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Power Forward to Cure Lupus
Lupus has touched Chris' family tremendously. His aunts Remonia and Brenda succumbed to the disease in August of 1991 and May of 1998, respectively. In addition, Chris' sister Tehesia was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) when she was a 17 year old high school senior. Because of this, Chris does what he can to create and support ongoing efforts to fund Lupus research.
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease with no known cause or cure. When suffering from Lupus, the immune system cannot tell the difference between foreign invaders (viruses, bacteria, germs) and your body's healthy tissues. Normally the immune system produces proteins called antibodies that protect the body from these invaders, but because the body cannot tell the difference, it creates auto antibodies that attack and ultimately destroy healthy tissue. This causes inflammation, pain, and damage in various parts of the body.
Certain ethnic groups (people of African, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Island descent) have a greater risk of developing lupus. Also, women are at higher risk than men, as 90% of people suffering from the disease are women.
"Lupus is an inherited disease throughout our family, so while it wasn't a total shock, it was very sad for the diagnosis to become a reality. My mother and I were very supportive and kept my sister motivated, lifted her spirits, and focused on being positive for her," -Chris Wilcox
Like many of the 5 million Lupus survivors worldwide, Tehesia takes things day by day and is doing well. She realizes how fortunate she is to have a supportive brother.
"I think he has done a great job at raising money for Lupus research. I am very proud in his accomplishments in doing so and I feel very honored and privileged to have such a loving and caring sibling,"
–Tehesia Wilcox
More folks have lupus than sickle cell anemia, cerebral palsy and cystic fibrosis combined, yet it is the least known of all major diseases. Lupus research lags behind other diseases and therefore, the manufacturing of new medications.
The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) is the oldest and largest national nonprofit voluntary health organization focused on improving the quality of life for people with lupus. Their unique dual mission serves the ongoing needs of people affected by lupus today while leading efforts to find a cure – from care to cure!
Through their programs of research, education, and advocacy, the LFA is leading efforts to bring national attention and resources to bear upon lupus.
For more information on the Lupus Foundation of America, please visit their website at
I would like to support Wilcox in his mission to
Power Forward to Cure Lupus with a donation.
About Lupus
- Lupus is a disease a debilitating disease that hampers and attacks the immune system
- More than 1.5 million people are affected by Lupus
- 90% of people who suffer are women
- Lupus most commonly affects African Americans, Native Americans, and Latina Americans
- Every thirty minutes another young woman is stricken by Lupus
- There is no cure or known cause
- The Lupus Foundation provides research funds for the disease which has greatly affected the lives of Chris and his family
- Click Here to find out more about the Lupus Foundation of America


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Dear Reader,
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As some in the financial media pointed out, "[This investment class] gets so little attention... that you STILL have the opportunity to find some hidden gems."
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So What Exactly is This Investment?
As you may have guessed, it's a certain kind of stock.
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They're flawed because they never recommend exposure to micro-cap stocks, which hold the greatest potential for huge gains.
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Of course, you might decide to invest more money in each recommendation, too, no one's stopping you.
Bottom line: You could book explosive gains on the next three stocks we add to the Penny Cap Portfolio just days from now.
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Tiny Stocks Ahead of the Crowd?
I've spent years working as the lead financial analyst for a Forbes top-50 private corporation, but today I'm the Publisher of a progressive investment advisory letter called WSD Insider.
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Networking giant, Cisco, just released its latest insights and predictions about global internet traffic.
Over the next five years, the number of internet connected devices is expected to double to twice the global population.
That means by 2015 there will be two internet-connected devices per person in the world.
In the process, Cisco expects internet traffic to increase four-fold to 966 exabytes.
To put such an enormous number into perspective, before long, we'll be sending the data equivalent of every movie ever made across the internet every five minutes!
However, if we drilldown into the data further, an even more compelling trend surfaces… the explosive use of mobile devices.
Yet despite Cisco's rosy growth projections, there's a problem… Mobile internet traffic can't magically increase by triple digits each year.
The infrastructure needs to be built before the traffic surge can be handled. More specifically, we need faster, more efficient and higher capacity networks.
And that's where a tiny San Jose, California-based company comes in.
This company is in the early stages of rolling out a potentially disruptive technology called 'thin film polymer on silicon' (TFPS).
TFPS offers faster response time, increased stability, reliable operation at high temperatures and lower power consumption.
Not surprising, its sales have jumped nearly 17% per year since 2007. And product revenue has jumped a whopping 38%, year-over-year.
But despite its solid sales, there's another reason this company's stock could pop in the near future, it's sitting on 108 patents and 40 patent applications.
Simply put, this high-growth company is set to soar and its perfectly positioned to exploit profits to the max.
It's a soon-to-be leader in the explosive mobile market… yet few Wall Street analysts even know the company exists.
With accelerating growth… technological superiority… the only thing that would make this opportunity sweeter would be getting shares on the cheap. And you can.
You'll find all the details on how to profit from this amazing opportunity in the report The Mobile Explosion's Ultimate Micro-Cap Pure Play: How One Tiny Company is Pushing the Wireless Boom to the Outer Edge of Profits.
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Together, this group brings decades of experience to the WSD team. And they deliver results to you every month in our fast-paced investment advisory letter called WSD Insider.
