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i am a healthy person weighing 80 but height 6 feet so i want to use megace to gain body weight please do tell me the way to achieve my goal
I would use whey protein shakes plus three meals plus resitance (weight) training instead.
Megestrol is a progesterone based product used in the treatment of advanced cancer of the breast and endometrium. When given in relatively high doses, Megestrol can substantially increase appetite in most individuals, even those with advanced cancer. It is also used to boost appetite in individuals with other cancers or HIV/AIDS.
Megace us the worst drug to use for weight gain. It increases mostly fat mass, hyperglycemia, risks of blood clots and joint bone death.
Here is a chapter of my book "Built to Survive" about the Megace:
Megace The Wrong Drug
By James Brockman (Reprinted with permission)
One of the most commonly used drugs for treatment of AIDS-related weight loss is megestrol acetate, which is sold as the brand name Megace by Bristol-Myers Squibb. Megace is a synthetic drug categorized as a gestagen, which is a class of drugs that mimic the actions of the naturally occurring female hormone progesterone. Originally the drug was developed to be an injectable contraceptive for women, but the drug has now found a role as a chemotherapeutic agent in the treatment of several cancers in women and men, such as cancers of the breast, uterus, and prostate. Two commonly observed side effects of Megace, increased appetite and weight gain, prompted its current use for AIDS-wasting.
The effects of progesterone and other gestagens, like Megace, on appetite and energy metabolism, are well known. Gestagens induce increased food intake by direct stimulation of the appetite centers in the brain. They also improve the efficiency of food energy used to produce new tissue; this effect of gestagens on increasing weight is seen even when gestagen-induced increase in food intake is prevented by restricting calories to maintenance levels.10 So much for the good points.
What Kind Of Weight Gain?
The problem with the weight gained from Megace is that it is primarily fat and water weight, with little lean tissue increase. , Through interactions with mineral corticoid receptors in the kidneys, specific metabolites of Megace promote retention of water. In addition some studies have shown that Megace increases the number of fat cells as well as their size. This is exactly what someone who is wasting or have lipodystrophy doesn't want. We should be clear that the focus of just putting weight on HIV(+) individuals is inappropriate. Studies are conclusive that survival is correlated with lean body mass, not total weight or fat weight. So if you want to be fat and hungry, take Megace, but do not expect to gain much muscle or live any longer.
Many Side Effects
Megace has almost too many side effects to list. For both men and women the most commonly observed side effect is loss of libido. When Megace was used as a female contraceptive, it worked too well. All the women lost their fertility, but they lost their normal sex drive too! Megace interacts with the progesterone receptors in the hypothalamus to inhibit gonadotropin release in both sexes. Gonadotropins stimulate testosterone production, and testosterone is necessary for a healthy sex drive in both men and women. The end-result of lower gonadotropins in men is not only lower testosterone production, and lower libido, but also testicular atrophy. In other words, the testicles shrivel up. Finally, low plasma testosterone levels are bad for HIV(+) men and women because they are associated with a weakened immune system and the loss of muscle tissue.
Because Megace and/or its metabolites have glucocorticoid activity, 9 Megace is also potentially immunosuppressive. Glucocorticoids are well known to inhibit proliferation of white blood cells including T cells, and weaken the body's response to infection, as well as slowing the healing process. Furthermore, a glucocorticoid responsive element has been identified in the RNA of the HIV virus, so it is possible that Megace could have a direct effect on stimulating viral replication. Other side effects related to the cortisol-like activity of Megace are glucose intolerance, full-blown diabetes, and suppression of the hypo-thalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.9 Resist-ance to cortisol is common in HIV, and with-drawal from Megace therapy could result in a dangerous state of adrenal deficiency. These conditions are associated with the later stages of HIV in cytokine-related wasting, so it makes little sense to use a drug that has the potential to make the complications of HIV infection even worse. Other problems seen with Megace include thrombosis (blood clots), carpal tunnel syndrome, and peripheral neuropathy.
When it comes to gaining muscle to rebuild a body weakened by AIDS, Megace cannot begin to stack up to anabolic steroids. While some people assert that Megace has a role as an appetite stimulant, there are other substances, like Marinol, that work with far fewer side effects. If your doctor is not yet aware of the benefits of Marinol and anabolic steroids and the problems associated with Megace, work to educate them, and be sure to ask questions if they tell you they would like to prescribe Megace for you. After all, your choice of therapies is up to you.


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A Form of Paying Attention April 2010
April 17th is, for the third time ever, what we in the biz like to call Record Store Day. Everyone's all like "oooh it's like Christmas for record nerds!" and "record store day is my favorite new day of the year!" but the real truth is that Record Store Day just means we can sell you more records, AND, record stores will continue to exist! (Win/win) This year we are releasing limited edition records (the number in parentheses = the total run) by Beach House (2750), The Album Leaf (2000), Happy Birthday (1750), Dum Dum Girls/Male Bonding (2250), Soundgarden (5475), and CocoRosie (1250) as well as a CD (9200) of some of the live performances from our big 20th Anniversary blowout from 2008. You can read more about our RSD offerings and in-stores here and more about RSD in general here.
April 27th is the release date for the highly anticipated Avi Buffalo record called, somewhat mysteriously, Avi Buffalo. If you pre-order Avi Buffalo by April 27th, you will, for free, receive a totally limited CDR featuring four non-album tracks! So don't delay, after April 27th, they are gone. Our mom-n-pop direct sales guy Dean Whitmore has a fantastic little musical outfit called Unnatural Helpers, and they too are releasing an album on the 27th. Cracked Love and Other Drugs is available from Hardly Art. Get it!
Hey, also, speaking of our anniversary, it was just our anniversary again! This year we turned 22. It's cool…we're thinking about getting our own place so we can smoke our dope in private, as well as what we're going to do with the rest of our lives. And speaking of the rest of our lives, you are currently reading the very last edition of A Form of Paying Attention. You goddamned kids have no attention spans anymore so from May 1 on you will find news bits in place of this wordy, dumb column. It was a good run but it's time to put 'er down.
For the first time ever we have a three-way tie for the winners of March's new releases. Our friends at Yours Truly do awesome video stuff like this, but they had a hard time picking a winner for me. I finally got them to say "the guy who said the Smiths," but that's actually two guys, so both Simon Horton and Mike Waalkes are winners of the new Ruby Suns, Golden Triangle, Happy Birthday, and Dum Dum Girls records. Also, I had to pick Bob Ham as a winner as well because I've been obsessing about Henry Rollins lately. (Henry, call me!) Congratulations, everyone. To win April's new releases, including a complete pack of all of our RSD releases, please leave my column an obit in the comments section. See ya!

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Very Comefortable
By lab99 on Tuesday, May 07, 2019This is a second car so I don't drive it every day but the car is comfortable, low noise smooth ride. performance wise, it only has a 1.6L engine so you are not going to go 0 to 60 in 5 seconds, that being said it has good acceleration. Mileage, best I've gotten is 44 MPG on the road, in town stop and start driving, average is in the 31 MPG range. One of the things I like about Nissan's is that their body styling is unique, and the Kicks does not disappoint, it has smooth lines and does not look like every other SUV on the road. I only have two complaints... 1. Other than the glove box, which is small, there is no other in cabin storage, the center console is one solid piece so there is no where to put my umbrella other than under the seat. 2. The vehicle has AEB (Automatic Emergency Braking), the sensor was found to be defective 2 days after I purchased the vehicle. Dealership replaced it (took 2 months to get the replacement sensor) but not once has it activated after it was replaced. Dealership says it is working fine, if that is true, then I must be the safest driver in the world or the slowest for it to not have activated at least once after driving the vehicle for 8 months. Other than 1 and 2 above, I like the vehicle, it was good choice for a second car.
