.com/TwelveBlue/Welcome.html
Moral Tales and Meditations:http://www.sunypress.edu/joyce/
Of Two Minds:http://www.press.umich.edu/titles/09578.html
Interview with Michael Joyce, SUNY Press:http://www.sunypress.edu/joyce/interview.html
Vassar College Libraries:http://iberia.vassar.edu/~mijoyce/
Eastgate Systems Inc.:http://www.eastgate.com/people/Joyce.html
Michael Joyce on Radio IDT:http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/radio-idt/speakers/mjoyce.html
Electronic Literature Directory:http://directory.wordcircuits.com/
Incubation 2000 Archivehttp://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/archive/2000/index.htm


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In an industry where weight loss ingredients can skyrocket to fame overnight and crash just as fast, it's easy to doubt the staying power of the latest ingredient to hit the industry.
On a February, 2012 episode of the Dr. Oz Show, Dr. Mehmet Oz discussed the weight loss benefits associated with raspberry ketones. Touting it has the "the No. 1 miracle in a bottle to burn your fat"1, Dr. Oz showed before-and-after photos of women who had experienced significant weight loss as a result of using raspberry ketones. Since this episode first aired, sales of raspberry ketones have skyrocketed, so much to the point that supplement companies can barely keep up with consumer demand.
Raspberry Ketones – what are they?
Raspberry ketones are phytochemicals in raspberries that give them their distinct smell. Similar in chemical construction to capsaicin, heat compounds found in red chili peppers, both raspberry ketones and capsaicin are considered to be fat burners.
According to a 2012 study conducted in China, raspberry ketones may improve insulin sensitivity, lower cholesterol and reduce liver fat. The findings of this study were confirmed by other studies conducted in both Japan and Korea.
Scientists believe these effects stem from the action of raspberry ketones in "altering the lipid metabolism, or more specifically, in increasing norepinephrine-induced lipolysis in white adipocytes." All these studies were conducted using lab rats fed on a high-fat diet or in vitrio using cells. While lab tests on rats may look promising, the same results may not necessarily translate into human studies.2-3
What about the before-and-after pictures that Dr. Oz showed of women who claim to have used raspberry ketones to lose weight? It must be noted that these women said they supplemented their diet with raspberry ketones but also followed a weight loss plan that consisted of a healthy diet and exercise. Dr. Oz was quick to add that raspberry ketones work best "when paired with regular exercise and a well-balanced diet."
So is it really a miracle? Maybe not a miracle in the true sense of the word, but there however appears to be some truth to the hype surrounding raspberry ketones, according to Dr. Stephen Anton, an assistant professor of aging and geriatrics at the University of Florida (Gainesville). Compared to the weight loss results of other plant compounds, raspberry ketones, indeed, look as if they have a promising future as a fat burner, but more conclusive results from human trials are needed to confirm this.
Tips for Weight Loss Formulations
Like a roller coaster, the weight loss industry has seen more than its share of wild peaks and crashing falls. This industry is by far the most influenced by both positive and negative publicity, which is why reputability, efficacy and safety are bigger concerns in the weight loss category than in any other supplement category. Over time, consumers have learned to be wary of products that promise miraculous weight loss results, and rightly so. Negative media coverage of suspect ingredients in the past has negatively impacted the industry, resulting in a double-digit drop in sales of diet pills last year, according to Functional Ingredients.4
So what should supplement business owners, like you, do if they want to enter the weight loss supplement market? According to Functional Ingredients, tried and tested ingredients may be the key to a successful product launch in the weight loss category. The more products that get called off the shelf because of suspect ingredients, the more it gives rise for research-backed supplements to succeed.
In the meanwhile, consumer demands for raspberry ketones are still high, which is why you should consider contacting a GMP certified raspberry ketone manufacturers who could help you formulate a well-designed nutritional weight loss supplement 5 Coming to market with a raspberry ketone supplement now could put your product in a favourable position since they are already well-received by consumers.


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This is *the* fix we have all been waiting for, folks.
These 2 fixes were created by Anonymous author, who also developed unofficial U891711, Q918547, GDI*.*, KERNEL32.DLL + older SHELL98 fixes.
Restored proper SHELL32.DLL 4.72.3812.634 English.
