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Controversial 'Sharia Law' Bill Advancing in Montana
By Andrew Eicher | March 16, 2017 | 1:52 PM EDT
(CNSNews.com) – Montana's Senate Bill 97, which bans the application of foreign laws in Montana, passed the Republican-controlled House Judiciary along party lines and will now move to the House floor, Montana Public Radio reported on March 13.
While the legislation does not specifically mention Sharia law, both those in favor of and in opposition to the measure have referred to it in hearings as the "Sharia law bill." Sharia law is what governs Islamic societies, in the public square and in the home.
The bill's sponsor, state Senator Keith Regier (R-Kalispell) insists that his intent is to protect the fundamental liberties of Montana citizens by forbidding the use of foreign laws in state courts.
"For these immigrants to retain their diverse rule of law would create a society in chaos," said Regier, as reported by the Flathead Beacon.
Sandy Montgomery, a constituent of Regier's, defended the measure, calling it "long overdue."
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"We have allowed legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, and now refugees to take advantage of our law and our culture and to take up their own agendas," she said. "They have no intention to abide by our laws nor are they interested in assimilating into our culture."
Sandy Bradford of Helena fears that the application of Sharia law in state courts would hurt women's rights.
"It is my opinion that Islam is not a peaceful religion," said Bradford. "In fact Islam is not a religion at all but rather an ideology. Islam in my opinion is an enemy to all. But especially to women."
Rachel Carroll Rivas, co-director of the Montana Human Rights Network, decried the bill as "a direct reaction to Islamophobia" and an "underhanded effort to spread an alarmist message about Islam in order to keep Muslims in the United States on the margins."
The legislation is "rooted in xenophobia that is unfounded and unfair," she said.
The bill now advances to the House floor for debate. Should it pass, it will go to Governor Steve Bullock, a Democrat, for consideration.
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The OPC is a fully integrated computer with internal speaker, which delivers playing, recording, editing and computing capabilities to musicians and music aficionados. This is the first computer of its kind that can connect the user and his or her music to the digital domain simply by plugging in an instrument.
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This 49 secs video has already built a lot of curiosity amongst us!
After teasing us with the on set location pictures, Salman Khan has finally revealed the teaser of Bharat on the occasion of Independence Day. Salman, who is currently shooting in Malta for the film, shared the it on his Social Media platforms.
The video starts with a soothing music which has a backdrop of circus with Salman's voiceover in the background. He says, 'Bhauji kehte the, kuch rishte zameen se hote hai aur kuch rishte khoon se. Mere pass dono hi the.' And then the logo of Bharat comes up with India's map in the background. The caption reads, 'A journey of a man and a nation together.' Well, this 49 secs video has already built a lot of curiosity amongst us! Now we really can't wait for the trailer.


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World's largest and the only monument to the enema is located on the campus of Mashuk Aqua-Therm (Машук Аква-Терм) Sanatorium, Inozemtsevo, Zheleznovodsk, Russia. Situated in the Caucasus Mountains region which is known for its mineral springs, water of of which is often used for colonic treatment.
The bronze monument which weighs 350 kg and is 1.5 metres high, depicts a giant pear-shaped bulb enema held on the shoulders of three little angels.
Unveiled on June 18, 2008, it was designed by Avakov Svetlana and Begalov David. Treatment and prevention of digestive diseases is one of the main activities of the sanatorium. "We administer enemas nearly every day," said Alexander Kharchenko, the head of the sanatorium. It was therefore decided to create World's first monument to this very well known medical device that is used throughout the World. It cost about a million Rouble and as per its designer Svetlana Avakova she drew inspiration from Botticelli's classic painting Venus and Mars to tackle the tricky subject.
Note: Click on images to view the original enlarged image from the sanatorium photo album.


