Hats & Eyeglasses - A Family Love Affair With Gambling

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Martha's work has appeared in magazines as diverse as the original DETAILS, The New Yorker, Fashions of the New York Times, Japanese and German Men's Vogue, The Goodguys Gazette, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and Movieline's Hollywood Life. She has been an on-air contributor to VH1's Sexiest Movie Moments, Entertainment Tonight, and Inside Edition.

For the past fifteen years Martha has been the co-host of the Woodstock Roundtable, a Sunday morning radio talk-show on WDST in Woodstock, NY. The host of the show, Doug Grunther, has been another mentor to her.

Martha can also take claim to having been the moderator of the Actor's Dialogue, winner of a NYFFA Award in creative nonfiction, was the 1997 Philip Morris Fellow at The MacDowell Colony, and the 2003 Artist-in-Residence at SUNY Ulster, where she taught a class in memoir writing.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Gambling Addiction/affair & women..."A mania that holds one's life hostage"

A quote from Martha's book HATS & EYEGLASSES!

Some of you will raise an eyebrow when reading that comment.Unfortunately once you have read about Martha's affair with poker then on-line gambling, you will not feel so in doubt of the reality of women & gambling!

HATS & EYEGLASSES is a phrase taught to Martha by one of her uncles when she was a child. It's meaning, which unfolds throughout her memoirs, stayed with her all of her life. Hence the importance of using it as her title.

What is it like being raised in a family of gamblers and betters? Is a gambling addiction something that can only happen to the other person?

These answers, you will find out as you turn the pages of this very witty, humorous not to forget, written with a sense of purpose book . Martha's talents shine through her work as she captivates you and holds you until the last page. Her story is a must to read!

Media Wars Continue Along Political Party Lines

What you can and cannot say is constantly changing, and I am not referring to the laws, although they too are changing due to the introduction of "hate speech" rules. When we talk about what you can and cannot say, we generally mean political correctness, and with a constantly changing society it is amazing how far things can swing. Currently, you do not dare criticize President Obama, but just a year ago it was in Vogue to call President Bush just about anything under the son, with bloggers carrying on for 1,000 word posts.

Well, now things are drastically lopsided or so, conservative talk show hosts say, as they find their dialogue, sponsorship, advertisers, and FCC looking over their shoulder constantly. Perhaps, rather than explain all this to you, it might be better to recommend a very good book that gives credible evidence to this reality, the book is:

"Censorship: The Threat to Silence Conservative Talk Radio; The Fairness Doctrine Exposed" by Brian Jennings; 2009.

The book discusses how Senator Jeff Bingaman wanted all talk radio to be balanced, of course, what he was really saying is that it is not right to allow a conservative talk show host to spout off without an equally powerful advocate of the liberal agenda to counter each and every topic. President Obama said he wants more diverse viewpoints on the radio, and now that he is President, he says that would only be fair.

The directive, FCC regulation, or Congressional Bill might end having the FCC sets up permanent advisory boards to insure that fairness is complied with, or so is one of the plans being floated. The author contends this is a Trojan Horse because, once they start scrutinizing it will ultimately have a chilling effect on free speech.

Further, it is asserted that Liberal Radio has failed in the past and cannot seem to compete with the audiences of conservative radio. And since there are few liberal radio personalities the politics are trying to level the playing field with regulation, something many who think about cringe. I think you might very much like this book.

Review of Mastering C++

Mastering C++ is a book written by K. R. Venugopal, T Ravishankar and Rajkumar. The book teaches the computer language C++ from the scratch to the professional level in a very friendly approach to the learning of the otherwise very difficult language.

First published in 1997, the book is recommended by most of the programmers. Basically written with C programmers in mind, this book caters to novices as well.

My brother advised me to read this book as I was desperately trying to learn the language but was unable to do so. At the first sight of the book, I thought," This book can't help anyone. This is just another book for engineers and is full of technical jargon."

Almost two years later I learned 'C' language from the book "Let Us C" by Yashwant Kanetkar. That book helped me clear the basic concepts of programming and get some technical jargon of computers, giving me the break I needed.

I learned the concepts of OOPs from the reference books of NIIT. After that, I was ready to learn C++ in detail. I started from chapter-one which helped me get acquainted with thinking in terms of OOPs. And the following chapters till chapter nine taught me the basics of C++ (non-OOPs) and from 10 to 19 the OOPs side of the language. Chapter 20 was based on the management of software projects.

So after learning it, I decided to write some programs and got disappointed because I could write only console based programs, as standard C++ does not specify the platform independent GUI programming.

Though Mastering C++ is good for learning, to gain expertise in language one must not rely on this book alone. Specialized books in the field of data structures, network programming, games development etc should also be read and kept as reference.

But as far as the question of the language is concerned, this book can be trusted as it teaches the language and its constructs in details. To become expert in any field the base should be firm. And this book does the job.

Best of luck for your adventures in C++.