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Buy it you will love it.
By Peter on Tuesday, November 13, 2018Buy it you will love it. What can I say it's a great car, handles well, brakes well, loaded with safety features. The only thing I miss from my previous car is automatic day time running lights. I find no problem with the engine, seems peppy to me. It really feels great on the road and take the bumps around Tucson in a grand manner. Lots of head room, easy to enter and get out of. I wish I would have looked at Nissan years ago. I love this car.
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By SJ_35 on Sunday, March 24, 2019I've owned my 2018 Kicks for three months and have put 7,000 miles on it. I have to be fair, so as a little upfront "disclaimer," I bought the Kicks after owning a 2013 Altima SL for 4 years, which I bought used and LOVED. However, after putting 100,000 miles on it quicker than I thought I would, I needed to trade it in with negative equity (there were other issues with the car that I couldn't afford to fix). So, it's important to understand I was a little spoiled before buying the Kicks. First, the Pros... The car seems to get decent gas mileage. By that, I mean that the electronic gauges indicate I get an everage of 32.5 mpg. Keep in mind that I put a minimum of 70 miles per day 5 days a week on this car, with 60 of those miles being low traffic highways in 55 to 70 mph speed zones. I love the parking assist cameras. These show an aerial view of the spot I'm pulling in or out of. After 30 years of driving, I'm still not the best at parking a vehicle, so this is a big plus for me. I also love the blind spot sensors. These alert both while driving and while pulling out of a parking space. Living in east Texas where tons of people drive oversized pick up trucks, with a car this small, that's a BIG plus when getting out of parking spaces! I like having two USB ports for charging that the back passengers can use. My teenagers find this the most important feature of the car lol. The backseat and cargo area are surprisingly roomy for the compact size of the vehicle. I love having a removable hard shell privacy cover for the cargo area as well. Finally, I like the way my Kicks looks on the outside. I get questions and compliments on it. It's a cute little car! Now the Cons... My main complaint is the size of the gas tank. It's like between 10 and 11 gallons. I literally have to get gas like every other day. Two and a half days, tops. I guess I don't understand why they'd build a car with great gas mileage, knowing consumers with long commutes would buy it, and give it a gas tank that tiny. The seats are like sitting on concrete. No exaggeration. It takes me 40 minutes to get to work, and yes, I'm a curvy girl, but my behind shouldn't start hurting the way it does after driving this car for only a short distance. There is one arm rest, for the driver of course... one. It's about 2 inches wide, covered with scratchy material, and not padded well at all. So, it's lose-lose whether you're the driver (uncomfy rest) or the passenger (no rest at all). For some reason, the designers thought it a good idea to use some cheap silver-coated pieces in the "high traffic" area of the arm rest/handle on the inside of the doors. Within a week, this looked scratched up and old. Not thought out well at all. The cameras, while I love the parking and blind spot assists, have to be cleaned a wiped down EVERY SINGLE DAY. Even after that, the rear one still looks blurry. Not once since I drove it off the lot has it looked like it did when I did the test drive. Now for the issues I hope to get fixed when I get the chance to take it back to Nissan for work... The technology has bugs. When I try to use my ipod (yes, I know, old school), the songs randomly skip, like literally similar to a scratched 45 record (also old school, I know). I had to switch my music to a USB flash drive, which works, but I lost a lot of options that come with ipod (for on-screen menus, etc.). The flash drive works, but I wish I could use my ipod. The display screen in the car (used for everything, of course... radio, ipod, satellite, parking cameras, etc.) doesn't work sometimes. By that, I'd say an average 3 times a week it freezes up or blanks out. I've had to pull over, turn the car off, and restart to get it working again. There's also the A/C - heater issues. The temperature doesn't adjust according to what the read out indicates. It literally blows either really hot, or cold. I can't feel the in-between temperatures or get comfortable a lot of the time. To be fair, I will update the last few paragraphs after my visit to the Nissan service shop.
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-Junior forward Eleanor Taylor (Fairhaven, MA/Bishop Stang HS) scored three goals as the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's field hockey team defeated visiting Worcester State, 4-1, in a first round Little East Conference playoff match at Cressy Field Wednesday evening.
In the 14th minute of play, sophomore forward Kayla Ribsam (Lambertsville, NJ/South Hunterdon Regional HS) had a breakaway opportunity, but was fouled on the play resulting in a penalty stroke for UMD. On the ensuing attempt, Taylor fired a shot past WSU junior goalkeeper Rebecca Mullen (Peabody, MA/Peabody HS), staking UMD to a 1-0 lead. Taylor added her second goal 15 minutes later when she gathered a loose ball in the goalmouth, and snuck a shot into the back of the net, pushing the UMD lead to 2-0. With 4:15 to play in the opening half, freshman defender Chelsea Campbell (Barre, MA/Quabbin Regional HS) delivered a long pass upfield to junior forward Erica Allan (Amherst, MA/Amherst HS), who beat her defender one-on-one and scored, making the score 3-0 UMD going into halftime.
Less than three minutes into the second half, Taylor netted her final tally, redirecting a shot from junior midfielder Jenna Miedzionoski (Beverly, MA/Hamilton-Wenham Regional HS) past WSU freshman goalie Sydney Dionis (Shrewsbury, MA/Shrewsbury HS), increasing the Corsairs' advantage to 4-0. The Lancers' lone goal came in the 51st minute when senior forward Samantha Janda (Sterling, MA/West Boylston HS) scored unassisted, en route to the 4-1 victory for the Corsairs.
"I knew we were prepared for today," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Nicole Castonguay. "We had good competition to end our season that definitely got us ready. We spread the field better today, we worked on a different type of press, we played stronger overall defense and we were able to deliver. Erica, Eleanor and [junior defender] Taryn [Cardiel](Moorpark, CA/Moorpark HS) were key players for us and it was important to have some players take control on the field. It's going to be one hell of a game on Saturday. Since we played Plymouth last week, we're mentally, emotionally, and physically ready for the next challenge and we're a difficult team to beat twice."
The Corsairs matched the Lancers with eight shots apiece. UMD sophomore goalkeepers Lauren O'Brien (Rochester, MA/Old Rochester Regional HS) made three saves, while Mullen had one save for Worcester State.
The Corsairs improved to 11-9 with the victory, while the Lancers dropped to 10-8 with the defeat. UMass Dartmouth will return to action when they visit Plymouth State Friday afternoon in the semi-finals. The Panthers ousted Western Connecticut earlier today, 5-0. The match was the final action of the season for Worcester State.


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I am excited to report that there are quite a few artists that performed in the 1980's that have new albums (and some remastered re-releases) out today. All from diverse types of music genres.
With artists like Alice Cooper, Blondie, Queen, George Strait, Beastie Boys (among others), I think you would agree that today is a fantastic new music release day!