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Join On The Water at the New England Saltwater Fishing Expo at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence this weekend. Stop by booths 0102-0105 to say hello to the OTW crew, renew your subscription and sign up for the Striper Cup. We'll also be bringing great OTW merchandise including hats, t-shirts, sweatshirts, vests, books, DVD's and more! We hope to see you there!
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Dates: March 28-30, 2014
Times: Friday 12pm – 9pm, Sat 9am – 7pm, Sun 10am – 5pm
Location: Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
Details: Over 250 exhibitors and 60 saltwater fishing seminars will be held throughout the course of the weekend
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I had posted about the Fishing Expo in Somerset, remember someone said it was spam? :) Well, I did go to it and it was amazing. Holy shit! I found a new brand (to me) of Fly reel that seems to be really well made and inexpensive, for a fly reel. So soon as I get some free cash I'll order one.
It was really great, it's been a very long time since I've done any fishing and it just felt great to be around like minded people and really get to see what kind of tackle is used up here in the North East. Now I just gotta figure out how, when and where to get out
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March 18-20th there is a Saltwater Expo at the Garden State Center. I'm going and thought I'd give you guys a heads up in case you want to go.
Go to www dot sportshows dot com to get more info, there are three more scheduled in different areas in the North East.
I went to the Flyfishing SHow there and it was amazing!
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Pennsylvania gun owners threatened to boycott the state's largest hunting and fishing expo Tuesday after organizers announced that they would ban the display and sale of assault rifles at this year's show. Reed Exhibitions, a British-based company that runs the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show in Harrisburg each February, notified vendors of the change in policy over the last several days, a company representative confirmed to The Inquirer.
The presence of so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines might have served as "a distraction" from other aspects of the event in the wake of the recent school shootings in Newtown, Conn
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Like many in the coaching line, Dan Quinn started at the bottom, working 60-hour weeks and doing the dirty work. Even at his first stint, he showed the traits—no-nonsense grinder, quick learner, good communicator—that would eventually take him and the Falcons to the Super Bowl
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — In the fall of 1994, most nights of the week you could find Jason Miller at the Green Leafe Café here, across the street from the William & Mary football stadium. Miller was a senior linebacker on the team, but he'd blown out his knee in the first game, and he wanted to drink his sorrows away. The Green Leafe was the bar where students usually hung out. It had sticky floors and cheap drinks, chipped paint and wooden booths.
"It was a great place to just get ripped," Miller says.
Sometimes Dan Quinn would meet Miller at the Green Leafe. Quinn was 24 years old, fresh out of college, and working part time as the William & Mary assistant defensive line coach. He was putting in 60-hour weeks for about $10,000 a year. He'd slide into a back booth with Miller and Len Annetta, another assistant coach he knew from college, and they'd talk football, life and the grind of it all. Then the bill would come.
"Sometimes I picked up the tab," says Miller, "because he couldn't afford to."
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Quinn can afford to buy the entire bar a round now; in two Sundays he'll be leading the Falcons into the Super Bowl. But here was where his coaching career started, at a Division I-AA (now FCS) school, working late hours, watching film, running errands and setting up cones for drills. He was so low on the totem pole that he didn't even have his own position group. He coached the defensive tackles, and didn't have an office.
Jimmye Laycock, the head football coach, laughs at the memory. He's been the head guy for 37 years here, the longest active streak of any Division I or FCS football coach. He played quarterback here for Marv Levy and then Lou Holtz, in what was Holtz's first head-coaching gig. No office? When Laycock took over in the '80s, coaches had it worse. The team usually practiced on the outfield of the school's baseball field so not to tear up the grass on the stadium field. In the spring, when the baseball team reclaimed its field, football had to practice on an empty plot of nearby land next to an insane asylum. The patients would often wander over and walk through drills. "When I'd hire a new coach, I'd never tell him," Laycock says, letting out another laugh. "I'd just tell him there were some interested alums coming by practice."
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Laycock was tough on his assistants, especially the young ones. He was a stickler for details and short on patience. Years ago he used to handle his players' away-game ticket requests, so it'd be done the proper way. In time he delegated more to his assistants, but only the ones he trusted. You knew where you stood with Coach based on how much he spoke to you, how much work he gave you. The busier you were, the more Laycock trusted you. If you spoke up during a staff meeting, it had better be worthwhile, or else Laycock would let you know. "I'm not one to have meetings just to have meetings," Laycock says. "I'm not interested in a whole lot of frivolous talk. Let's get to the point. Say something meaningful and move on."
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(Quinn worked in a similarly strict environment in his second coaching stop, at Virginia Military Institute. Once, Bill Stewart, the coach there, called for the second-unit kickoff team to take the field during practice, and one player was late coming onto the field. Stewart blamed his assistants for disorganization, and banished them to the locker room.)
Quinn mostly kept his head down that first year and listened. He carried himself like someone mature beyond his years, and that was a trait that had carried over from college, when he played football at Salisbury State (now Salisbury University) in Maryland. At one point in college, he started dating a student athletic trainer, which was technically against the rules, and out of respect for the head trainer, Pat Lamboni, a friend of his, Quinn kept the relationship a secret. Lamboni didn't know the two of them were dating until late in Quinn's senior year, when he saw them walking hand in hand in the park. "I may have been the only one in the state who didn't know," Lamboni says. The woman would later become Quinn's wife.
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As a coach, Quinn usually deferred to Mike London, the future Virginia head coach, his direct superior who had a fiery personality. Quinn would typically pull guys aside and deliver a message or a coaching point in a calmer tone, in private. During games he'd also have casual back-and-forth conversations with players over schemes. He treated them like peers, which may have been because he was only a few years older than them. At the time there was a lot of talent on the team: Mike Tomlin, future Steelers coach, was a senior captain wide receiver, Darren Sharper, future longtime NFL defensive back, was a sophomore safety, and Sean McDermott, the new Bills coach, was a freshman defensive back.
The William & Mary 1994 team photo featured three future NFL head coaches.
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Quinn's style worked particularly well with the young defensive tackles he was assigned to coach that year: Peter Coyne, a redshirt freshman; and Brian Giamo, a sophomore. Giamo recalls one game in particular early on when Quinn was coaching him. Giamo made a bunch of tackles and remembered it as being one of his better games. Then when they gathered to review the film on Monday, he found Quinn had given him a relatively poor grade. Giamo had made the plays, but he hadn't followed his assignments or used the right technique, and Quinn calmly explained why. "He'd say, this is why you didn't come across his face," Giamo says. "You were here, you did this, you did that. His style was more instructive."
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Quinn had learned the technique well as a player, out of necessity. As a freshman linebacker at Salisbury he had a habit of sticking his head out when he tackled, and it result in bad stingers. Every now and then he'd tap his head to one side, get a stinger, and have to leave the game for three or four plays. As the season went on it became almost chronic—the stingers came more and more frequently, and it reached the point where, after the season, the trainer, Lamboni, sat Quinn down and told him that he had make some changes.
Quinn had to strengthen his shoulders and neck and learn some stretches. He had to change positions, to defensive end. And then, most importantly he had to change the way he tackled. "How can I do it better?" Quinn asked. He changed so he wouldn't stick his head in traffic every play. He learned that lesson about two decades before the NFL really would.
Quinn bumped his weight up to around 270 pounds, didn't have any more issues with his stingers, and finished as a four-year starter. Then a coach at Salisbury mentioned his name to someone coaching at William & Mary, who mentioned his name to Laycock, who hired him with high expectations. The coaches there worked Quinn hard, and he grinded through those unhealthy 60-hour work weeks for one season, and then got a job offer from VMI, as a full-time defensive line coach. His future wife, Stacey, would also find work there as an athletic trainer.
"I hated to lose him," Laycock says. "I felt he really could've been a good one."
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After VMI, Quinn went on to coach at Hofstra and then made the jump to the NFL, working as an assistant coach or coordinator for 14 more seasons before landing the top job with the Falcons in 2015. Once he arrived, he started applying the lessons he had learned over the years, going all the way back to his brief stay at William & Mary.
The Falcons immediately started remaking their defense, bringing in young players Quinn could mold. Seven players the Falcons have acquired within the last two years are playing major roles on this team, and Quinn has indoctrinated all of his players all in rugby-style tackling—a technique he had his teams use in Seattle in which tacklers lead with their torso and wrap their arms around the ball-carrier, rather than lead with his head. Quinn encourages his palyers, disciplines them, and teaches them, and it seems to be working. Their biggest test will come in the Super Bowl, tring to stop one of the best quarterbacks of all time.
Dan Quinn puts his Falcons players through the paces in Flowery Branch, Ga., this week in advance of Super Bowl 51.
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Then all eyes will be on Quinn, patrolling the sideline. When Jason Miller, the former William & Mary linebacker, sees his old drinking buddy on the sidelines now, he's surprised to see how much weight Quinn has lost since back when. "He looks great," Miller says. "When you become a head coach you can say, hey, I'm going to the gym for an hour and a half.
But, Miller adds, "He still has a mug from [the Green Leafe] somewhere, I'm sure."
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Helen V. Griffith has been appointed the inaugural executive director of The Preuss School of the University of California, San Diego, effective October 7. The Preuss School is a unique charter middle and high school for low-income students who strive to become the first in their families to graduate from college.
Located on the University of California, San Diego campus, The Preuss School is consistently recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the best high school in San Diego County and among the top 10 in California. The Preuss School enrolls more than 800 students in grades six through 12 who come from over 40 diverse San Diego communities. Over 90 percent of graduates are accepted to four-year universities, and almost 100 percent go on to some form of higher education.
"It is an honor to join the team of highly talented and skillful educators as they seek to surpass their record of proven results," said Dr. Griffith. "As a life-long educator, my passion for transformational scholar-outcomes will fuel our vision for next-level innovation, creativity and an educational experience that continues to elevate the trajectory for our scholars, our community, and our world. The Preuss School UC San Diego is positioned to revolutionize the face of public education and I'm beyond excited to be part of The Preuss Promise!"
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WHAT A long, strange trip it has been. Since its inception in 1988, the national curriculum has sometimes resembled a rusty Ford Capri, enduring constant trips to the mechanics' yard and repeated calls for it to be streamlined or possibly scrapped.
"I ignore it as much as possible," one east London English teacher said.
"It is chaotic, irrational, unselfconscious, with an ingrained distrust of the people expected to carry it out."
With a wave of 14 to 19-year-old reforms scheduled for 2008, which will introduce diplomas in vocational subjects like social care and IT as an alternative to GCSE and A-levels, it is clear the overhauls are not over yet.
A spokesman for the QCA said the 14 to 19-year-old reforms would, "increase flexibility and reduce prescription". "We want to encourage creative and innovative teaching that gives pupils the high-quality learning experience which they are entitled to," he said. Giving their verdict in this week's TES survey, teachers made it clear they are struggling under an avalanche of well-meaning initiatives. Two-thirds believe the curriculum is too prescriptive.
More than half would prefer to set their own teaching plans, and two-thirds told The TES their priority was coaching schoolchildren for exams, whether they believed in them or not.
Given that the history of the curriculum seems to move in ever-decreasing circles it is hardly surprising. Three-quarters of teachers felt they were not adequately consulted on reforms, possibly because decisions about educational policy seem to be ditched or reversed every few years.
"The problem is that it (the curriculum) is seen as a panacea for all social ills," Kevin Rooney, a social science teacher at Queens' School in Hertfordshire, said. "More and more it is used as an instrument to fulfil social demands and we are denied any freedom to teach how we see fit."
The recent controversy over modern languages is a case in point. Our survey showed that 41 per cent of teachers believed they should be mandatory until 16. This was the case until 2000, when the Labour Government decided foreign languages would be compulsory only to 14. But now less than half of students take up the offer of a foreign language course "entitlement", that decision is being seriously reviewed.
Lord Dearing has been brought in to report on the state of secondary languages as ministers question their policy change. "We broadly support bringing back languages," said Bill Musk of the Association of Language Learning. "There has been a continuing decline and fall-off, and that is a response to policy decisions made a few years ago. Unfortunately that cannot be reversed overnight."
Languages are by no means an exception. Sports have proved another political football, with support for team games in secondary schools ditched post-2000, only to be welcomed back into Labour's bosom amid concerns about child fitness. Only one in 10 children receive their recommended hour of exercise a day, according to a study in The Lancet.
The national curriculum was introduced in 1988 and consisted of a mere 10 subjects across all age ranges. ICT and modern languages were notable omissions.
It was the beginning of centralisation for teachers on a massive scale, with compulsory testing introduced at key stages 1 to 4, but staff who complained that it was an erosion of their professional freedom could hardly have foreseen the upheavals to come.
Further reforms followed in 1995 and Labour's election in 1997 heralded a brave new era for education policy - cementing the place of fringe subjects in the secondary curriculum (PSHE, ICT, citizenship and careers), and imposing rigorous tests and targets on primary school teachers, as part of their national literacy and numeracy strategies of 1998. Few of the targets have been reached since then and testing at key stage 1 has been dropped in response to criticism from teachers.
Author Philip Pullman dismissed the national literacy strategy as "half baked drivel". He told The TES: "It has nothing to do with a true, wise, open and rich response to literature."
But one success story has been the introduction of new technology, from smart boards to "serious games" such as Sonica which helps pupils learn Spanish. An overwhelming three-quarters of teachers believed their lessons had improved as a result - almost unknown for a Government IT initiative - showing that billions of pounds of funding had not been in vain.
"It is daunting when you first start out but it is really motivating," said Geoff Cumner-Price, headteacher at Oakthorpe primary in Palmers Green, north London. His staff regularly use smart boards and laptops. "The interactive white boards are a window on the world," he added. "We do science experiments virtually and we can invite authors to speak on screen.
Children today demand that level of sophistication."