As we speak, we're scouring earnings reports, talking with venture capitalists and private equity shops, and conducting on-the-ground due diligence on over 25 other potential opportunities.
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Reading WSD Insider can help make you a much richer and smarter person.
But don't take my word for it. Here are a few recent comments our readers just sent us...
Our Readers Are Getting Rich
These are just a few of the hundreds of emails we get each month from our readers. Yes, we do get an occasional email letting us know "how we can do better" but the majority of our letters read like these.
That's because our readers get well-researched recommendations and have the opportunity to make more money than they could ever get from a TV 'guru' or the financial papers.
My point is: WSD Insider unearths companies long before they become mainstream news.
Before I give you details on how to get started, I'd like to tell you about an exciting commodity company we just uncovered...
The World's Most Precious CommodityWe've found a tiny Singapore-based commodity company that's cornering the $460 billion 'blue gold' market.
And, of course, there's only a finite supply of drinkable water – which is a huge problem considering the global population (around 6.9 billion people) is expected to grow 40% to 50% over the next 50 years.
By 2025, water demand is projected to exceed supply by 56%. Demand is doubling every two years. And serious shortages already affect nearly 450 million people in over 29 countries.
To be blunt: The world is running out of water.
Countries like China, India and Latin America are in dire straits.
Well, there are increasingly innovative ways to make clean water from dirty water. And one company is doing just that in the most critical of regions…
It's a well-diversified company with expertise in seawater desalination, water recycling and purification, wastewater treatment and potable water treatment. Its desalination efforts are among the top in the world.
With target markets of China, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia – areas that comprise more than 50% of the world's market… this tiny company – with less than a $1.2 billion market cap – is poised to hand early investors windfall profits.
Consider this, over the next nine years alone, China is expected to spend nearly half a trillion dollars on clean water.
Simply put, the water revolution is a 'no-brainer.'
This tiny company remains under-the-radar of most investment analysts. But not for long…
Since 2006, its revenue shot up by 400%, and its earnings per share has jumped 250% over the same period.
In other words, sales are ramping up significantly, and we expect Wall Street to take note in the very near future.
You'll get all the details on this amazing little company in our special report: The Water Scarcity Report: With the Power of 6.9 Billion People Behind it, This Water Play is Virtually Assured to Profit.
I'll also rush you this report for free when you decide to try our research.
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Why This Opportunity May
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Sorry for being blunt, but WSD Insider is not for everyone.
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All of our plays trade exclusively on major exchanges... But they tend to be smaller, under-the-radar investments.
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Ahead of the tape,
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September 2011
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Happy Fall to you all! The days are getting shorter, the air is crisper, and where the heck did October go? This newsletter we have contributions from Paul Angone and myself. Paul's piece is "Chapter 0" from a book he recently wrote entitled All Groan Up: Searching for Self, Faith, and a Freaking Job!
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Michigan is going to win the Big Ten.
There, I said it. The Wolverines are going to win the Big Ten this year because the league's best team is on sanctions and can't win it, and while Michigan has some issues, no doubt, it's the one team in the conference that has a single player - Denard Robinson - who can mask the rest of his team's problems.
Sure, occasionally Robinson is the problem, but he's the solution enough to win this conference.
I don't think the Wolverines will go unbeaten the rest of the way, as I think they'll lose at least one of the road games at Nebraska or Ohio State. Heck, they might even lose both, but I think that will still be enough to get to Indianapolis as Nebraska rotates between being a legitimate BCS team at home and a lower-tier Sun Belt team on the road.
As for whatever team the Leaders Division spits out for the Big Ten Championship Game, Michigan should win that game without trouble. So, yes, I just predicted a Rose Bowl for Michigan.
Now to other predictions I will surely regret.
Iowa at Michigan State, noon, ESPN: I think Iowa is pretty bad. The loss against Central Michigan was kind of fluky in how it happened, but when you see that the Hawkeyes barely beat Northern Iowa and Northern Illinois, you can see how it happened. I'm still not sure how they blitzed an improved Minnesota team, but I'm not moving from my "Iowa is horrible" position. Pick: MSU 24-13.
No. 15 Texas vs. No. 10 Oklahoma at Dallas, noon, ABC: Oklahoma's demise may have been overstated after it struggled with UTEP in Week 1 and lost at home against Kansas State in Week 3. The Sooners weren't a national title contender, but they're still a good team, as proved by their dismantling of Texas Tech on the road. Texas' inability to tackle, however, has not been overstated. Pick: Oklahoma 31-28.
No. 17 Stanford at No. 7 Notre Dame, 3:30 p.m., NBC: Notre Dame has a recent history of struggling whenever people decide that it's actually good. Well, that's been decided, and Stanford is a good, physical opponent that should give the Irish offensive line problems. I just don't see how Stanford can score. The Cardinal have an inexperienced quarterback and no over-the-top threat. Pick: Notre Dame 17-9.
No. 14 Oregon State at BYU, 3:30 p.m., ESPN3: BYU's offense is pathetic, but its defense is incredibly stout. Oregon State, meanwhile, has rolled through a gauntlet of criminally overrated teams with close victories. Home field decides this one. Pick: BYU 10-9.
