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Advent and Christmas represent a very special intervention of God in the human condition, a revolution indeed because it revealed to us just how much God loves us, one that, as G.K. Chesterton said, turned the world upside down and, astonishingly, when viewed from that perspective the world made sense. God, in the words of the Irish Dominican poet, Paul Murray, loves us so much that if we should cease to exist, he would die of sadness.The Christmas stories reveal to us that God loved Her human children so much that He took on human form so that he could show us how to live and how to die, even walking with us down to the valley of death itself. The stories today tell us that even from the beginning it was not easy to be the special light of the world. Jesus was under threat all his life. The threats would finally catch up with Him as they catch up with all of us. But from Christmas we learn that finally the darkness can never put out the light.
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When Mollie Whuppi and her friends were in eighth grade, they discovered at one of the parks in their neighborhood a game called womens softball. It wasnt really sixteen inch softball like we play in Chicago but smaller softball which is played in most of the rest of the country which is not as civilized as Chicago. Anyway, they liked the game and decided that there should be a womens team at Mother Mary High School So the first week of their Freshman year in high school Mollie walked into the principals office and demanded that their be a team. The principal had yet to learn that Mollie was the boss, so she said. Go organized your team Mollie. We dont have money for coaches or uniforms or a team bus but we can buy a couple of bats for you. Mollie said that was just fine. Shed be manager and coach too and theyd save money to buy their own uniforms. So, even though she was busy with other things like being class president and president of the chess club and chairman of the social action committee and lots of other things besides, she organized the softball team. Now as everyone knows young women are much more serious about sports then young men so they practice very hard. Mollie told them it would take three years of experience before they could win city. The first year, they were terrible, the second year they were pretty good and the third year they surprised everyone by getting to the city finals. They had to ride across town in their parents SUVs and the reception was very unfriendly. The crowd booed them. Boys shouted bad words at them. The other team snarled and made fun of their uniforms. But with Mollie on the mound Mother held the others scoreless and hitless for six innings. In the first half of the seventh Mollie hit a home run so going into the last of the seventh (softball games last only seven innings) Mother Mary was up 1-0. Mollie struck out the first two batters. Then she pitched three straight strikes to the last batter. But the umpire, who made no secret of which side he was on, called them balls. Everyone knew that Mollies four pitch was a strike too, but the ump waved the batter down to first based. Then the next batter hit a long foul ball everyone knew it was a foul ball, but the ump called it fair. The tying run scored. The throw from right field was slow but Mollie caught it and ran to the plate to tag the hitter out by a mile. The ump called her safe. The crowds went wild with laugher. The winners stalked off the field. The Mother Mary players didnt curse, they didnt shout. They just cried. All except Mollie. Chill out, she shouted, were still on our game plan. Next year we will play them at home and well win, just like we planned. The players from Mother Mary stalked out of the field chanting, wait till next year the battle cry of defeated sports teams and political parties a hint of the Christian Hope that next year will be better even when this year is the last year of our life.
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When a roped-off, 25- to 35-foot-tall snowboard slopestyle feature suddenly appears on a ski run two hours east of the X Games in Aspen, it's safe to assume there's a pretty short list of people who can make that happen. That list likely begins and ends with Shaun White. After announcing earlier this week that he was opting out of the X Games to focus on his Olympic training, the two-time Olympic gold medalist apparently decided to bring his road to Sochi back to Copper Mountain Ski Resort, where he competed in the second U.S. team qualifier in December.
When reached for comment early Friday, Copper Mountain officials would only say a private party had rented a portion of the slope where the jump had been built.
A U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team representative later confirmed that White was indeed training at Copper Mountain Ski Resort.
The single-jump feature includes an oversized inflatable airbag in the landing area that is similar to the one seen late last year in some of the footage of his private training area in Australia. The jump is located on the same slope the U.S. Alpine Ski Team used for training in November.
Mountain operations groomers put the finishing touches on the large feature Friday morning. By noon the airbag had been inflated and a snowboarder was seen testing the course.
White took to the hill Friday afternoon for a short training session around 2:30 p.m. He spent approximately an hour on the course, working on aerial rotations. In all, White made six to 10 attempts on the jump, stopping to discuss his performance with coaches after each run.
Sources would not confirm how long White plans to continue to train at Copper Mountain.
While opening ceremonies for winter games are scheduled for Feb. 7, slopestyle competition is expected to begin the day before.
White qualified for the U.S. teams in snowboard slopestyle and halfpipe and is a favorite to medal in each event.
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A harrowing nighttime flight over the African jungle and a wild search for a rebel leader helped forge a relationship between Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and Republican Rep. Ed Royce, two men standing at the forefront of Congress' changing guard on foreign policy.
It was May 1997 and the lawmakers boarded a small plane to the African bush to plead with Jonas Savimbi, leader of the Angolan UNITA party, about ordering his forces to put down their arms and ending the country's civil war. Nearly 16 years later, Menendez and Royce are together again, collaborating as the new chairmen, respectively, of the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committees.
They will lead a new group of foreign policy figures certain to challenge President Barack Obama on a growing list of issues: the civil war in Syria, the tenuous U.S. relationship with Pakistan, al-Qaida-linked groups in Africa and the threat from Iran's nuclear development program.
Menendez, then a House member, and Royce had been heading a congressional delegation to Angola, trying to persuade Savimbi to take part in elections and join the government. The effort failed, and they soon discovered that Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos had a unique way of showing his displeasure with the congressional mission.
"Dos Santos gave the order to close down the landing lights at the airport and you can't see anything over that jungle in the dead of night, including the air strip," Royce recalled recently. "We kept flying around and he (the pilot) could not find anywhere to land. Luckily for us, it turned out that night that Mobutu Sese Seko (the Congo leader) had been overthrown and there was a plane that came into that airport in Angola and when they turned the lights on to that plane, we came in right behind the plane."
Menendez and others on the trip remember shots being fired at some point. "It was definitely an experience," Menendez said.
The two House members who headed the Africa subcommittee felt an imperative to act. The decades-long, Cold War-era conflict pitted dos Santos, whose Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola was backed by the former Soviet Union, against Savimbi, who had the support of South Africa and the United States.
The fighting would leave a half million people dead and displace more than 4 million. Savimbi died in 2002 in a battle with government forces. Dos Santos has ruled Angola since 1979.