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Q: After Me.Recalc in Access off-screen values are not displayed From VBA I'm setting a series of text boxes to have DSum controlSources:
Me.Oct.ControlSource = "=DSum('GBPValue', _
                                'MF YTD Actual Income & Adret', _
                                'Month=10 AND Org_Type=[Key]')"
Me.Nov.ControlSource = "=DSum('GBPValue', _
                                'MF YTD Actual Income & Adret', _
                                'Month=11 AND Org_Type=[Key]')"

and then running Me.Recalc to get the values to show up once set. This works fine for the text boxes that are on-screen when the form loads but for ones on the same (very wide) form that are not currently on screen the Recalc seems to do nothing. If I scroll across the form and select the blank fields the values then show up. Is there any way to get the values for every text box on-screen or off to be there on form load or, at worst, when the user scrolled across?

A: I can guess why this must be happening: it's likely that Recalc doesn't repaint controls that are not currently visible.  So even though the value of the controls has in fact changed, their cached visual appearance still appears empty when the scrolling windows reveals them.
Here's what I'd recommend: create a member function on your form like this:
Function GetMonthValue(Month As Long) As Double
   GetMonthValue = DSum("GBPValue", "MF YTD Actual Income & Adret", _
                 "Month=" & Month & " AND Org_Type=" & [Key])
End Function

The control source for the text boxes can then be set to "=GetMonthValue(1)" and so on.  This means that each control's source is declared statically and there's no need to change anything when the form loads.  When the current record changes, the value should track, although I haven't verified this with testing.

A: I don't know what the problem is but you can try this:
...
Me.Oct = DSum('GBPValue', _
                'MF YTD Actual Income & Adret', _
                'Month=10 AND Org_Type=[Key]')
Me.Nov = DSum('GBPValue', _
                'MF YTD Actual Income & Adret', _
                'Month=11 AND Org_Type=[Key]')
...

Set control's text by using DSum directly.
Edit: You can also try refreshing the form after the calculations, i.e. Me.Refresh.