This SHELL32.DLL version corrects *almost all* EXPLORER.EXE lockups independent of free USER resources percentage:
* Unofficial Windows 98/98 SP1/98 SE Explorer Lockups With Internet Explorer 5.xx/6.xx SHELL32.DLL 4.72.3812.634 Fix:
- SHELL32.DLL Fix [475 KB, English]:
- SHELL32.DLL Fix [475 KB, French]:
- SHELL32.DLL Fix [475 KB, Italian]:
This SHELL32.DLL Fix corrects Windows Explorer (and similar tools that use SHELL32.DLL APIs) lockups while trying to copy/create/move/delete/rename large number of files/folders with Internet Explorer 5.xx/6.xx already installed.
BUG: This SHELL32.DLL fix breaks the ability of removing annoying arrows from Desktop shortcut icons!
FIX: See "PATCHED SHELL32.DLL BUG + FIX" for complete details:
Same SHELL32.DLL version "rearranged" for easier localization (translation into languages other than English):
* Unofficial Windows ME Explorer Lockups With Internet Explorer 5.xx/6.xx SHELL32.DLL 5.50.4134.120 Fix:
Direct download [843 KB, English]:
Direct download [847 KB, Italian]:
This SHELL32.DLL Fix corrects Windows Explorer (and similar tools that use SHELL32.DLL APIs) lockups while trying to copy/create/move/delete/rename large number of files/folders with Internet Explorer 5.xx/6.xx already installed.
How to uninstall this fix [valid for all versions]:
Start button -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> select "Remove Unofficial Explorer Lockups SHELL32.DLL Fix" -> click Add/Remove button -> reboot.
Author's comments...
Author's comments...
I am sending SHELL32.DLL [for Win98/98 SE], which is far more than a mere workaround.
It does not fix the underlying bug in USER.EXE and its WM processing, but is designed to prevent the series of EXPLORER.EXE hangs 100% even if User Resources are low etc.
Although some MSFN members seem to think otherwise, it is not a bug in SHELL32.DLL - it just happens to be the best place to take care of the problem.
As always, this patch comes with the notice "Use at your own risk!"
I am very sorry but I have no time to localize SHELL32.DLL and I also have no plans at this point to port the code from Win98/98 SE SHELL32.DLL 4.72.3812.634 or 635 to WinME 5.50.4134.120 ( --> .134) - the patch is more difficult to implement under WinME.
However, I am sending a "rearranged" SHELL32.DLL 5.50.4134.120 [for WinME], the same "workaround", which should be much easier to localize = translate localizable strings into languages other than English.
Rick Chauvin wrote on Jan 3 2007, 05:46 PM:Rick,
I've found interestingly that for whatever reason? the Shell32.dll fix
(SHELL98.EXE) fix for Explorer lockups appears? to be more effective if
the Kernel32.dll fix (Copy2gb.exe) is also installed. To explain more of
what I've noticed is that if only the Shell32.dll is updated the hang
problem is yes much improved (70% successful) over just having the
original one in place - but I still can make it hang although not nearly
as readily as without it that's for sure; however if I have both the
shell32 and Kernel32 dlls updated then in my observances as of yet
anyway, it appears to be even more improved (85% successful) and more
difficult to trigger the hang problem. (In any of my tests when it hangs
the User, System, and GDI resources still show high %) Even though not a
perfect fix, the Shell32.dll workaround is a good one and well worth it,
and many thanks again to anonymous for taking the time to look at this
Many thanks for testing the patch and for your comments.
Is there a sure-fire method that you know and use which triggers the bug successfully in most cases?
It would be very helpful to know.
It may help pinpoint the location of the actual bug in USER.EXE and whatever code in KRNL386.EXE/KERNEL32.DLL USER.EXE calls.
Which versions of KERNEL32.DLL have you been using for these tests?
4.10.2225 (official version) from 320798usa8.exe or an earlier version?
The updated version from COPY2GB.EXE on your machine is 4.10.2226 (unofficial version), correct?