The less dangerous assignment for Menendez and Royce is overseeing significantly altered committees. Not only are the chairmen new, but the ranking members will be different — two-term Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker will be the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee and New York Rep. Eliot Engel, elected in 1988, will be the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Gone are such stalwarts as six-term Republican Sen. Dick Lugar and 15-term Democratic Rep. Howard Berman. Joining the committees are rambunctious House freshmen and longtime senators willing to take on a second-term president. Republican Rep. Steve Stockman, who has threatened impeachment of Obama over new rules on guns, joins the House panel, while Sen. John McCain, the president's GOP rival in 2008, and tea party Sen. Rand Paul fill out the Senate committee.
Menendez and Royce, who were both elected to Congress in 1992, offer a study in contrasts and similarities.
Menendez, 59, is the son of Cuban immigrants and a hard-charging lawmaker from Union City, N.J., who famously testified about corruption while wearing a bullet-proof vest. He is poised to replace the current chairman, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., tapped by Obama to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Menendez would be the first Latino to head the Foreign Relations Committee. He will preside Wednesday when Clinton testifies about the deadly September 11, 2012, assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, and again on Thursday at Kerry's confirmation hearing.
Royce, 61, is a Californian who got his political start in the youth movement for Ronald Reagan. Democrats and Republicans recall his efforts to ensure the extradition of Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer convicted in the United States on terrorism charges last year and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Royce has assumed the chairmanship of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, replacing Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Florida Republican who had to step down due to Republican term limits on committee chairmen.
"He's very thoughtful, very intelligent. He's serious, he cares about the issues. I've only good things to say," Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey of New York, the ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee, said of Royce.
Menendez, now starting his second full Senate term, has been willing to challenge Republican and Democratic administrations.
He voted against the Iraq war in 2002, tangled with fellow Democrats on Cuba and pushed the Obama administration on sanctions on Iran. In just over a year, Congress has approved three rounds of penalties on Tehran's banking, energy and shipping industries to thwart its nuclear ambitions, with Menendez joining forces with Republican Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois.
He suggested it might be time to pause and make sure the penalties are working — a possibility the administration probably would welcome.
"I don't know that there will be any new sanctions," Menendez said in a recent interview. "I think that the enforcement of existing sanctions and the new set of sanctions that don't go into effect yet and how we enforce those and how we pursue them ... will be very important in our success, hopeful success, to have Iran not achieve nuclear power."
Royce gives Menendez high marks for his work on sanctions — "cutting edge of really debilitating sanctions," the Republican says — and is eager to join forces on another round.
"I'd like to target the entire Iranian energy sector," Royce said. "I'd like to make it even harder for foreign companies to sell commercial goods to Iran. I'd like to freeze the regime's remaining foreign currency reserves."
Royce is optimistic about working with Menendez despite the political divide and the decades since the two committees produced major authorization legislation.
Royce said that during his travels with Menendez, the senator shared his strong opinion of totalitarian regimes.
"He has firsthand experience in his own family with that in terms of what happened to his uncle, a labor leader in Cuba who was executed there," the congressman said.
Menendez is reluctant to discuss his family, but he elaborates on his worldview and his approach to foreign policy.
"Dictatorship and totalitarianism regardless of where it exists in the world is utterly anti-democratic, it oppresses the people," he said, adding that promotion of democracy is critical.
The New Jersey senator has won praise from the families of those killed when U.S.-bound Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 and for his diligence in challenging Moammar Gadhafi and any U.S. efforts to reach out to the late Libyan leader.
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Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that, each of us knows, will/can/does change from day to day. With that fact set, it is important to understand where we are; maybe not from one day to the next, but certainly from one doctors visit to the next.
As this community is ever-growing and assuredly one of the most helpful online forums on the topic that I know of, I thought we might have an open discussion as to how you keep track of your MS. Many come to these pages when they first think they might have MS or hear the words we all know too well, "you have Multiple Sclerosis".
Like stepping on the scale every hour to see how you are doing with a weight loss goal, over analysis is far from a helpful evolution. While a daily inventory can be helpful in assessing our capabilities on one day versus another, 365 progress reports are more than I think we need.
Many of you use our monthly "How's Your MS Today?" blogs to keep account going back several years. Some use written journals and I've even heard (thought I don't consider myself smart enough for a smart phone) of folks using different "apps" on their smart devices to keep track.
This information can be useful in our daily life as well as when we visit our doctors.
As I am not always aware of how I appear to be coping with something MS (and I'm often not coping as well as I think I am), checking in with someone close to you may help in keeping tabs on our progression and our coping. While Caryn may not always tell me in the moment, I am sometimes surprised by her take on what's going on with my mind and body.
We all keep track in some way; some more formally, some not so much. As well as sharing how you attend to the course of your MS, I'm wondering if you might also share how these observations might have helped.
The more we know about a life with MS, the better we can live our lives. Also, I find, the more I learn that I have yet to learn.
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When the Washington-area snipers launched their shooting rampage a decade ago, Prince George's County restaurateur Paul LaRuffa suffered the same effects as everyone else: anxiety about leaving the house, fear of pumping gas, worry for loved ones — all adding up to a general jumpiness about when, where and whom the gunmen would strike next.
But in LaRuffa's case — though he didn't know it at the time — there was a difference.
He had been the snipers' first victim.
A month before the shootings that terrorized the region, LaRuffa, then 55, had closed his restaurant in Clinton for the night, walked out with a couple of friends and got into his car.
He was about to pull out when 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo approached, raised a Bushmaster XM-15 E2S rifle and fired five .223-caliber rounds through the driver's side window.
The bullets pierced LaRuffa in the chest, abdomen and back.
As he staggered from his car, bleeding and breathless, he was bewildered.
"There was no relation to anything," he said last week. "Obviously, it was Sept. 5. There were no 'snipers.' It was a random, insane act of violence."
But within a month, that fear and confusion would spread throughout the area. It was 10 years ago this week that Malvo and his mentor, John Allen Muhammad, announced themselves with a burst of killings in Montgomery County and Washington.
The shootings on Oct. 2 and 3, 2002, left six dead in little more than 24 hours. Businesses closed; parents raced to schools to collect children.
Less than 13 months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, an unknown enemy was again menacing the capital region. Security was increased at the Capitol, the White House and the Supreme Court; gas station owners hung tarps around their pumps to hide customers.
Ordinary citizens holed up in their homes. Those with unavoidable commitments ducked their heads as they scurried from house to car, from car to destination and back again.
Doug Duncan, the Montgomery County executive at the time, calls it the longest stretch of sustained terror in the United States since the Civil War.
"People were scared for their lives, as they should have been," he recalled last week. "It was three weeks of 'you could be killed at any time, just walking down the street, getting groceries, getting gas.' And you didn't know when the next shot was coming."