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Fascinating short from Toronto Film Fest - and what is a narrative film these days?
Crossed my screen this AM.
But kinda riveting and the comments indicate that the extremely modern pace and structure are very appealing to its intended audience.
Is "internet conditioning" changing what audiences will now accept as narrative flow?
Re: Fascinating short from Toronto Film Fest - and what is a narrative film these days?
[Bill Davis] "Is "internet conditioning" changing what audiences will now accept as narrative flow?"
I'm an old fart and I liked the narrative flow, thought it was very well done, not sure what internet conditioning has to do with it. Anyone who's raised a kid in the past few years can relate. Amy was history from the moment she made the crack about asian roommates.
[Herb Sevush] "not sure what internet conditioning has to do with it."
I think to keep with the narrative flow, you've got to be pretty grounded in internet concepts.
To follow the narrative, you've got to intuitively understand: that's email, that's a chat window, he's texting now, that's her facebook page, that's a chatroultte video window - unless you get that kind of contexural stuff, I'm not sure you can follow the threads of the story as well.
For example, when he hijacks her Facebook page and is about to post the "huh?" - you've got to KNOW that the next click is much riskier than all the ones before it. The editing can't build tension like it does if tha'ts not evident to the viewer. And the only way you know that is if you understand the context of what's happening in the various windows.
That's what I meant by "inteernet conditioning" anyway.
[Bill Davis] "For example, when he hijacks her Facebook page and is about to post the "huh?" - you've got to KNOW that the next click is much riskier than all the ones before it. The editing can't build tension like it does if tha'ts not evident to the viewer. And the only way you know that is if you understand the context of what's happening in the various windows."
OK, agreed, like any film you have to have some idea of the context. But less than you might think. I've only heard about chat roulette and I don't facebook, but even without that specific knowledge the filmmaker clued me in that the "huh?" was a big deal, even though I'm not sure why. Audiences always need less information than we think - it's why night scenes always work so well, the less we see the more we can imagine.
[Herb Sevush] "Audiences always need less information than we think - it's why night scenes always work so well, the less we see the more we can imagine."
yes, yes, yes, yes. Sophisticated filmmakers and advertisers know this, but people who think audiences are stupid and have to be clobbered don't. Then they wonder when audiences turn and run.
I mean, you do have to know which clues to give them or you can be obscure rather than evocative, and I guess that's the art. Where do you put the motion in the frame, etc. Or in the frame before.
Very well done, and I really liked it as well. And having three boys, two in college, none of these concepts were really foreign to me. There might have been one or two spots where I might have added a bit more pause before the click as that was how we got to understand his state of mind - that balance between just being mad versus vindictive. I felt the overall pace was indicative of how fast relationships come and go now. And to think my grandparents sent letters to each other and the time that took. Great idea for a short.


1. Which of the following statements is true about Bluetooth?
B. Bluetooth uses a radio technology called frequency-hopping spread spectrum.
C. A PC that does not have embedded Bluetooth can be used with a Bluetooth adapter that will enable the PC to communicate with other Bluetooth devices.
3. _____ is an electronic spreadsheet. You can use it to organise your data into rows and columns. You can also use it to perform mathematical calculations quickly.
4. A hard drive consists of spinning ____ made up of aluminum or ceramic that is coated with magnetic media.
6. Which of the following statements is NOT true about a computer?
1) 8085 is an example of 8-bit microprocessor.
2) Software is used to make computer usable.
3) Based on the microprocessor, systems are classified as PC-XT and PC-AT.
4) SMPS converts AC (Alternate Current) into DC (Direct Current) .
7. The Intel 8085 is a/an _____ microprocessor introduced by Intel in the year _____.
8. Which of the following is NOT a goal of transaction processing system?
9. Which of the following is not an example of a virus?
12. ____ are viruses that are triggered off by the passage of time or on a certain date.
13. Which of the following places the common data elements in order from smallest to largest?
16. Which of the following would most likely NOT be a symptom of a virus?
1) Existing program files and icons disappear.
2) The CD-ROM stops functioning.
3) The Web browser opens to an unusual home page.
4) Odd messages or images are displayed on the screen.
20. ______ server stores and manages files for network users.


If you're tired of watching the world end, you're not alone. In its darkest and most compelling scene, the dystopian-future drama "Tomorrowland" lashes out against its genre, delivering a "Network"-esque what-the-hell-are-we-all-doing rant about being passively entertained, rather than driven to action by depictions of our own doom.
Unfortunately, the rest of this willfully optimistic film is nowhere near as smart, despite centering on two science prodigies, played by George Clooney and Britt Robertson ("The Longest Ride"). Named after one of Disneyland's least interesting themed areas, "Tomorrowland" is a globe-trotting, time-traveling caper whose giddy visual whimsies and exuberant cartoon violence are undermined by a coy mystery that stretches as long as the line for "Space Mountain" on a hot summer day.
Directed by Brad Bird ("The Incredibles," "Ratatouille" "Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol") and written by Bird and "Lost" showrunner Damon Lindelof, "Tomorrowland" feels — perhaps appropriately for a movie based on an amusement park — like a narrative version of those videos that play above roller coasters today. Clooney and Robertson spend as much time ducking and dodging flying gizmos as they do moving the plot along. The film begins with a boy inventor (Thomas Robinson) zooming literally through a cornfield on his defective jet pack, stalks slapping his screaming face as he hurtles toward a bruising crash — and only gets busier, bouncier, and more aerodynamically improbable from there.
That boy grows up to be the reclusive Frank (Clooney), who was once invited to join the enigmatic Tomorrowland by two of its recruiters (Raffey Cassidy and Hugh Laurie) at the 1964 World's Fair, but has since returned home an ornery, middle-aged man. A thousand miles away, Casey (Robertson) — an athletic, cheerful, mildly rebellious STEM nerd imagineered for parental approval – is given a pin that transports her, at least perceptually, to the outskirts of Tomorrowland. Her body is still stuck in 2015, though, leading to several runs into walls and tumbles down stairs until she problem solves a way into the gleaming and bustling metropolis of the future.
The pin's powers don't last, but she's seen enough and can't get enough. With the help of a Tomorrowland ambassador in the guise of an acrobatic, combat-ready little girl named Athena (Cassidy) – who had earlier brought Frank to her hometown – Casey eventually makes her way to Frank's house. He greets her with an artificial gust of wind that knocks her on her back three feet away, but that's nothing compared to the face-smooshing and head twisting he offers the android assassins who come after him and Casey.
Still, it takes awhile for cranky Frank to be drawn into Tomorrowland's problems again. His cynicism is countered by Casey, for whom the futuristic city represents the opposite of everything she's learning in school: dystopias in English, nuclear annihilation in history, environmental collapse in science. The pair plummet down a tub, fly up a rocket ship (hidden inside the Eiffel Tower, natch), and make their way back to Tomorrowland, which now looks eerily empty like, well, an amusement park at midnight.
It's all goofy, exhilarating fun until the film is weighed down by its own delaying tactics: What is Tomorrowland, and why is it no longer thriving? Who created those robots, and why are they after Frank and Casey? Clooney supplies non-stop exposition throughout, and yet never enough by design, of course. For all of Tomorrowland's infrastructural marvels – tiered swimming pools, astro-commutes, and beautiful tangles of airborne boulevards — the world-building is thin and unsatisfying.
Blame the plot structure: the would-be emotional payoff arrives long after we're worn out and no longer interested in the mystery, like an overcooked steak that reaches the table after we've filled up on bread.
Bird's nostalgia for '50s-era optimism — a simplistic version of the war-born futurism that led Walt Disney to create Tomorrowland at his landmark theme park — is too gee-whiz to be convincing. "Imagination is more important than knowledge," says one character, to which a thousand parents would rejoin, "Not in this economy!" More persuasive is Bird's plea to examine what exactly we get out of looking at our world turn into the one in "Wall-E." Nero at least did something while Rome burned. We're just sitting around watching it happen.