A Dramatic Turn of Events (Special Edition) (CD+DVD): Dream Theater
Dream Theater's A Dramatic Turn of Events is an album born from transition, crafted with studied persistence and possessed by new found freedom and free-flowing invigoration. The album strikes the perfect balance between Dream Theater's intimate history with all that is heavy, progressive and melodic with each element fully realized. Longtime fans of the band intrigued by the speediness of the notes on display from Dream Theater have much to study on the album…
Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play The Blues
New York City's premier jazz venue got the blues last April when Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton performed together in Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center for two sold-out shows dedicated to vintage blues. The extraordinary collaboration, billed as Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues, paired these musical virtuosos with members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as they brought to life a repertoire of songs selected by Clapton and arranged by Marsalis.
Worship Music, the long awaited new studio album from Anthrax, one of the four original architects of speed and thrash metal, has been confirmed for a September 13 release date, the day before the band's triumphant return to their native New York to play at Yankee Stadium as part of the Big Four concert extravaganza. Not only is Worship Music Anthrax's first studio release in eight years, but the album marks the return of vocalist Joey Belladonna…
Blondie has come a long way from CBGB s and the Bowery, having sold more than 40 million albums globally and repeatedly reaching the top of the charts over a course of four decades with such hits as 'One Way Or Another', 'Heart of Glass', 'Rapture and Maria'. In 2006 Blondie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Welcome 2 My Nightmare: Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper's widely anticipated new album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, recorded with longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin, who produced the original multi-platinum "Welcome To My Nightmare", picks up right where they left off, with Alice trapped in his own warped mind. Musically, the album ranges far and wide, from trashing disco to garage punk, pop balladry to a rocking number, very much in the spirit of the Rolling Stones. Glimpses of themes from the original album are intertwined throughout, each track representing a different aspect of Alice's nightmare.
With a career stretching more than three decades and one filled with a record-setting lengthy string of No. 1 country chart hits, George Strait is a living legend–and his status in the ranks of country music is assuredly iconic. Strait can fill volumes of hit packages and this ICON collection is no exception and provides a great cross-section of Strait! Typical down-home humor with a twist is evident in the form of "Ocean Front Property" and "All My Ex's Live in Texas."
Queen 40 Limited Edition Collector's Box Set Volume 2
Queen's 40th anniversary is now upon us, and the band pulls out all the stops to celebrate this historic occasion. Queen's second collection of studio albums remastered in deluxe reissue editions with rare bonus material all in one collectible box with a 24 panel Poster for the ultimate Queen fan. Albums included in the box: News of the World, Jazz, The Game, Flash Gordon, and Hot Space.
Spyro Gyra started out with the rhythms of the world. From the samba rhythms and Caribbean feel of their early hits to the latest album, they have made it a point to embrace the music of the places they have visited. Their new album, A Foreign Affair, is ready to take you around the world from the Caribbean to South America, and even to South Africa, India and Japan.
Nine Tonight [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]: Bob Seger
Recorded at Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI and Boston Garden, Boston, MA, Bob Seger's milestone live album is remastered for the first time ever and contains an exclusive never before released bonus track "Brave Strangers". Nine Tonight features the live versions of massive hits such as: "Old Time Rock And Roll," "Hollywood Nights," "Against The Wind," and "Night Moves". This remastered version also features restored artwork and updated packaging.
Live Bullet [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]: Bob Seger
Bob Seger scored several regional hits in Detroit and surrounding Midwest states during the late '60s–but it seemed he was destined to be a rock footnote when he recorded this live epic at Detroit's very partisan Cobo Arena in 1976. Seger had already released six Capitol LPs to little national attention at this point, but Live Bullet showcased him at his rockin' best–kind of like the Motor City's own Springsteen–and it caught on.
As producer of some of Rock music s biggest aritsts including Meat Loaf, Badfinger, Grand Funk Railroad, XTC, New York Dolls, Psychedelic Furs, Patti Smith, Hall & Oates, Todd is regarded as one of the most creative record producers of all-time. [re]Production celbrates Rundgren s credentials as a Producer with a relevant, fresh, and contemporary dance twist.
From Newport to London Greatest Hits Live & More: Basia
Polish vocalist Basia Trzetrzelewska spent several years in the pop band Matt Bianco, an offshoot of Blue Rondo à la Turk, before launching a solo career in 1987. With the musical assistance of Matt Bianco's Danny White, she developed a subtle cocktail jazz-pop first showcased on her 1987 debut album, Time and Tide. Supported by the singles "New Day for You" and "Time and Tide," the record became a hit in Europe and America, where the album went platinum.
From hardcore punk to rare groove and funk, the Beastie Boys have managed to fuse together numerous types of music to create their own inimitable style and gain worldwide critical acclaim as well as huge chart-busting hits. The Lowdown tells the full story of this extraordinary group and includes interviews with all the Boys, audio biography telling it the way it happened and is completed with booklets, poster and rare photographs to make for a future collector's item…
Wonderous Stories-the Best of Yes [Import]: Yes
2011 two CD compilation from the Prog Rockers. Yes are one of British Progressive Rock's greatest and most enduring bands. This collection is the ideal Yes primer, taking a panoramic sweep from their early days in the late 1960s, through such classics as the rapturous `And You And I' and on into the late '70 and early '80s, when the band scored global hit singles with classics such as `Wonderous Stories' `Going For The One' and `Owner Of A Lonely Heart'.


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The Anchor of Theology
"Why aren't Christian women interested in theology?" I often hear that question (usually from men), and I'm never sure how to answer. That's likely because I can't relate to the premise that Christian women aren't …Read More
Theology and Doxology
Angelic beings approach the throne of the triune God. They arrive in His immediate presence because they need no mediator. No sin prevents them from entering, and God gave these creatures the capacity to draw near without being incinerated by …Read More
The High Cost of Ambivalence
Walking away from gospel orthodoxy or disconnecting from the stream of church history should strike terror in our hearts. But because of personal compromise, far too many believers are found "walking in the counsel of the wicked, standing in the …Read More
Theological Narcissism
According to Greek mythology, Narcissus was a hunter from Thespia renowned for his beauty. His enemy, Nemesis, lured the arrogant Narcissus to a pool of water where he gazed at his own reflection and became utterly infatuated with the image …Read More
Heresy of the Free Spirit
Marguerite Porete was a French mystic born in the thirteenth century. She was part of the Beguines, a voluntary, informal, semi-monastic community not unlike the new monasticism popping up in some urban centers. Marguerite, though unknown to almost all contemporary …Read More
Idolizing Theology
Dearest Valefar, Your recent report has been received, and we do note your concern that things might have taken a turn for the worse. Perhaps they have, but we would not worry too much that your target has developed an …Read More
Tevje Needed to Know
An eery discomfort links the two famous questions. Tevje, in Fiddler on the Roof, bluntly asks his wife: "Do you love me?" How can it not remind you of Jesus, in John 21, using the very same words to put …Read More
Confession unto Death
Some people call us theological diehards "conservatives." That term is appropriate, since we do want to conserve something. But a better word, one that we increasingly use, is "confessionals." This term throws the emphasis on what we want …Read More
Theology in Perspective
While a student in Bible college I was faced with a dilemma. According to a professor of mine, as a minister, I could either be a student of theology or a student of Scripture. It was his contention that ministers …Read More
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Reformed folk have not earned a reputation for hearts overflowing with love. We tend to be the cerebral ones, very careful to dot our theological I's and cross our philosophical T's. Given our peculiar gift, it is no small wonder …Read More


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Raiders coach Hue Jackson said he has talked with NFL representatives about his issues with the officiating and is ready to move on.