The shots kept coming — and so, eventually, did the taunts: "Call me God," on a tarot card left at one shooting, and "Your children are not safe, anywhere, at any time."
The task force of local, state and federal law enforcement, meanwhile, appeared to be making little progress in identifying what at first was believed to be a single shooter.
By the time authorities caught up to Muhammad and Malvo, at a rest stop off Interstate 70 in Frederick County, 10 people in Maryland, Washington and Virginia were dead, three others were wounded, and the region was changed.
Carl Lejuez speaks of the emotional toll the shootings took. The professor of clinical psychology at the University of Maryland and director of its Center for Addictions, Personality and Emotion Research cites studies that show that extended periods of anxiety can cause more psychological and physical harm than actual trauma.
"There was never a moment where you were in DefCon 10 — although I will tell you that when I had to pump gas, I kind of did it halfway in the car and halfway out," he said. "No one relaxed for three weeks. ... Long term, that's much worse than having gone through a traumatic event where maybe even someone was shooting at you."
The terror began on the evening of Oct. 2, when James D. Martin, a 55-year-old program analyst for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was gunned down in the parking lot of a Shoppers Food Warehouse in Wheaton.
The next morning, James "Sonny" Buchanan, 39, was mowing the lawn at the Fitzgerald Auto Mall in Bethesda. Premkumar Walekar, 54, was filling his taxi at a Mobil station in Aspen Hill. Sarah Ramos, 34, was sitting on a bench outside Leisure World. Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, 25, was vacuuming her minivan at a Shell station in Kensington.
In little more than two hours, all were dead.
Vickie Snider was at an exercise class in Rockville when word of a shooting came. Class was canceled; the participants were told to get into their cars and go home.
Snider watched the news throughout the day. She had plans to catch up with her brother later. It wasn't until that evening, when the police detective came to her door with Buchanan's driver's license, that she learned he had been killed.
"You just go numb," she remembered last week. "It's like your brain can't handle it. You just want to say, 'No, it's a mistake.'
"Then I had to tell my parents."
With much of the Maryland State Police leadership away at a conference, Maj. Vernon Herron was acting chief of field operations statewide when the shootings began. He says the case was unlike any in the nation's history.
"Of course, we were all dumbfounded," said Vernon, now a senior policy analyst at the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security. "There was no ransom demand, there were no statements, nobody was taking responsibility for the attacks. ... Normally when somebody does something like this, they want to take credit."
The first communication came on Oct. 7. Iran Brown, 13, was arriving at Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie when he was shot in the torso.
This time, police found a message at the scene: The death card from the tarot deck, inscribed with a note. "For you Mr. Police/Code: 'Call me God'/'Do not release to the press.'"
LaRuffa, who had spent 10 days in the hospital after the September attack, followed the news from home. His shooting remained unsolved; while friends suggested it might have been the work of the sniper terrorizing the area, he didn't think so.
His attacker had walked up to his car, shot him several times at close range and stolen his laptop computer and $3,500 in cash from the restaurant. Whoever was killing people was using a single bullet fired from a distance.
In fact, investigators would learn, Muhammad and Malvo had staked out LaRuffa at his Margellina Restaurant before the attack. They were using his money to finance their killing rampage. From Oct. 9 through 14, they killed three more people, all in Virginia.
Snider, grieving for her brother, winced at every new report.
"The whole thing was so surreal and so sad, and for them to take so many lives in such senseless ways," she said. "They were all hardworking people just going about their daily lives.
"Just watching other people die as the week went on, that was very difficult, to know that other families were going through what we were going through."
Duncan, the former county executive, says he had a responsibility to present a face of calm to the community as he appeared at public meetings, news conferences and funerals.
At the same time, he said, "When I went home early in the morning, I didn't dawdle. I scurried into my house. You're on TV a lot, and you know they're watching because of their communications. You just assume that you've become a bigger target."
He speaks with pride about the courage of the community, and cites an example.
"We didn't want school crossing guards out there with the uniforms and the vests standing there as targets," he said. "So we pulled them out, but we asked for volunteers. And we had several hundred people come forward and say they were willing to help kids cross the street, help kids get to school, knowing that they could be a target."
While there appeared to be no end in sight to the shootings, investigators soon caught a break. They identified a fingerprint at Benjamin Tasker Middle School as Malvo's, learned of his relationship with Muhammad and found that Muhammad had registered a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice in New Jersey. Police named the suspects, described their car and called on the public to report any sightings.
Early on Oct. 24, a refrigerator repairman from Pennsylvania spotted the Caprice at the I-70 rest stop near Myersville and dialed 911. Police swarmed over the scene and arrested the pair without incident.
Muhammad and Malvo were charged, tried and convicted of six counts of murder in Maryland and two counts in Virginia.
During Malvo's trial in Maryland, he described the pair's plans to take their terror to Baltimore, where they planned to kill a pregnant woman and a police officer. At the police officer's funeral, he said, they planned to lay improvised explosive devices, similar to the roadside bombs used by insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, to cause more deaths.
In Maryland, Muhammad and Malvo were each sentenced to six life terms without possibility of parole. In Virginia, Malvo was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of patrol. Muhammad was sentenced to death.
Snider attended the trials and was present Nov. 10, 2009, when Muhammad was executed. She described it as "very medical."
"I didn't expect closure," she said. She says she and her family have decided to focus on the positive: her brother's love for them, and for life.
She says he was committed to his community, where he volunteered with the Boys and Girls Clubs and Crime Stoppers. Her family has established a foundation in his name that continues to award scholarships to young people.
But as Snider tries to look forward, she finds that each new shooting in the news — at Virginia Tech, at the "Batman" movie premiere in Aurora, Colo. — freshens the pain.
"I wish there were more we could do in gun control," she said. "I was so devastated when the assault weapon ban expired [in 2004]. ... If it could happen to us, it could happen to anyone. I just feel like somebody else is going to get that knock on the door."
LaRuffa, now 65, sold his restaurant in 2008 and lives in Southern Maryland. For nearly two months after the attack, he was shaken nightly by vivid flashbacks — worse, he says, than any nightmare he had ever had.
Then police found Muhammad and Malvo with his laptop, solving the crime, and the flashbacks ended.
When LaRuffa learned that Malvo had laughed and bragged during his initial interviews with investigators, he was furious.
"I would say things like, 'I'm 55, but I'll take my shot. Put me in a room with him and give me a shot.'