Illinois at Michigan, 3:30 p.m., ABC: Illinois is really, really bad. Michigan's defense is getting better each week, and should shut the Illini down. And, Denard. Pick: U-M 34-13.
No. 3 South Carolina at No. 8 LSU, 8 p.m., ESPN: South Carolina looked unbelievably good against Georgia. Believe it or not, Steve Spurrier has a team that is winning with defense and the running game. Les Miles, meanwhile, has a team that couldn't score 21 points if you left it alone on the field for an hour. This, of course, means that LSU is going to find a way to score 40 today. Pick: S. Carolina 14-13.
No. 21 Texas A&M at No. 24 Louisiana Tech, 9 p.m., ESPNU: If this game had been played in Week 1 like it was supposed to, nobody would have thought twice about it. But Louisiana Tech is unbeaten and has snuck into the top 25 after five wins. Are any of them overly impressive? No, actually. Not at all. Pick: A&M 34-28.
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Some nights, she imagines herself being touched in every which way. Other nights, she'll be so busy she won't care for some play time. She doesn't know what to do when she can't talk to the one that makes her go wild and aching for his touch. Other people do nothing for her so she doesn't waste her own time talking to someone else. Only he can please her in the best way ever. No one before him has truly cared to satisfy her. They've only thought for themselves. He cares to please her just as she cares to please him.
Whenever she gets lost in her thoughts, she closes her eyes in bed at night and imagines him on top of her and having his way with her. Sometimes, she reaches out, but forgets that it's only a dream, yet it seemed so real. If only it were real, she hopes it will be as great as she imagines it will be. It got her hot and bothered as if his presence was in her room, anyway. If he was physically present in her room, what it would do to her.
They are in bed. He slowly moves his hand up her naked legs and naked body until he reaches her insides with his fingers and finds the one thing that no other man has found before at the same time she holds him in her hand slowly massaging him getting him ready. She whispers in his ear, "I want your cock in me right now." He kisses her soft lips so gently and removes his fingers from her ready to stay in her all night long until they can no longer take it anymore. Babe can go no more after a while as she ever so lightly pushes him off her and rests her head on his chest. He gives her forehead a little peck and they fall asleep in each others arms.


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This was originally a guest post over on Keeping It Simple., but in case you missed it…
Today I'm going to show you how I did my latest t-shirt refashion
I started with a men's size small V-neck that I picked up for $2 at Old Navy.
I did have to make it a little smaller (I used the method from this tutorial) but I knew I wouldn't have much leftover fabric to work with. So I decided to trim down the serged seams from the inside of the shirt and use those as part of my decoration.
I pinned these to my shirt in the pattern I wanted.
And zig-zag stitched them (with matching thread) into place. Now, if I had been smart I would have done this while I had the shirt opened up, before sewing the side seams. But I didn't, so I had to use a lot of pins (more than the picture) and go very slowly.
I got the idea for the flowers from this post at You and Mie. I varied it slightly, as shown below, but if you want the full tutorial, you should check out her post.
I sewed my flowers into place, and this is what I ended up with
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12:14 PM, Aug 31, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has just released an important new study on the hiring practices of firms that used stimulus funds. It's fairly comprehensive, based on over 1,300 surveys of managers and employees. There's been very little good empirical data on the stimulus thus far, so the study contains a lot of valuable insights. Among the findings by authors Dan Rothschild and Garrett Jones:
Put simply, stimulus funds caused more job shifting than job creation. Another key finding? Union-friendly wage protections kill jobs:
The idea that the Stimulus' Davis-Bacon requirements undercut the supposed job creation benefits of government spending isn't a new revelation. However, this is pretty definitive confirmation this was one of major reasons the stimulus failed to live up to job creation expectations.
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©1971 by Ursula K. Leguin.; (P)1997 by Blackstone Audiobooks
"What Science Fiction is supposed to do." (Newsweek)
"Excellent Book, Bad Reader"
This is my second read for Le Guin after the Earthsea cycle, and I was definitely not disappointed. The reader, on the other hand, was a huge disappointment. The reading was all on the same tone, and absolutely empty of any emotion. To be able to not fall asleep throughout the book is a testament to Le Guin's writing ability for sure, for that reader's voice was trying to do the opposite.
I still recommend it big time. A very enjoyable book.
I approached this audio book with some trepidation, my only experience of LeGiuns work being "The Dispossesed", a book I have read many times, enjoyed as much for its message and thought provoking qualities as for its evocative landscapes. This audio book is in the same league, rich narrative, spare descriptive writting, powerfull message. It would assist the listener to have some understanding of "TAO", this concept being central to the theme. The Audio is a little dated, but the ear soon adjusts and the narrator does a fine job.A great follow on from "The Time Travellers Wife" which had been my previous listen.
"One of my favorites!"
I am not normally a fan of LeGuin's, being a sci-fi rather than sci-fantasy fan, but this novel is different, and very unique! I liked the narrator's style, and found the entire book facinating from start to finish. I'm still thinking about it, months later! In fact, I think I will re-listen to it very soon!
"Will keep you thinking"
I read this book several years ago, and actually enjoyed it more in this format.