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Q: What is the best way to streamline the process of publishing Flash CS6 AS3 code for android, iphone, swf and air from a single flash project? I have a flash project (AS3) that I am developing using Flash CS6. I am developing for iOS devices, Android devices, desktop (air) and web browser (swf). So far I have been able to use a single codebase making only a few modifications when publishing to each for example -
I have some code that handles exiting the application on a mobile device when the user presses the home button that uses the flash.desktop.NativeApplication class. Obviously this is not needed for the desktop or for the swf version so when i come to publish for these I comment out the relevant import statements and code that listens for the home button being pushed.
I also have a config.xml file that loads some settings, for swf this is not in the same directory as the swf file so pass in the location of this config file when the swf object is loaded (flashvars). But for all other versions the path to this file is simply config.xml so I comment out the code that handles the loading of flashvars -
allFlashVars = LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters;
webroot = String(allFlashVars["webroot"])

There are a few other differences between the versions that requires similar steps which I have made sure to note in a document for myself to remember  and for other developers.
However I know that this is not the ideal solution and think there must be a better way to manage this.
Does anyone know of any good advice / best practice for handling such a situation?
thanks

A: I know two ways.

*

*Use conditional compilation. This way is described here.

*Use a Factory pattern. You can tune factories in the main class. Make different main classes with different settings of factories for each platform.


NEW YORK (ANS) – Following the tragic fire and destruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris yesterday (April 15), the New York-based French Heritage Society (FHS) has established a Fire Restoration Fund.
A cross stands amid charred debris in Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral. Ludovic Marin – AFP – Getty Images.
Elizabeth Stribling, chair of the French Heritage Society said, "Protecting the architectural legacy of France is at the very heart of our mission, and we must provide whatever aid we can to this cherished monument in a time of dire need.
"We have established a Notre-Dame Fire Restoration Fund to allow those whose thoughts are with Paris to take immediate action to ensure that the cathedral's storied history survives. This tragedy is an urgent reminder of the fragility of our rare architectural treasures and the vital work to preserve them for future generations.
French Heritage Society's recent emergency fund campaigns have raised close to $200,000, providing critical support for the destruction in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and France's centennial flooding in 2016.
French Heritage Society, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) organization. Donations are tax-deductible under U.S. tax laws and eligible for tax credit under French tax laws.
FHS is dedicated to protecting the French architectural legacy both in France and the United States with particular emphasis on preservation and education.
It fosters long-established French-American relationships through cultural exchanges as it strives to ensure that the treasures of our shared heritage will survive to inspire future generations.
Its 11 chapters in the U.S. and one in Paris have supported the restoration of nearly 600 buildings and gardens since 1982. FHS also organizes unique student internship opportunities in both countries.


Court costs are a key source of revenue for Michigan courts. The state appeals court said it's a legal tax.
The Michigan Supreme Court says it will hear arguments in the months ahead about whether court costs ordered by local judges are an illegal tax.
The case comes at a critical time. A commission created by the state legislature is studying long-term ways to pay for local courts.
Court costs are a key source of revenue for Michigan courts. Anyone convicted of a crime can be ordered to pay for a portion of a court's operating expenses. The Supreme Court is looking at the case of a man who was told to pay $1,600 in Washtenaw County, on top of other fees or fines.
The state appeals court said it's a legal tax. But critics say the amount is determined by local courts, not the legislature, and is unconstitutional.


Mitchell and Spencer play together really well the majority of the time. Really. They are like two peas in a pod. However, certain days they have a little more trouble getting along. Just recently, I remembered an idea I got from my sister-in-law way back before I had any kids. She said when her girls would argue, she would have them sit in time out where she had pictures them being nice to one another displayed on the wall. I thought that was a great idea so I decided to do something similar for Mitchell and Spencer. I just used a cheap-o photo album from the dollar store and filled it with lots of pictures of them sharing, playing and laughing. Now when they are arguing, they go to time out and look through the book together. When they are ready to say sorry and act like the pictures in the book, they get to come out. This is really the first day I've tried the book and so far so good. They love looking at pictures of themselves so they forget whatever dumb toy they were fighting over to begin with. Don't worry. I'm sure the bloom will where off by tomorrow and I'll have to think of something new but if it works for one day, I'll consider it a success!
That's so cute. My girls would probably start fighting over looking at the book, however. You'll have to let me know if it continues to work!


I am interested in having a productive career in the film/TV, theater, as well as modeling. Currently, I am undergoing acting and modeling classes. In addition, I am active in our local theater where I have enjoyed taking on many different roles. Just recently, I began singing lessons and I love it!