"But that feeling changes because I learned — and I'm glad I learned or figured it out or something, somehow — that if you keep that feeling, you destroy yourself. ... If you hold that anger in you, then he wins far past shooting you."
LaRuffa dismisses Muhammad, who never admitted any wrongdoing, as a sociopath. He skipped his execution, he says, because he didn't want to let him steal another day of his life.
"It's not going to make me feel better watching him die," LaRuffa said.
Malvo, in contrast, has shown remorse and apologized to the families of some of his victims. Over the years, LaRuffa has thought about reaching out to him.
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Juventus remained on top of Serie A with a 2-1 win away to AC Siena as Miroslav Klose kept SS Lazio in contention with a brace in a 3-0 win over Delfino Pescara 1936 on Sunday.
In Sunday's late matches, SSC Napoli kept pace with Antonio Conte's leaders with a 2-1 win over Udinese which means they remain in second and are the only other unbeaten team in Serie A, while in the 157th Serie A derby between AC Milan and Inter, 10-man Inter prevailed 1-0 at the San Siro thanks to a fourth-minute diving header by Argentine Walter Samuel.
Juventus got off to a great start when midfielder Andre Pirlo gave them a 14th-minute lead from a sumptuous free-kick.
Siena had caused an upset at the San Siro a few weeks ago with victory over Inter and they were given hope when Emanuele Calaio rose to meet Brazilian Angelo's cross to beat Gianluigi Buffon with a bullet header in the 47th minute.
However, midfielder Claudio Marchisio produced a superb volley from the edge of the area to give Juve an 85th-minute winner and take their impressive unbeaten streak to 47 consecutive games.
"This was a really important goal for the team. We need to send a signal that we're motivated to defend our title," Marchisio said.
Lazio have already suffered two defeats, although the visit to struggling Serie A newcomers Pescara was never likely to end in anything but a win for a side that had scored nine goals in six games.
Lazio took the lead after just five minutes when Brazilian midfielder Hernanes curled a free-kick past Mattia Perin in the Pescara goal.
Klose made it two when he latched on to Andrea Candreva's through ball in the 25th minute and he claimed his fifth league goal of the season 10 minutes later when his header from a Hernanes corner beat the goalkeeper.
Lazio coach Vladimir Petkovic hailed a performance which left his side third on 15 points, four shy of Juventus and Napoli.
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Napoli's 2-1 win meant Juve were denied the chance to pull clear of the chasing bunch and Inter's slim victory over Milan means four teams have pulled ever so slightly away from the rest.
Inter had boosted their title credentials last week and their fifth win in seven starts means they are fourth with the same points as Lazio.
"There were two good points tonight — one was the way we approached this game and the second was how we handled it when we were a man down for the second half," Inter coach Andrea Stramaccioni said. "We came into this game focused and started aggressively. We got the goal and when Milan came back into it, we managed to restricted them in our area."
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The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 16, No. 2 December 1989
Yoshihiro Hirabayashi Osaka City University
Osamu Kojima, Emeritus Professor of Kwansei Gakuin University (Kobe, Japan), died of myocardial infarction on February 21, 1989, at the age of 76, at Osaka University Hospi-tal. Last June he suffered a heart attack and he appeared to have recovered from it. But he passed away after another attack. May he rest in peace.
In keeping with Professor Kojima's desire to have an ac-counting history course offered in many Japanese universities, he founded the Accounting History Association (AHA). He was the first president of the AHA and set the direction for the association to follow.
Professor Kojima dreamed of participating in the Sixth World Congress of Accounting Historians in Kyoto in 1992. To our regret, he died before his dream could come true. His colleagues will attempt to carry out his plans.
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Most historical studies of accounting were based on investi-gation of bookkeeping in Italy, especially Luca Pacioli's Theory of Bookkeeping. Professor Kojima, however, studied the influ-ence of Italian bookkeeping in other countries, including Eng-land and Scotland, as a bridge to the history of modern ac-counting.
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What is MASM?
MASM is a Macro Assembler from Microsoft (ml.exe). It has been around since the early 80's. It is a multi pass x86 assembler that produces COFF exes.
Where can I get it?
Microsoft does not sell MASM anymore, but ml does come with Visual Studio, Windows Driver Development Kit, Windows Software Development Kit. Along with ml, you will also need a linker and a few other files. I will not discuss getting the files from MS, since you will have to get and convert all the C header files and make sure you have the proper dlls. Instead I will discuss MASM32 - MASM32 contains:
link16 - 16bit linker
ml614 - 16bit vertsion
and a few more binaries. It also comes with an editor to edit your asm files, tons of examples with source, C header files converted for MASM, lib files, and the MASM32 library wich contains MANY usefull functions and source.
MASM32 also comes with poasm (macro assembler), polib (lib manager), and porc (rc to res converter) from Pelle Orinius (PellesC) http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/
Pelles' tools seem to create optimized headers and smaller exes
- Grab MAMS32 from: http://masm32.com/ run the setup, it has to be installed on a root drive i.e. c:\, e:\ NOT c:\programming or what not
- Next (a shameless plug :-P) grab MELT - Masm Error Lookup Tool which will allow you to view the error descriptions for all of the MASM tools http://www.gunnerinc.com/melt.htm
- I am an IDE guy, I like the colored text and autocomplete among other things. I use RadASM (main site seems to be down, this is the mirror) http://www.oby.ro/rad_asm/
- There is also WinASM Studio - http://www.winasm.ne...-downloads.html
- A debugger is a must- OllyDbg is a great one http://www.ollydbg.de/
- Intel and/or AMD Developers Manuals (Don't think you can get printed material anymore)
For AMD you want the "Manuals" The instruction set is in General Purpose and System Instructions
- Agner Fogs Optimization Manuals
Why MASM? When I chose Assembly MANY years ago, MASM had a large user base (read - support), tons of sample code and a prebuilt library of functions so I did not have to reinvent the wheel. Users of other Assemblers will say MASM is a HLL. Why, because of macros, invoke, if/while loops? BLAH, many of those Assemblers now have invoke and if/while loops.