This is not the very best thing Le Guin has written (_Always Coming Home_ and the Earthsea books are my candidates) yet it's a clear 5 star listen for me. Le Guin is one of the masters of SF-Fantasy; she transcends the genre while usually remaining a fun read. The plot is moves fast, with considerable pathos and suspense. The main character is a quiet, rather passive, man, and yet I came to like and respect him and care what happened to him and his world. What stays with me most, thought, are certain dream-like images, both visual and conceptual. They still float occasionally to consciousness, though I listened to the book several months ago.
The philosophy behind the book seems Taoist to me - and Le Guin has mentioned in her non-fiction that Taoism appeals to her. Sometimes the intellectual sub-text seemed a bit heavy-handed, but over all the book is a thorough success.
I myself found the narrator understated, but excellent. She added value to the book.
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times. ― Yevgeny Zamyatin
"What if you had effective dreaming?"
The Lathe of Heaven is a story about a man, George Orr, whose dreams come true. His dreams, or rather nightmares, change reality. But instead of putting things right, Orr's dreams create distorted dystopian realities that substitute the original ones. When Orr is put under compulsory treatment because of drug addiction, his psychiatrist, Dr. Haber, has it in mind to use Orr's powers to his own advantage.
The title is taken from a grossly mistranslated quotation from Chuang Tzu's writings. "To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven." U. Le Guin later said that the translation was wrong, since in the times of Chuang Tzu there were no lathes.
The LoH is thought-provoking and philosophical as it raises racial, social, political, and ethical issues. What if we could control our life and destiny? What if we had no diversity, but eliminated racism, poverty and overpopulation? What's better: to change things by fair means or foul, or go with the flow, "let be and let go", "be in touch with the world"?
Before I listened to the audiobook, I watched the 1980 adaptation a couple of years ago. I'd say I liked the ideas behind the film rather than the film itself. The budget was lean, and the special effects were cheesy, but I loved the plot and the characters.
The audiobook made a really strong impression on me. The performance wasn't bad, but could have had more zing to it.
"Excellent book, so-so production"
LeGuin's brilliant vision shines through in this must-read book for any science fiction fan -- or anyone interested in a study of human character, emotion, or society -- but the reading is only passable. It isn't bad enough to be distracting, but I've certainly heard better in audiobooks. Still, don't let that turn you off. This is an excellent work that deserves your attention.
For me it is not the genre, but the skill of the writer to bring in a picture, an emotion, to make me laugh or cry, or fade into their words
"The Grand Mistress of Fantasy"
Writen by the master - I like her Earthsea series better but the characters here are wonderful - the plot fasinating if a little hard to follow at times.
But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it. - J.D. Salinger ^(;,;)^
""We're in the Novel, not against it."
"Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven." —Chuang Tse: XXIII
"We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be." - Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin seems to have mixed Taoism with PKD and produced a funky SF novella on determinism, dreams, psychology, control, love, wholeness, and power. It wasn't a perfect SF novel. I think the last bit kinda rolled away from her, but like any good PKD or Vonnegut novel, the imperfections of this novel are small enough to let it float and be read far into the future.
"Amazing Book, Automoton Reader"
I would recommend that everyone read the book, but not this audible version. The automoton reading this is abysmal and extremely detracts from this amazing story. I found it very difficult to pay attention to because there was no charisma behind the voice. I am sad because this is one of my favorite books. Ursula Le Guin is amazing. I won't buy another book read by this narrator. I could have downloaded it on my Kindle and had it read the book to me.
Rarely inflects, characters all sound like a microsoft voice.
Inspired me to write a poem.
I listen to audiobooks on my morning run, so stories I like are ones that are entertaining enough to make me want to get out of bed at 6am.
"Excellent Sci-Fantasy"
Though a little predictable (what post-apocalyptic book isn't?), this was an excellent book about the possibility and power of the human mind. Sometimes irrational to the point of amusing other times horrifying, it was a good, thought provoking read. Very entertaining and one I couldn't wait to get back to. Le Guin always knows how to suck people into her stories and envelope them within.
I have to agree with many of the other listeners on the reader. Sometimes I found the flatness of the voice fitting - especially with the psychologist character - other times I found it jarring and out of place. Overall, a good performance, but not the best, it could have a bit more variation.
"Great story let down by poor narration"
The narrator of this book spoke in a flat monotone throughout the whole thing. She mispronounced words (carotid) and place names (Willamette, Marquam) all over the place. And in the final passage of the book, she even says the wrong character's name!
I would absolutely recommend this book for any fan of sci-fi, but would advise them to read the words in paper form or on an ereader, rather than listening to this audiobook.
"Brilliant story, not keen on narrator"
The narrator has a monotone voice so found it hard to connect to story. Once in it, it's a great listen
This book had me hooked from start to finish! I must have listened to it in no more than 3 sittings and each time I stopped I would have continued if I could have. An enthralling read :) Highly recommended!
"The Lathe of Heaven"
This was a great book!I was totally enthralled all through it.I listened to the Audible version and truly enjoyed the narration by Susan O'Malley.She was a fine choice for all the voices.
We enter the story with George being taken away for doing drugs.He is sent to a shrink who seems to want to help BUT gets seriously carried away.Georges problem is he is trying to not dream because his dreams become reality,in a way.It's an interesting idea that one persons dreams can create and affect a whole world.
