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SETUP With speakers this eager to fade into the woodwork alongside a flat-panel TV, I could have set them up anywhere and they wouldn't have looked obtrusive or out of place. But I deposited the towers squarely in the footprint of my regular speakers - about 3 feet out from the back wall and 2 feet from either side of the TV. The center channel slipped into the middle shelf of my TV stand, while the CS-S1 satellites were set up on tall speaker stands slightly behind and to either side of my couch. Stowed in the front right corner of the room, the subwoofer seemed to vie for my attention in a manner that the other speakers did not (maybe Audica's next project could be a skinny sub). Nonetheless, it performed best from that location, sounding powerful and not at all boomy after a few positioning adjustments.
A footnote in the literature that came with the system states that it shouldn't be used with subs other than Audica's own models. I suspect the reason here is that the system's main speakers, which use tiny, custom-designed 2-inch midbass drivers, rely heavily on a subwoofer to fill out the frequency range. (My experiments bore this out - listening to music on the towers sans sub, I heard almost no bass.) Bottom line: A powerful subwoofer is an essential component of this system. Audica recommends that you use theirs, possibly because, as our measurements suggested, they have unusual high frequency extension to better mate with the bass-shy satellites.
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== How to program for FutureOS ? ==
== How to program for FutureOS ? ==
=== Z80 Assembler ===
=== Z80 Assembler ===
You can use an assembler for AmsDOS or for CP/M
You can use an assembler for AmsDOS or for CP/M. Switching between AmsDOS and FutureOS is fast and using |FDESK allows to come back to AmsDOS with first 64 KB or RAM .
=== Programming in C for FutureOS ===
=== Programming in C for FutureOS ===
Revision as of 07:12, 9 August 2006
- 1 Introduction
- 3 Hardware
- 4 Software
- 5 Requirements
- 6 Supporting it all
- 7 Plug and Play?
- 8 Drives, hard-discs and mass storage
- 9 Core Utilities
- 10 Files, Filenames, Fileheaders and more
- 11 A little Machine monitor
- 12 Programming environment
- 13 How to program for FutureOS ?
- 14 CBM – A menu system for FutureOS
- 15 The End
- 16 Web links
FutureOS is a application starter, disuised as OS for the Amstrad CPC6128 and 6128plus developed by TFM. Its development continues from 1990 up to now. The applications of FutureOS can be up to 512 KB in one piece. FutureOS has a memory management system, which divides RAM into 16 KB blocks. Further the file-system works with 24 Bit, files can be up to 16 MB long. FutureOS provides some standard utilities (like copy or format a disc; copy / rename / erase / type / print a file etc.). Further applications are delivered for disc or hard-disc. FutureOS is written in machine code.
The Desktop is divided in two sections. First a icon-section, where you can choose your functions. Second there is a section below, where you can browse through directories of discs and hard-disc partitions. Applications can call the GUI as an subroutine. FutureOS is said to be easy to handle, after learning how to work with it. The icons are fixed, so you will work with the same desktop.
The OS supports many of the hardware available for the CPC. This is said to also be for new hardware like the CPC-Booster+ and the CPC-IDE-Interface/Symbiface.
FutureOS is compatible with the CPCs native data-, file- and format structures (f. e. File-header, Disc-formats). But it is not compatible with native AmsDOS or CP/M programs. FutureOS and compatible applications can be downloaded at: www.FutureOS.de.
The core of the OS needs 64 KB ROM. Compatible products are EPROM-cards, the ROM-RAM-BOX, Symbiface, RAMcard or similar products. If you don't own such a card, you can take a look at FutureOS by using a very precise CPC Emulator (WinCPC, Caprice, WinApe). The core of the OS itself is executed directly in (EP)ROM where it is divided in four 16 KB blocks. It jumps between the ROMs with the help of a little common area. So all the RAM of your CPC is saved for applications and data. Furthermore it contains memory management and file-handling. From AmsDOS/Basic you can start FutureOS with the RSX commands |OS or |FDESK. If you use |FDESK you can leave FutureOS and get back to BASIC where you have stopped before – the first 64KB have been preserved. FutureOS only runs well on a CPC6128 or 6128plus, because they support the RAM configuration &C3 (which is essential for the mouse arrow of the GUI).
Supporting it all
The idea of FutureOS was not only to develop a fast, easy programmable OS which is able to deal with big files and applications. One point that lead to the development of FutureOS was the wish that it should be possible to support all hardware (ever made for the CPC) with just one OS. Remember, there are 3.5" B-drives, Vortex F1-D-drives, hard-discs, real-time-clocks, serial interfaces and much more. Every piece of hardware has its own software (DOS on Eprom, drivers or whatever). Sadly all these software packages for expansion hardware aren't compatible under AmsDOS L.
FutureOS was designed to work with all known hardware expansions for the CPC. You can use a 3.5" B-drive, external Vortex F1-S or F1-D, a serial interface (or two!), different RAM expansions and maybe a hard-disc (Dobbertin HD20 or CPC-IDE; CPC-IDE since system .9). All that is reported to work properly together.
Most of the low level system resources can be accessed freely, e.g you can use interrupt mode 1 or 2 (standard under FutureOS). Using IM 2 is mandatory when designing expansion hardware.
A programmer can use almost all Z80-CPU registers. In contrast to the regular case, FutureOS allows to freely use both set of registers (the only exception is the I register, which is used when IM 2 is active). Further you can use the RST vectors and the Interrupt-Entry at &0038 (IM 1) for your own programs.
Plug and Play?
If you connect a hardware expansion to a CPC, FutureOS will automatically detect that expansion, initialise it and make it accessible. The architecture of the OS allows you to add and remove hardware on purpose. An example: You add a trackball, you use it, then you connect and use a joystick and then you use a proportional mouse for example. You can turn external hardware in the configuration-bytes on or off.