There are 2 ways you can "call" functions - with invoke and with the mnuemonic call. Invoke is just a macro that makes sure the correct number of parameters are passed to the stack and also some type checking.
push NULL push NULL push offset szHello push HWND_DESKTOP call MessageBox invoke MessageBox, HWND_DESKTOP, offset szHello, NULL, NULL
Both produce the same exact code
;if/endif block .if eax == 300 ; do something for 300 here .elseif eax == 400 ; do something for 400 here .else ; neither, do something else .endif ; manual if/endif block cmp eax, 300 jne @F ; do something for 300 here jmp Done @@: cmp eax, 400 jne @F ; do something for 400 here jmp Done @@: ; neither, do something else Done:
The .if block creates the same code as the manual coded .if block above
In MASM, there are 2 important operators - ADDR and OFFSET
ADDR gets the address of a variable at runtime
OFFSET gets the address of a variable at link time
HUH?! Ok, let's explain with a little code:
.data szHello BYTE "HELLO", 0 .data? lpszHello byte 8 dup (?) .code SomeProc proc LOCAL Hello[8]:BYTE lea esi, szHello lea edi, Hello lea ebx, lpszHello mov byte ptr [edi], 0 mov byte ptr [ebx], 0 @@: mov al, byte ptr [esi] inc esi cmp al, 0 je Done mov byte ptr [edi], al mov byte ptr [ebx], al inc edi inc ebx jmp @B Done: invoke MessageBox, NULL, addr Hello, NULL, NULL invoke MessageBox, NULL, offset lpszHello, NULL, NULL ret SomeProc endp
At runtime, the address of the Hello buffer is not known, it's address is somewhere on the stack... Behind the scenes, ADDR will do
lea eax, Hello
so this:
invoke MessageBox, NULL, addr Hello, NULL, NULL
will get assembled as:
push NULL push NULL lea eax, Hello push eax push NULL call MessageBox
ADDR uses eax to get addresses, remember that... You cannot use eax BEOFRE ADDR or you will get the error - A2133 register value overwritten by INVOKE
mov eax, 0 invoke MessageBox, eax, addr Hello, NULL, NULL
is incorrect as eax will be overwritten by ADDR
invoke MessageBox, NULL, offset lpszHello, NULL, NULL
The address of lpszHello IS known at link time since it is in the .data? section. OFFSET returns its address offset from the base starting address of your exe.
You will see code using ADDR all the time. I am against that, you should be able to look at code and know if it is a local or global variable. I only use ADDR for local variables. OFFSET for anything in the .data, .data? sections and to get the address of a proc.
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Americans must be wondering how much more of this "recovery" they can afford.
New figures from the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, compiled by Sentier Research, show that the typical American household's real (inflation-adjusted) income has actually dropped 5.7 percent during the Obama "recovery."
Using constant 2012 dollars (to adjust for inflation), the median annual income of American households was $53,718 as of June 2009, the last month of the recession. Now, after 38 months of this "recovery," it has fallen to $50,678 — a drop of $3,040 per household.
Yet it gets worse. Amazingly, incomes have dropped even more during the "recovery" than they did during the recession.
In fact, they've dropped more than twice as much as they did during the recession. From the start to the end of the recession, the real median income of American households fell $1,413, or 2.6 percent.
From the end of the recession to the present day, it has dropped $3,040, or 5.7 percent. This begs the question: What kind of "recovery" compares unfavorably with the recession from which it's ostensibly recovering?
Two of the groups hit hardest have been ones that turned out in abundance for Obama in 2008: black Americans and younger Americans (those between the ages of 25 and 34).
During the first three years of the Obama "recovery," the real median household income for black Americans dropped a whopping 11.1 percent. For Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 — the group most apt, as Paul Ryan put it, to be "staring up at fading Obama posters" and looking to "get going with life" — real median household income dropped 8.9 percent.
Moreover, we're still not headed in the right direction. Last month, American households' real median annual income fell by another $543 — from $51,221 to $50,678.
Sentier's Gordon Green, former chief of the Governments Division at the Census Bureau, says, "This latest decline in real median annual household income is indicative of a struggling economy." He adds that, while we are "technically" in a recovery, "real median annual household income is having a difficult time maintaining its present level, much less 'recovering.'"
Similarly, the percentage of Americans who are employed has dropped during the Obama "recovery" — from 59.4 percent during the final month of the recession to just 58.3 percent last month. That's according to the Obama administration's own figures.
So, to recap, compared to the last month of the recession (in June 2009), the percentage of Americans who are employed has dropped 1.1 points, and typical Americans' real annual household income has dropped $3,040. Who knew how good we had it back in the glory days of the Great Recession?
No wonder Obama says he's running for reelection because he wants to realize "the future we imagined in 2008." He can't very well run on the reality we're experiencing in 2012.
From: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/americans-incomes-have-fallen-3040-during-obama-recovery_653116.html


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What's a "contemporary circus"?
Think performance art by aerialists, acrobats and off-beat clowns with far more fashion flare than the Bozos of old.
Here's a clip of "The Way Out" by the well-named Acrobatic Conundrum, one of many acts in the Chicago Contemporary Circus festival that runs through the 12th of January.
Less a story with a beginning, middle and end, this was more of a moving Steampunk jewel.
Each ensemble member is a star in their own right.
Successive performance vignettes perk you like a hard sell pitch line – "Wait, there's more".
According to the show organizers, "This contemporary genre of circus tends to focus more attention on the overall aesthetic impact, on character and story development, and on the use of new media, design, and original music, to convey thematic or narrative content provoking emotional engagement."
Attrape-Moi by Flip FabriQue Athenaeum Theatre: FRI, 1/10/14 @ 4pm SAT, 1/11/14 @ 8pm, & SUN, 1/12/14 @ 5pm
The Way Out by The Acrobatic Conundrum Athenaeum Theatre SAT, 1/11/14 @ 5pm
Smoke and Mirrors* by Ricochet Muualla/Elsewhere by Ilona Jäntti' Athenaeum Theatre SUN, 1/12/14 @ 8pm
El Circo Cheapo Cabaret* by Aloft Circus Arts Athenaeum SAT 1/11/14 @ 11pm
Honeybuns* by Dean Evans Athenaeum's Black Box Theatre SAT 1/11/14 @ 9:30pm, & SUN 1/12/14 @ 6:30pm
Running in Corduroy by Brian P. Dailey Athenaeum's Black Box Theatre SAT 1/11/14 @ 6:30pm, & SUN 1/12/14 @9:30pm
American Youth Circus Organization Showcase** Athenaeum Theatre SUN 1/12/14 @ 1pm
ATHENAEUM THEATRE, performances will be held in both their main stage and black box (studio 3) theatres. The theater is located at 2936 N. Southport Ave., Chicago, IL 60657 / 773-935-6875
LINKS HALL is located in Constellation (the former site of the Viaduct Theater) at 3111 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL 60618 / 773.281.0824
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Listener comments!
Sat. 1/12/13 11:07am
Phelger Nank:
I'm all strapped in and ready to go. Thanks for the hits.