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Last Thursday morning, I was getting Carter's bag packed for school in my sports bra on the way to the laundry room for the rest of what I needed to be ready for my 9am Zumba class when I spotted The Pioneer Woman on Good Morning America.
"Oh, it's Ree!" I said outloud, grabbing the remote to hit record.
Just like she's my longtime pal & I'm running into her, "Oh, it's Ree!"
Then I cracked up at the irony.
I've never met her before in my life.
But as one of the millions of followers of ThePioneerWoman.com, she's as familiar as my neighbor & I actually know more about the goings-on in Ree's life at this point, because of all she shares.
The crazy thing about the kind of blogging I do-sharing my personal stories, my family pictures, my musings means that the gal whom I've never seen before in my life that is standing behind me in the grocery line may actually know my kids' names, where I went last weekend, and maybe even what I'm going to do with the pot roast I'm buying.
You know?
It's exciting and disturbing.
I vacillate between the two.
I'm living in a city in Texas where I barely know anyone, but either because I sing on stage at a big church in town on the weekends or because I share my life on the world wide web I'm not as anonymous as I walk around thinking I am.
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SCULPTURES IN THE SNOWJanuary 22, 2014
'Get Off of My Lawn' (above) by the Whipper-snappers team of Brett Calomino, Sean Heine-kamp, and Clayton Weiss was the "People's Choice" award winner at last weekend's Illinois Snow Sculpting Competition at Sinnissippi Park. Other contenders were hard at work late last week preparing entries for judging last Saturday. News Bulletin photo.
Cold weather and plenty of white stuff create perfect conditions for entrants in annual Illinois Snow Sculpting contest at Sinnissippi
Conditions were perfect for last weekend's 28th annual Illinois Snow Sculpting Competition hosted by the Rockford Park District at Sinnissippi Park.
The ample snow and cold weather helped unlock the creativity of an estimated 28 teams who labored over three days to create larger-than-life figures along Sinnissippi's winding roadways.
Power tools and pre-fabricated molds were strictly prohibited. Otherwise, teams could use axes, machetes, water buckets, shovels, ice chisels, and homemade scraping tools for their respective works.
Twelve teams from Illinois competed, with the winner advancing to next year's U.S. National Snow Sculpting Competition in Lake Geneva, Wis.. One exhibition team (last year's Illinois winner) also carved a sculpture. A high school division featured 15 entries.
News Bulletin photos.
Each team was assigned (by lottery) a block of snow that is 6 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 10 feet high. Finished pieces could not expand beyond 12 feet in diameter top to bottom, but height is unlimited. High school blocks are 4 feet wide, 4 feet long, and 6 feet high.
Teams were limited to three persons apiece (the high school division permitted four).
An estimated 40,000 persons were expected to view the creations over four days.


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Mar 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 27 • By LEE SMITH
With a civil war brewing in Bahrain and a hot war raging in Libya, Lebanon is at the periphery rather than the center of Middle East turmoil. That may change when indictments handed down by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon investigating the murder of former prime minister Rafik Hariri are unsealed in the coming weeks. The tribunal has reportedly filed amended indictments with more damning evidence that may name not only rank and file Hezbollah operatives, but senior officials from the party as well as Syrian security officers.
In the meantime, with the warm spring weather turning Beirut into an Eastern Mediterranean idyll, this is perhaps the most placid city in the Middle East. And it's not clear the Lebanese are comfortable with that fact, for even the unlikeliest characters seem to be itching for a fight.
"No to the weapons" is the pro-democracy March 14 movement's new rallying cry, meaning no to Hezbollah's arms and signaling a relatively aggressive campaign from a pro-democracy coalition that has seemingly been rocked back on its heels the last few years. So when former prime minister and now opposition leader Saad Hariri took off his jacket and tie, rolled up his shirtsleeves, and joined the crowd during this year's March 14 commemorations, his adversaries understood it as a challenge. His Sunni base and other supporters of the March 14 coalition approved the gesture, seeing his adoption of the casual, man-of-the-people style of American politics as a sign of Hariri's eagerness to get down to business.
It's true that Hariri fares much better in informal settings, where his relative youth (he's 39, which for Arab politics is barely out of puberty), humor, and vulnerability are in stark contrast to the formal Hariri, squirming in an expensive suit and looking like he cannot read his cue cards. He seems to be more confident in his current role as head of the opposition than he was as head of the government—a government, it should be remembered, that was blocked at every turn by Hezbollah until it brought the government down two months ago. And even then Hariri managed to ensure that Lebanon would cooperate with the U.N. tribunal so that it could get to the final stage of its work—indictments against the murderers of his father and 22 others on February 14, 2005, as well as a string of subsequent political assassinations carried out against journalists, politicians, and civil society activists.
With Hezbollah increasingly on the defensive, this year's March 14 festivities may have been the most successful, and the largest, since the initial 2005 demonstration that kicked off Lebanon's "Independence Intifada" and sent Syrian troops back home after a 15-year occupation. Nonetheless, for all of Hariri's newly minted charisma, the event was still marked by political incompetence. During the festivities, a large portrait of the Saudi monarch King Abdullah was unfurled from the rafters of the Virgin Megastore, a gesture that left some observers astonished, certain it was a stunt engineered by one of Hariri's rivals in order to play up the fact that the Sunni leader criticizing Hezbollah for its relationship with Iran had his own foreign sponsor in Riyadh. Alas, it was no prank. The point was to show that the Saudis were standing with Hariri and March 14 rather than with Najib Mikati, the Sunni business-man and pol recently designated prime minister of the Hezbollah-led government. But the effect was to water down Hariri's message about a free and sovereign Lebanon, whose future should be determined by and for the Lebanese people.