Drives, hard-discs and mass storage
FutureOS supports up to eight drives and up to four hard-disc partitions. Also you can work with IDE-hard-discs since system .9. FutureOS buffers the directories read from any mass storage device in the expansion RAM.
Core Utilities
The Desktop can be controlled using a joystick, mouse, trackball or light-pen. There is no command line. The user interface is graphical, you click on icons and files to select them for subsequent actions. Tools like copy, format, verify or refresh a disc exist. You can copy files from different discs (and partitions) to different discs (and partitions) at once.
Example: You can copy files from drive A (User 0, 90 and 240) and hard-disc partition K (user 0, 12 and 180) to on or more different target drives or hard-disc partitions.
Files, Filenames, Fileheaders and more
Filenames can use all 256 different characters and user numbers from 0 to 254 (except for &E5, which marks a deleted file). Different to Amsdos, a file that is erased under FutureOS will not be shifted to user &E5, but it will be physically removed from the directory. Files can be viewed on-screen (scroll up and down) or printed. You can also view the file-header. When typing a text-file it is possible to set the number of columns and lines of the window the text is displayed in. File-headers are displayed as AmsDOS file or the icon-like file-header of a FutureOS program. An AmsDOS file-header has 128 bytes of which some bytes are unused. FutureOS makes use of those unused bytes so that files have a 24 Bit length and can have a physical RAM select. Therefore a file can be defined to be loaded everywhere in the external RAM. Also a FutureOS file-header can contain a graphical icon, a textual icon or a short description of the file. FutureOS work with old AmsDOS file-headers.
A little Machine monitor
From the Desktop you can call a little machine monitor. This monitor provides features like editing of CPU registers and I/O ports, display and edit memory (or the content of the ASIC of the 6128plus). Memory blocks can be copied or initialised. It is possible to call a routine (with defined CPU registers and memory).
Programming environment
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How to program for FutureOS ?
Z80 Assembler
You can use an assembler for AmsDOS or for CP/M. Switching between AmsDOS and FutureOS is fast and using |FDESK allows to come back to AmsDOS with the first 64 KB or RAM remaining untouched.
Programming in C for FutureOS
If you don't like to program assembler, you can use a very common and fast programming language: C! For example you can use the CP/M version of Small-C or a Windows-based cross-compiler of the C language. The only thing you have to do is to use FIOLIB.C instead of IOLIB.C. The file FIOLIB.C contain all C functions to use FutureOS system-calls. You can use a normal C program compile it, assemble it, link the object-code with FIOLIB (an all other needed libraries) and add an header to the *.COM file with COMFU.COM. To start such an C-program under FutureOS you have to start the RUNC-environment first. RUNC strongly expands the features of FIOLIB. Thanks to RUNC it is possible to store functions in E-RAM, that means that you have more main memory for your C applications! This way the length of your C program only depends on connected RAM. Further information is provided at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FutureOS/ and www.FutureOS.de.
What is CBM? This Command Bar Menu system provides an user-interface for nearly every thinkable program. It is not part of the OS itself, but takes strong advantages of the OS system calls. However, since the source is available, you can adapt CBM for all your FutureOS-programs very easily. Have a look at some of its functions. For example you can choose your colours, screen-mode (for editing, not for CBM) and interface-language (which is preselected through your configuration), deal with files and data. And the best is you can add your own functions to the Menu "Prog.Functions" 1 and 2. That's enough space for all applications. For example the MP3-Player for FutureOS takes advantages of CBM.
The End
FutureOS is for programmers who want to be able to escape from the conventions of the original machine. Due to its fast file-handling and memory-management it is ideal for bigger programs (up to 512 KB). Some examples are: word processors, scientific mathematics, graphics, sound (especially MP3), spreadsheet, management of big amounts of data, bigger games and programming languages. On the other hand FutureOS can be used as a very fast tool for managing your data, especially copying discs & files and to manage all the things that would normally require several separate programs.


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Know for his many, risky and LONG break aways, Jacky Durand has retired from cycling at the age of 37.
Anyone who has followed cycling in the past 14 years would be familiar with his risky daring attackes that often lead to long breakaways, breakaways that won him 2 classics, Tour of Flanders (92) and Paris-Tours (98) and two stages in the Tour de France. The Tour of Flanders win came at the end of a 195 km breakaway.
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Kado, along with a team of attorneys, found out the FBI was investigating Kwame Kilpatrick. Kado wanted to stay out of jail and said he would do anything to help. The FBI wanted him to record phone calls with Kilpatrick, wear a secret recording device for personal meetings and tell jurors how he was extorted and paid bribes to the former Detroit mayor.
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However good your intentions are, it's often all too easy to retreat to the comfort of the hotel room and shy away from really engaging with the locals when you're on your travels. Here's a selection of holiday ideas that will thrust you into the heart of the community you're visiting and foster a much deeper understanding on the place and its people. Share your own memories of meeting the locals below.
Stay in a Ukrainian village
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Central Europe – if that's how we should think of the mountainous region of western Ukraine – is an area with few international visitors, but already a sustainable model of tourism is being developed in the area. The Rural Green Tourism Association (RGTA), set up in 1996, is a community-run volunteer organization that helps villagers earn extra income through hosting guests. For example you could stay in the wooden houses of the Hutsul people in villages like Vorokhta or Yavoriv.