Any chance of hearing something from the Beach Boys Party! album
Sat. 1/12/13 11:10am
Phelger Nank:
Maybe Dennis's very soulfoul You've Got to Hide Your Love Away.
Or solo Dennie...?
Sat. 1/12/13 11:17am
Mike East:
thought i recognized camera obscura. i gotta remind my wife how much she likes these guys
Sat. 1/12/13 11:19am
I think Burt Bacharach would have been very happy to write "French Navy". That is some really good songwriting.
Sat. 1/12/13 11:22am
Phelger Nank:
It don't get more catchy and melodic than the French Navy (the song, not the martial entity).
Sat. 1/12/13 11:28am
Doggone it, missed Ken Nordine! Love "Colors" in particular and word jazz in general.
Sat. 1/12/13 11:31am
Philo Gristle:
Well, shoot, should log in first. Hello!
Sat. 1/12/13 11:33am
Yair Yona (Tel Aviv, Israel, Earth, Milky Way):
You're absolutely right with your observations about the gym
Sat. 1/12/13 11:41am
Connie T. Empress:
Love the Vicks story! And BTW this song is gorgeous!
Sat. 1/12/13 12:10pm
Let this fool rush in on this playlist and say great show today, Mike!
Sat. 1/12/13 12:11pm
Michael Shelley:
Thanks Nate!
Sat. 1/12/13 12:13pm
Thanks for linking to the Beach Boys interview! We are cleaning and processing a similar interview with Herman's Hermits. Should be up next week I'll let you know!
Sat. 1/12/13 12:37pm
Mike East:
so how's the veggie burger at Elevation Burger? I've past that place a hundred times, but never gone in.
Sat. 1/12/13 12:44pm
Great song. Ever hear the other Jack Webb "sing" Try a Little Tenderness? If not, you should.
Sat. 1/12/13 12:45pm
Mike East:
the Montclair Times article spelled Monkees wrong. Its a great piece, though.
Sat. 1/12/13 12:47pm
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P- will check it out - email it to me if you have it
ME - they're fine - but they are of the patty of pressed together rice and spices - and I like the fake meat kind better - but the "garden burger" model is the one most restaurants serve - ALSO dont like their fries or shakes....
Sat. 1/12/13 12:48pm
Is I Come Home A-Drinkin' (To A Worn Out Wife Like You) available on any country compilation CD?
Sat. 1/12/13 12:53pm
@paul I found Jay Lee Webb's version of I Come Home A-Drinkin' (To A Worn Out Wife Like You) on YouTube! http://youtu.be/JklhwexIQK4
Sat. 1/12/13 12:55pm
Michael, thank you so much for making my Saturday's so much fun. Cleaning the house while twisting and dancing to the music is now a tradition for me!
Sat. 1/12/13 1:00pm
That's a great one, never heard it before!
Sun. 1/13/13 11:33am
David in ATL from NJ:
Love the "safe" play of "Bright Future in Sales". Thanks for at least getting it played. Fountains of Wayne are terrific! Replayed your show with the interview from last year just this past week.
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The cheats in warzone series
I have just seeing today's warzone final and in the top 9 that I can see in the leaderboard all were or sandbaggers or 2nd type "not fair players" since I am not sure if you think that is cheating.
First way to cheat is by sandbagging, I mean I have played several sandbaggers, I am usually around 2200 tournament rating I was 2240 or so when I started it. I have lost 3 games against 1600 people I do not imply that I can not lose against them it is just very unlikely since I have won quite well against 1800+ players in the same tournament. I reported them as sandbaggers, but I do not think that is the solution. There are a lot of players that resign against 1600 less players to keep their rating low and then play really strong against 1800+. In the top 9 there were 7 players rated between 1500~1700 that have won nearly all their games against 1800+ which should be very unlikely with their rating. I suppose that there are more sandbaggers that haven't get into the top 9.
Second way to "cheat" is what some 1400 were doing. Which I do not take it as cheating but taking advance of the point system situation. They inmediatly resign against people that they think they couldn't win and double cube against 1300~1500 and since when they have lost so many games their handicap rating gets very low. Thus, they win around 40 points out of 50 (without double cubing and without streak win multiplier) points when they play against a 1400 player which they think they can win, with a lot of time advantage. That way they get to around 120 games in one hour in 2 min games which is impresive.
I personally think that there should be a bit less of a compensation for rating difference. I would prefer to change it to positional handicap instead of this point handicap since it is boring to report nearly every oponent you are playing against because they play like 2000+ when their rating is just 1600 with the time handicap it brings.
I do not know if this is an appropiet place to post a new topic like this but I would like to know other people opinions.
Sorry for the inconvenience and have a nice day/night.


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Junior co-captain Oliver McNally had seven points at George Mason Saturday (Mitchell Layton).
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The Particulars
Harvard looks to rebound from a season opening loss at George Mason, as the Crimson hosts Holy Cross at Lavietes Pavilion in the team's home opener Wednesday evening.
Free Admission for Harvard Graduate Students
Harvard graduate students with an ID will have free admission to Wednesday's home game against Holy Cross.
Series History
The Crimson and Crusaders have met 62 times, with Holy Cross owning a 40-22 advantage in the series which began in 1900-01. Harvard has taken the last two games between the schools, including a 69-59 victory at Lavietes Pavilion on Nov. 25, 2008.
Last season, Jeremy Lin '10 scored 24 points and handed out seven assists, as the Crimson opened the year with an 87-77 victory in Worcester on Nov. 13. Dee Giger had 13 points, Kyle Casey added 12 and Oliver McNally and Keith Wright netted 11 each, as Harvard had five players reach double digits in scoring.
Last Time Out
Keith Wright established a new career-high with 16 rebounds and tied a career-best with 22 points in Harvard's 66-53 loss at George Mason. Wright was 9-of-12 shooting and hit 4-of-5 from the line, while also making three steals and blocking two shots. Christian Webster had 11 points, as he made three shots from beyond the arc, and added six rebounds while Brandyn Curry had eight assists, seven points and six rebounds.
Holy Cross's Last Time Out
The Crusaders are 0-1 after dropping their home opener to the College of Charleston Saturday. Holy Cross had four players score in double digits, led by Mike Cavataio and R.J. Evans, who contributed 16 points apiece. Andrew Keister, who also grabbed 10 rebounds, finished with 15 points, while Devin Brown hit 3-of-6 three pointers and added 14 points off the bench.