Worse yet, says independent Shia political activist Lokman Slim, "this was the same Saudi family that tried to sell out Lebanon to Syria, and the same king who has forbidden political protests in his own country and sent 1,000 troops into Bahrain to put down the Shia. What legitimate place does he have in a Lebanese political protest?"
Slim is also concerned that March 14's "No to the weapons" rallying cry is likely to further alienate the Shia community. "Look, I'm not just against the weapons," says Slim, "I'm against the whole resistance to Israel. But the Shia are going to understand 'no to the weapons' as 'no to the Shia.' Hezbollah has done a very good job of brainwashing the community that the weapons are an integral part of their identity, their dignity."
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Kuala Lumpur, Jul 19: Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said on Saturday that the flight path of the crashed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was set out by the international aviation authorities, approved by Eurocontrol and used by other airlines.
"It flew at an altitude set, and deemed safe, by the local air traffic control. And it never strayed into restricted airspace," the minister told a press conference. He called for all parties to protect the integrity of the crash site and to allow the investigation to proceed, Xinhua reported.
"Interfering with the scene of the crash risks undermining the investigation itself. Any actions that prevent us from learning the truth about what happened to MH17 cannot be tolerated," said the official.
Flight MH17, a Boeing 777, was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed on Thursday afternoon in the conflict-hit Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.
Liow said Malaysia's task force arrived in Ukraine's capital Kiev earlier on Saturday, and he, joined by the director of general of the Department of Civil Aviation, the Malaysian investigator in charge, and the chairman of Malaysia Airlines, would go to Kiev as well.
"The CEO of Malaysia Airlines is already in Kiev," he said. The minister said it appeared that MH17 was shot down and its passengers and crew were killed by a missile. Liow also said Malaysia Airlines would release the full passenger manifest after the press conference.
When asked by Xinhua about the measures to be taken to ensure the investigation was fair and objective, Liow said the Malaysian authorities had asked for the setting up of an independent investigation team and two Malaysian experts had been sent to assist the ongoing probe work.


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ULM's Monterell Washington (2) is tackled by University of Louisiana at Lafayette defense during last year's game. It's a rivalry that seems to get more intense each year.
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ULM sophomore linebacker Hunter Kissinger traveled to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette as a true freshman in 2011 after earning scout team player of the week.
The Arkansas native knew he wouldn't get any playing time, but he did learn just how big the rivalry between UL Lafayette and ULM could be.
The Ragin' Cajuns came back from 11 points down with 3:08 left in the game to score two touchdowns, including the final one after a successful on-side kick. ...


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Tamsyn Lewis passes on Olympic tips to Townsville hopefuls
- From: Townsville Bulletin
- March 28, 2014
FORMER Australian Olympian and triple Commonwealth Games gold medallist Tamsyn Lewis is certain that Townsville has a goldmine of athletic potential waiting to be unearthed.
Lewis was in Townsville yesterday to give some tips to some of North Queensland's best track stars, including 2016 Olympic sprint hopefuls Josh McCabe, Brittany McGlone and Sophia Power.
With many young athletes channelling their abilities into other sports during adolescence, Lewis says fostering regional track talents was key to Australia's future Olympic sprinting hopes.
"I was up here for the Australian All Schools Championships last year and the talent was just amazing," she said.
"There's some really strong juniors coming through the ranks here, and the key is to keeping young athletes in our sport and for them to crossover into seniors.
"That's where we seem to lose a lot of the talent, because it gets quite tough as the (qualifying) standards for world juniors are much easier than those set for the Olympics."
While Lewis is also aiming for a spot at Rio de Janeiro, her attention for now is on motherhood.
Lewis, 35, is 18 weeks pregnant and more than happy to put her sprinting career on hold as she prepares for the most challenging chapter of her life.
The 2008 world indoor 800m champion believes she would have qualified for the Commonwealth Games, but will now instead dream of Rio.
"I'd like to see if I could maybe go to Rio, but if don't … I haven't put my life on hold for the sport any longer which I think is a good thing," she said.
McCabe, McGlone and Power are all training for the upcoming Stawell Gift, Oceanic Games, Commonwealth Games and World Championships.
The group — which includes McCabe's twin brother Andrew — trains under the expert eye of former Olympian and Ingham product Paul Di Bella, and is in the process of securing sponsorship.
Josh McCabe, 24, has endured a nightmare run of injury lasting six years but is hoping to turn a corner at next month's Stawell Gift.
"I had two foot operations, one knee operation and I've been in two years of recovery from the last foot operation," McCabe said, who specialises in the 200m and 400m sprints.
"This is my third go at running back from injury, so hopefully it works this time.
"We're a bit isolated in North Queensland and every bit of financial support helps, so hopefully we can attract a bit of sponsorship and take another step towards our goals."