Visitors can spend their time walking in the polonyas, the mountain meadows where cool breezes waft across the long grasses. After a day's hiking, expect to be liberally plied with food and drink, all made and prepared by the villagers, such as banosh (a mixture of sweetcorn, bacon and sour cream). Hospitality is unceasingly friendly and you'll probably get a chance to watch or join in traditional dances (typically accompanied by the alp-horn-like trembita and the sopika, a form of flute) or to listen to their plaintive folk songs.
For more information on the RGTA of Ivano-Frankivsk, nearby hiking trails, getting there and how the homestay scheme works, see members.aol.com/chornohora.
Meet the Maasai, Tanzania
On a walk with the village's herbalist, the parched plains of northeastern Tanzania soon appear less bare than when you first looked across their expanse of wiry plants. Every few minutes he bends a different branch down from a tree, offering a leaf to rub between your fingers to smell. Or he crouches down to the ground, digs away with his fingers and pulls up a gnarled root. For every such root or leaf he explains, by motioning to a part of his body, what ailment the particular plant is used against, such as the pepper bark tree, whose rough, black bark is used to treat malaria.
People2People's cultural safaris are made up of countless intimate experiences like these. Accompanied by a translator, guests embark on customizable tours to visit and stay with members of four different tribal groups in Tanzania. You might join a Maasai warrior bringing his cattle in at dusk, help gather the harvest on a Bantu farm, or hunt for spring hares and grapple with the curious clicking languages of the Khoisan.
No specifics are guaranteed, however, as these aren't displays put on for your benefit but a rare chance to interact with local villagers, observing and taking part in whatever they're doing. In rural Africa time is fluid, and you may well spend several hours simply sitting under some welcome shade chatting with the elders. Then again, you may be lucky enough to be there for a special occasion such as a wedding, where distant family members will assemble from across the region and beyond, gathering for days of celebration and feasting. Whatever you see, it will be a different Africa from the one seen through binoculars from the back of a jeep.
People2People will customize a safari to suit your needs, which can also include more traditional activities such as wildlife-watching and trekking. For typical itineraries and reservations see www.p2psafaris.com.
Stay in an African village, Zambia
To understand what daily life is really like in an African rural community, a stay in Kawaza village, on the edge of Zambia's South Luangwa National Park, offers an authentic introduction to its rigours and rhythms. Guests can drop in for the day or stay as long as they like; on arrival, you'll have a chat with your guides to plan a programme that suits. Visitors are encouraged to get as involved as they can, whether it's learning about traditional herbal medicine, fishing in wooden dugout canoes or simply helping to prepare traditional meals.
This is no show village, however. The Kunda people, former hunters who now mostly survive through subsistence farming, have seen how low-impact tourism can protect them against the vagaries of farming in extreme conditions. Villagers who provide services to guests are given a monthly salary and the remaining profit is ploughed back into the community, improving facilities at the school and helping those most in need. And at Kawaza visitors don't just get the chance to see the school their money has helped fund – they are encouraged to help with some teaching too.
For directions and rates see http://www.africatravelresource.com/africa/zambia/southluangwa/central/kawaza-village/.
Walk with Rastas in Knysna Forest, South Africa
From the moment your dreadlocked host greets you with a gentle knock of his clenched fist against yours and an exclamation of "Irie" (roughly meaning "respect"), you know this isn't going to be your typical township tour. While the representatives of the House of Judah, the local church, come and introduce themselves, you notice that all the houses are painted in striking tones of crimson, yellow and emerald. One thing's for sure: you're in Rasta territory.
In 2003, tired of being perceived as dope-smoking outcasts, the Rastafarian community in Khayalethu – a township between the outskirts of Knysna and the surrounding forest – went to the local tourism board with a proposal. They wanted to show tourists what their life was really like, and to protect to the richness of their local forest. It worked. Guests now make visits to people's homes and are led on guided nature tours through the surrounding fynbos ecosystem, a complex ground-level array of succulents and heathers, most seen nowhere else in the world. Those keen to hang around a little longer than a few hours can stay in one of the families' homes.
For more info and contact details see www.openafrica.org.
Meet the Bushmen at Nhoma, Namibia
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Nhoma, a simple tented camp owned and run in partnership with the nearby Bushman village of Nhoq'ma, on the border of Khaudum National Park, offers guests a chance to get back to their primeval roots. Always wanted to know how to start a fire or make an arrow? Immersed in a hunter-gatherer society, you will here.
After a morning spent hunting spring hares or porcupines with the Bushmen, learning how to make small traps from twigs and animal sinews, there's usually time in the afternoon to join in their games and perhaps buy a few souvenir ostrich-shell necklaces. At night, after dinner back at camp, guests can trek back through the dark dunes to sit and watch the Bushmen gather to dance and sing, with their shaman often falling into a trance which, they say, enables him to communicate with their ancestors. They've been doing this for tens of thousands of years. Staying at Nhoma is one of the best ways of ensuring these traditions continue.
For rates, details of activities and further info on getting there see www.tsumkwel.iway.na.
Visit Bolivia's Mapajo Community
On the border of La Paz and Beni, Mapajo Lodge is owned and operated by the communities of the Quiquibey River, who offer four- to six-day guided tours through the Pilón Lajas Reserve, a dense jungle of forests, streams and unexplored mountains packed with wildlife. Itineraries on offer include boat trips along the river to indigenous villages, where guests can learn traditional fishing methods, watch locals crafting bows and arrows, baskets and textiles, or go on canoe excursions by night.
To help you understand more about the biological and cultural diversity of the reserve, the lodge runs a visitor centre with a library and a small exhibition of arts and crafts. Accommodation is rustic: there are four twin-bed thatched cabins with hot-water showers, shared bathrooms (one cabin has a private bathroom) and a hammock, while water is piped in from a natural spring. It's not exactly eco-chic, but then the focus here is not on staying indoors – it's on discovering the unknown.