Jackson said he spoke his mind and "feels very good" about the discussion, declining specifics on who he talked to or what was discussed.
He said he does not expect to be fined for being critical of the league's officiating.
In other quick hits:
— Wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey is doing well, wearing a neck brace _ Jackson called it a "sympathy" brace _ and wouldn't even rule out having the receiver face the Chicago Bears Sunday. He said he also wouldn't be surprised if Heyward-Bey didn't play.
— Center Samson Satele has begun concussion protocol, Jackson said, and he thinks he will be cleared to play pretty quickly.
— Michael Bush has carried 30 times in each of the last two games, and with Taiwan Jones hobbled with a hamstring pull and Darren McFadden still in doubt, could be in line for 30 more.
"That'd be 90 in three games _ that's pretty good," Jackson said.
The coach said he thought Bush was not showing signs of strain under the work load. Bush has 599 yards rushing, just 15 yards behind McFadden for the team lead.
— Jackson said McFadden is not being hidden nor does he have an injury worse than has been reported (mid-foot sprain). He said he simply doesn't want to put McFadden on the field unless he's 100 percent.
— Raiders players as well as Jackson figure the Bears will be formdiable opposition without quarterback Jay Cutler (broken thumb), noting that backup Caleb Hanie acquitted himself well in last season's NFC championship game agianst Green Bay when Cutler left due to injury.
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Joan & Melissa Rivers Are Back with Their Own Reality Show
While you were busy tuning in to the State of the Union, the rest of us were watching the series premiere of Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?, the mother-daughter duo's new reality show. This is what you missed.
Legendary comedienne Joan Rivers and her daughter, former red carpet parasite and self-dubbed "producer" Melissa, have been living on opposite coasts for the past several years. Despite her strong roots in New York, Joan decides to move to LA to be closer to her family.
Rather than buy her own home, Joan decides to move in with Melissa even though everyone around them thinks it's a terrible idea. Hell, even I think it's a terrible idea. Remember their award show days? How Joan would crack mean jokes about Melissa in front of the likes of Hugh Grant and Melissa would plaster that sad, frozen half grin on her face? Ugh, it was awful. Despite their very public and antagonistic history, both women insist that cohabitating will be a non-issue.
It won't just be the two of them living together. In fact, our Melissa keeps quite the full house in Los Angeles. There's her son Cooper-he's exactly what you picture when you imagine a 9 year old named Cooper, so there's no reason to really go into him-and his nanny Dominica. Swedish and Playboy Bunny-esque, Dominica is certainly something to behold and she upsets Joan greatly. Ever the loving mother, Joan advises Melissa to "hire an ugly nanny" because an ugly nanny won't steal Melissa's men away. While this advice is sad and outdated, I'll have to admit that I did a total spit take when I saw Dominica and her implants preparing Cooper's breakfast while wearing only a sports bra (later, on a family outing to the beach, she removes her bikini completely. Congrats on the nanny, Cooper!). Rounding out their staff is Sabrina, Joan and Melissa's assistant (she seems normal and keeps her clothes on). Next, there's Conrad. Conrad is Melissa's friend who is staying with her until he gets his real estate license, which is code for living with your rich friend and not paying rent (I'm sick of writing. I think I might get my "real estate license" instead). In addition to being a leech, he's also a blond adult who rides a skateboard and owns too many pairs of sneakers—these things never add up to anything good.
Lastly, we have Jason, a former tennis pro and Melissa's boyfriend of two years. Jason has officially moved in, but no one has the guts to tell Momma Joan. The tension of the episode is built around Joan finding out, though, ultimately, the reveal amounts to nothing more than a somewhat polite dinner conversation. Turns out Joan has no problem with her forty-something daughter having a live-in boyfriend (just as long as he stays away from that no good Dominica).
Oh, goodness! I almost forgot that Joan brought along all of her dead friends! Like I said, it's a full house.
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Now that you know what you missed, do you really feel like the State of the Union was more worthy of your time?


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I believe the colloquial response to this is a combination of the letters W, T and F, followed by a question mark."
Why not? It is a typographic convention in scripts for example to have the actor/character name in a bold typeface, and use of the b tag is for exactly that – typographic convention.
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Attire for the Spectrum Institute
Dress for the Institute is comfortable business casual attire - we have long days and the meeting rooms can be chilly so I encourage layers. You are really welcome to wear what you feel most comfortable in, just note what you're going to feel most comfortable in amidst a room of future employers and colleagues. Be sure to pack at least two professional outfits - one for your opening session, one for the professional options fair. The professional options fair, think a little more casual than an interview outfit but along those lines. The opening session is more festive less business, but dress in a manner that you'll feel confident mingling with leaders in the profession. Bring comfortable dress shoes and an extra pair to slip into should you develop blisters (more of a concern for those of you attending Annual Conference or vacationing after, we will be pretty static at the Institute).
Note that your airline may have new baggage restrictions and fees for checked luggage. I encourage you to pack conservatively to avoid any concerns at the airport. For those of you with extended stays, there is laundry service in the hotel if you wish to use it and there may very well be a laundromat somewhere nearby. Please feel free to add tips to this wiki page should you have any. I will also share that for those of us attending ALA Annual Conference, while you may run into some of the faces, conference is so large and so much is going on it is perfectly fine to re-wear your outfits. Pack pieces (pants or skirts) that can be re-worn and mixed and matched with items that take up less space (shirts, accessories) to conserve suitcase space. Lightweight options that don't wrinkle are also helpful. Shorts, so long as they are dressier and appropriate in length, should be fine for sessions (excluding the opening and the options fair) but again the hotels can be on the cool side.
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In addition to the general advice of wearing layers, comfortable shoes and bringing a back-up pair of shoes that won't hit your sore spots in the same place, I suggest learning more from other attendees about what to wear during conference. We have a real array of why attendees might be at conference and how they dress often reflects their reasons for being there. Exhibitors are often the most professionally or corporate dressed; ALA members serving in leadership roles or on committees might opt for more professional business casual as they will be interacting with colleagues and other leaders often; general attendees visiting programs and the exhibits primarily may choose to be more casual. Special events like literary awards banquets may require dressier attire.


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An Android App in Three Easy Pieces
In my last blog post, I showed you a little bit about Google's App Inventor software. I suppose since it has Leg Mindstorm capabilities it is at least marginally capable of building embedded code. Android itself has a lot of potential for building embedded systems, especially those that have GUIs, extensive network access, and don't need hard real-time performance. But will we ever get to drag-and-drop programming? And if we do, does it really change the skill set required to develop software?
I tested App Inventor on two different applications: one fairly simple to build because of built-in capability, and another that I thought would be a bit more of a challenge for App Inventor. In this blog I'll show you the simpler one — RecallNum (freely available on the Android market at https://market.android.com/details?id=appinventor.ai_al_williams.RecallNum). If I had not told you any details about how I created the program (and you didn't know anything about Android), you might be impressed. The program has speech synthesis and accurate speech recognition.