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SANTA FE >> A Senate panel approved a $6.2 billion spending package on Sunday with more money for Republican Gov. Susana Martinez's educational initiatives in hopes of breaking a budget stalemate.
The measure cleared the Finance Committee unanimously and goes to the Senate for consideration.
A vote is expected late Monday or Tuesday, said committee chairman Sen. John Arthur Smith, a Deming Democrat.
The prospects remained uncertain whether the Senate, House and Martinez administration would agree on a budget before Legislature adjourns on Thursday.
"We've been trying to get something that all of us can live with. That's the whole idea of compromise," said Sen. Steven Neville, an Aztec Republican who serves on the committee.
A budget measure failed in the House earlier this month as one Democrat joined with Republicans in blocking the measure. Republicans said the plan shortchanged the governor's school-improvement initiatives.
With the House stalled on a budget, the Senate committee developed its own blueprint for financing public schools, colleges and general government programs ranging from courts to health care.
The budget provides for a $293 million or 5 percent increase in spending in the fiscal year starting in July.
The panel added $17.5 million for Martinez administration school programs above what had been in the stalled House budget. Included was nearly $7.3 million for initiatives to help recruit, retain and train educators. About $2.9 million was provided for programs to prevent students from dropping out of high school and to prepare them for careers and college.
Neville said the goal was to give the Public Education Department flexibility to work with school districts on initiatives to improve educational performance.
"It's a decent budget," said Sen. William Burt, an Alamogordo Republican.
The panel freed up the $17 million by trimming spending in all government programs by 0.275 percent.
The approach taken by the Senate committee was similar to a proposal that fizzled in the House because of opposition from Democrats. House Republicans had offered what they described as a compromise — funneling about $17 million for the governor's initiatives — but House Democrats objected.
The fight over the budget this session has been in how to allocate a relatively small amount of money.
The budget provides $2.7 billion for schools, the department and other educational programs.
Educational groups and unions favor distributing state aid through a funding formula that leaves most spending decisions to local districts.
But Martinez asked the Democratic-controlled Legislature for a $55 million increase for programs that would be administered by the department. The initiatives ranged from merit pay for teachers to online systems in schools that would allow parents to get information about their children's classroom work.
The Senate panel provided a $38 million increase in programs outside of the state's school-funding formula.
"It may not be the full amount the executive was looking for, but it definitely does address the issues that they've had some concern over," said Democratic Sen. Pete Campos of Las Vegas.
He expressed confidence that the budget would pass the Senate. It would then go to the House.
Other provisions of the committee's budget:
—3 percent across-the-board pay increases for government workers and educators, with larger raises for state police and workers in certain hard-to-fill jobs such as prison guards.
—$11.5 million to shore up a lottery-financed college scholarship program next year.
—$833 million for the state's network of colleges and universities. That's about a 4.6 percent increase over the current budget.
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Black and White are ready to fight
Two piano champions on stage; one in black, the other in white. They perform, compete, and shine; the concert hall packed full of people, applauding, clapping, and raising their voting cards; the referees observing and counting votes, sometimes struggling with their duty …
Welcome to the PIANO BATTLE !!
Part serious classical recital, part tongue-in-cheek performance by two piano geniuses, the PIANO BATTLE is a unique concert that pleases both the eye and the ear. The brainchild of internationally accomplished pianists Andreas Kern and Paul Cibis, the PIANO BATTLE sees the duo go head-to-head on stage, charming and enchanting the audience with a variety of classical pieces and improvisations.


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There are so many beautiful wall calendars to choose from. It's a great pop of color and functional art for your wall. Last year I didn't hang one up in my room and I really missed it! I've picked a wide selection for next year. Tomorrow we'll cover desk calendars.
I love this quirky retro calendar with fun vintage illustrations from O'Reilley Ink.
Another fun calendar celebrating the retro life in letterpress with Carving My Initials and Pistachio Press.
I love a good cloth wall calendar, and this one from one of my favorite designers, Lisa Rupp, does not disappoint.
Speaking of hot air balloons…yowza. The "Flying Contraption" from Elevated Press is stunning.
Another cloth calendar from 1canoe2 explores different types of ships at sea. So whimsical!
You can tack up the pages from Jessica Swift's colorful calendar one at a time or all at once!
I love bold art calendars like this one from Paper Source.
Finally, this wall calendar combines 2 things I love: vintage maps and Cavallini. Enjoy!


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As part of All-Access All Things All-Star coverage on NHL.com this weekend in Ottawa, Senators forward Jason Spezza will be blogging his thoughts and experiences as one of the player hosts of All-Star Weekend. Here's his final entry, detailing an unbelievable Sunday, including his one-goal, one-assist, minus-5 showing in the 2012 Tim Hortons NHL All-Star Game at Scotiabank Place:
It was a perfect weekend and the result is irrelevant. It was a perfect celebration of the weekend. All of us being together and getting to come and play the game and see the crowd react to Daniel Alfredsson. I got a goal and Milo scored. It was fun to be a part of. I thought the crowd was phenomenal and it would have been nice to get Alfie a hat trick. We were all passing him the puck, believe me. I'm not even thinking about the fact that I was a minus-5. That's gone. It's already gone; I'll never mention it again. It was just a great, great way to cap of a special weekend.