For prices, booking and details on activities see www.madidijungle.com/mapajo.
Meet the Huaorani, Ecuador
The Huaorani have long inhabited the headwaters of the Ecuadorian Amazon, hunting game with blowpipes and gathering food from the forest. They were the last of Ecuador's indigenous peoples to be contacted by missionaries – in 1956 – and they now mostly live in permanent settlements, though at least one clan continues to shun all contact with the outside world.
On this trip you are taken to meet the small community of Quehueri'ono ("Cannibal River"), hunter-gatherers who live in the northwestern part of the Huaorani territory. Such a unique encounter is the result of years of consultation between their chief Moi Enomenga and an Ecuadorian travel company, Tropic EcoTours. For twelve years, Tropic has run hiking tours with Moi, employing Quehueri'ono villagers as guides – a sign of its success is that a permanent ecolodge, used as a base for village trips, has now been built, with five cabins equipped with twin bed, shower and flush toilet. For several days a Huaorani guide leads you through the rainforest, demonstrating how they use plants for medicine, shelter and clothes, and how to hunt monkeys by climbing up trees and firing poisoned darts from blowpipes. He'll also point out an astonishing variety of wildlife, including blue morpho butterflies, greater and lesser kiskadees and several species of Amazonian kingfishers.
For itineraries, prices and booking for transport and accommodation see www.huaorani.com.
Live with nomads, Mongolia
A hundred or so goats head off bleating their complaints in one direction, while a herd of cows tramps off in another. A boy of perhaps ten rides by on his horse, with no saddle. All around smoke rises from the fifteen or so gers spread across this high plain, surrounded by a ring of forested hills. Here in the Terelj National Park, fewer than 100km from the Mongolian capital Ulaan Bator, the only signs of industrialization are the occasional solar panel or motorbike.
A typical day on a trip with Ger to Ger, a non-profit organization that promotes grassroots tourism development, starts with a journey on horse or oxcart from the ger where you spent the night onto your next resting post. The rest of the day is spent doing what your new hosts do. That could mean helping them collect the sheep at dusk, milking horses (the local tipple is Airag, fermented mare's milk only slightly less alcoholic than vodka) or being taught how to use a bow and arrow. It is highly rewarding but can be pretty exhausting. With no translator you have to communicate with a Mongolian phrasebook and any props such as family photographs you might have with you. But for anyone keen to get a taste of what travel was like before everyone spoke English and booked online, a few days riding across Mongolia should suffice.
Ger to Ger's office is based in Ulaan Bator. For itineraries and prices see www.gertoger.org.
Stay in an Isan village, Thailand
It's far too easy to visit Thailand and come away feeling that you never really got to see what life for Thais is like outside of the tourist centres. If you're curious, then a visit to the tranquil rice-growing village of Ko Pet in the northeastern Isan region may be just what you're looking for.
Ko Pet is a village like many others in the region, with the difference that it has built a lodge so that small-scale tourism can supplement incomes from rice and vegetable cultivation. Guests (a maximum of six at a time) stay in the locally built three-bedroom Lamai guesthouse at one end of Ko Pet, surrounded by a garden of palms and mango trees, and are always accompanied by two of the villagers on visits into the village – who are there to provide translation and keep tours unobtrusive.
The activities on offer – joining elders foraging for edible insects or mushrooms, learning how to weave baskets from raffia, seeing silk being produced – are not staged, since they comprise what the villagers would be doing anyway. Guides ensure these are rotated between the twenty or so participating families, so there is little disruption of routine and income is spread evenly. Ko Pet may be in one of the more remote areas of Thailand but the scheme here is showing the way forward for rural tourism in Asia.
For directions and details of tours and packages see www.thailandhomestay.com.
Visit a Khmu village, Laos
But for the Mekong River on whose banks it stands, the village of Yoi Hai is cut off from the world, with no road cut through the dense jungle that surrounds it. Living here, surrounded by the cloud-covered heights of the hills, are the Khmu – an animist tribe who worship spirits in the trees and rocks that surround them. Until recently the population was even more isolated, but in 2000 the government decreed that they, and all the other hill tribes, had to form new towns on lower ground, partly in a bid to stamp out the opium trade and partly to improve access to healthcare and education. However, many tribal peoples have struggled to adapt to these more urban communities, with alcoholism and drug abuse on the increase.
Thanks to their relationship with the nearby Kamu Lodge, however, the future doesn't look quite so bleak for the Khmu. The lodge – comprising twenty comfortable two-person safari tents and a thatched pagoda restaurant topped with solar panels – employs staff from local communities, is responsible for building a school and also pays a monthly community fund. You'll get the chance to meet the people whom the lodge is helping – they will show you round the village, teach you how to cast a net into the river or how to pan in its waters for gold.
For further details, including rates and booking, see www.kamulodge.com.
Take to the hills in Bangladesh
When people talk of visiting hill tribes, Bangladesh is rarely the destination that comes to mind. Yet in the dense rainforests that line the country's southeastern border with Burma and India, there are half a million indigenous people belonging to fourteen different tribes – and unlike in Laos, Thailand or Cambodia, very few tourists make the effort to visit the villages.
For the visitors that do come, however, Bangladesh Ecotours takes guests into the Chittagong Hill Tracts region (pictured at the top of the article) to stay with tribes, sharing in traditional feasts, shopping for handicrafts, and often finding themselves the audience for an impromptu song-and-dance given in their honour. In return for their hospitality, the company provides the tribes with funds for education and medical aid, promoting conservation projects such as reforestation and handicraft development.
For prices, reservations and information on how to get to Chittagong see www.bangladeshecotours.com.