LLXX wrote on Jan 6 2007, 07:39 PM:LLXX wrote on Dec 16 2006, 07:33 PM:
First of all, there is nothing wrong with SetFilePointer as it uses
64-bit file pointers; the problem is in _llseek which interprets its
32-bit file pointer as signed irregardless of the desired seek (from the
beginning, from the current position, or from the end), and thus
attempts to move the file pointer past the beginning of the file even
when the desired seek is from the beginning (in which case a negative
offset would be nonsensical). In the unfixed version of _llseek,
SetFilePointer gets passed the sign-extended file pointer, causing *it*
to attempt to seek past the beginning of the file. I have fixed this by
forcing it to zero-extend the file pointer to 64 bits (thus keeping its
sign positive) *only* when a seek from the beginning is specified.
Otherwise the file pointer is signed and can be moved within the file as
Anonymous seems to have fixed shell32.dll to use SetFilePointer instead,
although this still leaves _llseek flawed. SetFilePointer doesn't need
any changes.What is her problem??? It is beyond me why she writes such nonsense. Has she not read the official definition on msdn2.microsoft.com and in the 'Win32 SDK Reference Help' (WIN32.HLP)???
Don't know what's with that one. The _llseek doesn't even look like it
was fixed. Edit: This problem doesn't affect explorer.exe in WinME so
maybe that file is just a dummy.
KERNEL32.SetFilePointer has two modes: If called with a 32-bit pointer to the high-order DWORD of a 64-bit file pointer, it uses a 64-bit distance to move and uses it correctly.
However, if the pointer to the high-order DWORD is NULL, KERNEL32.SetFilePointer uses a 32-bit distance to move.
This is how KERNEL32._llseek calls KERNEL32.SetFilePointer (if unpatched) - KERNEL32._llseek itself is just a stub to call KERNEL32.SetFilePointer!
This is very different from a (real = non-zero) pointer pointing to a high-order DWORD that is zero.
AFAIK, _llseek and SetFilePointer are flawed in all versions of Windows (Win9x, WinNT, Win2k and WinXP) and probably in Vista, too.
Interestingly, the official description on msdn2.microsoft.com of the SetFilePointer API (and its 32-bit call mechanism!) has changed several times over the years. One may speculate if this was done to disguise the flaw.
The code below is an example of a bug in USER.EXE.
Unfortunately, it is *not* the bug that causes the EXPLORER.EXE hang, but the type of bug I was alluding to in an earlier message.
This bug can cause mayhem when Resources are too low and KERNEL.LOCALALLOC fails.
This type of bug occurs more than once in USER.EXE, but also exists in GDI.EXE, which highlights that coding practices apparently were not at their best when Windows 95 was developed.push 0x40 push 0x14 call KERNEL.LOCALALLOC mov cx, ds <-- ds<>0 mov [bp-4], ax mov [bp-2], ds or cx, ax <-- always <>0 jnz ... xor ax, ax jmp ...
Please post here your test results.
This is a patched version of:
- SHELL32.DLL 5.50.4134.120 for Windows ME
- SHELL32.DLL 4.72.3812.648 for Windows 98/98 SP1/98 SE
that prevents the EXPLORER hang from occuring when a large number of files is deleted, moved etc.
As I wrote earlier, the problem arises because USER.EXE runs completely out of resources (=0%) right after such a file operation is completed.
However, this is not a bug in USER.EXE. The patch I am providing is not a fix in the true sense, it is more of a workaround and, as always, is provided 'as is' without warranties expressed or implied and with the note 'Use it at your own risk.'
The problem may still occur if a large number of files is deleted, moved etc, while USER resources are low, say below 30%.
I also believe this problem has nothing to do with what versions of SHLWAPI.DLL and/or BROWSEUI.DLL are installed.
It may occur much more frequently with the IE6 SP1 versions because they have much more code, which also takes longer to execute (and may no longer be "optimized" for a Win9x environment).
May I use this opportunity to address a common misconception about GDI and
USER resources in Win9x/ME: The OS and all applications, whether they are
16-bit or 32-bit versions, share the same GDI and USER resources. These
resources are managed by GDI.EXE and USER.EXE, respectively. One of the
two data segments of GDI.EXE is for GDI resources and one of the two data
segments of USER.EXE (plus two extra heaps) is for USER resources. GDI and
USER objects (in these data segments) are accessed through *16-bit-wide*
handles. 32-bit applications (and DLLs) just use zero-extended 32-bit
versions of the same handles. The data segments I am referring to are
32-bit segments with an *initial* size of approx. 2.1 MiByte each. The
16-bit resources are just the lowest 65536 bytes each in these two 32-bit
data segments. 16-bit-wide handles and the 16-bit resource limit cause the
real bottle neck in resources of Win9x. Increasing the default size of the
two 32-bit data segments (which would be possible using hidden system
settings for them) makes very, very little, if any difference.