As much as I'd like to take credit for these features, the truth is both are very simple to build into App Inventor programs. Like many similar environments, App Inventor makes what it makes possible very simple. The downside of that is that things it doesn't make easy may be incredibly difficult (or even impossible) to pull off. In this case, the feature palette of App Inventor fit the program perfectly.
You can see a screen capture of the program below (Figure 1). It's a simple game to help train you to remember numbers. For the record, my wife has me beaten in this area. She can remember every significant number either of us has ever had plus any that apply to the kids. I can only blurt out my social security number in one long breath — I remember it as a sound, not as a string of digits. Same for phone numbers. I tend to convert them to words or sometimes physical patterns. I just can't remember numbers.
This game — maybe — will help me improve. The program speaks a single digit and then waits for you to repeat it. Then it speaks two random digits and again waits. The digit string keeps getting longer and longer until you can no longer remember it, at which point the game is over.
But the real point isn't the game. It's how was the game built using App Inventor. Laying out the screen itself is easy using the App Inventor website. You drag items over to the workspace and then you can edit their properties. Pretty standard stuff, as you can see in Figure 2:
However, compared to other graphical designers, App Inventor is pretty limited — perhaps because it is relatively new. For one thing, you are limited to one screen in your application (well, sort of — I'll talk about that next time). There are three layout containers (horizontal, vertical, and table), but if you want to center or space things, you have to use empty labels to eat up space. For example, to center a button in a horizontal layout, you'll need to put two "fill parent" labels with no text on either side of the button. Workable, but hardly intuitive. Tools like this are billed as allowing neophytes to create things, so odd workarounds don't really fit that model.
You'll notice in the Figure 2 that there are some non-visible components that appear when you drag things like timers or text to speech components onto the screen. You can also upload media files that get bundled with your program.
The real meat of the program, however, is the block editor. You launch it from a button on the web page and a Java application will open. I discussed the block editor a little bit last time, so if you want a general overview, you can read that.
The basic idea behind the program is to create one or more random digits and then speak them. Then the program has to listen for your response, compare them, and proceed accordingly. I discovered two little glitches. First, it appears that nothing ever blocks. So you can't kick off the text to speech action and then immediately start listening because you wind up trying to listen while the program is still talking. There's no way to really monitor the progress either. My solution was to schedule a timer event for a varying amount of time, based on the number of digits, and then start listening in the timer event. That seems to work.
The other issue I found was that there are some circumstances where playing wave or mp3 files apparently causes the current "chunk" of code to exit. I couldn't find that documented anywhere, but any steps that happened after playing a sound would never occur! At least some of the time. Again, confusing for the beginner (or, for that matter, the expert). And sometimes, without reason, short sound clips just don't play.
I won't reproduce the entire code here. Graphical tools often make very unwieldy source code listings. However, you can download the files here. Figure 3 shows the logic that executes a "turn":
Even after you work out the timer issues, things are still not as straightforward as you might like. For example, the speech recognition engine won't do anything if the user cancels it. To solve that problem, I added a button to relaunch the speech recognizer and I only enable it when I'm expecting speech. When the recognizer hears something, it drops an event on the program. Of course, if you say "94," it might hear it as "I'm bored," so I added code to check to make sure the result was purely numeric. If it isn't, the timer is reset so that the program will ask you to repeat the number (without repeating it to you).
The result is pretty good. If I had written the code from scratch, I'd have had more control over the elements and wouldn't have needed the user interface workarounds (like the restart button). Some of these problems are not inherent to systems like App Inventor, they are just specific to App Inventor, which is admittedly not very mature yet. My friend Jim McGlasson pointed out to me that numbers starting with zero don't print out right when you lose. I guess I'll have to fix that in a future release. Sorry Jim.
Luckily, it is easy enough to modify the above code snippet — another test for the environment. I just replaced the zero in the random number generation block with a "choose" block. The test of the choose block is "i=1" and the block returns 1 if the condition is true or 0 if the condition is false (the choose block is a bit like the ?: operator in C or C++ combined with an if/then/else statement).
By itself, App Inventor can package an APK file and download it to your computer or send it to your connected device. You can't get that APK in the market directly though. It needs to be signed and have a few other tweaks. I used a tool found at http://amerkashi.wordpress.com/ to automate the steps and it was pretty painless.
However, I still can't get that looking at pretty boxes is necessarily better than looking at lines of code. Perhaps if you are trying to visualize the flow of control. Perhaps. I would not mind an editor that let me switch between a full text view of, say, a Java program and a graphical representation of the logic flow.
However, I don't think that people who aren't programmers will grasp concepts like scheduling things on a timer, validating input, or efficient iteration any easier just because it is drawing pictures. Code Bubbles seems much more useful, even though I don't think it shows internal control structure graphically. Maybe it should.
So for a project of this complexity, App Inventor was certainly up to the task and not wholly unpleasant to use. While you might prefer a graphical environment (I don't), I don't think it really enables neophytes to write code without acquiring traditional skills. It just trades statements for little colored blocks. You still need to understand control flow, use of variables, and the like.
What about a more complicated program? Does it scale well to larger things? I'll let you know next time.


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I'm a sold intermediate kiter, 6'4 225 lbs. Like many of you, I have work and family obligations that prohibit running to the beach every time the wind is on. Accordingly, when I can kite I want to have great sessions, and I want to get on the water no matter how light the wind is (not easy at my weight).
I've been intrigued by the new strutless Maui Boardriding Cloud kites. I have read and viewed everything online about them, most of which has been overwhelmingly positive. However, I wanted to try them before buying.
Two local kiters here in Jupiter were kind enough to loan me a 17M and 13M Cloud kite today. Conditions were light winds ranging from 10 – 15 mph at most. The fact that I could get up on my twintip was amazing, and the fact that I had a great day on the water that otherwise would have been a bust is priceless.
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I got going on my regular twintip board in winds far lighter than I have with any other kite. You can kite in lighter winds and/or ride smaller kites
I watched an advanced rider shredding on a surfboard with the 13M Cloud in 10-14 mph wind, carving turns I like a maniac.
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In making the announcement President Sarkozy stated 'Today France protects less than 1% of its maritime space. By 2012 marine protected areas will cover 10% of the territory. By 2020, these marine protected areas will reach 20% of the 11 million square kilometres of sea under the sovereignty of France. And I expect that half of that scope should be established as reserves and no-take zones to be defined with fishermen, scientists and local stakeholders. It is in these places that marine biodiversity will be preserved, and that marine resources will be able to recover, allowing to sustain fishing in our country in the future.'
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Caterham's chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne has said Heikki Kovalainen "should have shown more respect" if he wanted to remain at the team in 2013.
Caterham has not yet announced who it will partner Charles Pic with next year, but it is looking increasingly unlikely Kovalainen will remain at the team. He has been a part of the outfit since its first season in 2010, but Gascoyne said the driver's relationship with the team had deteriorated towards the end of last season.
"It is actually a great shame," he told Crash.net. "Heikki is a very talented driver but, last year, his management did not handle him very well and he has not done himself any favours. It is a tough environment out there for everyone. He has had three years with Caterham, was paid well, and he should have shown more respect about that."
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I love that I can download my tree from Ancestry and all of the photos I've uploaded come along with it.