Stay with a Samoan family
Customary Samoan hospitality has helped simple, family-run tourist lodges to prosper as locals have turned their beachside huts into guesthouses. Now, on both of the two main islands (Upolu and Savaii), for US$40 or so, you can spend the night on a mattress on the floor of a little open-sided fale, with a mosquito net and maybe a locker for valuables. Your hosts will prepare dinner and a tropical breakfast and can arrange for you to go off on hikes or join in with cousins and aunties in their chores if you wish.
During the day the men venture off into the milky blue sea to spearfish from outrigger canoes, a coconut-leaf basket ready for the catch. Women weave mats from sun-dried pandanus leaves or hack at coconuts to extract the flesh for copra. Perhaps, if you're lucky, you may get to witness a traditional tattooing session, using sharpened pigs' teeth and ink made from candlenut soot. By night, as the sea laps at the stilts of your simple fale, you can sit and read Stevenson under the wide and starry sky.
For contact details, directions and further information on the various fales, visit www.samoa.travel.
Live with the Maasai, Kenya
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Over a week spent living with a Maasai family in the village of Olturuto, in the Kajiado district 30km from Nairobi, you'll become immersed in all aspects of daily life of the herders and their families. Helping with the chores may not seem like a holiday, but a few days grinding maize to make flour, milking the cows or collecting water from the borehole is the best way to learn what life's really like in an African village. The reality is that most of your day is spent not working as we know it, but slowly passing time – catching up on local gossip, making arrows, weaving baskets or simply taking some time to contemplate the vastness of your surroundings.
Assisted at all times by a translator, you'll also get the chance to talk with elders and medicine men and spend two days on a more traditional tourist activity on safari in nearby Amboseli National Park, home to elephants, lions and giraffes. And while the chance to see a lion from the back of a jeep is what brings most tourists to Kenya, very few get the chance to experience the simple rhythms of life as a Maasai.
GSE Ecotours organizes homestays (lasting four to fourteen days) in five villages in the Great Rift Valley and Central and Eastern provinces. For further enquiries contact +44 (0) 870 766 9891.
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Hirsutism is a condition where women have excess unwanted hair on their faces and bodies. The hair is dark and coarse and usually appears where men typically grow hair, on the chest, face, and back.
Body and facial hair is normal. The amount of hair varies among women. But about half of women with hirsutism may have high levels of male sex hormones called androgens.
Most cases of hirsutism are not severe, and are not caused by any underlying condition. However, sometimes there is a more serious underlying condition, such as Cushing syndrome. About 8% of adult women in the United States have hirsutism. Sometimes no cause can be found.
The main symptom of hirsutism is hair growing on the abdomen, breasts, and upper lip (male-pattern hair growth in women). If hirsutism is caused by high levels of male hormones, symptoms may also include:
If hirsutism is caused by Cushing syndrome, signs and symptoms can include:
About half of women with hirsutism have high levels of male sex hormones, called androgens. Those high levels can be caused by:
Sometimes, women with hirsutism may have normal levels of male hormones. If there is no underlying condition, doctors may not be able to determine what causes hirsutism.
The following factors may increase your risk of hirsutism:
Your doctor will examine you and take a medical history. You may be asked about your menstrual cycle, what medications you take, and your family history. Your doctor will check you for hair growth and also may do a pelvic examination to check for tumors or cysts on the ovaries. After doing the physical exam, your doctor may order one of the following tests:
Preventing hirsutism depends on the cause. For women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), for example, losing weight through diet and exercise may help. Studies suggest that obese women with PCOS may be less likely to develop hirsutism if they eat a low-calorie diet.
Treatment for hirsutism depends on whether there is an underlying cause, and how severe the hair growth is. For example, if medications are making it worse, you can ask your doctor if you can switch medications. A tumor on the ovaries or adrenal glands can be removed surgically. Overweight women with hirsutism may want to lose weight so their bodies will make less testosterone.
If your doctor cannot find a cause, you can try a combination of self care and hair-removal techniques. Psychological support may also help because hirsutism is often a frustrating and embarrassing condition.
Being overweight may contribute to hirsutism. Eating a balanced diet and getting enough exercise can help control weight.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved any medications to treat hirsutism. However, some drugs may lower androgen production and reduce hair growth. It can take 6 months or longer for the medications to produce noticeable changes in hair growth. They must be taken long term to keep symptoms under control. These medications include:
If a tumor on the ovaries or adrenal glands is causing hirsutism, you may need surgery to remove it.
Laser therapy can remove unwanted hair for some women. The laser destroys hair follicles and stops hair from growing. You will need several sessions to reduce hair growth in specific areas, and you may need touch-ups afterward. Laser therapy works best on women with dark hair and light skin.
Ask your health care provider how to use complementary and alternative therapies (CAM) in your overall treatment plan. Always tell your provider about the herbs and supplements you are using or considering using.
These nutritional tips may help women stay at a good weight, which may help lower androgens in the body:
Herbs may strengthen and tone the body's systems. As with any therapy, you should work with your health care provider before starting treatment. You may use herbs as dried extracts (capsules, powders, or teas), glycerites (glycerine extracts), or tinctures (alcohol extracts). Unless otherwise indicated, you should make teas with 1 tsp. herb per cup of hot water. Steep covered 5 to 10 minutes for leaf or flowers, and 10 to 20 minutes for roots.
These herbs are sometimes suggested to treat hirsutism, but most have not been studied by scientists. Always talk to your doctor before taking any herb that can affect hormones. DO NOT take these supplements if you are pregnant or breast feeding, or planning to become pregnant. Women who have a history of breast, uterine, or ovarian cancer, or other hormone-related conditions, should not take these supplements except under their doctor's supervision.