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5 Things You Need to Know About Christopher Lloyd
There's more to Lloyd than his memorable turn as the formidable Commander Kruge
StarTrek.com Staff
January 5, 2019 12:24 PM PST
Star Trek fans think fondly of Lloyd thanks to his memorable turn as the formidable Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. We thought we'd share 5 Things You Need to Know About Christopher Lloyd.
The actor may be best known to Trek fans for his performance as Kruge, but his most-popular non-Trek roles include Rev. Jim Ignatowski on Taxi, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and, of course, Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy.
Lloyd was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and raised in New Canaan. His grandfather was Lewis Henry Lapham. Lapham was one of the co-founders of the oil company Texaco.
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Lloyd made his movie debut in a classic. He portrayed the mental patient Max Taber in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
What movie featured the involvement of Lloyd, as well as Trek icons Patrick Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg and Leonard Nimoy, as well as Voyager guest star Ed Begley, Jr.? That'd be The Pagemaster, a live-action/animated fantasy film released in 1994. Also in that film, veteran voiceover actor Frank Welker, who lent his talents to the videogames Star Trek: Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates, Star Trek: Starfleet Command: Volume II: Empires at War and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, voiced an alien for the Voyager episode "Nothing Human" and even provided the Spock screams in The Search for Spock.
Lloyd's projects also include a remake of the comedy-drama Going in Style and also Cold Moon, a horror film.
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Kaila Murnain has resigned as NSW Labor general secretary, saying she's sorry she let the party down. Ms Murnain was suspended from her role in August after admitting to the Independent Commission Against Corruption she failed to act on information Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo had donated to the party. "I have dedicated my entire life to Labor. I am devastated to leave. I'm sorry to have let you down," Ms Murnain said in a statement posted on Twitter on Thursday. "This has been an incredibly difficult time for me and my family, so for now, I ask for privacy." Party president Mark Lennon said the terms of the separation agreement were confidential, but "consist of Ms Murnain's basic legal entitlements". It's been reported she could have received a severance package worth up to $700,000. A new branch secretary will not be elected until a review into the state party's head office has provided its recommendations on the general secretary's role. Ms Murnain claimed former upper house MP Ernest Wong told her in September 2016 about Mr Huang's alleged illegal donation but she was encouraged by party lawyers to keep quiet. Mr Huang is accused of being the true source of $100,000 in cash donations from 12 people to a 2015 Chinese Friends of Labor dinner. Ms Murnain welcomed the party review, which was announced by federal and NSW leaders, Anthony Albanese and Jodi McKay respectively, at the weekend. She hoped for "further real and lasting reform to the Labor Party". "I am proud of many of the party's accomplishments during my time as general secretary and thank those who worked together in some very difficult circumstances over the past three years." Ms McKay on Thursday reiterated that Ms Murnain "made a terrible error of judgement". "She has no further future in the Labor Party," the NSW opposition leader said in a statement. "I am outraged on behalf of our thousands of loyal, decent party members that it has been such a drawn-out process." Ms McKay said her focus now was on "cleaning up head office". Mr Lennon said NSW Labor was considering seeking the recovery of its costs related to the ICAC inquiry, including the amount to be paid to Ms Murnain, under its insurance and from previous lawyers. Australian Associated Press
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Kaila Murnain resigns as NSW Labor boss
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Kaila Murnain has resigned as NSW Labor General Secretary.
Kaila Murnain has resigned as NSW Labor general secretary, saying she's sorry she let the party down.
Ms Murnain was suspended from her role in August after admitting to the Independent Commission Against Corruption she failed to act on information Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo had donated to the party.
"I have dedicated my entire life to Labor. I am devastated to leave. I'm sorry to have let you down," Ms Murnain said in a statement posted on Twitter on Thursday.
"This has been an incredibly difficult time for me and my family, so for now, I ask for privacy."
Party president Mark Lennon said the terms of the separation agreement were confidential, but "consist of Ms Murnain's basic legal entitlements".
It's been reported she could have received a severance package worth up to $700,000.
A new branch secretary will not be elected until a review into the state party's head office has provided its recommendations on the general secretary's role.
Ms Murnain claimed former upper house MP Ernest Wong told her in September 2016 about Mr Huang's alleged illegal donation but she was encouraged by party lawyers to keep quiet.
Mr Huang is accused of being the true source of $100,000 in cash donations from 12 people to a 2015 Chinese Friends of Labor dinner.
Ms Murnain welcomed the party review, which was announced by federal and NSW leaders, Anthony Albanese and Jodi McKay respectively, at the weekend.
She hoped for "further real and lasting reform to the Labor Party".
"I am proud of many of the party's accomplishments during my time as general secretary and thank those who worked together in some very difficult circumstances over the past three years."
Ms McKay on Thursday reiterated that Ms Murnain "made a terrible error of judgement".
"She has no further future in the Labor Party," the NSW opposition leader said in a statement.
"I am outraged on behalf of our thousands of loyal, decent party members that it has been such a drawn-out process."
Ms McKay said her focus now was on "cleaning up head office".
Mr Lennon said NSW Labor was considering seeking the recovery of its costs related to the ICAC inquiry, including the amount to be paid to Ms Murnain, under its insurance and from previous lawyers.