I may play another five years, another 10 years, and I may never have another chance to play an All-Star Game in my home city. It's something that is really special. To play it with three teammates made it more special because we could be together all weekend and do things together all weekend. It helps that the three of us are really good friends. We're not just teammates, we're really good friends. Like Alf said during his press conference, it hasn't really settled in yet. We're living in the moment and enjoying it and hoping we can use this as springboard into the second half.
I think the city was the star of the event. The way the city stepped up, the events, the Fan Fair, how organized everything was. To a man, if you ask any player in the dressing room, they had a great time. It was really accessible for their families to do stuff. The League and the Senators did an awesome job of running a first-class event and I don't think you will find too many people leaving being disappointed. It was a great thing for Ottawa.
I had my daughter in the dressing room after the game. She might be a little young and never remember any of it, but I wanted to make sure we would have some great pictures. I told my dad I wanted to have her in the room right away because it is one of those moments that you don't know if it is going to happen again and family is really important to me. She has no idea what is going on right now, but she will in a couple of years and I think they will be good memories to look back on.
We're ready to go for the second half. This is just icing on the cake. The real stuff starts now. We play the game for real. It's nice to be recognized as individuals, but we play the game to win. You play for team and you play for your teammates. We feel like we have a good team here in Ottawa. To be honest, this has been an amazing weekend and I'll enjoy it tonight, but I can't wait to get back to work tomorrow.
I'm pretty tired, so we'll see if I shut it down early. I want to see everybody before they leave town because I don't think they will be back for a little while. We'll probably have some alone time after this. My grandparents are here, aunts and uncles, so we'll see family tonight and then definitely have a good sleep.


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Assembly language (asm) programming questions. Also specify the processor or instruction set your question is related to as well as what assembler you are using. NOTE: For .NET assemblies, use the tag [.net-assembly] instead. For Java ASM, use the tag [java-bytecode-asm] instead.
Assembly is a family of very low-level programming languages, just above machine code. In assembly, each statement corresponds to a single machine code instruction. These instructions are converted into executable machine code by a utility program referred to as an assembler; the conversion process is referred to as assembly, or assembling the code.
Language design
Basic elements
There is a large degree of diversity in the way that assemblers categorize statements and in the nomenclature that they use. In particular, some describe anything other than a machine mnemonic or extended mnemonic as a pseudo-operation (pseudo-op). A typical assembly language consists of three types of instruction statements that are used to define program operations:
- Opcode mnemonics
- Data sections
- Assembly directives
Opcode mnemonics and extended mnemonics
Instructions (statements) in assembly language are generally very simple, unlike those in high-level language. Generally, a mnemonic is a symbolic name for a single executable machine language instruction (an opcode), and there is at least one opcode mnemonic defined for each machine language instruction. Each instruction typically consists of an operation or opcode plus zero or more operands. Most instructions refer to a single value, or a pair of values. Operands can be immediate (value coded in the instruction itself), registers specified in the instruction or implied, or the addresses of data located elsewhere in storage. This is determined by the underlying processor architecture: the assembler merely reflects how this architecture works. Extended mnemonics are often used to specify a combination of an opcode with a specific operand. For example, the System/360 assemblers use
B as an extended mnemonic for
BC with a mask of 15 and
NOP for
BC with a mask of 0.
Extended mnemonics are often used to support specialized uses of instructions, often for purposes not obvious from the instruction name. For example, many CPU's do not have an explicit
NOP instruction, but do have instructions that can be used for the purpose. In 8086 CPUs the instruction
xchg ax,ax is used for
nop, with
nop being a pseudo-opcode to encode the instruction
xchg ax,ax. Some disassemblers recognize this and will decode the
xchg ax,ax instruction as
nop. Similarly, IBM assemblers for System/360 and System/370 use the extended mnemonics
NOP and
NOPR for
BC and
BCR with zero masks. For the SPARC architecture, these are known as synthetic instructions
Some assemblers also support simple built-in macro-instructions that generate two or more machine instructions. For instance, with some Z80 assemblers the instruction
ld hl,bc is recognized to generate
ld l,c followed by
ld h,b. These are sometimes known as pseudo-opcodes.
Tag Use
Use the assembly tag for assembly language programming questions, on any processor. You should also use a tag for your processor or instruction set architecture (arm, avr, mips, x86, x86-64, etc). Consider a tag for your assembler as well (gas, masm, nasm, etcetera).
If your question is about inline assembly in C or other programming languages, see inline-assembly. For questions about .NET assemblies, use .net-assembly instead. For Java ASM, use the tag java-bytecode-asm instead.
Beginner's Resources
- Professional Assembly Language - Richard Blum
- Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux - Jeff Duntemann
- Assembly primer - Write your own OS
- Introduction to Assembly Language - Dandamudi
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Wonderful article by Ed Glaeser in City Journal on how entrepreneurs are the heroes of New York's success, from the days of pre-Civil War packet shipping and sugar refining, then the garment business, and more recently the Great Finance Sector.
OK that last one looks a little shaky right now, but Ed talks about how something new always comes along if the city just manages to hold on to enough entreprenurs to find the Next Big Thing.
One thing that Ed says helps hold on to the entrepreneurs: great universities. You're welcome, New York, glad that we NYU profs could do our part to save your keister.