One small study of women with hirsutism found that acupuncture reduced both hair density and hair length. It also reduced levels of the male hormone testosterone. More research is needed.
If you are pregnant, you should not take medications, herbs, or supplements that change hormone levels. Talk to your doctor if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or plan to become pregnant.
Pregnant women may notice more hair growth during the third trimester, especially on the face, arms and legs, and breasts. This is normal and is not a sign of hirsutism.
Treating the underlying cause of hirsutism can improve your symptoms. Long-term medication may slow hair growth, but it usually will not get rid of existing hair on the face and body. Some cosmetic techniques, laser hair removal and waxing, can reduce unwanted hair. Women who are embarrassed by their condition might consider seeing a trained counselor.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Doctors used adult stem cells to help Texas Gov. Rick Perry with his back surgery last month.
A spokesman said the stem cells were used in an "innovative way." The cells were taken from Perry's body and applied to the area where doctors decompressed a nerve and fused part of his spine. Adult stem cell therapy is different from using embryonic cells, which Perry opposes.
The Food and Drug Administration has not approved using stem cells to help people heal from surgery, but experimentation is common. Researchers do warn, however, of a slight increased cancer risk.First Read: Perry prayer event carries risk
Perry, a Republican who is considering a run for president, has advocated research into adult stem cells. Since the July 1 surgery, Perry has worn a back brace but has maintained his work schedule.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Spanish-language radio host Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo filed suit Monday against six former Univision employees, accusing them of a plot to extort $4.9 million from him with threats that they would falsely accuse him of sexual harassment and workplace humiliation.
The suit said the employees were Piolin's friends, one from high school, who profited from his success on radio and wanted revenge for being fired.
Sotelo's long-running show, "Piolin por la Manana," was abruptly cancelled by Univision without explanation last month. It was subsequently reported that a lawyer for a former staffer had written a letter to Univision in April seeking settlement of sexual harassment allegations.
Sotelo's lawsuit details an alleged offer by the employees through their lawyers to "seal their lips" and take their allegations "to their graves" if Sotelo paid them.
Attorney Richard R. Clayton, named as a defendant, did not return a call for comment.
It said the friends hired by Sotelo, one who was working at a fast food restaurant after declaring bankruptcy, were given an opportunity to break into radio. The six defendants include a bakery deliveryman, an online copywriter, a medical waste hauler, a warehouse employee and a female traffic reporter.
Some were trained in radio techniques, the suit said, and one man was given a simple job of bleeping out curse words from the freewheeling show before they reached the air. It said that man sometimes failed to stop the words from getting on the air and was written up for it. But Piolin said he interceded to keep the man's job.
The suit painted a picture of a show troubled by jealousy and questionable activities by employees.
It said trouble started when a Piolin friend who was named manager of the show found out how much money Piolin was making on promotional ventures and demanded a raise up to $1 million. It said the same man used his position to get jobs for friends, relatives and a young woman with whom he started an extra-marital affair. This, the suit said, "created a workplace drama when (his wife) drove to Univision Studios and demanded the woman be fired."
The suit said the woman, who had been given a late-night talk show, was discovered giving away prizes to her family members and ultimately was fired.
"Piolin is appalled by the conduct of his former colleagues and personal friends," the lawsuit said.
His attorney, Jeffrey Spitz, called the alleged extortion scheme "one of the most brazen, shameless and despicable examples of a shakedown that I have ever seen."
Sotelo, who was recently elected to the National Radio Hall of Fame, played corny jokes and pranks on his morning drive time show but also hosted politicians including President Barack Obama to discuss issues such as immigration reform.
In 2007, he travelled to Washington, D.C., to present lawmakers with 1 million letters in support of immigration reform. He often spoke on his program of his own experiences as an immigrant crossing the border illegally as a teenager and later obtaining papers and becoming an American citizen.
Piolin, whose nickname means "Tweety Bird," also voiced roles in "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" and other movies. He recently signed a contract with SiriusXM satellite radio.


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Who knows what God has in mind? All I can do is trust in His will; I know that His plans are best. Who would've thought that I'd be Catholic, or even Christian? Who knows why He waited so long to bring me to this point, why he waited until I am almost too old to enter a convent? (Yes, I know: "Say not I am too young ...")
Even now, though I am chomping at the the bit and stamping my feet in impatience, the gate has not opened. This is not to say that He has done nothing, because He has certainly done much. But I am getting impatient with the preparations; I know He is preparing both me and the community in which I am to enter.
Patience is a virtue. I do know one way to beat the devil is to have patience and persistence. Perhaps this is a battle of patience at the moment. I have no choice but to wait. And while the angels fight for me, it is my job not to crumble. Lord, it is you for whom I wait. I am in the desert, I am without daily mass, without spiritual direction, and now without Sunday communion, but I know I am NOT without YOU. The devil may dance but I know he won't win.
who knows?
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Who knows what God has in mind? All I can do is trust in His will; I know that His plans are best. Who would've thought that I'd be Catholic, or even Christian? Who knows why He waited so long to bring me to this point, why he waited until I am almost too old to enter a convent? (Yes, I know: "Say not I am too young ...")
Posted by seeking_something at 11:08 AM
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4 comments:
- Jen said...
I know what you mean about "choming at the bit" waiting for God to finish up His preparations on things. I've had to repeat to myself many times "Your Will be done". It's hard...but with prayer I find some of my impatience is lessoned.
- Sunday, August 27, 2006 1:51:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Oh, girl, I'm sorry things are so difficult for you right now. I am praying that a break comes your way and soon!!
May you find a new and incredible depth of the spirit in something ordinary today....
- Sunday, August 27, 2006 7:06:00 PM
- seeking_something said...