He's Honored
With his 22-point and 16-rebound performance at George Mason, Keith Wright was honored as the Ivy League Player of the Week Monday. Wright had 10 defensive rebounds, six on the offensive end, blocked two shots and made three steals.
Getting It Done At Home
The Crimson is looking to continue its stretch of success at Lavietes Pavilion. Harvard was 11-2 at home last season and has won its last five home openers, dating back to 2005-06. The Crimson is also riding an eight-game win streak against non-conference opponents at Lavietes.
Welcome to the Show
Three of Harvard's six freshmen made their collegiate debut Saturday at George Mason: Ugo Okam, Laurent Rivard and Ernest Rouse. This group combined to play 30 minutes in the season opener.
The Crimson's roster also features three other freshmen in Matt Brown, Tom Hamel and Jamie Moore.
Conference Records
Harvard is 58-104 all-time against current members of the Patriot League. The Crimson boasts a 22-40 mark against Holy Cross and owns a winning record against Patriot League member Lafayette, 3-2.
Season Honors
Keith Wright Ivy Player of the Week (Nov. 15)
Head Coach Tommy Amaker
Tommy Amaker (Duke '87) begins his fourth season as head coach of the Harvard men's basketball team. He registered his 200th career coaching victory Nov. 13 in the 2009-10 season opener at Holy Cross. Amaker guided Harvard to its first postseason appearance since 1946, as the Crimson competed in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament last season.
He brings a 220-183 career head coaching record into today's game, including a 109-83 record at Michigan at a 68-55 record at Seton Hall.
Amaker came to Harvard after a six-year stint as Michigan's head coach. Inheriting a program that was reeling from institutional and NCAA sanctions, he led the Wolverines to the postseason three times, winning the 2004 NIT title, reaching the championship game of the 2006 NIT, and advancing to the second round of the 2007 tournament. The 2006-07 season was Michigan's second straight 20-win campaign and its third in four years. The Wolverines were ranked as high as No. 20 in the nation during the 2005-06 season.
Preseason Honors
Kyle Casey Ivy League (Athlon Sports) Ivy League (Lindy's) Ivy League (The Sporting News) Ivy League (Blue Ribbon) Ivy League second-team (Rivals.com)
Brandyn Curry Ivy League's Best Defender (Lindy's)
Laurent Rivard Ivy League Newcomer of the Year (Lindy's)
Preseason Prognostications
After losing All-Ivy and All-America guard Jeremy Lin to graduation and the professional ranks, Harvard was picked to finish second in the Ivy League preseason media poll released Oct. 27. Harvard was picked to finish fourth in last year's preseason poll and placed third at the end of the season with a 10-4 conference mark.
Princeton was picked to win the league and received 12 first-place votes, while Harvard garnered four and Cornell one.
2010-11 Ivy League Preseason Media Poll
1. Princeton– 128 points (12 first-place votes)
2. Harvard – 120 (4)
3. Cornell – 96 (1)
4. Penn – 86
5. Yale – 57
6. Brown – 55
7. Columbia – 48
8. Dartmouth – 19
Harvard in the NBA
Former Harvard guard and three-time All-Ivy League honoree Jeremy Lin '10 signed a professional contract with the Golden State Warriors in July.
With his NBA debut against the Los Angeles Clippes Oct. 29, Lin became the first Ivy League player to to suit up for an NBA team since Penn's Matt Maloney played for the Atlanta Hawks and Yale's Chris Dudley was a member of the Portland Trail Blazers in 2003.
Lin joins former Harvard standouts Saul Mariaschin '47 (Boston Celtics) and Edward Smith '51 (New York Knicks) as Crimson players who have seen time in the NBA.
Tremendous Start
Keith Wright set a new career-high with 16 rebounds and tied a career-best with 22 points on 9-of-12 shooting at George Mason Nov. 13. Wright grabbed 10 defensive boards and six offensive rebounds, while also making three steals and blocking two shots in the season opener.
Oh Captain, My Captains
This is the second season since 1991-92 that Harvard has elected more than one captain for the men's basketball team. Juniors Oliver McNally and Keith Wright are the 111th and 112th captains in program history.
Dual Threat
Freshman Matt Brown is also a wide receiver on the Harvard football team. Brown has made six receptions for 75 yards in three games this fall.
Give Me The Ball
When Harvard outrebounded opponents in 2009-10, the Crimson owned an impressive 16-2 record. Harvard outrebounded George Mason, 41-34, in the season opener.
Fountain of Youth
The Crimson has just three upperclassmen on the roster this year – all of them juniors. Five sophomores as well as six freshmen join the juniors to make up the team that has no seniors.
Harvard is the only school in the Ivy League with no seniors this season.


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Just woke up to this dreadful news. Charlie was a total one-off - I was going to call him 'one of the good guys' but that seems almost a put-down: he was the ultimate honest, modest, straightahead good guy.
Charlie used to let me kip on his floor from time to time in the late sixties when my band had back-to-back gigs in London, and has been a true friend and champion ever since, albeit one I saw only sporadically - the kind of dependable bloke you could just pick up with where you left off months or years ago. That previous post that spoke about his 'friendly face with no hidden agenda' hit the nail on the head. I'm sure that Charlie - quite literally - didn't have an enemy in the world.
Richard's obit says it all. As the song says, "you don't know what you've got - until you lose it".


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LG SmartShare™ Feature & Functionality
LG SmartShare™ is a Smart TV platform enabling quick access to multimedia file playability whether through streaming or hardwired connection. It is not software nor should it be mistaken for one.
Smartphones have become way more sophisticated than personal computers, at the exception of memory storage capability, so pushing phone content to view on a large screen TV is pretty much the simplest thing you could do.
If the source or media server happens to be your PC then exactly how old is it? If you need to install DLNA server software then it is very old. Most computers in the past 5 years or more are all DLNA certified which means, if you are running any Windows operating system, you will need to instruct your PC you wish to share multimedia content else nothing from your PC will appear on you TV screen.
1. Click on the Windows Start button on the left bottom corner
2. Locate Control Panel option and click it.
3. Click on "Network and Sharing Center"
4. Click on "Choose homegroup and sharing options"
5. Click on "Change advanced sharing settings..."
6. Select "Home"
7. If Media streaming is "off" click on "Choose media streaming options..."
8. Here you can "Allow All", select desired devices or "Block All"
MAC users are probably more comfortable using the PLEX software to better manage their media library. PC users wishing to take advantage of the more sophisticated and solidly built software can download a version from the LG website.


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Living rooms are a place to relax, converse, and relish in the comforts of home. With a palette of soothing neutrals and abundant texture, these spaces exude timeless elegance.