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The hidden, unbelievable story behind "Karma – Where it all went wrong": the ban-the-book saga with more twists and turns than an alpine pass.
Or what happened when the brown stuff struck the extractor…
You couldn't make it up.
Steve Anderson's intriguing tale of karmic consequences stretching from Albania to Auckland – with Donald Trump's USA and Kim Jong-un's North Korea thrown in for good measure - was always set to divide opinion.
But the impact of the Yorkshire writer's first full-length, 120,000-word novel has been dwarfed by an extraordinary dispute embracing lawyers, the police, threats of High Court action, a £250,000 settlement offer and the stress-related illness of his wife, whose employers became embroiled in an ever-more-bitter row to have the book's release delayed until they had cleared it for publication.
Anderson, a former daily newspaper journalist (Hull Daily Mail, 1974 to 1999) and Citizens' Advice Bureau social policy co-ordinator and adviser ever willing to highlight the one in four people suffering from poor mental health, insisted from the outset that his paperback libelled no one, pointing out that he was the only person to have read it in full and that all the relevant excerpts he released beforehand proved this beyond doubt.
But East Riding of Yorkshire Council's legal department ignored his reassurances – even when he volunteered to stake the value of his home to allow an independent panel to rule on his "guilt" or "innocence" – and called in a law firm in Leeds to act on its behalf.
The so-called "dispute-management" specialists then shoved a not-signed-for letter through Anderson's postbox, allowing him just three working hours to submit a substantive response or face possible litigation, including an injunction and order for costs and/or damages.
It claimed, without any proof, to have sent him earlier correspondence citing fears that "Karma – Where it all went wrong" may contain statements defamatory to its "client", ERYC. Anderson replied that local authorities are not even allowed to sue for libel, but may act on behalf of employees claiming to have been affected.
His repeated requests to have the identities of any such individuals disclosed – all work at Holme-on-Spalding Moor Primary School – have been ignored. The chairman of governors, meanwhile, has expressed the "shock" experienced by those supposedly libelled in the novel, professing his surprise that the writer was apparently unaware of the "hurt" that his words would cause.
Chris Lemming called on him to provide an advance copy so "Karma" could be read, and modified accordingly, if any of the complainants sought changes.
A leading councillor added to Anderson's astonishment by claiming in a multi-copied e-mail that "the background, as we understand it from the school, is that he has written a book which names members of staff in fictitious, possibly raunchy situations…an unfortunate distraction for this school".
The writer, in turn, whose wife had worked at the premises for almost 30 years until being signed off with stress and anxiety, is now planning to counter-sue for defamation levelled at him, claiming that his professionalism as a journalist and author for five decades has been tarnished by untrue, totally-without-foundation statements made by unnamed individuals. He is also planning to lodge a Freedom of Information request with ERYC to ascertain how much its actions have cost council taxpayers.
An official complaint against the council's solicitors – whom Anderson claims breached all recognised pre-litigation steps aimed at resolving defamation allegations in an "amicable" manner before resorting to law – is also on the cards. He reckons to have spent more than 150 hours writing and researching e-mails and letters, sometimes until 5am, defending the accusations of libel…time he could have put to better use promoting his novel, which has already been praised by folk-rock legend Dave Pegg (Jethro Tull and Fairport Convention), who had a sneak preview of the first three chapters.
"Interesting stuff, indeed," was Peggy's verdict. "I'm now really looking forward to reading the entire book."
Anderson is also seeking answers from the police. He wants to know why an "officious" community support officer called at his home unannounced to warn both him and his wife to stay away from school premises in future.
"I've never heard of a previous instance where authors of fiction have had to seek permission from their fictitious characters before going to print – that's precisely what this local authority, certain school employees and the chairman of governors have been arguing," he says.
"I'd call it censorship, if not quite amounting to a case of 'the book they tried to ban'. By all means condemn my novel…but do me the courtesy of reading it first before calling in the lawyers. And please reflect on the title of my work before the 'K' word takes its revenge on you.
"This malicious action has caused untold emotional damage to my wife and me. I can only surmise that some individuals' extremely negative thoughts, words and deeds will, in time, be ripening in a very unpleasant manner.
"Karma, for them, could prove to have a nasty sting in its tail."
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Film - Shirley
Ren Zelen watched Shirley at London Film Festival...
Director: Josephine Decker
Writers: Sarah Gubbins (screenplay), Susan Scarf Merrell (novel)
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg, Logan Lerman
For some people, confronting a house full of ghosts might seem a more benign situation than braving a pack of judgemental housewives, especially in the 1950s, an era haunted by impossible standards for women. Finding herself amongst the snooty wives of academics, Shirley Jackson must often have been the target of their gossip and probably preferred to imagine herself trapped in 'Hill House'.
Jackson reputedly cultivated an interesting, if fearsome, persona - prickly, idiosyncratic, unkempt, contemptuous. She was tolerated in academic circles, being a successful author in her own right. Those around her who were less talented or unconventional could only gain satisfaction through their housekeeping and by having affairs, sometimes with Jackson's philandering husband, even if they could never quite tempt him away from her odd attractions.
Director Josephine Decker relishes the 'attraction-repulsion' dynamic, and in her latest film, Shirley, it's the energizer behind relationships. However, it must be stressed that Shirley is not a biopic, it is based on Susan Scarf Merrell's novel of the same name, which imagined the life of Shirley Jackson and her husband Stanley Hyman, as seen through the eyes of young newlyweds who come to stay with them in their home. Moreover, it is told in the fevered style of one of Jackson's own Gothic stories (aided by cinematographer Sturla Brandth Gróvlen who helps to create the hothouse atmosphere).
Shirley shows us Jackson's ordeal as a 1950s faculty wife at Vermont's Bennington College. To take up some of his workload, Shirley's husband Stanley Hyman hires a young teaching assistant, Fred Nemser (Logan Lerman) and moves him and his pregnant wife, Rose (Odessa Young), temporarily into their house.
Michael Stuhlbarg's Hyman is all bonhomie and smarmy intellectual assurance, and yet there is some suggestion that he is not simply a serial adulterer lying to his neglected wife. Hynam is at times uncomfortably flirtatious, but he also has personal agendas.
Shirley is aware of Hyman's indiscretions, but there is a bizarre and deep-seated alliance between them, one based on a rather brutal intellectual superiority and their consciousness of remaining outsiders and interlopers in the snobby, WASP academic community of North Bennington.
While playing the jovial host at dinner, Hyman actively encourages and enjoys the havoc Shirley creates by her inflammatory and pointed comments. Hymen's congeniality masks a vicious contempt for the privilege and entitlement of his students, not least of all for his protégé Fred.
Meanwhile, young wife Rose's intention to analyse classes at the college is quickly quashed, as Hymen asks her to help with the household chores and the cooking while his wife is going through one of her depressions, to give Shirley time and encouragement to start writing her next novel.
Of course, conscious of the opportunity Hyman is offering to her husband and the fact that they are guests in their house, Rose cannot refuse. Her own intellectual ambitions are pushed aside, and she succumbs to the role of cook, housekeeper and nurse, while she waits for her unplanned pregnancy to come to term.
Shirley's temper and brusque imperiousness cause Rose to bristle on more than one occasion, but eventually her admiration for her hostess's writing and growing understanding of the fragility that underlies her fearsome exterior allows Rose to warm to her. Over time, the women begin to forge a mutually supportive connection.
Jackson begins work on a new novel (1951's' Hangsaman'), based on the real-life disappearance of a local girl, Paula Jean Welden. The disappearance of the young college girl sparks the imagination of both women. They begin to speculate as to what might have happened - Was Paula murdered? Did she commit suicide? Did she feel trapped in her situation and just decide to vanish? As she creates the scenario for her tale, in Shirley's imagination, faceless Paula takes on Rose's face.
Becoming involved in Shirley's creativity, Rose begins to transcend her task as housekeeper and takes on a more nurturing and contributary role. As she does so, she begins to undergo a transformation herself, finding the strength to examine her own beliefs and needs and start to oppose the gender restrictions of society.
As in all her recent roles, in Shirley Elisabeth Moss turns in an impressive performance. She plays Jackson as a complex woman, sometimes incapacitated with anxiety, at other times cynical, formidable, ferocious and mischievous. With a gaze full of supressed rage, she is like a volcano on the verge of eruption – dangerous.
As Rose, Australian actress Odessa Young is impressively able to play off Moss's powerful portrayal and be equally enigmatic and unpredictable. Logan Lerman gives off the appropriate 'privileged pretty boy' vibes as Fred, the young buck willing to 'do the right thing' by his wife but also all too happy to take advantage of all the perks the male academic life has to offer.
Michael Stuhlbarg as Hyman maintains an intriguing balance between a womanizing and controlling manipulator, contemptuous of the class structures that surround him, and a husband who is actually affectionately amused by his wife's unorthodox intellect and supportively in awe of her talent.
However, there is an odd and glaring omission at the centre of the movie - Shirley Jackson and Stanley Hyman actually had four children together, yet screenwriter Sarah Gubbins and director Decker choose to portray them as childless, even though Jackson wrote two humorous books about parenting – 'Life Among the Savages' and 'Raising Demons'.
Until her death in 1965 at the age of 48, from heart problems brought on by smoking, anxiety and chronic ill-health, Jackson published over 200 short stories, two memoirs and six novels. Jackson once said, "I wrote of neuroses and fear and I think all my books laid end to end would be one long documentation of anxiety."
Her characters are often tormented by neuroses and find social contact painful, so it is not surprising that Jackson herself had to overcome bouts of depression and agoraphobia. In some of her stories the horror is explicit, but in others it is more obscure and ambiguous. Often she holds up a mirror to some of the most sinister, irrational and selfish traits of mankind, and in that reflection her readers might realize some harsh truths about humanity and perhaps about themselves.
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Colonist's First Challenge
Westland Rain Forest
Westland, New Zealand
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Walking through the forest close to Fox Glacier is to enter a damp world of fern and lichen-clad trees, the rainfall here is just tremendous and quite at odds with the base of a glacier being a mere three kilometers away.
Everything is mono-colored, yet staggering in its range of shades of green. No other color seems able to exist in this place of perpetual rain, cloud.
The rainfall, which is up to 30 meters per year further up the glacier, comes from a land that faces the westerly air-stream that comes up from the Antarctic and is forced upward by the Alpine range.
The Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers are world-famous tourist attractions and despite their isolation are visited by thousands of people every year. I hope that some of the people who view these will appreciate the ecology of the whole area.
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The researchers found that testosterone was the main hormone involved in lean body mass and muscle strength, while estrogen played a bigger role in fat accumulation. Photo: AFP
Male sex drive depends on estrogen as well as testosterone
2 min read . Updated: 12 Sep 2013, 04:20 PM IST Shannon Pettypiece
While low testosterone does cause a decline in sexual desire, suppressing estrogen results in a greater drop-off, finds a study
New York: Estrogen, the main sex hormone in women, plays a bigger role in male libido than previously thought, according to research that may guide development of sex-drive treatments.
The study found that reducing estrogen in men undergoing treatment for low testosterone resulted in a drop in libido and an increase in body fat, even as testosterone levels improved. The research is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The finding surprised researchers, who have believed the testosterone caused men to have stronger sex drives than women, said Joel Finkelstein, a study author and endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. While it's known that the body converts some testosterone into estrogen and that the hormone declines in men with low testosterone, researchers didn't fully understand estrogen's role in male sexual desire.
"What will surprise many people is that loss of sexual desire in men with low testosterone is due to lack of estrogen," Finkelstein said. "People think estrogen in men makes them very effeminate; they think of it as a female hormone, they think it is testosterone that gives men their sexual desire."
While there have been clues that estrogen as well as testosterone influence male sex drive there have been few definitive studies until now, Finkelstein said.
Previous findings
Researchers have found a drop in libido in mice by cutting their estrogen. There also have been anecdotal reports of men undergoing sex changes who see an increase in libido when they start estrogen therapy. In women, it may be the opposite, where testosterone plays a bigger role than estrogen in their sex drive.
"Both sexes require the opposite gender hormone to have adequate libido," he said.
In the study, researchers looked at more than 300 men ages 20 to 50 that were given treatments to suppress production of all reproductive hormones. Half the men were then given a testosterone-boosting gel or a placebo. The other half received the testosterone gel along with a drug that lowered the production of estrogen.
The researchers found that testosterone was the main hormone involved in lean body mass and muscle strength. Estrogen played a bigger role in fat accumulation. While low testosterone did cause a decline in sexual desire, those getting the estrogen-suppressing drug saw a greater drop-off.
Testosterone treatments
The finding shouldn't mean a change in treatment for men with low testosterone. Since the body is able to convert most commercially available testosterone replacement therapies to estrogen, raising testosterone will in turn boost estrogen levels as well. It should, however, discourage drugmakers from trying to develop new forms of testosterone replacements that aren't able to be converted to estrogen, Finkelstein said.
The US market for testosterone replacement therapies, such as Eli Lilly and Co.'s Axiron and AbbVie Inc.'s Angrogel, is almost $2 billion with as many as 13.8 million men older than 45 in the US having low levels of testosterone, according to a 2006 study in the International Journal of Clinical Practice. Lower-than-normal levels can lead to a loss of libido, a decrease in bone and muscle mass, and depression.
Despite, testosterone products being available for decades, Finkelstein said more research is needed into the health benefits and side effects of testosterone, especially in men over 50.
"It is amazing what we don't know," said Finkelstein. "Even the most basic things we don't understand about this drug that has been around for almost 80 years." Bloomberg