Yo, thanks all.
To keep it in perspective, it isn't as bad as for some folks I know:
(1)One guy had his wife divorce him, kicked him out of the house, got a restraining order and now he can't see his kids. He had a car wreck shortly after that too.
(2)One gal had an accident at a major store. She's debilitated for life in a major way, has two young kids and is now trying to get legal claims against this big company and they keep sending her to their docs ... it's been years now.
(3)One guy had his wife walk out on him for the second time. Just up and left. They have three young children. When she did it the first time, there were only two children, so it's been quite a few years in between.
So compared to that, my life is just peachy. I do take joy in knowing that one of my favorite Dominicans is able to take vacation this week. She sure deserves a wonderful vacation.
- Sunday, August 27, 2006 8:23:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
You have my prayers. Sure, tons of people have bigger suffering than you or I do, but your suffering still counts too, Seeking. You still matter.
- Monday, August 28, 2006 1:30:00 PM


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First Business Ceo Corey Chambas Honored As 2013 Member In Business Hall Fame
MADISON, WI, – July 8, 2013 (INBUSINESS) – As IB presents the Hall of Fame class of 2013, we'd like to emphasize that business and philanthropic excellence are the hallmarks of a Hall of Fame inductee. These exceptional individuals were judged to have made significant contributions to their companies, the Greater Madison business community, their respective industries, and the community
at large.
We even have one 2013 inductee, Corey Chambas, CEO of First Business Financial Services, who helped write the HOF criteria 10 years ago. In the 2013 class, Chambas is joined by Ellen Brothers, retired president of American Girl; Tim Christen, CEO of Baker Tilly Virchow Krause; Carol "Orange" Schroeder, co-owner of Orange Tree Imports; and Kevin Conroy, president and CEO of Exact
Sciences Corp.
Corey Chambas: Underwriting Growth "It is quite an honor. It's humbling. I was hoping I wasn't old enough to be a Hall of Famer yet. I feel I should be nearing retirement or something like that, but it is quite an honor."
At age 51, Corey Chambas is not the first "youngster" to be selected to our HOF, but he shares a common trait with those who preceded him — business acumen. While the 2008-09 recession and the financial stress it caused put a lot of gray hair on the heads of bankers, First Business Bank, the anchor of First Business Financial Services' corporate structure, was better positioned than most.
Chambas deserves some of the credit for that, for he was part of a management team that navigated through some rough seas. In the early 2000s, Chambas was among the bank executives warning about the risky investments some banks were making, and the 2008-09 financial crisis would demonstrate how prescient he was.
The recessionary environment would leave some marks on First Business Bank, but it remained profitable because it did not take exotic risks in its investment portfolio; instead, it took on risk in its loan portfolio, "where we think you get paid more appropriately for taking risk, and we think we can underwrite the risk, and we think that's part of our core skill set," Chambas explained.
Some decisions are learning experiences. First Business went public in 2005 without an initial public offering, a decision Chambas now regrets because, without an IPO, it took more time to garner research coverage and gain institutional ownership, which suppressed stock activity. "Our trading volume would have been more robust if we had analysts covering us from the beginning, if we had institutional ownership from the beginning," he acknowledged.
Like other banks, First Business saw its stock price sink below book value during the recession, and management waited for the stock to recover — when it made more sense for shareholders — before pulling the trigger on an IPO. That occurred in 2012, when the bank raised $29 million in capital with an eye toward growth.
"With all the disruption in the banking industry, we're pretty optimistic about the future," Chambas stated. "We've grown loans for the last four quarters, which is unusual for the industry." FBFS has also expanded into new business lines. In 2012, it got into the accounts receivable factoring business, and it opened an equipment finance office in Kansas City, which conducts business on a broader geographic basis.
Chambas described factoring as a financing option for younger or faster-growing companies that have trouble getting the financing they need. A new company might have only one client, a situation that makes it difficult to do standard commercial lending. On the other hand, if that client is a large and healthy corporation, the receivables the new company gets are "valid and valuable."
"The factoring is a way for these fast-growing companies to get help with their cash cycle," Chambas noted. James Garner, who nominated Chambas for the Hall of Fame, believes Chambas' legacy is helping to grow a local business bank into a $1 billion public company that, in turn, has assisted in the growth of a significant number of local businesses.
Chambas feels good about what he's accomplished, particularly the sharing of business knowledge, but he's still in the progress of building a legacy. "Several parts of our company are still at either adolescent or immature stages," he said. "We have several business lines and banking locations that have room to grow."
Source Article: In Business
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First Business Financial Services is a Wisconsin-based bank holding company, focused on the unique needs of businesses, business executives and high net worth individuals. First Business offers commercial banking, specialty finance and private wealth management solutions, and because of its niche focus, is able to provide its clients with unmatched expertise, accessibility and responsiveness. For additional information, visit www.firstbusiness.com.


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ADA — Ohio Northern University's Freed Center for the Performing Arts presents country recording artist Katie Armiger on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. Armiger will conduct a free workshop prior to her performance at 2 p.m.
From Sugar Land, Texas, Armiger began her career at age 14 after winning a citywide competition for young country singers in Houston; she released her first album at age 15. She has released four albums and has charted five singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Armiger's most recent release, "Fall Into Me," reflects the accomplished young star's deepening confidence in her own abilities. Working once again with Grammy Award-winning producer Chad Carlson allowed Armiger to have quite a bit of control over the album's direction, so she opted for a central theme: love in all its many forms. "The album is literally about falling in, falling out, and searching for that special something," she said. "The songs take you on that journey."