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'Stay Away From My Guy': The Angry Email that Ended Petraeus' Career
Jill Kelley Revealed as the Other Other Woman in Scandal
After a flurry of revelations Friday following the surprise resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus, the story of an extra-marital affair turned potential leak of classified data continues to unfold in bizarre directions, with another "other woman" entering onto the scene.
This "third woman" has been named as Jill Kelley, a Florida woman who volunteered organizing parties for the military, and who insists she was just a "friend" to Petraeus, something which some of Petraeus' other friends say was likely the case.
Don't try telling that to Paula Broadwell, the original "other woman" of the story. Having been given access to Petraeus' Gmail account, she was convinced that Petraeus was fooling around on her with Kelley, even as he was fooling around with her on his wife.
And that's where the general's long career began to unravel, as Broadwell sent Kelley a "stay away from my guy" email and increasingly ugly and threatening emails followed, prompting Kelley to notify the FBI. She had no clue how big a deal this would be.
The FBI started the investigation into Broadwell and quickly discovered who "her guy" was, which turned this from a simple "jealous lover threats" thing to a "CIA Director gave his girlfriend access to classified data" thing.
Petraeus' resignation was couched as a question of morality, but as the details continue to emerge, ridiculous as many of them turned out to be, it is clear it went far deeper than just the sloppy affair, and but for Broadwell's over-the-top jealous emails, it may never have been uncovered at all.
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One mus wonder why Kelly B. thought Jill K. was a threat to her…??
Geez, this sounds more like the three stooges with each passing day.
"But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out." Num.32:23
Looks like the general is a very friendly fellow with the ladies. Will the pundits who were comparing Petraeus to Roosevelt and Eisenhower on the Sunday morning talk shows still be enamored of their supposedly great man when all the details come out? Maybe someone should tell Peggy Noonan that the morality of the 1940s is 70 years gone, a press that turned a blind eye to mistresses along with the horses, bayonets, jeeps, and War Alarms.
wait until the CongressCritters get involved…you haven't seen anything yet.
Ah, women!
One war criminal down, 245,734 to go.
LOL! Frank Burns and Hot Lips Houlihan!
Down for maybe 6 months to a year tops. He'll be back, as will this Paula woman, given her apparent ambitions. For precedents, see Slick Willie, Elliot Spitzer, Newt Gingrich, etc.
Poor judgement isn't fatal anymore for a public figure, unless it involves badmouthing Israel.
the similarity goes beyond both having a "ferret face"


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View from the Vauxhall End: England juggernaut rumbles on
The England juggernaut is all dieseled up and ready to roll
Clichés are the sign of a tired writer, an imagination numbed by repetition, an absence of description where its presence is demanded. Little will please England's Andys, Flower and Strauss, more than seeing the clichéd metaphor "England juggernaut" in reports of the first day of the battle to be top Test team in the world.
For that has been their aim from the moment the dust cleared four years ago and neither Peter Moores nor Kevin Pietersen were left standing and a new coach and captain combination assumed control.
Supported by the kind of backroom staff (in expertise and breadth of knowledge) that Team Sky are using to project Bradley Wiggins into the Yellow Jersey in Paris, England set out to execute a plan rooted in the relentless pursuit of victories through grinding down the opposition with bat and ball. It hasn't always worked, but it has worked often enough to make grizzly old observers of the game wonder if this is the best England side they have ever seen.
Needless to say (outside the subcontinent at least) come the first day of this crucial series, the juggernaut was all dieseled up and ready to roll, as Andrew Strauss called correctly and decided to bat in tricky conditions.
He was soon a victim of the DRS (well, a victim of a rare ball that would have gone on to hit the stumps from South Africa's undercooked attack), but where once England fell to 2-4 against Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock, Jonathan Trott punched his first ball down the ground for four and England's supporters relaxed.
The game, of course, resists perfection, but what followed were two sessions of immaculate Test batting. The good balls were blocked, the bad balls were hit, the leave was the most important shot in the first and last hours of the day and at no point after Strauss' dismissal in the first over, were South Africa ever on top.