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"It was 40 years ago that I first recorded for Stefan Grossman's Kicking Mule record label! Much has changed over the years and much has pretty much stayed the same. I still love the music that caught my attention back in the old days and I still play it. Many of my old pals are gone but they are still a part of my life and they come alive every time I take the stage to tell my story. After 40 years 'in the game', I consider myself to be a very lucky man. When your heroes end up becoming your pals, life is sweet.you can't really ask for more than that!" - Roy Book Binder
Titles include: Travelin' Man*, Can't Do That No More*, The Preacher Picked The Guitar*, It's Gonna Be Alright Someday*, C.C. & O Blues*, Hacksaw*, Rag Mama*, Won't You Be Kind*, Gin Done Done It*, Black Dog Blues, Hey Hey Daddy, What You Gonna Do*, Baby, I'm Crazy About You, New Age Woman Blues, Another Man Done A Full Go 'Round*, St. Pete Blues, Keep On Knockin'*
A PDF file of the tab/music of those tunes marked with a star (*) is included on the DVD.
Review: The "Guitar Artistry" DVD series now includes ten discs. The recordings are filmed in a low-lit uncluttered studio setting where the performers are encouraged to talk informally about their life and times as well as about their music. This was, of course, very easy for Book Binder, who was one of the most amusing and engaging raconteurs on the acoustic club and festival circuit.
Now 65 years old, Book Binder has been performing and recording for 42 years, and he is obviously enjoying his time on the road as much as ever. Meeting people is for him equally as important as the gigs themselves and although he spends much of the time traveling, he does enjoy his time at home in Florida with his wife Nancy.
Book Binder became interested in blues influenced music during the early 1960s while in the navy when he began listening to the likes of Ray Charles, Little Richard, Fats Domino, and Dave Van Ronk. He speaks fondly of Van Ronk, who strongly influenced Book Binder to become a professional musician. As Binder says with a wry smile, "He ruined my life!" Book Binder also speaks fondly of Rev. Gary Davis and Pink Anderson, and his anecdotes of h~is first meeting with these legendary musicians are among the most delightful moments here. Book Binder is as generous with his praise of fellow musicians as he is modest about his own guitar skills.
During the later part of the 88-minute film Book Binder talks in more detail about his repertoire, which includes material from Blind Boy Fuller and Luke Jordan, and particularly about his own compositions. On the standout Another Man Done A Full Go 'Round, he pays tribute to his late friends and mentors John Jackson, Dave Van Ronk, and Dave "Snaker" Ray. There are some heartfelt liner notes by Binder and a number of the titles are transcribed in guitar tablature which can be downloaded from the disc.
Book Binder may see himself primarily as an entertainer, and he certainly is that, but this disc truly shows his true love of his music and his way of life. He comes over as a sincere and content man who still has a lot to offer. - Living Blues/Bob Tilling
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Andrei Illarionov stands for the devaluation of the ruble.
Indicates a large number of loans borrowed by the government since the times of the Soviet Union, and, continuing to grow, in connection with the government's policy.
In particular, the inclusion of Yuri Maslyukov in the government apparatus is being discussed.
Andrei Illarionov compares the Russian economy with the gambling house, when money is not earned, but simply redistributed among the players.
An example of embezzlement by the Central Bank of investment funds is given.
Illarionov Andrey - director of the Institute of Economic Analysis.