In 2012, Armiger and her band were typically on the road three weeks out of every month. Her extensive touring experience includes opening slots for some of country music's biggest artists, including Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, Little Big Town, Eli Young Band, Darius Rucker, Josh Turner, Rodney Atkins and Kellie Pickler, among others.
Her success has also extended to the media, where she performed during a pivotal date on ABC's hit show "Bachelor Pad." Every video she has released in the last three years has been voted by fans onto Great American Country's "Top 20 Countdown," including "Leaving Home," which lodged itself in the countdown for an astonishing 4.5 months. Fan votes also netted her the No. 1 spot in Country Weekly's Hottest Bachelorette issue two years in a row, as well as the No. 3 slot in the magazine's most beautiful women in country music list.
Tickets are $20 for general admission, $15 for seniors and non-ONU students, $5 for children, $10 for ONU faculty and staff, and $5 for ONU students. The Freed Center box office is open Monday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Phone orders are accepted with American Express, MasterCard, VISA or Discover by calling 419-772-1900. Tickets also are available online at www.freedcenter.com
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The Shakti Bhatt Foundation has released its shortlist for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2010.
The six books are:
Home Boy, by H M Naqvi
The House on Mall Road, by Mohyna Srinivasan
Songs of Blood and Sword, A Daughter's Memoir, by Fatima Bhutto
The Wish Maker, by Ali Sethi
Dehi Calm, by Vishwajyoti Ghosh
Following Fish, by Samanth Subramanian
In its third year, the prize is a cash award of one lakh rupees and a trophy. The genres covered are poetry, fiction (including graphic novels), creative non-fiction (travel writing, autobiography, biography and narrative journalism) and drama. The 3-member advisory board this year included journalist Anil Nair, IFA programme executive Sanjay Iyer and poet Jeet Thayil.
The shortlisted books will be sent to the 2010 panel of judges; they are playwright Mahesh Dattani, writer and surgeon Kalpana Swaminathan and novelist Ruchir Joshi.
The winner will be announced in the second half of November and the prize will be presented in December.
Last year's winner was Mridula Koshy for If It Is Sweet.
The Shakti Bhatt Foundation is a non-profit trust. It wishes to reward first-time authors of all ages. For further information, mail shaktibhattprize AT gmail DOT com
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Re: Re: Often Overlooked OO Programming Guidelinesby Ovid (Cardinal)
|on Dec 29, 2003 at 21:05 UTC ( #317551=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
Subclassing can be handy, but it's also a problematic aspect of OO programming. Also, Perl's AUTOLOAD function can lead to horrible bugs in inheritance implementation, further confusing the issue. Subclassing is a form of composition, but delegation can solve some of the issues that composition can lead to.
As an example of problematic subclassing in Perl, take a look at this code:
Foo::_fiddle has no relation to the Bar::_fiddle method and the similarity of names is a coincidence. Unfortunately, calling the Foo::wonk method via an instance of Bar will still call the Bar::_fiddle method, even though this may not be desireable behavior. Not having clean encapsulation of private methods makes this very difficult to get around. You could try to get around it like this:
That looks better, but if the private method violates encapsulation and reaches into the object (a common practice), it might be making assumptions about what's there, even if those assumptions are not warranted.
Delegation can solve this.
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Facebook plunges 9% on $15 price callSeptember 24, 2012: 1:03 PM ET
Since its botched initial public offering in May, investors have heatedly discussed the following question about Facebook (FB): How low can it go?
After surging last week to a recent high of above $23 a share from its all-time low of $17.55, it looked like the Facebook fans finally had reason to celebrate. But Facebook's stock plummeted more than 9% Monday after an article appeared in Barron's over the weekend which declared that $15 is the right price for Facebook. The debate between Facebook bulls and bears continued on StockTwits.
RahulTongia: Facebook Is Worth $15 http://t.co/NKBLhQ49 via @barronsonline - $FB interesting take and also agree that FB doesn't have a clear strategy
MiamiHeat:$FB is there anything new in article? No, all old news, pricedin, nothing changed, buy on dips.
It's true that there's not much new in the article. The author notes Facebook's well-chronicled troubles, particularly its challenge making money from the shift to mobile web browsing.
Yet it still may be shocking to the broader investing public to see just how much more expensive Facebook is than Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL). At $23, Facebook is trading at 47 times its projected 2012 profit. Both Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) only trade for 16 times 2012 earnings.
Related: What the Zuck? Facebook up 30% from lows
Still not all traders agree, and some members of the StockTwits world clearly think that a price below $21 is s a good time to buy.
DeidreZune: My view is the selloff in $FB is an opportunity at this point. Many things beginning to go right.
AheadoftheNews: $FB just remember that it is one on the most shorted stocks out there, and why 30/40% rallies in 10 days will happen again.
lionking: $FB This drop is healthy. Weak hands taken out. Next leg up will be fast and way higher. Doesn't look like today tho.
So will Facebook fall to $15? I'm not sure. But it seems like the days of predicting outlandishly high price targets for Facebook are ancient history. Now, the eye-popping predictions just keep getting lower and lower.


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Research by Western Illinois University has linked Facebook usage to narcissism, according to The Guardian.
The study, which surveyed nearly 300 college students, found Facebook users who had more Facebook friends were often tagged in more photos and updated their newsfeed more often. Those users often also scored higher on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory.
The latest study, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, also found that narcissists responded more aggressively to derogatory comments made about them on the social networking site's public walls and changed their profile pictures more often.
A number of previous studies have linked narcissism with Facebook use, but this is some of the first evidence of a direct relationship between Facebook friends and the most "toxic" elements of narcissistic personality disorder.
Facebook is not the first technology to be linked to negative personality traits. Cell phones have been linked to self-centeredness as well.


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