Trott unveiled his underused, but beautiful, extra-cover drive to supplement his usual bottom-hand punches, before a rare lapse of concentration saw him edge one to the keeper; KP, skittish and a little too eager, got in and got out to a smart piece of thinking by Jacques Kallis; and Ian Bell, looking up and not seeing Saeed Ajmal, had the crowd purring with his technical rectitiude.
And, driving the juggernaut as he has so often, was Alastair Cook. Sometimes expansive (a sixth career six amused him and Dale Steyn), always watchful, his concentration was at its fearsome peak. He also showed how he has expanded his game since assuming the ODI captaincy, punching a back-foot drive down the ground for the shot of the day – nay, the shot of the summer.
Having started by sending out their captain alone to receive the applause of the crowd on the occasion of his 100th Test, having had the confidence to hold the best bowler in the world back as a first change and having had the boost of a wicket in the first over of the day, the South Africans have been caught in the headlights of a machine that keeps on coming.
There are still 14 days left to play in this series, but the signs are ominous for the visitors who must find a way of slowing and then stopping the machine that the Andys built.


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Fordham University freshman guard Hannah Missry (Jackson Memorial) was named the Atlantic 10 Conference Rookie of the Week in women's basketball.
She scored 17 points and grabbed five rebounds in a 76-73 win over Virginia Commonwealth University. She netted 12 points and added two rebounds and one assist in a 73-64 loss to the University of Dayton. Missry played 33 minutes as a starter against VCU. In 34 starting minutes against Dayton, she buried four of six shots from the field - all from downtown.
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Well here we go again then, Saturday lunchtime kick off, live on Sky Sports and one thing we don't need is a repeat of last Saturday's showing or Wednesday's dull performance.
We know Cesc is out as is Eboue, Diaby, Vermaelen, Frimpong and Clichy. Oh, and Almunia! That's according to AFC.com so if I'm wrong, blame them, don't shoot the messenger… Some suggestion is though that Clichy faces a late test and Almunia is back in contention!
I'm not even going to guess at our first eleven, we'll know that soon enough.
Onto Villa, a team under a relatively new manager in post, Gerard Houllier and a side which could include our old hero Robert Pires. Like us, they are having a topsy turvy season and the last two games has seen them throw away a two goal lead at home to Manchester United to draw and then last weekend they were beaten by Fat Sam's Blackburn away from home.
We all know though, latest form and results mean nothing in this league, it's all about who on the day has the more fight and desire to win. If we can turn up at Villa Park and show the commitment we did at Eastlands then we can win. Play with the lack of passion and desire we showed this time last weekend then no doubt we will come away with nothing.
Villa have some quality players, a strong goal keeper in Friedel, Steven Ireland in midfield who maybe struggling to settle at his new club but on his day he would walk into most Premier League sides and of course up front we all know how good Agbonlahor and Young are. Last weekend they were all off form against Blackburn, I'm hoping they continue that form today otherwise our defence are in for a tough time.
This is our second chance to go top and even if it is only for a few hours just being there might lift the players, make them realise that it's not a pipe dream, it really is a possibility and we can win the league. But, we won't if they don't start working together, working for themselves and working for the club.
We have all chewed the cud in the past week, wondering what is going wrong, who's to blame and how to put it right if we were the manager. Reality is, we are not and we can do nothing. One man can though and that's Arsene Wenger. He's had a tough week, watching his side throw a two goal lead against our rivals only to lose the game then going to Portugal and losing against a poor side in Braga. So yes it's been tough.
It's been tough for us fans too and as I've already said, one man can put right all that's been going wrong. That has to come from his pre-match talk, his half- time talk, his instructions during the game and of course his timing of substitutions and changing of tactics if needed. Then, it's down to the players to show why the club paid so much money for them and why they deserve to wear the red and white shirt.
So come on Mr Wenger, get the best out of your players today, put a smile back on your face and the face of every Arsenal fan.
Showing 'bottle' wins you games, throwing them will not!!
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Total noob type question (compared to what else you guys discuss) so I'm posting it here. I'm looking for some tips on how to read the numbers on bottles and labels to determine different years of bottlings and manufacturing dates. Any tips for how I'd go about doing this?