I wish that the images of the census records were downloaded as well. I don't understand the reasoning behind allowing me to manually download them, but not do it automatically.
I love that the source citations are automatically downloaded with the tree.
I hate that I have to click every single census source to tell it not to include the citation text in the footnote. Not only that, but there were no spaces put in the template when they created the citations, so I have to put those in manually. (For example: Name: Susan RumboBirth: abt 1831KentuckyResidence: 1880White Oak, Adair, Kentucky, United States) For EVERY single census source! I'm talking hundreds and hundreds of source citations! I could probably tolerate the lack of spaces if only I could find the option that would allow me to unclick all of the "Include in Ref. Note" boxes at the same time, but if I'm going to be looking at every source to unclick the box, I might as well add the spaces so that when the tree moves into the next upgrade, they'll be correct.
I love that the Sources screen shows me who the source is linked to. I've found several sources that are linked to no one. Makes me wonder how they got there in the first place, but they are easy to delete!
I wish there were an easy way to download any changes I've made on my Ancestry tree into my FTM software. Unless I'm missing something, I'll either have to manually enter the information (and I can't seem to make my manually entered sources match the way the look coming directly from Ancestry) or I'd have to export a new GEDCOM and then merge it with my current FTM file. Holding off on this because I'm sure there's any easier way to do this!
I love the map feature with the Places menu! In my ultimate dream, these maps would also have historic options so that I could see a map of current day places and then click a button to compare the same area at different time periods. THAT would be heaven! Even something simple like a combination of the current map with an overlay of the county boundary changes over time like the ones you can find on familyhistory101.com would be incredible.I'd also love to have a notes panel next to the map so that I could add historical information about the area and also the ability to add links to keep track of web sites about the area or other maps that I've found online.
I can't imagine doing my genealogy research without Family Tree Maker and and I look forward to seeing what the future holds – I just hope that I can learn all of the new features with 2010 before another update comes out!


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In his book, Stories Of Our Fathers; a multi-generational narrative of the Gazan Family through sorrow and triumph (FHL book #929.273 G258g); Harold S. Gazan describes one of the more unusual marriages that I have read about. He writes;
"Eva Gazan was born on 11 June 1895. She married Ruben Koperberg. He was born on 25 May 1895, in Amsterdam and died on 3 Mar 1997 in Baarn. Eva's marriage to Ruben was a "marriage of the glove". This means that Ruben was not present for the marriage ceremony that was held in Amsterdam. Ruben had already traveled to the Dutch East Indies. It was neither practical nor possible for him to return home for the wedding ceremony. Because Ruben and Eva were engaged, the marriage ceremony occurred with a representative of the groom who stood in for him."


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Adam Sandler's critically panned comedy "Grown Ups 2" has the dubious honor of leading this year's Golden Raspberry Award nominations.
The sequel, co-starring Chris Rock, Kevin James and David Spade as a group of reunited childhood pals, has claimed eight nods at the annual awards show, which celebrates the worst Hollywood films and performances.
The movie, which earned more than $246 million at the worldwide box office, is up for worst picture, worst sequel, worst ensemble, worst screenplay, worst lead actor for Sandler, worst supporting actor for Taylor Lautner, worst supporting actress for Salma Hayek and worst director for Dennis Dugan.
It is the second consecutive year Sandler has featured prominently at the Razzies – his 2012 film "That's My Boy" landed eight nominations and two wins at the 2013 show.
Other films in the worst picture category include "The Lone Ranger," "A Madea Christmas," "After Earth" and ensemble project "Movie 43."
The unlucky winners will be announced on March 1, the night before Hollywood's biggest awards show, the Academy Awards.


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8th May 2017
The Public Affairs team of Grayling France provides key insights of the 2nd round of the French Presidential Election.
Emmanuel Macron becomes France's new president
Candidate of the "En Marche!" party Emmanuel Macron won the Presidential election with a landslide of 66.06 percent of the vote which represents more than 20 million of the voters(estimated results), compared with 33.94 percent for Marine Le Pen for the National Front party (FN).
Emmanuel Macron, who created his movement a year ago, becomes the youngest French president ever and one of the youngest leader across the world. Emmanuel Macron has managed to buck France's two-party system to run as an independent. He has injected an element of excitement and surprise. He had managed to accumulate a wide array of supporters, securing endorsements notably from François Bayrou of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) as well as numerous others from the Socialist Party, but also a significant number of centrist and centre-right politicians. Macron's landslide victory has also been explained from vote transfers of François Fillon's electorate.
Emmanuel Macron stated that "it is my responsibility to take on those concerns and guarantee our unity and responsibility for our country(...)From tomorrow we will modernise politics, recognise pluralism, revitalise democracy. This will be my first mission, respecting everyone."
Marine Le Pen who reached 33.94% of the votes, which constitutes the best score ever for a candidate from the National Front (11 million of voters). Jean-Marie Le Pen who were the only National Front candidate to be a the 2nd round of a French Presidential election in 2002 had 17.8% of the total votes (against 82.2 for Former right-wing French President Jacques Chirac). Ms Le Pen conceded defeat shortly after the projections were announced and said she had congratulated her opponent. But she pointed to the Front National's "historic" vote and claimed the mantle of France's main opposition, calling on "all patriots" to join the party in constituting a "new political force". Her deputy said this new force would not be called the Front National.
The abstention rate, an estimated 25.3%, is the highest in a French presidential election since 1969, and the number of voters who cast a blank or spoiled ballot is expected to reach an absolute record of about 12%. The figures reflect the relatively large number of French people in this election who felt unable to vote for either candidate so either did not do so, or did but registered their disapproval of the choice they were being offered. Thus, Jean-Luc Mélenchon (more than 19% of the vote for the first round) did not call to vote neither for Emmanuel Macron nor for Marine Le Pen.
Commentators have said this is largely a consequence of the fact that neither candidate represented an established mainstream party, and that for some voters, particularly on the left, the alternative to the far right was seen as significantly more right than left.
Political Reactions after the 2nd round
Macron : "la moralisation de notre vie publique" sera "le socle de mon action" https://t.co/tj093FDxHK #Presidentielle2017 pic.twitter.com/pQgUKzxPa6— Le JDD (@leJDD) 7 mai 2017
First reactions as Emmanuel Macron France's president
"I salute my adversary Ms Le Pen, I know why people chose to vote for an extreme party. I know the doubt, the fear they expressed.
"And it is my responsibility to take on those concerns and guarantee our unity and responsibility for our country.
"From tomorrow we will modernise politics, recognise pluralism, revitalise democracy. This will be my first mission, respecting everyone."
DIRECT #Présidentielle2017 Marine Le Pen annonce la constitution d'une "nouvelle force politique"— BFMTV (@BFMTV) 7 mai 2017
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Marine Le Pen announced the creation of a new political force. She also states that French people put "patriots force as the first political opposition".
Cela dit quelque chose de formidable : en choisissant le + jeune président de la République, la France envoie au monde un message d'espoir.— François Bayrou (@bayrou) 7 mai 2017
Francois Bayrou (centrist, Macron's support) stated that this victory quite something by "choosing the youngest president ever, France send a message of hope.