At the Lake Forest Showhouse in Illinois, designer Gail Plechaty was inspired by formal French salons to create a beautiful living room that is dressy without apology. As a fine example of elegant symmetry, a grand presentation of botanical prints hangs between soaring windows dressed in luxurious silk panels. The coral color of the prints echoes the hue in the rug that grounds a marble-topped coffee table and a pair of Louis XVI chairs flanking a sofa slipcovered in ivory cotton.
See more of this stately showhouse here.
Photo: Werner Straube
Design: Gail Plechaty
Serene Living Room with Blue Accents
A clean and contemporary living room is accented with vibrant blue coffee table cubes from Jonathan Adler. A pair of armchairs from A. Rudin boasts subtle stripes to break up the room's neutrality.
Light-Filled Living Room in Soft Blues and Ivory
A serene palette of blue, ivory, and silver balances large-scale seating and a heightened sense of dimension in this living room. Sofas from Lee Jofa sit by the fireplace for a comfy spot to linger and enjoy the room's casual elegance. A large framed mirror above the mantel makes the room appear even more spacious while reflecting the natural light pouring in through ample windows.
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Airy Neutrals with Deep Green and Warm Brown
An antique Flemish tapestry grounds the room's airier neutrals with its deep hunter greens and warm browns. "The tapestry is by far the most significant piece because it creates the color scheme for the entire house," says designer Roger Higgins. The sofa under the tapestry is from Lee Industries. A sisal rug lends a touch of informality.
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Photos: Reid Rolls
Design: Roger Higgins and Ann Shipp
Cream and Ivory Living Room
Light neutrals in this living room are highlighted by gauzy window treatments that let the sunlight flow in. Designer Natasha Baradaran included sculptural pieces to incorporate texture and dimension, like the custom fireplace screen and table from Donghia with Moroccan influence. An Eric Orr painting leans against the mantel, injecting a pop of royal blue over the fireplace.
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Photo: Luca Travato
Design: Natasha Baradaran
Naturally Neutral Living Room
A stone hearth flanked by large windows forms the stunning focal point in this living room. The natural texture of the stones is reflected in the gray area rug from Tamarian Carpets as well as the wood-and-iron coffee table. Pops of orange at the couch, like the throw from Hermes, breaks up the room's neutrality.
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Photo: Werner Straube
Design: Rosemary Merrill
Neutral Background Accented with Vibrant Hues
An array of neutrals in cream, grays, reds, and violets lend a surprising amount of color to this living room. Crisp white walls with classic molding maintain a fresh backdrop for the room's more substantial elements, such as a tufted ottoman from Hancock & Moore. The painting above the mantel gives the room a major color boost with vibrant purples and greens.
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Photo: Emily Followill
Design: Debbie Cummins
Living Room with Rustic Palette
This living room's rustic palette is informed by the wood and iron elements throughout. The antique fireplace (circa 1740) serves as the focal point with a classic mantel and fleur-de-lis fireplace screen from Architectural Accents. Salvaged wooden beams add textural interest to the ceiling.
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Photo: Gordon Beall
Design: Mary Jo Donohoe
A pair of sculptural chaise longue chairs covered in durable chenille basket-weave fabric and a chocolate brown sofa form a cozy sitting area in this living room. The earthy hues are complimented by airy blues at the windows and accent details, like floral pillows and a plush throw. Venetian plaster walls provide a cool backdrop for the lovely palette.
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Interior design: William C. Huff Jr., and Heather Zarrett Dewberry
Photograph: Emily Followill
Inviting Cream and Brown Living Room
A geometric sisal rug and stone fireplace surround give this living room a big dose of texture, which blends marvelously with the peaceful palette of cream and ivory. Touches of baby blue lend airiness to the space while tying the artwork above the fireplace in with the rest of the color scheme.
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Soft Beige and Ivory Living Room
Traditional style mixes with clean, contemporary simplicity in this airy living room. Drapery from Cowtan & Tout cascades elegantly to the sisal rug below, lending verticality to the space. Black details—like a pair of pillows and wingchair opposite—lend subtle contrast. A small wooden bench with curvy French lines tucks underneath a wood-topped iron cocktail table for additional seating.
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Interior design: Paul Corrie
Photograph: Gordon Beall
Formal Living Room in Warm Pastels
An elegant formal living room is dressed in sweet blues, greens, and yellows to create a inviting space. French doors open up to an outdoor dining area, while a large mirror from Dennis & Leen helps bounce the light around the space. Maroon details—like the piping on the armchairs and pillow tassels—offer gracious notes of contrast. The leopard print area rug from Stark lends a subtle touch of sass.
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Interior design: Mary Jo Donohoe
Photograph: Gordon Beall
Stylish Cream and Beige Living Room with Red Accents
Adjoined to the dining room, this contemporary living room is light, bright, and open. A neutral color scheme is enlivened with vibrant red-orange accent pillows on the sofa, as well as a pair of upholstered square benches for additional seating. A wide tufted ottoman from The Shop pulls double duty as a coffee table.
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Interior design: Mariette Himes Gomez and Brooke Gomez
Photograph: Joe Standart
Sophisticated Palette Against a Crisp Backdrop
Simple lines and crisp white walls establish a classic backdrop for this living room's lovely palette. Elegant French antiques and a pair of shapely armchairs add traditional sensibility, while the calm blend of wheat, mint, and soft crimson create a sophisticated palette. A painting above the fireplace features more concentrated yet complementary hues.
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Interior design: Debbie Cummins
Photograph: Emily Followill
Cream and Gray Living Room
This room's floor-to-ceiling windows provide ample light and open up to the front and back porches, where the antique brick pavers extend for visual continuity and textural interest. Venetian plaster adds drama and substance to the fireplace, complementing the ash-colored club chairs. A sisal rug adds warmth to the space; botanicals arranged in a column add verticality to the space.
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Interior design: Virginia Mary Brown
Photograph: Werner Straube
Rich Neutral Living Room with Blue Accents
The living room of this Fort Worth home is decked out in rich neutrals and striking blue accents. Slipper chairs from E.C. Dicken float above the sisal area rug, providing a counterpoint to the gilt details throughout the space. The homeowners' collection of blue-and-white china establishes the running theme of blue accents, like the satiny sofa pillows. A pale blue paint on the walls and barely-there sandy hue on the molding and ceiling subtly tie the room's colors together.
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Interior design: Joseph Minton, with Paula Lowes and Michelle M. Wade
Photograph: Emily Minton Redfield