? Législatives - Baroin: "Je vais me battre" pour que la droite ait une "majorité absolue"— Les Echos (@LesEchos) 7 mai 2017
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François Baroin, leader of Les Républicains for legislative election stated that he is going to fight for a right-wing political parliamentarian majority for the next legislative election.
Nous devons bâtir une majorité présidentielle large et cohérente à l'Assemblée.Le temps est au dépassement et à la clarté pour réussir.— Manuel Valls (@manuelvalls) 7 mai 2017
Manuel Valls, former Prime minister :"I salute the large victory of Emmanuel Macron.This is the result of a great mobilization for the Republic and against hatred".
He also stated that ""We ought to build a large and consistent presidential majority at the Assembly. Time has come for the overcoming of the cleavance and to clarity, essential to succeed".
Political Reactions after the 2nd round
Insights from abroad
? DIRECT #presidentielle2017 - Une "victoire pour une Europe forte et unie" (porte-parole Merkel)— Les Echos (@LesEchos) 7 mai 2017
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Angel Merkel's spokesperson stated that it is victory for a strong and united Europe.
La vittoria di #Macron scrive una straordinaria pagina di speranza per la Francia e per l'Europa. #EnMarche! #incammino— Matteo Renzi (@matteorenzi) 7 mai 2017
Matteo Renzi, Former Italian Prime minister, stated that Macron's victory is an extraordinary page of hope for France and for Europe.
I warmly congratulate @EmmanuelMacron on his success and look forward to working with him on a wide range of shared priorities.— Theresa May (@theresa_may) 7 mai 2017
Congratulations to Emmanuel Macron on his big win today as the next President of France. I look very much forward to working with him!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 7 mai 2017
Program recap Emmanuel Macron
The 100 first days of Emmanuel Macron as French President
Emmanuel Macron recently stated that if he were elected, he would not introduce an amending Budget Bill before the Parliament this summer. However, he stated that his government will prepare a 5 year programmatic Budget Bill at the beginning of autumn 2017.
He has pledged to begin his term by a moralization of public life bill before the legislative elections (11th and 18th June). He also wants to go fast on simplifying labour law.
He also announced that economic bills would be put forward this summer, including one which simplifies French legislation and regulation to make it easier for companies and SMEs.
Emmanuel Macron had a very positive discourse on the EU during the campaign. He notably supports a deeply integrated single market, especially on digital issues to foster the emergence of an "European Google" and the need to share more common standards, especially on the environment.
Economy / Business
Emmanuel Macron is seen as a business-friendly candidate in favour of the liberation of the economy. His business program includes a cut in corporate income tax to 25 percent from 33.3 percent, shifting the wealth tax to property only, introducing a flat 30 percent tax on capital gains, and abolishing a local poll tax for four-fifth of households. Emmanuel Macron wishes to deepen the Labour Law voted last year, by making negotiations within firms with unions and establishing a less centralized and more flexible system, meaning companies would have more power to negotiate with workers over pay and hour.
He also proposes a 50 billion-euro ($53 billion) investment program, with funds to promote renewable energies, upgrade agriculture, and support training and medical innovation; and a 10 billion-euro fund with state holdings of publicly traded companies to finance "industry of the future".
Among his business proposals, he wants to introduce a "Buy European Act" to limit public contracts to companies with at least half of their operations in Europe.
In order to tackle France's unemployment Macron wishes to create a universal unemployment benefits program. Farmers, independent workers, and employees who have quit their jobs would all be eligible for benefits. Under the plan, however, unemployed individuals would not be able to receive benefits if they turn down more than two job offers, as long as the offers propose starting salaries that are no more than 20 percent less of their previous salary.
People suffering from chronic illnesses, or have trouble hearing or seeing, would be paid back in full for their medical care. By 2022, he wants to include free dental care. He wants to allocate €5 billion of his investment plan to health-related issues, notably to help strengthen research on environmental health and develop telemedicine.
Environment/ energy
His pragmatic environmental approach aims at fostering energy transition in transport, particularly by promoting electric vehicles through tax preferences, and the development of charging stations.
Abandoning nuclear power is absolutely inconceivable for economic and even ecological reasons, according to Emmanuel Macron. Nevertheless, he wishes to reduce the dependence on nuclear energy, with the objective of 50% nuclear energy by 2025 in line with the targets set by the former socialist Government €15 billion will be invested to accelerate the energy and ecological transition, and will also encourage private investment to mobilize €30 billion.
His main digital proposals aim at installing an online platform that covers all administrative procedures, and at harmonizing digital regulation across the EU within a "Digital Single Market", and supporting startups throughout a European Venture capital fund. Emmanuel Macron also wishes to develop a national strategy to encourage AI-linked technologies, allow a right to experimentation for innovation, and encourage more broadly R&D to flourish on the territory.
Emmanuel Macron is eager to lower inequalities within the French population by reducing the Internet "white zones" and financing the SMEs digital transformation by favoring access to credit on this purpose. He plans on having a total national broadband coverage by the end of 2022.
He wants to maintain public rental controls that has "led to a decrease of rend paid by tenant" according to him. He wishes to create a "mobility lease" with the aims at helping poor people to access private rental property.
Macron has said he aims to move France's tax on personal assets over €1.3 million to a focus on real estate rather than productive investment.
Forecast for the new Government and Parliament – which Government?
Emmanuel Macron will announce his government in the coming days. He might have to construct some sort of coalition, with experimented politicians, representatives from the civil society, and based on a gender equity. He already announced that the government will be composed of 15 Ministers, with a "coalition of different opinions" – but without any agreement with traditional parties such as the Socialist Party (PS) and Les Republicains (LR).
However, he has not yet unveiled the name of his Prime minister although he has said that it could be a women who has got leader's capacity. He wants someone with a strong political experience, a good knowledge of parliamentary process and ability to manage a majority.
"J'ai déjà choisi mon Premier ministre, mais je ne l'annoncerai pas" Macron— Gabriel Nedelec (@GabrielNedelec) 5 mai 2017
On May, 5th, Emmanuel Macron stated that he has already chosen his Prime minister though he will not unveil his/her name immediately
Legislative elections
This government could be totally modified with the legislative elections that will take place a month after the second round of the presidential election i.e on June, 11th and June, 18th.
Since 2002, presidential and legislative elections have occurred in the same year to avert the risk of cohabitation. However, the electorate is currently so divided that it is impossible to say if the French tradition whereby the president is given a parliamentary majority will be respected this year. The collapse of the support for traditional left and right parties combined with the fact that a newly created movement has won the presidential election could lead to a National Assembly without any majority.
289 seats are necessary for a parliamentary majority. If we look the result of the 1st round of the French Presidential election, Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! arrived first within the borders of 240 constituencies, against 216 for Marine Le Pen (FN), 67 for Jean-Luc Mélenchon (FI), 53 for François Fillon (LR), and 0 for Benoît Hamon (PS).
Legislatives projections are made difficult by the fact that "En Marche!" has not yet unveiled all of its candidates for legislative elections.
Toutes les investitures aux législatives auront lieu la semaine prochaine. #E1Matin https://t.co/tzHJZI8xxI— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) 5 mai 2017
All of the Legislative investments for "En Marche!" candidates will be unveiled next week, Macron announced. At this time, only 14 "En Marche!" candidates have been designated by the movement.
Nos candidats se présenteront sous l'étiquette "La République En Marche !" @TF1 #Presidentielle2017— Richard Ferrand (@RichardFerrand) 7 mai 2017
General secretary of Macron's party : "Our candidates will run with the label "La Republique En Marche"!
Agreements between parties before legislative elections, at a national or local levels, will be crucial to influence the results, between extreme left-wing party / Socialist party, Socialist party / En Marche, Les Républicains / UDI (centrist party), UDI / En marche, …
According to an opinion poll from "opinionway" released four days before the second round of the Presidential election, Emmanuel Macron's movement could get between 249 and 286 MPs, almost the majority of 289 MPs. The same opinion polls estimates that "Les Républicains" would have from 200 to 210 MPs.
In any case, the new president will not have much time to forge a parliamentary majority between the moment he enters the Elysee palace and the start of the parliamentary electoral campaign.
"Les Republicains" that have lost the Presidential election could try to impose a cohabitation to Emmanuel Macron. The right-wing political party has secured a legislative agreement with the "UDI" (centrist) though this deal could be in danger. Several "UDI" candidates might be tempted to join the "En Marche !" movement. Several "Les Républicains" candidates, at least the ones who are belonging to the center-right wing of the party, could be tempted to join a coalition with the "En Marche" movement.
Besides, the outgoing socialist ruling majority could lose three-quarters of its seats, ending up with 50 deputies. Some of their support will go to Macron's group, some to Mélenchon's. As a former member of a Socialist government, Emmanuel Macron may be tempted to rely on Socialist Party to build a majority. Many socialists joined or announced they will vote for Emmanuel Macron during the election campaign : Manuel Valls (Former Prime minister), Jean-Yves Le Drian (Minister of defence), Bertrand Delanoe (Former Mayor of Paris)...
According to François Hollande, Socialist Party "won't disappear but it will have to negotiate".
Moreover, according to the opinion poll from "opinionway", National Front could have 20-25 MPs, enough to form a parliamentary group at the National Assembly.
What are the next steps?
May, 11th
Announcement by the Constitutional Council of the name of the next French President
May,11th – May,14th
Investment the next French President between the date of the official announcement by the Constitutional Council and the end of François Holland's term.
May, 14th
End of François Hollande's presidential term
1st round of the legislative election
2nd round of the legislative election
June 27th
Begin of parliamentary session
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RodeoHouston isn't the reason George Strait is a superstar. He can thank his aw-shucks demeanor, pure country voice and sturdy catalog for that. But the annual event certainly helped put him on a legendary path.
Strait made his 21st appearance Sunday night to close out RodeoHouston with a concert-only appearance. No bulls. No barrel racing. No mutton bustin'. Just Strait country. It's part of his farewell The Cowboy Rides Away Tour.
"Seems like yesterday it was 1983 over there in the old Astrodome. Lucky for me, Eddie Rabbit got sick," Strait quipped.
That auspicious '83 debut helped establish Strait as a musical force. His 2002 performance closed out RodeoHouston in the Astrodome and holds the venue attendance record. He's one of five entertainers to have performed in front of more than 1 million RodeoHouston fans, and Sunday's show drew a whopping 80,020 folks, including Pat Green and Kings of Leon bassist Jared Followill. That breaks both the Reliant Stadium and RodeoHouston paid attendance records. (This year's Go Tejano Day show, featuring Julion Alvarez and Los Invasores de Nuevo Leon, still holds the No. 1 one spot at 75,305 for a performance including rodeo action.)
Earlier in the day, Strait was honored with a rededication ceremony on the Star Trail of Fame and elevated him to a platinum honoree. The George Strait Scholarship was also announced.
Onstage, all he needed was a black cowboy hat, a guitar and that million-dollar smile. Seats surrounded the "lazy man's" rotating stage, and couples waltzed across the floor and in the aisles.
A trio of tunes — "Here for a Good Time," "Ocean Front Property," "Check Yes or No. — set the toe-tapping mood. Strait, as most folks know, isn't a flashy performer. But he was chatty between songs and had a twinkle in his eye.
"Drinkin' Man" was a somber highlight, and the feel-good "Love's Gonna Make it Alright" quickly brought things back up. Opener Martina McBride joined Strait classic-country duets "Jackson" and "Golden Ring," and they exuded a nice chemistry.
Strait spent a good portion of the show taking fans chronologically through his discography, a master class in country music. He went all the way back to 1981 debut album "Strait Country" for "Blame It On Mexico" and "Her Goodbye Hit Me in the Heart."
The setlist cycled through "80 Proof Bottle of Tear Stopper," "Honky Tonk Crazy," Marina Del Rey" and "A Fire I Can't Put Out." Strait moved effortlessly from fiery to laid-back cool. No one does it quite like him.
The cheers grew louder as the evening progressed, and the energy surged through the stadium as he tore through "The King of Broken Hearts" and "Where the Sidewalk Ends." By the time he mosied on up to "The Chair" much of the crowd was on its feet (and stayed there).
Recent chart-topper "Give It Away" made the most of Strait's commanding vocals, and some of the loudest cheers greeted "Amarillo By Morning." Even current single "Give It All We Got Tonight" was greeted like a classic.
His last run of pre-encore tunes, including "I'll Always Remember You" and "Troubadour," set a properly nostalgic tone. After a brief exit, Strait kicked up considerable dirt with "Same Kind Of Crazy," "All My Ex's Live in Texas" and a jangly cover of "Folsom Prison Blues."
"The last goodbye's the hardest one to say/And this is where the cowboy rides away," Strait sang before he took his final bows. He was still flashing that smile but likely set more than a few cowgirls, and cowboys, weeping.
McBride opened with an abbreviated version of the set she's been peddling for several years. She opened with "When God Fearin' Women Get the Blues," closed with "Independence Day" and hit glorious high notes in between.
"I'm the luckiest girl in the world. You know why? 'Cause I get to tour with George freakin' Strait," she said. "It does not suck."
Her clear, powerful voice echoed, literally, through the stadium on "Teenage Daughters," breast-cancer anthem "I'm Gonna Love You Through It" and power ballad "Anyway."
McBride has a tendency to go sentimental on record, but she's able to send a jolt of electricity through most any song onstage. She closed with "A Broken Wing," and much of the crowd was singing along.
The Strait show caps a season that hit record-breaking highs (Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan); boasted pop dazzle (Bruno Mars, Pitbull); and sometimes landed with a thud (Toby Keith, Brantley Gilbert).
There are carps, complaints and criticisms every year. (Who's he? Why her? More classic country! Bring back Tejano music!) But assembling a three-week run that appeals to so many demographics is no easy task. And lots of folks apparently still enjoy it. Total attendance this year was 2.5 million, another all-time record.
And everyone, Texan or otherwise, can agree on King George.
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EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — A San Diego County girl is recovering after she stepped into a rattlesnake nest and was bitten six times.
Sixteen-year-old Vera Oliphant of El Cajon tells U-T San Diego that she's lucky to be alive.
Vera says she was visiting her uncle in Jamul on Oct. 27 when she went up a hill to get cellphone reception to call her mother.
The girl says she heard rattling as she stepped into a pile of weeds and twigs. She looked down and saw an adult rattler and five babies biting her foot.
Vera hobbled to the house and was driven to a hospital to receive antivenin. The girl says she lost consciousness four times and was in intensive care for several days. She'll return to school next week.
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